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Arizona voters poised to approve restrictions on transgender athletes

A ballot measure that would restrict transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports appeared headed to approval Tuesday night.

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Nov 4 • 2:01 AM EST • Sports • azcapitoltimes.com
Democrats secure historic majorities in the midterms — and are poised to win even more seats

The party is poised to have strong majorities in Congress for the final two years of President Trump’s term. Follow for live updates.

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Nov 4 • 2:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
WATCH: Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks after Democrats win control of Senate

The longtime Democratic leader told reporters in Washington that “Americans voted for change” and that there had been a “generational remake of the Senate map.”

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Nov 4 • 1:42 AM EST • Politics • pbs.org
WATCH: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks after winning reelection

This is Hochul's second time being elected governor. She was serving as lieutenant governor when Andrew Cuomo resigned in 2021, and she ascended to take his place.

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Nov 4 • 1:32 AM EST • Politics • pbs.org
NBA Fans Outraged Over Adam Silver’s Latest Idea

The NBA fans are pushing back against Adam Silver’s interest in shorter games, and their objections go beyond simply resisting change. A post from NBACentral, citing Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, revived discussion of the commissioner’s preference for 40-minute contests. Several responses challenged whether cutting basketball is the right solution to the league’s problems.The replies showed […] The post NBA Fans Outraged Over Adam Silver’s Latest Idea appeared first on HEAVY.

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Nov 4 • 1:21 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Charity donates mental health packs to primary schools

Amy Watson is offering support through a charity she set up after the death of her partner Joe Phipps.

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Nov 4 • 1:12 AM EST • Health • bbc.com
Tight race between LA Mayor Karen Bass and democratic socialist Nithya Raman

The first returns were a tally of mail ballots received before Election Day. Others, including results from in-person voting, were to follow.

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Nov 4 • 1:10 AM EST • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Tight race between LA Mayor Karen Bass and democratic socialist Nithya Raman

The first returns were a tally of mail ballots received before Election Day. Others, including results from in-person voting, were to follow.

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Nov 4 • 1:10 AM EST • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
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St. Albert the Great Academy: Finding amazement in agrarian science

St. Albert the Great is typically remembered in history by his Latin title, "Albertus Magnus." This Dominican abbot and bishop in the Catholic Church is remembered not just for his

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Nov 4 • 1:04 AM EST • Science • auburnpub.com
Washington initiative to ban trans students from girls’ sports ahead in early returns

A statewide ban on transgender students competing in girls’ school sports was leading on election night, according to early tallies.

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Nov 4 • 1:03 AM EST • Sports • opb.org
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Nebraska men’s golf fall season recap

Sports writer Connor Krumme describes the many highs and lows that have occurred throughout the Huskers’ latest golf season.

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Nov 4 • 1:00 AM EST • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
How a Ms. Frizzle-esque librarian helped Flagship’s Louisa Helms find biotech

BioSpace 40 Under 40 honoree Louisa Helms is a lot of things—athlete, scientist, entrepreneur and likely future biotech executive. Just don’t ask her to pick up any pipettes.

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Nov 4 • 12:54 AM EST • Science • biospace.com
Schumer praises ‘great candidates’ as he celebrates Democrats’ big night
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Nov 4 • 12:53 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Political analysts discuss Wisconsin governor's race results

Democrat David Crowley defeated a Republican with close ties to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, rising from a childhood in one of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods to become the first Black person to lead the battleground state.

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Nov 4 • 12:42 AM EST • Politics • wowt.com
Nebraska on track to add gender-based school sports requirements to state Constitution

Voters appeared to agree to cement sex-separate school sports requirements into the Nebraska Constitution with the approval of the Fairness for Girls ballot measure.

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Nov 4 • 12:40 AM EST • Sports • nebraskaexaminer.com
Democrat Xavier Becerra wins California governor’s race

Becerra will be California’s first Latino governor since the late 19th century

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Nov 4 • 12:34 AM EST • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
How to Maintain Muscle Mass as You Age With Diet and Exercise

Adequate protein intake and resistance exercise support muscle strength and function during aging, when muscles often respond less strongly to dietary protein. Evidence for supplements varies, with creatine showing benefits alongside resistance

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Nov 4 • 12:29 AM EST • Health • news-medical.net
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Susan Collins concedes race to Troy Jackson in stunning political upset

The election all but ends the political career of one of Maine’s most famous and scrutinized elected officials.

