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Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • fox23.com
Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • news3lv.com
Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • komonews.com
Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • nebraska.tv
Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • katv.com
Small business sentiment fades in NFIB survey, but one store owner 'cautiously optimistic'

NFIB says small business optimism slipped below its long-term average in September as owners cited uncertainty, labor shortages and inflation.

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Oct 13 • 4:53 PM EDT • Business • abc45.com
Citizens Jmp Issues Pessimistic Forecast for Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Stock Price

Citizens Jmp reduced their target price on shares of Flutter Entertainment from $145.00 to $129.00 and set a "market outperform" rating for the company in a report on Tuesday.

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Oct 13 • 8:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
SUNY Cortland adds environmental science major

The new interdisciplinary program allows students to pursue interests in biology, chemistry, geology and other areas.

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Oct 13 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • www2.cortland.edu
This Economist Studied Millions of Business Owners. He Uncovered the Surprising Way Everyday Americans Actually Get Wealthy

Owen Zidar, co-author of the book founders can’t stop talking about, "The Everywhere Millionaire," sat down with Inc. to mine the largest-ever dataset on entrepreneurs.

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Oct 13 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com
GO-NORTH ‘cautiously optimistic’ ahead of federal rescoring of rural health program

When the federal government announced how much money it was giving New Hampshire as part of its Rural Health Transformation Program, Granite State leaders bragged that the state secured more funding than any other New England state.

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Oct 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • newhampshirebulletin.com
Liverpool must learn from Richard Hughes' mistakes

Although he only spent two full seasons at Liverpool, Richard Hughes oversaw some of the most historic moments in the club’s history. In the five transfer windows in which Hughes headed the recruit...

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Oct 13 • 4:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pickleball company files for bankruptcy as founder acknowledges business mistake: 'I own it'
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Oct 13 • 3:35 AM EDT • Business • nypost.com
Concept Life Sciences appoints Dr Adrijana Vinter as Chief Executive Officer

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Adrijana Vinter as Chief Executive Officer. Dr Vinter brings more than 20 years of experience spanning medicinal chemistry research, commercial development and executive leadership in the pharmaceutical and contract research industry sectors.

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Oct 13 • 3:02 AM EDT • Science • news-medical.net
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Hamilton Assumes His Mistake in Singapore: 'Painful Lesson'

The Briton acknowledges that the decision not to enter the pits under the Virtual Safety Car was his and apologizes to the team for the lost points. He admits the medium tires didn't perform as expected and that their degradation cost him three positions.

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Oct 12 • 11:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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FSU WR Robinson Lost NFL Money Returning to Seminoles

Last season, Florida State WR Duce Robinson was a 1,000-yard receiver and, with his 6-foot-6 frame, was a projected high pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. Robinson chose to return to Florida State for another season. That was a mistake, considering his reduced production so far this season.

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Oct 12 • 6:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kelly Clarkson's online feud with a Brooklyn toy store: PR expert explains

Kelly Clarkson started an online feud with a small business, Art of Play, after she felt mistreated by staff. A PR pro explains why it's a bad look.

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Oct 12 • 4:47 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Voters in Portland (Oregon) get ads meant for Portland (Maine)

The ad buyer admitted the mistake and refunded the money to the political group that ordered it.

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Oct 12 • 3:57 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Pickleball facility franchisor files for bankruptcy as founder acknowledges business mistake: 'I own it'

The Picklr's Chapter 11 filing stems from costly lease guarantees on about 40 franchise locations as an investor group commits millions for restructuring.

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Oct 12 • 3:06 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
Yale researchers recommend ways to cut nationwide health care costs by billions a year

A new Yale project argues the U.S. could save $450 billion a year on health care without overhauling the system. Economist Zach Cooper explains the proposed changes.

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Oct 12 • 3:03 PM EDT • Health • ctpublic.org
GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon

An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.

