AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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• After two-year runaround, family of man killed by Kansas City police gets bodycam footage; cops still won't identify the officer who pulled the trigger
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• Ohio Mayor has "serious questions" about bodycam footage that shows cops killing 15-year-old, then ordering him to raise his hands

• Florida sheriff’s office agrees to end ‘predictive policing’ program that targeted students and their families

• Here we go again: Another cop given a free pass on brutality

• Family says they were lied to, not notified of inmate's death for a week
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• Seattle will pay $319,000 to settle lawsuit over racist traffic stop of a Black delivery driver
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• US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34M to exonerated woman
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• Cincinnati police captain under investigation for alleged off-duty strangulation at Washington Park
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• Bodycam shows California cops shooting woman over expired tabs
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• Illinois law requires transparency when police kill people, but many cases stay in the dark

• Santa Cruz County settles $2.2M lawsuit in Tamario Smith jail death

• Justice Dept moves to prevent child sex abuse by school police
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• Salt Lake police officer arrested, accused of raping woman
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• Oklahoma police officer charged with assault for slamming elderly man to ground
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• Tennessee cop arrested for sexting 13-year-old South Carolina girl
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• Georgia cop's PIT-maneuver kills 18-year-old
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• Bills aiming to rein in Michigan's rogue cops move forward in Lansing
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Previously

• Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN

• Sink to source: Arctic is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs
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• A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
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• Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record

• Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common seabirds following the 'warm blob' in the Pacific Ocean
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• How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets.
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• Ocean heat wiped out half these seabirds around Alaska

• No butterflies at the Butterfly Grove

• Up to three insect species become extinct in Australia every week, report says

• How the Amazon's 'Boiling River' foreshadows a warmer world

• Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost

• Scientists may have figured out why a potent greenhouse gas is rising. The answer is scary.
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• Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades – 2024 report card shows worrying trends in snow, ice, wildfire and more
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Previously

• ‘They covered up child rape’: how the New Orleans archdiocese protected a priest who preyed on children

• Trial date set for man accused of murdering woman “because God told him to”
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• Prophet gets 50 years in prison after admitting he sexually abused his child 'wives' in Mormon offshoot sect
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• Pennsylvania pastor sexually assaulted an intellectually disabled woman in his home, DA says
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• West Virginia Republican says God told him to kill other delegates
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• North Carolina pastor accused of inappropriate relationship with teen at church
The original headline tags the perp as "state maintenance worker," a curious choice when obviously, his role as the church's pastor is what's pertinent.     (archived link)

• Mormon mission leader, temple prep instructor charged with numerous child sex crimes
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• Washington pastor accused of bilking $5.9M from churchgoers for fake crypto investments
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Previously

• Donald Bitzer
plasma screens     (archived link)

• Cody Carlson
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Thom Christopher
actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century     (archived link)

• Rocky Colavito
baseballer, Cleveland Indians     (archived link)

• Michael Cole
actor, Mod Squad     (archived link)

• Garrick Dixon
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Lee Edwards
unwiped asshole

• Peter Fenwick
near-death experiences     (archived link)

• Bob Fernandez
survived Pearl Harbor

• Roland Hoyt
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Brandon Johnson
helped the homeless     (archived link)

• The Amazing Kreskin
'mentalist'

• Paul Maslansky
film producer, Police Academy     (archived link)

• Patrick MacDonald
rock'n'roll writer, Seattle Times     (archived link)

• Patrick Massey
in county jail     (archived link)

• Lucas and Tammy Menard
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Debbie O'Connor
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Glenn Perdreaux
in county jail     (archived link)

• Rafael Phillips Jr
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Herb Robertson
flugelhornist     (archived link)

• Daniel Slavin
in county jail     (archived link)

• Martial Solal
film composer, Breathless     (archived link)

• Steven Woods
in county jail     (archived link)

• Arnold Yarrow
actor, Doctor Who     (archived link)

   
Previously

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A brief interruption:

It's been explained to me that I've kinda sucked as moderator on this page. Not enough patience, too quick with the ban-hammer, and of course, the recurring flatulence.

I'm a grumpy old coot, but darn it, I apologize. My early new year's resolution is to be less of a jackass in 2025, and for a fresh start I've un-banned everyone who's been banned here, except a few obvious trolls, Nazis, and imbeciles.

Happy Bastille Day!

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