LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

Live look at the New York Times bullpen:

TRUST THE EXPERTS:

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Naked bike ride organizer slapped with child sex crime charges in WA.

Zachary Elisha Robertson, 42, of Bellingham, was taken into custody on March 10 on two felony counts of possession of child pornography. Investigators located approximately 25 nude images of prepubescent and pubescent girls on his laptop upon the execution of a search warrant. He later allegedly confessed to downloading nude images of girls between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, according to court documents.

Robertson, a nudist and homesteader, was reported to authorities by his wife, who allegedly walked in on Robertson pleasuring himself to the images on his laptop on March 6. Police obtained a search warrant and arrested Robertson at his home days later. He was quickly released from jail on $2,500 bail, records show.

The defendant is the author and illustrator of the children’s book Norma Normal, which centers on a little girl who “lives naked” in the outdoors. Roberston alleged to investigators that the pornographic images of kids on his laptop served as references for his 2020 book; however, detectives rejected his claim, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Good lord.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

TRUMP HAS BROKEN THE MAN WHO HAS PLAYED THE GODFATHER, JAKE LA MOTTA, AND AL CAPONE:

Tweet continues, “DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote. What’s sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election. So much of their hatred of Trump is just an attempt to evade recognizing that democracy—their neighbors getting what they want when they vote in greater numbers—causes them searing psychic pain.”

THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN:

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.

— President ‘has four years to save Earth,’ the London Guardian, January 17, 2009.

For AOC in 2019, we had 12 years to go: AOC: No, Seriously, We Only Have 12 Years Left.

For Bernie, the following year, it was six or seven years:

Tweet continues, “Bernie doesn’t talk as much about climate change as he used to. Now he fundraises off of ‘Fight the Oligarchy.'”

To be fair, Bernie has been “fighting the oligarchy” during many presidential administrations:

But for those proclaiming the end of the world is nigh, maybe just stick with 57 years on the sandwich board to be safe:

 

UNBELIEVABLE: If you want to know why generation after generation of American college graduates leave campus full of historic myths, distortions and outright lies, Hans Bader reports on the new professor heading Howard University’s Institute for Advanced Studies.

WHAT ‘IT IS FINISHED’ MEANT: Chris Queen is managing editor over at PJ Media and something of a Greek scholar. His column today is an excellent explication of the meaning of “tetelestai,” as well as the prophecy behind the sour wine given Jesus just before He said “it is finished” and died. Chris also includes a great video by his pastor, Kurt Petersheim, on Good Friday 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH:

“EMPATHY:”

Additional exceptions apply:

COVID FIVE YEARS AGO: London Police break up Good Friday church service over apparent Covid rule breaches.

A Good Friday service in south London was broken up by police over apparent breaches of Covid-19 regulations.

Footage uploaded on YouTube showed Metropolitan police officers addressing worshippers at the Christ the King Polish Catholic church in Balham, south London, late on Friday afternoon.

The video shows an officer telling the congregation that they could be fined £200 or arrested for the potential rule-breaking. He said: “This gathering is unfortunately unlawful under the coronavirus regulations we have currently. I suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that though it is Good Friday, and I appreciate you would like to worship, that this gathering is unlawful, so please may you leave the building now. Thank you.”

A statement posted on the church’s website on Saturday said that they complied with the order to close the service and for people to go home, but insisted it had met all government requirements. It claimed the Met officers had misunderstood regulations on church services during the pandemic.

They said: “We believe, however, that the police brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason.”

Yes, that’s what British police do these days: