From Tangle newsletter on Trump's address to Congress.: > Trump is still repeating a lot of nonsense about Social Security payments to 150-year-old Americans. To recap: We know the Social Security Administration (SSA) issues erroneous payments. Last year the SSA inspector general found $71.8 billion in improper payments from 2015 to 2022 (about 0.84% of the $8.6 trillion in payments over that time). Another inspector general report from 2021 found that the SSA made $298 million in payments to 24,000 dead beneficiaries. But Musk has made much more sweeping claims on X and is pretending DOGE uncovered this. A lot of people explained to Musk that he was misunderstanding the data he was looking at, but he has not corrected the record. Now the president is running with it, even after his own appointed Social Security administrator said “recent reporting” (from Musk and Trump) was misinforming people about fraudulent payments.
Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) on X
Monologue by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle about Trump’s global harm
Bill Ackman on X: "@SteveRattner I was one of the first and certainly one of the loudest to raise concerns about the tariffs. I also believe in giving credit when credit is due. The outcome of the @realDonaldTrump strategy was highly favorable. I focus on the outcome, not on how the sausage is made. China is" / X
@SteveRattner I was one of the first and certainly one of the loudest to raise concerns about the tariffs. I also believe in giving credit when credit is due. The outcome of the @realDonaldTrump strategy was highly favorable. I focus on the outcome, not on how the sausage is made.
China is
Will Chamberlain on X: "The finding that he was a member of MS-13 only came up because he asked for bond. The immigration judge reviewed the evidence and found that it "show[ed] he is a verified member of MS-13." and therefore that Abrego-Garcia did not demonstrate "that his release from custody would https://t.co/kDTP4iM35w" / X
The finding that he was a member of MS-13 only came up because he asked for bond. The immigration judge reviewed the evidence and found that it "show[ed] he is a verified member of MS-13." and therefore that Abrego-Garcia did not demonstrate "that his release from custody would
DiscussingFilm on X: "‘NO OTHER LAND’ co-director Hamdan Ballal has been beaten and injured by Israeli settlers then abducted from the ambulance he was placed in. Yuval Abraham says there has been no sign of Hamdan since." / X
‘NO OTHER LAND’ co-director Hamdan Ballal has been beaten and injured by Israeli settlers then abducted from the ambulance he was placed in.
Yuval Abraham says there has been no sign of Hamdan since.
Bessent: "Can you guarantee there's not gonna be a recession? I can't guarantee anything. I can't guarantee that the journalist who asked me the question that her news program is gonna be on in a year." pic.twitter.com/MLcMCBSwXo— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 18, 2025
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
Jeff Stein on X: "Elon Musk's pick to run the Social Security Administration, now taking over the agency, is out with a statement today in which he acknowledges that people in the Social Security database who are over 100 years old are "not necessarily receiving benefits" Trump had said "millions https://t.co/NFya0iRi3h" / X
(1) Fred Wellman on X: "Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was" / X
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
Alright I swear this is the last time I am going to try to explain this but nobody can read govt docs so here goes!
1. Politico did NOT get "$8 million in a year" from USAID. It got $8 million from 2016 to fiscal year 2025 from ALL government agencies and departments.
2. USAID…
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul)
She was at Luigi Mangione’s court yday & shes exposing the media for lying that it was full of emotional women. Its disgusting that theyre trying to push a narrative that hes only popular cus women find him good looking. Men & women supported him b4 finding out wat he looked like
— yup | (@brvttie)
Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them
— Tobita Chow (@tobitac)
(2) David Adler on X: "BREAKING from Mexico 🇺🇸🇲🇽 President Claudia Sheinbaum has just penned a letter to Donald Trump. It’s brilliant, firm, and unflinching — a document that will set the tone for an entirely new era of US-Mexican relations. I have posted the English translation below: “Dear https://t.co/OJJp90TUc6" / X
I have posted the English translation below:
“Dear…
— David Adler (@davidrkadler)
Gamedev.city
Hacker News equivalent but for game development and gaming
Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates | Hacker News
LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short | Hacker News
Discussion of the trendy / viral LK-99 "breakthrough"
1/ Alright, friends. It’s starting, and I want to get ahead of it. Four years later, can’t believe we are doing this, but… ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD, PART II
We’ll have a lot of re-reruns from 2020 (original thread below). Send me any you see. I will investigate…
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul)
(1) Isaac Saul on X: "1/ ALRIGHT Y'ALL. ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD. I’m following claims of fraud and looking into them. I think I’ve solved most now. Nothing is holding up under any scrutiny so far so I’m making a thread to track in one place. Please RT! #ElectionResults2020 #Election2020" / X
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul)
VP Kamala Harris gave a press conf at FEMA hq but this is how she addressed the workers right after.
This. This is why I go so hard for her. 🗳️
— Renee 🪷 (@PettyLupone)
horrific
— mother earth 🫒 (@feminterrupted)
Brian Merchant on X: "Pleased to have done my part to usher in the "Is Her Really a Dystopia?" discourse — really interesting thoughts and conversations, feels like a slice of Old Twitter. Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases" / X
Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant)
"We decided to end the war [with Japan] by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons and that was the right decision. Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war that they can’t afford to lose.”
US Senator Lindsey Graham suggests nuking Gaza.
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen)
I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking of my undergraduates as “kids.” But here is what I’ve seen them do in the last two weeks: (1/10)
— tey meadow (@dr_tey)
TikTok’s 3 strategic comms mistakes with this video:
1) LITERALLY DOING THIS 👀The TikTok team was so concerned with getting the words exactly right that they had the CEO read from a script. But trust is won or lost through body language — not words — and the script messed up… — Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey)
Lattina Brown, MPA 🇯🇲 on Twitter / X
Shooting in the Hoyt-schmermerhorn NYC subway
Ariele 🌐🏗️ on Twitter / X
a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.streaming services saved the industry from literal /1 https://t.co/CaSYct4TS6— Ariele 🌐🏗️ (@weatherdai) March 10, 2024
jacob on Twitter / X
this is the exact moment our coworkers found out we had been laid off while speaking in front of city council pic.twitter.com/IcsCszGe3Z— jacob (@peepaw_) March 1, 2024
Jules Terpak on X: "With the entire Universal Music catalog being removed from TikTok, this is an urgent matter for the platform — much of their competitive advantage is being taken away No doubt that TikTok is about to go full force into becoming more YouTube-like. Last week, they sent out a…" / X
TikTok transitioning to a horizontal scrolling feed
Make Peace Now; alternative news on Twitter / X
BREAKING: ICJ world court will find Israel guilty. This is the indictment. pic.twitter.com/lMCGTzbvAv— Make Peace Now; alternative news (@AlternatNews) January 17, 2024
🦌 the fool on Twitter / X
Alright I'll explain the whole "Jewish tunnel in Brooklyn" thing to you with the proper context 🧵— 🦌 the fool (@kilovh) January 10, 2024