“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in response to a direct question about Gabbard’s testimony.
Checkmate, cyclists. AMERICA NUMBER 1
Why would there be pallets of bricks in front of this construction logistics company warehouse??
archive.is is currently busted and I'm not going to link to NYCrimes so have an Aljazeera link instead https://aje.io/5q7i7s?update=3753282
Copy of NYCrimes article
By Farnaz Fassihi June 4, 2025Updated 5:21 p.m. ET
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and unconditional cease-fire in Gaza, the release of all hostages and the resumption of full-scale humanitarian aid deliveries to the enclave.
Ten nonpermanent members of the 15-seat Council had put forth the resolution for a vote. It was the first time since President Trump took office that the Council had considered a cease-fire resolution on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
The United States was the only member to vote against the measure; the other 14 members of the Council, including Russia, voted in favor, once again highlighting Washington’s isolation on the global stage over its policy of unconditional support of Israel.
“We believe this text reflects the consensus shared by all Council members that the war in Gaza has to come to an immediate halt, all hostages must be immediately and unconditionally released, and civilians in Gaza must not starve and must have full and unimpeded access to aid,” said a joint statement from the 10 nonpermanent members, which was read by Slovenia’s ambassador to the U.N., Samuel Zbogar, at the Council meeting ahead of the vote.
A Security Council resolution must receive nine votes in favor and no vetoes from the five permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — to be adopted. Since the war broke out after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the United States has vetoed four Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire and has abstained from one, allowing it to pass, last June.
Dorothy Camille Shea, the interim U.S. representative at the U.N., repeated Washington’s message that Israel had the right to defend itself, and she blamed Hamas for the suffering of Palestinians, saying the war would end if the group surrendered. “Any product that undermines our close ally Israel’s security is a nonstarter,” Ms. Shea said, explaining the “no” vote.
Diplomats at the U.N. have watched in fury and frustration as the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated to levels where children are starving. Since March, Israel had enforced a ban on all aid delivery into the territory, facing global backlash and accusations that its army was committing war crimes by weaponizing food and essential aid.
Council members have also been frustrated at the United States for blocking the body from acting in a deadly war that has killed more than 56,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gazan officials, whose numbers do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. UNICEF said this week that 50,000 children had been killed or injured in Gaza since the war began.
The Council members say, publicly and privately, that the United States is standing in the way of the will of the majority of the member states at the U.N.
“Today, the elected members of the Council have stood with clarity, with conviction, with courage — they are the proud bearer of moral legitimacy,” said Algeria’s ambassador to the U.N., Amar Bendjama, the only Arab representative in the Council. He said the resolution was not “the voice of the few, but the collective will of the entire world.”
What makes them possibly think that a youtuber with average 10M views per video and 15M subs need to take money from Hamas. They could've just ignore her, but they radicalized her instead, and probably another billion toddlers who watches her daily
isn't-real takes another L
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Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town.
The jail in Santa Fe, surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed, sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city’s bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter.
Ms. Jaramillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a sheriff’s deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
of course it has to be a cop driving a pickup truck
Joined by North Korean generals and the leaders of China and Brazil, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany with a Red Square military parade designed to place Moscow at the vanguard of a rising, non-Western world order.
The parade — at one point featuring drones used in Ukraine being trucked past the stands to the tune of a military band — punctuated a geopolitical moment for Mr. Putin in which Moscow’s global fortunes seem to be rising thanks to the Russia-friendly approach taken by President Trump.
But despite Mr. Trump’s apparent openness to dealing with Mr. Putin, no senior American officials were known to be in attendance at the Victory Day parade, the annual patriotic high point on Russia’s calendar. The two leaders congratulated each other via aides, the Kremlin said, according to Russian state media. Instead, Mr. Putin was joined by more than 20 foreign leaders from countries that largely position themselves as neutral or hostile to the West.
During the parade, Russian state television showed Mr. Putin bantering with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, seated next to him. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia were also in attendance. Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia was the only leader from a European Union country. Afterward, the television cameras followed Mr. Putin as he shook hands with North Korean generals, who saluted him in their medal-spangled dress uniforms.
The Kremlin has sought to show the large number of foreign dignitaries as evidence of Russia’s global clout despite Western efforts to isolate Mr. Putin after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Trade with China has helped keep Russia’s economy afloat, while North Korean troops helped Russia drive Ukrainian troops out of the swath of Russian territory that Ukraine captured last year.
