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Reviewing Jacob Misiorowski’s stunning season

We are all witnesses, or something like that

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Sep 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Debt service and the Pentagon. Private equity and the politics of the US housing market. The return of black lung disease & the Franco-Prussian War in color.

Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. RALPH BALSON. 1890—1964. Oil and enamel, signed. Source: Gavekal This going to hurt - the two 7s in the US: diesel and mortgage rates Source: Gavekal In the US housing market, costs are soaring and the role of corporate, private equity-backed buyers is high on the mid-term election agenda. HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we don’t have to. Subscribe It is striking how, since 2020, big banks have dropped out of the political spotlight in the US. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Rates of the lung disease pneumoconiosis among working US coal miners have risen to levels not seen in nearly 40 years Source: Bloomberg Chinese Clean Technology Exports For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Ralph Balson (1939) Portrait of Grace Crowley Cole, G. O. & Haseman, S. M., (2023) “‘The Substance of Paint’: Class and Materiality in the Work of Ralph Balson”, Open Library of Humanities 9(2). Ralph Balson (1890–1964) was an English plumber and house painter who emigrated to Australia in 1913 and subsequently became a key member of Sydney’s artistic avant-garde. He is credited with having the first solo exhibition of purely abstract painting in Australia in 1941. Despite his role in developing Australian non-objective painting, Balson remained principally a house painter, working on his art practice at weekends. In 1955 he retired on a state pension and became a full-time artist. Balson’s artistic education and methods were critically shaped by his working-class background. He did not travel abroad until 1960 and was an avid auto-didact. His materials, palette, techniques and compositional strategies were likewise informed by his trade. Balson’s profession as a painter-decorator made him conspicuous within the predominantly middle-class Sydney art scene, though his painting partner Grace Crowley considered it an advantage in their pursuit of constructive painting. This paper explores the impact of Balson’s trade on his trajectory towards pure abstraction. While his art was at odds with the predominantly figurative mode of class-conscious art in Australian Modernism, we argue that it is embedded in the experience of class through its creative adaptation of labour into aesthetics. Source: OLH Svetlana Alexievich, The Art of Oral History No. 1 Paris Review Issue 257, Fall 2026 Interviewed by Elena Kostyuchenko INTERVIEWER How were you able to go to Chernobyl? Did you need special papers? ALEXIEVICH It was a time of chaos. They let me right into the zone. … More than anything, there was confusion. Adamovich [Ales Adamovich, the Soviet Belarusian writer], I remember, persuaded Gorbachev to send in the scientists, who showed up without even bringing their shaving kits. They were told that there had been an explosion at a nuclear power plant, but for some reason they thought that they’d be there for only a day or two. The first time I went was several months later, and people kept telling me about things they didn’t understand—how the fishermen couldn’t find worms, because they’d burrowed deep into the earth, how the milk wouldn’t curdle at the cheese factories. The honeybees wouldn’t come out of their hives. The evacuations started, I think, in the first month. The old women hid, they wouldn’t leave. I mentioned radiation to one of them and she said, “I’ve seen that radiation, all right! It’s yellow with green in it. I saw puddles of it in my garden, and I told the other women, and we ran and looked, and she had it in her garden, and the other one, too!” God, it was wild, the way the mind made sense of it. There was a story going around about Gorbachev telling the scientists to show him the radiation. “We can’t, it’s invisible.” “But I want to see it!” I also ran into the soldiers who’d been flown in on helicopters from Afghanistan. I asked them, “What are you doing here with your machine guns?” They said, “We’re collecting the radiation, that’s what.” So you had some of them running around with their guns, others out in the village washing off firewood or burying soil in the soil. These were the kinds of things that exploded our worldview. They made you realize that culture was just a chest filled with old manuscripts. There were no books in there that could help me. Our philosophers turned out to be useless when faced with the unprecedented. Derrida, Baudrillard—philosophy fell silent. What was happening? How would we live with it? That’s when I decided it simply needed to be witnessed. Which is what I did. INTERVIEWER I wanted to ask about how you talk to people. … ALEXIEVICH Yes, we sit and we talk—about what interests me and about life in general. About love, about everything in the world. That way, what comes out is three-dimensional. If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalists do, it won’t be interesting, and it won’t be the truth, either. Not the whole truth. INTERVIEWER Do people always open up when you ask questions, or can questions get in the way? ALEXIEVICH You have to ask questions, of course. Your job is to scour away the banality and return people to their true selves, to make them face what they rarely tap into. With every new person, you have to find a new way to do it. When you ask an interesting question or you share what happened to you, you help people really think about what they’re saying and not just repeat whatever they’ve picked up from the newspaper. But not everybody is capable of it, not everyone wants to put themselves through that. Either the chemistry starts to kick in or it doesn’t. A person might be wonderful, but you can tell that the conversation just isn’t going to happen. You can try to push it, but it will be a product of your own intellect, rather than of that mysterious connection. Life doesn’t come from the mind. Some people I can call two years after our last conversation, and they’ll say, “Oh, Svetochka! I think of you all the time,” and we’ll start talking again. With others, that won’t happen. That doesn’t mean they’re not extraordinary people, just that you can’t connect with them. They might have some insight, but you don’t have the right antenna to pick up their signal. Source: The Paris Review Colorized Franco-Prussian war … the ruins of Strasbourg with a French photographer and his mobile dark room. Ralph Balson (1961) Matter Painting If you’ve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe

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Sep 30 • 6:25 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com
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In Fractious France, Politicians Agree on One Thing: Pope Leo Was a Hit

In a four-day visit, Pope Leo XIV won praise across the political spectrum, even from its most avowedly secular figures.

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Sep 30 • 5:07 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign May Have Accomplished Something More Fundamental Than Moving Policy Debate to the Left

It’s the people, stupid.

