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US President Joe Biden called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "South Korean President." The US leader was speaking about former US President Donald Trump at a campaign reception in Portola Valley, California. "We'll never forget his love letters for the South Korean President Kim Jong Un or his admiration for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin — what a great leader Putin is," Biden said about Trump, according to a White House transcript of his remarks at the reception.

A family in Washington state has been left devastated after a mobile butcher confused their home with a different address and slaughtered their pet pigs. Betty and Patty, both two years old, were shot in their pen in Port Orchard while the family was away from home. Owner Nathan Gray said he could not contain his anger. "They were my wife's pets and my kids' and they, you know, they're family." Police told the BBC that the matter had been passed to the prosecutor's office. Mr Gray and his wife Natalie said they returned home on 1 May to find their pets in the process of being butchered. Their home CCTV system had alerted them to an unknown vehicle on their property. Mr Gray said that after arriving, one of his employees approached him and said: "These guys shot your pigs." He said he found Patty and Betty laying in pools of blood. "They shot them. Only 16 feet from our neighbour's fence." He said he confronted the butcher, who said his GPS "screwed up". "They asked me what I wanted to do with the with the pigs - whether I wanted them to be processed. "They'll be buried on this property, like the rest of our animals." Mrs Gray said that her children had been traumatised. "They were my babies," she said of Betty and Patty. "And when you have kids and they don't feel safe - when they feel violated, I feel mad that they don't feel safe." The pigs enjoyed chasing their daughters and playing in the mud and were expected to live their entire lives at their Gray Acres farm, the couple said. The Grays now want to ensure that this never happens again, and hope to change the laws that regulate mobile butchering. "It seems like there's no guidelines. What I've read - there's nothing about firearm training," said Mr Gray. He added that he would find it incredible if it was legal to walk onto private property with a gun and kill an animal without the owner's permission. A lawyer for the couple, Adam Karp, told BBC News that "the law treats Betty and Patty no differently than if were they Golden Retrievers or Norwegian Forest Cats". Full article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68993980

The New Propaganda War The Atlantic / Anne Applebaum / May 6, 2024 Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. Source

Huge news! One step closer to full UN membership! No Veto allowed! It also calls on the Security Council to reconsider full membership! Of course the US opposed! Palestine sees our voices and stands in solidarity with the students around the world! : Anyways, here is this clown:

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Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if they launch major invasion of Rafah | CNN Politics I know it's not enough to win people over. But he's been saying for months that he won't support Israel if they invade Rafah. Atleast he's keeping his word on that. Edit: It'll be a wait and see if he actually goes through with it, but it felt worth posting just the same. The last time a president tried to directly pressure Israel with aid was George Bush Sr. in 1991.

Despite President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken's impassioned denials, and the self-censorship of the New York Times, almost four in 10 likely voters and more than half of all Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to a new poll of 1,265 U.S. likely voters from Zeteo and Data For Progress, conducted from April 26 to 29. Seven months after the Oct. 7 attacks, and as the Israeli military prepares for a full-scale invasion of Rafah, our poll shows that American voters are largely divided on whether Israel's actions in Gaza so far constitute a genocide, with 39% saying it is and 38% saying it isn't. Among Democrats, however, there is a clear majority, 56%, who opt for the G-word. There is also a generational and ethnic split among voters: a majority of under-45s (55%), as well as pluralities of Black (44%) and Latino (48%) voters, think it's a genocide. Despite the Israeli government's refusal to agree to a hostage deal earlier this week, our survey reveals that 70% of voters support a permanent ceasefire and de-escalation of violence in Gaza - the highest percentage since Data for Progress began tracking this in October. Among Democrats, that number reaches a whopping 83%, while for independents it is 65%. Even among Republicans, a clear majority, 56%, say they back a permanent ceasefire. Full poll: https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-israel-genocide-poll-ceasefire-us-voters?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Pro-Kremlin extremist RFK, who has been endorsed by the likes of Alicia Silverstone, has had literal brain worms consuming parts of his brain https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

In his Democratic primary challenge to Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Wesley Bell, the St. Louis County prosecutor, is raising money hand over fist — and not all of it from Democrats. Bell's latest campaign finance filings include donations from notable sources such as Steven Tilley, a GOP former Missouri House speaker who's now a lobbyist, and Daniel Loeb, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Third Point, who has donated millions to Republican causes. David Steward, a billionaire tech CEO from St. Louis, has also supported Bell. Steward recently served as the finance chair of a super PAC that supported Sen. Tim Scott's (R-S.C.) run for president. All told, Bell raised more than $65,000 from donors who also gave to one of Missouri's two Republican senators, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, in their most recent campaigns, or Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, the leading Republican candidate for governor. The influx of money for Bell from donors who normally back Republicans comes after the prosecutor abandoned a Senate campaign against Hawley in order to challenge Bush. Bell jumped races in late October, a decision he partly credits to Bush's stance on Israel's military action in Gaza. Shortly after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Bush introduced a resolution for a cease-fire and condemned Israel's retaliatory military action as an "ethnic cleansing campaign."