Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 23, 2020
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House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases-2025-02-21
Trump claimed we’re going to balance the budget, but he just pushed the House to pass a bill that will add literal trillions to the debt and deficit.
Isaac Saul on X: "One thing a lot of people aren’t ready for is that if this recession comes, a lot of people in the Trump camp are going to celebrate it. Job losses and the stock market, GDP, 401ks etc falling will be celebrated as a way to wash out inflation and cheap labor. Gonna be wild." / X
documentation of people in the Trump crowd framing recession as a good thing
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
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.
ok maybe sean baker really is following those fucked up social media accounts for research lol pic.twitter.com/mo9WyPmf7h— 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 (@shereeny) March 4, 2025
Absolutely. Zelensky simply pointed out: diplomacy is great. We tried it. Putin breaks his promises, so what kind of diplomacy are you talking about Vance? And since Vance has no answer he goes on the attack.— Joost Brugman (@brugmanjoost) February 28, 2025
Here is a direct transcript of the exchange. Everything was basically normal, until this: J.D. Vance: For four years, in the United States of America, we had a president who stood up in press conferences and talked tough about Vladimir Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine and…— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) February 28, 2025
6. In closing, Zelenskyy was set up. There was no good faith effort to support Ukraine or come to a peace agreement because Trump does not care about Ukrainians sovereignty. He care about "making a deal." Any deal he can sell to Americans that he brought peace--even if it doesn't…— Terrell Jermaine Starr (@terrelljstarr) March 1, 2025
Meet the most over-engineered navigation bar, which automatically adds a feathered mask to ensure legibility on any background. Individual views can opt out (like the trailing button, which requires a background blur). pic.twitter.com/00XQ3k0Zhh— Julien Sagot (@Barbapapapps) February 26, 2025
You’re about to hear all kinds of things about a bill called the SAVE Act. Congressional Republicans are using it as a cover to take away voting rights from thousands of Americans—all while claiming it’s about stopping non-citizens from voting. 5 things to know 🧵👇🏻— Congressman Greg Landsman (@RepGregLandsman) February 21, 2025
brit @ EAG bay area! on X: "imo a strong and under-leveraged dating strategy is having a large body of public writing that expresses your interiority. a portfolio of work offers way more signal than a date me doc, which tend to fall short of expressing a comprehensive aesthetic" / X
Here’s the thing, because there’s so little straight news left. democrats (or whoever is left that sees what’s happening clearly) need to narrate what’s happening. Someone needs to remind people of actual reality and not maga doublespeak. Russia is not here to bring peace,…— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 19, 2025
Dr. Laura Robinson on X: "I think a huge part of the draw of tradwife content is that it markets the idea that we actually don't need social services, schools, or a government because everyone has an endless possibility of bootstrapping inside them. Tradwife content usually deliberately obscures or" / 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’
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social)
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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Elon Musk on X: "Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow." / X
Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus — MatthewBall.co
Thirteen years after XR devices became a big tech obsession, VR/AR devices are not just behind schedule, they still seem far away. Why?
How do Democrats harness #DarkWoke? | Peter Rothpletz
Democrats’ current approach to political messaging is broken – and party leaders have no conception of how to fix it
(2) Julian Lehr on X: "Gradually, then suddenly. https://t.co/PL863cry4P" / X
note about people increasingly wanting to use Linear over Jira
Important to note that this seems to be a lightly customized ABC Favorit — round dots, altered R and 1 are what stood out at first glance. This all makes a ton of sense give the client’s need for all the listed writing systems, which Favorit already mostly supports.
— Grilli Type (@grillitype)
Val on X: "This is true. The city pop craze of the late 2010s was entirely driven by uploads by those archivists. The image people associate most with Marika Takeuchi’s Plastic Love was from a different album but used on a YouTube upload https://t.co/HQc2u3HrtB" / X
— Val (@VK_HM)
Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social)
This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
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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)
One of those clips where you have to make sure you're not hallucinating.
Donald Trump says Palestinians ought not be allowed to return to Gaza because "why would they want to return? That place has been hell" — next to the grinning man who made it hell.
— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker)
Oh Doechii, the places you’ll go!! 🏆
— ..oh (@AriTheOracle)
people are sleeping on this demo.
not only does ai now understand individuals…. it grasps relationships and facilitates information flow between individuals and groups.
huge implications for social networks, productivity software, surveillance systems. everything.
— Vincent van der Meulen (@vincentmvdm)
Tyler Alterman on X: "On Finding Your People: I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal" / X
I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city
Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal…
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman)
i have been asked "what are cool tech/art/games spaces in NYC" a lot; today I made a big triangle (and a blog) to answer that question
lmk what i've missed!!
— nolen (@itseieio)