Author: J.P. Knowles

Instagrammer “John” claims that he hasn’t eaten anything except raw meat for the past 167 days and has boldly written “seeing if I live for 5 days or 500 years” on his widely followed Instagram account @rawmeatexperiment.

John’s 144,000 followers have been part of his raw meat-eating journey. “Eating raw meat at Whole Foods every day until I die from bacteria,” is written on his bio. John claims that he started his extreme diet for health reasons. He said he also gets a kick out of eating his raw meat at his local Whole Foods. “It’s funny to do it in front of people,” he posted in an Instagram highlight.

John’s raw-meat-eating binge began on Nov. 22, 2021, and his posts read much like a storyboard of various and very raw meals that he photographs, videotapes, and shares with his fans and followers.

He often jokes about his extreme eating habits by posting memes to his Instagram with captions such as, “the worms in my meat coming to live in my body,” alongside an image of worms strewn across a wet sidewalk.

John’s page is not one for the faint of heart. Many images and videos show him taking bites of raw meat as he details his experiences. He featured “Ocean bug Friday” on April 22, and recorded himself chowing down on some raw seafood, with a long caption that described his experience. “The word meat comes from the Old English word mete, which referred to food in general. Also in our English, it is Me – Eat. I think that explains enough that our natural diet is probably corpse-based,” he wrote.

His April 12 post includes a video of him eating raw veal brain, followed by a number of comments from viewers who found the video very difficult to watch. “Are you suffering from long-term effects of covid 19 that make it impossible for you to taste and smell? That’s the only explanation I can think of for this,” wrote one shocked follower. Other viewers cheered him on, with comments such as, “the brain looks really soft in texture, like a muffin.”

John’s March 29 meal was captioned with, “a bag of shredded cow. My favorite meal still.”

Day 167 of John’s all raw-meat diet shows a video of him eating with the caption, “The sun is shining and I’ve got some juicy nuts in my mouth, what could I possibly have to complain about?”

A mother stabbed her family’s dogs while they were attacking her 1-year-old daughter in their California home on Sunday.

Authorities responded to a call about a dog attacking a 1-year-old girl, as well as the girl’s mother, grandmother and an aunt. The baby has been identified as Ruby Ann Cervantes. The mother and grandmother are Jamie Morales and Margaret Morales, respectively.

The attack began around 10:30 p.m. when one of the pit bulls ran into the home, jumped onto Ruby and started attacking her, then the second pit bull and attacked her as well.

Jamie grabbed a knife and began stabbing the two dogs, killing one of them to free her daughter.

“I stabbed him to get him off of my daughter. It was either him or my daughter and I chose my daughter. I did what I had to do because he wouldn’t let go,” Morales said. Anyone in her position would have done it as well, she added.

Ruby sustained injuries to her shoulder, hip, legs, and ankles and was rushed to a trauma center at LAC + USC Medical Center for treatment. She has already had one surgery and is scheduled for a second operation for a fractured hip.

Ruby’s mother sustained injuries to her lip and part of her face close to her eye during the attack.

One of the pit bulls bit Margaret’s hand and Ruby’s aunt was injured as well.

The family said that the dogs had not shown any signs of aggression before Sunday.

The surviving dog is scheduled to be euthanized.

Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows that every year 4.5 million people sustain injuries from dog bites and half of those victims are children.

A woman was forced to drop out of the race for Minnesota State Senate when she had to leave her party’s convention to give birth.

Erin Maye Quade went into labor on Saturday morning as the Minnesota‘s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party delegates gathered to choose their candidate for November.

“We weren’t sure she was going to make it,” Mitchell Walstad, Maye Quade’s campaign manager, said. Despite being in labor, she went on to the convention, to greet delegates and give a speech.

Maye Quade left the floor whenever a contraction hit. As candidate speeches began, she had to stop speaking when one came on while she was addressing the crowd.

She suffered through about 10 inquiries during a question-and-answer period . “At one point, they had to switch up the order, I believe, because she was having a contraction in the middle of when she was supposed to answer,” Walstad said.