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Oct 12 • 2:03 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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House Democratic leaders condemn the search of congresswoman's home as an 'abuse of power'

“For years, Donald Trump and far-right extremists have relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Omar with vile personal attacks and baseless accusations,” House Democratic leaders said in a statement.

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Oct 12 • 12:56 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Axios Live: How health care providers can reach patients in an era of mistrust

Getting past the "noise" of online sources, giving accessible medical information and encouraging questions will help earn patients' loyalty, local health leaders said at an Axios event.

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Oct 12 • 12:26 PM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Big Mistakes my American family made moving to the Netherlands

When my American family left the United States to move to the Netherlands, we made mistakes with insurance, taxes, and more that cost time and money.

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Oct 12 • 10:48 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background

Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture

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Oct 12 • 8:47 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
I’m a Dietitian, and This Is the Number-1 Mistake I See People Make With the Mediterranean Diet

Hint: It’s not just about what you eat.

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Oct 12 • 7:10 AM EDT • Health • prevention.com
The Financial Mistake Too Many Business Owners Make

The financial mistake many women business owners make is focusing on revenue instead of building wealth. Learn why thinking like an investor matters.

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Oct 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
'Landman' Season 3 Could Make A Major Mistake With Cooper And Tommy Norris

Landman Season 3 has an opportunity to change the show's entire dynamic.

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Oct 12 • 12:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • mensjournal.com
Kelly Clarkson fires back at Brooklyn novelty shop, escalating feud over animatronic bird

Kelly Clarkson isn’t holding back in her feud with the Brooklyn curio Art of Play, calling the novelty retailer ‘rude’ and ‘a liar’ for their response to her allegation she was mistreated by a sales associate.

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Oct 11 • 10:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Portraits of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai are shown on the screen as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 7, 2026. Photo: (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, KOSTYA MANENKOV and STEFANIE DAZIO STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai...

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Oct 11 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • wxxv25.com
Kelly Clarkson slams New York store for alleged 'Pretty Woman' moment

Kelly Clarkson says a store in Brooklyn just made a big mistake. Big. Huge!

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Oct 11 • 12:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Five Takeaways From Oklahoma State's Win Over UCF

Oklahoma State improved to 4-1 with a 42-28 win over UCF, but what stood out? From second-half defensive adjustments and Drew Mestemaker's turnover-free 304-yard performance to improved run defense, reliable special teams and early mistakes, here are five takeaways from the Cowboys' fourth straight

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Oct 11 • 11:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
23 Expensive Mistakes

Best of luck to these people.

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Oct 11 • 7:31 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com
23 People Who Made Extremely Expensive Mistakes

Best of luck to these people.

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Oct 11 • 7:31 AM EDT • Technology • aol.com
North Augusta Optimist Club shares mission of supporting youth event with local businesses

The North Augusta Chamber of Commerce held an afterhours with the North Augusta Optimist Club.

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Oct 11 • 6:15 AM EDT • Business • postandcourier.com
Voters have many reasons to be upset

The rising costs of fuel, food, and housing are wearing on people, and the labor market isn't helping, economist Joel Naroff writes.

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Oct 11 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • inquirer.com
Project Amistad hosts health and wellness fair in El Paso

EL Paso, Texas (KVIA) - Project Amistad partnered with the YMCA of El Paso on Saturday morning to host a health and wellness fair focused on connecting community members with health-related resources. The event provided information and resources on health care access, mental health and physical fitness. Flu vaccinations were also offered to people who

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Oct 11 • 1:54 AM EDT • Health • kvia.com
This 345-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fooled Scientists for Decades

A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land. Pressed flat inside two slabs of Scottish rock, a 345-million-year-old skeleton seemed to carry some unmistakable signs of life on land. Its four limbs ended in five-digit feet, and the tips of its fingers and toes

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Oct 10 • 8:06 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
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How Spurs can make changes while preserving 'delicate ecosystem'

Mitch Johnson must balance the Spurs' starting lineup, player roles and team chemistry to preserve last season's NBA Finals magic.

