BrownKow

SOONER,Eating Innings,Independent Legend,The Best You Never Heard Of, Champ,MVP,Pitchers NOT Throwers, B.O.A.T, $TEL referral code: FyEL5fwcLK9

[BrownKow @JBrown_L]

I $TEL you that I’m thankful 🙏 for every dip! More time to accumulate!
$TEL Referral code: FyEL5fwcLK9

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud.

Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match.

Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines.

Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past.

That's exactly what Altman wants you to think.

Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings...

A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion.

If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem.

Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this:

Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language.

xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity."

Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise.

An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits.

That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking.

Just look at what he did this week:

Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins.

Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally.

That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense.

He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back.

OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg.

They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy."

That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win.

Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak.

OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery.
Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion.

The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away.

And the timing couldn't be worse...

OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them.

A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth.

This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist.

Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama.

The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER.

And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

[AwakeAfter @LooyKurt]

Why do you even consider history as taught? You have eyes to see.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Almonds are an environmental catastrophe.

People hear that and assume you mean in some abstract, projected, 2050 kind of way.

No. Present tense. Happening now. Today, while someone posts about their oat-and-almond-milk morning ritual and refers to it as 'conscious consumption.'

- 1.1 trillion gallons of water used annually in California alone
- 1,900 gallons required to produce a single pound of almonds
- 10% of California's entire water supply consumed during historic drought conditions
- Approximately 50 billion bees killed per year from pesticide and fungicide exposure during mass pollination events
- Entire Central Valley sections converted to monoculture desert requiring permanent irrigation infrastructure
- Fungicide cocktails applied during February bloom, peak bee vulnerability, routinely implicated in colony collapse
- Almonds provide essentially no complete protein, moderate oxalate load, and require industrial processing to make palatable
- Virtually every almond ever eaten has been shipped internationally at least once

The person drinking almond milk in a reusable cup is, on balance, responsible for the deaths of more living creatures before 9am than a British beef farmer manages in a fortnight.

But the cow breathed out, so.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Important reminder

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

According to whistleblower documents obtained by Business Insider, Roberts' wife Jane earned $10.3 MILLION in commissions recruiting lawyers at firms with Supreme Court interests.

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

The reason NATO was created is to give a home to the Nazis the OSS put in safe houses to protect. It was used to create NATO’s Secret Armies. It was used to coordinate domestic terror events to control NATO countries citizens. Those same terrorists were deployed all over the world assassinating heads of state including to Dallas on 22 Nov 1963. They tried to assassinate de Gaulle over 30 times which is why NATO was kicked out of France.

The NATO members intel agencies have funded the creation of terrorist organizations and used them to create chaos all over the world.

We know. It’s all documented. You lost. Sit down.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Misty_nightfall @wxdrops]

Why do meteorologists IGNORE this?

It’s no different than identifying cumulus clouds on a fair weather day.

Do they realize (intended or not) these cause weather modification?

It’s easier to not ask questions and marry weather models instead.

#chemtrails

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

“Is it a little bit homophobic to focus on the straights of Hormuz rather than the gays of Hormuz?”

No Kings protester, completely serious: “Yes, absolutely, I agree.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

If 80% of the American People are in favor of voter ID, and we can’t get Congress to pass it, what is the point of Congress?

All they do is prove they don’t represent the interests of the American People. They represent themselves.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Clint is an insider. Senator Thune betrayed the entire institution of the United States Senate.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The uniparty in action

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

John Thune has destroyed every single Senate norm that he claimed to cherish.

He set a far bigger and more dangerous precedent than abolishing the filibuster.

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

We are in the same place we were a year ago. A corrupt Congress and you’ve been exposed for the lead criminal.

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

I refer to it as the International (crime) Syndicate for a reason. We've been naming names for years. None of the intel agencies work for the governments they're suppose to. None of them. They are responsible (conservatively) for killing over 10M ppl since WW2.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This needs to change

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@SenateGOP Your Senate Majority leader defunded ICE in a shady backroom deal at 3 AM. We aren't interested in your comms.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.