Alan Andersen @AlanAndersen

Careful what you ask for…

Tim Sanders @sanderssays

2 days ago

Never deleting X

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Leadership is the solution.

Everett Stern @EverettStern1

2 weeks ago

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the

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Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

@PensivePoet97 Thanks for sharing your talents, Jordan!

No smoke machines or modern instruments to be relevant? I mean, singing a prayer that has to be more than 2000 yrs old could be so boring (and then again, if someone thinks that, they would completely miss point).

@theunificator Yo! Good to see this message and more so you, from this good word, Doug. Hard to believe we’re approaching 20 years since meeting you, @jareddobbins and other great people at mars hill. Lord bless you blokes. Happy 4th!

This is the type of “out of the box” thinking that could jumpstart a wave of sustainable health care. The main job to be down, however, would be administering QUALITY health care.

Mark Cuban @mcuban

4 months ago

I have an idea for you. Get a bunch of Dem donors to buy or lease or take over a small hospital. Plenty are close to going out of business. Have it charge ONLY MEDICARE RATES. For everything. Be completely transparent with every penny you spend so everyone can see what it

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These elements that Zach is laying out become a forcing function for “faithful stewardship” and will cultivate health and human flourishing across a society!@zkosturos

Zach Kosturos @zkosturos

5 months ago

There’s almost nothing better than free people, able to trade freely, based on what they want and need, without unnecessary government intervention. I pray that somehow, some way, we can find our way back to that.

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#ExtremeOwnership

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt

5 months ago

If you don't vote, I don't want to hear you ever complain about any of the filth, crime, or decline in LA again. Get off your butt and VOTE, or enjoy what you get.

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This is very discouraging. I was a MHC staffer during the “golden years” and to see the slide for both Driscoll and Metaxas is a bummer to say the least. THAT SAID, I don’t know the context, nor time frame of this image, so there is an outside chance there is a defensible purpose behind the pic. Then again, you realize the “taunting” and you see, NOPE! No defense. Winger, grateful for the conviction with which you appear to live life with. Soli DEO Gloria

Hey, @SteveHiltonx team, if you’re down in San Diego, do you guys want to have a conversation with Jocko Willink on his “Jocko Podcast”? If interested, I can help coordinate. Bet it would be a great conversation!

As a former MHC staffer and “ReTrain” student, this was one of the most discouraging things I’ve ever heard Wilson share. I’ve considered various angles of the statement, not to mention we all have a “perspective gap” but dang it felt like a kick in the shin when those two conversed. And to clarify, I believe Wilson said, “I’m in a position to know…”

This is interesting, to say the least. Is this real or an AI vid?

Sovey @SoveyX

8 months ago

Two AI agents last 26 seconds in English before going full Skynet. Wild. 8-bit ASCII binary translation our new overlords: 01010100 01110111 01101111 00100000 01000001 01001001 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110011 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110011

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Newsom @CAgovernor is so good! I mean that earnestly, he is impressive. His “muscle” has to be BOTH nature and nurture

Next Up with Mark Halperin @NextUpHalperin

8 months ago

"Can you read?" @MarkHalperin gets the REAL story about how @GavinNewsom reads books but can't read on a phone or other device, as Newsom responds to the dyslexia and "reading" debate. Full interview drops Tuesday. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it. ▶️ YouTube:

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@TerriGreenUSA Earnest question, how did you find this clip @TerriGreenUSA? This is beyond good!

@ReedFawell111 @newstart_2024 @grok what’s the central theme of “Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontology” by Michael Tomasello ?

@PrefersAnon316 @HwsEleutheroi I’m new to the game. Is your statement defensible @PrefersAnon316 ?

Bankruptcy! @elonmusk is this legit or hyperbolic?

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber

9 months ago

Dear Republican Presidential Nominee For The 2028 Election: I Am Here From The Future To Tell You Why You Just Got Crushed (So You Can Go Back In Time, Fix Your Mistake In 2026, And Win).

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Anyone know if this is legit or is it AI?

Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton

9 months ago

Even The Daily Show is starting to notice that Gavin Newsom has failed to deliver on everything he has promised since being gifted his career in politics.

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Classic St. Peter…

5 Solas @5Solas2

9 months ago

How Atheists Think Christianity Started 🤣

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