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Sep 30 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.com
Yankees’ Ben Rice Achieves Unprecedented Playoff Baseball History for NYY

The case can be made that Ben Rice just had the greatest hitting game in the history of postseason baseball for the New York Yankees. He achieved something so remarkable that Babe Ruth never did it. Lou Gehrig never did it. Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Aaron Judge […] The post Yankees’ Ben Rice Achieves Unprecedented Playoff Baseball History for NYY appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 30 • 2:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Find holiday decor and more at Autumn Leaves Craft Show

From holiday decorations to handcrafted dulcimers to one-of-a-kind finds, the two-day Autumn Leaves Craft Show has everything you need for a fun fall season. The annual show will be held

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Sep 30 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • themountaineer.com
OpEd: Representative Thompson chooses you over politics

Politics has no shortage of disagreement. That isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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Sep 29 • 10:15 PM EDT • Politics • cachevalleydaily.com
Is Harley-Davidson Done With King Of The Baggers?

Riders comments hint at a potential withdrawal Photos by Brian J. Nelson. Kyle Wyman mastered a soaked New Jersey Motorsports Park track on Sunday to win the final race of the 2026 MotoAmerica Mission King of the Baggers championship — but could this prove to be the last race for Harley-Davidson's factory Road Glide? [cuttext][/cuttext] Nothing in Harley-Davidson's own press release confirms a withdrawal outright, but the language coming from its factory riders reads with a distinct sense of fin

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Sep 29 • 10:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Padres vs Cubs series will come down to these 3 things
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Sep 29 • 9:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Star Fox 1.2.0 update out now, patch notes

Star Fox for Nintendo Switch 2 just received a major version 1.2.0 update, and the full patch notes can be found here.

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Sep 29 • 9:06 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
At 40, her first mammogram changed everything: LMH Health nurse urges others to get screened

Holly Dawson expected her first mammogram to be uneventful. At 40, she had no symptoms, no known family history of breast cancer and no reason to expect the screening would find anything concerning. She might even have put it off a year or two if her LMH Health primary care physician, Dr. Caitlin Elmore, hadn’t […]

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Sep 29 • 5:48 PM EDT • Health • lmh.org
Here’s everything new in Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6 + 6.1 [Gallery]

Google rolled out Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6 and 6.1 in quick succession to continue the preview ahead of the stable December launch.

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Sep 29 • 5:32 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Guitarist Tom Morello gets political on 'Everyone Gets Everything They Want'

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Tom Morello, co-founder of Rage Against the Machine, about his first solo rock record Everyone Gets Everything They Want.

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Sep 29 • 4:56 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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New: Part Sports, Part Science, and All Hometown Pride —Experience The Buffalo Museum of Science’s Latest Exhibit

Things to Do It’s the museum’s first brand-new permanent exhibit since 2018, and they’ve pulled out all the stops.

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Sep 29 • 4:46 PM EDT • Science • stepoutbuffalo.com
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Upfront: A Great N.C. Adventure

Last month, I had a great N.C. adventure. It began with yours truly taking the UUNC Chapel Hill School of Government’s Basic Economic Development ccourse. I’m on the North Carolina Economic Development Board and figured that a refresh on a lot of the things covered here at BNC wouldn’t hurt. I figured the course would […]

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Sep 29 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • businessnc.com
’70s Rock Icon Says Taylor Swift ‘Ruined Music’ And Labels Her ‘The Apotheosis Of Mediocrity’

Todd Rundgren’s scathing comments on Swift came amid a chat about what he described as “the era of the female artists.”

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Sep 29 • 4:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
The Family Business Advantage: Third Quarterly Power Breakfast of 2026 explores how family businesses balance legacy and innovation

Photo by GFBJAnother successful Power Breakfast is in the books. The Greater Fayetteville Business Journal hosted its third quarterly Power Breakfast of 2026 on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Local leaders and decision-makers gathered to network and learn from the panel about how established principles drive long-term stability while allowing for operational evolution. The panel featured Managing Partner of Luigi’s Italian Chophouse & Bar, Nate Ernst; Inside Sales at Hubbard Supplyhouse, Mary Grace Hurley; Chief Operations Officer for Copiers Plus, Drew Smith; and CEO of Holmes Security Systems, Stephen Wheeler. The panel was moderated by Lauren Willets, director of the Family Enterprise Center at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Throughout the discussion, the panelists returned to a common idea: family businesses thrive when they preserve the relationships and values at their core while remaining open to change.Each panelist shared personal stories that carried practical lessons. Stephen Wheeler emphasized the role of relationships with customers and employees, saying, “What makes a family business successful today is relationships.” Mary Grace Hurley echoed Wheeler’s sentiment, describing relationships as a lasting inheritance, including a customer connection that began when she was young and continued into her working life. “If something’s given to you, that’s going to cost you too,” added Nate Ernst. He explained this philosophy by sharing that, in his view, earning responsibility builds credibility and confidence.Another hot topic was the idea of tradition versus change. For these businesses that have been around for a century or even more, it can be difficult to escape the “we’ve always done it this way” caveat, but these speakers emphasized how change has been an integral part of their growth and longevity. A family business can honor its history without being bound by it.“Innovation and tradition–they don’t have to be competing with one another,” shared Hurley. She pointed to changes in how businesses operate, including the adoption of computers and new management practices. Ernst stressed that adaptation is essential, while Wheeler described how his family’s electrical contracting business had evolved into a security-focused company. The details of the work may change, but identifying and upholding core values is key to embracing change while maintaining the character of a business. “I think it’s just important to remember why you started in the first place. What was your mission? What are your core values? And to reevaluate those,” shared Drew Smith.In addition to the first-hand accounts and wisdom shared by panelists, Moderator Lauren Willets recommended two novels during the panel for those seeking additional educational resources. Those two novels are “Hug of War: How to Lead a Family Business with both Love and Logic”by Cathy Carroll and “In the Company of Family: How to Thrive When Business Is Personal” by Melissa Mitchell-Blitch. Preparing the next generation requires more than handing over a title or company. Wheeler argued that future leaders need genuine passion and a vested interest in the business. The panelists were in agreement that succession is a process, and there is not one clear answer for how to perfectly prepare for it. Leaders must cultivate readiness, keep communication open and make room for the next generation to earn responsibility while being sure not to neglect the business in the here and now. “Today’s Power Breakfast was one of our best events yet! Between the passion and in-depth knowledge of the panelists, the great audience questions and the guidance and expertise of Mrs. Willets, the conversation was both engaging and informative,” shared GFBJ Publisher Faith Hatton. “A lot of small businesses in Fayetteville are family-owned and grown, and it’s great to be able to spotlight some of the businesses that have stood the test of time by strengthening the next generation of leadership and preparing them for ownership. I hope everyone received some inspiration and ideas that they can bring back to their own businesses and organizations!”We thank everyone who attended this Power Breakfast and hope you’ll all join us for the next Power Breakfast on Dec. 8. Details about the event will be shared on our social media and in future email updates. To learn about becoming a Power Breakfast sponsor, contact the Greater Fayetteville Business Journal at 910.240.9697 or marketing@bizfayetteville.com.

