Kira Lafond

@ok6ixx Agreed. And could authors not have characters with similar names? Maybe a rule that every character name has to start with a different letter.

Am I the only one that thinks novels should have a page near the back that lists all the main characters and a brief synopsis so that i am not constantly flipping through pages to figure out who someone is?

@4thOfJuly365 You will never go back.

I've always been a Hellmann's guy, but I keep hearing about Duke's Mayo. Never tried it. Is it worth the switch?

@MrsCMFrancis All of the wood is fine. Every color, style and finish.

How many different tones of wood furniture/frames in a room is too many different tones of wood Asking for me.

@TiffaniMarie483 Try turning it around. Give home two options that he CAN do. Let him choose!!!

Sometimes it seems actually impossible for my 5.5 yo to listen. Like, I’ll look right at him and ask him to stop doing X, but he will do X even harder. Doesn’t even seem malicious, more like he isn’t physically processing my words. Is this all 5yos or just mine?!

@gabbylovesusa I have always thought that the multiple mattress stores and auto parts stores in a small town must be money laundering establishments.

There’s so many Mattress Firms in the US… Have you ever met anyone that’s ever gone in and purchased a mattress? Especially in today’s day and age? Is this not a trafficking scheme? Genuinely asking.

@Ravenismeee Yes. All workers should be able to come to work and not be bathed in scents.

Does your boss have the right to tell you that your perfume is too strong and it’s offensive to others in the office and you should stop using it ?

@Optyu974254 @gothburz He writes satire. Not scam. You are a fool.

I will repeat again. This guy is NOT THE CEO of the company he mentioned there. This is a random guy on X who is claiming to be CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. CEO literally said none of those things. This scumbag made everything up. You have been fooled fellas. This guy is a known scammer. BAN HIM X.

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

@thegabriel72 Plumber first.

Today, we had an amusing yet unfortunate incident in our office. Water gushed from the ceiling lights. We’re still deliberating on whether to call a plumber or an electrician. What are your suggestions?

@MrBeast @PopBase Well you are Mr Beast. What else needs to be said?

@PopBase I find it funny how different these two tweets are 🤣

MrBeast turns 28.

drop pictures of your pets and i'll send some PR boxes out 🥳

@lippyent Boards set on bricks for shelves

What cheap furnishings did you have in your first place? Hmm 🤔?¿

@MichaelVitaleJr @MichelleKinney @Delta I bought a soft sided one. Ripped and dragged through grease on first flight. My airline didn’t even bother to answer my claim.

@MichelleKinney @Delta I bought a hard sided piece a few years back. It was cracked on the first flight. I didn’t think twice about it. Shit happens. It was a lesson learned. Hard sided luggage is a hard no from me.

My husband and I have been loyal @Delta customers for over a decade. Diamond. Platinum. -- you name it. They have a lot of our money. But today we quit. Delta destroyed our property. We filed a claim. We sent every receipt, every photo, every document they demanded. We waited, were strung along. It's all a game. Then came the letter. It said our evidence — the evidence *they asked for* — "casts doubt." So we were told, in legalese, to fck off. Let's be clear about what this is: Delta broke our property. Delta made us chase them. Delta strung us along to waste our time, and our money. Because Delta does not give a single fck. This is what this country has come to. Greed disguised as loyalty programs, while charging us for the privilege of being a "valued customer." While they laugh at us and their executives receive hundreds of millions in bonuses at our expense. Figure out whose business you actually want, @Delta. Because you just made that decision for us.

@ThrillaRilla369 Kidney stones. And I’ve had a completely uneducated birth. Still kidney stones is the worst.

Tell me a pain that is worse than a toothache...Aside from child birth

@MirskyGregory @0hour1 Only if they give you enough room to be comfortable in business casual attire.

@0hour1 They need to reintroduce a dress code too. Business casual at a minimum.

Delta Airlines takes away free drinks to avoid certain travelers. Bold moves

After RVing for 2 1/2 years and visiting 20+ national parks, I’m glad that the people who do not pay taxes to fund our parks are helping invest in them. There were places that were overrun with tourists who were not respectful of our parks or other visitors. Perhaps if they are paying their fair share they will.

I think it’s disgusting the United States charges $100 per person visiting our country to enter a National Park. Embarrassing too!

@MikeBales Ha! No.

Mike got invited to an event at 10pm on Tuesday. Mike is 57 years old. Is Mike going?

@ZeekArkham Look for a small church with one pastor that has a handful of families with kids the same age as yours. They are there for all the right reasons.

For a change of pace… The church my family has been attending for the past couple years isn’t something I’m happy with. The pastor has fully embraced “prosperity preaching” and spends entire sermons clubbing you over the head to tithe. I seriously feel like he’s a bad month away from his own “lock the doors” moment. His wife, the “co-pastor,” literally turned her back on me when I was going through a rough period, both personally and professionally. Honestly, growing up, I never had a good church relationship. There was a LOT of bad disguised as good. The older I get, the more I realize how toxic that environment was. For my little girl, I want her to grow up in faith. I want her to be a true believer in the Word. I want her to enjoy Christ and a relationship with Him. I only hope we can find a really good church in Florida that can nurture all of it. Y’all pray for my family and I, please.

@DigitalDaisyX OMG take my money!

A Tesla motorhome would totally change family road trips. FSD handles the drive, and everyone just relaxes like it’s a mobile home on wheels. You’d just stop at Superchargers along the way, ideally near parks or campgrounds, maybe even built right into family-friendly travel spots. It feels like the future of road tripping, especially with Tesla Semis already proving long distance electric travel works.

@mrs_g_rider Who needs to look at the letters when typing?

I got a cute lil mint green and gold keyboard at the beginning of this school year and so many people will come in my office and say, "But you can't see the letters!" And I'm like, "Bitch, I don't need to!" Shout out to Keyboarding with Mrs. Heffernon back in 2001!

@jamsinnebraska @RightWingJewess I had my neck done and am thrilled with the results.

@RightWingJewess I need my double chin fixed. My profile looks like mashed potatoes. I won’t do it though. It’s just the way it is. I could weigh 32lbs and would still have 3-4 chins.

My 75th birthday present to myself (four months early) was an eyelift, uppers and lowers. It has been miserable. Absolutely miserable. I'm sorry I did it and wouldn't recommend it. The swelling is massive and I'm now on steroids to try and control it. Ladies, just age gracefully.