Massachusetts health insurance survey 2025: 98% covered but affordability issues persist
BOSTON — The overwhelming majority of Bay Staters continue to have health insurance coverage, but a new survey highlights nagging challenges in accessing careBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Gaza door de ogen van chirurg Geertje Govaert: ‘Het zijn de kleine succesjes die me hoop geven. Verder durf ik niet te kijken’
Hulp in Gaza: Voor het Internationale Rode Kruis werkte Geertje Govaert, als enige Nederlandse chirurg, dit jaar drie keer in Gaza. Tijdens haar laatste verblijf hield ze voor NRC een dagboek bij.Freyan Bosma (NRC)
Nigel Farage was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the Holocaust.
#NigelFarage #ReformUK #Racism #UKPolitics
On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’ | The Observer
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On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’
The Reform leader was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the HolocaustGraham Noble (The Observer)
Working but homeless: Staten Island mom’s fight for housing highlights ‘flawed’ voucher system
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Working but homeless: Staten Island mom’s fight for housing highlights ‘flawed’ voucher system
A provider of supportive housing has partnered with NYC officials to pass new laws that aim to streamline the city's housing voucher process.Tracey Porpora | porpora@siadvance.com (silive)
IRAN. Rafle après la mort suspecte d’un avocat emprisonné
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"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Le régime iranien a raflé au moins 40 personnes suite à une cérémonie commémorative en l’honneur de Khosrow Alikurdi, un avocat kurde décédé en prison de manière suspecte. Au moins 40 civils et militants des droits civiques, politiques et des droits humains ont été arrêtés lors d’une cérémonie commémorative en
Lede: One debt relief non-profit served more 18 to 34-year-olds this year than at any other point in its history
Canadians under 35 are debt-stressed — and buy now, pay later ubiquity isn't helping cbc.ca/news/business/canadians…
Staten Island Home of the Week: Tudor with panoramic NYC views hits market for $1.6M
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Staten Island Home of the Week: Tudor with panoramic NYC views hits market for $1.6M
The 3,300-square-foot Marion Avenue property boasts multiple fireplaces, a chef’s kitchen, and outdoor entertainment space.Advance Local Express Desk (silive)
Marseille : La bienvenue à Sarkozy
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"actuMarseille / jeudi 11 décembre 2025 Sa venue était particulièrement attendue et une foule monstre s’est déplacée jusque dans le 12e arrondissement de Marseille ce jeudi 11 décembre 2025 pour apercevoir Nicolas Sarkozy. Mais quelques heures avant la venue de l’ancien … Continuer la lecture →"
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The motorcar lobby has really done a number on Americans when it comes to the idea of "jaywalking".
I'm watching A Gift For Christmas (2017). The female protagonist is #cycling furiously and not watching the road ahead and runs over the male protagonist who is using what appears to be a pedestrian crossing in #Philadelphia.
The "#jaywalking is bad" culture is so ingrained that it is presented as perfectly normal that not only do the police allow the careless speeding rider to get off scott free, they even let the rider claim the victim pedestrian's personal effects (including keys) and hand the perpetrator the victim's pet without blinking.
Is #MelissaHill's A Gift To Remember just as steeped in anti-pedestrian thinking?
Reading Title 75 Chapter 35 of the #Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, it appears that this isn't merely a fictional conceit. The law really is this bad.
The cyclist might be liable for a $10 fine (sic!) under §3502.
Good grief.
In a sane country, the pedestrian *always* has precedence, surely? Maybe exceptions for motorways or something, where pedestrians are actually prohibited.
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Enjoy 75 PACS §3543 and §3544 (part of the #Pennsylvania Vehicle Code). Anywhere other than at a pedestrian crossing, all traffic has right of way over pedestrians crossing the road. There's no right to use the carriageway if there's a footway. And if there's no footway, pedestrians using the carriageway have to give way to everyone else.
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The motorcar lobby pushed hard, name-calling pedestrians using roads "#jaywalking", to get laws like this enacted across the U.S.A..
Other interesting items of the PA Vehicle Code that are unlike the U.K.:
Ambulances have to obey the speed limit and stop at red lights, but funeral vehicles can go through red lights. Pedestrians, depending from city law, can be fined for disobeying their red lights at pedestrian crossings. Right-on-red is allowed. Cyclists are not permitted to pass stopped cars at pedestrian crossings, and must obey speed limits.
It says it all that my only reaction reading this was 'wow, Texas Instruments is still trading?!'
AMD, Intel, and TI are ‘merchants of death’ says lawyer representing Ukrainian civilians — five new suits complain that Russian drones and missiles continue to use high-tech components from these brands | Tom's Hardware
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Endangered polar bears are evolving to survive global warming: Here’s how?
Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered a paradigm shift in polar bears’ genetics, helping them to adapt to disastrous realities of climate change.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
I know money is tight for everyone, but surely someone has $30 to help?
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@roknrol LCD for my phone is sadly phase out in the Tech Hub near here where I made an inquiry. If I really wanted to they will order in other Tech Hub & I have to wait for a week or 2. Their option was just to buy a new one which I wasnt able to do when I did my inquiry since i dont have enough to buy one. $29 i guess.
A gloria della vaselina.
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Claudio Della Volpe Questo post ha una storia divertente; leggo un articolo sul presidente dell’Università di Trento* scritto da Travaglio sul Fatto quotidiano (ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicol…) e lo mando a qualche amico. È un racconto di come il nostro presidente supporti la … Continua a leggere →
Missili con vaselina
Leggi su Il Fatto Quotidiano l'articolo in edicola "Missili con vaselina" pubblicato il 6 Dicembre 2025 a firma di Marco TravaglioMarco Travaglio (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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