The Weekly Town Crier (03/19/21)

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All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (03/19/21).



We’ll Miss You:

Read “Died: Larry Walker, NIV Translator Who Loved Bible Details” at Christianity Today.

Read “Henry Goldrich, Gear Guru to Rock Stars, Is Dead at 88” at New York Times.

Read “Boxing Legend Marvin Hagler Dies At Age 66” at Huff Post.

Religion and Stuff:

Read “RZIM will end apologetics ministry” at Christianity Today. “Ravi Zacharias International Ministries will become a grant-making organization, CEO Sarah Davis tells employees.”

Read “Faith leaders push back against proposed ‘Souls to the Polls’ voting restrictions” at Religion News Service.

Read “My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out” at Buzzfeed.

Read ‘Cruelty Is Apostasy” by David French. “Reflections on Beth Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention.”

Read “Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Leaves Liberty University Think Tank” at New York Times. “Liberty University opted not to renew Charlie Kirk's contract at the Falkirk Center. The unconventional think tank, which is now missing both halves of its portmanteau (Falwell + Kirk), will be renamed the Standing for Freedom Center.”

Read “A Kentucky Church’s Secret to Handling Abuse Allegations: Humility” at Christianity Today.

Read “Atlanta suspect blamed women for ‘tempting’ him. Purity culture does the same” at Religion News Service. “Christian communities must reexamine attitudes that blame women for men’s sexual problems.”

Read “LifeWay Research: U.S. Protestant Pastors See Gender Change as Immoral” at Christianity Today. “As gender fluidity grows more accepted in wider culture, most Protestant pastors remain traditional.”

Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:

Read “George Floyd Family Reaches $27 Million Settlement With City of Minneapolis” at Wall Street Journal.

  • Read “What It’s Like Inside the Now ‘Cop-Free’ Zone Where George Floyd Was Killed” at Vice.

Read “Breonna Taylor’s Killing Forced Black High School Girls To Grapple With Uncertainty” at WFPL.

Read “Restoring Pell Grants—And Possibilities—for Prisoners” at The Atlantic. “Classes inside prison give people a sense of community, a sense of purpose, a sense of identity, and a sense of hope.”

Read ‘Racists attack Asian American chef who criticized Texas over mask mandate” at The Hill.

  • Read “Asian American community on edge after deadly shooting in Atlanta” at The World.

  • Read “Elderly Asian woman fights off attacker in San Francisco” at The Hill.

Read “Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead; man captured” at Associated Press.

  • Read “Massage Parlor Massacres Suspect Said He Loved Guns & God” at Daily Beast.

Read “Is Critical Race Theory Racist?” by Brad Mason.

Read “Immigration Is Not a “Crisis”” at Slate. “What would our laws look like if we stopped treating migration as a problem to be solved?”

Read “Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong” at National Geographic.

Read “Man Wanted by Police Arrested Near Residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, Gun and Ammo Found in Car” at NBC Washington.

Read “Dem Rep. Plays Some Of The Racist Voicemails She Was Hit With For Condemning Anti-Asian Hate” at Comic Sands.

Read “Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public” at Law and Crime.

Read “Armie Hammer under investigation by LAPD sex crime detectives” at Los Angeles Times.

Read “Teen Vogue’s New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets” at Daily Beast.

This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments // and/or other “American monuments” // and/or weird Confederacy stuff):

Read “Two Men Have Been Charged With Assaulting The Officer Who Died After The Capitol Riot” at Buzzfeed News.

Read “George W. Bush on US Capitol insurrection: 'I'm still disturbed when I think about it'“ at CNN.

This Week With The Police:

Read “Essential California: LAPD’s handling of summer protests sharply criticized in report” at Los Angeles Times.

Read “Retired Gila County sergeant wins PTSD workers’ compensation claim” at KTAR.

Read “Kentucky Senate votes to criminalize insulting police in way that could cause ‘violent response’” at Washington Post.

Education and The Learnings // School Re-Openings

Read “How Google's New Career Certificates Could Disrupt the College Degree” at Inc.

Read “DeSantis: Civics curriculum proposal will 'expressly exclude' critical race theory” at The Hill.

Read “Education Dept. Begins Rolling Back Trump-Era Policies On Defrauded Students” at NPR.

Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:

Read “How anti-vax rhetoric sneaks past Instagram’s content moderation system” at Salon.

Read “Passenger on flight from Seattle to Denver accused of refusing mask, urinating in cabin” at Oregon Live.

Miscellany Cultural Items (and some Technology):

Read “Seth Rogen’s new cannabis site temporarily shut down due to high demand” at NME.

Read “Michigan State announces basketball team will now be called 'MSU Spartans Presented by Rocket Mortgage' at Yahoo.

Read “Why the GameStop story is far from over” at BBC.

Read “Don’t Trust Civilization”: ‘Soldier of Fortune’ Magazine and the Masculine Myth” at We Are The Mutants.

Read “Serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman arrested yet again, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport” at CBS News.

Read “Goldman Sachs Commits $1 Billion to Fund Diverse-Led Businesses” at Forbes. “Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it’s doubling a commitment to investing in companies run by women and people of color to $1 billion.”

Read “No One Has Ever Wanted Anything More Than This City Wants a RoboCop Statue” at Vice.

Read “San Antonio Tussaud’s Pulls Wax Donald Trump Because People Keep Punching It” at Consequence of Sound. “The former president has been moved to a storage closet for his own protection.”

Internationalities:

Read “Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Charged With Bribery, Faces 15 Years In Prison” at Bloomberg.

Read “Kenya's High Court Upholds Crucial Ban on FGM in Much-Needed 'Boost' for Activists” at Global Citizen.

Read “China: 'Furious and sad' about violence against Asian Americans in US” at The Hill.

Read “Sri Lanka Mulls Banning Burqas and Closing 1,000 Madrassas” at Christianity Today.