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Sep 29 • 3:42 PM EDT • Business • bizfayetteville.com
15 Things The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Is Changing From The Original On N64

Song of time

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Sep 29 • 3:30 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Chris Mason: Andy Burnham delivers deeply political speech with a personal core

The key thing to understand about Andy Burnham's speech is these were the words and the delivery of both a new prime minister and a grieving son, the BBC's political editor writes.

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Sep 29 • 3:13 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Tom Cruise Bloviates His Way Through the Aggressively Unfunny Digger

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest film has a million moving parks and nothing to say

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Sep 29 • 3:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • time.com
'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' ratings surge after wild year and Trump feud

Late night comedian and host Jimmy Kimmel is constantly be saying and doing things that make national headlines, from feuding with President Donald Trump, getting temporarily suspended from the

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Sep 29 • 2:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
‘I lost everything': Businesses devastated by fire in Roxbury building

We’re continuing to follow the latest on a massive fire that ripped through several businesses in the Nubian Square section of Roxbury on Monday.

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Sep 29 • 2:43 PM EDT • Business • nbcboston.com
Year-End Tax Planning: What Successful Businesses Should Do Now

Voice of Business Blog Guest post from Greater Rochester Chamber member Tiffany Brown, CPA, Bowers A profitable year is something every business owner hopes for-until they start thinking about the tax bill that comes with it. If your business is having a stronger year than expected, the good news is that you may still have…

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Sep 29 • 2:43 PM EDT • Business • greaterrochesterchamber.com
Will there be a “Neagley” season 2? Everything we know about“ ”what’s next for the “Reacher” spinoff

The first season hit Prime Video on Sept. 16.

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Sep 29 • 2:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Explainer: Five things to know about the college sports bill that passed the US Senate

The US Senate passed legislation this week to regulate ‌college sports, a multibillion-dollar industry that has been upended in recent years by increased earning opportunities for student athletes.

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Sep 29 • 2:31 PM EDT • Sports • reuters.com
Explainer-Five Things to Know About the College Sports Bill That Passed the US Senate

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The US Senate passed legislation ⁠this ⁠week to regulate college sports, a multibillion-dollar ⁠industry that has been upended in recent years by increased earning opportunities for student athletes. Here are five things to know about the bill's ...

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Sep 29 • 2:30 PM EDT • Sports • usnews.com
Among the Academies: A Lifelong Fascination with Fish

For Peter Wainwright, the academic path was simple: he simply followed his fascination with fish."I dare say there wasn't a lot of deep thought about what direction I should go in my life," he said. "It was more, I like fish, let's see if I can do something with fish. It was all very organic."

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Sep 29 • 2:18 PM EDT • Science • biology.ucdavis.edu
Leaked photos reveal an unreleased Fire TV Stick 4K and all-new remote

Image Source: WinFuture There have been a few signs of a new Fire TV Stick 4K being released soon, but nothing concrete until now. Several leaked photos of an unreleased Fire TV Stick 4K and a completely new remote have been acquired by German site WinFuture from independent retailer sources.

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Sep 29 • 1:50 PM EDT • Technology • aftvnews.com
Week 4 fantasy wide receiver rankings: Top WR streamers, starts

The return of QB Michael Penix Jr. may be just the thing that unlocks Drake London's fantasy potential the rest of the way. Where's he rank this week?

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Sep 29 • 1:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Is So Full Of Stuff That Isn't Major Battles That It's Putting Me To Sleep

I enjoy this game, but everything between major battles is snooze-inducing

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Sep 29 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
4 things to check before re-enrolling in your current health insurance plan
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Sep 29 • 12:37 PM EDT • Health • click2houston.com
Sarah Paulson addresses criticism comparing her Aileen Wuornos portrayal to Charlize Theron’s in “Monster”

“It’s just the sort of weird thing where it’s like, I didn’t set out to do something better than Charlize Theron,” Paulson admitted.

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Sep 29 • 12:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Three Biggest Questions Facing Toronto Blue Jays This Offseason

At the outset of the offseason, the Jays have a handful of things to think about following a 79-83 campaign.

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Sep 29 • 12:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
5 things to do this week in Greenville

See our curated list of upcoming and ongoing arts, culture and entertainment events in the Greenville area. Send us your events at greenville@postandcourier.com.

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Sep 29 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • postandcourier.com
Hands-On Science Center announces Fall Break Camp

Looking for something exciting and educational to keep kids engaged during fall break? The Hands-On Science Center is inviting children ages 6–13 to spend a week exploring, experimenting, and discovering at its upcoming Fall Break Camp, taking place Oct. 5–9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (begin drop-off as early as 8:30 a.m. and pick […]

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Sep 29 • 11:34 AM EDT • Science • tullahomanews.com
PS5 Jailbreak Exploit For Systems Running July 2026 Firmware

According to those who have installed the new Relapse exploit, it works with everything from Marvel's Wolverine to The Witcher 3: Remastered

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Sep 29 • 11:30 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Samsung SmartThings is shutting down support for Galaxy SmartTag in October

Samsung has confirmed plans to shut down its SmartThings Tracker feature that helps users locate Galaxy SmartTags, but it’s not...

