Blogaround

Links not related to the antichrist:

1. AOC Rebukes Anti-Trans Democrats, Calling Them “Shameful” And “Wrong” For “Scaring So Easily” (October 23) "She then went on to fully defend transgender people, calling the attacks on trans people an attempt to demolish Title IX: 'So this administration, in focusing and trying to gin up hatred against trans Americans, the Trump administration, while everyone was focused on that, quietly defunded the civil rights division of enforcement in the administration on Title IX. And so understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they’re also attacking all women’s ability to stand up against their abusers, their rapists, and their assaulters on campuses across America. And that’s why I think it’s very important for all of us to understand and to feel and to know that our fight is united. It really is united.'"

Also from Erin in the Morning: Iowa Dem Josh Turek Releases Anti-trans Ad Calling For A Federal Funding Ban On Trans Care (October 26) "But Turek then goes further, advocating for a new policy: a proposal to ban federally funded gender-affirming care in the United States, one that would impact a substantial number of transgender people and make their care difficult to impossible to receive."

And: Don’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans Democrats (October 26) "What I am asking is that transgender people, and the people who care about us, find the line they would draw on any other fundamental human rights issue, and draw it here: do not give the worst anti-transgender Democrats your vote. Leave that line blank, vote for every other candidate, and make sure the story of 2026 is not that the Democratic Party has to accept anti-transgender policy in order to win."

2. The Jewish and Pagan Mythological Origins of Revelation 13: The Beasts from the Sea and the Earth and the Fear of Nero’s Return (April 24) "These coins featured the portrait of Nero, sometimes with additional elements depicting the emperor as divine. Before long, it would have been difficult or impossible for Jews and Jewish Christians in Palestine to engage in commerce without handling these new coins."

Interesting article about how "the mark of the beast" could have been "idolatrous" images on Roman coins.

3. Reel to Real: The ‘Voy Boys’ and the Movie That Never Was (October 27) "Blind football [soccer] uses a modified ball with bells inside, allowing players to locate it by sound, and is played on an enclosed 40-by-20-meter pitch. Each team fields four visually impaired outfield players, all in blackout eye masks, and one sighted or partially sighted goalkeeper. Teams can also use a sighted off-field guide to call and direct players toward the goal."

4. Asexual Portals and Dank Feelings: Review of Debbie Urbanski’s Portalmania (June 3, via) "While reading the collection, I was hit very hard by this ace character and the unbearably punishing tension she experiences as a result of the presence of permissible ongoing sexual assault by her husband, bolstered by a rape culture of friends, therapists, and family who continually excuse it by pathologizing instead asexuality."

5. Patrick Stewart, a perceptive patriarch in 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men,' dies at 86 (October 29) As a Star Trek fan, I love him.

Captain Picard, the character that Patrick Stewart played on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Image source.

6. Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois midterm election (October 30) Love to see Americans voting from abroad!

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Links related to the antichrist:

1. Vivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limits (October 26) "Now, with the torrent of media coverage that has resulted, anyone who sees the ad won’t say, “Jeez, if her own mother says she’s a liar, I’d better not vote for her.” Instead, they’re more likely to say, “Oh, there’s that ad with Amy Acton’s mother, the one who let her daughter get raped by her dirtbag husband. What the hell is wrong with Vivek Ramaswamy thinking this is going to make me want to vote for him?” And even those who will never see the ad know all about it."

2. The Stakes of What’s Happening at Christianity Today (October 24, via) "A journalistic enterprise that caves under a complaint from one pastor is doomed."

(Sometimes it's hard to sort which links are "related to the antichrist" and which aren't. This one, I decided, *is* related, because it's a direct result of the way evangelicalism has sold its soul to him.)

3. Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul Alleges Donald Trump Raped Her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993 (October 26)

And the full report, published by the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, with accounts from 5 women who "have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence": We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up