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Denison business flourishing, 7 years after downtown fire

Seven years after a destructive fire on Main Street in downtown Denison, Texas, the area has been revitalized with a new visitor center and a Phoenix sculpture created from the remains of the buildings that burned. This transformation honors the past while embracing the revitalization of the once-devastated block.

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Oct 9 • 5:40 PM EDT • Business • kten.com
Cayette-Weston had weathered Katrina and LeBron’s departure, was ready for Charlotte

Shelly Cayette-Weston had a history of reclamation projects after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and after LeBron James left and devastated Cleveland. She was the right person for the job in Charlotte.

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Oct 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Richard E. Grant discovered his best friend had betrayed him after 29 years of friendship

Why Richard E. Grant immediately cut off a friendship of 29 years, leaving him 'absolutely devastated.'

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Feb 22 • 10:00 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead

Small businesses pay hidden toll after money-transfer rule change to curb illicit activities near the US-Mexico border

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Aug 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
US ski resorts devastated as worsening crisis impacts business: 'It's been really slow'

"You lose people, employees."

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Jan 28 • 7:45 PM EST • Business • yahoo.com
‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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Sep 17 • 1:35 AM EDT • Business • kptv.com
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Scientists to probe the source behind a massive 1946 tsunami

Eighty years ago, a massive tsunami devastated parts of Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon following an earthquake off the coast of Alaska. A Michigan State University team is launching a project to ...

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Sep 14 • 11:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Canceled NBC drama finds new home on Netflix

Fans of this NBC drama were devastated when it got canceled

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Dec 8, 2025 • 6:05 PM EST • Entertainment • nj.com
Demolition Proposed for Portions of the Business Block Ruins - Palisadian-Post

After months of an uneasy status quo with the stark remains of the historic but devastated Business Block building, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park’s office is attempting to move forward with a plan to demolish and clear half the still-standing walls, while preserving the remaining portions to be incorporated in the site’s eventual redevelopment.… Keep reading

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Sep 25 • 10:20 AM EDT • Business • palipost.com
Beloved Gino's Pizza closes after nearly 40 years serving Downtown Brooklyn community

After 40 years of service, the institution known as Gino's Pizza has closed, and long-time customers are devastated.

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Jan 15 • 6:31 PM EST • Business • abc7ny.com
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Widow turns tragedy into triumph with new Blawnox-based baking business

A Blawnox widow is turning personal tragedy into personal triumph with a new baking business inspired by her late husband. Lisa Collins was devastated when she lost her husband of 27 years, David Collins, suddenly from cardiac arrest in 2023. The couple’s three adult children were grown, so Collins was

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Oct 2 • 5:01 AM EDT • Business • triblive.com
Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.

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Sep 23 • 6:02 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
Ex-City star Richards 'absolutely devastated' amid calls for demotion

Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards says the Premier League’s damning verdict on the club has left him devastated and heartbroken. City were found to have engaged in an almost £1 billion ($1.

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Illinois lawmakers consider grants or loans for Chicago businesses devastated by Operation Midway Blitz

SPRINGFIELD — When federal immigration officers flooded Chicago neighborhoods last fall, walk-ins at Erick Camargo’s hair salon in Chicago plunged from about 40 customers per day to as few as five. At...

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May 24 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
‘Clueless’ star Elisa Donovan was ‘devastated’ to lose ‘Showgirls’ role to Elizabeth Berkley after making it to final talks

Elisa Donovan of ‘Clueless’ thought she was going to play another iconic ‘90s part. She was ‘devastated’ when she didn’t get it.

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Sep 26 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Lexington embroiderer sells T-shirts to support uptown businesses devastated in fire

A Lexington embroidery business owner is selling custom T-shirts to help the uptown businesses destroyed in last month’s fire. The message behind the shirt and more ways you can help:

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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes