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Sep 29 • 11:30 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
T.J. Edwards got nothing from eavesdropping on Eagles' huddle
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Sep 29 • 10:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meta Bets Its New VR Glasses Will Change Your Entertainment Experience

Meta wants your next movie screen to fit on your face — and weigh about as much as a deck of cards. “We don’t want to disrupt anything...

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Sep 29 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • movieguide.org
How ocean chemistry helped life keep breathing

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago.

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Sep 29 • 8:52 AM EDT • Science • news.ucr.edu
Scientists Simulated Microgravity in Human Cells and Found Something Unexpected About DNA

Simulated microgravity changed the nucleus but left the genome surprisingly intact.

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Sep 29 • 8:11 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Brandon McGinley: How being a one-party town warps Pittsburgh’s politics

Every time I write something critical about governance in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, one response tends to predominate in the comments and emails: “This...

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • post-gazette.com
Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences warns against Russian cooperation after attack

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has urged the international scientific community not to “restore or legitimise institutional cooperation with Russian state scientific and educational structures,” after a Russian drone hit its Presidium building in central Kyiv, killing at least two people and injuring several others. The drone strike took place in the early afternoon on September 28 while staff were working.The academy called the strike, one of several Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital using jet-powered drones in recent days, an act of terrorism. “It is a strike [. . .] on the very idea that knowledge, research, and the search for truth should serve life, not its destruction,” it said in a statement.The academy thanked the global scientific community for its solidarity following the attack and warned against any temptation to normalise scientific relations with Russia.“Science cannot exist outside of moral responsibility. There can be no ‘ordinary scientific cooperation’ with a state that kills people and destroys scientific institutions of another country,” it said.“We urge not to create opportunities for Russian state institutions to return to the international scientific community as if nothing happened. There can be no ‘science beyond politics’ when science is attacked with weapons.”After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Europe almost entirely cut institutional ties and joint programmes with Russian science, although personal academic contacts are still ongoing.Related articlesRussia widens targeting of European research centresHow geopolitical rifts cut scientific collaborationThe European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), for instance, continues to exclude the Russian Academy of Sciences from its network.ALLEA condemned the latest attack as a “barbaric act” and part of a broader “systematic targeting of Ukraine’s scientific and cultural infrastructure.” This is a “deliberate attempt to erase the conditions under which free inquiry, knowledge, and democratic life are possible,” it said in a statement.Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, more than 4,650 educational institutions across Ukraine have been damaged, and a further 423 have been destroyed, according to ALLEA.National academies across Europe joined ALLEA in condemning the attack. “Science is about the pursuit of knowledge for the benefit of humanity, so this is an attack on civilisation itself,” said Paul Nurse, president of the UK’s Royal Society.Attacks on scientific, university and cultural institutions “are attacks on the foundations of society and constitute a clear violation of international law,” wrote the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.The presidents of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine also released a joint statement condemning the attack and pledging to continue to support the Ukrainian research community.The targeting of the Ukrainian academy prompted outcry from European leaders. “Today, science became a target for Russia,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on social media.“These strikes are the latest illustration of the Russian regime’s hostile contempt for science and truth,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencebusiness.net
MLB Playoffs 2026: Scores, schedule, TV, and more

Here is everything you need to know to follow the 2026 MLB Playoffs

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Sep 29 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Health policy polling shows similar feelings across party lines

With Michigan’s general election underway, a new poll shows voters want many of the same things from government health policy. Colin Jackson has more.

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Sep 29 • 7:47 AM EDT • Health • wemu.org
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Magic in Store: This month, a witchy business will put you in the right spirit

Abby Minnich is a planetary scientist who puts complex concepts into plain language. “I like to connect with the earth,” she said. “Trying to figure out how things came to be. I would say that is my purpose, almost, trying to figure it out and sharing it.” Which leads her to visit metaphysical shops like […]

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Sep 29 • 7:40 AM EDT • Business • theburgnews.com
Lesbian Bar Project Co-Founder: Purity Politics Could Destroy Our Remaining Spaces