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Oct 10 • 4:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Paolo Banchero Recaps 'Pretty Good' Offensive Performance

Orlando's young star breaks down the team's lethal pick-and-roll chemistry and a high-assist night that signals a shift toward a more dynamic, unselfish offensive identity this season.

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Oct 10 • 1:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Harry Kane thinks Bayern Munich’s mistakes were punished against Augsburg

FC Bayern’s Kane thinks they could have won but offsides and mistakes decided the result.

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Oct 10 • 12:41 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Panthers fans optimistic, but not convinced on Young’s hot start

Panthers fans are optimistic, but wary, about Young’s strong start

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Oct 10 • 10:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Utah Jazz Cannot Let Whistles Teach Them To Defend Softly

Will Hardy must balance disciplined aggression with youthful mistakes, ensuring a whistle-heavy preseason doesn't strip away the physical identity needed to anchor Utah’s developing defensive core.

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Oct 9 • 9:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A photoinduced, FeX3-catalyzed, stereo- and regio-selective halofunctionalization of olefins with MXn via a radical-polar crossover reaction

Communications Chemistry - The classical reaction for the halofunctionalization of olefins involves hazardous and highly toxic molecular halogens. Here, the authors report the FeX3-catalyzed...

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Oct 9 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Yankees Must Cut Grisham To Fix 2027 Outfield

The Yankees lost in three games to the Rays. Per Sports Illustrated, re-signing Trent Grisham is a mistake fans cannot afford to see happen again.

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Oct 9 • 4:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nobel Prize for “Asymmetric Synthesis”

Every year, the first week in October, I eagerly await the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. If Louis Pasteur were alive today, he would be thrilled with the 2026 honour being bestowed on

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Oct 9 • 3:42 PM EDT • Science • mcgill.ca
Collin Gillespie Gives Honest Take on State of Suns

Despite preseason turnover struggles and late-game collapses, guard Collin Gillespie remains optimistic that Phoenix possesses the depth and chemistry necessary to master a complete 48-minute winning effort.

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Oct 9 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
As Xbox and PlayStation sales reach new lows, analyst says the "US hardware market has not been in a more precarious position since the early 80s"

Xbox Series X/S and PS5 price hikes have significantly slowed down sales, according to one analyst who's not too optimistic about the console market.

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Oct 9 • 2:51 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to 'turn on and off'

Researchers created multicolored tattoo inks that are activated by different wavelengths of light, allowing people to hide their tattoos in different scenarios.

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Oct 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Mavericks Macao Trip Proves Chemistry Is Already Built

Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg are ready. Dallas players say the locker room is tight. The Macao trip shows the Mavericks are set for a run.

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Oct 9 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
In brief: 'Stick' season 2 trailer and more

Bill Murray stars in the official trailer for A Course Called Ireland. The six-part documentary series premieres on Paramount+ on Oct. 25. The show follows Murray and his friends as they travel across the island to explore Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland's best fairways ...The Die Hard films are getting a brand-new home media release. All five of the movies will be released on physical media in 4K Ultra HD on Dec. 1. Bruce Willis stars as John McClane in all of the Die Hard films. The original movie finds the New York City policeman taking on terrorists after he flies to Los Angeles to be with his estranged wife and two children on Christmas ... TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); The trailer for Stick season 2 is here. Owen Wilson stars as the talented golfer who strives for second chance in the sophomore season. Peter Dager, Timothy Olyphant, Rhea Seehorn, Marc Maron, John Higgins and Billy Zane also make up the cast of the new season. The Apple TV series premieres its first two episodes on Nov. 4. A new episode drops weekly every Wednesday that follows until the season finale airs on Dec. 30 ...Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.

