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@MalcolmNance @OddityHub Most MAGA folks are how you described them. Most are void of a moral compass and effeminate and feckless souls. They type of weaklings The Donald adores! 😄

@OddityHub Hey Dumbass. Every ship that has departed via the SOH in the last 45 days has done so under Iranian control. Nobody is getting insured or getting out of the other countries. Certainly not with your level of genius.

For you all who think the US naval blockade will be successful just bc we have US Navy ships in the gulf … Ask yourself this. Are we going to sink Chinese, Indian and Pakistani merchant ships defying the blockade or just write their names down and cry? This will be unenforceable and speed up the collapse of the global economy. This is Madness disguised as a policy.

Iran has emerged from five weeks of punishing U.S. and Israeli bombing with most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb intact on.wsj.com/3Q1eti0

@AnnCoulter @nytimes So predictable. Bunch of wimps! Aiding and abetting a vile criminal madman due to epic cowardice by the White Staff and a feckless and morally impotent @GOP and @SpeakerJohnson is what you expect! What an embarrassment to the nation and all things morally decent!

Every single Trump advisor is now - off the record - telling the @nytimes they were opposed Netanyahu's argument for the Iran war. THAT'S how well the war is going. Ratcliffe: "Farcical." Rubio: “It’s bullshit” Caine: "Standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell." Wiles: against "being dragged into another war in the Middle East." Cheung: "How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated?"

Every so often—for no particular reason—I feel compelled to post a gift link to the 11,000-word article I published in @TheAtlantic seven years ago about @realDonaldTrump's mental disorders and how they rendered him unfit to serve as president. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@BillAckman @X Easy for me Billy. You've proven to be highly weak on morals. Notwithstanding you may be dealing with opportunists, your lack of moral character weakens your position big time. Write the smaller check now or risk writing a larger one later. And, work to be a better man -->.

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?

@FredMas26593657 @washingtonpost lol😆

Pastors, bishops, and reverends joined President Trump at the White House for Easter prayers. Pastor Paula White-Cain, a spiritual advisor to the president, likened Trump's experiences to those of Jesus Christ, saying he too was "betrayed and arrested and falsely accused."

@washingtonpost Let’s be clear, many of these so called pastors are CINOs. Jesus called such white-washed tombs. Outwardly, they look and sound the part but inside they’re full of dead men bones. They will greatly regret being on the wrong side of righteousness in the life to come. 💯

@ScottMcConnell9 I'm so ashamed you didn't have the moral decency to not vote for one who's highly immoral and indecent. Those with a moral compass knew who Trump was. Sadly, it's folks like you that put politics over righteousness! 💯 yahoo.com/news/articles/… via @@YahooNews

Are you embarrassed yet YOU, yeah YOU, voted for the most incompetent POTUS ever? If not, your morals are out of sync! Dude is a major league embarrassment to the country. I pray that your eyes are FINALLY opened!

@SBF_FTX @realDonaldTrump Quit it Sammie! We knew you lack a moral presence but cmon man! I pray that you get your soul right. That’s the only thing that matters ultimately, nit trying to appease a vile and morally corrupt soul! Find Jesus…not Lucifer!

It's not just people who want to pay you in crypto, increasingly it's AI agents. Crypto is the future of AI-native payments. And @realDonaldTrump is the first president to see the national statregic potential of both crypto and AI.

A whale has opened a $17,000,000 Oil short position. Liquidation Price: $139

@rshereme It’s akin to saying God created Satan, which he did and that you should be loyal to him. @Franklin_Graham is Christian In Name Only, his beliefs and teachings are far from Jesus Christ. He’s been willingly used by the Kingdom of Darkness! #CINO #WhiteWashedTomb

Franklin Graham says Donald Trump has been raised up by God and urges loyalty in the midterms. It sickens me when “Christians” claim that Trump has been raised up by God, because Trump is the antithesis of Jesus’ teachings. Instead of love, he portrays hatred; instead of forgiveness, vengeance; instead of meekness, narcissistic egoism. And the list goes on. But I am no longer surprised by Franklin Graham. This is the same man who has appeared on multiple russian propaganda channels, praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, and urged people to pray for Putin’s “wisdom.” Not once has he called for Putin’s repentance. It is because of people like Franklin Graham that many atheists want nothing to do with the church. “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” – Brennan Manning

@scottmelker Good to see there is a moral limit for you. BTW, most politicians are a piece of work, however, let’s be crystal clear Trump is in a league of his own. O morals, criminal and highly corrupt. Comparing him to other prezs is morally feckless. Tried to warn you and others!

"JUST IN: US dollar bills to be printed with President Trump's signature, removing Treasurer signature for the first time." It’s not the headline that’s insane, it’s how normal this all feels now.

@Njoork @carlquintanilla When you forego your morals and vote for one who has none while deceptively hoping that YOU will benefit from a chronic liar what more can I say? You have a window to course correct. Vote all @GOP out in the upcoming elections! Do it for your kids and grandkids sake!

Staff at The Onion screaming and crying rn

@JoeSquawk Fair enough @JoeSquawk.

@FinancialManna I just said McConnell's stated goal at the beginning of Obama's 2nd term was to make it a failure. But currently it's not even close, mate, who's playing politics. And cry more about Trump. You'll finally get him this time.

Hey @JoeSquawk - If you said that both Dems and Repubs play politics you'd have a lot more credibility mate. Not to mention that your guy Trump has 0 credibility when it comes to truth. Dude is a chronic liar, and thus, no one with moral trust him, except...

Pretty words. We’ll just watch rig count on Friday, thanks. 🤡

@PeterSchiff Lots of #2 and some of #3. Con artists are also great manipulators and they know exactly what they are doing.

Trump used Truth Social to dramatically escalate the war on Saturday, only to do a complete 180 just before the stock market opened on Monday. Is this Trump being a master negotiator, market manipulation, or just an indication that the President has no idea what he is doing?

@PeterSchiff 💯

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that it’s ridiculous to ask whether Trump would consider raising taxes to pay for the war. That confirms Trump’s intent to pay for the war with more debt and higher inflation. The biggest threat to the U.S. comes from Washington, not Iran.

@allenanalysis Trump's treading Iran like they're the @GOP. Memo to The Donald, despite their vileness, Iran and Iranians are not cowards, weaklings and spineless. They won't cower to a bully, unlike 99.9999% of Republicans. You won't win this war with bullying or bombs. Read history!

Joe Kent on camera tonight: “All 18 of America’s intelligence agencies agreed — Iran had no capacity to develop a nuclear bomb.” “But Israel was telling us they would be able to assemble ten bombs in two weeks.” 18 American intelligence agencies: no nuclear capacity. Israel: ten bombs in two weeks. Trump chose to believe Israel over his own entire intelligence community. This is not the first time this has happened. Iraq 2003: Ahmed Chalabi told the Bush administration Saddam had WMDs. The intelligence community had doubts. They chose Chalabi. 4,500 Americans died. No WMDs were found. Iran 2026: Israel said ten bombs in two weeks. 18 agencies said no nuclear capacity. They chose Israel. 14 Americans dead. No nuclear program found. Joe Kent ran the National Counterterrorism Center. He just told you on camera what the intelligence actually said. And what was ignored to start this war. Never stop connecting the dots.