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Mathematician Who Waited 50 Years for Proper Credit for Her Work Has Died

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mary Tsingou Menzel’s computer programming helped set the stage for chaos theory and other fields.

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Oct 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Donald Trump adds political stakes, anticipation and potential sideline chaos to Texas-Tennessee showdown

Trump's visit to Neyland Stadium forces Steve Sarkisian, Josh Heupel to plan for communication cuts as Secret Service scrambles coach-to-player headsets.

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Sep 24 • 3:18 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
‘The Diplomat’ Season 4 promises more political chaos — and plenty of marital drama.

"The Diplomat," Debora Cahn’s critically acclaimed political drama starring Keri Russell, returns for its fourth season later this week.

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Oct 13 • 3:57 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Senate passes bipartisan Protect College Sports Act amid ‘chaos’ in industry

The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports amid athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers

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Sep 29 • 7:41 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
How the war in Iran is creating chaos and uncertainty in sport

Analysing the potential impact on a range of events in the coming months, including F1, golf, tennis and cycling

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Sep 26 • 12:05 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Meta joins with group of companies to tame ‘chaos’ of doing business with AI bots

Meta and OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra are building a set of tech standards to make it easier to do business with AI bots.

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Oct 6 • 2:15 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
SEC announces decisions on revamped NIL policy, transfer portal

The Protect College Sports Act has passed in the Senate, but the legislation, which is aimed at eliminating some of the “chaos” that has affected college sports, and in particular, football, faces an uphill battle in the House of Representatives. Earlier this month, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise detailed some of the issues the PCSA…

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Oct 13 • 10:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Brazil: Lessons from a Disaster

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

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Oct 6 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • laborpolitics.com
Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short

CEOs of the biggest AI companies have predicted the technology will “eliminate most cancer” and “improve treatment of most other ailments.” But nowhere better illustrates the challenge facing AI than an emergency department.

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Sep 9 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos

Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health

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Oct 9 • 4:20 PM EDT • Health • pymnts.com
'The Diplomat' Season 4 is now streaming: Expect more political chaos — and plenty of marital drama.

"The Diplomat," Debora Cahn's critically acclaimed political drama starring Keri Russell, is back for its fourth season.

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Oct 15 • 4:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
A father lost his son at Rolling Loud. That real-life panic inspired a comedy

Actors Matt Rife and Owen Wilson of "Rolling Loud: The Movie" look back at the chaos of filming at a real-life music festival.

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Oct 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Martin Odegaard Praises Arsenal Fans After Naples Travel Chaos

Martin Odegaard thanked Arsenal's travelling fans after they helped make themselves heard in Naples despite widespread disruption to flights from the UK.

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Sep 10 • 8:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Readers Write: International Falls Broncos, U.S. healthcare system, Israel, presidential chaos

Regardless of record, a supportive community is a winner.

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Oct 7 • 7:00 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com
Free Lamanda Park Workshop Hands Would-Be Business Owners a 17-Item Checklist

Starting a business in Pasadena comes with a list: a name, a legal structure, insurance, financing and a city business license that has to be renewed every year. A two-hour workshop Saturday at a Pasadena branch library aims to put that list in order. SCORE Los Angeles, the nonprofit presenting the session, says attendees will leave with a 17-item checklist of steps for getting a business established. The Pasadena Public Library is sponsoring the workshop, according to SCORE. The listing says the session is meant for people thinking about starting a business and for those who have recently started one. SCORE wrote that the program “cuts through the confusion and chaos” of figuring out what it takes to start a business. According to the listing, it covers the legal requirements for a start-up business, along with other practical steps worth taking. Beyond those basics, the session covers taxes, the elements of a business plan and marketing, according to the listing. It also weighs the pros and cons of different legal structures, examines the major causes of business failure and offers ways to avoid legal problems. Attendees will hear how SCORE can help new businesses succeed. Some of the rules a new owner must follow are local. The city’s Department of Finance requires that annual license to be displayed prominently at the place of business. Businesses that sell tangible goods also need a state seller’s permit showing their Pasadena address, and any business that prepares or sells food needs approval from the Pasadena Health Department, according to the department. Even charities are covered: “Charitable non-profit businesses are required to obtain a business license,” the department’s guidance says. SCORE lists two instructors for the workshop. Dick Mader, a SCORE mentor who serves on the chapter’s board of directors, started a media distribution

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Oct 15 • 9:22 AM EDT • Business • pasadenanow.com
Missouri redistricting chaos returns to US Supreme Court

A fast-moving legal battle over Missouri’s effort to eke an additional Republican seat out of its congressional map for this year’s midterm election returned to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday, a day after Justice Brett Kavanaugh had effectively rejected the same proposed map.