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Oct 9 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.com
Iowa Economy recap: AI lifts economic growth amid higher costs

The national economy is growing, bolstered by investments in AI, but the benefits are uneven. High fuel costs, inflation and weak income growth are weighing on many households and businesses. On the latest episode of the Iowa Economy Podcast, two national economists joined to discuss the state of the national economy and how it is…

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Oct 9 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves show why they click in Lakers' preseason win

The Lakers will lean on Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves to lead the team this season, and they showed their on-court chemistry in a 114-110 win over the Kings.

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Oct 9 • 1:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump bucks and the politics of mailing checks

The checks started going out last week, nearly one million of them, and mostly to battleground states. With a return address for the U.S. Treasury and a letter enclosed signed by President Donald Trump, these one-time checks for $500 were ostensibly government rebates for Obamacare enrollees who overpaid. In the accompanying letter, however, Trump attacks his predecessor and talks about his record in office on an important issue he’s not polling well on, which makes it seem more like the most expensive political mailer in U.S. history. The average piece of direct mail costs between 30 cents and $3, according to Mail Processing Associates, a print, mail, and fulfillment company. At $500 a pop plus roughly 50 cents each to issue the paper check, the cost of Trump’s healthcare mailer sent to more than 950,000 enrollees comes in at more than $475 million. Trump’s midterm healthcare message “For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare dot gov,” Trump wrote in the letter. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!” In the letter, Trump makes false and misleading claims about his administration’s record on healthcare costs, an issue Democrats have a 20 point advantage on over Republicans, according to a recent poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank. Trump touts his administration’s TrumpRX program, which he claims is “delivering massive discounts.” However, new research from KFF found that of a selection of drugs available on the TrumpRX platform, just five were the lowest price, while 13 were the highest price. Trump also falsely claims in the letter that he’s fighting to lower healthcare costs. In reality, average monthly premium payment costs for enrollees rose 58% under Trump while marketplace sign-ups declined 5%, per KFF. Under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, it’s estimated 10 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2034. You get a check and you get a check and you get a check Trump’s long promised cash outs to his fans, from his days as a casino operator and gameshow host to his presidency. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump administration made the unprecedented move to put Trump’s name on checks that went out under the CARES Act (notably the $500 refund checks this time around don’t feature Trump’s name). Ever since, Trump’s been chasing that high. In his second term, Trump’s promised more stimulus that never arrived, like refund checks from DOGE cuts and tariffs, while he said at his party’s convention last month that he’d give out $5,000 checks to everyone if Republicans win in November. In reality, DOGE overstated its cost cutting and Trump’s government actually now spends more than former President Joe Biden’s, while Trump’s tariffs actually grew the trade deficit. His proposal for $5,000 checks would add about $1.2 trillion to the national debt. The problem is there’s no money to give. These $500 checks — plus $90 Medicare rebate checks also going out as well as $250 deposited this week in some Trump Accounts for kids courtesy Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan — represent the closest Trump’s going to get to making good on his promise to deliver cash fast. And the checks seem especially targeted. Though the $500 checks went out to enrollees in one of 30 states that use the federal HealthCare dot gov marketplace, a Reuters review found 71% of the payments, or $339 million, went to enrollees in 13 states that have the most competitive elections for governor and U.S. Senate. Most Americans don’t buy it Could Trump bucks sway the election? An Economist-YouGov poll found 57% of U.S. adults doubt Trump will deliver on his promise for $5,000 checks, compared to 21% who do. “I’m waiting on my DOGE check and I’m still waiting on my tariff check,” one 2024 Trump voter who’s since turned on him told a recent focus group. “It felt like kind of trying to buy people’s votes, which honestly felt like in elementary when the class president was like, hey we’re going to take you to the water park if you vote for me. It’s like, I don’t think it works like that.” But for voters in swing states who got a check, it could still matter. One survey published in 2022 found receiving a physically personalized check in the mail during the pandemic was associated with a much greater self-reported likelihood of voting for Trump in 2020, and those gains mainly came from out partisans. The issue for Trump comes if these checks are mostly going to Obamacare enrollees whose premiums have gone up by more than just $500 since he took office and who view the money as something like a bribe before the election rather than an actual long-term solution to lowering household costs. Spending $500.50 per mailer would be absurd as a normal campaign expenditure, but since Trump’s checks and letter are a government rebate, his campaign and super PAC didn’t have to spend a dime and he got out his message regardless. If enough voters in key states are swayed by the one-time payment, it could prove to be the best $0 the Trump campaign spent. 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Oct 8 • 6:01 PM EDT • Politics • yellopolitics.com
Despair over future fuels political anxiety for Michigan college students

