AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

• No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search

• New Mexico jury convicts police officer in fatal shooting of Black man at gas station

• Prison boss elevated by Hochul was accused of rape by two former inmates

• Mississippi’s top court says rights violations are OK if cops don’t know how to do their jobs

• After armed neo-Nazis get police protection, some Black residents in Ohio express disbelief

• Inmate dies at DeKalb County Jail

• Inmate found dead in Antrim County Jail

• Inmate dies in custody of Lucas County Jail

• Inmate dies at Clay County Jail

• Gwinnett inmate found dead during security check

• Inmate dies after attempted suicide in Tarrant County Jail

• Inmate found dead at Clay County Detention Center Thursday morning

• Florida sheriff admits “predictive policing” harassment program violated Constitution

• LAPD officers accused of making racist and sexist remarks in recruiting office; Mayor calls it ‘outrageous’, I call it ordinary

• Bergen County sheriff's detective suspended without pay after arrest for sexting a child

• Toronto police officer charged with assault after man seriously injured last summer: SIU

• Harrison police officer resigns after voyeurism charges involving minor

• Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?

• Baby killed, 3-year-old injured in crash during police chase over traffic violation

• Vehicle pursuits by Texas troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106, including bystanders and children, since Texas’ Operation Lone Star program began in 2021

• Over a drug warrant, cops chase man into fatal wreck

• Over reckless driving, cops chase man into fatal wreck

• Over a stolen car, cops chase kids into two wrecks, killing bystander

• NYPD still routinely violating rights with its stop-and-frisk program

• Family of Sonya Massey, killed by police in her home, receive $10m settlement

• Denver police officers sued after wrongfully detaining a couple at gunpoint

• Black NFL star is pulled over by a policeman who didn't know who he was, thinking he had stolen his new Jeep

• Detective sent menacing anonymous texts to stepson's girlfriend

• Police union still insists New York misconduct records are secret despite court decisions saying otherwise

   
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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ORIGINAL LINK: nbcnews.com

ORIGINAL LINK: gizmodo.com

Of course it's just a cartoon. In reality, Sideshow Bob wouldn't be arrested at the end.

• More than thirty Trump administration actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use

• Rising temperatures could make one-third of the planet uninhabitable, alarming new study says

• Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

• At least eight dead in Kentucky flooding with number expected to increase

• Brazil has seen a 460% increase in climate-related disasters since the 1990s

• World's sea-ice falls to record low

• Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

• Greenland ice sheet could fully melt after reaching specific tipping point, study finds

• Under Trump, billionaire climate champions have gone quiet

• Earth is already shooting through the 1.5°C global warming limit, two major studies show

   
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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ORIGINAL LINK: washingtonpost.com

ORIGINAL LINK: cnn.com

Rep. Sean Casten, a Democrat from Illinois... said that activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately, and several left-leaning activist group leaders told CNN directly that their own safety concerns for participants have risen since the president’s blanket pardons for January 6 rioters.

“It only took 50 days for Hitler to destroy democracy in Germany,” Casten said, arguing that there are direct parallels to those moves and much of what Trump is doing. “Part of our job right now as Democrats in Washington inside of this is to be Churchillian, very clear-eyed about what the stakes of this moment are, what the parallels in history are, remind people that the majority of Americans are good people, and that the way you shut a bully down is to punch back.”

Dear Rep. Sean Casten (D-Illinois), cordially, respectfully:

Martial law is coming. That's part of fascism. If you use "martial law is coming" as an argument against protest, you might as well surrender now.

ORIGINAL LINK: motherjones.com

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for 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.
   

• James Appollonio
forgotten person

• L. Clifford Davis
civil rights attorney

• Jerry Eisenberg
cartoonist

• Bruce French
actor, Star Trek: The Next Generation

• Tommy Hunt
rock'n'roller, the Flamingos

• Christopher Jencks
sociologist

• Chris Moore
sci-fi illustrator

• Geneviève Page
actress, Belle de Jour

• Tom Robbins
author, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

• Eric Scigliano
journalist

• Elisa Rae Shupe
trans activist

   
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

• God tells Pennsylvania man to burn down family home because of dragons

• Priest groped female worshipper during confession – “I froze” woman testified in court

• Vicars guilty of sex abuse will be defrocked under new Church rules — previously, they were merely told not to conduct weddings or funerals

• Pope Francis has a 75% tolerance policy on child sexual abuse

• Undercount: why the Catholic church won’t list many New Mexico priests who’ve been linked to sexual abuse

• Father deposed as Anglican deacon after revealing 30-year-old abuse of son who is accused of 95 child sex crimes

• Police charge Christian school leader in Delaware with using online aliases to obtain, share child pornography

• Catholic Diocese suspends West Memphis pastor amid charges of animal cruelty

• Utah woman sues polygamous Kingston group, alleges she was coerced into marrying uncle at 16

• Granite Falls pastor gets 10 years in prison for 10k+ child sexual abuse materials found on home and church devices

• Church-funded anti-gay therapist pleads guilty to sexually abusing patients during sessions

• Former youth pastor pleads guilty to sexual battery in Tupelo

• Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recuses himself from pervert pastor case because of his friendship with leaders of the church

• South Carolina police arrest man who "appears to be a former pastor" for having nude pics of kids on phone

• Oregon lawsuit alleges LDS Church failed to intervene in child sex abuse case

• West Memphis priest accused of animal cruelty involving cats

• Ignoring war, floods, and child leukemia, God blesses Philadelphia Eagles

• "Heaven has strict immigration laws," says church, and "hell has open borders"

• Former church teacher pleads guilty to sex abuse of children

• $3.4-million settlement for man sexually abused by Catholic high school teacher at notorious Congregation of Christian Brothers

• Former pastor convicted of attempted murder over a year after stabbing family, setting home on fire

• Ohio church under investigation for sexual abuse

• Former pastor charged, allegedly found with ‘voluminous’ amount of child sexual abuse material

• Mormon church sued again over how it uses tithing contributions from members

• Former teacher, church volunteer accused of contacting minors online for sex

• This was not on my Catholic Church sex scandal bingo card

   
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