BIG—After decades of irresponsible dumping, the Meeker Avenue Plume has been added to the National Priorities List for Superfund

I've fought for this alongside local officials and activists to bring the full weight of EPA to bear for clean-up in Greenpoint and East Williamsburg

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 17, 2022

What a fucking poser this guy is. Bet he wants the plume to be covered in some corporate shopping center with a Starbucks, Urban Outfitters, and… ugh …a Kiehl’s that will have security that won’t let you skateboard in the parking lot even if you’re 33 and old enough to be out skateboarding at 1:00 AM on a Tuesday. They’ll probably even remove all the “KEST GAK” stickers we put on the lamp posts. There won’t even be a place to buy malt liquor there anymore, instead we’ll have $8.00 PBRs with our “real” Korean barbecue wonton tacos in a place that’s licensed by the NYC Department of Health. The apartments will probably even have working fire alarms and shit like that.

A study of coronavirus patients found that younger children were hospitalized at a significantly higher rate during the omicron variant surge, undermining conservative claims that the virus wasn’t a risk to children, the Washington Post reports.

Children under five years old were five times more likely to be hospitalized with the omicron variant, and infants under six months old, the rate was elevated to six times the normal rate of hospitalizations.  Although the children had significant symptoms, few fatalities were reported.

Also contrary to conservative claims that only people with pre-existing conditions are adversely impacted by the coronavirus, data show that nearly two-thirds of the hospitalized children had no pre-existing conditions, the same with 44% of the infants.

In a nation where many consider ballet the national art form, Olga Smirnova leaving the legendary Bolshoi Ballet because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine will send ripples through the arts ranks, CNN reports.  Smirnova joined the Dutch National Ballet as their prima ballerina.

“I never thought I would be ashamed of Russia,” Smirnova wrote in the statement, which was later republished by the Dutch National Ballet. “I have always been proud of talented Russian people, of our cultural and athletic achievements. But now I feel that a line has been drawn that separates the before and the after.”

The 31-year-old Smirnova joined the Bolshoi more than a decade ago as a solo performer and quickly rose to taking lead roles in performances of “Swan Lake” and “Giselle.” 

The fake news rag liberal propaganda Jew York Slimes communist bullshit birdcage liner fucking garbage enemy of the people newspaper reported something that 100% confirmed the preexisting beliefs of real American patriots that Hunter Biden is dirty and corrupt and he’s still under investigation by federal prosecutors but the part that says he paid his back taxes is fake though.

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— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) March 17, 2022

This marks the first and only time the Jew Dork Slimes ever published anything that was true and that the anonymous sources they quoted in the article were real people and not just made up characters in the fictional leftist propaganda narrative they create. The socialist fake news arm of the Democrat Party, who won Noble Prizes for writing the fabricating Russia, Russia, Russia scandal and in 2020 published President Trump’s taxes illegally that were also phony and made-up, does not get a free pass just because they decided to report the truth for once. They’re still fake news.

Dem Georgia gubernatorial candidate and democracy-slinging boogeywoman of Peach State MAGA fanboys’ nightmares Stacey Abrams cameoed as the “President of United Earth” on a recent episode of the Paramount+ streaming prequel series Star Trek: Discovery, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein reports. Abrams, a lifelong Trekkie, has talked a lot about how the series shaped her political perspective and has participated in fan events in Georgia in recent years.

To our knowledge Abrams is only the second modern American politician to portray a fictional politician on screen in the sci-fi/fantasy genre, following in the footsteps of Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy appearing in the majority of live-action Batman films released over the last three decades.

Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a new trend. Who wouldn’t love seeing Senator Bernie Sanders as a wisened old wizard in the upcoming Lord of The Rings TV series, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene as a Klingon in Star Trek, or Senator Josh Hawley as a genocidal fascist Imperial officer in Star Wars? Ted Cruz would be fucking perfect as a slimy alien lurking in the back of a cantina. AOC could totally sell a role as an idealistic young rebel. Make it happen Hollywood.