Read “Japan’s Pot Laws Are Harsh, But Its Pensioners Invest in Growers” at Bloomberg.

Politics And Sucheries:

Read “Sen. Marco Rubio endorses Amazon warehouse union drive in surprise op-ed” at The Verge.

Read “A survey of Republicans shows 5 ‘tribes’ have emerged following Trump’s presidency” at New York Times.'

Read “GOP Rep. Suggests Gun Control Isn't Needed Because Bible Characters Killed Each Other Without Guns” at Comic Sands.

Read “How Mean Tweets—And Bad Predictions—Threaten to Derail Another Biden Nominee” at The Dispatch.

Read “Effort to recall Newsom gathers over 2M signatures, enough for possible ballot measure” at The Hill.

Read “Harry Reid calls for killing the filibuster: ‘60% is not a real democracy’” at MSNBC.

Read “Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy” at Five Thirty Eight.

This Week In Political Corruption:

Read “Cuomo Says He Will Not Resign Despite Calls From Prominent New York Democrats” at NPR.

Read “'Dangerous for democracy': Why these GOP state legislatures want to restrict voting rights” at Go Erie.

Read “McCaskill: 'Treasonous' Giuliani played into Putin's hand” at MSNBC.

Read “Republicans who tried to overturn election vote against medals for Capitol, D.C. police at Salon.

Music-Related News and Such:

Read “The Weeknd 'will no longer submit music to Grammy Awards' after snub” at BBC.

Read “Genre Is Disappearing. What Comes Next?” at New Yorker.

Read “Why Spotify’s Ex-Global Head Of Music Publishing Thinks Streaming Services Should Be Paying Songwriters More Money” at Music Business Worldwide.

Read “R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills Look Back at Out of Time at 30” at Spin.

Read “Grammys 2021 Winners: See The Full List Here” at Pitchfork.

  • Read ‘Taylor Swift Wins Album of the Year at 2021 Grammys for folklore” at Pitchfork.

  • Read “Billie Eilish Wins Record of the Year at 2021 Grammys, Says Megan Thee Stallion Should Have Won” at Pitchfork.

Browse all the covers the Grateful Dead performed.

Read “Henry Rollins on Some of His Favorite Crate-Digging Experiences” at Discogs.

Read “The Many Lives of Judee Sill” at Rolling Stone. “After an abusive childhood and run-ins with the law, she grew into one of the most captivating singer-songwriters of the Seventies. More than 40 years after her death, could the world finally be ready to appreciate her?”

Read “Garth Brooks Lays Plans For Chris Gaines Album Reissue With Unreleased Songs” at American Songwriter.

Read “Justice Send Cease-and-Desist to Justin Bieber Over New Album” at Pitchfork.

Browse “A Guide to 25 Years of Mogwai” at Bandcamp.

Read “What the Spotify/K-Pop Showdown Underscores About the Future of Streaming” at Ptichfork.

Read “Artists Earned $21 Million on Bandcamp in the Last 30 Days” at Microchip Substack.

Read “Britney Spears Is Reportedly Considering a Tell-All Interview with Oprah Winfrey” at Harper’s Bazaar.

Read “Sunburned Hand of the Man merges woe and joy on Pick a Day to Die” at Chicago Reader.

Read “Sun Kil Moon’s Mark Kozelek Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Seven More Women” at Pitchfork.

Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:

Read “'The Talk' extends hiatus; Sharon Osbourne says she's 'been set up' after heated exchange” at USA Today.

Books/Reading/Authors

Read “The 69 Pages of Writing Advice Denis Johnson Collected from Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Hunter Thompson, Werner Herzog & Many Others” at Open Culture.

Read “Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel” at WOKV.

Design/Artsy Things:

Read “Halsey to sell her art for the first time in NFT auction” at NME.

Read “Visit the Largest Collection of Frida Kahlo’s Work Ever Assembled: 800 Artifacts from 33 Museums, All Free Online” at Open Culture.

Science/Animals/Nature/Environment/Etc.:

Read “Scientists created human tear glands in a dish — and then made them cry” at Salon.

Misc. Oddities:

Read “Trying To Explain Aliens To Your Kids” at WPDH.

Read “Mysterious UFO above Phoenix remains a mystery 24 years later” at 12 News.

Read “It started flying towards us’: Mysterious fireball ignites blaze in Peachland” at Global News.

Local:

Read “Mountainside Fitness founder leaves CEO role, considers run for governor” at KTAR.

The Weekly Town Crier (08/28/20)

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All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (08/21/20).

We’ll Miss You:

Read “R.I.P. Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali” at AV Club.

Read “Justin Townes Earle Dead at 38” at Pitchfork.

  • Read “Justin Townes Earle Died From ‘Probable Drug Overdose,’ Police Spokesperson Says” at Spin.

Read “Arizona coaching legend Lute Olson dies at age 85” at AZ Desert Swarm.

Religion and Stuff:

Read “To prevent the next Christian scandal, shrink the integrity gap” at Religion News Service. “Currently on a leave of absence from Liberty University because of some controversial social media posts, Falwell has also demonstrated that as a leader’s influence grows, so must his or her commitment to integrity.”

  • Read “Liberty Trustees Hold Special Meeting, but Don’t Decide Whether to Remove Jerry Falwell Jr.” at Julie Roys.

  • Read “Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years” at Reuters. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room."

  • Read “Jerry Falwell Jr. and the Evangelical Redemption Story” at The New York Review of Books. "The redemption stories peddled by the evangelical right are never about a sinner who repents after a lifetime of exploiting renters as a landlord, after being horribly racist to black people or abusive toward women."

  • Read “Falwell says Fatal Attraction threat led to depression” at Washington Examiner.