Walstad said Maye Quade reached her “breaking point” and the campaign approached Emmerich about suspending the convention and switching to a primary. According to Walstad, he did not agree, but Emmerich denied the request.

“After the first ballot had been completed, I received word from a member of my campaign that the results showed me leading by 55-44 percent (1 percent abstaining),” Emmerich said in a statement Monday. “I was on my way to talk to my floor manager to verify this information when Erin pulled me aside.”

“She asked if I would be willing to suspend the convention and take the race to a primary since it appeared to be about even,” he added. “I responded by saying I hadn’t verified the count yet and would get back to her. She said that was fine. However, before I was able to speak with her again, she made the decision to suspend her campaign.”

Maye Quade withdrew from the race to go to the hospital, where she delivered her baby 12 hours later.

A sociology teacher in a wealthy suburb of Chicago required her students to complete a white privilege self-assessment, according to pictures of the survey posted by parents.

 

Lake Forest High School students who are enrolled in a sociology class with Ms. Cindy Collier were given an assignment titled, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack.” The “white privilege test” was adapted from “research on white privilege” by anti-racist activist Peggy Mcintosh. Students were instructed to answer “yes or no” to 25 statements.

 

Statements of white privilege include, “If a traffic cop pulls me over, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race,” “I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help, my race will not work against me” and “I am sure I will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of my race.”

 

The students’ objective was to “create a list of three examples of privilege based on the category assigned to your table: hetero privilege, male privilege, wealth privilege, Christian privilege, able-body privilege, English language privilege.”

 

Collier, who is a history and social studies teacher in Lake Forest School District, issued the assessment to students who live in a very wealthy suburb of Chicago. The median household income in Lake Forest is over $172,000, according to Data USA.

 

Henry Dolan, an alumnus of Lake Forest High School, said that he was Collier’s student during his junior year of African-American studies. He believes that the “White Privilege” assessment is steeped in critical race theory, an ideology that analyzes everything through the lens of race.

 

“If I had this assignment, I wouldn’t complete it,” Dolan said.

Six sailors from the Brazilian vessel Bom Jesus found themselves stranded on an uninhabited island on April 1 after the ship caught fire. Miraculously, a message in a bottle led to their rescue.

A fisherman found the bottle containing their desperate plea and immediately contacted the Brazilian Navy. After 13 days without food or a sufficient supply of fresh water, the grateful sailors were rescued from Ilha das Flechas, also known as Arrow Island.

The sailors had been forced to abandon the ship after the vessel caught fire during a 10-day ocean expedition. The group found shelter on a remote island off the coast of the Brazilian state of Para.

The crew, who had very few resources available, wrote a desperate note and put it in a bottle. They tied a ball to the bottle and launched it into the ocean with the hope that, against all odds, someone would find it and send help.

The note read, “Help, help! We need help, our boat caught fire, we have been on Arrow Island for 13 days without food, let our family know.”

Following the dramatic rescue, the men were taken to the city of Belém where they were physically examined, and aside from severe dehydration, all were found to be in surprisingly good health.

The six men said they drank rainwater and rationed their food to survive. The port authority has launched an investigation to determine the cause of the boat fire.

Republican North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn reacted Friday to two photos circulating on social media of him wearing lingerie.

Cawthorn claims the pictures were taken before he ran for office; while he was playing the Royal Caribbean’s game show.

“I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me?” Cawthorn tweeted Friday. “They’re running out of things to throw at me… Share your most embarrassing vacay pics in the replies.”

The photos show the representative on stage in blue lingerie, a black lace bra and big hoop earrings onstage with two women.

Cawthorn said in late March that lawmakers invited him to an orgy and snorted cocaine in front of him. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise met with the 26-year-old Cawthorn to discuss the allegations.

McCarthy later said that Cawthorn lied about the allegations, calling his statements “unacceptable” and unbecoming of a congressman.

“There’s a lot of different things that can happen. But I just told him he’s lost my trust. He’s going to have to earn it back,” McCarthy told reporters. “I mean, he’s got a lot of members very upset.”