Many young people feel uncertain about their paths and pessimistic about American government. Their anxiety is fueling restlessness in national politics that has contributed to the rise of outsider candidates.

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Oct 8 • 5:57 PM EDT • Politics • bridgemi.com
BMW’s Greatest Strength Became Its Biggest Weakness. Are You Making the Same Mistake?

BMW’s profit margins are plunging as Tesla and BYD disrupt the EV market. Ask three critical questions to future-proof your business strategy.

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Oct 8 • 3:03 PM EDT • Business • inc.com
Biggest Titans Weaknesses Texans Need to Exploit in Week 5

The Texans can dominate Week 5 by pressuring the Titans’ struggling pass protection and capitalizing on costly offensive mistakes

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Oct 8 • 2:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Another Critical Role Actor Joins The Final Fantasy VII Revelation Cast As Shiva (But Not The Shiva You Think)

Hmm, wonder where all this chemistry with Vincent is coming from?

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Oct 8 • 1:10 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
New Permanent Alchemy Exhibit in Philadelphia Reveals How Art and Chemistry Intertwine

Philadelphia has quietly been sitting on what the Science History Institute says may be the finest collection of alchemical fine art in the world. Now, for the first time, visitors can see that collection in a permanent exhibition. Fire and Gold: The Art of Alchemy, 1450–1850 is the Science History Institute’s first permanent display devoted […]

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Oct 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • philadelphia.today
Shaq shares his simple business advice for up and coming athletes

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal and renowned brand manager Leonard Armato talk to OutKick about how young athletes can avoid making critical branding mistakes.

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Oct 8 • 9:53 AM EDT • Business • foxnews.com
The Nobel boys club (again)

All six Nobel awardees in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry this year were men. Women make up 4% of laureates since the award’s inception.

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Oct 8 • 7:53 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

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Oct 8 • 6:30 AM EDT • Science • wired.com
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After the NFL Draft, Detroit’s small businesses want a bigger piece of the Final Four

Business owners are "cautiously optimistic" about seeing a boost from the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four.

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Oct 8 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
Meet the two scientists who have just won the 2026 Nobel prize in ...

Learn about the lives of newly minted chemistry Nobel laureates Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • chemistryworld.com
Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.

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Oct 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • gpb.org
Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Trump's executive order on dyed diesel will offer little relief, farmers and truckers say

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Nobel Prize winner was a Carolina postdoc - College of Arts and Sciences

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This is what the 2026 Nobel prize for chemistry is all about

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This Rice University professor has helped pick more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners

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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Kagan and Soai for 'mirror image' research

They developed methods to produce the desired mirror image in chemical reactions, which is crucial for drug design

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French, Japanese scientists share Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules

Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling mystery of asymmetric chemistry

The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for groundbreaking work in the field of asymmetric chemistry – unraveling the mystery of how molecules exist in non-identical mirror images of each other.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly awarded to France's Henri Kagan, Japan's Kenso Soai

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Brazil: Lessons from a Disaster