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Nov 4 • 12:22 AM EST • Politics • bangordailynews.com
Jake Ferguson gets good prognosis on ankle injury

Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson suffered an ankle injury in Week 8, but head coach Brian Schottenheimer said the initial feedback was good.

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Nov 4 • 12:15 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SC secretary of state wins 7th term leading office for business filings

South Carolina’s longtime secretary of state, Mark Hammond, won a seventh term in office.

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Nov 4 • 12:15 AM EST • Business • scdailygazette.com
El Camino Healthcare District’s Measure S gets the greenlight

A ballot measure to establish term limits for El Camino Healthcare District’s board members appears headed for victory.

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Nov 4 • 12:14 AM EST • Health • mv-voice.com
The Midterm Election Was About Health Care

In the face of Trump’s destruction of public health and modern science, voters are putting candidates who support Medicare for All, doctors, and nurses into positions of power.

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Nov 4 • 12:05 AM EST • Health • prospect.org
Circadian depression: Body clock disruptions take mental health toll

About one in four depression cases follow disruptions to the sleep-wake cycle in what scientists say is a circadian subtype of the condition. After assessing data for more than 10,000 patients, resear...

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Nov 4 • 12:03 AM EST • Health • yahoo.com
If You Can Get 5/5 On This History And Science Quiz, You're Smarter Than 98.4% Of People

Test your knowledge of science and history!

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Nov 4 • 12:01 AM EST • Science • buzzfeed.com
Before the Dawn in America’s Heartland

With hardly a cloud in sight, astronauts had a sweeping view of nighttime lights in the U.S. Midwest.

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Nov 4 • 12:01 AM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for Nov. 4, 2026, puzzle No. 772

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
National Navy SEAL Museum honors courage and commitment

Just north of Palm Beach County, along Florida’s scenic Treasure Coast, the National Navy SEAL Museum brings to life the remarkable stories of courage, sacrifice and service that have shaped

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Nature comes to life in ‘MOMIX: Botanica’ at the Schaefer Center on Nov. 12

MOMIX presents Botanica, a visually stunning dance and illusion show exploring nature’s rhythms, at Appalachian State University’s Schaefer Center on November 12. This multisensory performance combines athleticism, inventive props, and atmospheric music to transform dancers into flowers, insects, and fantastical creatures.

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • wataugademocrat.com
A jack of all tales: Orville Hicks delights museum annual meeting with stories of Appalachia

JEFFERSON — The Orion Schoolhouse became storyteller Orville Hicks’ front porch on Oct. 20 as he regaled the Museum of Ashe County History’s board members with old mountain tales and

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • wataugademocrat.com
US stock futures mixed as Democrats score key midterm election wins

Wall Street faces fresh uncertainty over what Democratic control of Congress could mean for taxes, government spending and regulation.

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Nov 3 • 11:57 PM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
US stock futures tumble as Democrats score key midterm election wins

Wall Street faces fresh uncertainty over what Democratic control of Congress could mean for taxes, government spending and regulation.

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Nov 3 • 11:57 PM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.

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The Midterm Election Was About Health Care

In the face of Trump’s destruction of public health and modern science, voters are putting candidates who support Medicare for All, doctors and nurses into positions of power.

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Biz leaders react as a 'blunami' sweeps America on Election Night

Business leaders and tech executives are now weighing in on what the new political landscape could mean for their industries.

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Tulsans approve hotel tax hike backed by business groups

Tulsa voters approved a measure to raise the city’s lodging tax from 5% to 9.9%. The new revenue will pay for upgrades at BOK Center and Arvest Convention Center.

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Slack vs Discord; a comparison for businesses

Slack vs Discord were built for different audiences, one for work, one for communities. See which platform actually fits business teams best.

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Talarico flips Texas Senate seat, in historic win for Democrats

Democrat James Talarico, a former schoolteacher and Presbyterian seminarian who campaigned on a "politics of love," on Tuesday won the US Senate race in Texas, flipping yet another seat for his party ...

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In Affluent San Francisco Suburb, Food Security and Health Care Topped Voters’ Concerns on Election Day

In affluent Fremont, California, hundreds of people each week get food support at the Tri-City Volunteers Food Bank.

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Nov 3 • 11:23 PM EST • Health • americancommunitymedia.org
Political analyst digs into Election Night in Wisconsin as results come in

Political analyst digs into Election Night in Wisconsin as results come in

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Effort to ban trans girls in K-12 school sports leads Tuesday night

Washington is among the first states in the nation to put the question of transgender girls' participation in school sports directly before voters.

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Nov 3 • 11:20 PM EST • Sports • seattletimes.com
Vote-scanning machine malfunction expected to delay counting in New York's Westchester County

A judge has granted permission for elections officials in a major New York county to move thousands of paper ballots to a secure warehouse after a technical problem caused vote-scanning machines to malfunction.

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Nov 3 • 11:03 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Schmaltz scores game-winner in Mammoth 3-2 win

TORONTO (ABC4 Sports) – Nick Schmaltz scored the winner on a power play with 6:48 left in regulation and the Utah Mammoth beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday night. Dylan Guenther and Andrew Peeke also scored for Utah. Sebastian Cossa made 27 saves. Clayton Keller added three assists and Mikail Sergachev had a […]

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Lakers star Luka Dončić has second technical foul rescinded
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Van Jones: ‘Can I be happy right now?’
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‘One Tree Hill’ star Bethany Joy Lenz recalls ‘worst audition of my life’ for Broadway role

‘One Tree Hill’ star Bethany Joy Lenz was so close to landing the starring role of Satine in Broadway’s ‘Moulin Rouge,’ until the ‘worst audition’ of her life dashed those dreams.

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Democrat Janelle Stelson wins election to U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District

Democrat Janelle Stelson won election Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent Scott Perry.

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Nov 3 • 10:54 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Which sports figures won or lost in the midterm elections? Tracking 7 big names

Ex-NFL player Colin Allred returned to the U.S. House, while ex-coach Tommy Tuberville and broadcaster Michele Tafoya were also in races.

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Nov 3 • 10:48 PM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
Canada Regulates Health-Product Claims. But What Does ‘Science-Backed’ Actually Mean?

Phrases like “science-backed” can sound reassuring, but consumers deserve to see what kind of evidence actually stands behind health-product claims.

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Nov 3 • 10:30 PM EST • Science • goodmenproject.com
Entertainment that Resonates with Filipino Culture

As a Filipina American, I’ve seen how many other Filipino Americans take pride in their cultural identity and aren’t afraid

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Democrats flip New Jersey House seat held by Republican Tom Kean

Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, on Tuesday defeated two-term Rep. Tom Kean, who missed four months of votes in Washington this year as he underwent treatment for depression, a diagnosis he did not disclose until his return.

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Nov 3 • 10:22 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
NYT Strands hints, answers for November 4, 2026

Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.

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Nov 3 • 10:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
‘Money Out of Politics’ ballot measure passes, constitutional convention fails

Proposal 2 on Michigan ballots, the “Michiganders for Money Out of Politics” initiative, has passed. The initiative will alter state campaign finance law to ban campaign spending from “regulated electric and gas utilities, contractors with over $250,000 annually in government contracts, and people and organizations with substantial connections to those utilities or contractors.”

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Nov 3 • 9:58 PM EST • Politics • michiganadvance.com
macOS 27.3 includes cool-looking ‘Pro’ screensaver from new touchscreen MacBook Pro

Included in today’s macOS 27.3 beta 1 is a great-looking screensaver featuring an animated version of the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display wallpaper.

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JB Pritzker says his reelection as Illinois governor shows hope is winning out over fear

“It looks like maybe, just maybe, something is stirring in the conscience of America,” Pritzker told his supporters after winning election to a third term.

