The Weekly Town Crier (11/27/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (11/27/20).
We’ll Miss You:
Read “David Dinkins, New York's first Black mayor, dies at 93” at CNN.
Read “Hal Ketchum Dies at 67 from Complications of Dementia: 'May His Music Live on Forever,' Says Wife” at People.
Religion and Stuff:
Read “What is the QAnon conspiracy theory?” at CBS News.
Read ‘A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon” at Medium: Curioser Institute.
Read “He’s The Chosen One To Run America”: Inside The Cult of Trump, His Rallies Are Church And He Is The Gospel” at Vanity Fair.
Read “‘America, Nobody Can Serve God and the Military’” by David French.
Read ‘For Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Was a Way of Life” at Christianity Today.
Read “White Christians' voting patterns are an indictment of churches” at National Catholic Reporter.
Read “Poor People’s Campaign mourns 250K COVID deaths, calls for stimulus relief” at Religion News Service.
Read ‘This Will Change Your Life” at The Atlantic. “Why the grandiose promises of multilevel marketing and QAnon conspiracy theories go hand in hand.”
Read “Opinion Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts” at New York Times.
Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:
Read “Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin, has posted a $2 million cash bond and has been released from custody.” at Associated Press.
Read “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Thanks Actor Ricky Schroder for Helping Post $2 Million Bail” at Variety.
Read “'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year prison sentence” at NBC News.
Read “Merrick Garland on list to be Biden's attorney general” at The Hill.
Read “Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups” at Vice.
Read “When It Comes to Race, White Evangelicals Have a Fox News Problem” by Jemar Tisby.
Read “Unite the Right organizer Kessler denied concealed handgun permit” at Daily Progress.
This Week With The Police:
Read “Phoenix City Council votes down creation of police oversight office” at KTAR.
Read “Former Mesa officer pleads not guilty to assault” at 12 News.
Read “Here's what interviewing voters taught me about the slogan 'defund the police'“ at The Guardian. “While 80% of my focus group agreed racism exists in the criminal justice, they are turned off by the slogan – even though they support cutting police funds.”
Read “Former Phoenix police officer 'secretly recorded' women during police stops” at ABC 15.
Read “What's next for Phoenix's 1st civilian review board for police after council hits brakes” at 12 News.
Read “Protests erupt in Omaha after police fatally shoot Black man during traffic stop” at NBC News.
Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:
Read “More GOP Senators Have COVID Than Have Acknowledged That Joe Biden Won” at Huff Post.
Read ‘Trump lawyers to avoid Michigan lawmaker meeting after COVID exposure” at Axios.
Read “Landmark case study finds coronavirus easily transmitted in ideal outdoor conditions” at USA Today.
Read “Donald Trump Jr. Has Coronavirus and Is in Isolation” at Slate.
Read “Why Are States Imposing Virus Curfews?” at New York Times.
Read “Airlines take another hit as CDC warns against Thanksgiving travel” at The Hill.
Read “Santa Claus is ‘immune’ to COVID-19, says Dr. Anthony Fauci” at New York Post.
Read “Ben Carson Says He Was 'Desperately Ill' With The Coronavirus” at NPR.
Read “The Secret Service Is Investigating 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud” at Wired.
Read ‘Fewer International Students at Christian Colleges” at Christianity Today. “COVID-19 causes decline, hurting CCCU campuses.”
Read “A Day in the Life of an Amazon Warehouse Worker” at Wall Street Journal.
Read “Christmas Dies Hard” at The Atlantic. “The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But we live in America.”
Read “Wyoming’s governor has resisted calls for a mask mandate. Now he has the coronavirus” at Washington Post.
Read ‘Pope Francis criticizes people who refuse to wear masks” at CNN.
Miscellany Cultural Items (and some Technology):
Read “Apple Seeks to Keep Secrets From Google In-House Lawyers” at Bloomberg.
Read ‘'Cake Boss' star says 'only time will tell' if he can bake again after injury” at 12 News.
Read “Trauma ran away with my childhood: Losing my father to violence forced me to grow up fast” at Salon. “Trauma is normal. So many of us in Baltimore never really get a chance to be young.”
Read “US Billionaires Have Increased Their Riches By $1 Trillion During the Pandemic” at Jacobin Magazine.
Read “Obama says some Republicans drive message that 'White men are victims'“ at Fox Propaganda.
Internationalities:
Read “Pompeo meets with Taliban delegation in Qatar after mortar barrage kills at least 8 in Kabul” at NBC News.
Read “The Uncertainties of Barack Obama” at Slate. “The former president’s remarkable memoir reveals how he grasped, and struggled with, the ambiguities of a complex world.”
