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If you thought losing hundreds of millions of dollars would deter The Walt Disney Company from continuing its embrace of leftist politics, think again.On Saturday, Disney’s Lucasfilm released “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire,” an anthology series highlighting different characters from across the Star Wars universe. While the show is clearly marketed to children, that didn’t stop showrunners from featuring a character using “they/them” pronouns.In one of the episodes, the Galactic Empire dispatches two Inquisitors — force-wielding dark-side users — to hunt down a Jedi spotted on a distant world. Upon arriving at the planet, one of the Inquisitors asks...

Kim Godwin, the embattled president of ABC News, abruptly announced Sunday evening that she will exit the network, capping a tumultuous three-year run at the outlet after staffers said her polarizing leadership led to plummeting employee morale. I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin told staffers in a memo that rocked the ABC News newsroom. “I have been fortunate and blessed enough to have done almost every job there is in this business,” Godwin added. “But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important...

Buzzy healthcare company Hims & Hers lost nearly $210 million in stock value in a single day after the company’s CEO said he and other executives were “eager” to hire anti-Israel student protesters who’ve faced disciplinary actions from their universities. The online sexual health and pharmaceutical company plummet 8% on Friday from its opening price of $12.24 to $11.26 — just two days after Palestinian-American CEO Andrew Dudum said companies would be happy to have the protesters and encouraged them to apply to Hims and Hers. “Moral courage > College degree,” Dudum tweeted on Thursday, amid the nationwide anti-Israel protests...

With tech layoffs at their highest since the 2001 dot-com crash, the job hunt is getting harder and many in the industry are being forced to settle for pay cuts if they can find a new gig at all. Allison Croisant, a data scientist with about a decade of experience in technology, was laid off by PayPal earlier this year, joining the masses of unemployed across her industry. Croisant has one word to describe the process of looking for a job right now: “Insane.” “Everybody else is also getting laid off,” said Croisant, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where she...

When Patricia Silva spotted a naked man shaving in front of a female child in the locker room at a Planet Fitness in Fairbanks, Alaska, she approached the individual and suggested he use the men’s locker room. Of course a disagreement ensued, at which point Silva got her phone out to expose the creep (without the nudity of course); shortly after the confrontation, Silva found herself banned from the gym, with managers filing a police report against her.When Silva’s story went viral, the company doubled-down on backing the pervert, and in the wake of the decision, Planet Fitness has lost...

Planet Fitness has refused to walk back its decision to ban a member who exposed a 'trans woman' shaving in the female locker room. The statement, which was shared by the Libs of TikTok Twitter account, said although some members may feel uncomfortable sharing facilities, 'This discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender member.' The comments come after Patricia Silva detailed at incident at her Alaska gym where she saw a transgender woman shaving in her locker room. Silva had just finished working out at Planet Fitness' Fairbanks location, when she saw the person, whom she...

U2 frontman Bono dedicated the song “All I Want Is You” to First Lady Jill Biden while wrapping up the band’s inaugural residency at Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion Sphere arena over the weekend. Before performing the band’s 1988 hit, “All I Want Is You,” Bono said that he was dedicating the song to “one woman in particular,” which was Jill Biden. SOME NEWS: Bono takes U2 on a break from Achtung Baby to perform “All I Want is You” and dedicates song to all women in world, on their crew, women experiencing hardship in world. Then he dedicates it to...

The payment company's CEO Alex Chriss told staff on Tuesday that another 9% of the workforce — about 2,500 positions — will be slashed. The news comes after PayPal said it would reduce its headcount by about 2,000 in January last year."We are doing this to right-size our business, allowing us to move with the speed needed to deliver for our customers and drive profitable growth," Chriss wrote in a memo. "At the same time, we will continue to invest in areas of the business we believe will create and accelerate growth." The cuts will come from current positions as...

The Arena Group alerted all Sports Illustrated staffers on Friday that their positions were being eliminated. Richard Deitsch, a sports media reporter who left for Sports Illustrated for the Athletic, posted the email that all employees received on X. It noted, in part, that some employees would be “terminated immediately.” The decision comes after the Authentic Brands Group, the licensing group that bought Sports Illustrated for $110 million from Meredith five years ago, terminated the agreement it holds with The Arena Group to publish the magazine in print and digital, per Front Office Sports. “Some employees will be terminated immediately,...

Search... Huge. If. TRUE --> Just Guess What United's Woke, DEI-Supporting CEO Likes to Do With His Free Time Sam J. Ok, so it's bad enough that United's CEO, Scott Kirby, cares more about sex, color, creed, and persuasion than he does skill when hiring people in his industry... you know, an industry where pilots are responsible for millions of lives every day. CEO of @united says he takes race and gender into account when hiring and laments that there’s too many white males in the airline industry. pic.twitter.com/NSEPzAuqZS — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024 But if this...

