Daily Links #106: Trump admin. dismantles pro-LGBTQ policies

• Politico examines the Trump administration’s pervasive dismantling of pro-LGBTQ policies, particularly in healthcare.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court releases their independently drawn, non-gerrymandered congressional map. Predictably, it slashes the old map’s Republican advantage, though the state remains red.
  (via @fark)

• The Georgia Senate advances a bill that would allow adoption agencies to use religion as a pretense to refuse same-sex couples.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Meanwhile, Wyoming Republicans’ anti-gay “parody marriages” bill comes to a very predictable end.

• Judge tosses out Pennsylvania Creationist’s idiotic lawsuit complaining about Evolutionary Theory being taught in science classrooms.

• Icelandic religious groups are angry over their government’s plan to ban them from slicing up baby boys’ genitals for non-medical reasons.

• Finally, Facebook has two great new security features: A VPN that spies on you and two-factor authentication that spams you.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

How a biologist builds a eye

For the blog’s 400^th post, how ’bout something a little different? Here’s a punny biologist demonstrating how the eye evolved over time, using a homemade digital camera. The process is deceptively simple – just a few incremental steps, it seems – yet entirely beautiful:

So damn cool. Also check out his little guide on how to find your eye’s blind spot – I’m amazed I can see anything with how large mine is.

(via Pharyngula)