January 13, 2021 10:35 AM
Mid-Morning Reads for Public Radio Broadcasting Day (January 13)
Good morning-ish, and happy Public Radio Broadcasting Day! On this day in 1910, the first public radio broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera took place in New York. Here are some suggestions for how to celebrate.
Let’s move on to the news.
Pat Conroy
- Yesterday, Georgia hit another sad record for COVID deaths at 145.
- There is a bipartisan push in the General Assembly to replace Georgia’s statue of Alexander Stephens in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol with a statue of John Lewis. (Alternate link.)
- The state has filed a motion for summary judgement in the voter suppression case brought by Fair Fight Action. (Alternate link.)
- President Trump’s pressure on Georgia elections officials figures prominently in the Articles of Impeachment being considered today in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Alternate link.)
Alice Walker
- The world is watching us as we work to repair the damage from last week and the last four years.
- President Trump will be impeached for a second time today – a first.
- Some Republicans are breaking ranks to vote for impeachment today.
- The Secret Service has taken extensive measures to make sure President-elect Biden’s inauguration is safe. (Alternate link.)
- Here is what it looks like at the U.S. Capitol with the National Guard in place.
- Despite new measures being put in place for their own protection, some Republicans are refusing to comply. These are not the same ones voting for impeachment, for what it’s worth.
- The Department of Justice held a briefing yesterday regarding cases against those who participated in last week’s insurrection.
- The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped work on President Trump’s request for an undocumented immigrant count.
- A few Evangelical leaders are calling for a reckoning on how their behavior caused an insurrection.
- 70 dogs have died, prompting a recall of Sportmix dog food.
Flannery O’Connor
- Chuck Norris wants us to all know that he did not participate in the insurrection.
About Author
Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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The latest from “Trouble In God’s Country”:
“The making of a political earthquake that tipped the U.S. Senate”
https://troubleingodscountry.com/
Ten days after a felony phone call to the Georgia SOS, 6 days after a seditionist coup attempting to take over our Capital.
The cowardly conservatives on this site haven’t posted a word of remorse, regret or sympathy for the murdered, maimed and traumatized.
Why would any decent person want to be a part of this group ?
Simple answer. They are not decent people.
“A few Evangelical leaders”? Mr Stetson is the only one I can find willing to speak up regarding “Two Kings” Trump. They knew what they were getting with him from jump but went with him anyway. I’m no one’s judge but admitted physical abuse of women, trying to steal votes, ordering an armed insurrection, and paying $750 in income tax are just a few examples against Christian teachings like turning the other cheek or rendering unto Caesar. Hypocrites abound, but more so with the ones that mix politics and religion.
These people are the first ones to whine about Christianity in decline but are the main reason it is in decline in this country.
Eons ago when I was growing up there was a standard phrase about how politics and religion don’t mix. Maybe that was because of what the WW2 generation saw in Germany. Either way I think we could say now we have seen the results of mixing the two and it has not been good for politics or for religion.
I see that SR5 was sent to rules committee. Let’s hope the Great Senator from the 53rd files it in the garbage can.
So, you don’t condemn the assault upon the Capitol? Or the undermining on Georgia’s elections? Good to know.
He is a troll. Look at his post history, he’ll drop a post fishing for responses. But he will never engage aside from that one post. I guess it’s his version of owning the libs.
Anyway he has to live with Rep Qanon and Dade county will continue to sink in poverty. Ms. Marjorie
“I-never-met-a-conspiracy-I didn’t love” Greene will never bring any bacon to Trenton or the area since the House leadership knows what she is about.