In the News: Significance of Dems Holding Senate Majority (It's About the Judges); MAGA White Christian Cruelty; Youth Vote; Musk and Twitter

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Joyce Vance, "Democrats Hold the Senate—and the Ability to Appoint Federal Judges," explains why the Democrats retaining control of the Senate is so important: it's about judicial appointments: 

When Many Citizens Embrace a Politics of Cruelty and Malice, the Future...

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Jamelle Bouie notes that the American system of democratic governance depends on at least the pretense that citizens and leaders care about civic virtue. But one of the nation's two major parties has now given up that pretense, and the Republican party's politics of cruelty and malice is just what many of us applaud and want:

Weekly News Roundup by Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global: "What kind of Christian posts a meme on social media that mocks Paul Pelosi after he was violently attacked?"

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Each Friday, Mark Wingfield, editor of Baptist News Global, sends a Friday roundup by email to those on the BNC mailing list. There's not an online link to this weekly roundup, so I can't offer you a link. I would, however, like to share some of Mark Wingfield's commentary from this week's roundup email (boldfacing emphasis is in original):