Bryan Clagett

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.

For #Fis & #fintechs: Both cash & paper checks in her handbag. So much for Gen X & Millenials being digital payment natives. Stop assuming age determines usage. cc @clagett.bsky.social @psbdc.bsky.social @strategistjim.bsky.social @dionlisle.bsky.social

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"The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

"Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

- John Madden

Fred alert Some people will try to swoop into a situation in a way that creates confusion, delay and a flurry of activity that will only benefit themselves.

It’s Thursday, folks! #LedaWrites
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"It's the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to."
- Aretha Franklin

“Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”

- Mark Twain

"Anyone who thinks they're too small to make a difference has never met the honeybee."

Is Your Financial Institution Creating Rot? In its pursuit of growth, is your financial institution creating value or product rot?

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"Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society."

- John Lewis, one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery marche

Global music streaming revenue topped $20B in 2024, a 7% increase over 2023.

"All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing."

- Philip Roth

"A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream."

- Liza Minnelli

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject ... the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."

- Sir Alexander Fleming

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

- Stanley Kubrick

Some of the storm damage in SEVA yesterday.

A reminder to please always add alt text to images as a service to users like me who can’t recognise any celebrity who became famous in the last ten years

"When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous."

- Shaquille O'Neal

"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."
- Tennessee Williams

Gen-X knows 🤣

Germany’s ‘firewall’ against populism has held so far. Sunday will be its biggest test.

I really, really, really don’t like Steve Bannon.

Don’t feed the chickens.

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Nice way to end the day.

Pentagon removes CNN out of their workspace and gives the spot to Newsmax.

Wearable air fryer is next!

Why do I think talking out loud to an AI wearable is so much dorkier than using an app or taking a photo?

I use my phone constantly when I'm out in the world

But I cannot imagine SPEAKING to a device in public. Feels so crass, like playing a video on speaker without headphones