Read “Farmers march: India farmers clash with police in protest march” at BBC.
Politics And Sucheries:
Read “Trump Tweets News That Was So Incorrect Tucker Carlson Had Already Apologized For It” at Comic Sands.
Read “GOP senator calls for cooperation on Biden transition: 'I'd rather have a president who has more than one day to prepare'“ at The HIll.
Read “Biden picks Alejandro Mayorkas for Homeland Security secretary” at Los Angeles Times.
Read the opinion piece “Trump, GOP’s ridiculous, flailing coup isn’t a joke. It’s a crime. There must be consequences” at Inquirer.
Read “Michigan election board votes to certify Biden win, dealing blow to Trump effort” at NBC News.
Read “Biden Picks Janet Yellen To Be Treasury Secretary” at NPR.
Read “The Economy’s Struggles Will Shape Joe Biden’s Presidency” at Wall Street Journal.
Read “Dow hits 30,000 on start of transition to Biden, prospect of Yellen as treasury secretary” at NBC News.
Read “A good deed from the wicked witch?” at Salon. “Actually ending the war in Afghanistan.”
This Week In Political Corruption:
Read “Trump team looks to box in Biden on foreign policy by lighting too many fires to put out” at CNN.
Read “This Was Always the Plan” at The Dispatch. “President Trump telegraphed that he would try to steal the election if he didn’t win.”
Read “Michigan Republicans Abandon Their Effort to Block Election Results” at Mother Jones. “They reversed course at the last minute, thanks to an outpouring of Zoom protest.”
Read “It Actually Was a Landslide: 80 Million Votes and Counting For Biden” at Rolling Stone.
Read “The Real Reason Trump’s Lawsuits Disproportionately Target Black and Latino Voters” at Slate.
Read “President Donald Trump’s campaign announced Tuesday that the Arizona Legislature would hold a public hearing on Nov. 30 about the election, but legislative leaders said they had not authorized any such meeting” at AZ Central.
Read “NRA admits some executives used nonprofit money for personal benefit” at The Hill.
Read “Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Teamowners” at Pro Publica.
Music-Related News and Such:
Read “BBC Set To Air New Fela Kuti Documentary ‘Fela Kuti: Father Of Afrobeat’” at Okay Player.
Read “Meet Shameika Stepney, Inspiration to Fiona Apple on Fetch the Bolt Cutters” at Pitchfork.
Read “Guitarist Snowy White on His Years With Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, and Thin Lizzy” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Watch Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff perform on ‘Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ reunion set” at NME.
Read “Album John Lennon Signed For Mark David Chapman Going Up For Auction” at Consequence of Sound.
Browse “An introduction to Parliament-Funkadelic in 10 records” at Vinyl Factory.
Read “Sex Pistols star Johnny Rotten bitten by a flea after rescuing squirrels” at 1 News. “Johnny Rotten, real name John Lydon, has been bitten by a flea on his penis.”
Read “British Pianist Performs Concert For Thailand Monkeys — And It’s Bananas” at Huff Post.
Read “Ani DiFranco on ‘Revolutionary Love’ and Tending to Wounds” at No Depression.
Read “Trevor Noah to Host Grammys 2021” at Pitchfork.
Read “Why are so many bands selling the rights to their music to faceless companies?” at A Journal Of Musical Things.
Browse Treble’s picks for “18 Albums From 2020 You Might Have Missed.”
Browse Treble’s picks for the “25 Best Albums of 2020.”
Read “How a Japanese medical student and local businessman made one of the most coveted records of all time” at Vinyl Factory.
Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:
Read “How John Belushi Rose From Second City to ‘SNL’ to Stardom” at Variety.
Read “MSNBC to debut docuseries 'Obama'“ at The Hill.
Books/Reading/Authors
Read “‘RS Interview: Special Edition’ With Ta-Nehisi Coates” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book” at Vice.
Design/Artsy Things:
Read “The movement to restore the memory of Spain’s forgotten women artists” at PRI.
Science/Technology/Animals/Nature/Environment/Etc.:
Read “Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth” at New York Times.
Read “Not just lizards - alligators can regrow their tails too” at Eurekalert.
Read “Scientists accidentally discover Australian marsupials glow in the dark” at CNet.
Misc. Oddities:
Read “If You Left A Monolith In A Remote Utah Canyon, Authorities Would Like A Word” at Huff Post.
Read “400 years ago, visitors to this painted cave took hallucinogens” at National Geographic. “People at California’s Pinwheel Cave left evidence of their altered state literally stuffed into its walls—the first physical evidence for hallucinogenic consumption at a rock art site.”
Local:
Read “Arizona Unemployment Rate Increases To 8.0%” at KJZZ.