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Nov 3 • 9:17 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
WATCH: Roy Cooper speaks after flipping North Carolina Senate seat for Democrats

A crowd gathered in a downtown Raleigh hotel ballroom Tuesday night, where music was thumping and CNN played on a big screen. When the news of Cooper’s victory appeared, the crowd exploded and began chanting, “Cooper! Cooper!”

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Nov 3 • 9:10 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Hochul elected to second full term as New York governor

Hochul became New York’s first female governor in August 2021.

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Nov 3 • 9:04 PM EST • Politics • ny1.com
University of Toledo to launch online master’s degree in data science and AI in spring 2027

Bill Kulies, director of UToledo’s School of Interdisciplinary Data Science, said the program is fully online and can be taken full time or part time.

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Nov 3 • 9:01 PM EST • Science • 13abc.com
Women Entrepreneurs Rock 12 Celebrates Revolutionary Thinking and Bold Moves

Women Entrepreneurs Rock 12 Celebrates Revolutionary Thinking, Bold Moves, and the Power of Women Supporting Women New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Brookdale Community College marks 12 years of inspiring entrepreneurs, strengthening businesses, and

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Chinese scientists discover thickening ground ice in parts of warming Tibet

Research counters expectations but the region remains extremely vulnerable to climate change, study warns.

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Nov 3 • 9:00 PM EST • Science • scmp.com
Jülich Hosts EVE Language Model for Earth Observation and Earth Science

Nov. 3, 2026 — The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has started a new collaboration with Pi School, an international centre of excellence for AI headquartered in Rome that brings together innovators, thinkers and entrepreneurs. As a result, JSC’s Helmholtz Blablador infrastructure now hosts the EVE-Instruct model, a large language model (LLM) for Earth observation (EO) and […]

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Political science professor sees signs of increased competition in Indiana races

By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen November 3, 2026 As election results began to come in Tuesday night, Laura Merrifield Wilson, a professor of political science at Indiana University Indianapolis, said some of Indiana's traditionally Republican districts were showing signs of increased competition, potentially reflecting a broader shift in Democratic momentum. One of the biggest

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Political science professor sees signs of increased competition in Indiana races

By Sydney Byerly The Indiana Citizen November 3, 2026 As election results began to come in Tuesday night, Laura Merrifield Wilson, a professor of political science at Indiana University Indianapolis, said some of Indiana's traditionally Republican districts were showing signs of increased competition, potentially reflecting a broader shift in Democratic momentum. One of the biggest

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OPINION

Like all forms of art, film has a special power to bring societal and political change to a society. Filmmaking is a craft that has always been rich in politics and societal influence, so it is impossible to fully understand the craft without understanding its inherently political nature.

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Nov 3 • 8:48 PM EST • Politics • theplainsman.com
University of Toledo to launch online master’s degree in data science and AI in spring 2027

According to UToledo, graduates will be prepared for jobs that use advanced analytics, machine learning and AI to drive better decisions, inform strategy and advance innovation.

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Nov 3 • 8:43 PM EST • Science • 13abc.com
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Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins reelection to U.S. House in Florida’s 20th District

Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz won election to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Florida’s 20th Congressional District, defeating Republican Brent Andersen.

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Nov 3 • 8:29 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
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USC Back in the Spotlight After Win Over Ohio State Produces Top-Tier Ratings

USC's 30-18 victory over Ohio State drew a massive 7.1 million viewers. Discover what this national exposure means for the Trojans and coach Lincoln Riley. The post USC Back in the Spotlight After Win Over Ohio State Produces Top-Tier Ratings appeared first on LA Sports Report.

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Nov 3 • 8:28 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Agri science key climate change tool, say experts

Agricultural science and technology is expected to play a greater role in international cooperation as countries face mounting pressures from climate change, resource constraints and disruptions to food supply chains, experts said on Monday at a global forum in Hainan province.

