Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 February 2016

…According to Buzzfeed, the latest, radical alteration to Twitter’s user experience could come as early as next week, although the online outlet did not confirm whether the new system would be mandatory.

The news has led to the greatest backlash from Twitter’s userbase this year. #RIPTwitter has been trending internationally all day, with close to a million tweets on the hashtag. Celebrities and users from across the political spectrum are adding their voices to the online protest, and a change.org petition urging Twtter to change course is quickly gathering steam. Troublingly for Twitter, it doesn’t look like the controversy will fade anytime soon.…

Jack Elrod Jr., a Gainesville native who spent 64 years working on the nationally syndicated outdoor comic “Mark Trail,” died Wednesday. He was 91.

Elrod began his time with the comic strip alongside its creator, fellow Gainesville native Ed Dodd, in 1950 and took over the strip in 1978 before retiring in 2014. He also won numerous conservation awards from agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Dodd began the comic in 1946.…

Amidst the controversy over the possible link between the Zika virus and microcephaly in unborn babies, El Salvador’s Ministry of Health reported this week that 13 women infected with the disease had given birth to healthy babies with no signs of microcephaly. …

…Favored intellectual journal of American feminists, Cosmo (the same rag that started the tampon tax nonsense) bemoaned increased birth rates in their latest exposé.

They argue that restricted funding to Texas-based Planned Parenthoods “effectively defunded” the abortion mill. As a result, few claims for contraceptive measure have been filed and more babies have been born in locals where Planned Parenthood is no more.

MORE BABIES?! THE HORROR!…

…On this day in 1778 France officially recognized the United States as a separate country.…

In Derry, New Hampshire last night, Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was introduced by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), two South Carolina congressional Republicans who have endorsed him.…

…Trump is not a conservative. …Trump is a pragmatist. …Viewing problems from a liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems… Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending, globalism to the detriment of American interests and well-being …

…So, two days ago, Donald Trump was sputtering with rage over Ted Cruz allegedly stealing the Iowa election. He was threatening to sue. He was demanding that the Iowa caucus be redone. He was howling like a wounded beagle.

And now?

He’s always liked Ted Cruz and hasn’t ruled him out as his Vice Presidential pick.

But what about his outrage over Iowa?…

“I don’t care about that anymore.”…in my day we called it bipolar this sudden shift from manic to calm. They make movies about crazies like this…

Republican Senator Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is responding to Donald Trump, who has accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of not having friends in the U.S. Senate…

According to the Washington Examiner:

“It makes me mad when Trump says that… Ted Cruz is my friend, so if Mr. Trump or anyone else is saying Ted Cruz doesn’t have any friends in the Senate, I can say unequivocally, that is not true. I am his friend and I don’t regard myself as alone in that either.”…