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Tony winners thank voice teachers and babysitters as Broadway crowns 'Schmigadoon!'

The new host at the Tonys, Pink, pretended at the beginning that she didn't know what she was doing. Then former host Neil Patrick Harris told her to just be

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Jun 8 • 5:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • bozemandailychronicle.com
Area boiler business takes home SBA award

Patrick Snyder held back tears of joy and appreciation as the CEO of a commercial boiler business near Muncy was honored with the U.S. Small Business Administration Eastern Pennsylvania Blue-Color Small Business of the Year award this week. “With the team that we have we’re just getting started – it’s the tip of the iceberg,” […]

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Jun 7 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • sungazette.com
'It gives us less faith moving forward': State Sen. Tony Strickland slams Newsom's changes to High-Speed Rail Board

Republican State Sen. Tony Strickland slammed the newest leader of California's High-Speed Rail Authority Board after Gov. Gavin Newsom made abrupt changes to the group of people who oversee one of the most expensive transportation construction projects in the world.

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Jun 7 • 11:16 AM EDT • Politics • kcra.com
Telecom Companies to Buy Patrick Drahi’s SFR for $23.5 Billion

The deal marks a major shift for the French-Israeli billionaire’s business portfolio and will be a test of regulators’ openness to further consolidation in the industry.

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Jun 7 • 6:56 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Scranton Times-Tribune

For a feel for the past and present of entertainment in Northeastern Pennsylvania, consider the Ritz Theater in Scranton. Will Rogers did rope tricks there in the heyday of vaudeville, in the same place metal bands and jazz ensembles play…

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Jun 7 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thetimes-tribune.com
Kansas City Chiefs: ESPN Expert Drops Major Patrick Mahomes Prediction

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are once again entering a season with championship expectations, but one prediction has elevated the conversation surrounding the star quarterback even further. An NFL analyst recently projected that Mahomes will capture the third Most Valuable Player award of his career during the 2026 season, a forecast that underscores […] The post Kansas City Chiefs: ESPN Expert Drops Major Patrick Mahomes Prediction appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Jun 6 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
GOP lawmaker appears skeptical about Pulte’s qualifications to be DNI
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2026 World Cup Futures Report: Patriotic Play Taking Place at Books

Would you believe that the USA has become a huge liability at sportsbooks ahead of the 2026 World Cup? Patrick Everson has the scoop.

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Jun 5 • 9:48 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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"I Think They Are Missing A Trick" - Evercade Boss Says The Games Industry Is Failing Older Players

"Gaming just hasn't really done that"

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Jun 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • timeextension.com
Rockies beat reporter Patrick Saunders to leave Denver Post

The long-time reporter announced his departure on X.

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Jun 4 • 9:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nottingham Forest appoint Mallinson as new head coach

Nottingham Forest have appointed Tom Mallinson as the new head coach of their women’s team on a three-year deal.WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official media update from The Tricky T...

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Jun 4 • 12:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fitbit Air Can Turn Into a Watch and the Trick is Super Easy

When we talk about devices like the new Fitbit Air having their momentt, we can't do so without mentioning the fact that it doesn't have a screen. This is a fitness and health tracker that is...

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Jun 4 • 12:17 PM EDT • Technology • droid-life.com
Guardians' Patrick Bailey: Exiting starting nine

Guardians' Patrick Bailey: Exiting starting nine

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Jun 4 • 10:55 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Brewers' Chad Patrick: Tosses four shutout frames

Brewers' Chad Patrick: Tosses four shutout frames

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Jun 4 • 9:59 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
GOP leaders shunned Bo French for racist posts. Now they want him to regulate Texas’ oil and gas

After Bo French asked his social media followers whether Jews or Muslims were a "bigger threat to America," Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for him to step down from his position at the Tarrant County GOP. Patrick is now backing French in his bid to be the next Texas railroad commissioner.

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Jun 4 • 9:20 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Cancer’s favorite escape trick may actually make it easier to kill

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the immune system fights cancer, overturning a core belief that has guided immunology for decades. The research found that when cancer cells shut down a key immune-recognition molecule called MHC I—a common trick used to hide from “killer” T cells—they can actually become more vulnerable to attack by a different group of immune cells known as CD4+ “helper” T cells.

