California Passes Bill Requiring New Cars To Beep At You When You're Speeding (jalopnik.com)
‘Keep your filthy hands off Trump Tower!’: Trump begs fans to pay his $464m bond (www.independent.co.uk)
Former president blasts New York Attorney General Letitia James as an ‘insane radical’ in a desperate plea for cash – claiming Democrats are trying to ‘intimidate’ him into abandoning his campaign for the White House...
New California law aims to force people with mental illness or addiction to get help (apnews.com)
Woman buying pot from NYC deli maced, dragged by hair, kicked in head by cashier who mistook her for trans (www.nydailynews.com)
A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
Alex Jones says Infowars could be shut down within hours (www.newsweek.com)
In what he described as an “emergency broadcast” on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars’, studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon....
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)
A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....
‘Sleepy Don?’: Trump Nods Off During Trial of the Century (www.thedailybeast.com)
Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat (www.foodandwine.com)
US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo (www.commondreams.org)
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Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction (www.bbc.com)
Adults and teens concerned about their screen time are turning in their smartphones for “dumber” models....
A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue (www.huffpost.com)
Florida fines high school for allowing transgender student to play girls volleyball (apnews.com)
Florida’s state athletic board fined a high school and put it on probation Tuesday after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature....
Florida teacher fired for using gender-neutral honorific ‘Mx.’ (www.nbcnews.com)
‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them (www.mediaite.com)
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (theintercept.com)
The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept....
What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account (apnews.com)
New York man convicted of murdering woman in car that turned into his driveway (www.theguardian.com)
Kevin Monahan, 65, shot 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis after a car she was riding in with friends made a wrong turn on his property...
Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach (www.cnn.com)
Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.
Mississippi governor signs bill to let cis people sue trans people if they use the bathroom (www.lgbtqnation.com)
College swimmers, volleyball players sue NCAA over transgender policies (apnews.com)
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022....
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)
Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method...
U.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined (www.statnews.com)
American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan (apnews.com)
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions....
