Damon Rogers

So Cal Trial Attorney and Martial Artist

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@IrvinePolice @grok ?

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@IrvinePolice was this case solved?

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@AP @grok what are the 10 countries with the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions?

[Boogie @boogietothemax]

Remembering when the guy who wrote Men in Black got told to fuck off for being a white male by two women talking about the movie he himself wrote and he apologized for it

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@Spa_town @boogietothemax he came over as wanting to be helpful and they responded with bitchy victimhood. He should have told them to go f themselves but instead he apologized.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@BillAckman @elonmusk @grok is this guy a Tesla employee?

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

I am a plaintiff side personal injury attorney so I know exactly how the industry works. We are not talking about generic small injury cases. We are talking about specific cases with specific law firms where Uber says the doctors and the lawyers are working together in a conspiracy to present false or inflated claims. They had the chance to go to trial on these specific cases and prove that the doctors are lying and to show the unscrupulous conduct. Uber did not go to trial. It chose to settle rather than confront these specific doctors on the stand. This is a multi-billion dollar company with the resources to take on these allegedly corrupt doctors and lawyers that they are now going after in this RICO case. Again, there’s a reason they brought this RICO case and it was mainly to sway public opinion on its ballot initiative which is working judging by this social media post. It was called the “Protecting Automobile Accident Victims from Attorney Self-Dealing Act" and Uber pulled it after compromise with the plaintiff’s bar that had dueling initiatives against Uber. Look up the initiative and the resolution.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

nope. That’s not why. They settled the cases because they thought they would lose them. And then they brought this RICO case partly to sway public opinion in favor of the ballot initiative that they proposed in California to limit attorney’s fees on personal injury lawsuits arising from car crashes. The plaintiff attorneys in California then proposed dueling propositions and both sides backed down with concessions. you know that the defense bar has their own roster of doctors that they use and that these doctors always say the person is uninjured or the injury is preexisting or that the person is malingering. If it’s a conspiracy on one side it’s a conspiracy on both sides.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@JoeSmith58457 @NBCNews what he describes is not even communism so the dude needs to take government 101. communism on earth is not heaven. it never has been and never will be. even china nie had incorporated capitalism but they kept the authoritarianism of communism in place. oh joy.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@JoeSmith58457 @NBCNews that’s not heaven on earth.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Nobody against data centers understands data centers.

Nobody against Flock cameras understands how they work or what they do.

Nobody demanding Medicare for All knows how Medicare currently functions or what it would cost.

Nobody saying “tax the rich” knows how much the rich already pay in taxes.

Nobody saying “seize the means of production” knows how to build or maintian the means of production.

Nobody saying “fund education” knows how much we already spend on education.

Nobody saying “no new wars” understands geopolitics.

Nobody saying “ban corporate landlords” knows what percentage of homes corporations actually own.

Nobody saying “developers are greedy” understands why housing costs what it does.

Nobody demanding price controls understands what happens to supply when you cap prices.

Nobody saying billionaires could “end homelessness” knows what governments already spend on homelessness.

Nobody saying “just build public housing” knows what it costs government to build a single unit.

Nobody demanding free college knows how much universities already receive from taxpayers.

Nobody saying “just nationalize it” can look at what the government already operates and understand why that's a bad idea.

Modern politics increasingly rewards having the strongest possible opinion about something you have spent the least possible time trying to understand.

The American voter increasingly demand sensationalism and they have no idea how wealthy they are compared to the rest of the world.

They may end up being the cause of their self inflicted belt tightening and they are in no way ready for an ounce of actual poverty.

We need immediate competence to take over sensationalism and social media, especially tiktok is the enemy of that.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@OutFrontCNN @tomforemancnn you guys can’t be this stupid.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her.

I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucy’s mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong.

After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said “non-responsive.” I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses.

By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucy’s doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice.

The surgery to save Lucy’s life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful.

The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucy’s Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn’t cancel the alert).

I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia.

When I met Lucy’s doctors, I did my best to inspire them: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.” And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone.

Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucy’s care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others.

Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak.

Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition – she understands everything including her circumstance – is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see.

Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it won’t be long before she is back.

We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention.

Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucy’s friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucy’s challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery.

Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space.

If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space.

With respect to our promise to make Lucy’s care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later.

We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December.

We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and that’s without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the site’s 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson.

Our goal is to build the world’s greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission.

The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.

While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible.

On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission.

Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it won’t be our only hospital or medical school partner as we don’t believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We don’t believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients.

Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neri’s mom who sadly died from Alzheimer’s. We couldn’t make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort.

Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible.

The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.

Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute.

We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which won’t be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity.

Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.

We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generation’s Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself.

We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles.

If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: [email protected] with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments.

We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us.

We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste.

For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:

https://t.co/gZKafCw6Ia

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate graph 😂

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@latimes “Raman has to win over voters who supported Pratt’s conservative stances while not alienating her progressive base.” lol. voters who supported pratt’s stances aren’t voting for either of these two.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@KarenBassLA This is ridiculous and should be illegal. Using taxpayer money for election campaigns is just wrong.

[Damon Rogers @MMA4LFE]

@latimes who cares. tell the new folk to move to wyoming. plenty of open land there.