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Jun 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Lawsuit to be filed against Cincinnati in death of OTR business owner, widow announces

Sarah Heringer announced the wrongful death lawsuit a day before the anniversary of her husband, Patrick Heringer.

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Jun 3 • 1:13 PM EDT • Business • fox19.com
Catholic Health CEO Patrick O'Shaughnessy Steps Down

Dr. Patrick O'Shaughnessy, who has served as president and CEO of Catholic Health since 2021, has stepped down from the Rockville Centre-based health system. Gary Havican, previously executive vice president and chief operating officer, has assumed the roles of president, CEO and chief operating officer, according to the health system. It was not immediately clear

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Jun 3 • 8:23 AM EDT • Health • libn.com
Guardians News: Judgeless Yankees no match for young team

The Yankees entered Tuesday’s game 3-8 against teams over .500. They did nothing to show they were better than that at home against Cleveland. With the help from some creative argumentative tactics, they came back twice vs Guards SP Joey Cantillo, but they ran out of tricks once he was out of the game. CLE’s […]

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Jun 3 • 3:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Morrisey announces $3.4M health funding opportunity

KINGWOOD – West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey spent Monday morning at Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital in Kingwood speaking about community-based health. He was joined by local representatives, members of the Preston County Commission, state officials, local community partners and hospital officials. The purpose of his visit was to announce a $3.4 million statewide funding […]

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Jun 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • newsandsentinel.com
Catholic Health CEO Dr. Patrick O'Shaughnessy steps down

Chief Operating Officer Gary Havican will serve as interim president while the hospital system's board conducts a national search.

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Jun 2 • 5:21 PM EDT • Health • newsday.com
Catholic Health CEO steps down

Dr. Patrick O’Shaughnessy resigned after serving as president and CEO of the Long Island hospital system for more than five years.

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Jun 2 • 4:50 PM EDT • Health • crainsnewyork.com
Double Hoo Patrick Higgins Appointed to Lead UVA Darden’s LaCross Institute for Ethical AI in Business

Darden has appointed technology strategist and alumnus Patrick Higgins (MBA ’16) as managing director of the LaCross Institute for Ethical AI in Business, effective 1 June 2026.

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Jun 1 • 1:16 PM EDT • Business • news.darden.virginia.edu
Governor Morrisey Announces $3.4M Rural Local Health Challenge Funding Opportunity

Governor Patrick Morrisey announced a $3.4 million for a statewide local health challenge funding opportunity to advance prevention-focused, community-based health initiatives through West Virginia’s continued participation in the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).

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Jun 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • governor.wv.gov
Mysterious Origins of The Nicotine Molecule Are Finally Revealed

A hidden trick.

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May 31 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Scientists Think They’ve Discovered How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

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May 31 • 9:27 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Scientists Think They’ve Discovered How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision

Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

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May 31 • 9:27 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
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Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 31, 2026

Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1807.

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May 30 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Why Patrick Kane Still Fits the Red Wings

Patrick Kane looks like Detroit’s top UFA to keep after another productive season. See why a return still makes sense for the Red Wings.

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May 30 • 8:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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No more expensive roaming: the data trick business travelers swear by - Futura-Sciences

Stay connected across borders—without the roaming bill shock If you’re a frequent flyer for work, your data needs are probably sky-high. Between video meetings, sending files on the go, and keeping your cloud tools synced, staying online isn’t just convenient—it’s essential. Traditional mobile plans and public Wi-Fi networks often leave...

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May 30 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • futura-sciences.com
Steelers' Patrick Queen dismisses 'charade' of earlier trade rumors: My business is to go play football

Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen dismissed trade rumors from earlier this offseason and made it clear he's not worried about heading into a contract year as he gears up for Pittsburgh's 2026 season.

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May 30 • 1:25 PM EDT • Business • nfl.com
Chiefs News 5/30: Patrick Mahomes calls Kenneth Walker ‘special’

The latest Chiefs news, brought fresh to you every morning!

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May 30 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes addresses veteran recruiting rumors

During his recent press conference, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes addressed recent veteran recruiting rumors | @EdEastonJr

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May 30 • 7:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Palmetto Sports Shorts: Chase Thompson’s basketball tricks

WATCH: Palmetto Sports Director Carmine Gemei speaks with Clemson Men’s Basketball forward Chase Thompson about his basketball tricks with the Alexandria Aces.

