Verses from Stories in Today's New York Times ** How Russia Meddles Abroad for Profit: Cash, Trolls and a Cult Leader ** Andrew Yang’s Campaign Has a Lot of Money. Now What? ** As SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Scientists See Threat to ‘Astronomy Itself’.

@mschwirtz

Russians go to Timbuktu

with elections for to screw.

Flung across this addled globe,

they do poke and they do probe

till they find enough decay

to dig in and then hold sway.

They need more than fluoride to

disappear like morning dew.

Will the gullible ne'er learn

the Russian bear all truth does spurn?

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@ByMattStevens

When a candidate for office

gets a lot of money in,

you can bet your bottom dollar

he won't use it all to win --

he might need to pay a mortgage,

or to bribe a maitre 'd;

 then there is the lure of Vegas,

and perhaps large screen TV.

Andrew Yang, I do beseech you,

watch your P's & Q's today --

but if you are feeling gen'rous,

please to send some cash my way! 

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@ShannonWHall

The night sky is a-twinkle with an artificial glow,

as satellites go whizzing round and round, all to-and-fro.

Elon Musk and others fill the heavens with such junk,

the Moon no longer blossoms and old Mars is in a funk.

If we keep adding satellites to those now up above,

there'll be naught but an eclipse when the pushing comes to shove.