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@araghchi Nobody realizes that Farsi / Persian poetry is the dominant art form in Iran and parts of Afghanistan. English doesn’t have 1/10th the words that portray human emotion compared to Farsi. JD Vance is dumb for thinking anything he says sounds good to anyone, this is hilarious.

Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sun. A region-wide ceasefire, incl in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing. If the U S. wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb but are prepared for it.

@MyLordBebo They probably moved them closer together because they were blowing them up or going to blow them up and wanted to make sure that they could do it from the air if the exposure they had on hand were not enough.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 C-130 stuck in mud?! Most likely not. Looks like the C-130 planes got too close together, so they could not take off again by themselves. They also blocked the runway in the middle. Hence the US Air Force called in a C295W that can land and take off on a short runway. This makes sense if you look at this video analysis. For takeoff: C295W ~2200 ft C-130J ~3100 ft Interesting is the minimum landing: C295W ~1050 ft C-130J ~3000 ft (Empty, on paved runway and at sea level) PS: Looks like @MMaximalux and I nearly got to that conclusion in our chat already.

@SnowAngel4547 @ryangrim @ChrisMurphyCT This is what happens when you lose a war.

@ryangrim @ChrisMurphyCT That makes no sense. If true, Iran is ending up with more than they began with. Why would Trump attack them over threats of their nuclear capabilities only to give them more nuclear capabilities?

.@ChrisMurphyCT is playing an extremely dangerous game

@TheMainSpark @KobeissiLetter Opposite, they will reject this ceasefire.

@KobeissiLetter Iran just wants to continually buy time until something happens to give them better leverage (eg. if they get a hostage or create more political pressure by causing some more U.S. casualties).

BREAKING: A deal is "expected to be closed" between the US and Iran tonight, per CNN. Details include: 1. A "regional source" has informed CNN that "some good news is expected from both sides soon" 2. Discussions are being steered directly by Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir 3. The White House said that Trump has been made aware of Pakistan's proposed ceasefire and that "a response will come" Oil prices are falling on the news and US stock market futures are now green. We expect to receive more details shortly.

@ZT3Apex It would be propagandized to half of Americans so fast if they took the pilots and held them. It would give trump a real immediate reason to keep going. Now it’s just.. WTF how did all this shit go so bad

Generational fumble by Iran ngl

@ryangrim Rubio revoked his visa so we could trade them in a prisoner swap for the captured US pilot

@ryangrim They are not being deported. They are going to be traded for US pilots.

Whatever you think of Trump trying to deport these two Iranian women (how will he even get them there?) we can all agree this is not the behavior of a confident man. A military that feels good about its war effort does not need to turn its attention to the random (supposed) grand niece of a guy they assassinated in a drone strike 6 years ago. This is the behavior of losers and cowards and that’s an objective observation, not a judgment.

@BillAckman @X Life is, for the first time, reading one of Bill Ackman’s insanely long posts, stopping when his daughter’s illness is mentioned and immediately responding with hopeful words for his daughter that he’ll probably never read, just because he never did that for any Palestinian.

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@AliR_Ahmadi “CBS reports the downed F-15E pilot was rescued by two U.S. military helicopters. The helicopter carrying the recovered pilot was hit by small arms fire, wounding crew onboard, but it landed safely and all personnel are receiving medical treatment.

Iranians are taking it upon themselves to fire at the US SAR planes. Little girl excitedly screaming, "come on, hit it."

@giskyexplorer @AmoliLarijaniir They’re winning, it’s almost like they cared enough to prepare for every eventuality.

@AmoliLarijaniir Civilizational implications? That's a lot of syllables for 'all bark, no bite.'

The world, and the Strait of Hormuz in particular, will not return to the pre-war status quo.

@lionel_trolling Crazy thing is.. they hit the helicopter CBS: the downed F-15E pilot was rescued by two U.S. military helicopters. The helicopter carrying the recovered pilot was hit by small arms fire, wounding crew onboard, it landed safely, all personnel are receiving medical treatment

Farmer shooting at a helicopter with a bolt action rifle...somehow don't think we are winning hearts and minds.