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May 29 • 2:47 PM EDT • Sports • foxcarolina.com
JFK Airport will screen passengers from Ebola-stricken countries

Screenings are already being conducted at Dulles, Hartsfield-Jackson and George Bush international airports.

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May 29 • 8:32 AM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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Galaxy Watch 9 leak hints at three new models, plus a borrowed feature from Google

Samsung's Galaxy Watch 9 may get the Pixel Watch 4's best trick

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May 29 • 6:32 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com
Blistering report exposes how national K-12 group's DEI agenda is trickling down to local chapters

The National PTA faces scrutiny over DEI initiatives and left-wing political priorities allegedly trickling down to state and local school chapters and ultimately reaching students.

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May 28 • 8:58 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Patrick Mahomes offers ideal injury update for Chiefs fans

Patrick is ahead of schedule.

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May 28 • 5:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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4 student-athletes at Aquinas Academy commit to collegiate sports

Four student-athletes from Aquinas Academy in Hampton celebrated their official signing day May 21 by inking their intentions to continue sports at the collegiate level. Seniors Caitlyn Abbett of Aspinwall, Meghan McGee of Renfrew, Patrick Richthammer of Hampton and Jonah Burchill of Ambridge gathered in the school’s gymnasium with friends

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May 28 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • triblive.com
Crossing party lines: Shad Khan, Mori Hosseini, Patrick Zalupski on host committee for Donna Deegan fundraiser

A serious opponent for the Duval Democrat has yet to emerge.

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May 28 • 12:27 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
That sword Geralt unsheaths in The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion artwork? We've seen it before

Tricksy CD Projekt Red. The question is, whose sword is it, and what's the significance of it? There are theories..

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May 28 • 9:27 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Sports Daily Live: Momentum builds for change in college sports

It’s a pleasant surprise for many Chiefs fans as Patrick Mahomes shows up for OTAs and takes the field.

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May 28 • 7:59 AM EDT • Sports • kwch.com
P2 Science Raises $23 Million to Produce Green Chemicals for Beauty, Personal Care Sectors

Biotechnology and green chemistry company P2 Science announced that it has raised $23 million in a new financing round, with proceeds aimed at accelerating its growth in the beauty and personal care ingredients market, and expanding its platform into new markets. Co-founded by Professor Paul Anastas and Dr. Patrick Foley at the Center for Green […]

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May 28 • 4:18 AM EDT • Science • esgtoday.com
How a health clinic in South Africa is navigating Trump's cuts to HIV funding

Community health programs in South Africa have been heavily impacted by U.S. cuts to global aid. Which means there are fewer community and health workers to support low-income people with HIV and AIDS.We recently visited one of those programs, called We Care, to learn more about the experiences of the few employees who still remain.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 story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.This episode was produced by Matt Ozug, Karen Zamora and Elena Burnett, with audio engineering by Peter Ellena.It was edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon and William Troop.Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.

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May 27 • 5:00 PM EDT • Health • npr.org
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‘Last Seen’: Apple TV Sets Premiere Date for Patrick Brammall Thriller

New series is coming to the streaming service in the fall.

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May 27 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
Magic mixes with politics at Ken Paxton's watch party in Texas

Magician John Montes performs card tricks at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s watch party in Plano, Texas.

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May 27 • 9:55 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Chiefs star TE Travis Kelce buys ownership stake in hometown Cleveland Guardians: Source

In 2020, Kelce's teammate Patrick Mahomes joined the ownership group of the Kansas City Royals, the Guardians' division rival.

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May 27 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Who is the NFL GOAT? The greatest U.S. football players of all time, from Tom Brady to Patrick Mahomes

The NFL's greatest-all time players dominate our list of best football players in American history, as you'd expect. Read our full list.

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May 27 • 6:06 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Texas Democrats pick lieutenant governor nominee to challenge GOP incumbent Dan Patrick

Texas voters selected a Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Tuesday's primary runoff to challenge Republican incumbent Dan Patrick in November.

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May 26 • 9:12 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Patrick Mahomes participates in Chiefs’ first OTA practice

A promising update on Kansas City’s star quarterback.

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May 26 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Tech Expert Gets Brutally Honest About The Trump Mobile Phone: ‘Looks Like A Urine Sample’

“It’s certainly not made in the USA," CNET managing editor Patrick Holland said.