“And of course it will be — we are very appreciate it. And it was very good news that immediately after the speech of the president we received this information for the additional aid. And we hope we get it as soon as possible because it’s really important. Ukraine today defend not just Ukraine, defend all democracy, all free world. And if we are to win, and I’m sure that we will win, we win all the world. It’s normal. It’s logical. And we have always said that America is our — one of the biggest strategic partners. We really have this aid. And I think sometimes ago for the interview of some American journalists I said really President Biden is the President of the United States who is better know our country and who has done more than all Presidents of United States. And we hope, and the President Zelenskyy yesterday in congress said what they believe that President Biden will be really the leader of the peace of Ukraine. And his leadership help my people, to my country really stop this war and Ukraine to win” -Zelensky Chief of Staff Andiry Yermak on CNN via PoliticusUSA.

Naturally PoliticusUSA frames this as something that would make Trump furious if he hears of it, and they’re not wrong. The Fat Bastard has already tried to rewrite and memory-hole his history in dealing with the country and its leader, but his record of abuse and maltreatment is quite extensive.

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A group of no-doubt politically connected Russian businessmen are reportedly making moves to appropriate all Russian McDonald’s locations with a knockoff brand called “Uncle Vanya’s”, per 9News Australia. It is unclear how serious this effort is given the lack of specificity in reporting, but there’s no reason to doubt that if the Kremlin wants it, it will happen. Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev reports separately the speaker of the Russian parliament backs the proposal.

An insane report on Dominion Voting Systems titled “OVERVIEW 12/2/20 – History, Executives, Vote Manipulation Ability and Design, Foreign Ties” which was prepared to send to state legislatures to form a legal basis to overturn the election was written by Peter Navarro minion and senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller and not outside MAGA lawyer Katherine Friess, an analysis of the document’s metadata by the Guardian shows. Moreover, the work on coming up with the conspiracy theory started at least two weeks before the 2020 election, showing that all the “fraud” bullshit was a premeditated plan B in the event of a Trump loss. “Two weeks before the election, we were doing those reports hoping that we would pepper the swing states with those,” said another Navarro underling and Trump policy aide Garrett Ziegler in a podcast interview last July.

The report itself surfaced on the Gateway Pundit in early December 2020, meaning Navarro’s team leaked it directly to the right wing conspiracy site knowing they would publish it, which then would turn into that “People are saying” chestnut to give Trump his own pretextual political cover to declare martial law, issue an order to seize voting machines, and whatever else the jerkoffs wanted to try to do. This naturally raises the question of – if they really believed this shit – why they didn’t make their foreknowledge of “vulnerabilities” in Dominion Voting Systems software and equipment public before the 2020 election? It’s almost like the Trump White House that knew full well that if they did so they would have discouraged turnout among their fans and guaranteed Trump would lose the election. It also would have looked stupid after months and months of stonewalling any Dem-led efforts in Congress to spend money on election security – not that they usually give a shit about contradicting themselves, but that might’ve been hard to explain.

Authorities searching the destroyed drama theater in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, bombed Wednesday by Russian forces even though the word “children” was painted in large white letters on the pavement outside, say there are signs that the women and children sheltered inside made it into the basement bomb shelter before the building was hit and are working to free them from under the rubble, the Associated Press reports. A nearby public pool sheltering women and children was also hit Wednesday, according to Ukrainian MP Sergiy Taruta. “Now there are pregnant women and women with children under the rubble there,” Taruta wrote on Facebook.

2020 Birthday Party presidential candidate–and yes, that was the Party moniker–Ye (a.k.a. Yezzy, Saint Pablo, Kanye West) has been barred from social media platform Instagram in an apparent Deep State plot to undermine his 2024 comeback campaign for the White House.

Or, it’s because he violated the platform’s policies against hate speech, harassment and bullying, NBC News reports.  Ye posted a photo of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah with a slew of racial slurs and threats, possibly stemming from a segment TDS did on Ye’s divorce from celebrity something Kim Kardashian.

