Derek Haller

Current: Chief of Staff @ $W. Former: Vice President, Product @socialtables (acq. by @cvent Oct-18).

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Thank you, Paris! Now off to LA.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A thread on some of the most surreal trains and beautiful train rides

1. The Mauritanian iron ore train, one of the world's longest and heaviest, spans up to 3 km, travels 704 km, and has 200-300 carriages, each weighing up to 84 tons.

[B&S @_B___S]

Get a dog, they said...

[Derek Haller @derekhaller]

@rinamajmudar @AmericanAir Bag was tagged incorrectly in Knoxville and now we have no idea where it is, the bag they recovered in Austin with out baggage tag is some woman that lives in Tampa Florida.

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.

[Derek Haller @derekhaller]

@nomadjim Did you ever figure out what's up?

[Grant Paulsen @GrantPaulsen]

15 playoff appearances in 17 years for the Capitals.

The product has been professional and admirable for my entire adult life. I don’t take that for granted. They’ve been there for DC — providing joy — every fall, winter and a lot of springs for nearly 20 years.

[Circe @vocalcry]

How I save money on food at the airport:

-pay $700/yr for AmEx platinum
-wait in line for 45 min to get into the Centurion lounge
-flight begins boarding right as I’m about to get into the lounge

Follow me for more personal finance advice

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

everyone into menswear dresses like this now

IG harebell

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Simpsons NFL @TheSimpsonsNFL]

Every NFL teams season in a Simpsons clip: a thread

[Hugh Jackman @RealHughJackman]

Fixed it.

[Ozzy Osbourne @OzzyOsbourne]

. @KANYEWEST ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “IRON MAN” FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM LISTENING PARTY LAST NIGHT. I WANT NO ASSOCIATION WITH THIS MAN!

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Brilliance.

Carl Weathers & Sylvester Stallone rehearsing their fight scene

https://t.co/pHuiYyzt52

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

"AI is going to change society"

AI on my feed:

[elliott @elliottgray]

it's january, 2020. the chiefs and 49ers are playing in the super bowl. it's an election year, trump vs biden. a remake of final fantasy 7 comes out soon

it's january, 2024. the chiefs and 49ers are playing in the super bowl. it's an election year, trump vs biden. a remake of fi

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

[Sean @smacmannis]

@ttunguz Hey Tom, curious... do you think this is more of a rising tide that will lift all boats, or an accelerant to winner-take-all dynamics for companies?

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

We never stop competing! It was fantastic to hang with my friend @LouFerrigno and play chess yesterday. He’s a fantastic player!

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Now I have finally met my "mother", thanks to the @goldenglobes.