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St. John’s lands highest-rated high school recruit under Rick Pitino

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino has landed his highest-rated high school recruit since taking over at St. John’s, earning a commitment Tuesday from 2027 senior Malachi Jordan. Jordan, a 6-7

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Adam Schefter Reveals Strong Bengals Trade Pivot

The Cincinnati Bengals are reportedly one of the six teams that have made an aggressive offer to the Indianapolis Colts for running back Jonathan Taylor. However, Adam Schefter mentioned that if the Colts do trade Taylor, there will be five teams that are looking to pivot, and the Bengals would be one of those teams. […] The post Adam Schefter Reveals Strong Bengals Trade Pivot appeared first on HEAVY.

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Michigan elections: Voters decide on Proposal 2 Money Out of Politics question

Voters on Tuesday were asked to consider a ballot proposal that would prohibit regulated utilities and large state contractors from contributing to Michigan politicians.

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Nov 3 • 8:00 PM EST • Politics • bridgemi.com
2026 College Football Playoff Rankings: Week 1

AP Poll Georgia Update Georgia won their sixth straight Cocktail Party, this time in Atlanta and by a final score of 27-8 over Florida. This win, combined with Ohio State’s loss to USC, saw the Dawgs land at #2 in the first College Football Playoff ranking of the season. The first rankings also mean that […]

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Billy Evans discusses full frontal nudity in 'You Can See Everything'

Billy Evans, the partner of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and 'You Can See Everything' antagonist, addresses hot topics from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s new documentary in a candid AMA.

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Las Vegas restaurants absorb higher import prices, adjusting business

Restaurant owners who rely on ingredients from overseas are adjusting how they do business as costs rise.

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Nov 3 • 7:52 PM EST • Business • fox5vegas.com
Game rankings and predictions for NFL Week 9

The ninth week of the NFL season has 15 games on the schedule. Two of the best see NFC North teams on the road to meet AFC East opponents.

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Nov 3 • 7:52 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Compounds that give citrus fruits their scent may affect gut health

A review published in Food & Function found that dietary terpenoids, naturally occurring compounds in fruits, herbs, and vegetables, can suppress inflammatory signalling and improve intestinal barrier function in laboratory and animal studies. However, human evidence remains limited to two small studies of geraniol-based interventions for irritable bowel syndrome, with further research needed to establish clinical efficacy, appropriate dosing, and long-term safety.

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Nov 3 • 7:40 PM EST • Health • news-medical.net
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Unbeaten Utah Hosts BYU In A Holy War That Could Shape The Big 12 Title Race

The final month of the college football season in the Big 12 will shake loose a tight race and determine the teams that will play in the championship game.

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Nov 3 • 7:30 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
Maura Higgins Looks Back on ‘One of the Toughest’ Weeks on ‘DWTS’

Maura Higgins opened up about her “lowest” week on Dancing with the Stars. On Monday, Nov. 2, the Love Island alum shocked fans when she and her professional dance partner, Mark Mallas, scored last du...

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A Bull and a Male Donkey Kept Having Sex. Scientists Say Their Relationship Was About More Than Mating

This is making biologists question what they know about evolution.

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Nov 3 • 7:22 PM EST • Science • zmescience.com
NIH joins Open Source for Science Fund partnership | ETIH EdTech News

The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy joins the Open Source for Science Fund to identify research software needs and guide future investment. ETIH EdTech News explores the partnership’s focus on maintainers, reproducible biomedical research and tools supporting AI-driven science.

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Nov 3 • 7:15 PM EST • Science • edtechinnovationhub.com
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Justice Department sent target letters in Alaska Senate criminal probe. Here's what that means

The Justice Department has escalated its investigation over a Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, issuing a letter to a prominent Democratic attorney in Washington and others that they may be targets of the criminal inquiry.

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Nov 3 • 7:14 PM EST • Politics • pbs.org
Google responds to political backlash over removing search from schools that ban AI

After elected officials voiced outrage over Google turning off search at schools that ban AI, the company said search can be turned back on with AI Overviews.

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Nov 3 • 7:08 PM EST • Politics • cnbc.com
It’s not Rocket science | Kingfisher Times & Free Press

As Kingfisher coach Reagan Roof rewatched the game film and then showed it to his players, an old football adage came to mind. “It truly is a game of inches,” Roof said.

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The Last Disney+ Original?

