▪️At this point, when you see a claim like this you already know it’s false. The school moved the poem from the elementary to the middle school section, so naturally the national media jumped on it as “Florida school bans poem.”
▪️Buried in the reports you’ll see this quote from the school:
🔹“No literature (books or poem) has been banned or removed. It was determined at the school that ‘The Hill We Climb’ is better suited for middle school students and, it was shelved in the middle school section of the media center. The book remains available in the media center”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/us/miami-school-moves-biden-inaugural-poem/index.html
▪️Further adding to the meme’s dishonesty is showing Ron DeSantis, even though it was a local school decision.
▪️However, the meme does help us remember that everyone was masked outside during Biden’s inauguration, so for that it’s helpful.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
