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A New Jersey transgender blogger and her wife have been charged with endangering the welfare of children after allegedly keeping their 10-year-old autistic son in a 'squalid home' covered in feces. Kirstyn Piper, 45, who identifies as a transgender woman, and her wife Amy Plummer, 46, were arrested in Ocean County, New Jersey, as reported by Reduxx. The 10-year-old boy, diagnosed with autism in 2016, was found in a home where garbage was scattered, and the bathroom was covered in feces in December of last year. He later revealed to detectives in an interview that he had been living in...

Andrey Morozov, a prominent pro-war Russian blogger, has reportedly died by suicide following outrage over a post in which he claimed that the Russian army lost 16,000 soldiers during the capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. Morozov, who went by the pseudonym Murz on Telegram, was an ultra-nationalist commentator who fought alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and participated in Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. On Sunday, Morozov wrote to his 120,000 followers on Telegram that Russia lost 16,000 personnel and 300 pieces of armour during its months-long capture of Avdiivka. The post drew heavy criticism...

Facing Suicide. "The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places." So wrote Ernest Hemingway in Farewell To Arms (1929) Hemingway lived most of his life as an outstanding outdoorsman whose understated economical literary style was male to the core. Like his physician father before him, Hemingway died by suicide on July 2nd, 1961. "What is the sense of ruining my head" he said of the ECT treatment in his final year that left him a wreck, "and erasing my memory, which is capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure, but...

I predict that, long term, singer Steve Young will be more famous than his namesake, the great '49ers quarterback, whom nfl.com ranks as the 15th greatest quarterback of all time. At the moment the footballer is much more famous than the singer, whose birthday is coming up on the 12th of July. Who wants to help me bridge the current gap in fame between these two men? For those who know little about the singer, please listen to "My Oklahoma" written by Young's wife, Terrye Newkirk, aka Cheryl Young. The lyrics are gloriously free American words about being as one...

I attended a training course for volunteer first responders in Arizona. I’ve met the heroes who train to protect our kids and our neighbors from a murderer who wants them dead. My superheroes are real. This is what I saw.

I am a libertarian. To me, freedom looks like the essential glue or fabric for society. Freedom needs discipline. I speculate that my poet’s etymological analysis of the word “freedom” can give us both freedom and discipline in the one word. To do this, I first suggest that the roots of the word “freedom” can lead us to call it the home or homes where we can feel free. For me today, the word "freedom" combines the adjective "free" with the Latin word "domus" or home to mean a home or homes where someone can feel free. This is an...

We are all ecstatic fans of amazing transformation stories. Whether it’s a drunkard who has quitted drinking, thereby turning their life around, or a sick person who's gotten their health back, we can’t help but celebrate with people whose lives have changed from worst to better. The same thing goes for our animal friends, including dogs. I’ve compiled a list of the most heartwarming transformation photos of dogs.

“My life is fair game for anybody. “ said voluptuous actress Susan Hayward. She died on this date 48 years ago. “When you’re dead, you’re dead." she'd said. " It’s what you do when you are here that’s important. ”

Westerners need to get back to basics. It's cheaper. A beautiful woman having fun playing catch with a dog. (Click red link below title above.) Absorbing wisdom of great Americans like Harriett Tubman, who passed away 110 years ago today, March 10. (“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”) The West does NOT need a president like Biden who coul take U.S. national debt to $51 trillion by 2033:...

There’s no greater joy for dog owners than to see their canines happy with wagging tails. When the Dogs Of Instagram account launched a "Happiest Dogs on Earth" photo contest in January this year and asked dog owners to submit photos or videos of their pups living their best life, the results were extremely uplifting.

You will have fun going through these irresistible photos of cute cats with the most distinctive fur patterns.

The Russian military blogger Igor Girkin has issued his latest broadside against how Russian President Vladimir Putin is conducting his invasion of Ukraine. Also known as Igor Strelkov, Girkin is a former Russian intelligence officer who played a major role in Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. He has given perceptive but unflattering assessments of Russia's military failures in Ukraine and his views on the military shortcomings of Putin and his commanders. In a video posted on his Telegram social media channel on Monday, Girkin told an audience in St. Petersburg how...

If you're a dog owner with your big day on the horizon, the following photos will inspire you to have your furry friend witness your nuptials.

Get ready for cuteness overload because these 24 pictures of the cutest puppies from different dog breeds will make you want to adopt a dog as soon as possible. Every single canine is cute in its own way, just like its human counterparts. It is a matter of personal opinion instead of fact when it comes to which dog has the cutest puppy.

Ms Matthews, originally from Cornwall, was being treated as an NHS patient for a personality disorder. She was a complex patient considered at high risk of suicide, and had a history of frequent suicide attempts. The jury found that while under the care of the Priory "it was evident there were serious inconsistencies across all levels of her care plan". The hospital provided "inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient," the jury said. They found there was a widespread "lack of communication, failing to escalate serious risk factors, lack of team cohesion, and reliance on inaccurate and inadequate information". A...

Sam Bankman-Fried flown to the US... There will be an emergency court hearing in Mohave County, Arizona tomorrow morning. Republican Attorney General candidate Abe Hamadeh is being challenged by Maricopa County on his request to inspect ballots... Also in Arizona the two-day trial for Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election challenge... The FBI taking shots at the Twitter Files revelations... The commander of the US Navy's Seal Team 1 found dead in his San Diego home... In Israel Benjamin Netanyahu says he has formed a new government... In France railroad controllers going on strike Friday... Thanks to gasoline prices an...

I believe the attack on Prezwodow, Poland was actually intended for cross-border transmission power line located at 50°24'38.93"N 24° 1'0.11"E. A cruise missile simply followed the power lines up into Ukraine and kept going after it missed its target.I do not believe an S300 missile was involved in the event because the missile would be going the wrong way. Surface to Air missiles expend all of their energy in the first few seconds of flight and do not have the ability to execute a U-turn.It is possible, however that a cruise missile may have been shot down if coming from...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v1_39yAQkI The Duran Russian economy strengthens. EU economies in tatters Alex: All right, Alexander, let's take a look at the Russian economy. We haven't done an update in regards to the Russian economy for a while now. And my question to you is has it collapsed yet? Has the Russian economy collapsed as we have been hearing? Ursula von der leyen in her State of the Union address, the EU State of the Union address thing that they do. She said, and she actually said this, that the Russians are removing chips from their dishwashers and using them in military...

The White House warned that Putin is preparing for an escalation of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s calling up troops in a partial mobilization and warns that he will use all weapons at his disposal if he has to. Usually, deploying troops is not called an escalation. Using nuclear weapons obviously would be. The US likes to say they are not escalating, but they repeatedly have. Putin will replenish his forces in Ukraine with 300,000 of his two million reservists as he prepares for a referendum to allow four regions in Donbas to join the Russian Federation. Leonid Slutsky, a...

The Ukraine war is now essentially a stalemate. Yes, Ukrainian forces have had some recent success near Kharkiv, but at a high price. The brutal reality is that Russia has approximately 150M people, Ukraine has 40M. Ukraine is a border region of the Russian Federation, and very important to the Kremlin. Now that he has committed forces, Putin cannot let control of the Donbass region go, no matter the casualties. If he allowed that to happen, he would lose power. So, he will follow the old Russian tactic of throwing bodies at the conflict in a long war of attrition....