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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.

Hope the wife doesn't find out.

When you look at the performance of the Russian military, its not hard to imagine that the GRU could screw this up. Besides, the point may have been to scare off negotiators so as to give the military time to complete their sweep of Ukraine.

The point of this apparent poisoning by Russia was to disrupt things so that there would be an excuse for Russia to abort the proceedings. Making people sick would be a convenient reason without raising too much alarm.

Billionaire Terry Pegula Gets $850 Million Subsidy for New Buffalo Bills Stadium In another sweet deal for a billionaire, the Buffalo Bills announced an agreement on Monday to build a $1.4 billion new stadium, with $850 million of those funds coming from New York State and Erie County. The deal includes a 30-year commitment from the team to stay in Buffalo. The Bills’ owner, oil and gas billionaire Terry Pegula, is worth $5.8 billion, according to Forbes. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul defended the arrangement in a statement, arguing that “the project will create 10,000 union jobs and New Yorkers can rest assured that their investment will be recouped by the economic activity the team generates.” New York will own the new stadium and will lease it to the Bills. https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-terry-pegula-gets-dollar850-million-subsidy-for-new-buffalo-bills-stadium?ref=home?ref=home

News Canada Ottawa Watch MPP Randy Hillier surrenders to police on charges related to convoy protest 2 hours ago 0:26 MPP Randy Hillier surrenders to police on charges related to convoy protestLanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP Randy Hillier is facing nine charges related to his activities during the convoy protest. He previously used Twitter to encourage people to use police emergency phone lines to complain about efforts to clear downtown streets.

Detective tried to uncover vaccine status of dead children's parents, sources say Shaamini Yogaretnam · CBC News · Posted: Mar 28, 2022 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 8 hours ago The Ottawa Police Service says it has suspended Det. Helen Grus with pay in connection with an investigation by the professional standards unit. (Olivier Plante/CBC) An Ottawa police detective who opposed the force's COVID-19 mandates is under investigation for allegedly trying to find out if parents whose infants had suddenly died during the pandemic were vaccinated, CBC News has learned. The misconduct allegations against Det. Helen Grus raise questions about how police treat cases involving the most vulnerable members of society — and whether their own personal pandemic biases are influencing their work. Grus has been suspended with pay since Feb. 4 amid an ongoing internal disciplinary investigation into how and why she was allegedly attempting to collect the information. A constable by rank, Grus is a detective in the force's sexual assault and child abuse unit, which investigates criminal cases that involve some of the most vulnerable victims police see. That includes newborns and infants who die in sudden circumstances — investigations that are mandated by law.

People’s Convoy Gives Up, Will Leave D.C. After 3 Weeks of Doing Absolutely Nothing -Getty Three weeks after the so-called “People’s Convoy” landed in Washington, D.C., the group is calling it quits after accomplishing nothing except injuring residents and circling the Beltway. Co-organizer Mike Landis announced Sunday night that the group would pack its things up in the coming days and drive back to California. “So what I want to know is, what do you think about heading to California?” Landis asked, to the crowd’s delight. “Sounds like a great plan,” one convoy-goer yelled back. Landis further said that convoy-goers who remain posted up in Hagerstown, Maryland—who have experienced many freezing nights while camped out in the small town an hour and a half north of D.C. proper—will enjoy a southerly route back to California. “We’re gonna take a little more southern route, so it’s a little warmer than this,” he said. He pledged to “come back to finish this job” in the metro area at some unspecified time, which seems highly unlikely as their crowd dwindles.

'Came closer than widely realized': Ted Cruz worked 'directly with Trump' to try to overturn the election U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has bragged that he was “leading the charge” to ensure Joe Biden was not certified as the rightful winner of the 2020 election. But until now the depths and extent of his actions, including that he was “working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power,” have not been widely known. That’s according to a report by The Washington Post on Monday that reveals one day after major news outlets called the election for Joe Biden, Donald Trump, still the President of the United States, made “an urgent call” to Sen. Cruz, asking him if he would be willing to argue Trump’s just-filed case at the Supreme Court. “Sure, I’d be happy to” if the court granted a hearing, Cruz said he responded. The call was just one step in a collaboration that for two months turned the once-bitter political enemies into close allies in the effort to keep Trump in the White House based on the president’s false claims about a stolen election. The Post adds another important revelation: Cruz’s longtime friend is John Eastman, the author of the “coup memos,” who retired from his post at the Chapman University School of Law after news of he memos became public. Eastman, who still serves as the chairman of an anti-LGBTQ organization, the National Organization For Marriage (NOM), is currently facing an ethics investigation from the California State Bar Assoc. https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/ted-cruz-2657051447/

The Times @thetimes · Mar 24, 2022 Replying to @thetimes The Ukrainian army has released intercepted communications from the Russian army, which suggest the invading forces are suffering heavy losses outside the Ukrainian capital The Times @thetimes In one call, a soldier in a trench outside the city tells his superior that the Russians are unable to sleep because of the constant Ukrainian attacks and says that most of his unit’s casualties are only 19 or 20 years old 4:47 PM · Mar 24, 2022

Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Died With 10 Drugs in His System, Authorities Say R.I.P. Colombian authorities say toxicology tests on Taylor Hawkins preliminarily found marijuana, benzodiazepines and opioids.

The Free Press today had an article on the popularity of the provincial PCs and Premier. The article explored the implications of the poll which was described as "catastrophic" in the article and showed the PCs falling to the point where they are barely ahead of the Liberals.

Putin or his advisers have seemingly conceded that they cannot roll right over Ukraine and have retreated tot he relative safety of the Donbas region. Their strategy now is to kill as many people and destroy as much of Ukraine as possible with missiles and artillery. This is punishment for not acquiescing to Putin, and can be done from distances where their casualties will be minimized.

Ginni Thomas’ Election Fraud Guru Claims He Arrested Pope As Ginni Thomas, a prominent conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made the case to overturn the election to a top adviser to former President Donald Trump in the days after the 2020 election, she cited several conspiracy theories popular with the president’s most deluded supporters In her messages, published Thursday by CBS News and the Washington Post, Thomas urged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to look into the claims of Steve Pieczenik, a little-known conspiracy theorist whose ideas are often too crazy for even Alex Jones. Thomas appeared to have wholly embraced Pieczenik’s off-the-wall claims in her texts, including the idea that Trump’s election defeat was really a ruse meant to entrap Democratic voter fraudsters. “If you believe what Steve Pieczenik has to say, you have completely lost all touch with reality,” said Jordan Holmes, a comedian who follows InfoWars and its guests, including Pieczenik, on his Knowledge Fight podcast. Pieczenik has a history of lying and often claims to have worked throughout the national security bureaucracy—including in classified positions, all of which makes it difficult to discern what’s true about his identity. He emerged in the media in the late 1980s as an expert on the psychology of hostage-taking. In the 1990s, Pieczenik launched a series of novels with national-security thriller author Tom Clancy. Whatever grip Pieczenik had on reality began to slip decades ago, when he began to appear on InfoWars. Pieczenik became known for claiming that a tragic event, often a mass shooting, was in fact a false flag event or even faked entirely. He’s argued that the 9/11 attacks, the Sandy Hook shooting, and Pearl Harbor were all false flags. Among other claims, Pieczenik insists he once arrested Pope Francis. https://www.thedailybeast.com

Apparently the Ukrainian Army picked off another Russian general today, but this is not confirmed.