• WMO confirms 2024 was hottest year on record

• Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds

• Many species reach their heat limits at similar temperatures, leaving ecosystems at risk of sudden climate-driven collapse – new study

• California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago

• Intensifying climate whiplash set the stage for devastating California fires

• Climate models can’t explain what’s happening to Earth

• Hottest year ever sees world breach 1.5°C global warming target

• ‘We’re in a new era’: how climate change is supercharging disasters

• Antarctic ice melt may fuel eruptions of hidden volcanoes

• A quarter of the world’s freshwater animals are threatened with extinction, new research shows

• Blueberry industry at risk as powdery mildew spreads worldwide

• Oil extraction may have triggered over 100 earthquakes in the UK

• Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?

• Unusual ‘life-threatening and destructive’ winds bring risk of winter fires, power outages to Southern California

• Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming

   
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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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.
   

• Kristopher Applegate
in county jail

• Lavari Arouni
2nd Amendment

• Anita Bryant
made orange juice distasteful

• Vincent Burke
in county jail

• Joseph Campbell
forgotten person

• Douglas Cutbush
in county jail

• Jacob Dieball
in county jail

• William Farmer
in county jail

• Willie Keith Green
forgotten person

• George Dewey Harding II
forgotten person

• JT
forgotten person

• Shiu Ka-chun
imprisoned activist

• Martin Karplus
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013

• Lee Lakeman
women's rights activist

• Jean-Marie Le Pen
a life of hatred

• Kevin McMillin
forgotten person

• Shermarion Miner
high school football player

• Sam Moore
rock'n'roller, Sam & Dave

• name withheld, 47
in county jail

• name withheld
in county jail

• name withheld
in county jail

• name withheld, 68
in county jail

• Paul Oreffice
former top asshole at Dow Chemical

• Charles Person
Freedom Riders Training Academy

• Roger Pratt
cinematographer, Batman

• Andrew Pyper
author, Lost Girls

• Adalmo Ramirez-Garcia
forgotten person

• Mike Rinder
Scientology whistleblower

• Louis Schittly
Doctors Without Borders

• Rodney Szpytek
forgotten person

• Stewart
forgotten person

• Allen Thomas
2nd Amendment

• Matthew Trammell
in county jail

• The Vivienne
drag star

• Leanna Washington
in county jail

• Jonathan Kaizen Watson
2nd Amendment

• Edgar Maddison Welch
Pizzagate cosplayer

• Peter Yarrow
Peter, Paul, and Mary

   
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

• Former Louisville priest faces new child abuse charges decades after being removed from ministry

• Pastor arrested for allegedly recording women in church bathroom in Phoenix

• Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says

• Vineyard Church faces nine lawsuits in wake of pastor's rape scandal

• Pastor says God will kill Joe Biden for giving George Soros the Medal of Freedom

• Pastor accused of of sexual assault and rape says "I fell into temptation and sinned"

• More molestation allegations against retired Michigan pastor

• U.S. Marshalls search for Indiana pastor wanted for 18 counts of child molestation

• Former Getwell Church youth pastor charged with having sex with girl, faces 30 years for abuse of minor

• Former Chicago pastor pleads guilty to child sex abuse

• Texas Episcopal priest charged with stealing over $300K from church

   
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

Courtesy of The Daily Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboyOdc_F1Y

• 16-year-old with hands up shot to death by cops during ‘no-knock’ raid in Alabama, suit says

• Man threatens to harm himself; cops chase him to two-fatality wreck

• Minneapolis agrees to pretend to overhaul police training and force policies after George Floyd’s murder

• Civilian police oversight in Florida crumbles after new law kicks in

• San Antonio's 'shit sandwich' cop hired again as South Texas police officer

• New autopsy casts doubt over "suicide" ruling in case of black man found hanging shortly after filing lawsuit against cops

• NY prison emergency teams face scrutiny after fatal beating. Inmates call them the 'demon squad'.

• 83-year-old man killed in crash when suspect fleeing traffic stop collides with his car

• Deadly crash in Mississippi highlights risks of police chases

• Abusive cop named in whistleblower suit is convicted of assault; gets probation

• Eight California sheriff's deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer's attack on trans man

• Cops chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

• Only two years later, Seattle Police Department fires Officer Kevin Dave for killing of Jaahnavi Kandula

• US police killed record number of people in 2024

• Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective

• California police department where officers exchanged racist messages and bragged of beatings promises to be better

• Ex-N.Y.P.D. leader denies sexual abuse accusations, through his lawyer

• Court cites 'excited delirium' in ruling for Florida correctional officers in inmate death lawsuit
    What's 'excited delirium'?

• Correctional sergeant arrested in child sex abuse materials case in Chowchilla

• Arizona cops walk without criminal charges after colluding with prosecutors to treat protesters as ‘gang members’

• Cops chase stolen car into 90-mph wreck, killing three

• 3 ex-deputies face murder charges in Virginia inmate’s death

• Beyond excessive force: How police abuse women, the poor, the homeless

• Cop who went berserk with gun at Halloween party pleads guilty to eight felony counts

• Deputy pleads guilty to beating of transgender person who flipped him off

   
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

• Global food collapse looms amid heat and water stress, warns new study

• Most states continue to funnel money toward highway expansion, locking in climate pollution, despite new tools to fund green infrastructure

• With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea beneath

• ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

• Illinois carbon capture project captures almost no carbon

• Soil degradation threatens food supply and scientists are calling for action

• As saltwater flows up the Mississippi River for a third year, the region looks for permanent solutions

• Europe’s conifer trees severely impacted by climate change; urgent action needed

   
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