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Sep 9 • 5:38 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Law & Order: College Basketball — How the NCAA's eligibility rules have created chaos before the season's even begun

As the college basketball season quickly approaches, many schools are still trying to fill out their rosters as they navigate legal challenges to NCAA eligibility rules.

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Oct 20 • 8:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
At one of WA's busiest ERs, each day brings teamwork and ‘an element of chaos’

Good Samaritan is the only hospital in Puyallup, the single emergency trauma center serving a large swath of central and east Pierce County, meaning staff members have to get creative.

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Oct 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com
Man Utd a circus after Martinez comments

Lisandro Martinez's outburst shows Manchester United are in "chaos", says former captain Roy Keane.

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Oct 15 • 7:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs

Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.

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Sep 23 • 8:34 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
TV was the only guide through the horror and chaos of 9/11

Everything changed during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and we all watched it happen, live on TV.

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Sep 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Armed attacker arrested after lunging at Ohio Jewish gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton

Her campaign said she would "always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another."

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Sep 7 • 5:19 PM EDT • Politics • jta.org
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Next man up: Ranking the NFL's backup quarterbacks for 6 teams that have had QB1 chaos
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Sep 23 • 3:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Debt service and the Pentagon. Private equity and the politics of the US housing market. The return of black lung disease & the Franco-Prussian War in color.

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

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Notre Dame Remains Ranked No. 3 In Latest Coaches Poll

Marcus Freeman’s squad secured a perfect September by dismantling Purdue, fueled by CJ Carr’s four-touchdown performance and a dominant defense as chaos shook the Top 25 rankings.

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Sep 27 • 1:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Minneapolis mental health crisis response program ‘thrown into chaos’

The program that sends unarmed mental health professionals to some 911 calls is in limbo after the council rejected a new vendor to do the work.

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Oct 21 • 3:30 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com
Discover the exclusive world of intricate hand-made watches in Geneva

GENEVA — Cédric Johner is at home in the middle of what looks a lot like organized chaos. His two rooms in a commercial building in Carouge near Lake Geneva

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Sep 14 • 4:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Kyle Larson Survives Gateway Chaos to Reignite Championship Hopes

Kyle Larson needed a win. Instead, he got one of the wildest victories of his career. Larson survived a chaotic Gateway race Sunday to win the Enjoy Illinois 300. He beat Alex Bowman in overtime for a Hendrick Motorsports 1-2 finish. The victory ended Larson’s 51-race winless streak. It also launched him into second place…

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Sep 14 • 4:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cirque Italia’s Metropolis show coming to Coralville

Cirque Italia in October will bring to Coralville its tale of a country boy swept away from his farm and into the heart of urban chaos.

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Sep 28 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com
Will England boss Tuchel 'embrace the chaos'?

After the World Cup, England boss Thomas Tuchel wanted greater control. Two months on, he is keen to "embrace the chaos" after naming his squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures.

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Sep 18 • 10:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Man Shows Up to AI Job Interview With His Own Helicopter AI to Interview for Him

An influencer invited his own AI, dubbed Victor, to sit in on yet another interview with a chatbot. Chaos ensued.

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Oct 17 • 9:47 AM EDT • Technology • futurism.com
Self-Care in the Chaos: Men’s Mental Health Meet-Up

The topic this month was “Self-care in the chaos,” and it couldn’t have been more appropriate given the days leading up to the meeting. Successful events downtown, a multi-school reunion…all bringing out the best in people. But overnight, violence had erupted for a group of teenagers, leaving the community wondering what happened. It’s the fourth […]

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Oct 1 • 10:30 PM EDT • Health • maconbibb.us
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U.S. Senate passes Ted Cruz’s college sports bill that seeks to rein in NCAA “chaos”

The bill, which would regulate NIL deals and athlete revenue among other sweeping changes, now needs to clear the House. The lower chamber is out until after the midterms.

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Sep 28 • 11:16 PM EDT • Sports • ksat.com
U.S. Senate votes, 77-22, to pass Protect College Sports Act

The Protect College Sports Act, a federal bill aimed at reshaping the industry, took a step toward becoming law on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted, 77-22, to pass it, with Ted Cruz saying "this bill puts an end to the chaos plaguing college athletics."

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Sep 28 • 10:19 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
The psychedelic brain looks like chaos—underneath, there's order

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.

