Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. New Fossil in China Pushes Bird Origins Back 20 Million Years (February 17) "The newly identified B. zhenghensis shares key features with modern birds, such as a short tail fused into a pygostyle, which typically supports the tail feathers." Cool!

2. Dua Lipa - Levitating Featuring DaBaby (Official Music Video) (2020) Just posting because I like the song.

I also like this song: Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (Official Music Video) (2017)

3. Sunday reading (February 16) "'All right, then, I’ll go to hell' — and tore it up."

4. Texas measles cases are up, and New Mexico now has an outbreak. Here’s what you need to know (February 19) 

5. Archive Request (February 17) From xkcd.

6. I don't know if y'all have seen this video from 2010: Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration. It's an American revolution parody of the song "Apologize" and it's AMAZING.

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Luke Skywalker says, "You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father." Obi-Wan says, "The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check." Image source.

Links related to the antichrist:

1. Protests Erupt At Stonewall After Trump Removes Trans People From Monument Website (February 15) 

Also from Erin in the Morning: More Hospitals Resume Trans Care After Trump's EO Temporarily Blocked In Court [AZ, VA] (February 20)

2. Thousands of people protest in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. on Presidents Day (February 17) "In Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, thousands of people gathered at the Capitol Reflecting Pool chanting "Where is Congress?" and urging members of Congress to "do your job!" despite nearly 40-degree temperatures and 20-mile-per-hour wind gusts."

3. AP reporter and photographer barred from Air Force One over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ terminology dispute (February 16)

4. They Are a Minority (February 15) "Trump voters who are finding out in very tangible ways that Trump’s presidency is going to be materially bad for them."

5. Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? (February 10, via) "But what I hear in the repeated insistence that “no one is doing anything” is the underlying belief that there is nothing that can be done. And this troubles me deeply."

This post is a good roundup of ways that people *are* fighting back, with some success, and ways that *you* can help.

6. Trump administration orders lawyers for vulnerable unaccompanied minors to stop their work (February 18, via) "'People like Thomas Homan state that they care about children and want to protect them from trafficking,' said Jonathan Ryan, an immigration attorney in San Antonio affected by the order, criticizing the Trump administration’s border czar. 'This lays bare the cynical lies he tells the American people. What he really wants to do is hurt children and separate families.'" This is horrifying.