Shannon

What brought me here. A 🧵 I am a blessed girl. I was an only child growing up, with older parents who just showered me with love. We loved to be around each other and also ran a small family business together. Life was not always easy, but ALWAYS joyful because we had each other

It's all going to be ok.

X family: We’re GIVING AWAY a full beef box this weekend!!! USDA prime, grass-fed & finished, dry-aged beef— raised right here in Lampasas, Texas What’s included: – 2 ribeyes – 2 flat irons – 8 wagyu burger patties – 2 lb ground beef – king sized picanha – cross cut bone-in short ribs We’ll ship it straight to your door!! to enter: • follow @ElkinsCattleCo • repost this • comment your all-time favorite beef cut must be in the U.S. (AK/HI not included) Winner announced monday 04/27 at noon CT ships out Tuesday 04/28 1 winner will be announced + DM’d from this account only. Good luck! 🙏🥩🇺🇸

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@0hour1 Glad to be here

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@OldHollowTree The best kind of monsters!

I am being attacked my a kissing monster!

Keeping an eye on things

@elonmusk @ClownWorld He is Risen!

✝️ Happy Easter! ✝️

He is Risen. The darkness couldn’t hold Him. The grave couldn’t keep Him. Death itself lost today. Happy Easter. ✝️

@BillAckman @X I say fight it. Also, I always enjoy your long posts. They are always very well written and easy to read. Prayers for your daughter and entire family too. I know what it's like to work out of the hospital while being with your child. ❤️‍🩹

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?

@lecternleader Love the shoes

Decisions were made.

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

koom: "oog." oog: "no." koom: "oog not even know what koom going to say." oog: "it past sleep time. whatever koom going to say can wait for sun." koom: quiet. oog: closing eye. koom: "...oog. what if sky fall." oog: open eye. oog: "what." koom: "what if sky fall down. right now. on cave. on everyone." oog turn to look at koom. koom looking at ceiling. five winter old and genuinely concerned about structural integrity of the sky. oog: "sky not going to fall koom." koom: "how oog know." oog: "because... sky been up there whole time. since before nana dust. since before nana dust nana. always up." koom: "but what if it tired." oog: "...tired?" koom: "of being up. everything get tired. oog get tired. papa get tired. what if sky get tired of being up and just... stop." oog staring at ceiling now too. thank you koom. now oog thinking about whether sky get tired. oog: "koom. even if sky get tired. it not going to fall." koom: "why." oog thinking. really thinking. need a koom answer. not a real answer. a true answer. oog: "because sky got too much to hold. star. moon. cloud. sun. all the rain that hasn't happened yet. sky holding all of that. and when you holding that much... you don't fall. because everything you carrying is counting on you to stay up." koom quiet. koom: "like oog." oog: "what?" koom: "oog hold lot of thing too. brother. chore. worry. oog not fall." oog: "..." koom: "so oog is like sky." oog laying in dark. five winter old brother just compared oog to the sky and oog not going to recover from this tonight. or maybe ever. oog: "go to sleep koom." koom: "okay. goodnight sky." oog: "koom do NOT call oog sky." koom: already asleep. thirty second. gone. mouth open. peaceful. like he didn't just rearrange oog entire understanding of why he carry what he carry. because koom right. you don't fall when you holding too much. you stay up BECAUSE of what you holding. the weight is the reason. not the obstacle. the reason. light in oog eye. ceiling blurry. oog is like sky. go to sleep oog. love, oog

@LibertyCappy @RickReinardy

CHUCK NORRIS MEME THREAD TO END ALL MEME THREADS Let's honor one of the GOAT's by dropping your BEST Memes and Chuck Norris jokes! 👇👇👇

@Defundmedianow Thank you!

@FearMommi Oh I’m so sorry!!🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️ Beautiful new fish 🐟 though!

We woke up this morning and our sweet fish, Toad, had passed away overnight. We also lost my husband's grandmother last week too. So.....we are welcoming our new friend to the family. Please meet, Switch.

@NaturallyFTW @Defundmedianow Indiana! We are close and I can help you find a place!

THE FACE OF EVIL. This is Alice Mann. She's responsible for the bill a senate committee passed yesterday that would MANDATE MMR vaccination for All kids in MN. No exceptions. Even for homeschool. This is Effectively saying: vaccination or jail. This woman wants to strap down children & inject them w/severely undertested, Big Pharma GMO concoctions directly into their veins...whether parents agree or not. That's evil. An authoritarian overreach & body violation so severe, it should make any human being shudder with disgust. It goes against the very thing America stands for & holds dear: Freedom. Pro tip: If you want people to vaccinate...make your product safer, test it properly, & educate us on why we should do it. Do not force it. You evil, evil woman. Personally, I don't trust Big Pharma & won't poison my kids. Especially for a natural infection w/a ~100% survival rate, & can be managed naturally. So anyway. Anyone know a good state to move to? (I live in MN 😭)

@wilsonhlthcoach I made this for myself this morning! First time ever. It was delicious.