Cawthorn has also faced recent traffic citations and charges. On March 3, he was charged with driving with a revoked license. Earlier this week, dash-cam footage showed a North Carolina State Trooper stopping Cawthorn in a truck around 10:30 pm after he drove left of center. The trooper can be seen in the video telling the congressman that he had been pulled over for an expired tag. When the trooper learned he was driving with a revoked license, Cawthorn turned over his license and traded seats with a female passenger. He is set to be in court on May 6. Cawthorn also has a pending speeding ticket in Polk County for driving 87mph in a 70mph zone. That court date is June 2.

Actor Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife, Amber Heard, for defamation over an op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse.

 

In court on Wednesday, Depp recounted the infamous defecation incident that shocked the world nearly five years ago.

 

Depp said he fled their Los Angeles home after another altercation with his then-wife Heard on her 30th birthday.

 

The actor had planned to return to pick up a few items while Heard was at Coachella in 2016 — but his security warned him against it and showed him a photograph of their marital bed.

 

“On my side of the bed was human fecal matter,” he recalled. “I laughed. It was so outside, it was so bizarre and so grotesque that I could only laugh.”

 

Depp has previously accused Heard or one of her friends of defacating in the bed. However, Heard has denied it, blaming the feces on her teacup Yorkies.

“I lived with those dogs for many years,” Depp said. “That did not come from a dog. It just didn’t.”

 

Since taking the stand, Depp has made several accusations toward his ex-wife, including that in 2015, she hurled a vodka bottle at him, which ultimately severed the tip of his finger.

 

The couple was in Australia, where Depp was filming “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and had a fight in 2015 over a postnuptial agreement he had asked Heard to sign, he told jurors.

 

The request sent Heard into rage, and she berated him with insults, he said. After she finally let up, he snuck downstairs and broke his sobriety by slamming a few shots of vodka. The actress caught him and went berserk, chucking the massive bottle at him. It shattered on his hand, which was resting on the side of the bar, he alleged.

 

“What I felt was heat. I felt heat and I felt as if something was dripping down my hand,” Depp recalled. “I looked down and realized the tip of my finger had been severed. I was looking directly at my bones sticking out.”

 

Heard’s lower lip trembled and she looked as though she was on the verge of tears during her ex-husband’s testimony.

 

The “London Fields” actress has denied slicing off the tip of Depp’s finger and previously claimed that he had brutally beaten her on the trip.

 

Depp required finger reconstruction surgery.

 

Both Depp’s private nurse and his doctor gave testimony in court pertaining to this incident. Depp also claimed after his fingertip was severed, Heard put a cigarrete out on his face.

 

“Ms. Heard had taken my cigarette from the ashtray and stomped it out in my face,” Depp recalled, as his lawyers showed the panel gory photos of his injuries.

 

Depp said he used what remained of his middle right finger to scrawl messages on the wall.

 

“In the midst of being in a nervous breakdown, I started to write in my own blood on the walls,” he testified. “Little reminders from our past that essentially represented lies that Heard told me, lies that I had caught her in.”

 

Heard has denied injuring Depp’s finger and previously accused him of viciously attacking her on the trip.

President Joe Biden told former President Barack Obama that he will be running for reelection in 2024, according to two sources with knowledge about the conversation.

Biden also said that he views himself as the only person who could defeat former President Donald Trump if he runs in 2024.

Biden is currently the oldest U.S. president to ever serve and would be 82 at the beginning of the second term in 2025. After a speech in North Carolina Thursday, Biden seemed confused when he turned away from the podium and extended his arm for a handshake when no one was near him.

Biden’s approval rating plummeted to a new low of 33% in an April Quinnipiac poll.

“When you have three of four pollsters showing the lowest numbers for the President of the United States, that is indicative of a president who’s in a lot of trouble at least to where he has stood historically,” CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said April 15.

