Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. Just not right (September 2) "Why? Because “justice” and “righteousness” could not be allowed to remain similar in meaning by people seeking to regard themselves as righteous but desperate to avoid justice."

Hey here's a thought, what if Romans 3:10, "there is no one righteous, not even one," should be interpreted more along the lines of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" rather than "everyone deserves to go to hell for not being perfect."

2. Sea Level (August 29) From xkcd.

3. China military parade 2025 LIVE: Weapons on display as Putin and Kim Jong Un attend event (September 3) 1-hour-59-minute video. Oh look, a country that actually knows how to put on a military parade.

My husband is Chinese and he's so into this parade.

4. ‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry (September 4) "A woman branded as the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, becoming the fifth and final defendant charged in Perry’s overdose death to admit guilt."

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Links related to the antichrist:

1. This weekend in Trump's effort to make fascism happen (September 2) "But, fighting back matters. And many are doing so. It works — both in fact, as to specific outcomes, and also to dismantle their propaganda of fear."

2. Judge rules against National Guard in LA, and Trump vows to send them to Chicago (September 2) "Today's ruling — even if it holds up on appeal — would not impact the use of the guard in other places because it was based on the specific circumstances of what kind of duties the guard has performed in Los Angeles and whether it was overstepping its powers over civilians."

3. Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report (September 2) "The DOE's Climate Working Group consisted of four scientists and one economist who have all questioned the scientific consensus that climate change is a large threat to the world and sometimes frame global warming as beneficial."

4. Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago (August 26, via) "Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous: we are watching and we are taking names."

5. Lysenkoism Comes to America (September 1) "Also like Lysenko, Kennedy is a crank."

6. Denver Schools Defies Trump Trans Bathroom Ban: "We Will Protect All Of Our Students From This Hostile Admin" (September 3) "They also rejected the administration’s interpretation of Title IX, writing: 'The interpretation put forward by OCR would undercut our equity commitments, contradict our mission, harm the very students we are entrusted to support and would have a devastating impact on the East High School and the broader LGBTQ+ community.'"