All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (03/12/21).

We’ll Miss You:

Read “Roger Mudd, longtime TV newsman, dies at 93” at Politico.

Read “Lou Ottens, inventor of the audio cassette tape, has died” at NME.

Religion and Stuff:

Read “After Ravi Zacharias report, Christians examine how to avoid ‘betrayal blindness’” at Religion News Service. 

• Read “Ravi Zacharias’s Ministry Plans Name Change, Calls for More Victims to Come Forward” at Christianity Today.

Read “A Missouri pastor is reportedly seeking 'professional counseling' after he told women to lose weight and strive to be like Melania Trump for their husbands” at Insider.

Read “Slavers and Heresy: A Response to Tom Nettles” by Marty Duren.

Read “Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’” at Religion News Service. “Because of her opposition to Trump and her outspokenness in confronting sexism and nationalism in the evangelical world, Moore has been labeled as “liberal” and “woke” and even as being a heretic for daring to give a message during a Sunday morning church service.”

• Read “Beth Moore Inspired Scores of Southern Baptist Women. They Don’t Blame Her for Leaving.” at Christianity Today.

Read “‘Til Kingdom Come’ examines link between end-times theology and Israel politics” at Religion News Service.

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

Read “How the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act is being used in this latest Trump lawsuit” at NBC News.

Read “Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled With Young People of Color” at The Marshall Project.

Read “The Secret Burglary That Exposed J. Edgar Hoover's FBI” at NPR.

Read “Google HR 'suggested medical leave' for racism victims” at BBC.

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

Read “Transcript theater: Defendant in Trump riot case throws 'tantrum' over being held in jail” at MSNBC.

Read “Trump White House associate tied to Proud Boys before riot via cell phone data” at The Hill.

Read “'QAnon Shaman' scolded by federal judge for appearing on '60 Minutes'“ at The Hill.

Read “White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI report warns” at Yah

Read “Florida Man With Alleged Links To Oath Keepers Charged Over Capitol Riot” at NPR.

Education and The Learnings // School Re-Openings

Read “Ducey back-to-school order leaves educators shocked, scrambling, upset” at Cronkite News.

Read “Texas state lawmaker introduces bill to set minimum teacher salary at $70K” at The Hill.

Read “Lawmaker pushes to allow concealed weapons in Texas public schools” at News 4 San Antonio.

Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:

Read “Cuomo staff hid higher COVID death toll as New York governor sought to profit from book” at Salon.

Read “Florida Official Calls On FBI To Investigate ‘Red Carpet’ Vaccines For State’s GOP Donors” at Huff Post.

Read “Biden Administration To Order 100 Million More Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Shots” at Huff Post.

Miscellany Cultural Items (and some Technology):

Read “Crypto enthusiasts burn and digitize Banksy artwork” at CBS News.

Read “The Improbable Time When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982)” at Open Culture.

Read “The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates” at Pro Publica.

Read “Guam governor offers Greene history book after falsely calling US territory a foreign land” at The Hill.

Internationalities:

Read “Prepaid postcards going to every household in Canada to boost 'meaningful connection'“ at The Hill.

Read “Man running for office in Japan has Joker makeup and an unusual platform” at Boing Boing.

Politics And Sucheries:

Read “No One’s Buying the Republicans’ Deficit Fearmongering Anymore” at The New Republic.

Read “Trump presses GOP to stop using name for fundraising” at The Hill.

Read “Senate rejects Cruz effort to block stimulus checks for undocumented immigrants” at The Hill.

Read “Broad Public Support for Coronavirus Aid Package; Just a Third Say It Spends Too Much” at Pew Research.

Read “'Cold war-era weapon': $100bn US plan to build new nuclear missile sparks concern” at Guardian.

This Week In Political Corruption:

Read “Paul Gosar: MTG In Lifts” at The Bulwark. “An insurrection-planning, white-nationalist-collaborating congressman remains uncensored and unchallenged. Why?”

Read “Trump Appointee At VOA Parent Paid Law Firm Millions To Investigate His Own Staff” at NPR.

Read “Texas utility manager rejects calls to fix $16B in overcharges” at The Hill.

Read “Song of Suppression” at Public Citizen. “Disney Backed 96% of Florida Republicans Who Sabotaged Voting Rights Ballot Initiative, Contributed Over $800,000 Between 2016 and 2020.”

Read “Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen to meet again with Manhattan DA in Trump probe” at Reuters.

Read “Trump told Ga. investigator he won the state: 'You'll be praised' for 'the right answer'“ at The Hill.

Read “New York Assembly to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo; 59 state lawmakers call for resignation” at USA Today.

• Read “New York Lawmakers To Launch ‘Impeachment Investigation’ Into Cuomo” at Forbes.
  
  
  

Music-Related News and Such:

Read “Metallica Donates $75,000 to Texas Food Banks” at Spin.

Listen to “Jeff Parker on John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” at Maximum Fun.

Read “John Lurie: ‘I wanted to break into Martha Stewart’s house and change the curtains. My lawyer said no’” at Guardian.

Read “Women Underrepresented in Popular Music, New Study Finds” at Pitchfork.

Read “Audio Ammunition: A Documentary Series on The Clash and Their Five Classic Albums” at Open Culture.

Read “Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”: Music’s Greatest Work in Progress” at Pitchfork.

Read “With Seven Weeks at No. 1, Morgan Wallen Breaks a Chart Record” at New York Times.

Read “Why Do NFTs Matter for Music?” at Pitchfork.

Read “See Patti Smith’s Special Pop-Up Mini-Concert at Brooklyn Museum” at Rolling Stone.

Read “'The party that never ended': An oral history of Alice Cooper's 'Love it to Death' at 50” at AZ Central.

Read “In the Beatles' "Hey Jude," you can hear someone say "Fucking hell!"“ at Boing Boing.

Read “Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson on Keeping the Texas Band Alive, Alert and Swinging for 50 Years” at Variety.

Movies/TV/Video Games/Etc.:

Read “John Amos Looks Back on 50 Years in Hollywood” at Time.

Read “Understanding Trauma, Grief, and Resilience In WandaVision” at Consequence of Sound.

Read “Bad Reputation: An Oral History of the Freaks and Geeks Soundtrack” at Consequence of Sound.

Read ‘Fox News will be 'loyal opposition' to Biden, Fox CEO says” at NBC News. “Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says it is the job of Fox News to serve as the opposition to the Biden admin., stating clearly the political biases of a network that until 2017 billed itself as "fair and balanced."

Read “‘We Started With Sitcom Boot Camp’: Director Matt Shakman on the Making of ‘WandaVision’” at Rolling Stone.

Read “Safdie Brothers-produced Pee-Wee Herman / Paul Reubens documentary coming to HBO” at Brooklyn Vegan.

Design/Artsy Things:

Read “Who Spends Millions on NFTs? Meet Beeple’s Crypto-Rich Early Collectors” at Art News.

Read “Download Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of 500 Japanese Prints, Which Inspired Him to Create “the Art of the Future” at Open Culture.

Science/Animals/Nature/Environment/Etc.:

Read “Soft robot reaches the deepest part of the ocean” at Nature.