  • Read “Ready, Set, Trump: Big-Money Faith, Football, and Forgiveness at Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Liberty University” at The Ringer (from 12/2019). ‘Falwell is one of the bulwarks of the religious right, an heir to his father’s Moral Majority. His family has built its legacy on the intertwinement of faith and politics, fighting for prayer in schools and against gay marriage. Yet Falwell seems to be suggesting that his political activity is no longer guided by his Christian beliefs. So I ask how much his faith informs his political views. “Not at all,” he says.

  • Read “Falwell denies reports of his resignation” at Politico.'

  • Read “Liberty University says Jerry Falwell Jr. agreed to resign, then changed his mind” at NBC News.

  • Read “Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns as head of Liberty University” by quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. at Boing Boing.

  • Read “Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns as head of Liberty University, will get $10.5 million in compensation” at Washington Post.

  • Read “Was Liberty’s Board Set up to Support Falwell or Liberty?” at Christianity Today.

  • Read “Jerry Falwell Jr. May Be Owed $10.5 Million by Liberty University” at Wall Street Journal.

  • Read “Let Liberty University Be A Lesson In Unchecked Power” by Karen Swallow Prior at Religion Unplugged.

  • Read the opinion piece: “Jerry Falwell Jr.’s fall, Liberty University and the myth of the Moral Majority” at Religion News Service.

  • Read “‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with Becki Falwell” at Politico. “A former student at the evangelical university opens up about a 2008 incident with the wife of the school’s president.”

Read the opinion piece: “Let’s help evangelical Christians break free of the shame that drives them” at Baptist News.

Read “Confessing Complicity in Systemic Sin” at Christianity Today.

Read “Summer Unrest over Racial Injustice Moves the Country, But Not Republicans or White Evangelicals” at PRI

Read “Joe Biden’s acceptance speech caps off an unusually faith-filled Democratic National Convention” at Religion News Service.

Read “When What Is Lawful Is Lethal” at Christianity Today. “Structural sin may be legal, but that doesn’t make it right.”

Read “Turkey Turns Another Historic Church into a Mosque” at Christianity Today.

Read “More Than God-Talk” by Diana Butler Bass. “"A Field Guide to Religion and Politics.”

Read “This interview tells us a lot about John MacArthur and the movement he represents” at The Way of Improvement. “Watch what MacArthur does here. He equates biblical teaching with abortion, homosexual marriage, and transgenderism. That’s it. For MacArthur, biblical thinking about politics essentially comes down to these three things.”

Read “Evangelical Anti-Trafficking, Humanitarian and Denominational Organizations Petition Ivanka Trump to Protect Vulnerable Children” at World Relief.

Read “How has religion played a role in Donald Trump’s presidency?” at The Atlantic.

Read “Pastor, 16-Year-Old Girl Among Latest 11 Christians Murdered in Nigeria” at CBN

Read “How QAnon Conspiracy Is Spreading In Christian Communities Across The U.S.” at NPR.

  • Read “QAnon Is a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing” at Christianity Today.

  • Read “Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead” at Technology Review. “How the growing pro-Trump movement is preying on vulnerable churchgoers to spread its conspiracy theories.”

Read “Trump’s Faithful: Franklin Graham, Navajo VP, Freed Pastor Andrew Brunson on GOP Convention Lineup” at Christianity Today.

  • Read “Republican National Convention to include several conservative Christian speakers” at Religion News Service. “There’s nothing sheepish about this insidious internet demon.”

Read “American Evangelicalism isn’t patriarchal or feminized. It’s matrilineal” at Mere Orthodoxy. “Matrilineal societies are centuries old systems that organize community life so that the day-to-day activities of women are placed at the center of social thriving for successive generations.”

Read “'Let's Fix Our Eyes on Old Glory' - Pence Speech Draws Criticism From Some Faith Leaders” at CBN. “Pence, however, substituted the flag for Jesus, calling on Americans to support a second Trump term by saying  "let's run the race marked out for us. Let's fix our eyes on Old Glory and all she represents.”

Legal/Justice and Social Justice and Race or Gender or Sexism-Related Stuff:

Read “'Severe inhumanity': California prisons overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks and approaching fires” at The Guardian.

Read “Trump Cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials” at NBC News. “If we don't enforce this, it is the end of our country as we know it," said Trump adviser Stephen Miller, according to officials present at a White House meeting.”

Read “The scheduled execution of the only Native American man on federal death row is highlighting the Navajo Nation's struggle for sovereignty” at AZ Central.

Read “An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son” at Vice. “"Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons," anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.”

Read “Gov. Polis Calls Homeless Sweeps Near Capitol ‘A Relief’” at Denver CBS Local.

Read “‘Death is Everywhere’ Millions More Uyghurs Missing CJ Werleman 24 August 2020” at Byline Times.

Read “Alaska’s Attorney General Resigns Hours After We Published “Uncomfortable” Texts He Sent to a Younger Colleague” at Pro Publica.

Read “Guns Are Still Being Sold on Facebook Marketplace” at Wall Street Journal. “Firearm sellers are finding new ways to disguise weapon listings after lawmakers called on Mark Zuckerberg to better police the site’s Marketplace last year.”'

Read “Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals” at New York Times. “Companies that value homes for sale or refinancing are bound by law not to discriminate. Black homeowners say it happens anyway.”

Read “U.S. cities sue federal government over untraceable 'ghost guns'“ at Reuters.

Read “Migrants Giving Up on America Are Using Coyotes to Smuggle Them Home” at Vice.

Read “We Need to Talk About the GOP’s ‘Black Friends’” at The Nation.

This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments // and/or other “American monuments” // and/or weird Confederacy stuff):

Read “Hurricane Laura Topples Confederate Statue After Vote to Keep It” at NBC Chicago.

This Week In Protest-Related News:

Read “Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signs bill upping penalties on some protests” at News Channel 5.

Read “Teens4Equality and People's Plaza lead rally against Tennessee's new anti-protesting law” at The Tennessean.