@hiitsmemooneh You're fucking nuts

Where I said “in the war”? I always emphasize that this is not a war; this is a rescue mission. The reason I lost my cousin is only and only the Islamic regime and no one else. Shame on you, Clash Report, for spreading false information! Report their account!

@PNW_Rob You live another day without the shame of knowing you soon won’t. Resolutions are all we got coming, let’s not rush them. A song played from tape or a record has static and noise. It makes it real. It sounds better to us. The constant static and noise in our lives makes it real.

Almost lost a battle tonight. I had one of the hardest days I’ve had in a long time. On top of that, I had to grind through a 10-hour shift where I made a mistake. A few days ago I got rocked with some news that’s seriously affecting my life, and the resolution isn’t going to be quick or easy. As my shift was ending, that familiar voice in my head showed up out of nowhere. “Numb it, man. I’m here. Let’s get some relief. You deserve it.” For a second, I almost agreed. When I clocked out, my mind was full of stress and chaos. Instead of going straight home, I drove around town for a bit. I needed a minute to decompress before walking in the door to my babies. The whole time I battled like hell not to pull into a gas station and buy alcohol. And I didn’t. Because fuck that. I played the tape forward. I know how that movie ends because I’ve watched it a thousand times. Drink heavy. Black out within a couple hours. Pass out. Wake up the next morning groggy as hell. Mind racing. Anxiety thundering through my chest. Trying to remember what I did the night before. Did I text someone? Post some dumb shit on social media? Then spend the entire weekend drowning in shame, guilt, and self-hate. Walking on eggshells, uncomfortable in my own skin. Fuck that movie. That movie sucks. And that’s not who I am anymore. Tonight I won the battle. I write about it because these are the battles I used to lose. There was a time when a craving meant I was drinking. I don’t deal with cravings very often, but when they come, they come fast. These are the quiet wins that no one in my life really sees. I used to chase validation from people around me. The difference now is I don’t need it. The only validation I need tonight is knowing I didn’t give in. My kids still get their dad. Sober. When I got home tonight, I hugged my baby boy. He has no idea about the battles I fight. He also has no idea that he’s a huge reason I keep winning them. 26 wins in a row. On to 27.

@LCLChicago1966 @Thedrivenman I, for one, thank the A-BHDL for their commitment and hard work. I am confident with the proper funding and education changes we can overcome this inhumane behavior. Anyone thinking it’s acceptable to drop bird hands, remember, the black circles never wash off. Not ever.

How to know if she is cheating

@ZacksJerryRig You’re one of the only mormons I’ve met that actually voices your political opinion. Why is that? It’s sad really, most of you aren’t on drugs and don’t have felonies, lol

Welp - it was fun having a dude with 34 felonies be in charge. Can we try someone else now?

@sciencegirl Descent — first game I played modem to modem.. and command and conquer.. then red alert..

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@erinflorez01 They’re not proxies, they’re Pakistani. The Taliban are not afghan. They are literally Pakistani.

You cannot scream that the Taliban are 🇵🇰 proxies and turn around in the next breath and ask 🇵🇰 to help you overthrow the Taliban. 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

@LindseyGrahamSC You’re fucking retarded, what kind of slack jaws keep voting for you? Must be something in the water.

The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question – why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow. nytimes.com/2026/03/08/wor…

@Olivia_Reingold You have to be the most retarded Israeli propagandist alive today and that’s saying a lot

I found 70+ posts liked by Rama Duwaji, Zohran Mamdani's wife, of radical anti-Israel content—and even Holocaust inversion.

@chiIIum @IngrahamAngle Our bases have children’s schools, are you saying they are military targets?

I love how you quickly glossed over the main factor, Laura. That whole complex was IRGC, and it wasn’t until recently that they turned one of the buildings in that complex into a school. Instead of rushing to blame your country’s servicemen and women, why don’t you reflect on it? Witch.

If true, this is horrific news--and the U.S. military will have to address this publicly. Proximity of military compound obviously a factor, but our weapons also have pinpoint accuracy. NEW: Investigators think American forces were likely responsible for an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed dozens of children in Iran, a U.S. official said wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