Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 39 (September 21, 2020)

George Floyd protests - Wikipedia
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Local protests began in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota before quickly spreading nationwide and in over 2,000 cities and towns in over 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests continued throughout June, July, and August, with polls at the time estimating that between 15 million and 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making the protests the largest in United States history.

The Grill Pill: An Attainable Ideal in a Time of Political Polarization
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On what it means to be grill pilled. "Basically, just a few people treating each other decently is about all we can hope for."

Was Jesus A Socialist? ❧ Current Affairs
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I recently discovered Daniel Walden's book reviews on Current Affairs.

"the world at which we aim, the kingdom whose coming Christ proclaimed, will not settle our debts and contracts but abolish them completely; that even those who didn’t join the struggle until the eleventh hour will be welcome at the feast; that the moment at which love appears utterly defeated, when it looks to the world like a victim crucified by state violence, will in the end be revealed as love’s final, all-embracing triumph."