Read “Protesters rally over fatal police shooting of Black man in Louisiana” at Axios.

Read “Violence in Portland after far-right groups rally” at Axios.

  • Read “Feds in Portland Now Unrestrained in Removing Journalists at Protests” at Courtroom News.

Read “How rural organizers are building community connections and power” at The Forge.

Read “Chicago police arrest 13 people after tents are set up outside CPS headquarters to protest officers in schools” at Chicago Tribune.

Read “Armed COVID-19 Protests Exploit Open Carry Loophole” at Every Town Research.

Read “Dozens Arrested In Louisville Protest Calling For Justice For Breonna Taylor” at NPR.

  • Read “What Breonna Taylor's mother thought of AG Daniel Cameron's Republican convention speech” at Louisville Courier-Journal.

Read “Jacob Blake handcuffed to hospital bed, father says” at

Read “Trump says Wisconsin governor to allow federal assistance in Jacob Blake protests” at Axios.

Read “Facebook takes down ‘call to arms’ event after two shot dead in Kenosha” at The Verge.

Read “17-year-old arrested after 2 killed during unrest in Kenosha” at Associated Press.

  • Read “A 17-Year-Old Aspiring Cop Has Been Charged With Murder In Kenosha” at Vice. “Police arrested Kyle Rittenhouse, a onetime police cadet, whose social media accounts indicated an affinity for the "Back the Blue" movement.”

  • Read “Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shootingFacebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting” at The Verge.

  • Read “Kenosha police chief says 3 people wouldn't have been shot during protests if they weren't illegally out past curfew” at Insider.

    • Read “Kenosha Sheriff in 2018: ‘There’s Some People That Aren’t Worth Saving’” at Rolling Stone. “Sheriff David Beth called on shoplifters to be “warehoused” for life to stop “these males [from] going out and getting 10 other women pregnant.”

  • Read the opinion piece: “Arrested, Charged And…Celebrated By The Right” at News and Guts. “With no denunciation, or even a mention from the president about his actions, a teenage boy who allegedly carried out a murderous spree is suddenly being hailed a hero by some.”

Read “Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest” at NBC News.

Read “Protesters Try to Drown Out Trump Speech, Confront Sen. Paul” at NBC Washington.

Read “‘We’re more than just basketball players,’ Ray Allen says of sports boycotts” at PBS News Hour.

  • Read “Kushner: NBA players are "very fortunate" to be "able to take a night off from work" at Axios.

  • Read “NFL teams suspend practice over Jacob Blake shooting” at Axios.

  • Read “NBA players decide to resume playoffs after boycott” at Axios.

This Week With The Police:

Read “The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse” at Pro Publica.

Read “Blue Bloods: America’s Brotherhood of Police Officers” at Vanity Fair. “To understand the citadel of law enforcement, we must reckon with its unions—which resemble fraternities more than labor unions.”

Read “We Are Tracking What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protestors” at Pro Publica.

Read “Black Family Who Had Phoenix Cop Pull Gun on Them Over 'Stolen Doll' to Receive $475K From the City” at The Root.

Education and The Learnings and School Re-openings:

Read “Career Advice The Pandemic Is Forcing Teachers Out Faster Than Ever, and We Might Not Recover” at We Are Teachers.

Read “Teachers could stay in classroom if exposed to COVID-19” at 12 News.

Read “Teachers shot by plastic pellets during training drill sue sheriff's department, officers” at Indy Star.

Read “New taskforce to examine ventilation in every NYC school classroom by next week” at NY Daily News.

Read “Parties, Basketball, Slip-and-Slides: ASU Student Employees Say Campus Is a Health Risk” at Phoenix New Times.

Read “Some Arizona students may have been exposed to COVID-19 during the first week” at AZ Central.

Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:

Read “Maine CDC now links 53 COVID-19 cases to Millinocket wedding reception” at Press Herald.

Read “Ex-FDA chief rebukes Trump over claim that "deep state" has slowed virus treatments” at Axios.

  • Read “Mark Meadows defends Trump's "deep state" attacks on FDA” at Axios.

Read “FDA, under pressure from Trump, authorizes blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment” at STAT News.

Read “Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh Terrorized By Neighborhood TikTok Influencers’ “COVID Parties” at Stereogum.

Read “F.D.A. ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say” at New York Times.

Read “American Airlines to lay off 17,500 frontline workers due to coronavirus travel slump” at USA Today.

Read “Why the economic value of a face mask is $56.14” at The Economist.

Read “Zoom weddings: A blessing in disguise?” at PRI.

Read “Crowd Shatters Glass To Get To Idaho House Session On Virus” at Associated Press.

Read “As His Mom Fought Covid-19, a Med Student Gained End-of-Life Insights” at Wall Street Journal.

Read “Kentucky Man Accused Of Breaking Canada's COVID-19 Rules Faces $569,000 Fine” at NPR.

Read “Are U.S. medical experts being influenced by the Trump administration?” at PBS News Hour.

Miscellany Cultural Items:

Read “Pence on QAnon: "I dismiss it out of hand" at Axios.

  • Read “QAnon looms behind nationwide rallies and viral #SavetheChildren hashtags” at NBC News.

  • Read “Texas QAnon Supporter Used Car to Attack Strangers She Believed Were ‘Pedophiles’” at Right Wing Watch.

  • Read “GOP leader: 'There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party' at The Hill.

Read “National Enquirer Chief David Pecker Out After AMI Merger” at Daily Beast.

Read “Big Basin, Home To Majestic Coast Redwoods, Is 'Gone'“ at Alt1053.

Read “In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’” at News and Guts. “He has no principles. None.”....“His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” she said. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”

Read “Over 3.5 billion lack reasonably reliable access to electricity” at Axios.

Read “For $5,500, you can have your body composted in Washington for an environmentally friendly burial” at Religion News Service.

