The cast of GLEE (courtesy Fox) Some news items you might have missed: • Out: Discovery+ has announced a new three-part docu-series that will go behind the scenes (and controversies) of Fox’s groundbreaking and wildly popular teen musical TV show GLEE. • Queerty: In addition to her legendary career on film, TV and Broadway, Angela Lansbury was tireless in fundraising for AIDS-related causes during the worst years of the epidemic, before effective treatments became available. • Washington Post: The House committee investigating the violent January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol building voted unanimously to subpoena Donald Trump for testimony. Nothing will come of it, but they had to for history. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1580672425716584448 • Quinnipiac Polling: The race for U.S. Senate in Georgia remains essentially unchanged with Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock leading Walker 52 – 45 percent, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters. Last month’s Quinnipiac poll showed basically the same results. • COVID-19: A new wave of coronavirus infections appears to have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, according to the World Health Organization. https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1580227048672411649 • Axios: A 12-person jury recommended life in prison without parole for Nikolas Cruz, the gunman responsible for the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. If ever there was a case for the death penalty… • Twitter: Nut-job Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defended Alex Jones after a jury ordered Jones to pay nearly $1 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims. “No matter what you think of Alex Jones all he did was speak words…That’s what freedom of speech is. Freedom to speak words.” https://twitter.com/LauraChapin/status/1580323416221003776
