Make Love, Not Blacklists

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah Nature left unchecked  will rejoice in anarchy --  only man blacklists View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/us/politics/hikvision-trump.html#commentsContainer&permid=100596839:100596839 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only). ABOUT THIS EMAIL  This is an automated notification. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for email notifications from The New York Times. Unsubscribe | Manage Notifications | Privacy Policy | Contact Copyright 2019 | The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018

Many More Students, Especially the Wealthy, Get Extra Time to Take the SAT

Across the country, the number of public high-school students getting special allowances for test-taking, such as extra time, has surged in recent years, federal data show.

And students in affluent areas such as Scarsdale, Weston and Newton are more likely than students elsewhere to get the fastest-growing type of these special allowances, known as “504” designations, a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from 9,000 public schools found.

WSJ

If you've got the money then your SAT is jake;

it will be touched up so good they might suspect a fake.

Or else that golden shower that your parents like to fling

will give you extra hours for to sit and do your thing.

To get the proper college is to be set up for life.

If you miss this gravy train you're in for money strife.

And tests are all-important, more important than a brain.

Cuz scholars are a dime apiece, but pencil pushers reign.

So take your time with answers, and perhaps a little drool

showing you are struggling will get you the right school.

Yes, life can be delicious if you take the proper view --

and always carry with you a sharp pencil number two.

How Trump Is Outspending Every 2020 Democrat on Social Media

President Trump’s re-election campaign has spent far more than any single Democratic presidential candidate on Facebook advertising, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.    NYT

It takes a lot of moolah to go run for president/however if the voters have expressed their discontent/by voting in a blowhard to combat their bugaboos/they'll keep him snug in office long as he will stroke their views/so why he needs a war chest that is bursting at the seams/most likely has to do with Kushner and investment schemes . . . 

Das gutherzige deutsche Volk

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah the old hatreds always die hard/leaving so many quite scarred/when prejudice reigns/it leads but to chains/and reason forever is barred. View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/magazine/anti-semitism-germany.html#commentsContainer&permid=100580432:100580432 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only). ABOUT THIS EMAIL  This is an automated notification. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for email notifications from The New York Times. Unsubscribe | Manage Notifications | Privacy Policy | Contact Copyright 2019 | The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018

The Tech Cold War Against Huawei

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah the great wall of china is real/at least for the huawei deal/out here in D.C./that poor company/is unwelcome sure made to feel. View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/business/huawei-trump-china-trade.html#commentsContainer&permid=100580503:100580503 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only). ABOUT THIS EMAIL  This is an automated notification. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for email notifications from The New York Times. Unsubscribe | Manage Notifications | Privacy Policy | Contact Copyright 2019 | The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018

Trump vs Congress: "You Can't Make Me Tell -- Nyah!"

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah there once was a President coy/who with  Congress wanted to toy/remaining quite mum/he made them look dumb/which gave  all our enemies joy. View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/us/politics/mcgahn-trump-congress.html#commentsContainer&permid=100580351:100580351 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only).

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Beyond the clouds

Google gives Huawei the Old Heave-Ho, and I can't stop myself writing a poem about it, which the New York Times just can't helping posting

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah " . . . Google is undercutting ties with an important and fast-growing partner." as hills are washed away  as flocks of starlings disperse so too the conceits of men that trade bleed back into the ground View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/technology/google-android-huawei.html#commentsContainer&permid=100568696:100568696 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only).

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Is China Taking Over Australia? (Hint: Rupert Murdoch eats a lot of rice.)

Your comment has been approved! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with The New York Times community. tim torkildson | utah Chinese armies can't succeed/spreading Jinping's master creed/Bizness is the way to go/when he wants to make a show/Banking and cheap merchandise/are his conquering device. View your comment If you're having trouble viewing your comment, please copy and paste this link in your browser: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/world/australia/australia-china.html#commentsContainer&permid=100570923:100570923 All of our comments are moderated for civility. Have feedback? Let us know. If you would like your comment to be considered for publication as a letter to the editor, please email a copy of your comment to letters@nytimes.com – along with your name, city/town and phone number (the latter for verification only).

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