Read “Massive California wildfires expected to get worse as lightning, wind storms move in” at Los angeles Times.

Read “Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion” at Forbes.

Read “Hurricane Laura smashes parts of Louisiana and Texas, killing 6 and leaving widespread wind damage” at CNN.

Internationalities:

Read “Satellite photos appear to show Chinese submarine using underground base” at CNN.

Read “Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being” at New Scientist. “Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing.”

Read “How Israel wages war on Palestinian history” at Mondo Weiss.

Read “Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to resign for health reasons” at Axios.

Politics And Sucheries:

Read “Sen. McSally urges supporters to donate to her campaign instead of buying a meal” at AZ Family.

Read “Kanye West’s Presidential Campaign Is Both Proceeding and Unraveling” at The Intelligencer. “I called up all of the electors Kanye West submitted in Virginia today. Of the 13 electors on the ballot, 7 were surprised to either be electors, to have signed anything connected with Kanye or both.”

Read “Kushner plans trip to Middle East to encourage more Gulf states to normalize with Israel” at Axios.

Read “Trump Changes Convention Schedule, Plans To Speak Every Night” at News and Guts.

Read “Barr says he's "vehemently opposed" to pardoning Edward Snowden” at Axios.

Read “Trump says the 2020 DNC was ‘gloomiest’ in history” at PBS News Hour.

Read “Pelosi says "of course" she would accept election results if Trump wins” at Axios.

Read “Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake Endorses Joe Biden For President” at KJZZ.

Read “Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project” at CNN.

Read “Key moments from Harris and Biden's first joint interview” at Axios.

Read “Poll Finds Just 13% of Voters Still Up for Grabs for Trump, Biden” at Wall Street Journal.

Read “Richard Spencer Backs Joe Biden, Says 'MAGA/Alt-Right Moment is Over' at Newsweek.

Read “Trump campaign releases second-term agenda” at Axios.

Read “The psychological wage of liberalism was laid bare at the DNC” at Christian Century. “If democracy is a moral abstraction instead of an embodied struggle, it won’t survive.’

Read “Don Jr. Threw Some Shade At The Loch Ness Monster During His RNC Speech, And People Are Pissed” at Comic Sands.

Read “RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World” at Daily Beast.

Read “A fascist manifesto is gaining fans on the right, including state Sen. Roger Chamberlain” at Minnesota Reformer.

Read “Ex-Intel Chief: 'I Wish We Had Taken More Action' Against Russian Meddling” at NPR.

Read “'Country First': More than 100 former staffers of Sen. John McCain endorse Joe Biden” at AZ Central.

Read “Trump casts Biden as vessel for "wild-eyed Marxists" in 70-minute RNC speech” at Axios.

  • Read “CNN adds second chyron to fact-check Trump's RNC speech” at Axios.

Read “Mike Pence hopes four years of subservience to Trump paves his political future” at Washington Post.

Read “House Democrats say subpoena for Trump's financial records meets Supreme Court's requirements’ at Axios.

This Week In Political Corruption:

Read “How Much of the Right Is a Financial Scam?” by David French at The Dispatch. “Steve Bannon’s alleged fraud is the tip of the con-artist iceberg.”

Read “What the Heck Are Trump “Boat Parades”—and How Is the Steve Bannon Arrest Connected?” at Slate.

Read “More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016” at NPR.

  • Watch “Postmaster says ‘no idea’ mailboxes, equipment being removed” at PBS News Hour.

  • Read “Postal trucks sometimes travel across country - with no mail - after USPS cuts” at News Channel 5.

Music-Related News and Such:

Read “Pyramids Rebuilt: An Interview With Idris Ackamoor” at Passion of the Weiss.

Read “Van Morrison asks artists to speak out against socially distant concerts: 'Fight the pseudo-science'“ at Yahoo.

Read “New Pylon Box Set Announced” at Pitchfork. “The 4xLP collection includes the Georgia group’s two studio albums, unreleased tracks, and more.”

Read “John Doe of Punk Legends X Riffs on Their New Album and Not Winning Awards” at Phoenix New Times.

Movies/TV/Gaming/Etc.:

Read “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero Doesn’t Love the Look of Canada’s B99 Remake” at Vulture. The actress was disappointed to see the remake had rewritten two characters as white: 'I'm suddenly curious about the Latina population in Quebec'.

Read “Your guide to intelligent, nonviolent video games” at America Magazine.

Read “Theaters pitch consumers to return with new safety standards” at Axios.

Read “Sterling K. Brown: Black Actors Have Waited 'A Long Time To Be Fully Recognized'“ at NPR.

Read “Judge Tosses Age Discrimination Claim in ‘Simpsons’ Composer Alf Clausen’s Firing” at Variety.

Read “HBO Shares First Trailer for David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ Film, Directed by Spike Lee” at Relix.

Books/Reading/Authors

Read “Boris Johnson and the revenge of the school librarian” at TES

Science/Animals/Technology/Environment/Etc.:

Read “An Elusive ‘Corpse Lily’ Bloomed Larger Than Ever Before in Indonesia” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Asteroid heading our way day before presidential election” at New York Post.

Read “Bizarre Brains Of The Animal Kingdom” at Science World.

Read “Mystery human ancestor discovered, Ireland's most haunted mansion goes on sale, 1,300-year-old shipwreck uncovered” at All That’s Interesting.

Food Cultures:

Read “The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza” at Gastro Obscura.

Misc. Oddities:

Read “Netflix Captures One Man’s Weird, Wonderful Mission to Contact Aliens by Playing Kraftwerk” at Daily Beast.

Read “David Bowie used to store his urine in the fridge to stop witches stealing it” at Far Out Magazine.

Local:

Read “Arizona Supreme Court says ballot measure to legalize marijuana can appear on November ballot” at AZ Central.

Read “Instagram deletes account advertising ASU COVID-19 parties” at KTAR.