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get going, I wanted to remind readers about how I plan to keep your trust while I add advertising to this newsletter. As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’m running ads now, but the danger is that it could impact my analysis and writing. I have a list of sponsors on my About Page, so if you think I’m biased, you can check out who’s sponsored this newsletter! This is something that I’m not sure anyone else in digital media does (if you’re a writer or media outlet and you do this, let me know and I’ll shout you out!) but it’s something I’d love to see embraced by the entire industry. Sunlight, i.e. transparency, is often the best disinfectant. Okay, on to this week’s issue. We (finally) have another major Disney+ TV show to talk about, so that’s my main focus for today. Plus, we had a lot of new shows come out, including the fourth seasons of The Diplomat and Tulsa King! And Love is Blind! The Lowdown! Also, four (four!) straight-to-streaming films came out this week, featuring a lot of big names and celebrities, so I’m going to look at those. All that, mixed news for the WNBA, Reacher ends its run on the charts, Skydance does well in September viewership, NYU’s Sundance dominance, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of October 12th to October 18th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - Disney+’s Porridge Problem Listen, per my headline, VisionQuest isn’t the last Disney+ Original. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s not. They have other MCU shows in development. Well, maybe one: But it sure feels like the end of an era. I’d call it their “porridge too hot” era, to quote myself from The Ringer. I told Ben Lindbergh that Disney+ seemingly couldn’t figure out the right amount of content. In the heights of the Streaming Bubble Era (circa 2019 to 2022), they started releasing an insane amount of TV shows. After their growth slowed, they’re down to two or three shows a year, and that might be down to 1 by 2027. Here’s my TV shows by year chart: Even at the time, I thought Disney was making too many shows (that cost too much). Today? They’re definitely making too few shows (though the budgets are more in check, at least according to the reporting). Porridge too hot, porridge too cold; too many shows, now not enough. Which makes evaluating VisionQuest so interesting. This show didn’t have a great lead-in, whether it be a Marvel Cinematic Universe film (the last non-Sony-produced-Spider-Man flick came out The Fantastic Four from July of 2025) or Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show (the two this year were Wonder Man back in January and _Daredevil: Born Again_in May, both of which underwhelmed). And so far, VisionQuest hasn’t quite recaptured the MCU Originals glory, but it has some signs of sparks. First, it made Samba TV, though at a lowly ninth place. At least it made it, a feat some other Marvel shows didn’t accomplish. (Ironheart landed on the Samba TV charts one week at tenth place, but Wonder Man and Daredevil: Born Again both missed.) VisionQuest also made Luminate, though with only 3.0 and 7.6 million hours. But it missed Nielsen in its first week. The best news might be its 7.8 on IMDb, on 12K reviews so far, great numbers, even for a superhero show. Looking at those numbers, this show will really need to pick up in future weeks—and it may since it’s coming out weekly—or Disney will have another disappointment on its hands. Disney+ binge-released their last few shows to try to boost numbers, but that meant shows like Iron Heart and Wonder Man didn’t last long on the charts. _Daredevil: Born Again’s_last season missed entirely (though it came out weekly). Here’s the Disney+ Originals by totals: And for a fun new look, here are those same shows, rearranged by the years they came out: That really shows that, in addition to Disney+ releasing fewer shows, those shows just don’t hit like they once did. If I had to offer one main explanation, it’s that Marvel Studios moved away from characters who starred in the Avengersmovies (The Scarlett Witch, Vision, Hawkeye, Loki, Falcon, Winter Soldier) to characters who didn’t (Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Iron Heart, Wonder Man, Daredevil). It sounds trite, but more popular IP tends to do better than less popular IP. In Marvel’s case, beloved, decades-old characters trump newer ones. And yes, I think this is a problem for Disney. The failure of Marvel TV shows to linger for weeks on the charts, unlike in 2021 and 2022, explains why Disney’s share of the charts has plummeted: That’s a strategic issue. Yes, these shows are really