AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

• "My immediate reaction was, this guy has no business being in law enforcement."

• Video shows NYPD officers standing by as woman set aflame burns to death

• At his deathbed, Florida deputy confesses to 1970s killings

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

• 3 months after Enrique Delgado-Garcia's death by police hazing, family demands justice

• Black couple says Phoenix cops beat and tased them after they called 9-1-1

• Pullman police chief accused of domestic violence and sexual assault in protection order petition

• Jail guards blocked medical staff from checking on Rikers detainee who died, report finds

• Oklahoma Attorney General blocks prosecution of cop who broke an old man's neck at a traffic stop
“As attorney general, I will not permit Oklahoma police officers to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering to their training,”

• Angry ex-NYPD officer, after dodging jail time with his partner for sexual encounter with teen inside police van, rips his accuser as a money-hungry liar

• North Carolina federal prison supervisor convicted after ordering inmate's beating

• Before inmate suicide, Riverside County deputies missed signs, failed to do security check

• Searching for stolen weed-wacker, cops go to wrong address and kill homeowner there

• New York correctional officers pummeled handcuffed man before death, footage shows

• Abuse by guards is common at NYS prison where inmate was beaten, report, lawsuits claim

• What’s life like in the Brooklyn jail where Luigi awaits trial? Really bad, experts say.

• Newspapers' investigation finds jail personnel ignored serious medical conditions and injuries and failed to stop the flow of drugs

• 13 people died inside the Bexar County Jail in 2024, according to the sheriff’s office

• Cuyahoga County Jail officials ignored inmate’s ‘urgent medical needs’ before death, lawsuit says

• Former West Virginia cop sentenced to 25 years for in-uniform rapes of a minor

   
— Don't call the police. —

   
Disclaimer: 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

• 2023 was extremely hot. Then came 2024.

• Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice

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

• Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world

• Current estimates lowball the true environmental cost of pouring carbon into the atmosphere, study finds

• Heat wave leads to warnings of potentially devastating wildfires in southern Australia

• Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024

• Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’

• Climate change is stealing weeks of winter, unnerving ski area owners

   
Disclaimer: 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

https://futuryst.blogspot.com/2014/03/politicians-discussing-global-warming.html

• Catholic youth leader gets prison for kiddie porn

• Diocese of Oakland funneled millions into fund to avoid abuse payout, filing claims

• Charismatic prophetess says she’s being targeted by real werewolves, ‘hybrids’ and ‘shapeshifters’

• Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

• Archbishop says Church must 'be changed' over flood of sexual abuse

• 'Pay-to-pray': Trump reportedly charges supporters $100K to attend church service with him

• Catholic priest agrees to pay $300K in restitution for stealing from Newburgh parish

• God tells televangelist Kenneth Copeland he'll live to 120

• Admitted child rapist and retired priest Lawrence Hecker dies after a week in prison

   
Previously

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.

   
• Gloria Arellanes
co-founder of East LA Barrio Free Clinic (AltaMed)

• Jack Bond
filmmaker, It Couldn’t Happen Here

• Stanley Booth
rock'n'roll writer

• Robert Brooks
murdered by prison guards

• Burt
crocodile

• Ruth Butler
researched and wrote about muses

• Cathy Cade
photographer, Off Our Backs

• Perry Dahl
WWII fighter pilot

• Charles Dolan
Home Box Office

• Steven Englander
ABC No Rio

• Joanne Erickson
forgotten person

• Shane Estopinal and George Kaucher
forgotten people

• Art Evans
actor, A Soldier's Story

• Woody Fraser
producer, The Dick Cavett Show

• Thomas Gaither
The Friendship Nine

• Sophie Hediger
snowboarder

• Olivia Hussey
actress, Romeo and Juliet (1965)

• Bill Labov
sociolinguistics

• Markham Maes a/k/a Shitty Kitten
artist

• Gordon Mah Ung
host, The Full Nerd

• Barry N. Malzberg
sci-fi short stories

• Dana McLaughlin
in county jail

• Hudson Meek
actor, Baby Driver

• Berrien Moore III
all the science I don't understand

• Clara Palmer
in county jail

• Richard Perry
rock'n'roll producer, "You're So Vain"

• Joanne Pierce Misko
nun and fed

• Jack Planck
in county jail

• Steven P. Riley
in county jail

• Rita, or Mary
forgotten person

• Joe Rosato
jailed journalist

• John Rose
activist, author, The Myths of Zionism

• Anthony Russo
bad cop

• Charles Shyer
filmmaker, Private Benjamin

• Osamu Suzuki
married the boss's daughter

• Yoshio Taniguchi
architect

• George Thompson
in county jail

• unidentified woman
forgotten person

• George Zebrowski
author, Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts

   
Previously dead

... My labor friends like to comment today that “it all started with Reagan.” As if a switch had been thrown and a cascade of awful things was suddenly unleashed on us. No so fast. For me, a young blue-collar worker, the hellish years of Reagan started when Carter was elected. No doubt Jimmy Carter inherited a titanic mess; the 1970s were years when the many sins of the past were catching up with the United States. But Carter raised hopes and expectations that the unemployment and inflation crises would be confronted and working people would not be the victims. Instead, we all found out that Carter was the original “New Democrat,” long before we knew what that meant. It meant a Southern, conservative Democrat not beholden to “big labor” and “liberals.” ...

• Multiple L.A. sheriff’s deputies relieved of duty as feds probe beating of trans teacher, and cops' organized cover-up of what happened

• Fired Utah police officer charged with sexual abuse of teen girl

• New York cop back on duty, despite refusing to take breathalyzer test after suspected DUI crash that permanently injured toddler

• 22-year-old left brain dead from ‘days-long brutal torture’ in Alabama prison, lawsuit says

• Southern California cop dies by suicide after being arrested for soliciting minor to engage in sexual acts

• New York Governor orders firing of 14 officers involved in prison death

• Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of capitol attack

• Family sues over Michigan man's death at Bexar County jail

• Excessive force, negligence claims can proceed in case stemming from 2020 death of man in custody

• Hmmm: Man found dead in police vehicle apparently became trapped

• How a ‘blue wall of silence’ let Central NY prison guards get away with day of terror

• Indiana jail workers believed Louisville woman who died in custody was 'faking it,' records show

• Missouri Governor commutes sentence for cop who killed black man

• "Excited delirium": How cops are trained to get away with killing people

   
• Don't call the police.

   
Previously