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@AndrewCurran_ This is a baldfaced campaign to justify taxpayer funding of their private business The answer is no

OpenAI has written a new policy proposal 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.' They propose the creation of a Public Wealth Fund that will provide American citizens with an automatic public stake in AI companies and AI infrastructure even if they are not invested in the market. Returns from the fund would be distributed directly to citizens.

@MarkMeadows #ShutUpNazi It will never be a good time for you to try and resurface You're a vote cheating criminal

If Republican politicians would fight for law abiding citizens just as hard as Democrats fight for illegal aliens, we’d have our country back.

@rycatcher0421 @ElCruzSeb You are on your couch Tweeting You're not there Dying To protect the Epstein files Real soldiers are doing that

@ElCruzSeb Oh please. Let’s see how froggy they are with no power. No oil and no way to make money. You think the people of Iran are revolting now? And spare me the evil American bullshit. The people of Iran want freedom. And we are there to give it to them.

NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE TRUMP-IRAN SITUATION ACTUALLY IS RIGHT NOW. Iran just rejected the ceasefire. Refused to reopen Hormuz. Said the US "lacks readiness" for peace. Here is what that means for Trump. He has three options left. All three are catastrophic. ⚠️ OPTION 1: KEEP BOMBING The US is running low on stealth missiles after 38 days of strikes. Iran keeps charging $2,000,000 per ship to cross Hormuz. Every week of bombing costs America more than Iran loses. A French think tank already called this a "Triple Failure — military, economic, and political." This option does not end the war. It funds Iran. ⚠️ OPTION 2: NEGOTIATE WITH NO LEVERAGE Iran holds Hormuz. Iran holds the oil. Iran collects payments in Chinese yuan. Trump set 12 deadlines. Iran ignored every one. Every deadline that passes makes the next one weaker. Negotiating now means negotiating from the losing position Trump swore would never happen. ⚠️ OPTION 3: ESCALATE TO FORCE HORMUZ OPEN 35 countries are already begging for this to stop. Oil already surged $11 in one day — the worst energy shock since the 1970s. A full escalation risks turning a regional war into a global one. And Iran has already warned it will never return Hormuz "to its former state, especially for America." Let that sink in. Trump said "Iran has been essentially decimated" on week three. Day 38: Iran charges ships $2,000,000 to pass through the water Trump said he would liberate. There is no Option 4. There is no clean exit. The only entity making money right now is Iran. Bookmark this. Screenshot this. Come back in 5 days. i'm sitting on something right now that's going to shake your timeline.. hit follow before i drop it.

@anukasan1977 @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan All he had to do was not be a dickhead That was a bridge too far

@JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan This is true, but it was a wartime emergency measure: Substack had launched a twitter competitor, high-profile accounts were urging exodus to Bluesky & elsewhere—the entire platform was under attack. So, Musk started penalizing everyone for pointing elsewhere. I think he had to.

De-boosting links made this site much less useful for both writers and readers. A big chunk of Twitter's value was that it was a one-stop shop where you would find links to a host of new and interesting pieces. These pieces were outside Twitter, but connecting readers to them made the site invaluable. Very different now.

@psychecrypt @KobeissiLetter Iran will not get what it wants here, but longer term, the ¥ captures significant share of the oil trade, further weakening the dollar The rapist did this

BREAKING: Iran has submitted a "10-point response" to the US' plan to end the war. Iran's proposal includes an end to conflicts in the region and protocol for safe passage through Strait of Hormuz. A senior US official describes the Iranian response as "maximalist" and said that it is not clear if it will allow progress toward a diplomatic solution. We expect full details of the 10-point response shortly.

@Mylovanov While trading oil in ¥ America lost Because of the rapist

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. This is Xi's philosophy on the Iran war. China is standing aside and watching — because Beijing sees the US-Iran war as a grave American error, The Economist. 1/

@XMartinsMusicX Valley Girl

My Top 10 Favourite Movie Soundtracks... what are you adding? 1. Quadrophenia 2. Trainspotting 3. Superfly 4. Help 5. Rushmore 6. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7. 24 Hour Party People 8. High Fidelity 9. Easy Rider 10. Almost Famous

@AriFleischer #ShutUpNazi #PedophileProtector

While Trump, Hegseth and the entire military were working, this is what the left was doing. Fantasizing that Trump was in the hospital. Never forget how deranged and hateful the opposition to Trump truly is.

@KobeissiLetter @NateSilver538 Oh it's correct You're the CuckPumper Letter We know

@NateSilver538 This analysis is flawed. We did nearly 50M engagements YTD (which would make us top ~10 on your graphic), yet no mention of our account on this list. Your data is likely incorrect.

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

@wakenminds Exposing your ignorance in real time Congrats

"you need a degree to build a house" Men without degrees 500 years ago:

@TimothyDSnyder Corporate media has already chosen They will support the coup You know I'm right Sadly We will need to ignore corporate media to prevail against tyranny There isn't a single chief editor ready to defend democracy

Neutrality is not possible here. Either we deny such things are possible (as they unfold!) and become silent accomplices, or we lean forward, keep our eyes open, and prepare to act. (15/17)

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

@BillAckman @X What I know is you don't give two shits about America or anyone but yourself #ShutUpNazi

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?

@Acyn The world sees Trump as a liar, and because of that no one in the world can trust him. Trump has completely obliterated US credibility world-wide, and now the world wants nothing to do with the damn fool.

@MikeLevin The Republican Party will have singlehandedly dismantled the United States as a world power and a democratic republic by the end of this term. If we survive.

@ruiptsporting @micyoung75 @MalcolmNance Correction The best thing would be an obituary in the morning

@micyoung75 @MalcolmNance Trump has caused unimaginable damage to US foreing diplomatic relations. By now, it Will take ages to repair. The best thing that could happen to US is a Democrat's win on the midterm elections and hope for an inpeechment on Trump.

The Denmark detail is the one that should stop people cold. NATO allies had to genuinely war-game shooting down American planes. Some of their military leaders still haven't fully processed having run that exercise. The most popular app in the country identified American products to avoid buying. And now Trump is demanding - his word - those same allies solve the Strait of Hormuz problem his war created. NATO invoked Article 5 once. For us. Their soldiers died in Afghanistan. He told reporters they stayed "a little back." Their governments remember that. They've drawn the conclusions and they aren't reversible.

This is the truth. The longer Trump remains, the quicker the world moves on from us. The dollar is dead. The rapist has bankrupted the country in every way possible

@gregkellyusa How many American soldiers need to die in this pedophile war before we are allowed to no longer be chill Looking for your guidance

Everybody CALM DOWN! So they shot one of our Planes Down. RELAX. This happens in EVERY WAR. The situation is “under control”—-one guy has already been Rescued. FAKE NEWS is treating this like it’s 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina all wrapped up into One. CHILL!

Imagine if America funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military

@ClayTravis The Constitution You should read it

An American citizen’s baby can’t become a Chinese citizen by being born on the soil of China. Can anyone explain why a Chinese citizen’s baby should be able to become an American citizen by being born on the soil here? It’s absolute insanity.