Pantheon Review by Walter Cummins The image of Alfred Tennyson I’ve carried for decades goes back to the childhood card game of Authors that depicts him with a stately continence sharpened by a jutting black beard. He’s formidable, his aura superior. Holmes opens his biography of the youthful Tennyson by describing the similar formality of the imposing Tennyson statue at Trinty College Cambridge, sharing the honor with other Trinity greats, including Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Babington Macaulay. Holmes doesn’t want to chip away at that statue but rather reveal its inner youthful core of the man—tall, handsome, and talented but unformed, emerging from a disturbed family of addicted or insane male siblings and four unusual sisters struggling under a violent alcoholic clergyman father. Alfred was certainly statuesque, but would he end up a block of unformed stone like his equally promising brothers? He was youngest of three equally regarded Tennyson brothers at Cambridge, all bright, handsome, and talented, in fact Alfred regarded by some as less promising than his elders who also wrote poetry. Yet Alfred wrote one of his major poems, “The Kraken,” at twenty, revealing both his talent, his interest in geological forces, and the haunting creature that embodied his anxieties. While Holmes focuses on Tennyson of the 1830s and 1840s, he can’t tell his story without exploring his involvement with the Victorian intellectual upheaval. Tennyson was fascinated by new scientific perspectives, following the latest findings as soon as books and articles were published. He was especially taken with Charles Lyell’s deep studies of geology and the discovery of fossils and a timeline of the planet’s development that did much to question fundamental religious assumptions. The impact of these discoveries is reflected in Tennyson’s poetry and led to the crisis in belief he shared with so many contemporaries. He was especially taken by the cycles of destruction and renewal that informed the struggles he confronted in In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Tennyson was only one of the eventual major figures at Cambridge at the same time, young men just beginning to realize their potential. Charles Darwin was at Christ College, although there is no evidence that he and Tennyson even met as students or later in life. Yet evolution became significant in Tennyson’s thinking and the issues of his poetry. One of Tennyson’s best and most important Cambridge friends was Edward FitzGerald, who became the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and in their on and off relationship served as Tennyson’s harshest critic. FitzGerald was also a friend of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, the two of them partying in Paris as undergraduates. That connection led to a friendship between Thackeray and Tennyson. Others who came to play significant roles in Tennyson’s life were Thomas Carlyle, the Brownings, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Tennyson’s deepest friend at college was Arthur Hallam, who at twenty wrote a glowing review of Tennyson’s first poetry collection, travelled on European adventures with him, and fell in love with his sister Emily. Hallam was also regarded as one more very promising Cambridge student. His sudden death at twenty-two in Vienna from a stroke while travelling with his father devastated many friends, but perhaps Tennyson most of all. He did not write immediate poems of grief but took years to compile those collected in In Memoriam A.H.H., published in 1850, almost twenty years after Hallam’s death For all of Tennyson’s early poetic successes and successes, Holmes reveals him as an often troubled young man suffering periods of depression, fearing planetary upheaval, concerned about supporting himself, disappointed in romances, and worried that he would inherit the family’s mental illness tendencies. Yet despite his seeming withdrawals, he was always writing poetry that he kept private and would not let go, constantly revising. 1850 became a transformative year for Tennyson. He finally consented to publishing In Memoriam with a last-minute prologue that acknowledged God and perhaps convinced the religious Emily Sellwood to marry him after years of pursuit.. He opened up to Emily, revealing his struggles with fears of depression and “weird seizures.” The devastating event of that time was the stillborn death of his unnamed first son. It shook him, but Emily’s faith brought them closer and convinced him to believe in an afterlife. Two later sons survived. With the death of William Wordworth in April of 1950, Tennyson was named poet laureate at age forty-one, reluctantly accepting. It’s as if Tennyson’s life split in half in that year. He lived another forty years, now a recognized success, with the prestige of being an official poet writing patriotic verse, wealthy and revered, no longer the insecure young man seeking an outlet for his immense talent. He earned a place in the Authors deck, now dignified and in 1884 elevated to the peerage as Arthur, Lord Tennyson. Richard Holmes is the author of twenty previous books on the Romantics and Victorians, several of which received awards. The Boundless Deep was shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He captures the complex vicissitudes of Tennyson’s youth, illustrated by frequent excerpts from the poetry, placing that life in the full context of the shattering discoveries that led to an upheaval of thought in the Victorian age.

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Apr 7 • 12:35 PM EDT • Science • calirb.com
Mullin pledges progress on disaster relief during his first official trip

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin toured North Carolina areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024.

