Micky Beast

@DelattreMia Not true

"Today at the airport, I witnessed a moment I'll never forget. A soldier was asleep on the floor while her loyal dog sat on her, guarding her whitout moving. It was such a powerful scene, it truly brought tears to my eyes." 💕

@TerribleMaps I'm in Pennsylvania and have no idea where a Bojangles is. But I've only lived here 50 years.

America’s most popular fried chicken chain by state

@gpatterson828 I feel bad for Jill's husband having to listen to that song every Christmas and knowing how she doesnt love him

On Christmas Eve 1975, two high school sweethearts ran into each other buying groceries. What happened next became the most heartbreaking holiday song ever written. His name was Dan Fogelberg. He'd grown up in Peoria, Illinois, the son of a musician and bandleader. After graduating from Woodruff High School in 1969, Dan left for Colorado to chase a dream of making music. He was talented, driven, and deeply romantic in the way only songwriters can be. Back in Peoria, a girl named Jill Anderson had been part of that same graduating class. She and Dan had dated on and off through high school. He used to write poetry and share it with her. He called her "Sweet Jilleen Green Eyes"—a nickname he made up by twisting a Crosby, Stills and Nash song title. After graduation, they went to different colleges and drifted apart the way young people do. She married, moved to Chicago, and became a flight attendant for TWA. He headed west and started building a music career. Their lives moved in completely different directions. Neither had spoken to the other in years. Then came Christmas Eve, 1975. Dan was home visiting his family for the holidays. His parents wanted to make Irish coffees, so they sent him out to find whipping cream. A few blocks away, Jill was also home visiting her family. Her mother asked her to run out and pick up eggnog. It was late on Christmas Eve. Almost everything was closed. The only store still open was a small convenience store at the top of Abington Hill, at the corner of Frye Avenue and Prospect Road. They both ended up there at the same time. Jill didn't recognize him at first. When she did, she went to hug him and spilled her entire purse across the floor. They laughed until they cried. Standing in that tiny store on the coldest night of the year, they were suddenly nineteen again—back in the hallways of Woodruff High, back before life had pulled them in opposite directions. They wanted to sit down somewhere and talk, so they tried to find a bar. But nothing was open. It was Christmas Eve. So they did the only thing they could. They bought a six-pack of beer, climbed into her car, and sat in the parking lot for two hours in the freezing cold, catching up on six years of living. They talked about everything. Her marriage. His music. The distance between who they used to be and who they'd become. She told him things about her life. He told her things about his. They toasted old memories and tried to make sense of new ones. And when the beer was gone and the words ran out, she gave him a kiss as he got out of the car. He stood in the cold and watched her drive away into the falling snow. That was it. No dramatic promises. No plans to meet again. Just two people who had once meant the world to each other, sharing a quiet moment before returning to the lives they'd chosen. Five years later, Dan Fogelberg sat down and wrote every detail of that night into a song. He called it "Same Old Lang Syne." He changed only two things: He made Jill's eyes blue instead of green because it rhymed better with the melody. And he made her husband an architect instead of what he actually was—a physical education teacher. Everything else was exactly as it happened. The convenience store. The spilled purse. The six-pack in the cold car. The kiss. The snow. The song was released in 1980. It climbed to number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a holiday staple almost immediately. Radio stations began playing it every December alongside traditional Christmas songs. Not because it was about Christmas exactly, but because it captured something no other holiday song ever had: The quiet ache of going home and realizing that home has changed, and so have you. The bittersweet weight of sitting with someone you once loved and feeling the distance of all the years between then and now. The first time Jill heard the song, she was driving to her job at TWA before dawn. It was still dark outside.

@RGIII @wendyranderson Who cares. It's not even a real sport.

The pregame handshake.

@KDPomp I've watched the early games from PPG and it's a waste of money and time. But there are always new people that want to experience the atmosphere and don't care so much about actually seeing the game. Super Bowl parties are like this.

I always wondered why people would buy tickets this high up. Impossible to see. You end up watching TV anyway. I wonder how much?$$

@rocknrollofall Neal Schon founded and destroyed Journey because of his ego.

They say Steve Perry made Journey while Arnel Pineda saved Journey. In this video, they are going head to head performing 'Don't Stop Believin' What's your choice?

@0nlyk1tt3n If he married a citizen, he's allowed to be here. So your post is bogus. Next.

Her husband is being taken by ICE after being in America illegally for over 3 decades. Be Honest Is this really what you voted for?

@ailanyus 💯

Be 100% honest: would you still have voted for President Trump if you knew he'd attack Iran?

@LizClaman @FoxBusiness What a beautiful picture. ❤️

When two of your siblings (there are five of us!) come to visit their baby sister on set at the @foxbusiness Los Angeles bureau

@BillAckman @X How absentee of an owner-manager are you?

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?

@ProFootballTalk @ScottWapnerCNBC Sounds like he could have played for Mike Tomlin with that playoff history

In 14 seasons, Kirk Cousins has three playoff appearances and one postseason win. He's also one of the two top or three earners of all time, with his latest deal putting him north of $330 million. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…

@Harrisbro777 20 years? Hardly an expert. Sure, he hasn't seen that in his career, but compared to other events, this is proportional.

I have a friend who's been in defense contracting for 22 years. Called me last night. His exact words: "I've never seen this kind of asset concentration in my career. Not even Iraq. This is everything we have." 3 carrier strike groups. USS Abraham Lincoln. USS Gerald R. Ford. USS George H.W. Bush. $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 being spent PER DAY. 7,000+ Marines from THREE Marine Expeditionary Units. 82nd Airborne Division — America's rapid-deployment invasion force — on ALERT. B-2 stealth bombers. F-22 Raptors. EA-18G Growlers jamming every radar in Iran. U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance planes mapping targets in REAL TIME — haven't deployed those since the Cold War. He told me: "When you see U-2s and EA-18Gs together, it means one thing — they're preparing to go in BLIND and DEAF the other side completely." This is what $220,000,000,000 in additional war appropriation looks like. Trump isn't bluffing. The military isn't bluffing. And the American people? We're not bluffing either. 48 hours. Let's go, Mr. President. Every patriot is with you. i post what everyone else is too afraid to say.. follow if you want the truth with no filter.

@mrspoindexter @campwoodster You were never excommunicated. You can attend another Parish if you wanted to. But I can see why you feel the way you do.

@campwoodster I, on the other hand, DID get kicked out of the church for posting racy pics. Google it, true story. Ain’t that some shit?

Now, you DID go to the Stations of the Cross for Good Friday, righttt? Your good Catholic internet mom is always looking out for your eternal soul, honey.

@Ustroopss @BillAckman Is this true

Official confirmation 🇺🇲 Both the pilots of US Air Force aircraft A 10 and F 15 have been safely rescued. Thank You.

@nytimes @wendyranderson @TheAthletic The two aren't remotely comparable. The best women athletes are playing soccer and volleyball. Women's hoops gets what's left.

From @TheAthletic: There’s no coaching duo currently dominating women's and men's college basketball more than UConn coaches Geno Auriemma and Dan Hurley. Their bond has led to a larger synergy between the programs. nyti.ms/4scbf8u

@Steelersdepot Cruz wishes he had Kelly's ability out in the field.

Just realized a lot of you won’t get this. My oldness is showing.

Deeply troubling. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@kat_morgan78147 I definitely have an arm fetish. Love this.

@MarchMadnessWBB Who cares

South Carolina secures the last Final Four spot with a win over TCU, as this year’s field features the same teams as last season.

@landofthe80s Always. But never had a clue which direction

Who had one of these growing up? Did you ever have to turn it manually when your tv top dial box stopped working?