Adrian Egli
Living an interictal life | GenX Nerd who never had a LEGO dark age | Ignorance isn't bliss. | Never stop learning. | There's no thing as freedoms without some responsibilities | he/him
- Reposted by Adrian EgliThe Catholic Church is threatening to excommunicate priests who follow a new WA law requiring them to report child abuse confessions—yet it rarely excommunicates priests who commit abuse. Protecting predators over children is indefensible. www.newsweek.com/catholic-chu...
- Reposted by Adrian EgliEvery Republican voted for him. Even the ones giving us a sob story about how they are just afraid of Trump and MAGA. They aren't. They are MAGA.
- Reposted by Adrian EgliA U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration is planning to deport migrants to Libya, another step in a crackdown on illegal immigration.
- Reposted by Adrian EgliKristi Noem‘s much-hyped “REAL ID” D-Day is here, but those without proper identification are not feeling “even a hint of extra pain.”
- Reposted by Adrian EgliThe GOP’s new budget proposes raising premiums and co-pays for Medicaid beneficiaries, including those at the poverty line, to pay for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy. www.levernews.com/republicans-...
- Reposted by Adrian EgliThe Trump administration’s threat to arrest Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has stirred a national outcry. But in Wisconsin it has done something else altogether. Evers’s clear and courageous refusal to be intimidated has dramatically increased prospects that—should be seek re-election—he will win.
- Reposted by Adrian EgliHere we go...the doors have closed and the Conclave has begun. Until the Cardinals choose a Pope, they will not have contact with the world outside the Conclave.
- Reposted by Adrian EgliThis wild chart claims the risk of death from polio is 1 in 1 trillion. There haven't even been one trillion people who have existed in all of human history. Somehow, many thousands of them have managed to die from polio. The rest of the chart is, of course, fake news.
- Reposted by Adrian Egli✅ ACTION ITEM ✅ The National Science Foundation is under attack. Trump’s budget is moving to dismantle one of the great engines of U.S. innovation, education, and discovery. The fight to save NSF is on—and now there’s a new home base to join the front lines (🧵 1/3): www.savensf.com
- Reposted by Adrian EgliWe also reviewed Douglas Murray’s last book, The War on the West — where he packages white supremacist and xenophobic ideas in the genteel language of “Western civilization.” Beneath the posh tone is lazy scholarship and outright bigotry. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/09...
