Links not related to the antichrist:
1. If you are a North Carolina voter- The Griffin List: Find N. C. Voters Whose 2024 Legal Votes are at Risk of Not Counting "On April 4, 2025, the North Carolina Court of Appeals sided with Griffin’s argument that over 65,000 votes should be tossed out – including those of military members serving overseas." Check to see if you need to "cure" your ballot to make sure your vote is counted. Spread the word.
2. A Ragamuffin Band - My Deliverer (by Rich Mullins) (video posted 2019 but the song is much older than that) I like this song.
3. Montana Adult Trans Bathroom Ban Blocked In Court: "No Evidence" It Protects Women (April 3) "Rather than protect women’s safety, operators of domestic violence and homeless shelters testified that the bill would actually endanger the very people it claimed to protect."
4. Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day (March 18) 12-minute video from Kurzgesagt. I am really interested in this- how our brains take all the raw data we constantly experience, and compress it down to some kind of model of how the world works which makes sense to us. Filtering out a lot of things because it's just not possible to handle all of that data. It means our awareness of reality is an imperfect model- it can never be the real reality.
5. Is this a real orange owl — or AI? (March 26) This is so cool! So beautiful.
6. our place in the justice paradox (March 24) "In this reading, the text in question becomes a charge to work for the structural changes that will eventually bring about the end of poverty while also meeting the pressing needs of those around us."
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Links related to the antichrist:
1. After Marathon Senate Speech, Cory Booker joins Rachel maddow (April 2)
2. Chuck Schumer Is Pushing Young People Away From the Democratic Party With His Toothless Leadership (March 31, via) "Whether it’s watered-down climate policies or half-measures on student debt and health care, the Democratic Party’s reluctance to take bold, unapologetic stances clashes with what young people expect from a so-called progressive movement."
3. US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals (April 7)
4. Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil (April 3)
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6. Posts online correctly cracked the formula for Trump's tariffs (April 3) "This is an insane objective. There is no economic reason to have balanced trade with all countries"
7. Around 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor to seek return of family taken by ICE (April 5, via) "These people are part of the fabric of our community, and we’re not going to let things like this happen without some outrage."
8. Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests (April 5) I'm really proud of all of you who went to these protests.
9. Why has Trump revoked all South Sudanese visas? (April 7)