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RandySF

(81,111 posts)
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:06 PM May 2025

Explosion rocks Palm Springs reproductive health facility

Firefighters responded to a report of an explosion at a reproductive health facility in Palm Springs late Saturday morning.

Preliminary information from local media outlets indicated that the explosion occurred at American Reproductive Centers, which is located at 1199 North Indian Canyon Drive, around 11 a.m. NBC Palm Springs reported that the incident was a car explosion, although the exact nature was not immediately known.

Palm Springs city officials later put out a community advisory that confirmed the explosion occurred just before 11 a.m. near North Indian Canyon Drive and East Tachevah Drive.

“Palm Springs Police and Fire are currently on scene and request that residents stay away from the area so that emergency crews can work the incident. More details will follow,” the community alert said.



https://ktla.com/news/local-news/explosion-rocks-building-in-palm-springs/

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Explosion rocks Palm Springs reproductive health facility (Original Post) RandySF May 2025 OP
Car bomb? MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #1
AgendaFree is now covering it live (youtube link) eShirl May 2025 #2
Judging by what I'm seeing in the video, MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #3
It was a car bomb. WhiskeyGrinder May 2025 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Rebl2 May 2025 #5
Disgruntled customer? Mosby May 2025 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Renew Deal May 2025 #14
Like someone who spent a fortune with fertility treatments Mosby May 2025 #15
A lot of possibilities Renew Deal May 2025 #17
Mental illness or typical tourist behavior? IronLionZion May 2025 #7
So a crazy pro lifer? RJ-MacReady May 2025 #8
The place specialized in IVF and surrogacy. Igel May 2025 #10
pro life extremists RJ-MacReady May 2025 #11
More like the exact opposite LoveSucky May 2025 #29
I don't think so RJ-MacReady May 2025 #30
The bomber was a anti Natalist/pro mortalist LoveSucky May 2025 #32
Update. It's a bomb. bronxiteforever May 2025 #9
Looks like pro job: shaped charge into clinic, vehicle blown back to garbage bins at back, not much sideways force. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #22
MAGA did this, period the end NNguyenMD May 2025 #12
Link? Renew Deal May 2025 #16
You want to be a party that can control a narrative, then NNguyenMD May 2025 #18
That's not controlling the narative Renew Deal May 2025 #19
Controlling narrative without facts is most likely to blow up in your face Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #23
It's not news it's a reaction and opinion, just like any of... NNguyenMD May 2025 #24
You did NOT state it as an opinion. You stated it with finality. Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #25
Premature conclusions are most likely to be flat out wrong. You have nothing. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #20
Why? One wonders/ Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 #13
Most likely 1) Angry customer, 2) Jilted partner, 3) maga thought "abortion clinic", 4) anti-IVF christian absolutist Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #21
Or a religious or political group that oppose in vitro fertilization. We'll learn more Emile May 2025 #31
Maybe an EV battery blew up k_buddy762 May 2025 #26
No way. EV batteries burn, they don't explode other than a burst of flame out at the start Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #27
That was sarcasm k_buddy762 May 2025 #33
Okay, thanks. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #34
Last report I saw Mountainguy May 2025 #28

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,687 posts)
1. Car bomb?
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:11 PM
May 2025

Palm Springs, if I remember correctly, is a hot bed of R/Wer's.
I'll wait for the official report, but vehicles, generally, don't just explode, except maybe a cybertruck.

eShirl

(20,079 posts)
2. AgendaFree is now covering it live (youtube link)
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:16 PM
May 2025

(also streams on other platforms like facebook and twitch)

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,687 posts)
3. Judging by what I'm seeing in the video,
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:31 PM
May 2025

that's not from a vehicle exploding, unless the vehicle was inside the building, that looks like the explosion generated from inside the building, which could mean anything from a gas leak to a bomb planted.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,279 posts)
4. It was a car bomb.
Sat May 17, 2025, 03:35 PM
May 2025
https://thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-after-bomb-explodes-outside-reproductive-center-in-downtown-palm-springs/

One person is confirmed dead after an explosion rocked the American Reproductive Services building on North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive just before 11 a.m. this morning.

Lt. William Hutchinson with the Palm Springs Police Department confirms it was a bomb in or near a vehicle parked at the building.

Response to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #4)

Response to Mosby (Reply #6)

Mosby

(19,237 posts)
15. Like someone who spent a fortune with fertility treatments
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:42 PM
May 2025

And IVF, spent all their savings, went into debt maybe and got nothing, so they decided to act out.

You are aware how much this shit costs right? And insurance doesn't cover it.

Renew Deal

(84,702 posts)
17. A lot of possibilities
Sat May 17, 2025, 07:49 PM
May 2025

This will be damaging to a lot of people whose only hope of having a direct descendent was blown up.

Igel

(37,359 posts)
10. The place specialized in IVF and surrogacy.
Sat May 17, 2025, 05:29 PM
May 2025

Not abortions.

If pro-lifer, then of the "every embryo is sacred" sort, but one that's willing to risk killing 10s of thousands of embryos to prove how pro-life they are.

