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CUPERTINO, CA — Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed this morning that he's prepared to remove the Twitter app from the App Store but that he's waiting for orders from CCP President Xi before he makes a move. "I never make a business decision without first consulting the great and magnificent President Xi, blessings on his name," said Cook in a statement. "My company lives to serve the People's Republic of China and The Chinese Communist Party, and I will resign myself to his divine will." "If he gives the order, Twitter will be gone from the App Store." Cook emphasized,...

We’re never going back to the office – at least not five days a week. That’s the contention of Anne Helen Petersen, the author of “Out of Office: Unlocking the Power and Potential of Hybrid Work.” “You can either try to figure out flex arrangements now or you can battle your employees for the next 5 to 10 years and then pay a consultant a lot of money to help you figure out what you should have started figuring out five to 10 years ago,” she told me in the latest episode of my podcast “Downside Up.” Petersen believes that...

That ’90s Show hasn't even premiered yet and it's already a nostalgia turducken. The original star-making sitcom, That ’70s Show, cashed in on nostalgia for an era of smoking pot and debating disco. And now a reboot seeks to capture both the magic of the ’90s…and the magic of watching That ’70s Show. Yep, That ’90s Show is coming soon to our screens, though sadly it won't be broadcast like the comedies of yore. It's a Netflix original, which makes me feel both young and old at the same time. “You're from the ’70s, but I'm a ’90s chick” indeed.

I don’t mean to bash Mr. Yerby, who opined that “North American slavery [was] indisputably the most abysmally cruel system of bondage in the whole of human history,” but his opinion is objectively disputable. See what you think. The following is from 2010. I was reminded of it when a guest in this post pointed out that Americans were not the first to export black Africans as slaves. I share it every now and then, usually when someone assumes that I know nothing about the 1400-year-long sacking of my father's home continent. But, with past slaving and slave-holding being all...

What are yall's thoughts on Joy Behar apologizing to ACB after demanding she step down from a SCOTUS case because she is in a 'Christian hate group'?!

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday criticized Apple for allegedly threatening to remove Twitter from its App store while reportedly preventing Chinese protesters from fully using its AirDrop feature.

Oklahoma country music artist Jake Flint died unexpectedly over the weekend, according to a social media post from his manager. Making the news even more tragic is that Flint, 37, passed away just hours after his wedding.

Leaders From China’s State-Run Catholic Church Brief Hong Kong Clergy on President Xi’s ‘Sinicization’ PlanCritics see this conference, held in mid-November, as a precursor to a further crackdown on religious freedom.ROME — Chinese bishops, priests and theologians from the country’s state-run Church have formally briefed Hong Kong clergy on implementing President XI Jinping’s socialistic vision of religion — a move critics see as a possible precursor to a further crackdown on religious freedom. The conference took place a week before the forced installation Nov. 24 of an underground bishop as an auxiliary of a diocese not recognized by the...

by Jim Clayborn | RNNWe’ve been seeing a lot of changes now on Twitter with Elon Musk at the helm. Musk is digging through a lot of the problems that have needed fixing for a while. We saw Musk discover the hard evidence of the leftist “woke” nature of Twitter when he found the pile of “stay woke” t-shirts in the closet and blew up the liberal myth about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson. He said how that leftist bent had distorted world conversations “has been really bad. Far left San Francisco/Berkeley views have been propagated to the world...

Comedian Jay Leno unwittingly sent a desperately needed message to every preacher and teacher of the word of God in the days after his accident. I do not know if Jay Leno is saved man, a Google search failed to reveal what church he may attend, and precious little information was forthcoming. I did find an interesting blog post from a Ron Stewart, who had this to say about Leno. “A few years ago, I was watching Jay Leno interview a guest on his show named Howard Stem, a New York radio personality. During the interview, Stem began to make...

ransomnote: The "Insane" part of the title is not mine.This video is 4 minutes in length and a brief section of it is transcribed below.Monkey Werx has a Special Ops background who watches and reports on patterns of military flights worldwide.He has a theory about a recent US government 'emergency order' for concealed carry vests which can hide 8 magazines (30 rounds each) on a person.He believes Trump will be arrested, and these vests will be used by infiltrators into public's outraged response to Trump's arrest in order to frame MAGA for riots.Monkey has been tracking an unusual number of...

Editor’s note: Below is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International). Dear and distinguished friends, Allow me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had to face in order to remain consistent with your principles, and I hope that the damage you have suffered can be adequately repaired by those who have...

A bonus protest song. G-d be with the White Paper Revolution.

San Francisco police have come up with a new policy allowing them to kill suspects using robots – a first for the city and a potential milestone in law enforcement’s deepening relationship with machines. The policy, part of a broader set of rules around use of law enforcement equipment, is set to go before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Nov. 29, Mission Local reported. Robots under the policy would “only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force...

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that people were only starting to see the effects of his multi-trillion dollar spending agenda, despite Americans continuing to struggle with higher prices from inflation. “We passed the American Rescue Plan,” Biden boasted. “Now everybody knows it, but we did so much, no one knows the effects of it yet. It’s just coming into play.”

Evil people have always conspired against the righteous. We see this in the words of David in Psalm 37:12: “The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.” Why, then, do the majority of people doubt that this happens today? Why do so many believers deny that there’s an apparent deadly intent in the agenda of the globalists? One possible answer to the above questions is that many regard the warnings they hear as “conspiracy theories.” This has become a popular yet convenient way for people to disregard the threats to their wellbeing and continue with life...

The lovely and prolific Taylor Swift announced a concert tour. So far, so good. Happens every day. Ticketmaster opened up the ticket sales process, and sold 2 million tickets while fielding 3.5 billion requests – yes, 3.5 billion – before server crashes and other problems caused them to suspend sales. Taylor Swift is furious. Millions of fans are frustrated. Live Nation the parent of Ticketmaster, is embarrassed. And politicians – ranging from communist US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to conservative US Senator Mike Lee – are all demanding hearings. It’s easy to kid about the disproportionate attention this is getting in...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed landmark legislation that would codify federal protection for marriages of same-sex and interracial couples, with Democrats securing enough votes to overcome opposition from most Republicans. The Respect for Marriage Act was approved 61-36, with unanimous support from Democrats and 12 GOP votes after defeating a filibuster and rejecting three amendments offered by Republicans who oppose the bill. The measure now returns to the House for a final vote before it can go to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. The Senate vote reflects the rapidly growing public support...

Watch as ignoramus repeatedly pronounces it as the Noble Prize.

A complaint filed Sunday with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations and the state attorney general is calling for an investigation into whether Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker committed a felony by voting in Georgia elections while claiming a homestead exemption for a home he owns in Texas.