By Antonio Martins (Outras Palavras) Defeats become deeper and more prolonged when we misunderstand what caused them, avoid correcting course, and embrace “solutions” that only compound our mistakes. Lula’s government and the Brazilian left suffered a disaster in Sunday’s election. Contrary to every poll, the president finished the first round 2.2 million votes behind Flávio Bolsonaro—and, more significantly, 3.4 million votes below his total four years ago, when the machinery of the state was working against him and in favor of his opponent. His vote share declined in 98 percent of Brazil’s municipalities. The PL, the main party of the far right, elected 121 deputies and 28 senators, becoming the largest caucus in both houses of Congress. The parties aligned with the Centrão—Brazil’s bloc of transactional center-right parties—were somewhat diminished, but will still hold roughly 250 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 35 in the Senate. That will make it easier to assemble the majorities needed to amend the Constitution or impeach Supreme Federal Court justices. If elected, Flávio Bolsonaro could appoint four members of the Court, substantially altering its internal balance of power. What produced these results? How can the far right be prevented from consolidating them into a prolonged political hegemony? And what is the essential change of direction the left now needs? Explaining the Disaster Across the commercial media and the exuberant chaos of digital platforms, interpretations are multiplying. Some focus on specific episodes: Lula’s absence from the Globo debate, his very close relationship with Alexandre de Moraes, or his emphasis on issues supposedly remote from most people’s everyday concerns, such as rare earth minerals. Among the more systemic interpretations, three seem especially questionable. One argues that the principal defeat was not the left’s, since its congressional representation declined only slightly. The decisive movement captured at the ballot box, according to this view, was a shift within the right itself—from the more moderate and transactional forces of the Centrão toward the more ideological and radicalized forces of the PL and Novo. A second interpretation holds that the nature of electoral and political processes has changed. The material interests and aspirations of society, it argues, no longer play the central role they once did; they have given way to forms of subjective self-identification that the left has yet to understand. And a third concludes that, because of these two developments, we should expect a political winter: a prolonged period in which the far right and the broader right dominate Brazilian political life. There are important elements in all three interpretations. The problem lies in what they deny or leave out: Lula’s third government was a small-bore government. It offered the majorities that elected it neither a clearly better life nor reasons to believe again in politics and its power to transform society. These failures flowed from two fatal accommodations, which I will examine below. As a result, the government suffered a slow but steady erosion of support. And, as has happened in so many Western countries, it gave the far right the opportunity to present itself as anti-system and to benefit from popular frustration and distress. The interpretation that emphasizes the migration of votes from the center-right and traditional right toward the far right has been advanced, among others, by the courageous journalist Leonardo Sakamoto. In his UOL column on Monday, October 5, he highlights the miserable behavior of the traditional conservative parties. Over the past four years, they repeatedly joined forces with the “neo”-fascists, helping to “normalize” them—a criticism that could equally be directed at almost the entire corporate media. Believing they could use the far right as a stepping stone, they instead ended up partly devoured by it. This was especially true in the Senate, where the PL’s gain of 13 senators and Novo’s gain of two came at the expense of the PSD, which lost nine; the MDB, which lost two; the PSDB, which lost two; and the PP, which lost one. Sakamoto’s observation is accurate and necessary, but it leaves uncomfortable questions unanswered. Why did the erosion of the Centrão benefit the far right rather than, for example, producing growth for the left—as has happened so many times before, both in Brazil and elsewhere? The answer is not difficult. Throughout its four years in office, Lula’s third government was almost invariably associated with the Centrão. Here lies its first accommodation: accepting the limits imposed by conservative institutions; avoiding, as much as possible, any attempt to strain those limits through popular pressure; and believing only in the modest changes that could be squeezed through openings in Congress. The failure of the campaign to end the six-day workweek is emblematic. Lula could have electrified the presidential race by pairing it with a popular campaign for passage of the measure. Instead, he chose to place his hopes in the hands of Senate president Rodrigo Alcolumbre. He generated no mass mobilization, did not force his opponents onto an uncomfortable defensive, and won no victory. In September 2025, the government squandered the greatest of its many opportunities to shake up conservative power in Congress. Popular opposition to the so-called Shielding Amendment—which, if approved, would have restricted criminal proceedings against members of Congress—brought crowds into the streets, mobilized primarily by artists and social movements. This opened the possibility for a broader political education: a campaign that could begin exposing the limits and dysfunctions of Brazil’s political system while putting Bolsonaro’s movement on the defensive for its predictable support of political privilege. The amendment was defeated. But the executive branch then backed away from the fight. It remained associated with an institutional world widely seen as corrupt, elitist, and indifferent to ordinary people’s struggles. In doing so, it forfeited its credibility as a vehicle for the protest vote. On Sunday, it reaped the bitter fruits. Are We Doomed? Taking a different approach from Sakamoto, the philosopher Moysés Pinto Neto and other writers have drawn attention, in their first analyses of October 4, to the fragmentation of the public sphere produced by Big Tech platforms. Through their algorithms, these platforms present each person with a different view of social reality. As a consequence, it becomes much harder to identify common material problems and demands—for example, the fight for labor rights or for a properly funded public health system. Voters no longer embrace such demands, these authors argue, because they no longer see themselves as part of a collective. Instead, they tend to value the identities assigned to them by neoliberal