expensive, but without them, Disney+ will struggle, especially if Disney+ keeps raising prices AND licenses out its shows non-exclusively. My recommendation? Return to the core value proposition, which is Disney+ as “genre HBO”. The goal is six shows a year, coming out weekly, spaced out throughout the year. When a show hits, keep it coming back. Make three to four of those shows Marvel or Star Wars, and fill out the rest with IP swings like Percy Jackson, Goosebumps or something like National Treasure. And make YA-skewing shows like Coven Academy to fill out the schedule. Disney, you can get this porridge just right, er, make the right number of shows. Quick Notes on TV Netflix’s sophomore, er, junior, er, senior season slump abated very, very slightly this week. I speak of The Diplomat, which returned for its fourth season on 15-Oct. Credit where credit is due, this show debuted in April of 2023, and has put out new seasons every year since. Has that helped the viewership? Not really. This season opened to 16.4 million hours, which is down significantly from the first season (21.7 million hours) and down somewhat from the second season (18.0 million hours), but it is up from last year’s 14.2 million hours opening. On Samba TV, it opened to third place; that’s also very good. On Luminate, it opened to 25.0 million hours, which is good, but over thirty million hours is a hit on that platform. Netflix wisely renewed it, since it’s steady and, frankly, Netflix needs hits.1 Paramount+ put out Tulsa King’s fourth season on a Friday. After putting out most of their big, usually-Taylor Sheridan-scripted shows out on Sundays last year, they’ve clearly moved to Fridays going forward. Was this a thought-out strategic change, Netflix mimicry, or a data-inspired move? Tough to say. Fridays are crowded with new movies, but so are Sundays with new shows. Anyways, this one is coming out weekly, and we haven’t seen it hit the Nielsen or Luminate charts yet. But it did make Samba TV at fifth place, which is a good opening. Still, if this doesn’t make Luminate or Nielsen next week, I’d call it a disappointment. Netflix had two unscripted shows hit the charts this week, one a docu-series and one a reality competition show. Tyson is a four-episode docu-series about one of boxing’s most popular fighters, and it made both the Samba TV and Luminate charts, but not Nielsen. That’s a solid run for only four episodes (assuming it didn’t cost an arm and a leg to produce). Netflix’s latest season of Love Is Blind also returned for its eleventh season, which opened to 10.0 million hours, down from previous seasons. It also had 11.0 million hours according to Luminate, roughly in line with the Nielsen numbers. Last issue, I analyzed the triple successes of Below, Carrie and Crystal Lake, noting that all three have done well. I mostly used Nielsen, but all three shows also made Samba TV (see above). Crystal Lake in particular did very well on Luminate, getting 35.0 million hours, top for Peacock among first seasons: The top “show” of the week would have been Thursday Night Football again, at 41.7 million hours. This is still above last year’s game, but it continues the season’s overall downward trend, which happens every year. (Though a big week is coming, based on the news stories I’ve seen.) As I said before, I’ll do a deeper dive on all the October games later this month, with comparisons to previous years. One company is quietly on a roll, when you consider the shows it makes and streams. I speak of Skydance—a point Variety made—noting that it produces Neagley and Reacher for Amazon, along with Paramount+’s Lioness, which means it produced three of the top four shows of September according to Nielsen. By the way, Neagley fell off the Nielsen charts after four weeks, which is a pinch short for how well it started, but it’s still a huge success. (Interestingly, it finished just 7.3 million hours ahead of the cancelled Ride or Die.) The point, though, which I’ve made before, is that Prime Video still has a problem with how many co-productions it buys, most notably _The Boys_from Sony and Reacher/Jack Ryan from Skydance. It’s not a critical flaw—everyone licenses shows—but Amazon still struggles to make its own hits. Reacher finally fell off the Nielsen charts, so here’s its final rank for season four: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...An example of the algorithm NOT picking a film… …whether or not Netflix buys shows simply for the movie poster… ...if East of Eden is above the Obliterated Line... ...what four star-studded straight-to-streaming films didn’t chart... ...and a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue.