In a speech at the parade, Mr. Putin referred only briefly to the continuing war in Ukraine, saying that Russia has been engaged in a “righteous fight,” and that “the whole country, society and people support the participants of the special military operation,” using the phrase the Kremlin uses to describe the war.
Speaking from stands fit with a large roof apparently designed to protect from drone attacks, Mr. Putin linked the country’s past victories with its current conflicts. A regiment of 1,500 Russian troops taking part in the war marched through the square.
“Our fathers bequeathed to us to firmly defend our national interests, our thousand-year-old history, culture and traditional values,” said Mr. Putin, whose father fought in the world war.
But three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the display of military might did not reflect Russia’s record on the current battlefield. The country’s military has not achieved a decisive victory in Ukraine, and has made only incremental gains in recent months. The Russian economy has also been slowing because of falling oil prices and interest rates that have been kept high as the country tries to tame inflation.
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, did not attend the parade, and North Korean troops did not march through the square as many had expected they would. Several North Korean generals watched the parade from the stands. At the end of the parade, Mr. Putin approached them and could be heard saying “thank you very much,” an apparent reference to North Korea’s role in Kursk. Image People in red and navy blue military attire near red and yellow flags. Russian service members participating in the parade. The event is being used to highlight Russia’s past glories and justify the war with Ukraine.Credit...Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
Overall, more than 11,500 servicemen and women took part in the parade, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Among them was a regiment of Chinese troops, and troops from some Moscow-friendly former Soviet nations.
In recent decades, the May 9 Victory Day holiday has served as a rare, unifying commemoration in Russia and across the former Soviet Union, given that some 27 million Soviets perished in World War II. But Mr. Putin has stoked divisions by trying to use the Soviet triumph in 1945 to legitimize his invasion of Ukraine, where Russia, the Kremlin falsely claims, is fighting “Nazis.”
Heavy-handed security measures were introduced across Moscow on Friday; the entire city center was blocked for traffic and metro stations were shut down in the vicinity of the Kremlin. Access to the internet has been sporadic, including through landlines. Many in Russia feared that Ukraine could use one of its long-distance drones to strike the city on the day of the parade, especially after a Ukrainian drone attack forced the closure of all four major Moscow airports earlier this week.
Friday’s parade was the biggest since the invasion of Ukraine, according to numbers provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. More than 180 military vehicles, including tanks, howitzers and nuclear missile launchers, rolled through the square, the ministry said. Last year’s parade featured only one tank — a Soviet-era model — along with other military equipment.
This year’s parade ended with a flyover of Russian jets.
Not an Onion headline
Why is this dumb photo op so funny lmao, absolute state of this unserious country
Where is Punxsutawney Phil when you need him? Instead of these grotesque media campaigns, each swing state should just have 50/50 pagan ritual involving cute critters to decide the electoral winner.
I have proof that Putin was working with Hamas and personally responsible for October 7th
Coincidence? I THINK NOT
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Electoralism - one party is going to lose this November, and regardless of who loses it will be hilarious AF to laugh at the losers
I feel gaslighted watching Kamala's interview. She's just as incoherent as Joe Biden. At least Joe will try to articulate some kind of policy, e.g. "Jack, China, the semiconductor, we passed CHIPS ACT, they're called FABs". Kamala's is 100% policy-free, 100% incomprehensible, as if she's an unprepared college student having to give class presentation while simultaneously on Xanax and adderall. Is it just me or Democrats have truly stopped communicating in standard English and just communicates by transmitting vibes via brainwaves.
Elijah Orlandi makes deliveries for Grubhub in the evening after his 9-to-5 job.
“There are scenarios where people have the right to be upset,” said Orlandi, who lives in the Bronx and has been making e-bike deliveries for Grubhub — in addition to his 9-to-5 job — since October. He has seen e-bike riders “swerving in between cars and all that kind of stuff.” But Orlandi is also hoping for compassion. “People got to understand, we’re working,” he said. Delivery apps, he noted, keep track of how quickly workers make their drop-offs — and ding them if they take too long. “Sometimes you’ll be going somewhere and Grubhub will send you another order, and then no matter what you do, you’re going to be late,” he said. “So that’s why you’ll see a lot of people rushing.”
Surely the problem here this dude's e-bike. Not that people need to do gig job on top of 9-5 work day, unaffordable rent, inflation, and exploitative gig economy platform
wake up
read news
warcrimes are happening and people are being genocided
brush teeth
go to work
