Pro-life prisoners across the United States are eagerly awaiting the inauguration of Donald Trump, the future president, who has promised to investigate whether President Joe Biden’s administration “unjustly” persecuted pro-life activists, and to “get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.” In the meantime, these activists are experiencing the grim realities of prison life. William Goodman is imprisoned in Danbury, Connecticut’s Federal Correctional Institution, where the Justice Department’s Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act charges landed him for engaging in a “conspiracy to blockade [a] reproductive health care clinic to prevent it from providing and patients from receiving, reproductive health services.” Goodman had participated in what he and his fellow pro-life activists describe as a “rescue,” wherein they attempted to stop women from aborting their unborn babies by blocking the entrance to a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic in 2020. As a response to the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade, the Justice Department sought out instances in which they could enforce the FACE Act — and Goodman was one of those who was targeted. He’s currently serving a 27-month sentence in FCI Danbury, with a projected release date of July 2025. Earlier this month, Goodman contacted The Daily Wire to share that he had spent the night in the emergency room. He had fallen out of the top bunk in his cell, which stands over 5 feet high without guard rails along the side, he shared — such a dramatic fall that one of his fellow inmates reportedly thought he had died. He said he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room, where he underwent CT scans and an MRI. “When I fell, I landed on the top of my head with all of my force,” he wrote. “The loud noise woke up other men near by. I cracked my head open and lost a lot of blood. I knocked myself unconscious. But woke up on/off a couple times.” (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images) “I was very dizzy and throwing up blood,” he said. “I had tingling sensations on my left side. I also needed stitches in my left temple in a couple places.” Doctors reportedly told him he had minor skull fractures but no serious spinal injury. He had hoped he would be kept overnight, believing he had a severe concussion, but was sent back to the prison that evening. “It has been chaotic and very uncomfortable here,” he wrote. “I suffer with severe dizziness and nausea, feeling sleepy but never able to sleep, I am having some flashbacks and my head is sore.” He expressed gratitude to his fellow prisoners, including some men imprisoned for actions related to the January 6 Capitol riot, for taking care of him, saying that they helped move some of his things and picked up food for him since he was too dizzy to walk around and go to the “chow hall.” But for days, Goodman has been in bed with severe concussion symptoms. He writes that he’s only been given Tylenol and anti-nausea medication, and worries that the prison should install guard rails on the bunks, “especially for geezers like me who have occasional vertigo.” “Right now I could be worse,” he said in a message last week. “I just feel dizzy and abandoned and sore and sick. But it could be worse…mostly I stay in bed and drink water and take meds and try to sleep. But I can’t sleep. It is like a cruel torture. My left side of my head is like a constant migraine that seems to bang all night. Plus the loud prison noise and bright lights add to the turmoil. And the uncomfortable beds and no pillow…” FCI Danbury declined to comment on Goodman’s condition to The Daily Wire. The prison has previously been referenced in the news when it housed Steven Bannon, who was released in late October ahead of the election, as well as several Jan. 6 prisoners. Bannon was imprisoned for contempt of Congress and for refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 House Committee, and his allies argue that the weaponized Biden Justice Department pursued his imprisonment out of political motivations. Goodman has previously expressed thankfulness that he is able to speak to his fellow prisoners about the importance of protecting the unborn. “Most cannot believe that we are in prison for defending innocent babies!” Goodman told The Daily Wire before the election, describing his fellow prisoners. “They think it’s crazy the federal government has come after us with such hostility…Many of the fellas have expressed their sadness over their wives or girlfriends killing their babies by abortion. Their stories are heartbreaking to hear.” Trump has promised to look into these cases of pro-life activists targeted by the Biden administration and to free those “unjustly victimized.” “Paulette is one of many peaceful pro-lifers who Joe Biden has rounded up, sometimes with SWAT teams, and thrown them in jail,” Trump said in June as he spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, referring to 75-year-old pro-life activist Paulette Harlow. “Many people are in jail over this. … We’re going to get that taken care of immediately — [on the] first day,” he added, promising to “rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who’s unjustly victimized by the Biden regime, including Paulette, so we can get them out of the gulags and back to their families where they belong.” There are currently 11 pro-life activists imprisoned by the Biden Justice Department: Lauren Handy is serving a 57-month sentence in Tallahassee FCI, Herb Geraghty is serving a 27-month sentence in FDC Philadelphia, Heather Idoni will serve 24 months, and maybe more, from the Sanilac County Sheriff’s jail, Jean Marshal is serving 24 months in FCI Danbury with Goodman, Joan Bell is serving 27 months in FDC Philadelphia, Jonathan Darnel is serving 34 months in FCI Thomson, John Hinshaw is serving 21 months in FMC Devens, Calvin Zastrow is serving six months in in FCI Thomson, and Bevelyn Williams is serving 41 months in FCI Aliceville. Steven LeFamine just finished serving 60 days in FCI Williamsburg, and Paulette Harlow, Coleman Boyd, Chester Gallagher, Paul Place, James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow, Dennis Green, and Paul Vaughn are all serving home detention sentences. Pro-life activists Eva Edl, Justin Phillips, and Joel Curry are awaiting sentencing. On November 21, The Daily Wire reported, that a federal judge paused the Justice Department’s case against seven of these pro-life activists related to their peaceful protest at an abortion clinic in Michigan: Edl, Gallagher, Idoni, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Cal Zastrow, and Eva Zastrow. The judge, an Obama appointee, paused the case until Trump takes office, saying: “As further discussed on the record, the Court will conduct another status conference during the week of March 24, 2025, to receive a report from the Government trial team as to whether there has been any change in the Government’s position with respect to the continuation of this case and/or with respect to the positions expected to be advanced by the Defendants in their post-trial motions.” Thomas More Society attorney Steve Crampton, who has represented many of the pro-lifers, previously told The Daily Wire that Leitman decided to stay the proceedings “in light of the election results and the likelihood that a new Department of Justice would alter its policies concerning prosecution of these FACE cases and in particular the use of the Conspiracy Against Rights statute against these defendants.”

No matter where you live, there are certain natural events to be aware of, like tornadoes and wildfires. Then there are places like Iceland. Here, it is quite common to experience volcano eruptions. While they are common, a recent eruption has captured the attention of folks around the world for a few reasons. First of all, this is the seventh time this once long-dormant volcano has erupted this year. Though, this is the weakest eruption of them all. Then there is the location of this volcano. Located on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, it is close enough to the Blue Lagoon (a beloved spa and popular tourist spot) that folks here were told to evacuate. Thankfully, however, there have been no reports of injuries or death. Instead, locals and tourists in Iceland have been left with an eerily beautiful lake of lava in the Blue Lagoon parking lot. Check it out in the video below. @bbcnews Before 2021, the Reykjanes Peninsula had not seen volcanic activity in 800 years. #ReykjanesPeninsula #BlueLagoon #Volcano #Lava #Eruption #Spa #Iceland #Icelandic #Seismic #Travel #News #BBCNews ♬ original sound – BBC News When you imagine a volcano eruption, you likely picture a large explosion. While this is one type of eruption, others are less explosive. Thankfully, this recent eruption was the calmer kind, something Thomas Algeo, an earth science professor at the University of Cincinnati says is “much less dangerous, because most of the activity involves slow moving basaltic lava flows.” Volcano Eruption Near the Popular Blue Lagoon Parking Lot Leaves Icelandic Tourists and Locals in Awe “It’s a style of volcanic activity that is effusive, slow flowing, not violently eruptive, like would be the case with a subduction zone volcanic system,” Thomas adds. While the parking lot and a service building at the Blue Lagoon have been taken over by the lava, the facilities themselves are fine. Plus, there is no danger to the area, and flights have not been affected. Now, folks will simply have to wait for the affected areas to be cleared and re-opened to the public. In the meantime, there’s quite a breathtaking view to witness online. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Breathtaking Video Shows Glowing Molten Lava Engulfing Parking Lot appeared first on InspireMore.