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May 26 • 2:17 PM EDT • Technology • huffpost.com
A Marine mom’s mission to protect service members’ mental health | FOX 13 Tampa Bay

After losing her son, Sgt. Anthony Patrick Muhlstadt, to suicide, Tanya Mort is honoring his life by helping service members and veterans find mental health support.

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May 26 • 12:39 PM EDT • Health • fox13news.com
Apple To Quietly Steal Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display Trick For The M6 Pro & M6 Max MacBook Pro, Three Years Ahead Of Schedule

Apple might adopt Samsung's OLED panels as well as the Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display tech for its M6 Pro and M6 Max MacBook Pro.

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May 25 • 6:01 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Torrential rain floods Lake County homes and businesses amid worsening drought

A sudden downpour in Lake County brought much-needed rain to drought-stricken areas but caused flooding and visible damage to homes and businesses.

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May 25 • 4:41 PM EDT • Business • wesh.com
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Princeton wins first NCAA men's lacrosse title since 2001

Chad Palumbo scored all four of his goals in the first half, Colin Burns also had a hat trick, and Princeton beat Notre Dame 16-9 on Monday for its first NCAA men's lacrosse championship since 2001.

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May 25 • 4:07 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
Big Bets Report: Bettor Banks $290k on 6-Leg MLB Parlay

One bettor bagged six figures on a six-leg MLB parlay, while another cashed in on the Knicks' miraculous ECF Game 1 rally. Patrick Everson has the scoop.

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May 25 • 2:47 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs linked to A.J. Brown

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was one of the most disgruntled players in the league last season, as he struggled to consistently be on the same page as quarterback Jalen Hurts. Although Brown remains a rostered member of the Eagles, Philadelphia is widely expected to trade the wideout, with ESPN’s senior NFL insider Adam…

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May 25 • 1:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 25, 2026

Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1801.

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May 24 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
Xreal, Google's smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

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May 24 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
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IF MO: State Auditor Fitzpatrick discusses the challenges facing his office

State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick discusses the challenges and priorities facing his office since taking the role in 2023.

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May 24 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Letter to the Editor: The human cost of science getting it wrong

Patrick Newman cites one scientist calling RCP 8.5 ‘not implausible,’ yet the IPCC has now officially removed it as implausible. Notably, that same scientist said RCP 8.5 should be clearly labeled a high-end scenario. It…

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May 24 • 5:27 AM EDT • Science • chicoer.com
Nottingham Forest v Bournemouth: Key stats and talking points

Bournemouth visit Nottingham Forest on Sunday knowing they are already assured of a first European adventure next season – but they need a number of results to go their way to land a place in the Champions League. It was Forest who enjoyed their own continental quest this year, with an impressive run to the Europa League semi-finals providing a welcome distraction to their domestic woes. Vitor Pereira took over from Sean Dyche in February and has steered the Tricky Trees to safety thanks in no small part to an eight-game unbeaten run that ended with a 3-2 defeat by Manchester United last week.

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May 23 • 8:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Putting Aluminum Foil Under Your WiFi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend It

A viral aluminum foil trick claims to boost weak WiFi in minutes, but the real reason it works comes with one hidden catch most people miss.

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May 23 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • indiandefencereview.com
42 scientists warn Ireland over accounting trick that could add 9 million tons of pollution

"What worries us as scientists is that other countries are now seriously weighing these targets."

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May 22 • 8:40 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
U.S. bans green-card holders from returning from Ebola-stricken countries

Health officials cite public health and "resource constraints" as they expand travel restrictions.

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May 22 • 7:29 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Kash Patel's clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked

According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.

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May 22 • 12:28 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Kash Patel’s personal merch site hacked to trick users into installing malware

FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal merchandise site went offline after a hack apparently tricked visitors into downloading malware.

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May 22 • 11:28 AM EDT • Technology • san.com
Business owners voice concerns ahead of Al Fresco dining on Federal Hill

Business owners spoke out against Al Fresco on Federal Hill Thursday night.

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May 21 • 10:03 PM EDT • Business • turnto10.com
Ancient chemistry trick unlocks new type of glass that traps CO2 and hydrogen

Researchers have discovered how to fine-tune a futuristic type of porous glass that can trap gases like CO2 and hydrogen. Inspired by centuries-old glassmaking techniques, the team added sodium and lithium compounds to make the material easier to process and shape. The breakthrough could accelerate the development of high-performance materials for clean energy, gas storage, and advanced manufacturing.

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May 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Kash Patel's Apparel Site Is Trying To Trick Visitors Into Installing Malware

The FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'Clickfix' attack, which involves duping users into running a seemingly benign, but malicious command.

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May 21 • 6:25 PM EDT • Technology • pcmag.com
Federal case alleges $30 million theft by health payment CEO

Patrick Alan Bucknum, 55, was charged with wire fraud May 7 in federal court in Spokane. Prosecutors say he embezzled money out of his firm to the tune of $24

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May 21 • 4:12 PM EDT • Health • ncwlife.com
Scientists Identify Atomic Trick That Keeps Gold Shiny

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick that makes it so.

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May 21 • 11:35 AM EDT • Science • gizmodo.com
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Jiben Roy: When science can’t predict the unthinkable

It’s a tricky point, and science does not have an answer. Tagore, a 1913 Nobel laureate in literature, lost seven family members, including his wife and three of his five children, within a short period of time.

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • cdispatch.com
Col. Patrick Madigan: Pioneer in connecting mental health to combat effectiveness

Col. Patrick Madigan, was known as the “Father of Army Neuropsychiatry,” strengthening how U.S. Army medicine provided mental health support for the force

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May 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • dvidshub.net
A money mindset trick to increase your savings rate

"A business is trying to earn a profit, right? It's the exact same thing for you — your savings are your profit."

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May 21 • 5:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
GOP Rep on $1.8B fund: ‘Going to fight hard against it’
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May 20 • 10:04 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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‘The flavour crisis’: an exposé on the origins of broken Britain

Whether it’s the traditional boiled diet, a dental epidemic or white-winged extremism, Patrick Gathara explains why political turmoil is engulfing the UK

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May 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
A critical window to stop hantavirus is opening. Not all countries are managing exposed travelers the same way

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now, the waiting begins.

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May 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
DC politics have arrived in West Virginia

West Virginia politics have taken on a distinctly DC-style edge, brought in by Gov. Patrick Morrisey. While this approach may offer short-term gains for the governor and his allies, the long-term effects of the 2026 Republican Primary could extend well beyond another election cycle with fewer people willing to put their name and reputation on

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May 19 • 12:19 AM EDT • Politics • wvmetronews.com
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Big Bets Report: PGA Long Shot Aaron Rai Gives Pays Major Dividends

Aaron Rai's PGA Championship win gave a few bettors big paydays, while the NBA ladder legend struck again. Patrick Everson has the latest.

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May 18 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docks in the Netherlands for disinfection

The crew will now go into quarantine, with those who cannot be immediately repatriated spending their time in quarantine in these containers.

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May 18 • 10:47 AM EDT • Health • pbs.org
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center announces STEM Camp for 2026

The Ruth Patrick Science Education Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken has announced its STEM Forward Career Exploration Camp will take place July 13-17 this summer.

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May 18 • 6:30 AM EDT • Science • postandcourier.com
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Forza Horizon 6 'New Zealand' Trick Is Going Viral For The Full Xbox Launch

Yes, it'll be playable early on XGP via New Zealand

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May 18 • 6:15 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
Democrats, Tiffany face tricky politics after killing tax relief bill

Democratic lawmakers and Republican governor candidate Tom Tiffany face tricky messaging after working to kill a bill to aid taxpayers and schools.

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May 18 • 6:03 AM EDT • Politics • jsonline.com
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Will Ferrell's rock star look-alike tricks “SNL” audience with host monologue

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith stepped out instead of the "Saturday Night Live" alum.

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May 17 • 12:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
The best SD cards for Nintendo Switch 2

This post covers the best SD card values and deals, as well as storage-saving tips and tricks for Nintendo Switch 2.

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May 17 • 12:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Patrick Deals as Chourio Delivers

Crew secure their third straight win; fifth straight series win

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May 16 • 10:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Scientists discover why some cancers survive chemotherapy

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new trick used by one of cancer’s most notorious proteins. MYC, already infamous for fueling runaway tumor growth, also appears to help cancer cells survive by repairing their damaged DNA — including damage caused by chemotherapy and radiation. Researchers found that MYC can rush directly to broken DNA and recruit repair machinery, effectively helping tumors recover from treatments meant to destroy them.

