Jack Daniel (often offline)Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.
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English teacher. Texan.
dogtraxTrace
your fingers
along my skin,
to make a map,
and then begin
to find the song
we might sing
NPRDonald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
He promised to reduce the national debt but instead increased it. It is now at its highest level relative to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II
This is one of his lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies, the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
Neil GaimanI learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.
https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/
For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/
Banned Book List: 1,648 Books in 2021-2022 - PEN America
PEN America's fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This searchable banned book list includes each documented book ban in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.
Above the dim churn and rubble
on the wet and greenery
of trees and grass and shrubs.
After the deluge of rain,
slate gray and poured in sheets
over every single surface.
Permeated to soaking and farther
than the land was willing
to go. A clean slick slide of lines
on a hillside, after the slide.
I was age six when I was diagnosed
with ADD. My PCP said 'give him coffee'
to stop the fidgets.
It worked.
I think.
I've got a wicked caffeine headache.
@roxiqt but the toad next to him is the son of a wealthy merchant, who once was unduly unkind to you at the market. He also desperately wants to be free. Who will win the rose?
Miriam Boosh
"in 2021, author Neil Gaiman scolded the Museum of Modern Art on Twitter for not crediting Tony Abruzzo, whose work was appropriated for the 1963 Lichtenstein painting “Drowning Girl.” The MoMA site now credits Abruzzo."
Good article on Roy Lichtenstein and a few of the artists he copied.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/05/roy-lichtenstein-documentary/?itid=ap_michaelcavna