“There was always this thing, ‘Oh, Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating at this point in his presidency.’ We did it over and over and over and over again. Well, at this point in his presidency, Donald Trump’s average approval rating is actually one point higher than Joe Biden’s,” Enten said.

Fifty-three-year-old Melissa Lucio was convicted in 2008 for murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah. On Feb. 15, 2007, Mariah fell down a flight of stairs that led to the family’s apartment. Although Mariah didn’t appear to be injured at the time, she died two days later.

Prosecutors accused Melissa, who was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death.

Her execution date is set for April 27. Although a growing number of advocates, politicians, and even jury members from the trial are calling for her execution order to be withdrawn.

Two hours after Mariah died, Lucio—who was pregnant with twins at the time—was being interrogated by police who accused her of abusing and killing her daughter. According to court filings, the police used coercive interrogation tactics that preyed on Lucio’s vulnerability.

“I guess I did it,” she eventually said, according to an Innocence Project summary of Lucio’s case.

However, Lucio’s attorneys claim that confession was not reliable.

“Melissa was subjected to a five-hour, late-night, carefully orchestrated and aggressive interrogation until, physically and emotionally exhausted, she eventually said ‘I guess I did it,’” they wrote in a February filing asking to withdraw or modify the execution date. Then district attorney, Armando Villalobos presented this to the jury as a confession, but according to Lucio’s lawyers, that’s not the whole story.

“Because the trial court excluded Melissa’s proffered expert testimony, the jury would not hear that Melissa’s long history of sexual and physical abuse made her especially vulnerable to the aggressive, intimidating, and psychological interrogation tactics the male police officers deployed,” the filing said. “When the interrogation began, Melissa had been awake for roughly fourteen hours. She was also pregnant with twins. Interrogators provided her nothing to eat and allowed her no sleep. Some of the interrogation was recorded on three videos that were played to the jury on the first day of trial. Some interactions between the interrogators and Melissa either were not recorded, or those recordings have been suppressed.”

Prosecutors said that Mariah’s injuries, including the bruises on her body at the time of her death and the fact that she had suffered a broken arm, could only be the result of abuse at Melissa’s hands.

The filing adds the jury was never given evidence that the bruises on Mariah’s body were the result from “rough play” with her siblings. Nor did the jury see an autopsy that revealed that Mariah “showed signs of a blood coagulation disorder, which causes profuse bruising throughout the body.”

A pediatric surgeon who reviewed the evidence said that “there is nothing about [Mariah’s] fracture that indicates that it was the result of an intentional act or abuse,” and that it was a common type of injury among toddlers who fall from standing height, according to the Innocence Project.

Notably, Villalobos—the DA who prosecuted Lucio—was convicted of bribery and extortion in 2014 and is currently serving a 13-year federal prison sentence. According to the Innocence Project, he pursued the death penalty for Lucio “likely because he was seeking re-election at the time and thought that such a ‘win’ would earn him votes.”

Bill Murray is at the center of an ongoing investigation after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” forced the suspension of his upcoming film “Being Mortal” Monday.

A complaint filed last week led to a halt in production and Searchlight Studios gave official notice of the movie’s suspension to all associated cast and crew members of the film.

Seth Rogen was to co-star alongside Bill Murray in “Being Mortal,” and comedian Aziz Ansari who wrote the script, was set to make his directorial debut, as well as star in the film.

Details of Murray’s alleged “inappropriate behavior” are unclear as is Murray’s future involvement in the movie.

The 71-year-old “Saturday Night Live” alum has faced allegations of misconduct in the past, including a complaint by actress Lucy Liu about “unacceptable” comments he made during the filming of “Charlie’s Angels.”

In addition, Murray had a physical altercation with Chevy Chase in 1978, as well as an ashtray-throwing incident between Murray and actor Richard Dreyfuss while filming “What About Bob.” Dreyfuss has since described Murray as a “drunken bully.”

Principal photography for “Being Mortal” had begun on March 28, and the film was originally scheduled for release in 2023.

Representatives from Searchlight Studios have been unable to provide further details as the investigation remains ongoing.