The Weekly Town Crier (07/09/21)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (07/09/21).
Religion and Stuff:
Read the opinion piece “Patriot games: CRT, Christian nationalism and a battle for the real truth of America” at Religion News Service.
Read “Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer Is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling” at Religion Dispatches.
Read ‘Breaking the silence: Clergy address pandemic’s surge in domestic violence” at Religion News Service.
Read “Promise Keepers Tried to End Racism 25 Years Ago. It Almost Worked” at Christianity Today. “As new tensions divide the country, the men’s movement leaders wonders what they could have done differently.”
Read “Apocalypse Now And Then: How A Biblical Genre Shapes American Politics” at Religion Dispatches.
Read “The uncomfortable truth about the authoritarian Christian right's role in American politics” at AlterNet.
Read “Franklin bomb scare caused by fake TNT prop used for coal mining-themed church program” at Tennessean.
Read “White mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink” at Religion News Service.
Read “NDAs Kept These Christians Silent. Now They’re Speaking Out Against Them” at Christianity Today.
Human Rights/Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:
Read “Lethal Force Against Pipeline Protests? Documents Reveal Shocking South Dakota Plans for National Guard” at Democracy Now.
Read “12 Holdout States Haven't Expanded Medicaid, Leaving 2 Million People In Limbo” at NPR.
Read “At least 150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the Fourth of July weekend” at CNN.
Read “Tucson to ignore Arizona’s ‘Second Amendment sanctuary’ law” at AZ Capitol Times.
Read “Juan Williams: How the Supreme Court eroded voting rights” at The Hill.
Read “SCOTUS Is Finishing the Job on Financial Disclosure Requirements” at Slate. “Doing bad things in two steps several years apart is becoming something of a strategy for John Roberts.”
Read “Cuomo declares 'state emergency' on gun violence in New York” at The Hill.
Read “ACLU Lawsuit: MCAO ‘coerces’ guilty pleas by fast-tracking cases” at ABC 15.
Read “Trump files suit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube” at Associated Press.
Read “An MLK Jr. Statue Was Vandalized With Graffiti, Prompting A Hate Crime Investigation” at NPR.
Read “Michigan Judge Refuses to Allow Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Other ‘Kraken’ Attorneys to Skip Sanctions Hearing” at Law and Crime.
Read “Ghoulish pall is cast over America by Alabama's plan to gas humans to death” at Montgomery Advertiser.
Read “An Appeals Court Has Suspended Rudy Giuliani's Ability To Practice Law In D.C.” at NPR.
This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments // and/or other “American monuments” // Insurrectionists // and/or weird Confederacy stuff):
Read ‘6 Months After Capitol Assault, Corporate Pledges Fall Flat” at NBC Los Angeles. “6 months later, many of those companies have resumed funneling cash to PACs that benefit the election efforts of lawmakers whether they objected to the election certification or not.”
Read “Covering up the insurrection is the Bigger Lie. And it’s worse.” at MSNBC.
Read “Virginia ‘Bible study’ group was cover for violent militia plans, prosecutors say” at Washington Post.
This Week With The Police:
Read “New video shows altercation between man and New Rochelle detective charged with assault” at Westchester 12 News.
Read “Judge Accepts Nashville Officer’s Voluntary Manslaughter Plea For 2018 Shooting, Leaving Daniel Hambrick’s Family ‘Disgusted’” at WPLN.
Read “Why Cops Are Driving a ‘Game Truck’ Around New York City” at Vice.
Read “Baltimore IG: Police officers allowed to take paid leave and overtime simultaneously” at Baltimore Brew.
Read “Darnella Frazier Filmed George Floyd’s Murder. The Minneapolis Police Just Killed Her Uncle” at Mother Jones.
Education and The Learnings // School Re-Openings
Read “Teaching critical race theory isn't happening in classrooms, teachers say in survey” at NBC News.
Read “Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws Are Un-American” at New York Times.
Read “Former Trump official’s God-and-country nonprofit calls CRT a threat to ‘colorblind society’” at Religion News Service. “Russ Vought, a former Trump official, blames woke pastors for promoting a dangerous and anti-Christian ideology.”
Read “Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University” at NAACPLDF.
Read “Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard University to Create the Center for Journalism and Democracy” at MacArthur Foundation.
Read “How QAnon supporters work to spread ideas via school boards” at MSNBC.
Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:
Read “Pandemic Pushes Millions of Small Thai Companies Into Crisis” at Bloomberg.
Miscellany Cultural Items (and some Technology):
Read “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage” at New York Times.
Read “Wells Fargo tells customers it’s shuttering all personal lines of credit” at CNBC.
Internationalities:
Read “Haiti's president assassinated” at CNN.
Read “What Is Happening in Haiti?” at Vice.
Politics And Sucheries:
Read “VP Harris says DNC will pour $25M into voting rights protection” at AZ Mirror.
Read “How Democrats Lost the Courts” at The Atlantic.
Read “DeSantis won't commit to new review of Florida buildings after condo collapse” at The Hill.
This Week In Political Corruption:
Read “Why are Republicans sticking with Trump? Peer pressure—and we’re all susceptible to it.” at American Magazine.
Music-Related News and Such:
Read “Explore Nikhil Banerjee’s music in Meeting Rivers’ latest Indian classical mix” at Vinyl Factory.
Read “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare” at New Yorker.
Read “Britney Spears: Mother says pop star should be allowed to choose her own lawyer” at BBC.
Read “How Lonnie Smith Found an Unlikely New Collaborator: Iggy Pop” at New York Times.
Read “King Tubby: A Beginner’s Guide To The Prolific Dub Innovator” at Treble.
Browse “M.C. Taylor’s 13 Spiritually Uplifting Songs” at Spirituality and Health.
Read “Vinyl Is More Popular Than Ever. Surprisingly, That's a Problem” at Vice.
Read “Sonic Youth Partner For Premium Running Apparel Collection Modeled By Walter Schreifels” at Stereogum.
Watch “the Chaos of Woodstock 99 Unfold in New Trailer for Upcoming Documentary” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Krist Novoselic on Nevermind’s impact: “So much was going on. And then it all just spectacularly blew up” at Uncut.
Read “MF DOOM Will Be Honored With His Own Street Sign In New York” at Okay Player.
Read “Fender to honour Kurt Cobain and Primal Scream with new guitar collection” at NME.
Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:
Read “On and off stage, Questlove’s Summer Of Soul is an invigorating and inspiring concert film” at AV Club.
Read “Fox News backs away from defending Tucker Carlson after NSA spying claims” at Salon.
Read “Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim” at Axios.
Read “Kyle MacLachlan Cast as Carole Baskin’s Husband in Joe Exotic Series” at The Hollywood Reporter.
Science/Animals/Nature/Environment/Etc.:
Read “What Technology Could Reduce Heat Deaths? Trees.” at New York Times. “At a time when climate change is making heat waves more frequent and more severe, trees are stationary superheroes: They can lower urban temperatures 10 lifesaving degrees, scientists say.”
Read “Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone” at The Register.
Read “Climate change: The craft brewery using algae to cut emissions” at BBC.