Subscribe As a professional lesbian and Massachusetts native, I’ve recently been asked by a lot of folks what I think about the saga unfolding at Last Ditch. The now-viral story, first reported by The Boston Globe, centers on a Western Massachusetts lesbian bar that lifted its mask requirement for one night a week to help drum up business. The decision ignited an intra-queer controversy that has been feasted on by media outlets across the political spectrum—from the New York Post to LGBTQ Nation—and is even reportedly being eyed for a Hollywood adaptation. Apparently nothing is more entertaining than a bunch of lesbians and queers fighting with each other over KN-95s. What has been lost in all of the chatter and media coverage is the very real possibility that Last Ditch, which just opened in April 2025, will have to close its doors. The venue’s one remaining founder, Jackie Matellian, revealed in a community Zoom meeting that she’s working four jobs, is now solely responsible for the bar’s $50,000 business loan and is struggling to keep up with the bills. So as we laugh about the controversy’s similarity to a “Portlandia” skit and how one of the bar’s founders left to enroll in clown school, we forget that yet another lesbian bar is facing an existential crisis—and this time the call is coming from inside the house. In 2020, my friend Elina Street and I created The Lesbian Bar Project, an Emmy-, Webby- and GLAAD Media Award-winning docuseries and initiative that tells the stories of lesbian queer bars around the world. We were moved to act because at the time there were only an estimated 16 lesbian bars in the United States, and the pandemic threatened to bring that number down even further. There are now more sapphic bars than there were just before the pandemic—about 36 of them in total—but this is down from approximately 200 in 1980. Maybe that doesn’t mean much to you, but for the millions of sapphics living in the U.S., this number is calamitous. As the world laughs at lesbians and sapphics, I want to take a second and tell you what I feel when I walk into one of these bars, which are all unique and irreplaceable in their own way: I feel seen. Sometimes I think Cubbyhole in New York City’s West Village neighborhood knew I was gay before I did. When I walked in there for the first time, before I was even out, I was transfixed by the colorful array of tchotchkes hanging from the ceiling and how the women standing next to me were completely unafraid to express their desire for one another. I knew the minute I was ready to come out, I had a home. I also felt the joy of a new couple falling in love at Seattle’s Wildrose, the quiet confidence of a short king lining up her shot at the pool table at Ginger’s in Brooklyn and the kick of cayenne pepper in Julie Mabry’s crawfish at Houston’s Pearl Bar. Subscribe Lesbian bars don’t just serve lesbians; they serve queer folks across the spectrum, including bisexual, pansexual and trans people. As Elina and I traveled across the U.S. and Europe and to parts of Latin America to document the bar owners, staff and patrons that make up the ecosystems of these spaces, we also became uniquely acquainted with the factors that threaten their existence: gentrification, wage gaps, sexism, environmental disasters, gun violence, rising insurance premiums and political administrations working to annihilate queer people and their families. Lesbian bar owners, like all leaders and entrepreneurs, are imperfect. There have been significant issues over the years at lesbian bars: employee harassment, racism, lack of accessibility, sexual assault and transphobia. All bar owners should be held accountable and should listen to their communities to evolve into safer and more equitable spaces. I also acknowledge my privilege: I am able-bodied, white, cis and from a family system that loves me for who I am. Not everyone has that. Queer people, especially trans and bisexual people, are suffering from disproportionately high levels of depression, and our mental health system isn’t equipped to support them. Immunocompromised people and long COVID are real, and many of my friends are suffering to this day. The people with the least safety net are often the ones for whom a bar closing costs the most. And yet, as we’re seeing with Last Ditch, the queer community often lashes out at each other. It’s also the mainstream media taking the internal conflict and making a mockery out of it, distracting from the real possibility that this bar could close due to financial pressures. A bar that many people loved and needed is facing extinction. Perhaps it’s safer to dissent with one another than with the larger forces trying to eradicate us, but in doing so, we risk destroying the few spaces we have left. Due to the constraints of purity politics—some in good faith, some not so much—lesbian bar owners, almost all of whom are queer women themselves, are forced to be everything for everyone, similarly to how women are forced to be everything for everyone. By asking these bars to uphold impossible standards—standards very few other third spaces are asked to consider—we all end up losing. I want to move as a community toward dialogue, compassionate dissent and collaboration to make our spaces better with the goal of keeping them OPEN and thriving, rather than destroying them from the inside with expectations that are arguably unattainable. Subscribe While I have your attention—for this fleeting second of the news cycle—may I urge us to spearhead a way to keep these small businesses afloat without attacking our own community along the way? Bar owners are left with an impasse: They want to be community-centered, but they also have to make money to keep their doors open. Sometimes they might make business decisions that don’t work for everyone—and that’s partly because different patrons have different priorities and want different things—but these owners deserve the opportunity for productive dialogue**.** We have to work with them and with each other to keep our spaces open, to keep them growing. Lesbian bars raised me into the queer woman I am today. One thing I think about as I reflect on the six years of work we’ve done to document these spaces is that shared, unspoken language I have with a stranger the moment we both walk into one of these bars: the nod, the ease, the not having to explain ourselves. I don’t want to lose that, and neither should you. If objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, LGBTQ-focused journalism is important to you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation through our 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Resource Impact, by clicking this button: Donate

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Let’s thank the politician who helped drive the Freedom Caucus out of power

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Mexico vs. Peru 2026 livestream: How to watch International Friendly for free

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Primetime Review: That’s Entertainment?

If you decide to see Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, it’s important to remember the title as you watch. Yes, this is a biopic of sorts about Chris Hansen and his work on To Catch a Predator, but it is more accurately about the quest for fame and using people’s trauma to attract ratings. True crime entertainment continues to have a prominent place in many people’s television habits, and this film asks us to examine what that means both for those whose stories have become our viewing pleasure and those of us watching. Primetime starts as Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) is told that his show, To Catch a Predator, is moving to a 9 PM spot opposite LOST. Chris and his producer, Andie (Merritt Wever), see this as an opportunity to make the program even more sensational, looking for bigger, more horrific predators. As part of their plan, they hire a young actor, Dan Plum (Skyler Gisondo), to play “Decoy Dan,” the person who greets the would-be predators who were catfished by Xavier Von Erck (Matthew Maher). Oppenheim, along with writers Ajon Singh and Luke Dittrich, is less concerned with an accurate retelling of the show as much as they are interested in interrogating the why of it all. That decision sometimes leaves Primetime feeling less like a biopic and more like a satirical look at the nature of programming like this. Visually, the movie is impressive. Oppenheim uses light and color effectively to cast Hansen as both villain and savior. Pattinson plays Hansen in an almost comical manner, as we see him wake his two young sons to watch a clip of the show, just to brag that he was moving into a prime spot on television. Even Andie struggles to accept a “nice” job when there is so much more fame to be found producing salacious true-crime content. Wever does an excellent job showing how the hunger for fame is not just in front of the camera, but in every aspect of the production. The heart of the movie, and the standout performance, belongs to Gisondo as Dan Plum. He is someone who just wants to get enough hours to be admitted into the Screen Actors Guild, and stumbles into this job without really knowing what it is. Throughout the film, we watch him suffer one trauma after another, ending with him witnessing the suicide of a District Attorney who is about to become the next unwitting star of Hansen’s show. If there is a sympathetic character in Primetime, it is Decoy Dan, and Gisondo plays him brilliantly. If you’re a fan of programming like To Catch a Predator, then Primetime will probably make you feel uncomfortable, and I think it’s worth sitting with that feeling and examining why we turn on shows that display the worst of humanity while we judge from our couches. Yes, it is correct to want to see people who would hurt children brought to justice, but perhaps it shouldn’t be something that we watch as entertainment. Rating: 3.5/5 This review originally appeared in The Dominion Post on September 25, 2026. MacGuffin or Meaning: Film & TV Reviews and Reflections is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Meet the Minnesota legend in everything from ‘Chinatown’ to ‘Seinfeld’

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The Right Thing: What do we owe a stranger?