The story of Disney (DIS) has been far from a fairytale of late. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently called for CEO Bob Iger to be “fired immediately.” And now, South Carolina is pulling its state funds out of the entertainment conglomerate. According to South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis, the decision to divest has to do with the company’s management abandoning their fiduciary responsibilities. “I think it's clear to anybody paying attention that there's a structural rot inside of Disney. It's deep, it’s pervasive, and I suspect Bob Iger, since his return as the CEO, now realizes it can't be...

Anti-ESG hysteria driven by online hate platforms has disproportionally eroded portfolios of color and sabotaged our planet's future. Call it what it is: terrorism. The anti-wokes are celebrating yet another dubious victory as new data shows that global investments in ethical companies have nosedived by nearly $5 trillion over the past two years. The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) on Wednesday reported that the total value of sustainable assets has shrunk from $35.3 trillion in 2020 to a mere $30.3 trillion in 2022. S&P Global Clean Energy Index reports a 30% fall so far in 2023. The United States alone...

WASHINGTON (TND) — Transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” list this week. The list commemorates “young movers and makers changing the world,” according to Forbes. It has formerly featured figures such as singer Miley Cyrus and disgraced tech entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried. Sharing the news with her nearly 2 million Instagram followers, Mulvaney said the designation was a dream come true

A top marketing specialist at Nike responded to Iran-backed terror group Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughtering of innocent Israeli women and children by accusing the Jewish state—not Hamas—of "massacring civilians." James Rehwald, who has worked as a "digital media marketing specialist" at Nike since 2021, on Oct. 16 posted a video to his Patreon account titled, "Why Israel Deliberately Targets Civilians." That video, Rehwald wrote in his caption, exposes the "brutal military and settler colonial occupation that Israel has imposed on its native Palestinians for the past 75 years." Rehwald went on to downplay the atrocities Hamas terrorists committed against Israelis...

Woke books that were bought for huge advances by 'inexperienced' editors have flopped commercially, insiders say. 'Ideological fanatics' allowing their politics to dictate professional decisions have seen profits slump, according to industry experts. Among the works responsible for huge losses is a hotly anticipated memoir by the actor Eliot Page about his journey transitioning. 'Pageboy' sold for a $3 million advance but has sold just 68,000 copies. Industry standards suggest for publishers, paying roughly $7 per book sold is considered a good deal It means that even novels that sell tens of thousands of copies such as Page's can still...

How charming…. Target just hired someone named Erik Thompson, also known as the Gay Cruella on Instagram (duh), who is Target’s new LGBTQIA+ (say that 10 times fast!) multicultural merchandising strategy and Pride businesses leader! Yes, really. It’s no secret that the retail store Target has not endeared itself to Christians anytime lately. In fact, Target’s main focus in recent years has been about pushing ‘LGBTQ’ propaganda by prioritizing products that support that specific agenda. They’ve done this in spite of the mostly negative responses they’ve received for their trouble. Back in June, Target even backtracked on pushing their “pride”...

The 72nd Annual MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT will be broadcast LIVE from El Salvador on Saturday, November 18th on YouTube, Roku or Telemundo in the United States, starting at 8:00 PM ET. The pageant's owners, JKN Global Group, out of Thailand, just filed for bankruptcy last week. This year's pageant will go on as scheduled. I always watch this contest on Telemundo because Latin American countries take this pageant very seriously and do a great broadcasting the event. They even have a pre-show scheduled as well. Two trans women, Miss Portugal and Miss Netherlands, will be competing amongst the 84 candidates....

It turns out that viewers do not want to see men competing in a women's pageant. Who could have guessed? According to Fox Business, the JKN Global Group filed for bankruptcy last week in Thailand. JKN owns the Miss Universe pageant, which this year will feature two transgender contestants: "Miss" Portugal and "Miss" Netherlands."Miss" Spain -- the first transgender contestant in pageant history -- competed in 2018. He did not advance to the finals, however, no doubt due to transphobia. Thankfully, a new owner means a remedy for that vile "fear" of men pretending to be women. The JKN Global...

Target has come under fire again after reports the retail giant is stocking ‘woke’ Christmas decorations in a number of its stores. Conservative X account End Wokeness was the first to post images of the woke Christmas decorations in Target, which included a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair along with a “pride” hat and a “pride” flag. Podcaster Tim Pool also confirmed that Target made “Santa in Wheelchair” available for purchase. “[O]mg its real,” Pool wrote.

Like some of you guys, I've made a few stops at Victoria's Secret to purchase a surprise for my wife. I usually did it coming home from a business trip. The store clerks were always super helpful in figuring out such important things as size. It's no secret that most guys don't know their wife's size or number or other details. In my case, I would show the clerk a photo of my wife and she knew exactly what her size was. Perfect batting average, I'll say. I never told my wife that the clerk figured out her number so...