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Oct 10 • 7:15 AM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
GTA 5 Made Playable in Browser as AI-Generated Game Chaos Continues

Grand Theft Auto 5 was made playable in a browser before it was pulled offline, amid an explosion of AI-fueled games across the internet.

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Oct 6 • 7:55 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
France is aflame as protests over the cost of living devolve into chaos

Saturday's chaos was an escalation in violence after weeks of demonstrations in the country over the cost of living and funding for education.

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Oct 17 • 11:54 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Nats boss to meet UK transport secretary as second day of flight chaos takes cancellations past 1,300

Technical issue at air traffic control provider Nats grounds flights to and from UK airports for second day

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Sep 9 • 2:19 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
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What Is UFC 331's $50K Proper Chaos Bonus?

Dana White will personally select one UFC 331 fighter to receive a one-night $50,000 bonus connected to the return of "MobLand."

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Sep 15 • 6:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Today's 5️⃣ top stories: Cristiano punished, Atleti-Real Madrid chaos

Before a football-packed Saturday gets underway, here are the five stories you can't miss to start your day... La Rosaleda: "Bryan [Zaragoza], drop dead"📸 Fran Santiago - 2026 Getty ImagesLa Liga f...

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Oct 10 • 3:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
West Ham need to 'embrace the chaos'

BBC Radio London's Phil Parry reflects on West Ham's recent upturn in results and the test Wrexham will bring on Friday.

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Sep 11 • 7:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Helena Foulkes will defeat Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee, CNN projects, marking a rare incumbent primary loss

Former CVS executive Helena Foulkes will win the Democratic nomination for governor of Rhode Island, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating incumbent Gov. Dan McKee as she capitalized on voter frustration over the partial closure of a key bridge and the ensuing traffic chaos.

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Sep 9 • 8:22 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Sunderland’s Etihad Adventure: Brobbey, Banter & Beautiful Chaos

From a chaotic journey to Manchester to a wild afternoon at the Etihad, Sunderland showed they can compete with the best - but can they turn promise into points?

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Sep 23 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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California, other states warn Supreme Court of 'chaos' if it lets USPS mail ballot rules stand

A federal judge has already halted the plan nationwide, but the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to revive it, arguing the federal government would be seriously harmed by voter fraud if it does not.

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Sep 9 • 4:54 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Jon Gruden Questions Steelers’ Offensive Line Chaos Amid Struggles: ‘Why?’

Jon Gruden has seen plenty of offensive lines during his coaching career; however, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ current setup has left him genuinely puzzled. The former head coach watched the unit shuffle players between positions through the offseason and into the regular season, and now the results are becoming harder to ignore. The Steelers entered the […] The post Jon Gruden Questions Steelers’ Offensive Line Chaos Amid Struggles: ‘Why?’ appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Sep 25 • 7:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It’s Trump’s world, and he’s accelerating its chaos

The world feels like it’s spinning out of control.

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Sep 22 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Most overrated/underrated teams in Week 6 coaches poll

Week 6 of college football shook up the rankings. See which teams are overrated and underrated after the chaos.

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Oct 12 • 9:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Warhammer 40,000 – Balance Update: Chaos, the Imperium and Xenos Fight Back

Learn what yesterday’s big changes mean for the non-Space Marines factions.

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Sep 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

Xbox Labs is a new group exploring emerging game technology

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Oct 13 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
The Nonlinear Science Behind Large Language Models

LLMs are black boxes, but the principles that govern them are not. Read this article for a detailed introduction to chaos and complexity theory applied to LLMs.

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Sep 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • hackernoon.com
'Chaos and uncertainty'

If you had the impression that the saga over Manchester City's 115 charges was almost over, think again. Two years since the hearing began, the Premier League has confirmed that City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of its financial rules between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons. City have said they are "innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League" and would pursue "appeal avenues open to it, on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe."

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Sep 29 • 1:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Downtown Portland businesses weigh safety and signs of progress after deadly shooting

Downtown Portland business owners react after police fatally shot a man on SW Broadway. Merchants describe chaos, shifting street behavior, and cautious optimism as crime data shows assaults up, homicides down.

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Oct 16 • 7:28 PM EDT • Business • katu.com
SEC power rankings shuffle after Week 3 chaos

Ole Miss surges in the SEC power rankings after beating LSU as UGA and Oklahoma prepare for a big clash.

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Sep 20 • 10:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Supreme Court blocks sweeping mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections

The Trump administration had said the plan was necessary to protect against voter fraud, while states and voting rights groups said it could inject chaos in contests that will determine control of Congress.