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May 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. 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Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene: In some Harry Potter version of 21st-century London, a group of deathless UK Treasury officials gathered from across the last century huddle over warm pints and glasses of Chardonnay. Around the table there are officials from the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1970s, 2022 and today. Inevitably, in May 2026, the subject of conversation is the disintegration of the current Labour government. Despite its huge majority in parliament, it has been reduced to tatters by catastrophic local election result. These exposed the fact that rather than having a government with a clear popular majority, the UK is like most other modern societies divided into 5 segments each of which commands between 26 and 16 percent of the vote. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the leadership at Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street - where the Prime Minister and the Chancellor (Treasury Secretary) work - seem paralyzed. They are caught between mounting discontent over unfairness and the cost of living, and tough fiscal strictures that push them into making unpopular spending decisions. In the London pub, the Treasury officials from across the ages, can barely hide their satisfaction at the latest display of democratic politics caught in the vice-grip of financial logic. “Remember the mur d’argent and the banker’s ramp?” “Just like yesterday!” There are smirks around the table. Then the representative of 2026 pipes up: “One thing you have to say about the current lot (referring to the latest hapless Labour government), you don’t have to teach them about the bond market!” There is a murmur of ascent from the Treasury Mandarins. The trauma of the fiscal crisis of September-October 2022 sits deep. Back then, in the final stages of Tory decay, a ‘mini budget’ that challenged fiscal orthodoxy led to a brief but fierce panic in one of the oldest government bond markets in the world (aka gilt market). Now all you have to do is to mention the “bond market” to hush debate. [ Paul Mason@paulmasonnews In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/ 3:57 PM · May 12, 2026 · 466K Views 224 Replies · 674 Reposts · 3.93K Likes ](https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082?s=20) “And the funny thing is”, the young man in the huddle continues, “they don’t even want to talk about … ”. There is a sudden hush. Significant looks are exchanged around the table. About? One of the senior figures puts down his glass with a decisive “clink”. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has entered their thoughts. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a grubby pub in Bloomsbury, two conspirators from the camp of Critical Macrofinance huddle over cans of low-alcohol IPA. They look at each other and blurt out loud: “The Bank!” “Everyone in the bloody Labour party is talking about the bond market. But why aren’t they even mentioning … the Bank of England!?” “Why is no one talking about Voldemort?” In Paul Mason’s blogpost, after much chest-thumping about basic fiscal logic, the basic point about the Bank of England is buried in the fine print at #3 in his list of suggestions as to what a radical Labour government might actually be able to do! [ Conflict & Democracy Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! It may seem unfair to focus on Labour MP Paula Barker for her off-the-cuff assertion that the bond market would have to “fall in line” with Andy Burnham, should he replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. But Burnham himself told the New Statesman that Labour had to “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets… Read more 2 days ago · 100 likes · 3 comments · Paul Mason ](https://htsf.substack.com/p/down-with-the-bond-market-down-with?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Back in Bloomsbury they shake their heads and ask: “Didn’t we learn anything from the Eurozone crisis?” Meanwhile, as if summoned to the conversation by some higher force, the “pink pages” announce: “The days of ultra-cheap government borrowing have come to an end” and Martin “Whizzard” Wolf publishes the graph of the season Look at the UK in 2026, perilously positioned on the upper edge of the pack. No wonder no one in London needs any lessons about the “bond market”. But, look again. Imagine how they feel in Rome. What is London’s nightmare in 2026? The nightmare is that you end up like Italy in the early 2010s during the Eurozone crisis. Once comfortably situated in the middle of the pack, watching with horror as your ten-year yields explode to 7 percent and “spreads” become a national nightmare. One of the largest economies in Europe, a founding member of the euro, stigmatized. But the message of the Italian experience is ambiguous. After all, the stigma didn’t last. In 2026, Italy borrows at rates lower not only than the UK but the US. The US, which, as everyone knows, enjoys the “exorbitant privilege” of being the issuer of reserve, safe asets. What kind of magic is this? How did Italy, in the space of fifteen years, go from being good, to bad and back again? Which brings us back to our dissident friends in their Bloombury boozer and their memories of the Eurozone crisis. Italy never