🚨 here's the chain of events you need to see..
Spencer Pratt sits down with CBS for a full hour..
CBS fact-checks Karen Bass on camera..
CBS "gets the call"..
CBS cuts the interview to 5 minutes..
Pratt posts about it publicly.. calls it a hit piece..
the internet loses its mind.. demands the real version..
CBS quietly drops a 30-minute extended cut..
and here's the part nobody's connecting..
the only reason any of this happened is because Pratt went public.. if he stayed quiet.. you never see 30 seconds of that interview.. let alone 30 minutes..
a sitting mayor allegedly called a major network after getting fact-checked.. and the network folded.. until the public got loud enough that folding the other way was the safer move..
that's not journalism.. that's damage control with a rewind button..
the system worked for someone today.. just not for you.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨
The road to redemption began with “hosanna.” As we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, may our hearts welcome Him this Easter season.
Nearly 2000 years ago, Palm Sunday marked the beginning of the last week of the mortal ministry of Jesus Christ. Scriptures tell us that the week began with throngs standing at the gates of the city to see “Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee” (Matthew 21:11).
Though we do not stand at the gates of Jerusalem today with palms in our hands, the time will come when “all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, [will stand] before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). #GreaterLove
A vendor just emailed us an invoice.
Right logo. Right project. Right invoice number. New bank account.
If we had paid it, $50K is gone. No recovery. No insurance. Just gone.
We got an email a few days later that the vendors email had been hacked.
This is happening to businesses every single day. And it's about to get much worse.
AI is an incredible tool when it's used for good. But it is also a weapon. The same technology helping us underwrite deals and manage portfolios is helping criminals build perfect fraud at zero cost and infinite scale.
The "Nigerian Prince" is dead. He's been replaced by AI that sits inside your vendor's email for months. It watches your payment cycles. It learns your controller's name. It waits for the perfect moment to swap banking info on a real invoice.
It requires vigilance and good processes to not get fooled.
Here are a few basic things we do:
1. Banking info changes = full stop. No exceptions. We stop and we call.
2. Never call the number on the new email. That's the hacker's number. We dig up the old contact info and call someone we already know.
3. Hold payment if there is a bank change. Every updated account gets a mandatory hold and a voice callback to the vendor.
Two-minute phone call costs you nothing. One bad ACH is an expensive mistake.
What else should we be doing?
I grew up during Jim Crow. It’s amazing that since the 1960s, the Democratic Party still refuses to accept a simple fact about Black Americans: that, like every other race in this country, we are smart enough to register to vote. There is nothing more demeaning than this racist view of my race. THIS is why I left the Democratic Party 40 years ago and will never, ever go back.
Pass the SAVE Act.
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I promise that if you will make time to be in the temple regularly, it will change your lives. It will bless your families, strengthen your faith and open the windows of heaven for you.
Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.
I’ve cried a few times today so excuse me fam! 😢 Today, my daughter Morocca was accepted into her #1 choice for Grad School, Columbia University! Yes, she’s going to get a Masters from CU! 🙌🏿 So many amazing emotions are running through our family right now...