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Sep 14 • 7:57 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Trump's team is in chaos as midterms enter final stretch

A White House that has enjoyed relative stability over the past two years has returned to a state of disarray that characterized much of Trump's early political career.

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Oct 16 • 4:26 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Summit in Samarkand, a boon for child wellbeing and health

Representatives from across the international community are meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to ensure that children everywhere can thrive in a world marred by war, climate chaos and other fundamental challenges.

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Oct 21 • 12:08 PM EDT • Health • news.un.org
Le Fee provides stardust on Sunderland's special night

You have to go back to a second-round exit at the hands of Portuguese side Sporting in the 1973-74 Cup Winners' Cup for the last time Sunderland played in a major European competition. There were no shortage of individual displays to galvanise them from Robin Roefs with his crucial saves, Granit Xhaka pulling the strings from deep to full-back turned winger Trai Hume causing chaos in the opponents' box one moment and throwing in a crunching tackle to end an AZ break the next. The 26-year-old worked tirelessly off the ball, nicking the ball back for his side time and again, but it is in the final third that the Sunderland playmaker really comes to life.

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Sep 16 • 7:11 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Coming to XBOX Game Pass: Gears of War: E-Day, Minecraft Dungeons II, Dune: Awakening, and More

Whether you’re delving into the Dungeons a second time, surviving the chaos of Emergence Day with Bravo Squad, or just biking through the ultimate obstacle course, we have a bunch more games ready for you and some friends. Let’s get to it!

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Sep 15 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
NHL Executives Sound Alarm Over Red Wings Chaos

Rival NHL executives are openly criticizing the Red Wings' prolonged GM search and questioning Detroit's handling of Dylan Larkin.

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Sep 15 • 8:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Rayo Plastic Balls Protest Forces La Liga Match Suspension

Rayo Vallecano’s long-awaited return to their Vallecas stadium ended in chaos on Saturday. The La Liga match against Athletic Club was suspended after local fans repeatedly interrupted play by throwing hundreds of small plastic balls and paper airplanes onto the pitch, a coordinated protest against club president Raúl Martín Presa, in what should have been […] The post Rayo Plastic Balls Protest Forces La Liga Match Suspension appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 10 • 1:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Angry outbursts, slurs and firings: Tumult rocks a key Senate campaign

Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.

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Sep 23 • 10:43 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Space Marine 2 gets a massive anniversary update

Celebrate the start of Year 3 with a new weapon and play as Chaos Space Marines in Siege Mode.

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Sep 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com
UK flight disruption expected to clear; Primark to start offering home delivery in UK

Flight schedules expected to return to normal after chaos of last two days

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Sep 10 • 2:51 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Opposing court orders upend Missouri midterms just weeks before Election Day

(CNN) — Back-to-back court orders on Tuesday injected chaos into Missouri’s plans for this year’s midterms, with state officials and a group opposed to a GOP-friendly congressional map racing into

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Sep 8 • 5:35 PM EDT • Politics • kten.com
Early humans in America endured climate chaos—new research

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

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Oct 18 • 5:40 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
See how gerrymandering in 2025 changed Missouri’s congressional map

It was chaos in Missouri politics Tuesday as the fight for what map voters will use during the November 2026 election and beyond continues.

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Sep 9 • 3:51 PM EDT • Politics • kansascity.com
FEATURE | Bundesliga Matchday 5: The Top 5 Standout Performers

2. Bundesliga’s Matchday 5 wasn’t about high-scoring chaos, but direct, punishment-heavy transition football. Clean sheets, lethal counter-attacks, and absolute tactical control from deep defined ...

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Sep 17 • 5:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Avatar Kuruk gets his own animated TV series in “Wave of Chaos” first look

Paramount+ revealed imagery of young Kuruk and his animal companion, Nikik.

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Oct 9 • 12:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Moritz Seider Stayed in Germany to Escape Wings Noise

The Red Wings chaos followed Moritz Seider all the way to Germany this summer. #RedWings

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Sep 17 • 12:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Takes Aim at One of Genetics’ Biggest Problems

Google DeepMind has released a huge new dataset that could make it easier for scientists to study how changes in our DNA affect the way the body works. Called AlphaGenome Atlas, it contains predictions for more than 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome. The dataset is about one petabyte in size and […]

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Dueling Court Rulings Leave Missouri’s Congressional Races in Chaos

After losing in two courts and winning in another, Missouri officials said they planned to forge ahead with using a congressional map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans.