What do we owe a stranger? For the past several decades, the weekend after Labor Day has been the neighborhood yard sale in the part of Boston where I live.

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Selma Blair promises recent 'health-related' issue was 'nothing scary'

Selma Blair has assured fans that a "health-related" issue that came up recently was "nothing scary". The 54-year-old actress - who suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS) - took to Instagram on Monday (...

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Guest article: When nutrition becomes an evidence-based intervention, capital follows

Health and nutrition positioning alone buys nothing. Investors want evidence that products work and a moat competitors can’t easily replicate

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AI, outrage, walls and killing — a busy week

Like most older folks, I’m a tad nervous about the whole artificial intelligence trend. But don’t worry, everything will be OK because our current president, obsessed with gold-trimmed minutiae, gave a speech at the United Nations, of all places, to announce we should now stop using the term “AI” and start using “SI” for “super […]

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Lautaro

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Draymond Green Says Luka Doncic & Lakers Hurt LeBron James

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Tomasita's, Atrisco owner is New Mexico Restaurateur of the Year

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Pirates Are Looking Brilliant After Major Trade

Pittsburgh has often been sellers at the trade deadline due to a lack of relevance once July arrives. In these kinds of situations, the goal is always to dump off talent that may not be part of the future. In return, teams prefer to acquire young talent with loads of potential. Cherington did something in 2025 that is already looking like a home run. The post Pirates Are Looking Brilliant After Major Trade appeared first on HEAVY.

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Senate passes sweeping college sports package

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Bucs vs. Packers odds: Opening lines for Week 4 matchup

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are home once again Sunday as they welcome the Green Bay Packers to Raymond James Stadium. Both teams enter the matchup looking to get things turned around following rough starts to the season. So what are the oddsmakers thinking of the Week 4 matchup between the Bucs and Packers? Per FanDuel, […]

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BTS Superstar V Named Global Brand Ambassador for Nothing Headphones

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Everything is Working Against Penn State on Friday Against Northwestern

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Nothing’s New Headphone (1) Pro Are Made for the Studio

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Nothing’s new flagship Headphone 1 Pro put you in the studio

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Luka Doncic says ‘it feels great’ in Lakers’ weird media day without LeBron James

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‘The Attic’ is entrancing

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Bioblitz: Lakeshore Nature Preserve utilizes citizen science to document biodiversity

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Science Hill's Harris taking sudden stardom in stride

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The Giants successfully recreated the 2014 season

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How to get involved in research at Eckerd College

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Something Took Wing in Paleocene Sunsets

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Rumor: Nintendo Switch Online app datamine points to potential event gifts system for Switch 2 and Switch

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Meta Goes All-In On AI for Businesses Before Muse Goes Horribly Wrong

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Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

