Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news (January 15, via) "Unless an article has been taken down entirely, just about every link to a Wikipedia page created in the past quarter-century still works. Its article on Nicolás Maduro is still in the same place it was when first created in 2006, 4,493 edits ago. How many news articles published online in 2006 still live at the same address? Vanishingly few."

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Links related to the antichrist:

1. ‘Call to Unity’ re-enactors on MLK Day (January 21) "And those other bullet points? The ones about this church having a pastor who 'is also the acting field director' for the federal occupation of their community in the name of white supremacy and ethnic cleansing?"

2. ‘It’s a damn shame’: Park Service crews dismantle President’s House exhibit on slavery (January 22) "The signage was part of the exhibition 'The President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation,' which was unveiled in December 2010. It provided information about the nine enslaved people who then-president George Washington brought with him to the Philadelphia presidential residence and Washington’s ties to slavery."

5-year-old Liam Ramos, a little boy with a little fluffy hat, being detained by ICE.

3. ICE detains 5-year-old Minnesota boy; school leader says agents used him as ‘bait’ (January 21) "According to Stenvik, masked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday as he returned home from school with his father."

How an errand for a 12-year-old immigrant in Minneapolis became an underground operation (January 21) "He's a single father, and he told NPR that over the last few weeks he's been so afraid of being picked up by ICE that he isn't going outside unless a volunteer can take him where he needs to go. This is how he gets to work. It's why he couldn't rush home to help his daughter when she called him."

The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children (January 22) "'We haven't gone outside for anything in almost a month,' the mother, A, says in Spanish. NPR is only using her first initial because she is an asylum seeker, and is afraid Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, will deport her."

Videos and eyewitnesses refute federal account of Minneapolis shooting (January 25) "It's the second fatal shooting in Minneapolis by immigration agents this month, and once again Trump administration officials immediately defended the action as self-defense while blaming the victim — in this case claiming he was a 'domestic terrorist' intending to 'massacre' officers."

The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action (January 25) "It is an astounding order that reflects the Trump administration’s complete failure to govern for the people, a horrifying reality."

Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures (January 24) "Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport Friday, and several thousand gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown."

4. Here's how 'shared decision making' for childhood vaccines could limit access (January 25) "'These vaccines have clear evidence of benefit for all children,' says Jake Scott, an infectious disease researcher at Stanford University. 'So moving them to shared decision-making doesn't reflect the scientific uncertainty that the category exists for. It manufactures this sort of uncertainty where no uncertainty really exists.'"