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@tauhenare Luxon will be there with bells on showing his master JK that he has “guts”.

Puts everything between Peter’s and Luxon into a stark perspective imo. #Geopolitics.

@Irantimes02 More after market sabre rattling from Taco Trump 🌮

🇺🇸Trump claims Iran war will resume this weekend. 🇮🇷 Iran fires back: “Any new aggression this weekend will meet hellfire. Our response will be immediate, decisive & devastating. . White House statements, Fars News, Tasnim, Reuters

@shouldveknown11 Then get an Indian to run the errand and act like you are in India

My Mother in law had to run an errand this morning. She told me she was served by Indians, surrounded by Indians & felt like an outsider in her own country....

@gothburz She got promoted because she gave great head and understood ownership. I owned her ass and she owned someone else’s who didn’t like it

I promoted Lorna Hajdini to Executive Director at JPMorgan because she understood something most bankers never learn. Ownership. Not deal ownership. People ownership. The kind of leadership where you don't just manage a pipeline. You manage the person building it. Their trajectory. Their compensation. Their future at the firm. Their references when they try to leave. I taught her that. Not at NYU Stern. Not at Harvard. Here. In Leveraged Finance. In my corner office on the forty-second floor with the framed Tombstones from every deal that made this division what it is. Lorna's handshake could restructure a cap table. That's not a compliment. That's a performance review. When the complaint came across my desk, I read it twice. Not because it was disturbing. Because it was familiar. Every behavior described. The direct communication. The after-hours mentorship. The expectation that juniors earn their advancement through demonstrated commitment to the team. That's the playbook. My playbook. The one I handed Lorna when she made Executive Director and inherited a book of direct reports who needed to understand the hierarchy. "I own you." I've said it to thirty-one analysts over twenty-two years. It means: I control your rating, your bonus, your promotion slate, and whether the next firm you apply to hears "top-decile performer" or dead air. It's in the HR manual under "direct management accountability." We call it alignment of incentives. The complainant. A Senior VP in Originations who couldn't close. He alleges Lorna tied his advancement to "pleasing" her. I've read the promotion policy. An Executive Director has full discretion over direct-report advancement recommendations. Full discretion. We designed that authority. It incentivizes loyalty. It builds culture. It creates the kind of deep mentorship relationships that retain top talent. If he interpreted "full discretion" as something other than what every Managing Director on this floor has understood since the division was founded in 1998, that's a communication gap on his end. Not a policy failure. Harvard Business School profiled Lorna last month. "Leveling Up with Perspective, Practice, and People." She described a striking level of humility. A palpable hunger for knowledge. She talked about growing personally and professionally alongside her team. About being curious about perspectives different from your own. I wrote her recommendation for that program. I said: Lorna understands ownership the way very few people at her level do. The profile is still live on the Harvard website. Nobody took it down. That's not an oversight. That's an editorial decision by people who evaluate leaders for a living. The investigation lasted six weeks. I was consulted on a Thursday. They interviewed fourteen employees. Reviewed badge data. Calendar invites. Email metadata. Found no policy violation. The complainant declined to participate. He was already on wellness leave by then. Unrelated. Two witnesses are cited in the lawsuit. They were not cited in the investigation. I am told this is because the investigation's scope was determined prior to the filing. Scope is important. Without scope, every investigation into a Managing Director candidate with eighteen active deal mandates and a direct line to three of our top-ten private equity clients becomes a fishing expedition that puts nine figures of annual revenue in jeopardy. We are not in the business of fishing. Lorna remains employed. The complainant does not. His systems access was revoked on a Tuesday. I know it was a Tuesday because I approved the ticket. Standard offboarding protocol. The building badge, the Bloomberg terminal, the health insurance portal. All deactivated within the same four-hour window. He found out when his laptop locked at 2 PM and his key card stopped working at the elevator bank. The threatening phone calls started that week. "Just wait till you're back in New York, Brown boy." Someone knew his personal number. Someone knew he was out of state. Someone knew the racial thing would land. Those are outside the scope of the firm's responsibility. We cannot police what former colleagues discuss on personal devices during personal time. We did advise him to contact local law enforcement. In writing. Via his personal email, since his corporate account had already been deactivated. I am told he received that email. People keep asking if I'm concerned. I thought about him once. The complainant. On a Wednesday, I think. I was reviewing Lorna's Q3 revenue attribution and his name appeared on a deal she closed after he left. His origination work. Her closing credit. Standard reassignment. And I thought — briefly — about what it must feel like to watch your work get credited to the person who.· Anyway. Revenue attribution follows the active relationship manager. Policy is clear. Am I concerned? I built Lorna's career. I taught her how ownership works in Leveraged Finance. I watched her apply those lessons with a level of intensity I haven't seen since my own early years on the desk, back when nobody filed complaints because everybody understood the cost of being the person who didn't understand. If the system produced what that lawsuit describes, then I'm the system. But the investigation found no merit. So I'm just a mentor.

