Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. Well most of the links this time are depressing news, but I found a fun song for you guys to listen to:

Six13 - Uptown Passover (an "Uptown Funk" adaptation for Pesach) (2015)

2. Three Model Organisms For Taste (May 8) "Young children aren’t going to object to having to draw a lion with wings. Young children love drawing lions with wings. No child has ever said 'I hate lions with wings, I wish my country’s flag was something cool, like a red square on top of a white square.'"

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Links related to the antichrist:

1. Tennessee Republicans pass a map to break up the state's lone Democratic House seat (May 7) "Tennessee Republicans on Thursday passed a new congressional map that would crack Shelby County — home to majority-Black Memphis — into three different districts, in an effort to eliminate the state's lone remaining Democratic-held seat."

TN Democrats Burn Confederate Flag in Dramatic Walkout Over Redistricting (May 8)

And more bad news from Virginia: Court rejects Virginia redistricting in a blow to Democrats' counter to Trump, GOP (May 8)

2. Stuck in limbo: millions of professionals risk losing legal status under Trump pause (April 28) "'Many of these people did everything they could to be on the right side of the law,' Bier said. "And simply because the government just decided one day that they're not going to process their applications and not give them a decision they have no idea, 'Should I leave the country? Is my status expired?''"

3. Republicans want to add $1 billion for Trump's ballroom security to ICE funding plan (May 6) 

4. Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences. (May 7) "Families who live near an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, felt the effects inside their homes when officers tear-gassed the protesters who routinely gathered there. ... Each time the tear gas seeped in, the kids coughed, and their throats often burned. The eldest, a high school senior with asthma, would hide out in his second-floor bedroom."

5. Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth (May 6) "In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot." !!! Definitely get the vitamin K shot for your newborn baby! Hospitals all give this to newborn as a standard procedure, but now because of all the misinformation about vaccines, some parents are refusing it.

6. FBI Director Kash Patel sues the Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences (April 20) Wow pathetic.

7. 'Don Colossus' statue of Trump not a 'golden calf,' pastor insists (May 11) 

Sunday reading (May 10) "As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up."

This Is Not A Golden Calf! (May 12)