John Bush

Non-profit world | Amateur Winemaker | Hiker | thinking things (mostly on) digital, politics, conservation

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

Net Neutrality is officially a thing of the past. See how the end to neutrality will affect you. https://t.co/hPsYPrOvWY

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New: Facebook says it accidentally changed settings for 14 million users last month causing posts they may have thought were private to be public. My colleague @heatherkelly reports: https://t.co/KdrInI4Jvx

[Vox @voxdotcom]

Since new gun legislation in 1996, the firearm homicide rate in Australia dropped by about 42% in seven years, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57%.

That's proof that it works even though it won't eliminate gun violence altogether. https://t.co/2v2s3k0g7F

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

Google planning to stop helping the U.S. Government kill people https://t.co/qC0z2ZnAuN

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

[Philip Bump @pbump]

Pew asked Americans if the U.S. had a responsibility to accept refugees.

No group -- racial, by age, religious or political -- was less supportive of that idea than white evangelical Protestants.
https://t.co/q263yMnwEh

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

How the Enlightenment Ends https://t.co/vQPFe1lCqR

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

Not long after the “Hell controversy” Pope Francis is continuing to move the Catholic Church towards a broader communion https://t.co/H7ApnN6dCI

[CNN News Central @NewsCentralCNN]

“God made you like this.

God loves you like this.”

A victim of clerical sexual abuse says Pope Francis told him that God made him gay and that his sexuality "does not matter" https://t.co/YjvlMmoJ7W https://t.co/nxHNiGczRg

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

Behold and wonder https://t.co/z5BG4RVjXk

[ANU Media @ANUmedia]

ANU astronomers find fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe that is devouring a mass equivalent to the sun every two days: https://t.co/59Sc8WEmz6

[HuffPost Politics @HuffPostPol]

A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker. https://t.co/FLBLV7PyKd

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

This story combined w/ the recent news that @KaneWWE is running for mayor of my home town pretty much describe East TN. https://t.co/SQEPUTym9I

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

Local elections matter

[RNS @RNS]

"It takes careful study to understand whether a religious group is simply 'strange' or dangerous. But the term 'cult' lumps together all new or alternative religions." https://t.co/7HaKcSdCJH

[Dan Amira @DanAmira]

Huh, weird

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a new study https://t.co/gdWDPMp1cS

[“Mark Berman” @markberman]

Some context here: In 2015, Oklahoma adopted nitrogen gas as a backup execution method. That same year, Oklahoma also used the wrong drug in a lethal injection https://t.co/yf2gf1JEYH

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

This is horrific. Oklahoma is going to start legally gassing people. https://t.co/3WuVJdvWxj

[ABC News @ABC]

After trying for months to obtain lethal injection drugs, Oklahoma officials say they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to carry out capital punishment. https://t.co/NeSAgnYAsg

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

But arming teachers with guns is a super good idea! How could this have gone wrong? https://t.co/qeKswycigf

[NBC Bay Area @nbcbayarea]

A teacher's gun goes off inside a Seaside High School classroom, and at least one student suffers injuries from bullet fragments to his neck. The teacher also is a reserve police officer, and he's now on leave from both jobs. https://t.co/kgxxYQMEM2

[John Bush @JJ_Bush]

I am the stereotypical southerner freaking out over snow flurries. This dusting may home bound us for days.