Please echo my math professor friend to Fox commentator Dagan McDowell's response--Trump Tariff calculations="girl math." Friend has math PhD and deeply resents description. Actually “ignorant old man” math. Stop blaming and denigrating. FYI: Dagan's email dagen.mcdowell@gmail.com.

Yay, Providence! www.facebook.com/share/p/12JJ...

April 3, 2025
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BREAKING:
The DOJ has informed European officials that the U.S. is withdrawing from a multinational group established to investigate war crimes in Ukraine and hold those responsible accountable, including Vladimir Putin, The New York Times reports.

Listen also to Masha Gessen. www.facebook.com/share/r/15sy...

I also believe Democrats cannot be accomplices to the cowardly Republiguns and they must also vote in support of their Democratic colleagues in the House who voted NO.

Wrestling with terrible choice facing Democrats. Despite my fear a shutdown will give Congress no power or recourse whatsoever, I believe Democrats need to demand conditions from Dump and Muck to stop their illegal actions and coup or Democrats will vote NO on the budget.

Our first sign of spring arrived.

Virtual Assembly with Senator Whitehouse March 11, 2025 worth listening to. Answers a lot of questions about Social Security and other things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_6...

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) explained credibly last night: the problem with allowing a government shutdown is then all rules of governance and all possible checks and balances are called off, closed, shut, while Dump and Muck destroy the very organizations and staffs they want to destroy.

RI Peeps: Sheldon Whitehouse is in DC. Please call him 202-224-2921 and share historian Johann Neem's concern (shared in HCRichardson) that the "courts move too slowly" to stop Trump. Our Senators need to speak out with courage (like Maine and Connecticut) and take action to remove Trump and Musk.

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I'm a fiction writer and retired professor from the University of Rhode Island and the Naslund-Mann MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University.