TV/Web #news : A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in
Europe |
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/27/a-brain-swelling-illness-spread-by-ticks-is-on-the-rise-in-europe_partner/

26 Jul: UNEXPECTED. Russians ATTACK AND PENETRATE UKRAINIAN FLANKS | War in #Ukraine Explained.

https://youtu.be/jF10g9CykKk

TV/Web #news : 1 in 6 toddlers have not completed childhood vaccine series,
study finds |
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1-6-toddlers-completed-childhood-vaccine-series-study/story?id=101664925

TV/Web #news : Tennessee teachers sue state over 'unconstitutional'
limitations on race lessons |
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/26/tennessee-teachers-sue-state-unconstiutional-limitations-race-lessons/6861690407991/

Joe Pesci opened the next episode of SNL saying he wanted to smack Sinead in the mouth. Sinatra said she needed "her ass kicked". Her records were pulled from airplay and burned and bulldozed in protest. She was more brave, and more right, than she ever got credit for.

An independent inquiry on Tuesday said it had concluded there were about 216,000 victims of sexual abuse carried out by the French Catholic Church’s clergy between 1950 and 2020.

Australia’s government found that 4,444 alleged incidents of child sexual abuse had been reported to Church authorities

In Germany It revealed that 314 minors, mostly boys under the age of 14, were sexually abused there between 1975 and 2018.

It was also found that in Germany 1,670 clergymen had committed some type of sexual attack against 3,677 minors, mostly boys under 13, between 1946 and 2014, while saying this was almost certainly an underestimate.

In 2002, the Boston Globe revealed the massive scale of sexual abuse on children in the Boston diocese, According to lawyers, more than 11,000 complaints have been lodged in the US by victims of priests. Dioceses have paid out hundreds of millions in out of court settlements.

Accusations of large-scale sex crimes in Ireland’s Catholic institutions go back decades, with the number of underage victims estimated at nearly 15,000 between 1970 and 1990 alone. Several bishops and priests accused of covering up abuse have been punished.

I could go on, but I have less depressing things to do.

for reference:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/5/awful-truth-child-sex-abuse-in-the-catholic-church

About 333,000 children were abused within France's Catholic Church, a report finds

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043302348/france-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-report-children

Sinead O Connor: Saturday Night Live Controversy

https://youtu.be/PxBzDCa2CTU

The discredited practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth is now banned in Michigan under two pieces of legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4121643-michigan-bans-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-youth/

TV/Web #news : Arizona teen who went missing nearly 4 years ago shows up at
Montana police station |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arizona-teen-went-missing-nearly-4-years-ago-shows-montana-police-stat-rcna96554

TV/Web #news : Michigan becomes 22nd state to ban the use of conversion
therapy on LGBTQ+ minors |
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/26/michigan-becomes-22nd-state-to-ban-the-use-of-conversion-therapy-on-lgbtq-minors/

Odd #news: At the height of her fame Sinead O'Connor risked everything
to stand up against child sexual abuse | https://www.upworthy.com/sinead-oconnor-death

The one's doin' the doin'

Greg Gutfeld complained that Hunter Biden, the son of the sitting president, gets Secret Service detail. That's standard for any president. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner got protection for six months AFTER Trump left office to the cost of $347,000 for taxpayers.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1684337494463070208

The California attorney general’s office is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and former employees about Autopilot safety issues and false advertising complaints

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-investigation-california-attorney-general-autopilot-safety-marke-rcna96534

Or a cell phone.

TV/Web #news : Oldest Black fraternity moves 2025 convention out of Florida
over 'racist' policies |
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/26/florida-alpha-phi-alpha-moves-convention/8461690416956/