Noteworthy News

[Ravenshire]

Millions of Americans are borrowing money or draining their savings to buy groceries, highlighting the financial strain many households face as the cost of living rises, new research has found.

More than a quarter of working-age adults who relied on credit cards to buy groceries were either unable to pay their balance in full or missed their minimum payment, according to the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. About one in 10 adults relied on so-called "buy now, pay later" loans to cover their groceries — of those, about a third missed a payment last year, the analysis found.

About 20% of working-age adults said they had tapped long-term savings that weren't intended for everyday expenses, such as an emergency fund, at least once in the last 12 months to pay for groceries, the researchers said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-c...groceries/

And, no one in the American Fascist Regime cared at all.

[Deesse23]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-c...groceries/

And, no one in the American Fascist Regime cared at all.

And 40% of those who do vote, think trump is awesome.

Suum cuique

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And, no one in the American Fascist Regime cared at all.

And 40% of those who do vote, think trump is awesome.

Suum cuique

True enough, but noli deprimi a nothis.

Boru

[Deesse23]

Thank you for making me google "nothis"

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Thank you for making me google "nothis"

You’re very welcome. I live to serve.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Attack At Pride Event

At least one person is dead and several people are injured after a vehicle drove into the crowd at a Pride event in Berlin on Saturday, in what German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called "an attack on our society."

Berlin police said they have identified a suspect who "is known to police" and has links to "Islamist circles." Police have launched a manhunt for the 21-year-old who they identified only as Abdul B.

A driver in white vehicle struck several people before 10:00 p.m. local time, according to Berlin police. At least 17 people are injured and several have life threatening injuries, according to Berlin police.

The incident occurred in Tiergarten Park, one of the largest parks in Berlin, where an LGBTQ+ celebration was taking place.

One or more people are believed to have subsequently fled the vehicle. And police said several people are reported to have been injured with stabbing weapons.

Boru

[Angrboda]

These figures reflect the dismal state of rural-health-care infrastructure, which is particularly acute in maternity care. Since 2005, 109 rural hospitals have closed outright. Of those that remain, many have been closing down their labor-and-delivery units. Most rural hospitals no longer offer labor-and-delivery services, and in the past five years, an average of more than two rural hospitals a month have closed these units. As of 2023, 60 percent of rural counties had no hospital-based obstetric care. With few options available, rural women are less likely than urban women to receive prenatal care; this in turn makes them and their babies more susceptible to preventable complications.

Several related factors have contributed to these closures. Labor-and-delivery units have high fixed costs (physician and nurse salaries, birthing beds, fetal warmers), making them a financial liability if they are not operating at or near capacity. As fertility has declined, more units have gone into the red because they have too many empty beds. But even a steady flow of patients is not always enough: A rural hospital’s labor-and-delivery unit can struggle economically despite full beds because pregnant rural women are less likely than pregnant urban women to be enrolled in the commercial insurance plans that have high reimbursement rates. Instead, rural women are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid, which has lower reimbursement rates, or to have no insurance at all.

Further, only 4 percent of the country’s ob-gyns practice in rural areas, which is where 10 percent of women ages 15 to 49 live. And that proportion is likely to fall even more because many new entrants to the field are not willing to do a residency or start a practice in states that restrict abortion, many of which are more rural.

Rural family doctors can and do still deliver babies in the absence of ob-gyns. But the proportion of generalist doctors willing and trained to do so has been declining for decades. Many family physicians I met while touring rural areas as part of a Brookings and American Enterprise Institute commission on rural life cited liability risks as the motivator of their retreat from maternity care. Adverse birth outcomes are among the most common claims against physicians in medical-malpractice lawsuits, and awarded judgments can be very high, which inflates the liability-insurance premiums that doctors must pay. In addition, in places with few ob-gyns, a generalist is more likely to have to handle high-risk cases without expert help.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...ty/688091/

[Fake Messiah]

NASA is about to launch a telescope into space that will observe and record more stars and galaxies in one month than Hubble did in its decades-long lifetime.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

NASA is about to launch a telescope into space that will observe and record more stars and galaxies in one month than Hubble did in its decades-long lifetime.

Given the cost of the Hubble telescope was around $16 billion and this one comes in at just under $5 billion, it looks like you guys got one helluva bargain.

Boru