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Melissa Rycroft breaks silence on second DWI arrest: ‘I’m finally admitting that I need help’

‘Bachelor’ alum Melissa Rycroft is addressing her recent DWI arrest, her second in the past year: ‘I’m finally admitting that I need help.’

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How hawkmoths turned their genitals into bat-busting weapons

In arms race with bats, hawkmoths have evolved three distinct ways to make bat-busting ultrasound using their genitalia.

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Nov 3 • 7:01 PM EST • Science • sciencenews.org
Molecular dinitrogen anions pave the way for low-temperature ammonia synthesis

New antiperovskite-supported cobalt catalyst can produce ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen under mild conditions without precious metals, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. This self-organizing nanostructured material unlocks a novel cooperative mechanism between cobalt, barium, and aluminum that promotes nitrogen activation through the formation of molecular dinitrogen anions (N2)−, outperforming benchmark ruthenium and industrial iron catalysts.

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SLAC scientists find conclusive proof of a mysterious third type of magnetism

For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a remarkable third type called altermagnetism. Using specialized X-rays, they uncovered a unique magnetic signature that proves these materials behave differently from conventional magnets. Altermagnets combine stability with the ability to efficiently carry information, potentially overcoming major limitations in today's electronics. The discovery could lead to faster computers, more efficient data centers, and breakthroughs in quantum technology.

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NASA is racing against time to save the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA is exploring a daring plan to save the legendary Hubble Space Telescope from its eventual fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. After more than 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, Hubble is slowly losing altitude, and without intervention, it could fall back to Earth as early as 2033 or 2034. To keep the iconic observatory operating, NASA is asking private space companies to propose innovative ways to boost Hubble into a higher orbit, upgrade its capabilities, or safely dispose of it when its mission finally ends.

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Loughborough expert features on leading science podcast

Professor Vicky Tolfrey, Director of Loughborough University's Centre for Para and Disability Sport Innovation, is featured in a new episode of the chart-topping A Question of Science podcast, released 4 November.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Claim AI Has Disproved a 27-Year-Old Computer Science Hypothesis

AI may have overturned decades of computer science research. Discover why OpenAI and Anthropic's claimed breakthrough matters.

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Nov 3 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • hackernoon.com
Six climate and health actions could save 1.6 million lives and deliver trillions in benefits each year

Six proven climate and health measures could save 1.6 million lives a year while delivering trillions of dollars in economic and fiscal gains, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report released today.

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Forum in Baghdad puts responsible business practices at the heart of Iraq's economic growth

Government representatives, business leaders, international partners, academics and civil society representatives gathered in Baghdad today for the Iraqi Forum for Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Integrity. The Forum aimed to strengthen the role of Iraq's private sector in driving sustainable economic growth by promoting transparency, accountability and responsible business practices

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Nov 3 • 7:00 PM EST • Business • undp.org
Beyond the Health Report: AsiaMedic and Eternami Launch a New Approach to Personalised Healthspan

What happens after a health screening report is delivered?

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Nov 3 • 7:00 PM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Inside Iowa Politics: Why this national election legal scholar is concerned about close elections

Ben Ginsberg, a longtime campaign election legal advisor, is urging candidates to accept the results of voters' decisions in the 2026 elections.

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Lea Thompson says this ‘famous bomb’ early in her career made more money than people think

‘Howard the Duck’ actress Lea Thompson says people don’t always realize it, but the movie actually made some money.

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Nov 3 • 6:43 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
But WHY Does Intelligent Design Predicts Ultimate Engineering?

A possible objection to Dr. Burgess’s case for ID might be that the apparent superb design of the human body is what you’d expect from evolution.

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Nov 3 • 6:41 PM EST • Science • scienceandculture.com
Belichick shows respect for UConn ahead of North Carolina game

STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — North Carolina, led by coach Bill Belichick, travels north to take on UConn on the gridiron at Rentschler Field. At one point in time, Belichick was in consideration to become UConn’s head coach. That was in 1983, when the job went to Tom Jackson. The eight-time Super Bowl winner has plenty […]

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Scientists find loophole that lets black holes split apart

When two black holes collide, they can merge into one enormous black hole. But what if one black hole could do the opposite and split into two? A new theoretical study suggests that this strange possi...

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Barcelona, Atlético Skip Champions League Anthem To Honor Jesus de Miguel

Soccer teams playing in the Champions League have paid tribute to Jesus de Miguel after the Tenerife forward’s death following an on-field collision

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