Today’s Water Cooler: China trade negotiations, Festival of Biden, Sanders, Trump, pollsters, DNC thuggery, the State, Elon Musk, Kock Brothers and public transit, the right to drive, Google tech support, VIX, the boom, carbon farming, bats, insecticides, the Arctic, senior student loan debt, signage
Read more...The country needs a full accounting of what the intelligence community did in the 2016 presidential campaign
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: O’Rourke fakie, Sanders organization, Warren, Clinton podcast and ticket prices, cell phones and ebola, e-bikes, Galaxy, Huawei, Beyond Meat, PFAS, Green New Deal, nature as stress reliever, GoT Easter eggs, neoliberal game shows, Stop & Shop strike, black holes
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Bennet (new), Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Gabbard, Sanders, Yang, electability, Mueller report, factory orders, productivity, employment situation, Tesla, Amazon, Boeing, lithium batteries, the Fed, amother college admission scam, freelancers and unions, Uber strike, the workbench
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders app, the Indivisibe pledge, CAP, employment, manufacturing, housing, construction, credit card debt, House Rules Committee #MedicareForAll hearing, data as blood, water, snow, drought, Uber strike, athletes and testosterone
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade deal and enforcement, Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, AM radio, manufacturing, employment cost, housing, Alden Capital, Boeing, Tesla, permafrost, health insurance, the Battle of Winterfell, the codex vs. the scroll
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Moulton, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Weld, the Clintons, redistricting, white nationalism, factory farms, personal income, manufacturing, UK fracking, ocean plastic, thunderstorms, reforestation, PFAS, Stanford University Press, adjuncts, Zuckerberg, computers and kids
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread, until it isn’t!
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden (with logo), Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, impeachment, picking a left cabinet, durable goods, jobless claims, manufacturing, Boeing, Tesla, robot cars, Iowa water quality, glyphosates and epigenetics, plastics, happy cats, Marshall McLuhan
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Castro, Gravel punches above his weight, Sanders, Warren, the Intercept v. Politico, Clinton on impeachment, housing, Tesla, Waymo, Boeing, Caterpillar, Facebook, permafrost, urban microbiota, Williams pipeline, Instagrammer union (!), psilocybin, Dr. Ruth
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade ISDS encourages off-shoring? See the extract from Stiglitz: I'm reading @JosephEStiglitz's new book, "People, Power, & Profits". Really appreciate this point about globalisation & wages: It's not just that wages are cheaper overseas, but our trade agreements give companies stronger rights if they invest overseas than at home. #ISDS […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Buttigieg (black votes; homeless), Moulton, Sanders and reparations, Warren and college debt, organizing v. mobilizing, national activity, housing, Thin Mints, Union Pacific, fitness tracking, digital, the “Underland,” diatoms, cannabis, California, librarians, Notre Dame
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: China and WTO, Biden to run, Buttigieg (Zuckerberg; donors), Harris, Moulton (!), Sanders, Warren, Yang, RussiaGate, super-delegates, jobless claims, leading indicators, retail sales, Sears, Lyft, CA carbon tax debacle, real-time evolution, plastic bags, Johnny Cash, brains, cats, badgers
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Mueller report and open thread.
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