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Every tech company from Monzo to my bank is crunching my data. All the results tell us is how dull it is to reduce human experience to numbers. How was my 2023? Pretty good, thanks. I spent 60 hours at my local cinema and 51 days listening to music from 170 genres (chiefly “art pop”). … Read more

The Rev William Barber says he was trying to use his own chair in the disabled section for a screening of The Color Purple Movie theatre chain AMC has apologized to a North Carolina civil rights leader after he was kicked out of a screening of The Color Purple for trying to use his own … Read more

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is calling out her colleagues in the U.S. Congress who have sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the ongoing war between his country and the terror group Hamas. She called the conservative leader a “genocidal maniac” in a post on her Instagram Story on Wednesday. “Every member of … Read more

Idaho cannot enforce a law banning gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors, a federal judge ruled.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is catching heat from both sides of the political aisle after she declined to mention slavery as the reason for sparking the U.S. Civil War. A voter asked the former U.N. ambassador during a New Hampshire town hall on Wednesday what was “the cause” of the war, to which she joked, … Read more

Alabama is poised to use nitrogen gas in a planned execution next month — making it the first of any state to attempt such a method and setting the stage for legal challenges.

Republican presidential candidate discussed role of government, not slavery, in response to voter asking about reason for war Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined to specify that slavery was a cause of the civil war on Wednesday, wading into an area of history that continues to reverberate and in some ways define US politics nearly … Read more

The Colorado Republican Party is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state ruling that disqualified former President Trump from the ballot. The state court found that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. NBC News’ Danny Cevallos explains the Colorado Republican Party’s arguments that will be brought to the Supreme Court.

Social media can amplify our own helplessness and guilt – perhaps it’s time to return our focus from the global to the local, where we can truly make a change I am a worrier. Long before I read about the stoics, I tended to begin my days with what they call a premeditatio malorum – … Read more

Judge ordered Lorna Green, now serving five years for the arson attack, to pay insurance company, building owner and clinic founder A judge has ordered a woman who set fire to Wyoming‘s only full-service abortion clinic to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, the full amount sought by prosecutors. Lorna Green is serving five years in … Read more