was Britain - with its ongoing fiscal deficits. Without interest payments, on primary balance, from 2000 to 2020 Italy ran a tight fiscal ship. Even in 2008 it barely went into deficit and when it was being put on the rack in the early 20210s its primary surplus matched that of austere Germany. So, what happened? How did it end up stigmatized? Of course Italian politics didn’t help. Berlusconi was at the helm and he had legal issues. But amongst friends in the Bloomsbury pub, Berlusconi is a sideshow, the name we whisper to each other is “Trichet”. From 2004 to 2011 the ECB was headed by Jean-Claude Trichet, ex of the French Treasury, more German than the Germans. After 2009 as the news of the Greek fiscal disaster broke, the European bond markets wento into panic mode and Trichet began a brutal game of cat and mouse. Between 2009 and 2011, Trichet intervened in the bond market to help, only when he thought he had compliance with austerity. When he thought they were uncooperative, he withdrew. In the summer of 2011, he even made direct suggestions to his Italian counterparts in Rome, as to how Italy should be governed. It was this cat and mouse game that drove the bond markets crazy and exposed Italy to a violent squeeze. When Mario Draghi took over the ECB at the end of 2011 and declared “whatever it takes”, the pressure on Italy, gradually eased. It is that starring role that has made Draghi into the towering figure in European politics that he remains today. So now you see why voices in London hush when it comes to the Bank of England. “The bond market” isn’t an irresistible objective force like the weather or an avalanche. It can appear like that. But that depends on the way it is being handled, or not handled by the central bank. Which is why the silence about the Bank of England in London right now is so significant. If you think this all sounds a bit fishy, coming from a left-liberal Keynesian like myself, well, let me introduce you to Robin Brooks, who, to put it mildly, plays on a different quidditch team to me. Here, from the position of a fiscal hawk is Robin’s celebratory account of the Bank of England’s role since 2022; In October 2022, at the height of the bond market blow-up in the UK, something incredible happened. Governor Andrew Bailey told British pension funds the Bank of England would end its support program for the country’s fragile gilt market, drawing a line under how much help the central bank was willing to give to exposed pension funds and - implicitly - the government. By the end of that week, Kwasi Kwarteng - the finance minister - had resigned. Prime Minister Liz Truss would soon follow. This episode is so incredible because it contrasts with what happened in the Euro zone earlier that year. Bond markets in Spain and Italy were under pressure amid high inflation and rising interest rates. In the middle of this, Mario Draghi - Italy’s Prime Minister - resigned, compounding pressure on bond markets of high-debt countries on the Euro periphery. Unlike the Bank of England, the ECB caved. It bought Italian and Spanish government bonds in an effort to cap yields and introduced a new tool that signaled to markets it might do such caps more frequently going forward. Faced with pressure on bond markets, the ECB capitulated to political pressure from high-debt countries like Italy and Spain. The Bank of England stood its ground and toppled the Truss government. This kind of thing has long-lasting consequences. It means markets price a higher probability of yield caps in the Euro zone, which keeps Italian and Spanish yields artificially low, while markets feel free to push up UK yields without fear of central bank intervention. As I flagged in yesterday’s post, this means you really can’t compare UK yields to those of other high-debt countries. The UK looks worse, but only because its central bank isn’t interfering with markets. There’s more to this than just that 2022 episode. The Bank of England has also been much more aggressive in its quantitative tightening (QT) than other central banks. If one motivation for quantitative easing (QE) is to lower bond yields - especially longer-dated ones - then it stands to reason QT pushes yields up. The left chart above shows a four-quarter moving average of UK government debt issuance (black line) in percent of GDP and which sectors absorb this issuance, including the Bank of England (blue bars). The right chart above compares the Bank of England’s accumulation or run-off of government bonds (blue line) with that of other central banks, where this blue line is the same as the blue bars in the left chart. The Bank of England was quicker and more aggressive than other central banks in downsizing its bond holdings, so UK yields will have risen more than elsewhere also for this reason, not just because of Governor Andrew Bailey’s remarks in October 2022. Back in October 2025, after a conversation in New York with friends in British politics, my sense of dysphoria was such that I raised the issue of the Bank of England openly in the FT Since 2008, the UK has slid into a deep economic and political predicament. Growth has stagnated to a degree far worse even than in the 1970s. The Tory leadership’s wager on the Brexit referendum spectacularly backfired, leaving the UK isolated from Europe and at the mercy of its special relationship with the US, many of whose political class regard the UK as a basket case. After years of