“It’s spun into a story that seems fully tabloid but I think deserves a little more awareness from the general public. … I know everyone thinks it’s a big marketing stunt …,” Noah said in his Tuesday segment. “Two things can be true: Kim likes publicity, Kim is also being harassed. Those things can be happening at the same time.”

Ukrainians entering the United States through Mexico are being granted a so-called “humanitarian parole,” allowing them to stay in the country for one year due to the war going on in their country, Reuters reports.

More than three million Ukrainians have left the country since Russia invaded 20 days ago.  It’s unknown how many are currently in the United States or Mexico, or how many would be entering the US through the southern border.

Poor Laura Ingraham.  The Trump Administration advisor, Wicked Witch cosplayer and Fox hostess is desperate to tell people that the US and our allies supporting Ukraine is giving the poor Ukrainian people false hope, and that Ukrainian babies will die because their families are defending their freedom and not laying down prostrate before the victorious Russian forces.

She asks Republican Senator and insurrectionist Tom Cotton, “You don’t think we’re giving the Ukrainians and the rest of the world false hope?”

Less than a week after being led out of a municipal building with a black hood over his head, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was freed in what the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a “special operation,” ABC News reports.

An outspoken opponent to the Russians occupying his southern Ukrainian city, Fedorov had addressed patriotic demonstrations and urged people to resist the Russian invaders.  On March 11th, he was seen on CCTV being escorted by multiple armed men out of a municipal office with a black bag over his head.

Zelenskyy posted a message on Telegram Wednesday showing him speaking with Fedorov.  “We have finally managed to release the mayor of Melitopol from captivity,” he said in his evening address to the nation. “Ivan Fedorov is free. I talked to him today. The Russian military abducted him on March 11, trying to persuade him to collaborate. But our man withstood. He did not give up. Just as we all endure.”

Reported for misinformation.https://t.co/YEW0kWxwt6 https://t.co/S9aucjWWKJ

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 16, 2022

Not like she’s ever been in trouble with Twitter for posting misinformation. Except for the time her personal account was permanently banned after two suspensions for posting misinformation about COVID-19 and she only still has account now for the rest of the time she’s in office because every American elected official is entitled to one even if they themselves in their personal/campaign capacity have been banned – and to our knowledge the only currently serving member of Congress with that distinct ignominy. Besides that she’s got a pretty clean record on Twitter.

NASA released the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope that incorporated the use of all 18 hexagonal mirrors on the spacecraft.  The image of the star, about 2,000 light years away, is redder and spikier than the body, but shows that the telescope is working perfectly.  The image also includes hundreds of galaxies, similar to the Hubble Deep Field.

Nine people, including six collegiate golfers and their coach, were killed in a head-on collision involving the van carrying the golfers and a pickup truck that strayed into the oncoming lane, the New York Times reports.

The students, from the University of the Southwest, a private Christian college in Hobbs, New Mexico, had finished a tournament in Midland, Texas and were making the two hour drive back to Hobbs when the pickup hit them head-on, causing both vehicles to burst into flames.

The driver and passenger in the pickup truck died.  Two other members of the Hobbs team survived and were taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

You know we’re in for a good time when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) turns on her “I’ma gonna git serious” voice like she does here.  Then she claims Obama created Ukraine and overthrew the previous administration.  (Presumably, she’s talking about the Ukrainian administration, but you never know.). She also claims people are pushing for war in Ukraine because people like Joe Biden, Mitt Romney and Nancy Pelosi have business interests in Ukraine… ’cause, y’know, that’s not conspiratorial at all.

American intelligence estimates that in just over three weeks of fighting, more than 7,000 Russian military personnel have been killed in action in Ukraine, a number greater than the US suffered in 20 years during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times reports. Sources called that number a “conservative” estimate, and that along with as many as 14,000 to 21,000 wounded in combat, anywhere from roughly 10 to 20 percent of Russia’s 150,000 strong army marched into its smaller neighbor has already been taken out of action. Pure savvy genius.

The MAGA kids are furious that actor Jussie Smollett (who actually is a complete dick for discrediting real hate crime victims) has been released from jail just days into his 150 day bid while he appeals the sentence, Fox News reports.