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DC Police Find 5 Fetuses In Home Of Anti-Abortion Activist Lauren Handy Lauren Handy, 28, has been charged with federal crimes for allegedly blockading a reproductive health clinic. D.C. police also found five fetuses in her home. Lauren Handy, 28, has been charged with federal crimes for allegedly blockading a reproductive health clinic. D.C. police also found five fetuses in her home. Washington, D.C., police found five fetuses in the home of an anti-abortion activist on Wednesday. The activist, Lauren Handy, sat outside her home as officers brought out coolers containing the fetuses, WUSA9 first reported. Handy declined to tell a reporter outside her home what was inside the coolers, but said, “People will freak out when they hear.” The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to HuffPost on Thursday that it had found the five fetuses after being sent to investigate a tip. “Upon further investigation, MPD located five fetuses inside a residence at the location,” a police statement said. “The fetuses were collected by the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This is currently a pending investigation.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-police-fetuses-anti-abortion-activist-lauren-handy_n_6245e9a5e4b068157f749d7f

But the deadline for filing has passed.

How environmentalism and the far right are becoming an unlikely ‘ecofascist’ combination: report The far right has a long history of attacking environmentalists as “tree huggers,” railing against green energy and denying that climate change exists — even though countless scientists have offered concrete proof that it does. Former President Donald Trump, a strident defender of fossil fuels, even made the ludicrous claim that coal is much cleaner than green energy and that wind turbines cause cancer. Being conservative doesn’t automatically mean being totally opposed to environmentalism. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started under President Richard Nixon. But among far-right Republicans of the MAGA variety, hating environmentalists is a badge of honor. Nonetheless, there are times when the far right and environmentalism intersect, and National Public Radio (NPR) journalists Ari Shapiro, Matt Ozug and Casey Morell discuss that unlikely combination in an early April report. “Conservative leaders, from Rush Limbaugh to former President Donald Trump, have certainly denied climate change in the past,” the NPR reporters explain. “But today, a different argument is becoming more common on the conservative political fringe…. On the podcast ‘The People's Square,’ a musician who goes by Stormking described his vision for a far-right reclamation of environmentalism.” Stormking argued, “Right-wing environmentalism in this country is mostly — especially in more modern times — an untried attack vector. And it has legs, in my opinion.” Shapiro, Ozug and Morell cite Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich as an example of a Republican who made a right-wing environmental argument. Railing against illegal immigration, Brnovich argued, “We know that there's information out there that says that every time someone crosses the border, they're leaving between six and eight pounds of trash in the desert. That trash is a threat to wildlife. It's a threat to natural habitats.” The NPR reporters go on to note that in 1998 and 2004, “anti-immigrant factions tried to stage a hostile takeover of the Sierra Club's national board” but “failed.” According to Hampshire College’s Betsy Hartmann, fearing the destruction that climate change is causing fits in with the “doomsday” element of the far right. “If you have this apocalyptic doomsday view of climate change,” Hartmann told NPR, “the far right can use that doomsday view to its own strategic advantage.” Shapiro, Ozug and Morell describe the intersection of far-right views and environmentalism as “ecofascism” and consider it a “problem” that will continue to grow. “The problem is visible now, and there is time to address it,” they write. “But the longer people wait, the harder it's going to be.” -NPR

So far, that looks to be the case.

Apparently the lust for fame and power is seductive.

This too shall pass.

The 8% of disbelievers in the Green party is a surprise. Those of us in the 60+ age group are used to trusting research as opposed to opinion, but global warming is only part of the problem- the climate change model when it was created in the 80's also predicted more violent storms exaggerated droughts and cloudbursts, higher highs and lower lows and more unpredictability in weather forecasts. All this has come to pass and still the disbelievers cling to their beliefs like drowning people clinging to flotsam.

Hard to reduce from zero.

And it might reduce the credibility of the Republican party.