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Sep 8 • 5:43 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
NFL Sunday Was Absolute Chaos From Start to Finish

The NFL is back. And after one Sunday, we already have plenty to talk about. The opening Sunday of the 2026 season delivered blowouts, comebacks, quarterback drama and absolute chaos. Some contenders looked exactly like contenders. Others immediately raised questions. Then, of course, there were the games nobody saw coming. Caleb Williams and the Bears…

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Sep 14 • 4:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Surreal photos show the mud, chaos, and glamour of Burning Man

Rain and dust storms returned to Burning Man, but the art cars rolled on. These photos offer a glimpse of what the festival looked like in 2026.

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Sep 7 • 3:51 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
‘The Diplomat’ Season 4 promises more political chaos — and plenty of marital drama.

"The Diplomat," Debora Cahn’s critically acclaimed political drama starring Keri Russell, returns for its fourth season later this week.

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Oct 13 • 3:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Taskmasters Greg Davies & Alex Horne Talk Dropout crossovers & unfiltered chaos in series 22

"A bit of willful disobedience."

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Oct 16 • 7:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com
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Brazil’s Supreme Court shuts down early as political chaos mounts

Members of the high court have exchanged accusations after one justice was accused of involvement in a bank scandal.

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Sep 10 • 10:04 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
‘College sports is in chaos’: Protect College Sports Act advances through Senate

The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as this week to move the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 to the U.S. House of Representatives after the Senate voted on Sept. 17 to advance the bill to final debate. This sweeping new bill would protect Olympic sports, reshape how universities compensate athletes and regulate name,...

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Sep 21 • 11:49 PM EDT • Sports • thedailytexan.com
‘Rocky Horror’ is a 50-year tradition of mess and chaos. This NOLA theatre does it anyway.

The theater has been hosting live screenings since before Katrina and it’s become a rite of passage for many in New Orleans, especially in the queer community. “Sometimes it just looks like a hurricane of popcorn and rice and toilet paper came through the plac. You blow it all to the front, sweep it up and move on to the next day.”

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Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
Australia iPhone 18 launch descends into chaos as line-cutter claims he's first in world to buy device: 'I’m the first!'
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Sep 18 • 2:42 AM EDT • Technology • nypost.com
Justice Kagan rejects surrogate’s request for intervention in custody dispute

The baby’s biological parents said that high court intervention would only cause chaos and confusion.

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Sep 22 • 6:22 PM EDT • Health • ms.now
‘Summer of truth’: will political leaders act as climate chaos comes knocking?

Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?

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Sep 19 • 1:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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Senate Nears Vote on College Sports Bill That Would Rein in Athlete Payments and Transfers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to pass a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools. Passage of the legislation would be ...

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Sep 28 • 12:12 PM EDT • Sports • usnews.com
How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy