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New insights into the First Nations of British Columbia show how these resourceful people cultivated hazelnuts across hundreds of miles of their forest homes. The study comes as certain indigenous nations in Canada are attempting to assert land claims by arguing their ancestral use. Tribes such as the Gitxsan, Ts’msyen, and Nisga’a, have oral histories […] The post British Columbia’s Hazelnut Forests Were Actually First Nations’ Forest Farms 7,000 Years Ago appeared first on Good News Network.

News Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Keanu Reeves’ Shadow Wants to Ends It All in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Trailer Shadow is ready for his showdown… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on November 25, 2024 Credit: Paramount Pictures/Sega of America Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Paramount Pictures/Sega of America Things are getting epic in the third feature installment centered on Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog. In it, we not only have two mad scientist villains (Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnik and Jim Carrey again as… Dr. Robotnik’s grandad?) but a Keanu Reeves-voiced, gun-wielding hedgehog named Shadow. Here’s the synopsis: Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet. I admit I’m not a big Sonic the Hedgehog movie fan, though I did play hundreds of hours of the games when I was younger. This trailer, however, looks fun? Even, dare I say, enjoyable? Reeves’ delivery of Shadow’s lines are gold, and Ben Schwartz continues to give Sonic that snarky attitude that one would expect from a super fast blue hedgehog. In addition to Carrey and Schwartz, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 stars James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Idris Elba, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Natasha Rothwell, Shemar Moore, Adam Pally, Lee Majdoub, Alyla Browne, and Krysten Ritter. The film is directed by Jeff Fowler. The film premieres in theaters on December 20, 2024. For mega fans of the franchise, however, Sega and Paramount Pictures are also hosting an “Opening Day Fan Event” on December 19; certain theaters will screen the film in various premium theater formats, where fans can also see some behind-the-scenes footage before the movie and receive some exclusive gifts, like a keychain and a poster. Check out the trailer below while you ponder where you’ll showcase your Sonic keychain.[end-mark] The post Keanu Reeves’ Shadow Wants to Ends It All in <i>Sonic the Hedgehog 3</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

Column Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “GROPOS” And then 25,000 ground-pounders arrived on Babylon-5… By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on November 25, 2024 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “GROPOS”Written by Larry DiTillioDirected by Jim JohnstonSeason 2, Episode 10Production episode 210Original air date: February 8, 1995 It was the dawn of the third age… A quiet night in CnC is interrupted, to Ivanova’s chagrin, by the unexpected arrival of the EAS Schwarzkopf, along with several support vessels, under the command of General Richard Franklin, the father of Dr. Franklin. Sheridan rushes to apologetically and belatedly greet him, not having had any word of his arrival. However, that’s on purpose: His mission is classified, for the moment. Even the ground-pounders (or GROPOS) under his command don’t know the real mission. Right now, General Franklin needs accommodations for all 25,000 of his troops. Ivanova and Garibaldi struggle to fulfill that request: For starters, they put some folks in existing quarters, which we see when Keffer finds two strangers making themselves at home in his cabin. General Franklin reads Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi—and only the three of them—in on his real mission. They’re off to Akdor to assist the local government in putting down a rebellion. EarthGov hasn’t officially announced that they’re assisting the government yet. They will do so right before the Schwarzkopf arrives. Part of why they’re stopping at B5 is because Sheridan has been to Akdor before; the general wants to go over the battle plan with the captain. The other reason why is that they’re providing upgrades to B5’s defenses. Franklin père et fils are reunited, and it’s a bit on the tense side. There’s obviously a lot of resentment and spectacular lack of communication there. To prove it, when Ivanova brings some Marines to bunk down in medlab, Franklin throws a nutty. He and Ivanova talk about