The message I had received was unsettling—for a moment. Then it was just really confusing. Back on January 20 of this year, at 5:15pm ET, I received an email with the subject line “Legal Correspondence re Bobby Kotick.” It was from the law firm Clare Locke, a firm I’d heard had been emailing reporters in recent years about their coverage of Kotick, the former, longtime CEO of Activision Blizzard. The letter was threatening. A lawyer from the firm introduced themselves as “defamation counsel to Bobby Kotick.” They issued a “demand” that I “correct” a Game File article I’d published a week prior. The article that had irked them had been a scoop of sorts. I’d written about a a 2022 lawsuit brought by a Swedish pension fund, AP7, over Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard. The suit wasn’t news, but I was first to review and report about Kotick’s extensive pushback to the fund’s claims. The pension fund’s core contention was that the sale had been rushed by Kotick to avoid the consequences of sexual misconduct scandals swirling around the company in 2021. (He’d not been accused of misconduct himself in those suits, to be clear.) As I wrote at the time, Kotick had denied the allegations of the rushed sale. Beyond that, Kotick used a December 2025 reply to the Swedish fund’s lawsuit to assign blame for those workplace scandals, the bad press and even for the AP7 lawsuit. I’d found Kotick’s arguments novel and newsworthy. Across nearly 3,000 words, I explained Kotick’s take: that a Swedish gaming company was behind the Swedish fund’s lawsuit (the Embracer group; they denied it); that the Microsoft-Activision deal was not rushed and was secured at what Kotick felt history had proven to be an optimal price for shareholders; that he believed a conspiracy of people at unions government agencies, PR firms and the media had spun up claims of widespread workplace misconduct at Activision Blizzard in 2021. The article gave context for all of this, letting readers assess the claims and weigh their credibility. As I’d later write to Kotick’s lawyers: I would be surprised if you could point to any news article about Bobby Kotick in the last five years that has spent more of its wordcount articulating his point of view. He is welcome to do an interview with Game File any time. Nonetheless, there they were in my inbox that Tuesday evening: Clare Locke, the law firm that secured a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over false statements about voting machines. They were emailing me, threatening that failure to comply with their demand could support a claim of “actual malice,” a legal standard for libel. Unless… Unless, they said, I added a key paragraph to my article. This was a paragraph that I already knew Kotick’s lawyers had been emailing reporters about for at least a year, and it was a paragraph that was already in my article. The paragraph they wanted is from a 2023 settlement that California’s Civil Rights Department struck with Activision Blizzard. The settlement had closed a two-year-old lawsuit over alleged sexual discrimination at the game maker. The paragraph basically said that claims of systemic or widespread sexual harassment—or of execs like Kotick tolerating such behavior—had never been proven. I’d already seen proof that Kotick’s lawyers had pushed for the settlement’s language to be added to reports about 2021 sexual discrimination and misconduct lawsuits brought against Activision Blizzard by California and, separately, by the U.S. federal government (both suits were since settled). I knew that Kotick and his lawyers felt that the California settlement language should be mentioned in the same breath as references to an article he hated and denied, a November 2021 Wall Street Journal article claiming Kotick knew “for years” of sexual misconduct at Activision Blizzard. So, in the Game File article that Clare Locke emailed me about, in the interest of ensuring I was being fair and balanced regarding the person I was covering, I had already included the following excerpt from the California settlement [emphasis added in bold]: (Kotick has repeatedly pushed back against that November article in the Wall Street Journal, citing among other things, language from a court-approved consent decree as part of Activision’s 2023 $54 million settlement over the California suit. It states: “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations that: there has been systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard [or] that Activision Blizzard senior executives ignored, condoned, or tolerated a culture of systemic harassment, retaliation, or discrimination.”) On the evening of January 20, I was incredulous. How do you write a four page legal threat about a week-old article and miss this? While scrambling to also make my kids dinner, I wrote a lengthy reply to Clare Locke’s lawyers, basically asking them to cool it with the threats and to start making sense. In part, I wrote: I hope you can understand why I am having trouble understanding what you’re asking for, when the statement you’re demanding to see in Game File’s article already appears in Game File’s article. Actual malice, as you know, refers to a reckless disregard for the truth. I’m not sure what your argument is when my article already states your client’s position. Here is where I should remind you, the reader, that I am an independent journalist. I publish on Substack, and have availed myself of the Substack Defender program that provides writers on the platform with legal support. But I’m no Wall Street Journal or New York Times, nor even IGN or GameSpot when it comes to such things as, well, having a legal department. There are more fun things for me to do as an independent journalist than writing back to a powerful law firm representing a very rich person. On the evening of January 20th, I was just trying to cook some pasta, broccoli and chicken nuggets for hungry twins. Nevertheless, I wrote back to them. Two hours later, I got a reply. Summarizing: A lawyer for Clare Locke said they’d “reviewed an incomplete version” of my article and they “apologize for the confusion.” (My guess: Someone didn’t read past the piece’s paywall, even though they’d had a full week to scrounge up the funds to do so. What I’d published above the paywall was balanced, as was what came after.)1 That was almost that, but something about the situation bothered me. The letter had been marked “confidential.” I hadn’t agreed to that, and I disliked the idea that powerful people on the beat that I cover would act like they could unilaterally control what I might tell my readers about. On the morning of the 21st, having already gotten the powerful law firm to back off, I oh-so-wisely re-approached them with just one more thing. I thanked them for clearing things up the night before but noted that I’d never agreed to keep their letter confidential. I’m all for agreeing with a source to keep things off the record, but that’s the thing. We have to agree. You can’t just declare it. I’m not bound by that. I wrote to Clare Locke’s lawyer and said, in part: I trust the matter is resolved. It was disappointing to have to spend less time with my kids last night in order to address your legal letter. Family time’s precious. I will add, for clarity’s sake, that, while your letter stipulated that it was confidential, I did not agree to those terms. In the future, should you wish to communicate with me confidentially, I am happy to agree to classifying our communication as “off the record” prior to the actual communication—as is standard with any professional journalist. The firm’s lawyer replied, not directly addressing the confidentiality issue but asserting that the matter was resolved. Why I didn’t write about this until now In May, I told this story on an episode of Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console, but I held off on sharing it directly with Game File readers. I held off to avoid stepping on the toes of another reporter, the journalist Mikhail Klimentov. He’d interviewed me in the spring of 2025 about an investigation he was working on regarding Bobby Kotick lawyers pressing the media to add the California settlement language to stories referencing the 2021 lawsuits. And about how some outlets had changed their stories and how some simply deleted them. Initially, I was a third-party source for Klimentov’s reporting, providing on-the-record context about the state of the games media. I’d heard about the letters but hadn’t put the time into pursuing the story. I thought it was interesting, and I was glad he was covering it. When the outlet that Klimentov was going to run his reporting in dropped the story, I began talking to him about potentially publishing his reporting on Game File. This was tentative. Then, in January, when I got my own Clare Locke letter, I told Klimentov that I didn’t think it would make sense for me to publish him, not with me now being part of the story. I had my own version of this situation to tell. But I wished him well and said I’d refrain from telling my tale until he could get his reporting out there. Last Friday, Klimentov finally ran his investigation, in a nearly 48-minute video report for People Make Games. It covers various Clare Locke letters, how media outlets reacted to them and what to make of all this. His video weighs the merits of Kotick’s request and looks at some of the articles that were changed (one of which had a glaring error). I highly recommend watching it: (Note, I did some editorial consulting for a People Make Games video last year but nothing to do with this report.) While many outlets haven’t left any public evidence that they updated their Kotick coverage at Kotick’s counsel’s request, at least one has. Back in October 2025, the mainstream outlet Reuters applied the most transparent article update I’ve seen. On the 3rd of the month, they published an article about the state of the Swedish pension fund’s lawsuit. Days later, they added this: In an October 7 letter sent after publication of this article, Kotick’s defamation counsel disputed claims of widespread harassment at Activision. “Not a single investigation, court finding, verdict, or ruling ever concluded that there was any merit” to the allegations of widespread harassment at Activision, Tom Clare and Nick Brechbill of Clare Locke wrote. I’ve never added a statement to my article on Game File, because none was needed. Not for fairness’ sake, nor to meet any demands of Kotick’s lawyers. I’ve nevertheless wanted to be transparent with Game File readers. If someone powerful is questioning my reporting, is threatening a lawsuit over it… if that threat is part of a pattern involving other games media outlets and if, in my case, the whole thing ran into a ridiculous ditch, I want you to know about it. I also share this as a real example of how I handle threats to Game File. I stand up for my own reporting, even when it’s not comfortable to do so. (In that same category of standing up for the work I do, I’ll point to an incident in late August. Asocial media post I published to X/Twitter regarding reporting I did about Take Two and GTA VI was hit by bogus copyright claim by a firm working for the publisher. I pushed back and got it reversed; even while a bigger games media outlet let themselves be censored. This is the other reason I’m sharing this story: To emphasize that dealing with threats from powerful people is one of the costs of covering the video game industry independently and as fearlessly as possible. This is where you come in. Your support, through free and paid subscriptions (sign up here!), can help me keep doing that. It can ensure that I’ve got the back-up I need. And it can help make fiascoes like this even less of a worry, so I can spend my evenings dealing with more important things, such as making sure I steam the kids’ broccoli just right. 1 That pension fund lawsuit I wrote about in January has all but gone away. In May, the fund and Activision Blizzard owner Microsoft agreed to settle. Lawyers for the fund brokered a $250 million settlement for former Activision Blizzard shareholders. In the settlement, the fund’s lawyers changed their rhetoric. Where once they’d questioned the meaning of the California settlement language, they adopted a version of it for themselves. Several weeks ago, while seeking to get a court to sign off on the terms of the settlement, they proposed their fee for their work in the case: $60 million.

