AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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• Sexual abuse of children by priests was known ‘at all levels’ in Catholic Church, says Archbishop of Dublin
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• Vicar gets scolding and suspended sentence for sending explicit messages to 'underage girls'
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• Trial begins for Alabama pastor charged with sex crimes, state plans to introduce new evidence
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• Christian school teacher gets six years for child sex
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• Tucker Carlson claims he was attacked by a demon
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• South Carolina youth pastor accused of sexual misconduct with minor
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• South Korean Christian groups hold massive hate rally against rights for same-sex couples

• Pastor facing sexual assault charge returns to pulpit of Texas church
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• Former Christian Family Church pastor sentenced to 1 year jail time for sex crimes at affiliated school     (archived link)

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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, shot back at the Republican presidential nominee, highlighting that Trump and his allies have spent the last four years actively corroding public trust in U.S. elections—and that they are currently warming up their second conspiracy to undermine the 2024 election results.

“Let’s remember, in 2020, Donald Trump attacked our elections over and over,” Shapiro wrote on X. “I was the Attorney General back then and despite his bluster and rhetoric, he went 0-43 in court when he fought to make it harder to vote and then tried to overturn Pennsylvanians’ votes.

“He’s now trying to use the same playbook to stoke chaos, but hear me on this: we will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election—and the will of the people will be respected,” Shapiro said.

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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.

   
• Matthew Bouvier
in county jail     (archived link)

• Brad Burkham
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Glenn Durkee
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Amanda Gallagher
photographer

• Teri Garr
actress, Close Encounters of the Third Kind     (archived link)

• Ed Griles
director, Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"     (archived link)

• David Harris
actor, The Warriors     (archived link)

• Jennifer Keith
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Lily Li
actress, Beyond the Realm of Conscience     (archived link)

• Paul Morrissey
film director, Andy Warhol's Trash     (archived link)

• Cecil Lee Ryan, Jr
forgotten person     (archived link)

• James Tatsch
in county jail     (archived link)

• Jeri Taylor
writer-producer, Star Trek: Voyager

   
Previously dead

Graph & table of net worth brackets and percentiles in the United States for recent data. See top one percent, top .5%, and .1%, median, and more. FROM hubertmanne - I stumbled onto this and looked for a magazine to share it and since I like a lot of things in this magazine decided this was the place.

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• Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report

• Scientists warn of possible collapse of Atlantic currents
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• Wildfires are gaining speed, a worrying trend for the US West
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• Three dead and 3,000 homeless after Nelson Mandela Bay floods

• Malaria is surging in Ethiopia, reversing a decade of progress against the disease

• Why heat waves of the future may be even deadlier than feared

• One in three tree species at risk of extinction: report

• Bodies found as torrential rains slam Spain

• Still no snow on Japan's Mount Fuji, breaking record

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