it both there and later off-duty in the Eclipse Café, where Franklin laments that his father always makes him incredibly angry. Ivanova—who has some experience with paternal difficulties—urges him to try to find a common ground with his old man, as you never know when the chances to do so will run out. After Delenn expresses concern about the flipping great wodges of Marines stumbling about the station, a trio of them start to harass her. Led by PFC Kleist, they’re not thrilled with a Minbari trying to look human. Another PFC, Dodger, interpolates herself between Kleist and Delenn, and while the ambassador is able to depart thanks to Dodger’s interference, a brawl soon breaks out. Garibaldi is able to stop it, and convinces Sergeant Plug to drop the matter without charges. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Dodger thanks Garibaldi, and is stunned to realize that Kleist was picking on an ambassador. Garibaldi is called away, and Dodger admires his ass as he leaves. General Franklin shares the battle plan—Operation: Sudden Death—with Sheridan, who advises the general that this is a terrible idea. The government is lying about the fortifications the rebels have, and the casualties will be way worse than they have been led to believe. However, EarthGov is insistent on establishing a presence in Akdor’s system. It’s proximate to both Narn and Centauri territory, and with a war heating up between those two, Earth needs to be ready for when their conflict spills out into the rest of the galaxy. Unfortunately, the price for having that presence is to put down the rebellion. Dodger tracks down Garibaldi when he goes off duty and hits all over him. Encouraged by Welch, Garibaldi shows her around the station, eventually winding up at his quarters. However, Garibaldi puts the brakes on, as he tends to rush things, and that messes the relationships up. Dodger angrily points out that she’s a ground-pounder—she doesn’t have time for a relationship, she just wanted a roll in the proverbial hay. She leaves in a huff, with Garibaldi belatedly realizing that he’s seriously fucked things up. The general goes to his son to apologize, and the pair of them kiss and make up, with General Franklin, not for the first time, urging him to actually contact his mother and sister every once in a while. Garibaldi tracks down Dodger in the Zocalo to apologize, and she does likewise. Elsewhere in the bar, Keffer exchanges war stories with the two PFCs he’s now rooming with: Large and Yang. The former is a veteran, the latter a rookie. Keffer accidentally bumps Kleist, and soon a brawl breaks out. Garibaldi and his people try to break it up (and at one point, he and Dodger almost punch each other before they realize who the other is), but it doesn’t really end until General Franklin, Sheridan, and Plug show up and say they’re moving out. As the GROPOS board the Schwarzkopf, Garibaldi and Dodger share a kiss before she embarks, while the Franklins get a goodbye. Later, folks are watching ISN’s report on the mission. Franklin is relieved to see his father interviewed by the reporter on Akdor, meaning he survived. Welch gives Garibaldi the casualty report, and Kleist, Large, Yang, and Dodger are all on it—we then cut to their broken corpses on the ground at Akdor. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Get the hell out of our galaxy! Sheridan proves a little too good at providing accurate intelligence to General Franklin, certainly more accurate than Akdor’s government manages, as Sheridan predicts that it’ll be impossible to put down the rebels without massive casualties, words that prove sadly prophetic. Ivanova is God. Ivanova starts the episode talking about how much she enjoys the quiet, which is always a recipe for things to stop being quiet any second. You’d think she’d know better. She also urges Franklin to be good to his father, so he doesn’t get the same regrets we saw her express in “TKO” at her father’s shiva. The household god of frustration. Garibaldi manages to fail at keeping order on the station with 25,000 Marines on board (not that anybody really could do that), and also fails at having a one-night stand. His father served with General Franklin during the Dilgar War. The general was apparently impressed with Alfredo Garibaldi—not so much with his kid. If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Delenn’s transformation proves not to sit well with veterans of the Earth-Minbari War. No sex, please, we’re EarthForce. Dodger has designs on Garibaldi from the moment she sees him and his ass. Garibaldi’s baggage—his disastrous relationship with Lise Yates, his obvious lack of any kind of chance to Winters—sadly gets in the way of his and Dodger’s nookie. Credit: Warner Bros. Television Welcome aboard. Marie Marshall makes the first of two appearances as Dodger; she’ll be back in season five’s “Day of the Dead.” The various other PFCs are played by Morgan Hunter, Ken Foree, and Art Chudabala, while Ryan Cutrona plays Plug. We’ve also got a bunch of recurring regulars: Joshua Cox back from “A Spider in the Web” as Corwin, who’ll be back next time in “All Alone in the Night”; Maggie Egan back from “Chrysalis” as the ISN anchor, who’ll return in “Confessions and Lamentations”; and David L. Crowley back from “Soul Mates” in his final appearance as Welch. However, the big guest is the late great Paul Winfield as General Franklin, adding B5 to a genre resumé that also included Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Terminator, Mars Attacks!, Batman Beyond, Gargoyles, and the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok,” not to mention one of your humble rewatcher’s personal favorites, Presumed Innocent. Trivial matters. The Schwarzkopf was named after General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., who led U.S. forces during the Gulf War of the early 1990s. It’s possible that the ship was also named after Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., who, among other things, was in charge of the investigation into the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s son in 1932. Keffer tells Large and Yang about the time he faced down a Minbari squadron in “Points of Departure.” Ivanova mentions Connoly, the head of the dockworkers, seen in “By Any Means Necessary.” Garibaldi references his relationship with Lise Yates, seen in the “A Voice in the Wilderness” two-parter and “Babylon Squared,” as well as his periodic attempts to flirt with Winters, seen most recently in “A Spider in the Web.” While neither G’Kar nor Mollari appear in the episode, Delenn does mention that the two won’t even speak to each other, both anxious for the war the Narn declared in “The Coming of Shadows” to start in earnest. The echoes of all of our conversations. “I’m a doctor, my duty is to heal.” “Then heal humans! Stephen, I know you’re fascinated by these alien creatures, but they’re a threat to humanity—and they always will be. Help your own kind.” “Life is life, whether it’s wrapped in skin, scales, or feathers. Now, if you respected these beings instead of constantly trying to murder them, you’d appreciate that.” The Franklin family argument, also the classic soldier-vs.-scientist argument. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “Leave it to the infantry to ruin a guy’s morning.” Last week, we got one of B5’s best episodes. This week we get, um, not that. “GROPOS” is a dreary collection of tiresome clichés masquerading as a script. It’s hard to say what’s more excruciating to watch, the stereotypical Marines doing stereotypical Marine things or the stereotypical father-son arguing-and-reconciliation scenes. The only saving graces of this utter nonsense are the performances of Marie Marshall and Paul Winfield. Marshall gives Dodger a gleeful charm that is very compelling, and Winfield was never even really capable of giving a bad performance. Even so, neither is a particularly well-written character, and both suffer for that. Still, you can see why Garibaldi was interested in Dodger—and vice versa, truly—and you really just want to smack Garibaldi for screwing it up. As for General Franklin, it was an interesting touch to have a Black character give the “why don’t you help your own kind” speech to his son, since that’s the sort of thing a White character might have said to his son the doctor who treated Black people. (Something we would see in real life a decade after this episode aired, when General Colin Powell, who was Black, used the exact same language to justify keeping LGBT people out of the military that was used prior to 1948 to justify keeping Black military personnel segregated.) Unfortunately, the script doesn’t really do anything with that after the first conversation between dad and kid, which is a blown opportunity to give the episode some life. Or at least something beyond the war-movie clichés. The episode’s plot also strains credulity, as there’s just no way B5 would be able to accommodate 25,000 new arrivals without warning. It might have worked if General Franklin requested shore leave for his people, but to give them all bunks? That’s madness, and logistically completely unfeasible for the station to be able to provide. Next week: “All Alone in the Night.”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “GROPOS” appeared first on Reactor.