austerity, the Labour party lurched to the left and then back to the centre. The Tory party has been eclipsed by the populist nationalism of Reform. Any British government should be worrying first and foremost about how to restart growth. Instead, Keir Starmer is beset by shades of the gilt market panic triggered by the Liz Truss government in 2022. The debt level is higher than in recent years, but there is no cause for panic. UK debt is at far from critical levels and of long duration. Whether you want to “take back control” or launch progressive economic policy, a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank. Since 1997, the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow. But independence is what you make of it. And in the wake of the gilt market crisis of September 2022, relations between the Bank of England and the UK government need a reset. In normal times, there is no doubt that an inflation-targeting independent central bank can serve a country well. But since 2008, the UK and other advanced economies have not had the luxury of such simple problems. To their credit, central bankers around the world have not stood on orthodoxy. After 2008, the US Federal Reserve rescued the global banking system and, through quantitative easing, it stabilised the Treasury market in the face of huge deficits. In Europe, things were trickier. Both the Bank of England under Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet’s European Central Bank played cat and mouse with national governments. This was a high stakes wager that between 2010 and 2012 escalated bond market tension and triggered a disastrous turn to austerity. Shaken by the impact of those shocks, their successors, Mark Carney and Mario Draghi adopted a more protective stance (assuming you were not the government of Greece). Recall that Draghi’s legendary slogan, “Whatever it takes”, was uttered to face down the City of London’s bond vigilantes. In 2015, Draghi launched QE — financial repression by another name. In 2016, Carney used the authority of the Bank of England to stabilise markets following the vote for Brexit, an exemplary demonstration of how central banks can underpin democratic choice, even when those choices are wrong headed. All these were independent central bankers steeped in the best practice of the 1990s, who recognised that historic crises demanded radical action. It was the price surge of 2021-2023 that poisoned the atmosphere. Though the shock came mainly from the supply side, central banks ended up in the dock. Nowhere more so than in the UK. The Bank of England reacted with aggressive normalisation. Faced with a cost of living crisis, the governor called for workers to accept real wage cuts. In early 2022, as gas prices were at record levels and Russia’s army was poised to invade Ukraine, the Bank adopted a stringent programme of quantitative tightening, elevating interest rates. When the Truss government got itself in trouble, the Bank took almost a week to come to the rescue. Rather than enacting a charade of normality, it is time to recognise that in 2025 the UK faces a period of historic transition. To meet this challenge, what is needed is a new concordat with the Bank. This should not ignore inflationary pressures or the long-run trajectory of debt, but should affirm the priority of reviving investment-led growth. One could follow Donald Trump in demanding interest rate cuts. The Bank could shadow the ECB in its commitment to capping Eurozone yields. But the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022. The Bank’s slowing of QT last month was a concession. An immediate and complete end would send the right signal. Such a concordat will not by itself restore sanity to politics, solve the housing problem or rebuild the NHS. But it would help to lift the fear of bond market crisis, which is paralysing the effort by democratic politicians to answer the fundamental questions facing the nation. Now, that call for a new concordat between government and Bank of Englands seems more urgent than ever. The problem is that in October 2025, Starmer still had some authority. Today the government is in tatters. And when you are the “under the harrow” - to echo a phrase of Montagu Norman’s from the 1920s - it is the worst possible time to consider institutional change. To make general arguments at a time of crisis can only seem like special pleading rather than a general argument for long-term change. The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic institutional reform that Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated first past the post electoral system and its replacement by a moderated form of proportional representation. And thirdly - whilst we are saying the quiet parts out loud - Britain needs to reopen the question of EU membership. What the local election results of 2026 show is that this remains a key issue. And what they also show is that there is a clear majority that would favor a return. Until these basic features of Britain’s political economy are addressed the country will carry on its politics as though in a haunted house, governed by governments that lack actual majorities, conjuring up false constraints whilst ignoring the real ones. This one is for DG and MI. I love writing the newsletter. If you enjoy it too and fancy buying me a coffee once a month, you know what to do. Click below! Subscribe

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