Roland Walker, PhD

Disabled mathematician, artist, and activist. Require assistance for typing, so mostly like and retweet. Looking for covid-safe friends. 😷💉#n95 #nvax #merv13

[Roland Walker, PhD @2tonraygun]

Cambridge put my paper back behind the paywall, so here is a link to a free version. Unfortunately, the math typesetting in this version is browser dependent and not the best. If you have Cambridge Core access, you should download the pdf version.

https://t.co/WUjv24JUAn

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. More specifically, his net worth is $1.2 trillion or $1200 billion. That number doesn’t even compute for most of us, so here is some helpful context:

The USDA needs $18.8 billion to feed every child in the US school system breakfast and lunch each day. Elon could pay for that 64x and still have money leftover.

The World Food Program needs $13 billion to feed the 110 million hungriest people on earth. Elon could pay for that 92x and still have money leftover.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness needs $9.6 billion to provide housing for every unhoused person in the United States. Elon could pay for that 125x and still have money leftover.

The average American teacher makes $74,495 per year. Elon could pay the annual salary of over 16 million teachers and still have money leftover.

The problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The problem is that we have built a world where one person can accumulate more wealth than the GDP of 180 countries while children go hungry, families drown in medical debt, teachers are forced to buy school supplies for their students, and people sleep on the streets.

This is a complete moral failure.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

Good morning to all the non-trillionaires.

[Wayside Scribbles @waysidescribble]

– Our door is always open!

#longcovid #postcovid #ableism #accessibility #satire

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Congress thinks $83 an hour isn’t enough for them…
but $7.25 an hour is enough for you.
That’s not public service. That’s class warfare.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

The complete Epstein files were supposed to be released 161 days ago. The legal deadline established by Congress has been ignored by the DOJ.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

NEW: A judge just temporarily BLOCKED the Trump administration from moving ahead with their $1.8 BILLION slush fund to pay insurrectionists and MAGA loyalists.

I’ve said from the start that this is an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars. This needs to be stopped permanently.

[ThePOTSPostman @ThePOTSPostman]

There is a level of financial fear that comes with chronic illness that most healthy people never have to think about.

You’re paying more money to survive while your body is simultaneously making it harder to earn money.

Because eventually it’s not just symptoms you have to worry about.

Every flare up has consequences attached to it.

Missed work.
Reduced income.
Medical bills.
Recovery time.
Medications and copays.

People talk about chronic illness like it only affects health, but for a lot of people it slowly affects financial stability, independence, and your entire sense of security too.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

When corporations can spend unlimited money to elect the politicians who regulate them, the outcome is predictable: Health care policy written by insurers. Energy policy written by oil companies. Tax policy written by billionaires. And we wonder why nothing ever changes.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

The President of the United States traded TENS of MILLIONS of dollars in stocks this year.

This should be illegal. Members of Congress, the President, and Vice President should ALL be banned from trading stocks. That’s why I’m leading bipartisan efforts to do just that.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Private insurance has no place in health care. They don't need to exist, period.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.

They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

[CT @cdtwriter]

From this date six years ago. This many still die from covid per year in the US but I guess it isn't an incalculable loss now.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

A politician who takes fossil fuel money and then votes on climate policy is not a public servant. They’re a contractor with a very specific client. It’s time to get money out of politics.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

This is one of the biggest presidential corruption scandals in U.S. history.

We’ve introduced a bill to stop it. We cannot let this stand.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Hundreds of police officers were brutally attacked, & some eventually died, defending our democracy from January 6th insurrectionists.

How does Trump respond to their courage & dedication?

By creating a $1.8B slush fund for the rioters who tried to kill them.

Not gonna happen!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Summer Lee have introduced the Abolish Super PACs Act.

The bill would cap Super PAC donations from individuals at $5,000 so that billionaires wouldn't be able to influence US elections with outsized spending.