Read “Maricopa County won't pursue charges over explicit photos of Arizona lawmaker sent to lobbyist” at AZ Central.

Read “NASCAR Legend Michael Waltrip Races into Phoenix to Open a New Brewery” at Phoenix Magazine.

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Read “Legendary Batman writer, Denny O'Neil dies at age 81” at Games Radar.

Read “Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them” at Religion News Service.

Read “Jesus Was Divisive: A Black Pastor's Message To White Christians” at NPR’s Code-Switch. “Of course, they are willing to sacrifice black and brown bodies to hear a full-throated hymn.”

Read “Apartheid’s Roots Nourished By Religion” from January 1985’s Chicago Tribune.

Read and Sign an “Open Letter to Our Nations’ Lawmakers on Systemic Racism” from The Poor People’s Campaign. "The question before us is whether America can be what it has promised to be." We will not stop until we can all breathe.

Read “Most US Pastors Speak Out in Response to George Floyd’s Death Survey finds many still worry discussing race is “too political” at Christianity Today.

Read “Before protests, black Americans said religious sermons should address race relations” at Pew Research.

Read “A Brief History of People Using Romans 13 to Justify White Supremacy” at The Root (originally published 2018).

Read ‘In landmark case, Supreme Court rules LGBTQ workers are protected from job discrimination” at NBC News. “The decision said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's sex, also covers sexual orientation and transgender status”

Read “Supreme Court blocks Trump’s bid to end DACA, a win for undocumented ‘Dreamers’” at Washington Post.

Read “Number of Refugees World-Wide Has Doubled in Past Decade Nearly 80 million people were displaced from their homes at the end of 2019, according to the U.N.’s refugee agency” at Wall Street Journal.

Read “Colonialism’s Cages: When Indigenous People Were Placed In Human Zoos” at All That’s Interesting.

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

  • Read “The meaning of Juneteenth and how we should commemorate it today” at MPR News.

  • Learn about Juneteenth at Teen Vogue.

  • Read “Trump claims he made Juneteenth "very famous" at Axios. “I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous." The president claimed that "nobody had ever heard" of the June 19 celebration before he planned a rally in Tulsa on that day.”

  • Read “Juneteenth: A Truer Independence Day The official end of slavery in America more fully embraces the self-evident truth of all people as created equal” at Christianity Today.

  • Read “Juneteenth – 7 Books for Kids!” at Englewood Review of Books.

  • Read “Amid Calls for a General Strike, Labor Will Shut Down 29 Ports on Juneteenth” at Truthout

Learn about Medgar Evers.

Learn about Ruby Bridges.

Learn about “The Trail Of Tears: Government-Approved Ethnic Cleansing That Removed 100,000 Native Americans From Their Ancestral Lands” at All That’s Interesting.

Read “Top Military Leaders Acknowledge Black and Hispanic Service Members Get Treated Unfairly in Its Justice System” at Newsweek.

Read “Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trump’s response to racial tensions in the country” at Washington Post.

Listen to “'Lean Into Discomfort' When Talking About Race” at WBUR.

Read “The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street' at Smithsonian.

Read “Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is 'based on a racial stereotype' at NBC News.

  • Read “Aunt Jemima's logo has changed 6 times, and its history is rooted in racial stereotypes and slavery — check out how the brand started and evolved over 130 years” at Business Insider.

Read “Is Genocide Happening In Nigeria As The World Turns A Blind Eye?” at Forbes.

Read “Beyond Berets: The Black Panthers as Health Activists” at US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health.

Learn about the “Boogaloo movement” at CNN.

  • Read “The 29-Year-Old Bodybuilder Behind the Armed Effort to Reopen Texas A month ago Philip Archibald was stuck inside his Dallas home, unable to work. Now he commands a heavily armed network of anti-lockdown vigilantes, some with extremist leanings” at Texas Monthly.

  • Read “Members of armed civilian group arrested, suspected gunman identified after man is shot at Albuquerque protest” at Washington Post.

This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments):

  • Read “George Floyd's uncle calls on South Dakota police department in his hometown to remove Confederate flag from their logo” at Daily Mail.

  • Read “Trump's history of defending Confederate 'heritage' despite political risk” at ABC News. (EDITOR’S NOTE: You don't get to call yourself "The Party of Lincoln" while defending Confederate symbols.

  • Read “Taylor Swift Speaks Out Against Tennessee’s Confederate Monuments” at Stereogum.

  • Read “Tennessee just showed that white supremacy is alive and well; Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous” at Washington Post.

  • Read “Is this the end for public monuments to the Confederacy?” at PBS News Hour. "While some argue the monuments honor Southern ancestors, Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center says most went up either early in the 20th century or during the civil rights era, as racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan flexed their muscle.”

  • Read "NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace on banning the Confederate flag and a new generation of fans” at PBS News Hour.

  • Read “Cities Are Removing Racist & Confederate Statues That Protesters Have Targeted” at Now This!

  • In modern-day Confederate news, Read: “Mitch McConnell: We paid for 'sin of slavery' by electing Obama” at USA Today.

  • Read “Statue of Josephus Daniels, publisher and white supremacist, removed from Raleigh square” at The News and Observer.

  • Read “Columbus To Remove Christopher Columbus Statue At City Hall” at WOSU.

  • Read “Letting Go Of The Lost Cause: Confederates Were Racist Traitors The Civil War ended 155 years ago. We need to finally correct the historical record. The Confederates were racist traitors and should not be celebrated” at Rantt Media.

  • Read “Kingston Decides to Swap One George Clinton for Another” at Hudson Valley River News.

This Week in Protest News:

  • Read “'Riots', 'mobs', 'chaos': the establishment always frames change as dangerous” at The Guardian.

  • Read “Tear Gas: An Investigation. What it is, how it is abused and why you should care” at Amnesty.org.

