Explosion at fertility clinic in Palm Springs, at least one dead

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Emergency personnel are responding to an explosion near the American Reproductive Centers building in Palm Springs, California.
The incident has rattled homes and startled residents, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported. Some residents are reporting smoke and an odor, according to the outlet.
Palm Springs Police Department told the Desert Sun said the explosion at about 11 a.m. local time in downtown Palm Springs, which was felt as far as 2 miles away, appears to be a car explosion by the American Reproductive Centers clinic. Lt. William Hutchinson said that there appears to be at least one fatality.
"Everything is in question, whether this is an act of terrorism," he said on the scene.
Palm Springs Police and Fire crews are currently on the scene. The city of Palm Springs advised residents to stay away from the area so that emergency crews can work the incident.
According to it's website, American Reproductive Centers started in 2006 and is "Coachella Valley’s first and only full-service fertility center & IVF lab."

This is a developing story

videos from the scene (working on archiving):

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since they think abortion is SOOOoooooo wrong, then whoever damaged the materials in the clinic should be charged with multi child manslaughter, right? right guys?

you know how they want women to feel like murderers when they get an abortion, so this obviously qualifies as massive child manslaughter if that's the case. right right?
-sarcasm-

this car bomber is now the largest child serial killer in america! dun dunnnnnn!!!!
does that mean when embryos and sperm go bad that the doctors are murderers too?
or do they just get to cum in the trash can without thinking twice like how they treat woman?

edit: clearly some of you don't get the joke
Going back to this comment ironically it was the exact opposite of what anyone would expect.

Its a prolifer! It's a scorned lover!

No it's a god damn suicidal vegan soyboy. Fucking kek.
 
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Yup, add in some narcissism and a haterd for everything and you get ethical veganism.
Isn't it weird how people who are morally capable of hunting or raising livestock for people to eventually eat don't tend to be violently antisocial cuntbags?

There is a respect for life involved that vegans and peta are incapable of.
 
This guy could well be a case of a volcel incel. He willingly abstained himself from sex due to his principles, but I doubt there were many women lined up to sleep with him either. There is no way some of his beliefs didn't come from the realisation that he's never going to be able to find someone to procreate.
I guess this is more of a philosophical question, but can an animal even be a “volcel”?

On a really base level at least we are built to fuck.
 
As much as some people want to think that this world is going to become some light shade of brown and everyone will get along that is simply untrue. People have been and always will be very tribal in nature. Mixed people generally get shit on by both sides and thus have the potential to turn out quite poorly unless they have good parenting and a strong sense of self. A lot of mixed kids have shit parents or only one parent so they are starting life off in a hole that can prove impossible to climb out of unless they simply go "fuck it" and stop caring about what other people say. Which is actually quite hard to do. We are social animals and it's in our DNA to care about our surroundings.

no, the reason everyone won't become beige is sexual selection
 
On a really base level at least we are built to fuck
It's been a wild journey from early bacteria somehow figuring out that they could exchange genetic material to our modern horrorscape of retards using technology to derange the reproductive instinct.
 
or it's got some sort of major defects -- downs syndrome being the most common one.

Even in normal pregnancies it is now routine to undergo prenatal screening for things like Down's syndrome (NIPT and CVS/Amniocentisis depending on risk level) and like it or not people usually abort pregnancies that come back with bad results. With IVF, because of how easily you can screen an embryo before you use it, the post-testing risk for genetic disorders like Down's would probably now be lower than in naturally conceived children since embryos that test badly would not be used. People who need IVF mostly got to that point after undergoing testing themselves, including genetic screening, due to multiple failed attempts or even miscarriages.
 


A people-hater did something hateful.

The FBI is linking a suicide bombing against an IVF clinic to the anti-natalist ideology of the perpetrator, according to news reports.

The attack, which only killed the bomber but could have been much worse, is an act worthy of perhaps the dumbest and most poisonous ideology on the planet right now.

Anti-natalism is not based, like other cracked worldviews, merely on misbegotten economic theories or illiberal political ideas; it goes much deeper than that. It opposes human life, as such.

Communism and other forms of totalitarianism are often said to be antihuman. Anti-natalism takes it a step further and is purely antihuman. There are no other mitigating ideals like, say, equality or unity.

Anti-natalism doesn’t make invidious distinctions among the people it opposes — say, the kulaks or the Jews — but finds everyone equally unworthy.

A Today piece on the ideology explained, “Antinatalism is a spectrum. Some believe that there should be no sentient life, including animals or even technology with the potential for sentience, like artificial intelligence. Others think it’s just humans that should go extinct.”

For them, the sweet meteor of death is not just an internet meme, it is something to be devoutly wished for.

In its report on the clinic attack, Vanity Fair inevitably included a jibe at the GOP. “The fertility clinic bombing,” it noted, “comes as access to IVF has come under threat from some Republicans across the country — and the attack could deepen concerns for people attempting to start their families through in vitro services.”

I’ve spent a lot of time around Republicans in my time, and I’ve never met an anti-natalist Republican, let alone a pro-life anti-natalist, which makes about as much sense as a capitalist socialist.

A pro-life terrorist has always been a grotesque contradiction in terms, but a pro-death terrorist much less so (and the IVF attacker, Guy Edward Bartkus, reportedly described himself as “pro-mortalist”).

Pro-lifers are morally opposed to some IVF practices because they destroy human life; the bomber targeted the IVF clinic because it facilitates the creation of human life.

At the end of the day, we should be glad that the vast majority of anti-natalists aren’t consistent in their beliefs, or the clinic bombing wouldn’t be such an outlier.

If human life is a blight, it follows that it should be destroyed, although anti-natalists tend to retreat to the position that it is the creation of life in the first place that is the problem. If everyone stopped having kids, we would go extinct without the bother of mass murder or suicide.

They object to bringing new people into the world without their consent. Since the exercise of free choice is a function of being alive, though, this is a nonsensical point. Once someone is with us, then he or she can make all sorts of choices, including to perversely consider humanity itself a mistake.

Anti-natalists fret that this vale of tears is a vale of tears. Yet almost everyone prefers being alive and fears death.

“I’d rather be dead” is the sentiment of someone who is clinically depressed or is being subjected to horrendous mistreatment. The answer is not to say that this person is correct, and not just for himself but all of humanity; rather, if he’s depressed, it is to get him help, and if he’s being mistreated, to stop the mistreatment.

Even the soft version of anti-natalism — that overpopulation is dangerously overtaxing the planet — is false.

Surely, very few anti-natalists support antifertility terrorism of the sort allegedly carried out by Bartkus, who reportedly struggled with depression. By their way of thinking, though, they must believe that it was an entirely avoidable crime.

If we didn’t exist, it never would have happened.
 
Relax, they left the whiskey alone.
In all seriousness though, why was this guy that retarded? A carbomb? Really? To take out a building and you don't even drive into it or go into a garage underground? Was this just on a whim or was this planned for a long time?
 
In all seriousness though, why was this guy that retarded? A carbomb? Really? To take out a building and you don't even drive into it or go into a garage underground? Was this just on a whim or was this planned for a long time?
I doubt he researched the blast intensity of his carbomb and just assumed he could get a McVeigh level blast.
 
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-19/what-we-know-about-guy-edward-bartkus (archive)

Fringe theories, a friend’s death and massive explosives: Portrait emerges of Palm Springs bombing suspect​

By Richard Winton, Jenny Jarvie, Paige St. John, Libor Jany and Melody Gutierrez
May 19, 2025 Updated 4:38 PM PT

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Authorities are investigating what appear to be radical views the Palm Springs bombing suspect expressed online in the months before Saturday’s attack at a fertility clinic.

The FBI confirmed it was reviewing a manifesto and other content to determine whether they were the work of Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old “with nihilistic ideations” who they believe was killed in the blast. One reason for the interest in the manifesto is that its author explicitly threatened an attack on a fertility clinic.
Bartkus is suspected of detonating a massive bomb outside the American Reproductive Centers, causing extensive damage.

What do we know about Bartkus?​

Bartkus lived in Twentynine Palms, which is home to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, touted as the world’s largest Marine Corps training base.

Bartkus was not a Marine, said Yvonne Carlock, a Marine spokesperson for manpower and reserve affairs. The Times could not yet verify whether Bartkus had any other affiliation with the base that might allow him to access explosives.

As authorities cleared out his neighborhood this weekend for an extensive search, neighbors interviewed by The Times said they did not know him.

Victoria and Austin Shupe, artists who moved from Century City to Twentynine Palms a year ago, said that when the suspect’s name was made public, there was an oddity: They had never seen him, nor had anyone else they’ve talked to.

“Twentynine Palms is a really small town,” said Austin Shupe, who owns a music studio in the area called Yucca Man Records. “It’s the kind of town where you go the grocery store and you see everyone.”

What about the explosives used?​

The FBI described the Palm Springs blast — powerful enough to damage buildings several blocks away — as “probably the largest bombing scene that we’ve had in Southern California,” eclipsing the 2018 bombing of a day spa in Aliso Viejo.
Authorities are still trying to determine what types of explosives were used and how they were acquired.
The blast left a car behind the clinic mangled and killed a person tentatively identified as Bartkus. Officials are unsure whether he intended to kill himself.

Law enforcement sources told The Times that the bomber used a very large amount of explosives — so much that the bomb shredded his remains.