subjectivity—the role of the entrepreneur, for example. On this interpretation, the left’s possible error lies in clinging to outdated illusions. Moysés’s warning is highly relevant and resonates with arguments such as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s “Apocalyptic Fascism and the Billionaires’ Bet.” Unlike a century ago, the far right no longer promises a radiant future. It concentrates instead on resentment—especially that of young men. “They belong to a generation that fears it may never own a home, but compensates with the pleasure it gets from constantly provoking progressives online. Convinced their future has been stolen, they share memes romanticizing historical authoritarian regimes,” the authors write. But Moysés seems to confuse this danger with inevitability. He fails to see that the left’s answer cannot be adaptation. On the contrary, it must strengthen the possibility of politics as collective action. Nor does he recognize that precisely such a reversal is already becoming possible in some of the most promising mobilizations of the twenty-first century: the election, at the end of 2025, of the young Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York, on a platform centered on the intensely material fight for an affordable city; the Left Party’s victory in Berlin two weeks ago, built around the demand to expropriate private real-estate corporations; and the very recent wave of demonstrations in Spain—including an occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol—in which tens of thousands of young people mobilized by the Tenants’ Union have demanded limits on rents. By putting itself in the straitjacket of the “fiscal framework” in the first months of 2022, Lula’s third government adopted the second fatal accommodation of its term. Faced with conservative institutions and a country devastated by four years of Bolsonaro, increased public investment was the government’s remaining weapon for offering a more dignified life to the majority and forging an anti-conservative pact with them. The same state that disburses 1 trillion reais a year to enrich a small class of rentiers could instead spend money to extend the Family Health Strategy to every Brazilian, at a cost of 30 billion reais; provide full-day public schooling and childcare to all adolescents and children—and, especially, relief to their mothers; achieve universal sanitation while cleaning up polluted urban rivers; multiply metro systems; begin transforming the urban peripheries; and undertake many other urgently needed projects. In April 2023, an article in Outras Palavras warned that the fiscal framework could “shrink the Lula government and preserve the forces that condemn the country to inequality and regression.” A year later, another article showed that restraints on public spending were strangling policies vital to ordinary people and undermining the president’s popularity. In November 2024 came a reality check, in the form of the government’s humiliating defeat in the municipal elections. Even then, the fiscal lock was neither removed nor loosened. On the contrary: throughout the government’s four years, fiscal restraint remained central to its political narrative. The administration proudly proclaimed that it had “put the state’s accounts in order,” without grasping either how misleading that phrase was—given the payment of 1 trillion reais in interest—or how badly the message was hurting it politically. Lula finally woke up in September 2026. The increase in Bolsa Família benefits, after four years of being frozen; the announcement that anti-obesity drugs would be offered through Brazil’s public health system; and the ban on online betting showed that the state has the power to act decisively on behalf of the majority when those in government are willing to confront obstacles. The huge marches that closed the campaign in Fortaleza, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo on the eve of October 4 showed how such initiatives can mobilize activists and the broader public. But it was too late—and too little to change the outcome of the first round. History has not ended The possibility of a turnaround in the three weeks leading up to November 25 cannot be ruled out. It will not be simple or easy. Lula must not only make up a deficit of 2.2 million votes; he must also offset the movement of voters who backed other right-wing candidates in the first round, most of whom are likely to move toward Flávio Bolsonaro. Pulling that off will require a broad, grassroots effort to win over voters, potentially reinforced by new initiatives from Lula. The coming hours and days will be decisive. If Bolsonaro’s movement also wins the presidency, the result will create a high-risk situation for Brazilian sovereignty and democracy. The enormous challenges posed by such an outcome would require the left to reexamine, in depth and with a genuine willingness to engage in self-criticism, its political projects—or its lack of them—and its practices. But would that mean we are condemned to the long winter of far-right hegemony that some analyses are beginning to forecast? It is far too early to say, suggests a recent text by Álvaro García Linera, the thinker who served as vice president of Bolivia under Evo Morales. His central hypothesis is that this political current will prove short-lived. At a moment when the entire world is once again talking about sovereignty and protecting national economies, the far right offers a stale, recolonizing neoliberalism. Its submission to the United States is as blatant and pathetic as Flávio and Eduardo Bolsonaro’s overtures to Donald Trump. Its project amounts to something like every man for himself: greater inequality, capitalism without limits, devastation, and supremacism. Will it work? In the United States, just two years into his second term, Trump himself is reaching record levels of unpopularity and may be on the verge of losing Republican control of both the House and Senate in November. Every new beginning is difficult. Whatever the outcome of the second round, the defeats of October 4 show how profoundly the Brazilian left will have to rethink and rebuild. But just as it would be foolish to underestimate the seriousness of its mistakes, it would be equally foolish to conclude that rebuilding a political project is no longer possible. History has not ended. The times are moving faster than ever. Originally published in Portuguese by Outras Palavras. English translation by Eric Blanc; I’ve added the subtitles. More We can’t stop the far right at home or abroad without a revitalized labor movement, which is yet another reason why you should become a sustaining supporter of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) — one of US labor’s pivotal bright spots. Relatedly, Jacobin published a short piece of mine reflecting on a decade of Bernie Sanders inspiring a whole new generation of young worker organizers.