Hey all, Jason here. Money20/20 is still two weeks away, but I’ve already started packing (not procrastinating for once!). My calendar is already filling up with various sessions I want to catch, meetings, and of course happy hours, dinners, and other side events. If you’ll be in Vegas and want to catch up, let me know by replying to this email, and we can try to find a time amidst the chaos of the Venetian. A big if not totally unexpected piece of news dropped on Friday: the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents smaller U.S. banks, filed a lawsuit against the OCC and Comptroller Jonathan Gould, arguing that the regulator’s move to grant trust bank charters to firms seeking to use them to conduct substantial non-fiduciary activities exceeds the authorities granted to the OCC by Congress. I haven’t had time to fully digest the legal filing or speak to folks in my network about it, but you can expect to see coverage and analysis on it in next week’s newsletter. Subscribe or Support by Upgrading The NerdCon agenda just dropped. It’s stacked. Partner content: Nubank built an AI-first bank. Chime built its own banking core. Figure and Valon are rebuilding the mortgage stack. At NerdCon, you’ll hear from the people behind those bets: what they chose, what they learned, and what they’re still figuring out. The agenda is live, with leaders from Nubank, Chime, OpenAI, Remitly, Mercury, Figure, Valon and more. Follow the mainstage conversations, bring the problem your team is wrestling with to a hands-on workshop, or pull up a chair at a roundtable. Pick your quests. Meet us in San Diego, November 18–20. Fintech Business Weekly readers save 20% with code FBW20. Explore the Agenda Things To Know & Other Good Reads Federal Reserve Board finalizes changes to enhance the transparency and public accountability of its stress test and reduce volatility in its stress test-related capital requirements (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) FDIC Announces Conclusion of Independent Monitorship (FDIC) Modernizing Financial Regulation: Initial Observations from eSLR (Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman) The Data Version of Godzilla versus Kong: FRED Takes on AI (Fed Governor Christopher Waller) Financing the AI buildout (Brookings) Q3’26: Rules for Banks but Not for Crypto (Fintech Takes Banking) The Inevitability of Local Stablecoins (Lombard Notes) Delusions of AI Governance: The Human-in-the-Loop Comfort Blanket (Fintech Snark Tank) Stripe agrees to acquire Parafin to expand revenue opportunities for platforms and help small businesses grow (Stripe) Listen: Fighting Fraud in the Age of AI, with SEON’s Tamas Kadar (Fintech Business Weekly) How Americans’ Financial Health Is Faring In The “K-Shaped” Economy If there is one overarching theme across the economy and politics in the U.S. at the moment, it’s “affordability.” The term is vague enough to encompass a panoply of factors shaping Americans’ day-to-day lives: rising costs for the hallmarks of being “middle class,” including healthcare, housing, childcare, and education, inflation and rising interest rates, and a job market with the specter of AI hovering over it. At the same time, policy shifts under the Trump administration have resulted in reduced subsidies to those who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and new restrictions on qualifying for Medicaid and SNAP, the impacts of which have yet to be fully felt. These factors are contributing to declining consumer confidence and general dissatisfaction with the economy, despite continuing GDP growth and stock market records. This divergence is encapsulated in the idea of the “K-shaped” economy, in which a small proportion of Americans have seen their wealth balloon, while the majority of American households struggle to preserve the lifestyle they have. Perhaps the greatest determinant of which branch of the “K” a household is on is whether their wealth and income are primarily derived from employment vs. from assets. Nearly two decades of low interest rates and, more recently, elevated rates of inflation have benefited asset owners, while those whose income is primarily or solely derived from labor have largely seen real purchasing power stagnate or decline. This is reflected in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that labor share of U.S. GDP — the fraction of economic output that accrues to workers as compensation in exchange for their labor — dropped to just 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since the BLS began keeping records. In 1947, approximately 2/3rds of economic output accrued to workers; even as recently as 2001, labor’s share of GDP was 64.1%. Against this backdrop, we’ve seen the rise of more credit and credit-like products: cash advance apps, “no-fee” overdraft, earned wage access, and buy now pay later, which are often used as small-dollar short-term borrowing mechanisms to meet immediate consumption needs or pay other bills (eg utilities, cell phone, other debt payments). With the markers of a middle class existence and, increasingly, basic financial stability seemingly out of reach for many, it should be no surprise there’s been an increase in “financial nihilism,” something industry peers like Alex Johnson and Frank Rotman have discussed and analyzed the roots of. The explosion of gambling and gambling-adjacent products and services — often marketed under the guise of being an “investment” — is inextricably intertwined with the rise of financial nihilism. Crypto, sports betting, and, more recently, prediction markets offer an escape or even hope of sorts, like a contemporary, digital version of a scratch-off lottery ticket, while leaving the overwhelming number of people who use such products worse off. Share of Households That Are Financially “Vulnerable” Ticks Up The Financial Health Network’s 2026 Financial Health Pulse® report adds context on how American households are faring. (I linked to this report in last week’s newsletter, but wanted to take time to further unpack the data in the report this week.) The Financial Health Network publishes the report annually, providing insight into how Americans’ financial circumstances are changing over time. The 2026 report is derived from a survey fielded in April and May 2026. The report leverages survey responses to assess indicators of financial health across spending, saving, borrowing, and planning/protecting and to determine a zero to 100 “FinHealth” score. Those with scores between 0 and 39 are considered “Financially Vulnerable,” consumers with scores ranging between 40 and 79 are defined as “Financially Coping,” and those with scores of 80 to 100 are “Financially Healthy.” The report found that moderate improvements in 2025 were reversed, with the share of respondents considered financially “vulnerable” rebounding to 17%. The longitudinal data reflect the impact of pandemic-era programs, like expanded unemployment, cash stimulus payments, and pauses of federal student loan payments. The positive impacts of those programs, as reflected in the Financial Health Pulse