Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. (March 14) "Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment. Even a state prisoner on a hunger strike has more rights to make medical decisions."

2. The best cause will disappoint you: An intro to the optimisers curse (February 11, via) "This is a mathematical demonstration that, in our simple model, an approach of naively investing in the top apparent EV intervention is straight up wrong."

3. Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds (March 25)

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Links related to the antichrist:

1. There is a No Kings protest on March 28. Go protest~

2. Robert Mueller, ex-FBI director who led 2016 Russia inquiry, dies at 81 (March 21) 

3. How one Minnesota school is bouncing back after the ICE surge (March 22) "In St. Paul, nearly two months of virtual learning ended just this week, but at the Spanish immersion school, not every student came back: One family is now in El Salvador, others are in Mexico, and others moved to Nebraska and California, states that felt safer for them. Another family is heading back to Venezuela soon."

4. He's one reason why aid cuts weren't as dire for the HIV population as predicted (March 20) "'The entire treatment ecosystem was sort of shredded,' she says. 'And then it becomes a question of like: Are we happy with providing the absolute bare minimum?'"

5. Flowing Against Fascism (March 17, via) "Standing with my rabbi, my friend, I was struck by how calm this moment was, despite the utter chaos surrounding us. Officer No-Name and his ilk—some 60 strong—created a barricade, kettling us observers and creating space for officers to drag our community members from the house. Local, state, and federal officers pressed out, with the weight and threat of a fascist administration behind them. A man and two women (one who looked like a teen) being perp-walked through the middle of the crowd, for no purpose but to impress upon us all that the state is powerful and we are not. That none of us are safe. That the raids will continue until polling improves."

6. The Crime of Witness (February 26, via) "Watchfulness is the most dangerous form of resistance because it obstructs the Trump regime’s project of habituation. Fascism works by making the extreme normal. Habit, as Samuel Beckett has it, is a great deadener. It has been obvious since the start of Trump’s second term that he is trying to make the sight of armed and masked men with virtually unlimited powers one to which Americans are accustomed."

7. Democrats flip seat in Florida state house in district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (March 24) Yesss.