Category Archives: Water Cooler

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Goddamned Democrats; Big Z at the White House (transcript); Economy already worrisome; Epigenetics: Violence alters human genes for generations ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump and patrimonialism; Spooks stirring from slumber? Elon’s “five bullets” email debacle.HP performs minor act of de-enshittification ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics

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~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Yanis Varoufakis on Trumponomics; DOGE not putting up the numbers on fraud; Zephyr Teachout on the real powers the Democrats have ~

Bird Song of the Day Patient readers, I apologize for the enormous typo. This is what I (and you) get then I deviate from my standard template. –lambert Brown Thrasher, Sippo Lake–Exploration Gateway, Stark, Ohio, United States. * * * By Lambert Strether There’s a quotation from John D. MacDonald’s Pale Grey for Guilt that […]

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; A typical day in the Trump White House, per the NY Post; Elon on political economy (with handy diagram); Stoller on Trump gutting the CFPB; The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Rise of Italian Fascism ~