reports, had largely disappeared by 2023. While pandemic-era inflation — to be fair, in part caused by the various support and stimulus measures — had come down from as high as 9% in 2022, it has rebounded since the start of Trump’s second term, with tariffs and energy market disruptions owing to the war in Iran pushing prices back up. Specific indicators in the survey that deteriorated from 2025 to 2026 include the share of respondents spending less than their income over the past 12 months, the share paying all bills on time over the past 12 months, the share that have a manageable amount or no debt, the share that are “moderately” or “very” confident their insurance is adequate to cover them in an emergency, and the share that “somewhat” or “strongly” agree that their household plans ahead financially. Unsurprisingly, lower- and moderate-income households are more likely to struggle to pay their bills on time and have any funds leftover to save. The share of low-income households whose income exceeded their spending dropped from 35% in 2025 to 31% in 2026, while the share of upper-income households whose income exceeded expenses remained unchanged at 63%. Households with student loans or revolving credit card debt reported having “a bit more” or “far more” debt than was manageable at rates far higher than those not carrying these types of debts. The share of those with student loan debt indicating their debt load was too high to manage increased from 50% in 2025 to 55% in 2026, while the share of those with revolving credit card debt saying the same ticked up from 51% in 2025 to 54% in 2026. Households that had student loans were markedly more likely to be financially “coping” or “vulnerable” vs. those without student loans. In 2026, 27% of households with student loans were considered financially vulnerable, a jump of 6% points vs. 2025. Households without student loans saw just a 1% point increase (not statistically significant) in those considered financially vulnerable. Households’ perception of the affordability of categories of goods and services paints a stark picture, with less than one-fourth considering higher education affordable, about a third deeming childcare affordable, and less than half viewing healthcare as affordable. Fintech Business Weekly is made possible by the generous support of paying subscribers — bringing you independent analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto without fear or favor. You can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber if you aren’t already. Paying subscribers enjoy: access to the entire archive of nearly six years of newsletters extended versions of the weekly newsletter, with additional content and analysis and (for founding member tier) quarterly personal 1:1 fintech Q&A / strategy calls with me, tapping into my unparalleled knowledge of the intersection of banking and fintech and experience working in the sector, including helping to launch Goldman Sachs’ retail bank Marcus Support Fintech Business Weekly You can also support Fintech Business Weekly by sponsoring a newsletter or podcast, putting you in front of 93,000+ of the most influential decision makers in banking, fintech, and crypto. Learn more about sponsor opportunities or request a media kit by dropping me an email. Democratic Senate Report Highlights How Iran Uses Tether to Evade U.S. Sanctions Iran uses stablecoins, specifically Tether, to evade sanctions, fund regional proxies, and to purchase military drones, a report released last week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says. The report was authored by committee ranking member Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the minority staff. Crypto and stablecoin proponents will often push back on criticism that criminals make use of these assets by arguing that, on an absolute dollar basis, far more illicit funds flow through traditional banking systems and payment rails than via crypto and stablecoins. And while that is likely true, it elides the reality presented in news story after news story: whether state actors — Russia, Iran, North Korea — or criminal groups, those looking to engage in illicit transactions increasingly favor stablecoins and, specifically, Tether (USDT). The report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released last week adds context to how Iran uses Tether has a lynchpin in its shadow banking system. The report analyzed 846 wallets that have been sanctioned or targeted for seizure, finding that 84% of them transacted exclusively or primarily in Tether. The ability to create near limitless, anonymous wallets and to move funds effectively instantaneously and irreversibly have made crypto a favored financial mechanism for bad actors. Stablecoins solved key drawbacks of bitcoin, namely, the original cryptocurrency’s highly volatile value in dollars. And while Tether (the company) has the technical ability to “freeze” or destroy funds, the company is often limited and reactive in its approach to doing so, the Senate report argues. Tether, which is nominally based in crypto-friendly El Salvador, “has stated that its compliance with OFAC sanctions is ‘voluntary’ and that it follows ‘OFAC guidelines,’” the Senate report says. Owing to these favorable attributes, Tether “became a primary cryptocurrency for Iran, Hamas, Hizballah, and the Houthis beginning in 2023 and has expanded in scale since,” according to the report. Tether’s role in Iran’s shadow banking system, the report says, is enhanced by crypto exchanges like Bybit, Kyrrex, OKX, Gate, and Binance, and through “over the counter” exchanges and hawala networks. The consequences of these financial flows aren’t hypothetical. The Senate report links Tether as a funds transfer mechanism to Iranian proxies in the region, including Hizballah, the Houthis, and Hamas. Tether has also been used to make payments to secure components necessary to manufacture drones, the report says. The report concludes by arguing that “[s]tablecoin issuers with a significant nexus to the United States, particularly those that offer dollar-denominated stablecoins, should be subject to American sanctions law rather than being allowed to hide behind foreign jurisdictions.” Stablecoin issuers like Tether must be held accountable for repeated failures to prevent illicit finance and sanctions violations by law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and OFAC, the report argues. [Paying Subscriber Exclusive] OUSD Goes Live, Make Your Own Neobank, U.S. Sanctions Russia’s A7 Network As “Transnational Criminal Organization” OpenUSD, the stablecoin issued by the Open Standard consortium that includes Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, core providers, crypto firms, and numerous banks, went live last week. Social commerce platform Whop raised eyebrows in fintech by offering creators on its platform the ability to launch their own neobanks, which the company describes as “great businesses that are easy to run,” in just 15 minutes. And OFAC and FinCEN target Russia’s “shadow banking” A7 Network — more on these stories after the paywall.