@TheRedbaiter Nasty nasty. She’s trying to imply there’s dementia issues. But I have a question 🙋 Is UNDRIP in the IFTA a mistake when the negotiator doesn’t know how it got in there? If so how is that mistake going to be atoned for?

A very jumpy Nicola Willis suggests Winston Peters is putting the coalition at risk and launches another serious attack on his integrity. Does Ms Willis really want the coalition to continue? You be the judge.

@JonnoL32552677 Defamation is founded on truth and lack of it

So Stuff's lawyers are now threatening Ani O'Brien with defamation for exposing the homophobic slurs by the Maiki Sherman at Lloyd Burr? Hmmm....

@Brace_Bit @puddleg @aniobrien Ffs 🤦‍♂️

@Redrunner097513 @puddleg @aniobrien You do seem overly concerned about the truth coming out. Almost like the press are off limits in your mind When the truth is that you really can't hate them enough. Lower than politicians

Good grief. I am going to have to write a part two.

@dpskiffington @aniobrien What is weird about caring less about Maiki calling a colleague a fa***t? Is it better just to be a queer, a dyke or a leftit horey? Or should I say something else just to appease these people on X who seek drama if I don’t?

@Redrunner097513 @aniobrien Probably because you’re a bit weird? People find that off putting.

@RT_com What he means is America’s Achilles heel is exposed to Iran

Trump’s Energy Sec. Wright justifies war on Iran as 'KILLING THE CANCER that will kill you' 'We're doing it FOR THE WORLD'

@BBCSport Rooney would never have cut it in the Pep squad. That Grealish didn’t is hardly a failing

Continuing his work off the pitch 🙌 Jack Grealish extends his role as a Special Olympics ambassador for another three years, having played a key role in raising the visibility of athletes with intellectual disabilities since 2022.

@xdeerfarmer @aniobrien 😧 omg

@Redrunner097513 @aniobrien Wrong, plain wrong. You must be a lefty lover.

@Brace_Bit @puddleg @aniobrien Any interest anyone has in this isn’t for the actual subject matter. It’s a whole lot more visceral than that

@Redrunner097513 @puddleg @aniobrien Except they are. Scared?

@dpskiffington @aniobrien X is because she’s always in my feed. Hopefully not for much longer though because she has blocked me

@Redrunner097513 @aniobrien You know there’s a whole internet of shit to read if you’re not interested? There’s knitting groups, book clubs, sex cannibalism forums. Pretty much anything you might be interested in is catered for, so no one is forcing you to read @aniobrien posts,

@mauriceraiti I want to comment but she is so sensitive and thin skinned she’s blocked me. Therein lies the reason why she thinks someone stating the obvious with bad language is a serious story 🙄OMG

Ani O ‘ Brien’s description of the press gallery on the piss with Nicola as a Professional Setting pretty well sums up that shit article.

@CitizenBomber What’s the difference between calling another journalist a dinosaur or a fa***t?

MEDIAWATCH: How much of a snowflake has Barry Soper turned out to be? Oh what a surprise that Soper is such a brittle snowflake! Guyon and Garner didn’t want Soper along for a trip to Afghanistan, but Key demanded it and Soper sulked because Guyon and Duncan thought he was a dinosaur? Who gives a shit? #nzpol LINK BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️

@Itinerantguy Samurai were left unemployed a few hundred years ago and so began the political upheaval in Japan

Rodney Hide thinks that maoris are more accomplished warriors than Samurai. Pfffft.

@FullTwatforward @Burberry @Crocs It’s a cheap Chinese knock off. Ten bucks max in Shanghai

Tamatha wears an iconic @burberry 100% cashmere scarf in the classic camel Nova check, available at selected luxury retailers - $1,257.00. Crocs by @Crocs - $79.99 The hypocrisy - priceless 👌

@puddleg @aniobrien @TVONENZ Nope. I do not.

@Redrunner097513 @aniobrien Don't you watch @TVONENZ news? The reporting standard has gone downhill. Lead stories that lack substantive reporting (emails from the look maxxing peptide company - wouldn't a real reporter SHOW US THEIR CONTENT?). We're being told what to think, not shown what to think about.

@DanielLMcAdams Put drones on the oil tankers and watch the Seals drop out of the sky before they can board

Iran needs to break it. The time is now.

@puddleg @aniobrien It’s not a cover up, a conspiracy of silence or anything else. The reason nobody talks about it is because it’s a nothing burger 🍔 Nobody’s interested. Nobody cares. Except for someone who has an agender.

@Redrunner097513 @aniobrien the cover-up is the story, and the culture of cronyism and influence it confirms. Many such cases. Sunlight, detergent, you know the formula.