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Apr 7 • 5:18 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Scientists discover a surprising twist in Japan's 7,300-year-old volcanic apocalypse

A catastrophic volcanic eruption 7,300 years ago devastated Japan, but new research reveals that its impact on prehistoric populations was far more complex than previously believed. While some communities disappeared or declined, others unexpectedly flourished as survivors migrated, adapted, and found new ways to thrive.

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Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Hidden genetic diversity helped inbred brown tree snakes conquer guam

A notorious snake invasion that devastated Guam’s native birds may have succeeded because the reptiles carried hidden genetic advantages. Using advanced long-read DNA sequencing, researchers uncovered more than 19,000 large genetic differences in brown tree snakes, many concentrated in genes tied to immunity and smell. This overlooked diversity may have helped a population founded by only a few snakes survive inbreeding, adapt to a new environment, and multiply to extraordinary densities.

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Jul 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
How is the Iran war reshaping the world and politics here at home?

For the last week, Israeli and US bombs have devastated Iran. And the conflict has widened to include multiple countries in the Gulf. How is the conflict reshaping the world order and impacting Trump’s popularity here in the United States?For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Connor Donevan, Elena Burnett, Alejandra Marquez Janse and Erika Ryan. It was edited by Barrie Hardymon, Tara Neill, Dana Farrington, Jeanette Woods and Courtney Dorning. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.

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Mar 6 • 5:56 PM EST • Politics • npr.org
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‘Over $25,000’ in damage: Bellevue honey business devastated by historic flooding

In Bellevue, September's floodwaters washed away 35 beehives — and with them, years of work

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Oct 19 • 5:17 PM EDT • Business • wowt.com
Villa Rica family loses home, business to fire days before Christmas: 'I’m devastated'

"We’re going to have a Christmas with our family." A Villa Rica family lost their home and in-home bakery to a weekend fire just days before Christmas.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 10:28 PM EST • Business • fox5atlanta.com
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Opinion: Remembering Hurricane Helene, recognizing climate change, regardless of politics

Two years after Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, the author argues leaders are ignoring climate change.

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Sep 27 • 5:04 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Devastated Walhalla business owners consider next steps after fire

Impacted business owners in Walhalla are reeling and basically starting over from scratch - with tens of thousands of dollars of equipment and products destroyed - after a massive fire Thursday morning.

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Sep 17 • 5:24 PM EDT • Business • wyff4.com
'Devastated' Weston-super-Mare business owners return after fire

The blaze which destroyed units at the Locking Farm Industrial Estate is being investigated.

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Aug 27 • 1:23 AM EDT • Business • bbc.com
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WVU Health leadership failed to address painkiller thefts as opioids devastated West Virginia

WVU Health Systems has entered into a federal settlement for failing to report and prevent drug thefts by employees.

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Jul 20 • 1:39 PM EDT • Health • newsday.com
Rock star dies just days after aggressive brain cancer news, leaving fans devastated

The 59-year-old star revealed her diagnosis earlier in the week.

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Jul 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • syracuse.com
'We lost everything': Western NC businesses seek support after Helene as recovery drags on

In 2024, the storm devastated parts of the region, including Asheville's River Arts District.

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May 13 • 12:56 PM EDT • Business • abc11.com
‘Gone is a dream’: Nordic combined athletes left devastated by Olympic snub

For the sport's athletes, Tuesday's announcement of Nordic combined's cut was a devastating blow that leaves them with an uncertain future.

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Jul 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Fire hits Baskin Robbins, Dunkin' business plaza in Horseheads

Several businesses in a plaza near the Arnot Mall have been devastated by the fire.

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Feb 26 • 10:33 AM EST • Business • stargazette.com
West Arlington fire upends lives of local business owners

A four-alarm fire devastated restaurants, a bookstore and other businesses on Aug. 17.

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Aug 25 • 10:15 PM EDT • Business • theshorthorn.com
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Richmond Buzz: An 'absolutely brutal' blackout weekend

“Richmond Buzz” will be a recurring column on the neighborhood. This edition: Businesses are devastated after the weekend blackout.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 2:30 PM EST • Business • missionlocal.org
Officials: SBA disaster loans approved for businesses affected by Walhalla fire

On Sept. 17, businesses on the block along Highway 28 between Catherine and Tugaloo streets were devastated by an early morning fire.

