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• Texas church leader arrested for continuous violence, has extensive criminal history

• Southern Baptist Convention to sell headquarters in Nashville amid legal expenses from sexual abuse investigation

• Tulsa Police arrest local pastor on first degree rape, child sexual abuse and incest charges
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• Pope offers "all the help we can" to aid clergy sexual abuse victims, and can you hear my eyes rolling?
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• Divinity school professor arrested for child porn possession     (archived link)

• Argentine prosecutors accuse Opus Dei leaders in South America of trafficking and labor exploitation
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• Pastor arrested, charged, and fired after allegedly stealing nude photos of church member during life group

• Arizona jury convicts 2 brothers of aiding extra-wingnutty Mormon prophet's "child brides" scheme
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• Pastor released on bond while awaiting trial for murder of man he believed was boinking his wife     (archived link)

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• Cimate change is making hurricanes worse

• Report: Global drought threatens food supplies and energy production
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• Antarctica is 'greening' at dramatic rate as climate heats

• Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds

• The shifting jet stream has magnified wildfires and plagues. What's next?

• California heat wave smashes records, but the worst is still to come
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• Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
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• Climate warning as world's rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years

• BP abandons target to cut oil and gas output by 2030
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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.

   
• Allan Blye
writer, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour     (archived link)

• Joe Bryan
falsely convicted of murder     (archived link)

• David Burnham
reporter, exposed NYPD police corruption, tens of thousands of corruptions ago     (archived link)

• Mary Jane Collins
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Rick Cook
psychic barber

• Carlie Frizzell
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Horace Gibbs
in county jail     (archived link)

• Zaria Hardee
forgotten person

• Eric Hicks
in county jail     (archived link)

• Aubree Clay Horton
police investigator of the year     (archived link)

• Jamie Langille
forgotten person     (archived link)

• James Magee
artist and kook     (archived link)

• Carnal Mixon
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Christian Ortiz
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Shannon Marie Caslin Reeder
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Monica Robarge
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Thomas Rockwell
author, How to Eat Fried Worms     (archived link)

• Tamara Towers Parry
QAnon wingnut     (archived link)

• Bob Yerkes
stunt performer, Star Wars     (archived link)

   
Previously dead

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• Climate change is causing algal blooms in Lake Superior for the first time in history
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• From UK to Norway, drillers legally dump tons of toxic, radioactive waste into the North Sea

• Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows

• Study finds climate change doubled likelihood of recent European floods

• Britain's tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate

• Zillow will now show climate risks for property listings in the US
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• "Completely and entirely erased": How Helene swallowed one mountain town
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• America's most popular national park devastated by Helene
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• Trump continues to deny climate crisis as he visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia, plans two fundraisers in oil-rich Texas

• American dams weren't built for today's climate-charged rain and floods
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• Arctic plant study suggests the rate of climate change threatens to exceed the adaptive capacity of species
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