U.K. Spy Chief Says Russian Military Is a Bloody Mess, Shot Down Own Plane -Getty Vladimir Putin “massively misjudged the situation” in ordering the invasion of Ukraine and surely knows just how poorly things are going for Russian forces even though his closest advisers are hiding the truth from him, according to the head of Britain’s spy services. In a speech at the Australian National University in Canberra on Thursday morning, GCHQ director Sir Jeremy Fleming said the Russian leader’s “unprovoked and premeditated attack on Ukraine” has been “shocking in every sense of the word.” He also said Putin, a former KGB officer, was caught completely flat-footed by what he found. “It’s clear he misjudged the resistance of the Ukrainian people,” Fleming said. “He underestimated the strength of the coalition his actions would galvanize. He underplayed the economic consequences of the sanctions regime. He overestimated the abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory. We’ve seen Russian soldiers—short of weapons and morale—refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft.”

Not all, but many.

Confirmed by BBC that there were massive explosions in the named Russian city. The UA reported that they had hit a military target- a base or munitions dump. Russian liberators found dead in a field with no wounds, left behind by their own command to starve and freeze

The face of American conservative "Christianity":

Putin May Be Accused Of War Crimes In Ukraine, But Trump's Still Asking For His Help Six years after calling on Putin for aid against Hillary Clinton, Trump is now asking for the murderous dictator’s help finding dirt on Joe Biden. By S.V. Date Mar. 29, 2022, 04:49 PM EDT WASHINGTON ― Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may be accused of slaughtering children and overseeing other war crimes in Ukraine, but that’s not stopping longtime admirer and former U.S. President Donald Trump from asking him for political help again. Trump, who tried to overthrow American democracy in an attempt to retain power despite losing the 2020 election, is now asking Putin to find damaging information on his successor’s son. “I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” Trump said in an interview airing on Real America’s Voice, a pro-Trump website, regarding a payment a decade ago from a Russian oligarch’s wife to a company founded by Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. “I think he should release it.”

There seems to be no outrage at this, which dwarfed Nixon's secretary's 18 minutes of "accidently" erased White House tapes. The GOP's tactics of overt, massive violations of the law and deadening public reactions seems to be working. Merrick Garland's glacial, timid investigations into the attempted Coup is playing perfectly into that.

Will Smith has little right to be angry at anyone who mocks his "wife" Jada. On a nationally televised TV talk show, she blurted out that she was sleeping around as part of her "healing" but Will did not outwardly react and continued to (apparently) share a life with her. If he wasn't angry and humiliated at her then, why bother to be angry at Hart over what is common knowledge?

First strike on Russian terrain: Ukrainian Tochka U missile devastates military facilities near Belgorod.

Russian Forces Driven Away From Kyiv as Ukraine Regains Territory and Kills Top Commander Ukraine’s military says they have “eliminated” another Russian colonel, adding to a long list of high-ranking Russian military personnel wiped out in Putin’s war against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Tuesday that Colonel Denis Kurilo, the commander of the 200th separate motorized rifle brigade, was killed outside Kharkiv. Kurilo’s reported death, on the 34th day of the Kremlin’s “special operation,” comes after at least seven Russian generals were killed in Ukraine, according to both Ukrainian and Western officials. It also comes as the Ukrainian military announced several territorial gains, with the northeastern town of Trostyanets liberated from Russian troops and several areas outside Kyiv reported back in the hands of Ukraine. The military said territories in the Chernihiv region were also liberated. -BBC

'The Flash' Star Ezra Miller Arrested After Belligerent Behavior At Hawaii Bar The "Fantastic Beasts" actor was charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. Ezra Miller, who plays the Flash in an upcoming movie about the superhero, was arrested early Monday after a rowdy visit to a bar in Hilo, Hawaii, police said. Miller, 29, “became agitated” and started yelling obscenities at patrons singing karaoke, police said in a Facebook post. The actor, who also appeared as the Flash in 2016’s “Batman v Superman” and 2017’s “Justice League,” then grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman who was performing. Miller “later lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts,” police added. The bar owner told officers he could not calm the unruly customer, despite repeated attempts. Miller, who police said was visiting from Vermont, was charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. They were released after posting $500 bail. In 2020, Miller reportedly was escorted out of a bar in Iceland after an altercation with a woman. Miller’s arrest in Hawaii occurred just weeks before the U.S. release of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” in which the performer reprises the role of Credence Barebone. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ezra-miller-flash-arrested_n_6242ce97e4b0587dee6061b3

And if it was administered by ingestion, you cannot tell if the carrier was consumed entirely or partially.

He used to rock a pornstar 'stache.