Abandon Biden Campaign Responds to Biden’s Decision Not to Seek Re-election

The Abandon Biden campaign acknowledges President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not seek re-election. However, we emphasize that this decision does not absolve him or his party of accountability. The disastrous and criminal approach to Gaza continues under the same personnel: Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Brett McGurk. These individuals remain in control, perpetuating policies that have led to immense suffering.

 

It is clear that the DNC machinery pressured Joe Biden to step down only after losing confidence in his ability to lead due to his cognitive decline. This action came not when he was enthusiastically supporting and sponsoring the genocide in Gaza, but when his declining capabilities could no longer be concealed.

 

With the announcement that Kamala Harris has received Joe Biden’s endorsement to be the Democratic nominee, we invite her to meet with the Abandon Biden campaign. Our demands remain unchanged: call for and pressure an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. The new candidate must address these critical issues and break from the destructive legacy of the current administration.

 

The Abandon Biden campaign remains steadfast in our mission to hold those in power accountable who continue to oversee and sponsor Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its belligerence in the region.

Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the god of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

The country’s culture ministry and officials in Florence have expressed their fury over the incident after pictures went viral on social media, with the Florence mayor’s office calling it an act that “mimicked sex.”

Florence City Hall said the tourist had not been identified yet and suggested that she was “presumably in a state of inebriation.”

They said that if identified, she would be fined and could be banned from the city for life, in line with an ordinance that prohibits any sort of abuse of cultural heritage in the country.

Federal appeals court affirms that Minnesota’s age limit on permit to carry is unconstitutional

A Minnesota law restricting adults younger than 21 from obtaining a permit to carry a firearm is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the opinion on Tuesday, affirming a ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez last year that prohibited Minnesota from denying 18-to-20-year-olds from getting a permit to carry.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison can appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Members of firearms rights groups — the Second Amendment Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus — filed the original complaint in 2021 against three county sheriffs. The plaintiffs were all gun owners older than 18 but younger than 21 who argued Minnesota’s age restriction on acquiring a permit to carry infringed on their Second and 14th Amendment rights.

Federal appeals court affirms that Minnesota’s age limit on permit to carry is unconstitutional

A Minnesota law restricting adults younger than 21 from obtaining a permit to carry a firearm is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the opinion on Tuesday, affirming a ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez last year that prohibited Minnesota from denying 18-to-20-year-olds from getting a permit to carry.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison can appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Members of firearms rights groups — the Second Amendment Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus — filed the original complaint in 2021 against three county sheriffs. The plaintiffs were all gun owners older than 18 but younger than 21 who argued Minnesota’s age restriction on acquiring a permit to carry infringed on their Second and 14th Amendment rights.

Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead


When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.

The accusation prompted alarm among security officials and governments because several similar incidents have occurred across Europe in recent months. The Museum of Occupation in Riga was targeted in an arson attack in February. A London warehouse burnt down in March and a shopping center in Warsaw went up in flames in May. Police in Germany arrested several people suspected of planning explosions and arson attacks in April, and French authorities launched an anti-terror investigation after detaining a suspected bomb-maker who was injured in a botched explosion earlier this month.

Multiple hacking attacks and spying incidents have been reported in different European countries. As the same time, the European Union has accused Russia and Belarus of weaponizing migration by pushing asylum seekers from third countries to its borders. There have also been several suspicious attacks against individuals: a Russian defector was found shot dead in Spain and an opposition figure exiled in Lithuania was brutally attacked with a hammer.

The seemingly random attacks have one thing in common: according to local officials, they are all linked to Russia. And while they might look minor in isolation, taken together these incidents amount to what security experts say is Russia’s hybrid war on the West.

Off Gaza’s coast, truckloads of aid roll off a US military pier – only to remain uncollected

After a series of mishaps, trucks of humanitarian aid are now beginning to roll onto the US military pier off the Gaza coast at a steadier pace.

But enormous problems still loom ashore.

The US military says it is now moving about 800 pallets of humanitarian aid per day to Gaza via the temporary pier, or roughly 40 trucks. But for now, that aid isn’t helping to alleviate the worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where more than 2 million people are facing crisis, emergency, or catastrophic levels of food insecurity according to a new report.

More than 6,000 pallets of aid delivered via the pier are stacked and awaiting pickup onshore, US military officials said, as the World Food Program has suspended aid collections due to security concerns.

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The pier is composed of interlocking floating platforms made of hundreds of tons of steel that rumble as each wave passes underneath. Tug boats on either side help keep the platform stable. An Israeli military division is charged with ensuring the security of US military personnel and civilian truck drivers in the area and a US C-RAM air defense system capable of intercepting mortars provides an extra layer of protection.

UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs

The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.

It wasn’t immediately known what the Kenyans’ first assignment would be, but they will face violent gangs that control 80% of Haiti’s capital and have left more than 580,000 people across the country homeless as they pillage neighborhoods in their quest to control more territory.

The Kenyans’ arrival marks the fourth major foreign military intervention in Haiti. While some Haitians welcome their arrival, others view the force with caution, given that the previous intervention — the U.N.’s 2004-2017 peacekeeping mission — was marred by allegations of sexual assault and the introduction of cholera.

Pro-Palestinian protest outside LA synagogue criticized as ‘antisemitic’ after street fights with pro-Israel protesters

pro-Palestinian protest held outside a Los Angeles synagogue on Sunday devolved into chaotic street violence with pro-Israel counter-protesters in an incident that several officials criticized as antisemitic.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to two protests Sunday in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Pico Robertson, just south of Beverly Hills. Videos taken at the scene show police pushing pro-Palestinian protesters away from the entrance of the Adas Torah temple, an Orthodox synagogue.

Chants of “Free, free Palestine - from the river to the sea,” and “long live intifada,” could be heard from among the pro-Palestinian protesters. Participants blocked traffic, and video from the scene shows multiple altercations broke out in the middle of the street and on sidewalks.
Protests around the Israel-Gaza war have become common across the US since October, but local and state officials sharply criticized Sunday’s event for its violence and for taking place at a Jewish institution.

“(Sunday’s) violence in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood today was abhorrent, and blocking access to a place of worship is unacceptable,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. “I’ve called on LAPD to provide additional patrols in the Pico-Robertson community as well as outside of houses of worship throughout the city. I’ll be meeting with Chief (Dominic) Choi tomorrow to further discuss the safety of Angelenos.”