[BLOG] Some Monday blog links

• Crooked Timber at John Quiggin takes issue with the idea that, now, there are many Republicans who accept Trump only conditionally, for what a Trump presidency could achieve.
• D-Brief notes the XT2 signal, issue of a collision between two magnetars in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away.
• Cody Delistraty reports on an exhibit at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris on the history of soccer in world politics.
• Earther reports on a new satellite mission focused on studying solar-induced fluorescence, the glow of plants as they photosynthesize.
• Far Outliers notes how U.S. Grant responded to slaves seeking freedom from the Union Army.
• JSTOR Daily explores Lake Baikal.
• Language Log reports on the multilingualism of Pete Buttigieg.
• Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money gives deserved praise to the Jason Lutes graphic novel Berlin.
• Marginal Revolution looks at the ways in which dense social networks can keep stroke victims from getting quick help.
• The NYR Daily looks at the campaigns and ideas of anti-authoritarian Chinese professor and writer Xu Zhangrun.
• Drew Rowsome gives a largely negative review to the 2014 Easter horror film The Beaster Bunny.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why the singularities of black holes have spin.
• Window on Eurasia notes on the report of a Muslim community leader in Norilsk that a quarter of the population of that Russian Arctic city is of Muslim background.
• Arnold Zwicky considers the ways in which flowers and penguins and cuteness can interact, with photos.