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@jemelehill Jamele, politics aside, you need to have ID ready at Chipotle because they will give your food to somebody else for real.

Let me make sure I have my ID on me when I go to pick up this Chipotle.

@NickKristof You would like that. Unlike you, I can hate high gas prices, and the speed that President Trump isn't getting this done, and STILL hope like hell that after 47 years of global and domestic terrorism, this regime dies. Fuck the IRGC no matter what.

If Trump continues to defeat Iran this decisively for another month, we'll have $8-a-gallon gas.

@KeithOlbermann @CNN @ScottJenningsKY @adammocklerr He was inappropriate. Would be better if I lived in a nation where @cnn and @foxnews were neither liberal or conservative.

It's the morning after and @cnn has still not fired @ScottJenningsKY for threatening, in another burst of paranoid rage, @adammocklerr This event needs to be reported to the New York DA - and if CNN has not fired Jennings by Monday it MUST be just boycottED Do not watch CNN

@drpezeshkian I don't want to push democracy on Iran. I acknowledge the faults of The United States of America toward a wide range of people over 250 years. That said, Iran's actions domestically and internationally constitute barbarism 1000 times worse. Death to your government.

The world has witnessed Iran’s tolerance and conciliation. What is being done under the guise of a naval blockade is an extension of military operations against a nation paying the price for its resistance and independence. Continuation of this oppressive approach is intolerable.

@Rosiedidyaknow She is unintelligent. But remember when you didn't have to deal with this because you were traveling around the country as the play by play voice of the Nebraska Cornhuskers? A much better gig IMO than polito-centric local radio.

This woman…..

@AlexGeorge27 @ClearReason If I were to agree that its possible, isn't it a huge problem that the "suspect" was arrested alive.

@ClearReason I hate to play conspiracy theorist, but isn't it interesting that at another critical juncture, with his poll numbers tanking and no resolution in sight to the Iran quagmire, there's suddenly another assassination attempt?

So people firing shots at our President is now a regular and normal occurrence? If this doesn’t deeply offend you, no matter where you stand politically, you’re part of the problem.

@Rosiedidyaknow @HuskerFootball @TheIowaHawkeyes Had the world in your hands as the NU football play by play guy, lost it all going to bat for the "vision" of Steve Pederson. "and Cory Ross scampers ahead for two yards."

Not a good look for #MattRhule when Aurora, NE HS has as many players drafted as @HuskerFootball, #NavyFB has TWO and @TheIowaHawkeyes has SEVEN. 😫

@YarvinBiodiesel @JoelTheDane @gunslinger1000 Do we? Nah. I could care less for Trump or Greenland. It would be nice if Europe built up their multinational army and we could cut ties. Tired of Europeans talking shit while we shoulder the load. Go ahead and defend yourselves, we'll do the same.

@AutonomyConvoy @JoelTheDane @gunslinger1000 It's called NATO Billy Bob, see, and unlike this US admin, we stick up for each other. GTFOH

ON GREENLAND 🇬🇱 the French airforce passed Kangerlussuaq at low altitude in an Airbus A400M to greet the locals. Thank you France for keeping Greenland safe and yankee free 🫡🇫🇷

@JoelTheDane @gunslinger1000 Assume I'm a left wing panican anti-American Suburbanite who agrees with you completely. You will still be run over by the Slavs.

@gunslinger1000 The US has zero chance of winning a battle of Greenland against Denmark and allies. They can’t even keep a 30 km strait open, even tho they allegedly is up against a country with a conpletely destroyed army. The US army is a paper tiger 🐯

@AmbJohnBolton Agree, sir, but how? I want these people to fight for themselves. My brother did six tours. He said, "I could've told you after my first tour that these people were never going to fight for anything." His efforts, and so many others, were WASTED on Afghans and Assyrians.

Why is regime change so hard for so many to accept when reality and logic show it is the only responsible option to eliminate Tehran’s threat? If the regime escapes again, and is able to rebuild, that would be a U.S. failure. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

@osbornforne This we agree on. The will of the people IS the government. @NEGOP won't enforce the will of the people, so they should no longer serve in their roles in our state government. Many of us @LPNational are livid.

Today is 4/20. All jokes aside, it's a good day to talk about something 71% of Nebraskans already decided. Medical marijuana won. Overwhelmingly. That's not a close call. That's a mandate from Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike. Rural Nebraska and urban Nebraska.

@ConnorHapper You are correct, sir. But just like the A's, a bad baseball team will get its new stadium with taxpayer dollars, somehow. With a AAAA level outfield, it stands to be a long season.

I've seen some bad Royals baseball. This is right up there.

