The Weekly Town Crier (10/23/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (10/23/20).
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Religion and Stuff:
Read “Evangelicals opposed to Trump step out of the shadows with new groups and ads” at Yahoo.
Read “Stacey Abrams’ passion for voting began with her preacher parents” at Religion News Service.
Read ‘Collins PAC donated hundreds of dollars to two candidates who support QAnon” at The Hill.
Read “Christian Witness Demands That We Defend Truth—and Reject Donald Trump” at The Public Discourse.
Read “Pat Robertson Prophesies That Trump Will Win Reelection, Then the End Times Will Begin” at Right Wing Watch.
Read “Pope Francis, in Shift for Church, Voices Support for Same-Sex Civil Unions” at New York Times.
Read “Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin” by John Piper at Desiring God. “When a leader models self-absorbed, self-exalting boastfulness, he models the most deadly behavior in the world. He points his nation to destruction. Destruction of more kinds than we can imagine.”
Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:
Read “Black man serving life sentence for stealing hedge clippers granted parole” at NBC News. “Fair Wayne Bryant was sentenced in 1997 under the state's habitual offender law. On Thursday, a parole committee voted for his release.”
Read “Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ, disabled clients” at NBC News. “A state regulatory board removed the discrimination protections following a recommendation from Gov. Greg Abbott.”
This Week In Protest-Related News:
Read “SF archbishop performs exorcism to cleanse protest site” at SF Gate.
Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:
Read “Swiss yodellers blamed for worst supercluster of coronavirus cases in Europe” at Telegraph.
Read/Watch “Fact-checking Trump's false claims on virus” at MSNBC.
Read “Covid-19 Patients Put Remote Care to the Test” at Wall Street Journal. “Doctors and hospitals have strived to replace some in-person care with telemedicine during the pandemic.”
Miscellany Cultural Items:
Browse “24 spooky places to visit around the world” at National Geographic.
Read “The future of public transportation in the US depends on who wins the election” at CNN.
Read “Helping Hands Need A Break, Too: How To Lend Support Without Burning Out” at NPR. “If you're feeling numb or overburdened these days in response to another's pain or request for help, that doesn't make you unkind. You could be experiencing compassion fatigue.”
Politics And Sucheries:
Read “Americans Are Voting Early At A Record Rate” at Huff Post.
Read “Trump's closing pitch to voters admits that America has to be made 'great again' all over again” at Yahoo.
Read “After GOP Sen. Ben Sasse was recorded unloading on Trump, Woodward said other Republican senators “feel exactly the same way” at MSNBC.
Read “Progressive group: Feinstein must step down as top Democrat on Judiciary panel” at The Hill.
Read “Bob Woodward, Wolf Blitzer Claim GOP Senators Privately Criticize Donald Trump” at Huff Post. “After GOP Sen. Ben Sasse was recorded unloading on Trump, Woodward said other Republican senators “feel exactly the same way.”
Read “U.S. Budget Gap Tripled to Record $3.1 Trillion in Fiscal 2020, Treasury Says” at Wall Street Journal. “Spending soared 47% in year ended Sept. 30 as government rolled out programs to battle coronavirus and recession.”
Read “Inside the Fall of the CDC” at Pro Publica. “How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.”
Read “John Kerry Is Mad as Hell” at Rolling Stone. “The former senator, presidential nominee, and Secretary of State on the “nincompoop” in the White House, the decimation of America’s reputation abroad, and what needs to be done to restore it.”
Read “Court rejects bid to extend vote counting on Navajo Nation in Arizona” at KTAR.
Read ‘Cruz, other Senate Republicans to release plan barring ‘court-packing’” at Washington Post.
Read “Perdue’s mocking of Kamala Harris yields nearly $2M haul for his rival” at AJC.
Read “Trump's Twitter hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password” at The Guardian.
This Week In Political Corruption:
Read “Joe Kennedy III campaign says it improperly spent $1.5 million in Senate primary” at Boston Globe.
Read ‘Rudy: Only ‘50/50’ Chance I Worked With a ‘Russian Spy’ to Dig Dirt on Bidens” at The Daily Beast. “In a wild interview, the president’s personal attorney made clear he believes he’s on a mission to torpedo the Bidens. And he doesn’t care who supplied the ammunition.”
Read “Giuliani's 'October Surprise' already shows signs of backfiring” at MSNBC News. “This week's revelations were supposed to make Joe Biden look bad. Instead, they're proving to be a far bigger problem for his GOP accusers.”
Read “Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule” at The New Republic.
Read “Kanye West defends his candidacy after 'SNL' joke” at The Hill.
Read “Nicolas Cage and Marilyn Manson in Conversation” at Interview.
Read “Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film” at The Guardian. “Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic.”
Read “The US Eliminated Nearly 21,000 Election Day Polling Locations for 2020” at Vice.
Music-Related News and Such:
Read “First Posthumous Ennio Morricone Collection Will Feature Seven Unreleased Tracks” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Brian Wilson Disavows Mike Love’s Beach Boys Playing Trump Fundraiser” at Pitchfork.
Read “Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano” at New York Times.
Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:
Read “Boston news anchor fired for appearing in Hubie Halloween” at AV Club.
Design/Artsy Things:
Read ‘From Miles Davis to Jon Hassell: the psychedelic covert artwork of Mati Klarwein” at Vinyl Factory.
Science/Animals/Technology/Environment/Etc.:
Read “This Scientist Is Fighting to Save Coral Reefs—and Recruiting Other Women to Join Her” at Time.
Read “2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru” at New York Times.
Food Cultures:
Read “A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad” at Gastro Obscura. “Archaeologists found muskrat, turtle, and other edible remains in Harriet Tubman Country.”
Read “Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries” at Gastro Obscura.
Misc. Oddities:
Read “Rancher reports another mutilated cow in E. Oregon” at Capital Press.
Local: