Light Morning News Dump

Veal calves beaten, jumped on and hit in the face, secret cameras reveal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calves-beaten-hit-video-footage-violence-animals-live-exports-europe-a8899631.html

Russian plane crash: Aviation experts furious that passengers took luggage. Questions are now being asked about how many lives might have been saved had passengers obeyed flight crew instructions and left their possessions on board.
https://7news.com.au/news/disaster-and-emergency/your-bag-or-your-life-or-someone-elses-aviation-experts-furious-at-crash-video-c-95950

Egypt thought Italian student was British spy, tortured and murdered him
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/06/world/crime-legal-world/egypt-thought-italian-student-british-spy-tortured-murdered-report/

Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Support And Defend Palestinian Terrorism Against Israel
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46806/ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-attack-israel-defend-ryan-saavedra

Lions cubs too sick to walk due to squalid conditions at South African breeding centre. Cubs at a squalid breeding centre were too ill to walk and lions were so badly neglected that many had gone bald from mange.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/lions-south-africa-photos-canned-hunt-tigers-leopards-animal-cruelty-a8900906.html

The Ford government buried 20 pages of sweeping changes to Ontario's Endangered Species Act in Thursday's omnibus housing bill, amendments that wildlife experts say would gut protections for the province's at-risk animals and plants. Bill 108, the "More Homes, More Choice Act," would weaken classification criteria, allow the environment minister to delay protections for up to three years, and provide developers, industry and others who impact the habitat of endangered species with a suite of options to continue their activities, including a fee-in-lieu fund derided by critics as "pay to slay."
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9337134-sweeping-changes-buried-in-housing-bill-called-doomsday-scenario-for-ontario-s-endangered-species/

Scientists warn a million species at risk of extinction
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-environment-biodiversity/scientists-warn-a-million-species-at-risk-of-extinction-idUSKCN1SC0PJ
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/world/one-million-species-threatened-extinction-humans-scn-intl/index.html

Sri Lanka expels 200 Islamic clerics after Easter attacks
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/sri-lanka-expels-200-islamic-clerics-after-easter-attacks/articleshow/69185574.cms

New York Attorney General Sues Trump Treasury Department, IRS
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-sues-trump-treasury-department-irs

Trump should just tweet "there are no more poor people in America, I fixed it you're actually all rich now, MAGA!" His base will believe him as they go bankrupt from medical debt.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-06/trump-poverty-line-inflation

Another Chinese American Trump Donor Tried to Sell Mar-a-Lago Access to Overseas Clients
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/another-chinese-american-trump-donor-tried-to-sell-mar-a-lago-access-to-overseas-clients/

Trump floated the idea of illegally extending his constitutionally limited time in office, complaining that two years of his first White House term were “stolen” as a result of Mueller’s investigation
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/05/trump-term-mueller-1302643

400 Ex-Prosecutors: DOJ Could Charge Trump With Obstruction If He Wasn’t POTUS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mueller-report-trump-obstruction-former-prosecutors-letter

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Supplemental Background Investigation and Related Tip Records
https://vault.fbi.gov/supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh-supplemental-background-investigation-and-related-tip-records
https://vault.fbi.gov/supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh-supplemental-background-investigation-and-related-tip-records/supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh-supplemental-background-investigation-and-related-tip-records-part-01-of-01/view

Inbox: Today, all 24 Democratic Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to the White House "finally seeking documents regarding the Trump Administration's abominable response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1125477860725219335

Edinburgh city centre goes car-free to combat air pollution: Open air yoga and chess games fill streets for trial initiative
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/edinburgh-air-pollution-open-streets-cars-old-town-a8901086.html

Former Trump Campaign Official David Bossie Scamming Donors
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/report-ex-trump-campaign-official-may-be-scamming-donors.html

Half A Billion Fewer Animals Were Killed Per Year Since 2007 Because People Are Eating Less Meat
https://www.collectivespark.xyz/2019/04/half-billion-fewer-animals-were-killed.html