AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

• Disciples of Christ leader is accused of stealing more than half a million dollars

• Former teacher at Ohio Catholic high school pleads guilty to sexual abuse of student

• Former teacher at North Carolina Christian school pleads guilty to sexual abuse of student

• Catholic Church's pedophile priest payouts top $5-billion

• Minister accused of sex abuse landed one high-profile job after another

• Texas Republican chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle”

• Wisconsin pervert pastor gets 11 years in prison for child enticement

• Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy separation of church and state

• Anglican friar faces 30 counts of child porn possession

• Former pastor accused of running cryptocurrency scam that stole millions from duped congregants

• Living Word Church pastor, two-time ex-con, is accused of sexually assaulting girl

• Florida church leader charged with possession of child pornography

• Priest gets a year in jail for child porn charge

• Norfolk pastor pleads guilty to sex crimes, perjury

• Former Oxnard priest gets jail time for sex offenses against children

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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• Former Columbus police officer sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for stealing cocaine from crime scenes, police evidence room

• Glendale police shoot, kill wrong man after domestic violence call

• Two dead in crash after being chased by Pensacola Police

• Body cam shows officers walk away from man found shot, still breathing: "Let’s cruise around and come back"

• New Jersey man, jailed for 200+ days on charges based on cops' lies, is awarded $5M

• Over a traffic stop, cops pursue driver into "multiple parked vehicles" and then a head-on wreck seriously injuring another vehicle's driver and passenger

• Two killed when police chase ends in head-on collision

• King County deputy who drunkenly assaulted bouncers is still on the job

• Deputies lied and filed false reports in man's death, lawsuit says

• California ex-prison guard found guilty of 64 charges of sexual abuse of inmates

• NYPD officer on trial for punching man more than a dozen times, on camera

• Ex-cop SafeSport investigator is arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking

• After second trial, jury awards $3.25 million to family of man killed by St. Paul police

• Former deputy arrested for on-duty sexual assault

• Ex-cop gets probation for stealing $900 from a man he was arresting

• Before his suicide, Bibb County inmate’s cries for help went ignored, lawsuit says

• Ex-cop mayor of New York vowed to rein in NYPD overtime. It spiraled out of control instead.

• Court to cops: If you can’t prove a warrant existed, you can’t expect us to consider it ‘valid’

• Cops chase suspected stolen car into crash that kills three

• Family demands justice after police search 5-year-old boy during traffic stop

• Active cop and ex-cop both charged with rape

• Florida sheriff’s deputy, watching porn while driving, crashes patrol car

• Rookie LAPD officer killed bicyclist in DUI crash, police say

• North Carolina police officer arrested twice in 3 days (assault, then violating a domestic violence protective order

• Man dies in hospital after assault arrest; lawyer says he was hit 'multiple times' by jail staff

• Florida’s ‘Halo Law’ goes into effect, allowing more cops to dodge accountability

• Former Rikers officer pleads guilty to smuggling illegal drugs into jail for bribes

• Lorain County Sheriff’s deputy suspended for allegedly paralyzing inmate

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

• WMO confirms 2024 was hottest year on record

• Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds

• Many species reach their heat limits at similar temperatures, leaving ecosystems at risk of sudden climate-driven collapse – new study

• California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago

• Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for devastating California fires

• Climate models can’t explain what’s happening to Earth

• Hottest year ever sees world breach 1.5°C global warming target

• ‘We’re in a new era’: how climate change is supercharging disasters

• Antarctic ice melt may fuel eruptions of hidden volcanoes

• A quarter of the world’s freshwater animals are threatened with extinction, new research shows

• Blueberry industry at risk as powdery mildew spreads worldwide

• Oil extraction may have triggered over 100 earthquakes in the UK

• Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?

• Unusual ‘life-threatening and destructive’ winds bring risk of winter fires, power outages to Southern California

• Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Kristopher Applegate
in county jail

• Lavari Arouni
2nd Amendment

• Anita Bryant
made orange juice distasteful

• Vincent Burke
in county jail

• Joseph Campbell
forgotten person

• Douglas Cutbush
in county jail

• Jacob Dieball
in county jail

• William Farmer
in county jail

• Willie Keith Green
forgotten person

• George Dewey Harding II
forgotten person

• JT
forgotten person

• Shiu Ka-chun
imprisoned activist

• Martin Karplus
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013

• Lee Lakeman
women's rights activist

• Jean-Marie Le Pen
a life of hatred

• Kevin McMillin
forgotten person

• Shermarion Miner
high school football player

• Sam Moore
rock'n'roller, Sam & Dave

• name withheld, 47
in county jail

• name withheld
in county jail

• name withheld
in county jail

• name withheld, 68
in county jail

• Paul Oreffice
former top asshole at Dow Chemical

• Charles Person
Freedom Riders Training Academy

• Roger Pratt
cinematographer, Batman

• Andrew Pyper
author, Lost Girls

• Adalmo Ramirez-Garcia
forgotten person

• Mike Rinder
Scientology whistleblower

• Louis Schittly
Doctors Without Borders

• Rodney Szpytek
forgotten person

• Stewart
forgotten person

• Allen Thomas
2nd Amendment

• Matthew Trammell
in county jail

• The Vivienne
drag star

• Leanna Washington
in county jail

• Jonathan Kaizen Watson
2nd Amendment

• Edgar Maddison Welch
Pizzagate cosplayer

• Peter Yarrow
Peter, Paul, and Mary

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously dead

• Former Louisville priest faces new child abuse charges decades after being removed from ministry

• Pastor arrested for allegedly recording women in church bathroom in Phoenix

• Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says

• Vineyard Church faces nine lawsuits in wake of pastor's rape scandal

• Pastor says God will kill Joe Biden for giving George Soros the Medal of Freedom

• Pastor accused of of sexual assault and rape says "I fell into temptation and sinned"

• More molestation allegations against retired Michigan pastor

• U.S. Marshalls search for Indiana pastor wanted for 18 counts of child molestation

• Former Getwell Church youth pastor charged with having sex with girl, faces 30 years for abuse of minor

• Former Chicago pastor pleads guilty to child sex abuse

• Texas Episcopal priest charged with stealing over $300K from church

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

Courtesy of The Daily Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboyOdc_F1Y