“We believe he was the subject found by the vehicle,” said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, referencing a 2010 silver Ford Fusion sedan near the explosion site. Davis said investigators believed the suspect was attempting to livestream the attack.
Law enforcement sources say authorities recovered explosive materials from his home and that he was skillled with building explosive devices and was a long time rocket builder.
The clinic posted a photo of the blast’s aftermath that showed the building’s roof caved in, debris flowing into the streets and smoke billowing from inside.
Tim Prendergast, co-owner at the gallery Christopher Anthony Ltd., was about two blocks away from the explosion site at his business. He first felt the shock wave hit the building and thought it was the start of an earthquake.
“But of course, once I felt, heard the explosion, then I knew it wasn’t an earthquake,” he said.
Prendergast ran down the street to the explosion site, following a black cloud of smoke, and arrived there in a few minutes. He saw a vehicle on fire and the medical building engulfed in flames. There were multiple people walking around the area in a daze. Some were bloodied but able to stand.
Then he came across body parts in the street.

What do we know about Bartkus’ beliefs and possible motive?​

A website that contained no name, but appeared connected to the bombing, laid out the case for “a war against pro-lifers” and said a fertilization clinic would be targeted.
“Here you can download the recorded stream of my suicide & bombing of an IVF clinic,” the site began, but no such file existed. The author cites numerous fringe philosophies including
  • Abolitionist veganism: The opposition to all animal use by humans.
  • Negative utilitarianism: The idea that we should act to minimize suffering rather than maximize pleasure in the world.
  • Pro-mortalism: The fringe philosophical position that it is best for sentient beings to die as soon as possible to prevent future suffering.
Davis declined to confirm whether the manifesto was written by the suspect, saying that his team was “tracking a possible manifesto out there, and it’s part of our ongoing investigation.”
In the manifesto, the author denounced those who bring human life into the world and declared an end goal of “sterilizing this planet of the disease of life.”
Accompanying the website was a 30-minute audio file, labeled “pre,” that began with the speaker saying he would explain “why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building or clinic.”
“Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here,” the speaker said.
On the website with the manifesto and hidden in the site’s underlying code, the author referenced the recent death of a person the writer claimed as a close friend, “Sophie.” The references match the April 20 death of a Washington state woman allegedly shot by her partner at — he says — her request.
A law enforcement bulletin reviewed by The Times said the Palm Springs bombing suspect appeared to become more depressed after the recent death of a female friend.
His father. Richard Bartkus, 75, told the New York Times that his son built toy rockets as a child and once burned his family’s house down in Yucca Valley while playing with matches. He also sometime built stink bombs, he added.

What do experts say?​

Brian Levin, the founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino, said that the author of the manifesto appeared to be part of a growing movement of alienated lone actors radicalized on obscure internet sites and misinformation.

“The antinatalism movement he links to specifically condemns violence,” Levin said. “Still, his purported rambling, idiosyncratic ‘political’ statements paint a far different picture — that of a hopeless unstable young man whose suicidal despair stirs him into a self-consuming brutal death justified by a personally distorted embrace of an obscure anti-life ideology.”

What’s next for the case?​

The FBI joint terrorism task force is working with local and federal authorities to chase leads in an effort to determine the sources of the explosives. On Sunday, they appealed to the public for help in tracing Bartkus’ movements before the explosion.

Sources said that at least one gun was recovered from the scene, but that the investigation of the area has been challenged by the amount of damage the bomb created.
Leonard Perez, a retired LAPD lieutenant, said that in their investigation, federal authorities will search the scene for any bomb residue. From there, he said, investigators will “work backwards” to try to determine what type of exposive materials were used.

Until such tests are completed, investigators won’t be able to infer the source of the explosion based only on the size of the blast crater.
“It could be either a homemade device or it could be a military-grade explosive,” he said. “He’s from Twentynine Palms, and so my question would be: Is he ex-military?” said Perez, who handled explosives during his time with the Navy. “And that’s one of the questions that investigators will have to determine: did he have access to those materials?”
“Where was [the bomb] in the car? Was it in the front, was it in the back, was it underneath the car?” he said. “Depending on what part of the car will determine the direction of the post-blast wave.”

“At the same time, investigators will be completing “a workup” of the suspect, a rigorous background check that will search for any evidence of how and when he came by the explosives.”What’s their background, where do they have work, what did they have access to?” Perez said of some of the questions they will seek to answer. “And what did their family members have access to?”

Twentynine Palms is home to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, which is touted as the world’s largest Marine Corps training base. Bartkus was not a Marine, said Yvonne Carlock, a United States Marine spokesperson for manpower and reserve affairs.

The Times could not yet verify whether Bartkus had any other affiliation with the base.

Times staff writers Julia Wick and Rebecca Plevin contributed to this report.
 
Scary thing is, I can see this ideology inspiring more attacks in the future. There's already groups like 764/O9A that love grooming angsty teens and mentally ill adults into doing these nihilistic murders.

It's the final form of the atomized, silent despair many Westerners feel. Sometimes I find myself wondering if things like this happened in Rome during its decline. But that could just as easily be explained away by good old lead poisoning.
 
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