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Oct 10 • 2:37 PM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com
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With their fruit crops obliterated by freeze, these Colorado growers are forced to flex their business muscles to survive

An April freeze devastated farmers along the North Fork Valley, including a total loss at the Kropp family’s First Fruits. Here’s how the orchards are moving on.

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Jul 12 • 6:22 AM EDT • Business • coloradosun.com
Ross Fire: Family loses century-old land, canoe business in blaze

Land owned by a North Texas family for nearly a century, along with a canoe rental business that's nearly 60-years-old, was completely devastated by the Ross Fire that continues to burn throughout Palo Pinto County.

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Aug 26 • 9:07 PM EDT • Business • fox4news.com
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Mesa business loses access to all social media accounts after wrongful suspension

Let ABC15 Know has received dozens of emails from people who were devastated that their social media accounts were suspended.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 4:23 PM EST • Business • abc15.com
When the oceans died and life changed forever

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving in isolated marine refuges. Over millions of years, they diversified into many forms while competitors faded away. This ancient reset helped determine which creatures would dominate the planet ever after.

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What Trump says vs. what the intelligence says on Iran

One of the Trump administration’s key talking points on the Iran war is that the Islamic Republic’s missile and military capabilities were devastated in US-Israeli bombing campaigns before the ceasefire began in April.

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May 14 • 12:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Business Monday: Natural disasters devastated some Big Island business, while boosting income for others

Hawai‘i County Mayor Kimo Alameda said it’s an “unbelievable yin-yang story” as some businesses have been forced to shutter while others are thriving.

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Sep 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • bigislandnow.com
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
Months after historic floods, local businesses denied SBA loans and left with few options

Months after historic floods devastated the region, some small business owners are still struggling to recover and say they're falling through the cracks when i

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Beloved Carleton burger joint Fat Stax abruptly closes amid business dispute

A beloved small-town burger joint is expected to close its doors and the owner as well as the community is devastated. Fat Stax, on Telegraph Road in Carleton recently shut down and the owner, Barb Little, was spending the day cleaning it out.

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Sep 29 • 10:15 PM EDT • Business • fox2detroit.com
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Sulphur businesses continue to rebuild after devastating 2024 tornado

Two years after the 2024 tornado devastated Sulphur, business owners are working to rebuild, with some reopening and others struggling to recover.

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May 1 • 11:24 PM EDT • Business • koco.com
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‘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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Kurt Busch shares emotional last moments with late brother Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch's death May 21 after severe pneumonia left racing fans and one of NASCAR’s most accomplished families devastated.

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Aug 21 • 1:34 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
New mobile unit to help communities with mental health after Helene

More than a year after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, mental health and addiction providers say demand for services continues to grow. Crossroads Treatment Center is launching a mobile unit to expand access to holistic care.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 2:36 PM EST • Health • wral.com
Opinion | Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse?

With Trump’s health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.

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Jan 3 • 7:00 AM EST • Health • nytimes.com
One Year of RFK Jr. Has Left Public Health Devastated

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines.”

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Feb 17 • 7:00 PM EST • Health • bloomberg.com
‘Soaked and broken’: Owner of Enfoque Images devastated after her business building collapses

GEDDES, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — What was once a photography building has now partially collapsed. For Jacqueline Vidler, owner of Enfoque Images, when a neighbor calls, it’s usually not a good sign. “He said...

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Apr 6 • 5:11 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Seattle small business owners devastated by break-ins as commercial burglary cases flood King County courts

Several defendants faced arraignment in King County court Monday on commercial burglary charges, cases that prosecutors said illustrate an ongoing problem devastating small business owners.

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May 11 • 12:53 PM EDT • Business • mynorthwest.com
‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire early Tuesday morning. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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Sep 17 • 1:44 AM EDT • Sports • kptv.com
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Why did former teen superstar James Van Der Beek need help to pay his medical bills?

A fundraiser was setup to help the actor's family after expensive cancer treatments devastated their finances.

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Feb 13 • 7:03 PM EST • Health • bbc.com
Hearn ‘Devastated’ After Losing Benn To Zuffa Boxing

Earlier today (Fri., Feb. 20, 2026) Dana White dropped a bomb on the boxing world by announcing that Zuffa Boxing had signed Conor Benn to a lucrative deal reportedly worth eight figures (full details here). While the news came to shocker to many, Eddie Hearn took the news the hardest, though he knew a few […]

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Feb 20 • 10:26 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'We will get through this together'

Former Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has posted a message on social media following the news of his former club being found guilty of financial breaches. Guardiola led City to 17 major trophies, including six Premier League titles and a Champions League victory, during his 10-year reign at the club. Among reaction elsewhere, ex-City defender and academy graduate Micah Richards said he felt "absolutely devastated" after reading the Premier League's "damning" guilty verdict on the club's financial charges.

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Sep 30 • 8:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Did This Man Avoid Alzheimer’s? Scientists Reveal Their Astonishing Theory - Futura-Sciences

A Family Plagued by Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Doug Whitney inherited a rare genetic mutation that’s devastated much of his family: many relatives experienced significant cognitive decline as early as their 50s. Yet Doug himself has stayed mentally alert well past the age at which illness struck in the family. According to...

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Jul 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Sports clubs 'devastated' by off-road riders damaging pitches

Grassroots sports teams say games have been postponed and pitches have been damaged.

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Aug 21 • 1:06 AM EDT • Sports • bbc.com
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‘If we can't respond in this moment, then we have failed’ — lawmakers reflect on ‘25 fires

(Inside California Politics) — One year after massive fires devastated southern California communities, state lawmakers say there’s still more work to be done. Marking the first anniversary of the …

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Jan 18 • 2:30 AM EST • Politics • fox40.com
Helene exposed gaps in health care

A look at ER visits two years after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina

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Sep 27 • 4:28 PM EDT • Health • thecharlotteledger.com
Game Developers Devastated By Gamescom Laptop Theft Spree

Multiple developers had laptops stolen Thursday night

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Aug 28 • 2:24 PM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site
‘It’s heart-wrenching’: Portland sports bar owner devastated after business severely damaged by fire

A Portland sports bar owner says he’s devastated after his business caught fire early Tuesday morning. The smoke from that fire also damaged several other businesses nearby.

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Sep 17 • 1:44 AM EDT • Business • kptv.com
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‘If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em’: Italy is turning its hated invasive crab into a multimillion-dollar business

After the crabs devastated Italy’s prized clam industry, fishermen found a new strategy: exporting every crab they catch.

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Sep 2 • 10:20 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Illinois lawmakers consider grants or loans for Chicago businesses devastated by Operation Midway Blitz

Six months after Operation Midway Blitz, lawmakers are considering if and how to support businesses who struggled financially due to the federal government’s incursion into Chicago.

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May 24 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagotribune.com
Marshall women’s swimmers compete as team is cut: ‘They are devastated’

Swimmers and divers were blindsided by the decision, which takes effect after this weekend's championships. Marshall will add a STUNT team.

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Feb 19 • 2:03 PM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
Chad Powers Has No Right To Be As Good As It Is, And I’ll Be Devastated If We Don’t Get Season 3

C'mon give us the "w" Hulu.

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Sep 22 • 11:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Flooding devastated swathes of Indiana but response is hampered by politics

Record inundations wrecked homes and took seven lives but Trump has not approved emergency aid and the state has cut funds for environmental agencies

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Aug 30 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Kauai small businesses still waiting for financial aid after Hurricane Lowell

Nearly a month after Hurricane Lowell devastated Kauai, struggling businesses are still waiting for help with unemployment numbers skyrocketing every week. Meanwhile, an application portal that was supposed to go

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Oct 1 • 10:50 PM EDT • Business • kitv.com
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Fire in Valley Stream leaves business owners devastated
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Apr 6 • 6:32 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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In Lodge Grass, Montana, a Crow community works to rebuild from meth's destruction

Meth is a problem most everywhere, but particularly in Indian Country. In one small town on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, new buildings serve as symbols of a town trying to rebuild after being devastated by addiction.

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Jan 8 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • npr.org
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The right to health in Gaza is now a privilege

The devastated healthcare system cannot reach Gaza’s most vulnerable – those who live in displacement camps

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Aug 24 • 3:08 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com