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What is DIRECTV's Bring Your Own Device? DIRECTV's free trial ends soon

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Behind the Science with Paleontologist and Curator of Dinosauria Dr. Matthew Carrano

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Last year, business surged in the Tenderloin. How’s this year going?

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Madonna Sparks Health Concerns After VMAs as Sources Claim She Was ‘Wobbling Back and Forth’—‘Everything Seemed to Unravel’

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iPhone 18 Pro First Impressions: What Do You Think So Far?

It's been a little over a week since the iPhone 18 Pro models launched, and we want to hear from MacRumors readers. What do you think of Apple's newest iPhones? If you upgraded from an older phone, was it worth it? What about upgrading from an iPhone 17 Pro? What problems are you running into? Anything you love so far? MacRumors readers have already been sharing early opinions on the MacRumors forums, and there are interesting discussion threads to read through.

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Late Night Fun with Evolution and Oppenheimer

Bats by the millions would be falling from the roofs of caves if that ankle-locking design, an all-or-nothing proposition, had not come about all at once

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Sep 28 • 3:12 PM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
Residents near Maui wildfires show elevated metals linked to impacted lung health, study says

A new study finds that metal mixtures found in smoke, ash and debris after the 2023 Maui wildfires affected human lung health.

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Sep 28 • 3:12 PM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
TUCSON NOW: Discussing the importance of parental mental health

There’s nothing wrong with asking for help.

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Sep 28 • 2:25 PM EDT • Health • kold.com
Control Resonant Proves Everything Is a Live-Service Game Now

Even the single-player games are updated on a dime

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Sep 28 • 2:10 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
‘Surprisingly sophisticated’: Experts discover a common houseplant can count

Can plants count? Maybe not exactly like humans do, but scientists agree that they're capable of some very clever things.

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Sep 28 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
Giants made the one QB trade that offered hope, even if it doesn't guarantee anything
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Sep 28 • 1:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple Releases iOS 27.0.1 With Face ID Bug Fix

Apple today released iOS 27.0.1, the first update for the iOS 27 update that came out two weeks ago. iOS 27.0.1 can be downloaded over the air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. According to Apple's release notes, iOS 27.0.1 addresses an issue that could cause Face ID not to work properly on the iPhone 18 Pro. Some iPhone 18 Pro users have complained that authentication can fail to work for things like unlocking a locked app.

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Sep 28 • 1:09 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
I’m Terrified of What Will Happen to This Country When We Run Out of Water

How will Americans react when they turn on the taps and nothing comes out?

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Sep 28 • 12:53 PM EDT • Politics • esquire.com
John Cusack sets the record straight on longtime rumor he turned down starring in ‘Breaking Bad’ as Walter White

A rumor has long persisted that John Cusack passed on playing Walter White on ‘Breaking Bad,’ and the ‘Say Anything’ actor admits he had to double-check if that was the case.

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Sep 28 • 12:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
5 Things Auburn Fans Learned About the SEC This Weekend

Auburn football improved to 3-1 with its first SEC win under Alex Golesh, but Week 4 revealed much more about the conference. Florida is surging, Mississippi State has found a star in Kamario Taylor, and Tennessee showed major offensive concerns ahead of Auburn's trip to Knoxville.

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Sep 28 • 12:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
We asked: What’s something new your organization is working on?

Compiled by Emily Barske Wood and Kyle Heim Each year the Business Record’s readers cast votes for what Des Moines has to offer in a variety of business-related categories. We asked the winners: What’s something new your organization is working on? Here’s what some of them had to say. “One of the most exciting initiatives at…

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Sep 28 • 12:09 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Reward Passes: our new progression mechanic, explained

Frozen Trail arrives October 8, and with it, a new progression mechanic we call the Reward Pass. Here’s everything you need to know about the system, and what to expect from the two Passes coming with Frozen Trail.

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Sep 28 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • arcraiders.com
Every Upgrade In ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered' is out Sept. 29, and now we have the full patch notes for everything that has changed in the game.

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Sep 28 • 11:34 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
The “Family Stone” sequel: Everything we know about the cast, plot, and more

The gang’s all here, along with an Emmy-winning newcomer.

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Sep 28 • 11:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
There's Something Strange About Googlebook Prices

Not even Google seems certain about how much customers are willing to spend on a laptop in 2026.

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Sep 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • gizmodo.com