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She was stunned by the lion’s beauty — so she shot it dead

 Have you seen these trophy hunting websites? Seriously, they are something else. This is an actual caption to a photo that we’ve replaced above with an illustration by talented cartoonist Chad Essley. We’re not making this []

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Lloyd Evans gets out his crystal ball to see the future for Jehovah’s Witnesses

 Where is the Watch Tower and Bible Society of Pennsylvania, A/K/A, the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, headed? We’ve seen a lot of bad news about child abuse being covered up in the church here and abroad. But does that mean changes are coming? Or, with 8 million members, is this a movement that’s too big to []

Allison Mack may be on her way to prison, but she can sing really well!

 Frank Parlato is having too much fun at his blog as the leaders of Nxivm are, one after the other, getting the boom lowered on them in federal court. And now that Smallville actress Allison Mack has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in September to perhaps up to 20 years in prison, Frank has []

Jehovah’s Witnesses and legal warfare: What it looks like in the trenches

 Yesterday we listened in on Lloyd Evans, Mark O’Donnell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation talking about Watch Tower’s attempt to “dox” Darkspilver, who has posted critical information about the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization at []

‘I buried your dog today’: A searing message for a nameless dog owner

 We ran across this moving tribute written by Diz Schroeder of Montana. She posted it to Facebook on April 5 and made it shareable for the public, and it now has more than 64,000 shares. We thought you’d want to see []

VIDEO: Jehovah’s Witnesses, subpoenas, and the attempted unmasking of apostates

 We mentioned the other day that the ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses community is experiencing something very like what ex-Scientologists went through 25 years ago, when the Church of Scientology went to war with the early []

Record moose ‘taken’ in Washington, but don’t say it was gunned down

 The Daily Mail picked up a story written by the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington about a record moose shot by a hunter named Jim []

Jehovah’s Witnesses: The price can be steep for coming forward about Watchtower’s secrets

[Barbara Anderson]

With the Australia Royal Commission in 2016, and stories like the Atlantic’s big piece last month, it sure seems like exposing the Watchtower organization for covering up child molestation among Jehovah’s Witnesses is really gaining []

Doctors who helped Nxivm brand women and test brains are under investigation

[Dr. Danielle Roberts and Dr. Brandon Porter]

There’s a great piece in the Albany Times Union by Brendan Lyons looking at the physicians who aided Nxivm in its bizarre schemes. []

Hunter’s excuse for killing young elephants doesn’t seem to be working

[Mike Jines is on the right]

We’re a little worried about Mike Jines and his company, TopGen Energy in Forsyth, Georgia. []