Production of clean, safe, and reliable nuclear energy is a vital part of America’s energy future. Once a reactor is built, it becomes a lasting part of America’s energy infrastructure. An insightful new book by Jack Spencer, “Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation” (Optimum Publishing International) describes what America has to do to ramp up its nuclear power—and why that’s important. (Full disclosure: Spencer, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is our colleague.) It is no secret that America’s electricity grid recently has been rocky. The push toward a clean energy transition using intermittent energy sources, such as wind and solar, has put a strain on the U.S. grid and on the economy. Intermittent renewables are costly and do not provide the 24/7 power that a modern industrial economy requires. Yet, they are constantly being hailed as the new age of American energy production. American industry has worked hard to minimize the nation’s dependence on unreliable foreign sources of energy, which has left our nation vulnerable in the past. However, current policies that purport to lead to net zero carbon emissions are leading America back to the vulnerabilities of the 1970s. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, over three-fourths of U.S. imports of rare earth elements come from China. The so-called green energy transition, with its requirements for wind, solar, and electric vehicles, relies on those same elements. But there is an alternative: nuclear energy. Although America now lacks the industrial base to support a large expansion of nuclear energy, our nation has supplied the world with nuclear technology in the past and could do so again. U.S. energy systems need to produce more baseload energy, and nuclear power could be a major component of this effort.   Congress has previously tried to reform the regulatory process for nuclear power, and appropriated funds to move the industry forward. But those efforts have failed.  The reason for failure, according to Spencer, is not the underlying technology or even economics, but rather the larger policy and regulatory environment in which nuclear energy exists. Spencer proposes that if America wants nuclear power to succeed, the nation must take a different approach. Efforts to subsidize nuclear into success will fail. Instead, what America needs are reforms that allow free enterprise to drive the technology forward. Not only should nuclear energy be largely free of government intervention, but so should all other energy sources.     A free energy market would spur innovation and ensure that energy is produced in the safest, most efficient way possible. That doesn’t mean that the government has no role in regulating nuclear (or other energy sources), but rather that current regulatory approaches are obsolete. The federal government should have three primary roles related to commercial nuclear power.  First, working with the states, it should protect public health and safety by setting and enforcing regulations that are informed by the latest scientific and technical knowledge and informed by the nuclear industry’s impressive safety record.   Second, the government should nurture commercial relationships between U.S. industry and overseas friends and allies who are also commercial nuclear leaders. These relationships will be critical to competing with Russia and China in the future. On a related note, the federal government should work to reduce the regulatory burden on private industry to export peaceful nuclear technologies where doing so is already legal and to open additional markets for that purpose.   Third, the government should ensure long-term political certainty around uranium fuel markets by remaining committed to the Russian uranium import ban and minimizing or eliminating subsidies to reestablish a domestic uranium fuel industrial base. At the same time, the federal government needs to remove its regulatory bias against mining to allow for more expeditious expansion of uranium mining.   With that regulatory framework, Spencer believes that “private enterprise … has the interests, expertise, and background to develop a cost-effective industry that is economically independent of government and competitive in domestic and international markets.” Nuclear energy has more than 50 years of safe operations, and U.S. industry knows how to build and operate nuclear power plants. More can and should be done in nuclear power, but private companies are the right path to deliver these advances, rather than the U.S. government. Politicians need to step aside and recognize that America’s competitive advantage is not rooted in the talents of our politicians and bureaucrats, but rather in the business acumen of our innovators. The debate over whether America needs nuclear energy has largely been decided. The answer is yes. The question now becomes how? According to “Nuclear Revolution,” that will never be answered in the halls of Congress or the Department of Energy.  It will only be answered by the technologists, industrialists, and capitalists that have made the American economy the most powerful the world has ever seen. They need the freedom to go nuclear.   The post Why Going Nuclear Is Vital to America appeared first on The Daily Signal.