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~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New RCP averages show 2024 race neck-and-neck, plus new Covid charts show positivity improvement; Kamala and joy; Trump needs a campaign reset; Unions and worker power ~

This is one generational trend I wasn’t expecting. 

The US continues to talk at, rather than with, China about its close ties to Russia.

We are kicking back a wee bit this Labor Day holiday weekend and hope you can too!

Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala’s stint at McDonalds: Fact or fiction?; Kennedyon healthy food, and on the environment.; Section 230 decision: “The business model of Big Tech is over.”;

An unvarnished assessment of what a Kamala Harris presidency would amount to.

Protesters are pushing Citigroup to divest from fossil fuels and companies that are sending arms to Israel.

A full-throated critique of the claim that capitalism benefits the poors.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; The DNC was a superspreading event, and adopted a eugenicist masking policy; Boeing door plug debacle reveals shop floor fiasco; Vermeer’s tronie. ~

Oxfam gives an update on the ever-widening gap between our money overlords and the poor, and how their enrichment is increasing poverty.

Why peer review is not what you might think it is, and what can be done to remedy that.

A well-targeted rant about the offensive shallowness and neglect of concrete material needs of voters that the Democratic Party now embodies.