M✍🏼ggie Rowe

Anglo-Irish-US poet inker, thinker, er, comma tinkerer. Poetry teacher at the Cancer Support Community. Book: Thistle Field Fence, 2021. @[email protected]

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

Wyvern: Mythical dragon-like creature with wings. Microwyvern: mythical oven-like creature with pings.
I think this is still my best tweet.

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

@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.

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

@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.

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

@IMcMillan That seems very early for the shop to be open!

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"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

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

@LyndaOldfield3 @HirundoRustical @reacctionary @kidcobbler @IMcMillan @judetheconfused @SPICOP @SleathAnne @9tipsy18 @seamusmacauley @doodleslave A couple's meat-and-greet?

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

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.

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@Jmoneyhoney216 @delawareonline I was there. At least 300. We had a LOT of support from motorists and pedestrians, who thanked us.

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@runningman12001 @delawareonline I was there. We counted at least 300.

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

“Musk is single-handedly slashing through the government Americans have built over the past 90 years.”

https://t.co/KqjUyHfjeq

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“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.”

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

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

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

“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.”

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

@RobertLBarnard @Angry_Staffer USAID comes under the State Department’s jurisdiction; its computers link to highly classified international documents.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The executive order creating DOGE specifically said unclassified systems only

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

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

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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.

[M✍🏼ggie Rowe @rowemag]

“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

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@NewsWire_US All the U.S. blue states are stepping up to help, not hurt, their residents. I’m glad Canada is discriminating here.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” —James Baldwin https://t.co/KppNvNZKiy

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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