AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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I'm honestly surprised the number is so low.

• Las Vegas police arrest pastor with guns, drugs in hotel room     (Archived link)

• Church youth group leader (an ex-cop) gets prison for child sex charges     (Archived link)

• Religious groups are spending billions to fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rights

• Philippines arrests a pastor wanted by the US for trafficking and child abuse after long manhunt

• At least 17 more people allege sexual violence by "humanitarian monk"

• Survivors say Blackrock College's apology for sexual abuse by pedophile priest felt like it was "written by AI"     (Archived link)

• Washington man alleges years of sexual abuse at Catholic school in Seattle     (Archived link)

• Nigerian officials warn people off church's bogus 'miracle' water

• Canadian priest charged with sexual assault

• Former Arkansas youth pastor accused of sex crimes pleads guilty to reduced charge, gets suspended sentence     (Archived link)

• Six decades later, victim of notorious predatory priest gets some justice — and peace

• Canadian authorities close their investigation into a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children nearly 40 years ago, because he died in April

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I was 98.6% sure that this guy had to be a Republican, and became more certain when all the coverage omitted any mention of his political party. With some Google Fu, though, I found this, from the: Texas State Directory.

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• Deserts' biggest threat? Flooding.     (Archived link)

• Shocked by extreme storms, a Maine fishing town fights to save its waterfront

• Hotter, drier and all-around different: How climate change will alter life in L.A.     (Archived link)

• Brazil braces for more fires amid extreme low humidity

• Sharks deserting coral reefs as oceans heat up, study shows

• A quarter of America's bridges may collapse within 26 years, and we saw the whole thing coming     (Archived link)

• Cars plunge into river as super typhoon destroys Vietnam bridge

• Great Barrier Reef has already been dealt its death blow —scientist

• Global warming may melt some glaciers in Austria in 10-15 years

• Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say

• A brown tide of sargassum is causing havoc in Barbados

• Methane emissions are at new highs

• We’re all doomed, says freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy

… but there are still profits to be made, so la de da, la de da...

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• Two years after deadly floods hit Pakistan, it's happening again

• Climate change threatens Iraq's dates, a country once known as "30 million palm trees"

• It's been the hottest summer on record, European officials say

• Fireflies face 'one-two punch' of climate change, habitat loss, and light pollution

• Big Oil wields influence on universities, delaying green transition: study

• Surprising new research links infant mortality to crashing bat populations

• Electrocuted birds are bursting into flames and starting wildfires     (Archived link)

• A pediatrician wrote the book on how climate change is making kids sick     (Archived link)

• The ozone hole above Antarctica will keep opening up each spring for decades to come – here’s why that still matters

• Eastern equine encephalitis, which has a high mortality rate, is becoming more common in North America as climate changes expands the habitats of insects     (Archived link)

• Coastal flooding is getting more common, even on sunny days

• "Sustainable" logging operations are clear-cutting Canada's climate-fighting forests     (Archived link)

• In the Sahara desert, one of the driest places on Earth, a very wet September

... but there's money to be made, so la di da, la di da...

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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.

   
• Christian Angulo     (Archived link)
kid

• Richard Aspinwall
math teacher

• Simeon Bihesi     (Archived link)
forgotten person

• James Darren     (Archived link)
Gidget's Moondoggie

• Linda Deutch     (Archived link)
journalist

• David Egle
in county jail

• Aysenur Eygi
activist

• Chance Gainer
football player

• Christopher Garcia     (Archived link)
football player

• Eric Gilliland     (Archived link)
writer, Roseanne

• Warren Curtis Grant
kid

• Nicholas Paul Grubb
"Pinnacle Man"

• Aamonte Hadley     (Archived link)
in county jail

• Cristina Irimie     (Archived link)
math teacher

• Will Jennings     (Archived link)
songwriter, "My Heart Will Go On"

• Rachel Johnson
in county jail

• Sérgio Mendes
bossa nova

• Margaret Miller Johnson
forgotten person

• Mason Schermerhorn     (Archived link)
kid

• Screamin’ Scott Simon     (Archived link)
rock'n'roller, Sha Na Na

• Brian Trueman
Danger Mouse

• George Washington
in county jail

• Howard Ziehm
porn pioneer

   
Previously dead

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• Pedophile priest victims urge action from pope

• Lawyers for priest accused of child rape question court's authority, saying Catholic Church, not state, should adjudicate priest's sex abuse claims

• In the Pacific, a "dumping ground" for priests accused or convicted of abuse
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• Philippine police confident that fugitive "son of God" pastor still in church compound

• Christian group recruits "Trojan horse" election skeptics as US poll workers

• Pastor fired over "predatory" texts with men and underage teenager, Texas church says

• The Meeting House, once one of Canada's largest churches, shuts down after scandal

• Former Gateway Church employee molested 3 children on several occasions: arrest warrant
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• Diocese of Scranton removes priest after "credible" allegation of child molestation decades ago
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• Circle of Hope Girls Ranch faces new federal lawsuit by youngest victim to take action
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• Bond granted for former pastor accused of criminal sexual conduct

• Chicago priest removed from parish amid child molestation claims
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• Almost 2,400 allegations of historical sexual abuse at more than 300 religious-run schools in Ireland
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• Pastor resigns from church, school board amid abuse allegations

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