DAMION

Booking.com warns customers of hack that exposed their data: WHO DO YOU BLAME?

CEO Glenn D. Fogel (2017-); no background in tech

Cybersecurity Subcommittee (Chair) Larry Quinlan MM

Global Chief Information Officer (2010 - 2021) Deloitte; but what was 2021 like Covid and masks? DEI hire

Cybersecurity Subcommittee member Nicholas J. Read (2018-): Technology not listed as qualification.

Cybersecurity Subcommittee member Vanessa Wittman: most recently (until 2022) CFO at Glossier, an online beauty product company; director at AIG but does not serve on Technology Committee

Woke coffee chain slammed by liberal California customers for removing pride flags from cafes: 'Bound to backfire'

Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani: “Our longstanding support of the LGBTQIA+ community is unchanged. We are working toward creating a more consistent, inclusive experience across all our stores, including removing a variety of flags and other decor. This is a change in how our stores look, not in who we are.”

In 2025, the company drew headlines when private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co. acquired it for $145M.

One customer said: 'Yeah their coffee sucks but this banning pride flags will not go over well - boycott incoming - maybe they need to look up what happened to Target.'

Founded in 2003 in San Francisco's Mission District by Phil Jaber and his son Jacob

WHO DO YOU BLAME?

CEO Mahesh Sadarangani

How I Philz: Ether straight up.

Came from Wingstop, which just inherently feels homophobic. I mean it sells the wings of birds. That doesn’t feel right.

Freeman Spogli & Co.

Team: 31: 5F

And 6 Industry Executives: 0F

Partners 10: 1F

Last filing from 1/2025 lists 10 executive officers: 0F

founded by Richard Riordan, Bradford M. Freeman, and Ronald P. Spogli

OG greenwashy: first page is all women

Phil Jaber and his son Jacob

I’m trying here, people

The San Francisco Bay, where the vast majority of Philz cafes are located: a notoriously homophobic region

Anthropic's Claude for Word is another challenge to Microsoft's software empire

Chevron and Microsoft Team Up for Giant Texas Gas Power Plant

OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft

WHO DO YOU BLAME?

Satya Nadella

Reid Hoffman: Epstein Island said what?

Charles Scharf (2014-): in 2020: "The unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from."

Charles Scharf again: in 2025: settled a lawsuit for $85m after whistleblowers revealed that Wells Fargo managers were reportedly conducting "fake" interviews with minority and female candidates for positions that had already been filled or promised to someone else to "check a box" and meet internal diversity guidelines.

Charles Scharf and Reid Hoffman as a duo:

Scharf publicly called for the firing of Lina Khan, the Chair of the FTC. He characterized her regulatory approach as a "trauma" to the economy.

Hoffman said Kahn was “waging war on American business”

Hugh Johnston: does it get any more pointless than Disney and Pepsi? (CFO at those places)

Teri List: the boring company queen: (since 2014; The Gap/Dick’s/Kraft/Procter&Gamble/Visa/Danaher)

Catherine MacGregor: she’s a woman and she’s French!

Lead Independent Director Sandra E. Peterson (2015-): fake LD

Penny Pritzker: nepobaby

Dame Emma Walmsley: she’s a woman, and a Dame, and not American and has a degree in Classics!!

Mark Mason: he’s black!

Trump’s SEC Is Going After Fewer Wall Street Crimes

The agency released long-delayed data that confirmed a steep drop in enforcement.

That contradicts statements that the SEC’s head, Paul Atkins, made to Congress in February, disputing reports that suggested his agency was prosecuting fewer crimes, and assuring lawmakers that SEC enforcement work had not seen a steep decline.

In its release of case numbers this week, the agency framed its enforcement drop as an effort to focus more on cases where investors saw direct harm and to better use agency resources: “Regrettably, such resources have been misapplied in prior years to pursue media headlines and run up numbers, and in turn, led to misguided expectations on what constitutes effective enforcement.”

784 in 2023 … 456 in 2025. WHO DO YOU BLAME?

Trump, duh

Paul Atkins, duh

SEC re-tr...

BLAME GAME: Microsoft carbon fails, Booking.com hack, Amazon + OpenAI love, Sheriff and Feeler