Anglo-Irish-US poet inker, thinker, er, comma tinkerer. Poetry teacher at the Cancer Support Community. Book: Thistle Field Fence, 2021. @[email protected]
@IMcMillan The poetry class I teach here in the US for the Delaware Cancer Support Community likes how your Early Strolls have continuity, yet they're still always full of interesting surprises. They all have different favourite mentions--Lowell's wondering how the bus shelter's doing.
@trevjrho@IMcMillan Yes, though they're a bit too sweet for me unless there's some plain whipped cream to mitigate the sugariness! I do love a homemade rhubarb crumble.
"Making America great has never been about hatred or destruction or the aggregation of wealth at the very top; it has always been about building good lives for everyone on the principle of self-determination." @HC_Richardson https://t.co/vx0sjpc9Lu
Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."
In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
“By letting Musk make t cuts t MAGA base wants [Republicans in gvt] can both provide those cuts &distance themselves from them. But permitting a private citizen to override the will of our reps in Congress destroys t US Constitution. It also makes Congress itself superfluous.”
This weekend, “[W]hile Musk was causing a constitutional crisis, Trump created an economic crisis that threatened both domestic and global chaos, then claimed Biden administration achievements as his own and declared victory.”
https://t.co/aVj5g28qYl
“The replacement of our constitutional system of gvt w/t whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The US president has no authority to cut programs created & funded by Congress, & a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.”
Those who voted for Donald Trump “need to know that Elon Musk has [just taken] control of all of their financial information, and unless [he is] stopped he can do whatever he wants with it.”
https://t.co/TSzzAf8tyF
I was one of those, btw, warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone assumed.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all aid including to kids with HIV and malaria’ and ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
“The news that DOGE has taken over U.S. government computers is not the only bombshell this weekend. Another is that Trump has declared a trade war with the top trading partners of the United States: Mexico, Canada, and China.”
https://t.co/AACOoRzTVV
Musk’s DOGE has gained full access to US Treasury system. “SocSec &Medicare benefits, grants, pyts to gvt contractors…” “Anyone who gets a check from soc sec…he can cut it off or see all y[ou]r personal &financial data.”
https://t.co/8kXRXSPWKl