  • Read “What the Heck is Going On In Seattle?” at Medium.

  • Read “Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” at Seattle Times. (EDITOR’S NOTE: MAYBE, Just Maybe, Fox “News” isn’t news after all but propaganda?”

  • Read “Trump draws rebukes for suggesting 75-year-old protester pushed to the ground in Buffalo was part of a ‘set up’ at Washington Post.

  • Read “As protests continue, black women activists are leading again” at PBS News Hour.

  • Read “The Small-Town Antifa Invasion That Never Came Hundreds of people in Klamath Falls, Oregon, rallied with guns and bulletproof vests in response to a Facebook rumor” at Slate.

  • Read “US law enforcement surveilled protests with drones, spy planes” at Al Jazeera.

    • Read “AOC Wants to Know Why the Hell a Predator Drone Was Spying on Protesters The military-grade Predator B drone was far outside the 100-mile operational zone of Customs and Border Protection” at Vice.

  • Read “Kneeling Protest, Once a Flashpoint, Now a Widespread Symbol of Solidarity Four years after Colin Kaepernick was shunned, demonstrators, police and lawmakers embrace the gesture” at Wall Street Journal.

  • Read “The George Floyd demonstrations turned into a movement when the protesters began to sing It was as if the spirituals of the Civil Rights waited, just below the surface, to surge forth once more” at Dallas News.

  • Read “Black Lives Matter is Winning, and They Don’t Need Advice from the Liberal Establishment” at Due Dissidence.

  • Read “Cornel West on US protests: The chickens have come home to roost Activist and scholar talks to Middle East Eye about the Black Lives Matter movement and the roots of neoliberalism that need to be dismantled” at Middle East Eye.

George Floyd:

  • Read “George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America” at Scientific American. “The weaponization of medical language emboldened white supremacy with the authority of the white coat. How will we stop it from happening again?”

Breonna Taylor:

Read “Sen. John Cornyn’s distorted interpretation of ‘systemic racism’ displayed what a lot of Americans don’t get about it. A witness at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on policing reform offered a lesson on what it means” at Washington Post.

This Week With the Police:

  • Read “Unarmed professionals will now respond to non-criminal police calls in San Francisco to reduce 'police confrontations' at Yahoo.

  • Read “Atlanta officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks has been terminated” at

  • Read “Police Have Long History of Responding to Black Movements by Playing the Victim” at Truthout.

  • Read “Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer Policing in this country evolved from slave patrols. It has never been a neutral institution” at ACLU.

  • Read “'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds. Newly released video of the 2019 incident shows officers restraining Derrick Scott, 42, who is heard asking repeatedly for his medicine and saying he can’t breathe” at NBC News.

  • Read “Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing” at The Atlantic.

  • Read “They Were the Authority and I Didn’t Argue With Authority” In an era before rape kits, Sue Royston decided to fight for justice even though the police doubted her, the prosecution discouraged her, and those around her dismissed her story” at Pro Publica.

  • Read “Seattle Council Bans Police Use of Crowd Control Weapons” at New York Times.'

  • Read “Lawsuit: Arizona's Use Of Private Prisons Violates The U.S. Constitution” at KJZZ.

  • Read “'Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over' - iPhone shortcut helps record police interactions An iPhone shortcut that allows users to automatically record their interactions with the police is gaining popularity” at ABC 7.

  • Read “Defund The Police? Columbus Police Account For More Than A Third Of City's Budget” WOSU.

This Week In Prison Abolition:

  • Read “What Is Prison Abolition? The movement that is trying to think beyond prisons as a tool to solve society’s problems” at The Nation.

  • Read “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” at New York Times.

  • Read “What Abolitionists Do” at Jacobin Magazine. “Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.”

  • Read “The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation” at History Is A Weapon. A conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez.

Read “Autopsy report says Rayshard Brooks was shot twice in the back, lists manner of death as homicide” at CNN.

  • Read “Ex-Atlanta Police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks charged with felony murder” at CNN.

Read “A short history of black women and police violence” at The Conversation.

Read “The Sacrifice Black Children Shouldn’t Have to Make This country prizes Black children’s precocity — insists on it, even, much of the time” at The Cut.

Read “Law Professor On Misdemeanor Offenses And Racism In The Criminal System” at NPR.

Read “Loving Day: 53 years after the Supreme Court overturned laws banning interracial marriage Mildred and Richard Loving took their case to the highest court after they were arrested for living together as an interracial married couple in Virginia” at WFAA.

Read “‘A change is gonna come’: Reimagining public safety” by Jim Wallis for Religion News Service.

Read “In U.S., 87% Approve of Black-White Marriage, vs. 4% in 1958 Ninety-six percent of blacks, 84% of whites approve” at The Guardian.

Read “Starbucks to allow baristas to wear Black Lives Matter attire and accessories after social media backlash” at CNBC.

Read “Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration” at NPR.

Read “How some researchers are using data science to fight sex trafficking” at America Magazine.

Read “John Cleese Blasts the BBC After 'Fawlty Towers' Episode Gets Removed for Using the N-word "We were not supporting [these] views, we were making fun of them... If people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?" at Exclaim.

Read “'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society” at NPR.

Read “Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work” at PBS News Hour.

Read the history of NYPD Challenge Coins at Research and Destroy.

  • Read “Stories about people who have the right to remain silent, but choose not to exercise that right—including police officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who secretly recorded his supervisors telling officers to manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests” at This American Life.

Read “Federal Executions Set To Resume After Nearly 2-Decade Hiatus” at NPR.

Read “These companies are giving their employees time off for Juneteenth A growing list of companies have decided to make Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in America, a paid company holiday” at 5 News Online.

Read/Listen to “A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America” at NPR.

Read “University of California divests from fossil fuels, puts $1 billion into clean energy” at Cronkite News.

Read “Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting” at Science Post.

Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:

  • Read “#TheArizonaWay doesn’t include a plan to stop spiking COVID cases” at Arizona Mirror.

  • Read “CDC warns U.S. may reimplement strict coronavirus measures if cases go up ‘dramatically’” at CNBC.

  • Read “‘The direct result of racism’: Covid-19 lays bare how discrimination drives health disparities among Black people” at Stat News.

  • Read “Our masked future Wearing a mask all the time affects how we interact with each other. But how?” at Vox.

  • Read “After six months of coronavirus, how close are we to defeating it?” at The Guardian.

  • Read “Argentina pastor turns church into bar in protest at uneven coronavirus restrictions” at The Guardian.

  • Read “Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own” at Washington Post.

  • Read “FDA revokes authorization for hydroxychloroquine” at Market Watch.

  • Read “How Independent Music Venues Are Fighting for Their Existence” at Pitchfork.

  • Read “Pence Tells Governors to Repeat Misleading Claim on Outbreaks” at Washington Post. In other words: “Pence Tells Governors to Lie Like He Does . . . “

  • Read “Fauci said US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad that even doctors couldn't get enough” at Business Insider.

  • Read “Partygoers have been packing Arizona bars. Now the state is a coronavirus hot spot” at Los Angeles Times.

  • Read “Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey: Arizonans Must Learn To Live With The Coronavirus” at KJZZ.

  • Read “Record spike in new coronavirus cases reported in six U.S. states as reopening accelerates” at Reuters.

  • Read “Judge Orders Trump Administration To Give Tribes Their COVID-19 Relief Funds The Treasury Department was planning to sit on $679 million in emergency aid that was due to go to tribal governments months ago” at Huff Post.

  • Read “'It may save your life': Facing virus surge, more U.S. states mandate masks” at Reuters.

Read “There’s No Going Back to ‘Normal’ Once we accept, and grieve, that our old way of life is gone, we can build a better future” at The Atlantic.

Read “When Donald Trump tried to stage a coup: Was June 1 the turning point? Last week our president tried to send the Army into America's streets. Aides pushed back, but it was a close call” at Salon.

Read “Bolton Says Trump Impeachment Inquiry Missed Other Troubling Actions at New York Times. “Mr. Bolton also adds a striking new allegation by saying that Mr. Trump overtly linked trade negotiations to his own political fortunes by asking President Xi Jinping of China to buy a lot of American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election. Mr. Trump, he writes, was ‘pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.’”

  • Read “Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book” at Washington Post.

Read “Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji' at NPR.

Read “Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its cra

Read “Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its crackdown on misinformation The label marks the fourth time Twitter has added labels to the president’s tweets” at Washington Post.

Read “Democrats also gain from the border wall The militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border was always a bipartisan effort, with symbolism that’s useful to both parties” at High Country News.

Read “History says Trump's low approval rating is unlikely to move” at CNN.

Read “Biden running mate search zeroes in on group that includes at least four black women” at Washington Post.

Read “Poland Accidentally Invades Czech Republic In 'Minor Misunderstanding' at NPR.

Read “For Fans Of: Sonic Boom’s “All Things Being Equal” at Bandcamp.

Read “Understanding Blackness to understand Black art” at The Wire. “Does the diversity of your record collection reflect the diversity of your real social life or approach to the world?”

Read “Lady Antebellum Is Now ‘Lady A.’ But So Is a Blues Singer Who’s Used the Name for 20 Years “This is my life. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time,” says the original Lady A, a 61-year-old black singer who’s released multiple records under the name” at Rolling Stone.

Read “David Crosby: ‘Trump Is Far More Dangerous Than Nixon’ “My democracy that I love so much is failing and being abused to death,” Crosby says” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind” at DNYUZ.

Read “Trouser Press’ entire ’70s/’80s magazine run now available online for free” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Read “The Prescient Power of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Maybe Alanis Morissette was angry, but mostly she was lucid” at Tidal.

Read “Lemmy Kilmister Biopic in the Works” at Pitchfork.

Read “2020 Americana Music Award Nominations Reflect Roots Music’s Rich Diversity” at No Depression.

Read “GET TO KNOW… SAMMY BRUE” at DIY Magazine.

Watch “David Bowie blast MTV for not playing enough Black artists in 1983” at Brooklyn Vegan. “It occurred to me, having watched MTV over the last few months, that’s it’s a solid enterprise, really. It’s got a lot going for it. I’m just floored by the fact that there are so few black artists featured on it. Why is that?"

Read “The Roots and Michelle Obama to Host Virtual Music Festival” at Pitchfork.

Read “Rose City Band: Summerlong review – a gorgeous record” at The Guardian.

Read “Bob Dylan Has Given Us One of His Most Timely Albums Ever With ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Michael Stipe, Chad Smith and other rock stars featured in trailer for 'Creem' magazine documentary” at ABC News Radio.

Read "Neal Casal Music Foundation Launches With Tribute Album to Late Guitarist Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, and Billy Strings cover Casal’s songs on ‘Highway Butterfly’; a book of the musician’s photos is also on tap” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Live Nation Wants Artists to Take Pay Cuts and Cancelation Burdens for Shows in 2021” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Inside Out makes the profound case that sadness is good” at AV Club.

Read “Inside Out makes the profound case that sadness is good” at AV Club.

Read “Meet Hercules, One of America’s Early Celebrity Chefs Heralded for his food, the enslaved cook headed the first presidential kitchen” at Gastro Obscura.

Read “Phoenix artists fighting racial injustice with public murals Around town, murals are starting to appear supporting a message of equality” at 12 News.

Read “Roll The Windows Down And Take A Drive Down Kayenta-Monument Valley Scenic Road In Arizona” at Only In Your State.

Read “There may be more than 36 intelligent alien civilizations in the Milky Way, scientists say” at CBS News.

Read “Surge Letter To Churches - June 2020” at Surge Network.