@swmckewonOWH Sam, the upgrades are needed. AND the younger generations are enjoying games from home. These necessary upgrades add cost and won't generate new attendees. I'm a "blue hair" now, and if my buddy wasn't making it a business expense, I wouldn't be at the stadium, either.

Monday Rewind! A “multi-generational” decision shouldn’t be tied to wins and losses. Nor should it be held up over concerns that the Huskers’ roster needs more NIL money to compete with the Big Ten’s best. To be clear: Nebraska does need to be even more competitive in roster payroll and in five years’ time, Big Red Rebuild will help NU’s football program — its whole athletic department — avoid the talent drain we’re seeing across several of Iowa State’s teams. With college sports’ most rabid fan base —400-plus sellouts — Memorial Stadium revenue is sustainable. Few schools could say that. Nebraska can. After a stadium reseat that perhaps every other Big Ten school conducted years ago, NU will juice its revenue like few of its peers could. Put that revenue in the crucial “later” category. Roster payroll, of course, is needed now. Right now, as NU tries to put together its 2027 recruiting class. And the two can go hand in hand. And they need to. It's not a zero-sum game. #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">omaha.com/sports/huskers…

@GNorthgate35413 @HarmlessHQ Even if I agree with you, I can't imagine living in Globalist Britain, which needs the oil of the terrorists to make their petrol. Brit Govt walking softly knowing that IRGC folks own and invest heavily in the UK. The US to continue dropping bombs till theres no fuel in the UK.

@HarmlessHQ I do wish Americans can educate themselves before spouting shite. Trump has blockaded Iranian ports. Iran has blocked the strait because it has hundreds of drones, missiles and gunboats in the area and it’s very thin! They could control those straits until the end of time.

Iran has rejected the second negotiation they desperately asked for. This is obviously because they've lost entire control of the Strait of Hormuz and they've got no other leverage to bargain with. This is definitely a difficult position for a country going to negotiate with Trump. Trump's blockade is in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's USS Gerald R. Ford and 2 destroyers are in the red sea, monitoring and waiting to pounce on the Houthis. China, their greatest ally dumped them. No matter how you flip the coin, everything is actually against Iran now. This is a very difficult position to negotiate from. I think Trump should allow them some cards.

@PeteRicketts Thats not the problem, Pete. The problem is that you and your underlings go against the will of the people of Nebraska time and time again. @LPNational like me have to vote for ANYONE else on that fact alone.

Dan Osborn’s donations tell you everything you need to know about his values. 95% of his 2024 donors were from out of state. Now, we know he’s raised more money from Californians than Nebraskans. That’s because he would put California values first. I’m proud that the top contributing state to my campaign is Nebraska. I will always put Nebraska’s values first. latimes.com/politics/story…

@Rosiedidyaknow I will always remember your support and optimism for Steve Pederson. A man whose decisions began a hamster wheel which has rolled into a space where many fans would prefer to stay home and watch on TV, or not at all. You were a schill then, and you are a KFAB schill now.

The re-do has many layers. Among them: Fit it for multiple events/revenue streams that WON'T have to be shared. The day of unions is coming. The athletes will bargain for a % of everything SPORTS-RELATED. Concerts, F/B, events other than 7 days a year won't count. #Huskers

@eurofounder @MichaelWebert Hopefully the United States of America discontinues membership in NATO so that none of our primitive animals bail you out from being run over by the Slavs.

@MichaelWebert We are not primitive animals like the US. We spend money on healthcare and education, not building weapons

Netherlands just announced a new 120% wealth tax It will apply to the ultra-rich who earn above €150k per year So if you make €200k, you pay €60k on the €50k above the threshold Dutch officials explained it is to "discourage wealth hoarding behaviour" So beautifuly said Finally someone in Europe has the moral spine to put an end this selfish accumulation of wealth No human being should make over €150k a year It is a vulgar and borderline pornographic amount I hope more EU countries will adopt this progressive legislation This is why Europe is, and always will be, light years ahead of America

@js9inningsmedia Except it didn't. He played in the Mexican League for two years after that.

Ramon Ortiz threw a pitch then slammed his glove to the ground and started to cry because he knew that this injury was the end of his career 💔

@osbornforne Who is the Ricketts plant thats trying to Ross Perot the election?

I don't believe serving in the Senate should be a gateway to becoming a corporate lobbyist. But that's exactly what's happening in Washington. Politicians spend years in Congress building relationships, attending classified briefings, and learning how the system works. Then they leave office and cash-in, using everything they learned on your dime to benefit whatever corporation is writing their new paycheck.

@BillAckman @X Mr. Ackman, how much do you pay X to be able to write a Reader's Digest short story with every tweet? I want those privileges.

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?