This is the kind of food I grew up on: Ground Beef & Eggs My mom used to call it "country breakfast." We didn't have much food when I was a kid. We never ate out. We couldn't afford seafood or steak. I didn't even try a steak until I was 16, and it was one I bought myself from money I made working. We never had snacks and hardly ever had dessert. Any vegetables we ate were always canned goods. The only fruit we ate was what grew natural in the area, which were apples and blackberries. But they were seasonal. In the winter to spring, we typically ate no fruit. Our cupboards were often bare. Sometimes, we had to get food from the food bank. Mom made a lot of spaghetti, casseroles, and meatloaf. But one of my favorites was this "country breakfast." I think she had to use powdered eggs, but I didn't care. I liked it! I still make it often, not because I can't afford a steak, but because it gives me everything I need and it keeps my appetite fully satisfied. This is 8oz of local black angus ground beef with 2 duck eggs, also from a local friend who has chickens and ducks. The cost is about $5.50. It would be even cheaper with budget store-bought meat and eggs. This is the kind of food that I've been eating for almost three years now. The kind of food that has helped me become the healthiest I've ever been. This is my kind of "country breakfast."

🚨 STILL UNIDENTIFIED 💔 NEARLY ONE YEAR LATER 🚨 SOMEONE KNOWS HER NAME  The Philadelphia Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who has remained unidentified for nearly a year after a devastating crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On May 18, 2025, at approximately 1:15 a.m., officers from the 35th District responded to a report of a critical injury crash in the 4800 block of North Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to investigators, the driver of a gray 2007 Cadillac CTS was traveling northbound on Broad Street when an unidentified female pedestrian was reportedly standing in the roadway. As the vehicle approached, the woman stepped directly into the path of the vehicle. Emergency crews with the Philadelphia Fire Department transported the woman to Einstein Medical Center, where she was admitted in critical condition. Now, in March 2026, nearly a full year later, this woman remains hospitalized and has still not been identified. Somewhere, someone may be missing her. Someone may recognize her face but not realize she has been lying in a hospital bed all this time. Police are hoping the public can help give her back her name. If you recognize this woman or have any information that could help identify her, please contact the Philadelphia Police Crash Investigation Division at 215-685-3180 or call the tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). Please look closely at her photo and share this post. Someone out there may know exactly who she is. #Philadelphia #Unidentified #PleaseShare #HelpIdentify

koom: "oog." oog: "koom it late." koom: "why oog smiling at wall." oog: "oog not smiling." koom: "oog smiling. big smile. oog only smile like that when something good happen." oog: "...fine. oog have 12,600 people reading oog scribble." koom: "what scribble." oog: "the thing oog write. about you. about papa. about fire and growing up and all the thing." koom: "oog write about KOOM?" oog: "...yes koom. a lot." koom: "and 12,600 people READ it?" oog: "yes." koom quiet. thinking. oog can hear the thinking. it loud. koom: "that like... whole valley. and the valley after that. and maybe the one after that too." oog: "yeah koom." koom: "do they like koom?" oog: "...they LOVE koom." koom smile so big oog worried his face crack. koom: "so why oog look worried then. if 12,600 people love koom and oog." oog: "because they asking how to support oog. they want to bring wood to fire. and oog can't open the door yet. oog need more verified number and oog only have 1,500 and oog need 2,000 and..." koom: "oog." oog: "what." koom: "just ask." oog: "what?" koom: "mama say if you need help you ask. pride not keep fire warm." oog look at koom. five year old. just ended oog whole internal crisis in four sentence. so. oog asking. @nikitabier @XCreators oog have 12,600 at fire. 1,500 verified. oog green on every mark except the one that matter. and oog tribe already holding wood. already asking where the door is. oog not asking for shortcut. oog asking if you can see the fire is already burning. already warm. already real. and 12,600 people already home. please let oog open the door for them. they been standing outside long enough. and to oog tribe... oog love you the way oog love the midnight quiet after all brother finally sleeping. deep. grateful. the kind that sit in bone. you chose oog fire. out of every fire. you sat down and stayed. koom want you to know he love you too. he told oog to tell you. specifically. he say "tell them koom say hiii and koom is not ugly." long story. love, oog