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Oct 4 • 8:59 AM EDT • Health • fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com
Complete SEC football standings after chaotic Week 6

Here's a look at the updated SEC football standings after a chaos filled Saturday that featured multiple upsets, including Kentucky beating LSU.

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Oct 12 • 9:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds

The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.

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Sep 18 • 4:37 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Behind the scenes at Sky Sports Cricket: A team of 130, 17 cameras and a drone operated from a synagogue roof

The Athletic witnessed first-hand the organised chaos of the commentary box on day two of the second Test against Pakistan at Lord's

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Sep 9 • 12:30 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
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Will Ben Affleck Get Join Politics Now? Animals Actor Has Answered

Ben Affleck’s latest movie Animals puts him in an unusual political role. He plays Mark Kimball, a mayoral candidate whose campaign is thrown into chaos when his son is kidnapped. While promoting the ...

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Oct 7 • 1:44 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Chaos rules as France snatch win in final minutes

By LISA THOMAS France...............29pts Tries: Grando 39, Boulard 43, Bourdon Sansus 55, Riffonneau 68, Feleu 74 Conversions: Arbez 44, Queyroi 68 Australia ..........26pts Tries: Merlo 19, Naden 25, Halse 28, Duck 49 Conversions: Wood 19, 29, 50 FRANCE produced a remarkable late comeback to beat Australia by three points despite collecting five cards and at […] The post Chaos rules as France snatch win in final minutes appeared first on The Rugby Paper .

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Justice Kagan rejects surrogate’s request for intervention in custody dispute

The baby’s biological parents said that high court intervention would only cause chaos and confusion.

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Sep 22 • 6:22 PM EDT • Health • ms.now
England in better place than start of summer

Captain Joe Root says England are in a better place at the end of their tumultuous summer and is impressed by how they have handled the chaos.

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Sep 12 • 11:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pokémon TCG’s Final 2026 Set Is Causing Major Preorder Chaos, Here Is How You Can Buy Delta Reign at MSRP Right Now

Find out where to preorder Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution—Delta Reign at MSRP in the US and UK before Elite Trainer Boxes and Booster Displays sell out.

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Oct 2 • 2:00 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Iowa football’s walk-off TD hands Michigan epic reality check

Big Ten football has seen absolute chaos through the first four weeks of the college football season. Saturday’s Iowa-Michigan battle at the Big House didn’t disappoint. Kirk Ferentz and the Iowa Hawkeyes pulled off one of the best comebacks of…

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Senate passes college sports bill that would rein in athlete payments and transfers

The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools.

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Sep 28 • 10:26 PM EDT • Sports • kcrg.com
NCAA sues Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after executive order flouting new eligibility rules

DeWine’s executive order comes against a backdrop of eligibility chaos that has enveloped college sports this summer.

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Oct 16 • 11:11 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
What Chinese viewers are learning from America’s political chaos

What many Chinese viewers see is not a nation falling apart, but a freedom they have never been allowed to have at home.

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Oct 15 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Tackling mental health issues

In a world of chaos and disorder, maintaining your mental health has never been more important.

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Oct 9 • 3:03 PM EDT • Health • fox32chicago.com
Antonio Conte 'Makes Decision' On Accepting Man Utd Manager Job

As chaos engulfs Old Trafford following Champions League heartbreak and internal friction, Antonio Conte signals his readiness to return to England and restore the fallen giants.

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Oct 15 • 4:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Tenacious Collective leads independent artists to New York Comic Con success

Deep within the chaos of the 20th New York Comic Con’s Exhibit Hall sits one of the convention’s largest and most unique booths: the Tenacious Collective.

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Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • amny.com
Insane $300+ Reprint Value Secret Lair Precon Release Date Seemingly Revealed

Thanks to a Chaos Vault email that appeared earlier today, Secret Lair's Odds and Ends release date has almost certainly been confirmed.

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The Divine Bovine Community Challenge

Gather your herd and band together to take down Moophisto. End his Mad Cow rage to unlock a reward for all who oppose his reign of udder chaos.

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