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Oct 6 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • laborpolitics.com
Northern Virginia business leaders grow more pessimistic about the national economy, survey finds

One in five respondents is based in Alexandria. A majority said data centers are good for the region's economy.

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Oct 6 • 9:42 AM EDT • Business • alexandriabrief.com
Chemistry professor Grinias elected ACS division chair-elect, earns national honors

Rowan chemistry professor James Grinias earns national recognition with an ACS leadership role and honors from two Under 40 lists.

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Oct 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • today.rowan.edu
Vasseur Admits Ferrari’s Mistake and Praised His Drivers

The Italian team chose slicks at the start, a wrong decision that cost them positions. Hamilton and Leclerc knew how to come back with great tire management to finish third and fourth.

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Oct 6 • 1:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bruins struggle with early mistakes, fall to Senators

The Senators have won four of the last five against the Bruins.

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Oct 5 • 11:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists finally see how nature moves energy so efficiently

Researchers have captured key steps in a chemical reaction that helps nature transfer energy with remarkable efficiency. Ultrafast X-rays revealed how changes involving electrons and protons are closely linked to the rearrangement of surrounding water molecules. Because similar reactions drive photosynthesis and other energy-conversion processes, the technique could help scientists develop better catalysts, fuel cells, and flow batteries.

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Oct 5 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
What control! Zidane oozes class during France match 🎥

Zinedine Zidane has reasons to make fans optimistic about the future of the French national team.And on Monday (5), he gave fans another reason to rise from their seats at the Stade de France.During t...

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Oct 5 • 7:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com