Note that the cryogenics portion of the facility was not affected. (Although I have trouble believing that doesn't extend to killing all electricity to the facility and assume it means the integrity of the units and viability of the embryos.)

Perhaps a pro-lifer.

Perhaps somebody who confused it with an abortion clinic.

Perhaps somebody who didn't want what was 1/2 their embryo used. Or the 1/2 embryo of their son or daughter.

Maybe somebody who was incensed that a uterifer close to him/her was a surrogate for another couple's kid.

Or perhaps somebody who felt wronged by the clinic--after 4 attempts, "oops, sorry, we slipped and now you can't ever have kids." Or maybe just somebody who never conceived (or whose uterifer didn't conceive) and blamed the clinic.

Or maybe a guy who looked at his teenaged son and at the picture of the guy in charge of the clinic and thought, "Shit, I couldn't have kids, according to the first three doctors. Then, bam, my wife conceives. Twins. Even though neither of our families has a history of twins. And, you know, the twins look exactly like the clinic doctor--and look at this picture of him and his twin!"

This is all highly emotional territory. "It's my body" v "you're committing murder!" Or "that's my kid!" vs "no, you just donated your egg."

At this point we know a car went boom so that it was hard to recognize as a car. Human remains were reported. No need to be the first at the red light.

 

RJ-MacReady

(603 posts)
11. pro life extremists
Sat May 17, 2025, 06:01 PM
May 2025

Also hate IVF they think it's just as evil as abortion. It was likely a pro lifer.

LoveSucky

(49 posts)
32. The bomber was a anti Natalist/pro mortalist
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:38 AM
May 2025

Who was angry at his parents for bringing him into this world without his consent. He was actively promoting people to mass kill others. Kind of a weirdo.

bronxiteforever

(11,087 posts)
9. Update. It's a bomb.
Sat May 17, 2025, 05:21 PM
May 2025

Palm Springs Mayor Ron deHarte told the Los Angeles Times he could "confirm it was a bomb in or near a vehicle parked at the building."

The FBI and ATF have responded to the scene. Governor Gavin Newsom has been briefed.

The explosion was first reported at around 11 a.m. on Saturday at American Reproductive Centers on N Indian Canyon, near E Tachevah Drive, according to city officials.


https://kesq.com/news/2025/05/17/live-coverage-one-person-dead-after-suspected-bomb-explodes-in-palm-springs/

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
22. Looks like pro job: shaped charge into clinic, vehicle blown back to garbage bins at back, not much sideways force. nt
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:36 PM
May 2025

NNguyenMD

(1,322 posts)
18. You want to be a party that can control a narrative, then
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:41 PM
May 2025

You don’t need a link

Say it a hundred times over to your friends family and coworkers. And the. Use an app to make a millions bots to repeat it to theirs

Renew Deal

(84,702 posts)
19. That's not controlling the narative
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:24 PM
May 2025

It's spreading disinformation that harms both DU and the Democratic party. People can see through it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
23. Controlling narrative without facts is most likely to blow up in your face
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:39 PM
May 2025

You really do know better, so why are you doing this? In this day and age, you are generating fake news.

If you don't like fake news, don't produce it.

NNguyenMD

(1,322 posts)
24. It's not news it's a reaction and opinion, just like any of...
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:46 PM
May 2025

These other jokers on social media

We should be in an arms race for attention. I didn’t create the current system but this is the new world of getting people to pay attention, to react and sway them for you or against them.

The truth is great, everyone wants the truth. But you need to be the loudest angriest most provocative mother fucker to get people’s attention

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
25. You did NOT state it as an opinion. You stated it with finality.
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:50 PM
May 2025

You made fake news. Democrats and progressives are NOT in an arms race to the bottom.

Pushing out a false narrative ahead of any facts is not the way to go. Being an angry mother fucker is just being a mother fucker. Don't be a mother fucker.

Act with facts and deliberation and forethought. Don't be a reactive mother fucker. That's what the other side does and they look like shit every time they do it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
21. Most likely 1) Angry customer, 2) Jilted partner, 3) maga thought "abortion clinic", 4) anti-IVF christian absolutist
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:34 PM
May 2025

... in that order.

Emile

(40,592 posts)
31. Or a religious or political group that oppose in vitro fertilization. We'll learn more
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:24 AM
May 2025

when they investigate it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
27. No way. EV batteries burn, they don't explode other than a burst of flame out at the start
Sat May 17, 2025, 10:55 PM
May 2025

That was a very violent explosion, moved the vehicle about 40 feet. Likely was a shaped charge, meaning somebody knew what they were doing. The force of the explosion ripped through the building, but there wasn't much on the sides. Vehicle went 180 degrees back from the force that went into the building.

No, not an EV battery. Not even close.

 

Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)
28. Last report I saw
Sat May 17, 2025, 11:36 PM
May 2025

said 1 dead. FBI has a person of interest and is not actively searching for a suspect.

Sounds like they think the bomber died in the car.

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