Target CEO Takes Pay Cut Over Losses amid DEI rollback Boycott

The declining pay is an indication of the financial struggles the Minneapolis-based retailer has endured in recent years, as performance-based equity awards provided a declining share of his overall compensation. Total compensation for the year ended Jan. 31: $9,858,980 Salary: $1,400,000 Bonus: $785,400 Non-equity incentive pay: $1,538,320 Other compensation: $596,391 https://www.startribune.com/target-ceo-brian-cornell-executive-pay-compensation-down/601342128 Why are people boycotting Target? Here’s what to know …

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Urgent warning to all 1.8b iPhone users over dangerous flaws: Turn off the feature NOW

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered dangerous iPhone flaws that let hackers infiltrate any device linked to the same Wi-Fi network. The team at Oligo Security discovered 23 vulnerabilities in AirPlay, which allows users to stream audio, video and photos from Apple devices to other smart devices. The company found that two of the flaws allowed attackers to …

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Maine silences lawmaker over sports stance

CENSORSHIP: The Maine legislature won't allow Rep Laurel Libby to speak or vote until she recants her opposition to the state's policy allowing men to compete in women's sports. She has taken her case to the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/XlFA4RTAxH — @amuse (@amuse) May 1, 2025

It’s escalating: Ryanair picks China jet over Boeing triggering backlash from angry US lawmakers… Japan negotiators firmly opposed US proposal. Trump ends de minimis exemption for China shipments.

BREAKING: 🇪🇺🇨🇳 EU airlines saying they’re going to start buying Chinese COMAC planes instead of American Boeings in response to the tariffs- RCE This was announced by the Irish Ryanair. Reuters reports that US lawmakers immediately began threatening the company. pic.twitter.com/vlRz4C4ttT — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) May 2, 2025 🔴 Japan negotiators firmly opposed US proposal – …

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Apple hit with criminal contempt referral over Fortnite ban. Judge slams tech giant for willful violations of court order

APPLE BUSTED: JUDGE REFERS TECH GIANT FOR CRIMINAL CONTEMPT OVER FORTNITE BLOCK A federal judge just torched Apple for “willfully violating” a 2021 court order designed to open iOS to alternate payment systems. The court found Apple guilty of deliberately creating barriers to competition—and lying about it. The ruling even refers Apple to the DOJ …

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Trump just took over Ukraine with a pen

Trump just took over Ukraine 🇺🇦 with a pen. The art of the deal. https://t.co/QGhmNF71Zo — The Great Martis (@great_martis) May 1, 2025 Trump is going to carve up Ukraine with this minerals deal. Ukraine might not have to pay America back for its prior investment but it will effectively become a vassal of the …

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Global GDP released – U.S. GDP shrank. China’s manufacturing is rolling over. Mexico barely avoided technical recession. Europe? Artificially propped up…

The latest GDP data just dropped from the U.S., China, Europe, and Mexico… And at first glance?It doesn’t look disastrous.But under the surface — there’s a payback wave building.U.S. GDP shrank.China’s manufacturing is rolling over.Mexico barely avoided technical… — Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_EDU) May 1, 2025

Republicans battle over cutting federal pensions.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will mark up its portion of the GOP megabill Wednesday, and one Republican on the panel is already coming out against it. In a statement Tuesday, Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said he would vote against his committee’s contribution to the party-line package to enact President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, …

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US threatens to halt Mexican beef imports over flesh-eating fly crisis

American ranchers have been battered by multinational corporations flooding the food supply chain with cheap beef imports from third-world countries, much of it ending up in supermarkets without consumers ever realizing it. Now, in a move to protect both consumers from flesh-eating parasites and support mom-and-pop ranchers, the Department of Agriculture warned Mexico on Saturday …

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“Operation Tidal Wave” arrested over 780 illegals in an operation in Florida… DEA leads multi-agency operation in Colorado Springs, over 100 illegal aliens arrested…

BREAKING: "Operation Tidal Wave" arrested over 780 illegals in an operation in Florida "This a just a PREVIEW of what's to come throughout the nation" – Assistant DHS Sec. Tricia McLaughlin 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/0LW3bHNCIO — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2025 The party is OVER. Law and order has returned. Under the leadership of President …

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Hardship 401k withdrawals running 15-20% above norms. 44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in a year.

Yields are more likely to crash in the coming months, not the opposite. pic.twitter.com/QNo5b0NzIb — Guilherme Tavares (@i3_invest) April 25, 2025 Hardship 401k withdrawals running 15-20% above norms pic.twitter.com/C4VOxqXuNB — Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) (@SpecialSitsNews) April 25, 2025 This is stunning: 44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in …

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Over 100 Yale professors call for audit of university’s expanding bureaucracy

This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy. The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia." pic.twitter.com/C37Fjk6FuE — John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) April 25, 2025 Over 100 professors signed a letter urging University leaders …

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Machines take over decisions while humans sleep. Passive income turns into passive surrender. Once self-driving cars take over, who’s really in control of your life?

We’ve been promised a future where technology works for us, not the other way around. Cars that earn money while we sleep, fridges that automatically reorder our food, phones that know our heartbeat before we do. It sounds like a dream, right? A world where convenience rules, and every detail of our lives is optimized …

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The CEOs of Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Lowe’s Warn That Store Shelves All Over America Could “Soon Be Empty”

by Michael If you are going to need anything made in China, I would buy it now while you still can.  Many companies have already decided that it no longer makes any economic sense to import Chinese-made products into the United States because tariff rates are so high.  As a result, there are certain things …

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US’s top phone carrier,Verizon, stung by instant backlash over price hikes

US's top phone carrier stung by instant backlash over price hikes https://t.co/2tKrOpB3TD — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 23, 2025 The nation’s largest wireless provider is bleeding subscribers after jacking up prices and scaling back on deals. Verizon lost 289,000 monthly subscribers in the first three months of the year, the company admitted on Tuesday. It’s …

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Abrego Garcia pulled over driving human smuggler’s car (with 8 Illegals) during Tennessee traffic stop.

OK, Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a wife beating, illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member, but who amongst us hasn’t been pulled over for speeding in our human smuggler friend’s car with eight other illegal immigrants shoehorned inside? pic.twitter.com/ObUTidbVC9 — Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 23, 2025 Deported alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving a …

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Supreme court leans toward parents in fight over LGBTQ books in schools… 6–3 ruling expected to favor parental rights over forced instruction

The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sympathetic to a group of Maryland parents who want to be able to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. The parents argued that the local school board’s refusal to give them that choice violates their religious beliefs and therefore their constitutional right to freely …

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Trump move to cut global media hits legal wall. Court steps in. VOA journalists sue Trump, Kari Lake over shutdown of U.S. media agency

A federal judge has temporarily stopped the Trump administration’s efforts to streamline Voice of America and related networks, saying the moves may conflict with federal law. The ruling orders the government to restore jobs and funding at outlets like Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks — despite efforts to reduce bureaucracy and …

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Los Angeles mayor proposes slashing over 1,600 city jobs to close budget hole

⬆️ MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET: DEPARTMENT SALARIES/PAYROLL INCREASES/DECREASES ⬇️ • 1,647 layoffs (direct savings $114M)• 1,074 vacant position eliminations (direct savings $100M) • Fire will get a net increase: +227 positions• Housing will get a net increase: +74 positions pic.twitter.com/qRWwBQfj0g — LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia (@lacontroller) April 22, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles …

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The Number of Europeans Visiting the US Is Down Over 20 Percent

by Mike Shedlock Trump does not seem concerned about services. He should be. International Tourists Pull Back on U.S. Travel and Purchases NBC News reports International Tourists Pull Back on U.S. Travel and Purchases The combination of President Donald Trump’s trade policies and hostile rhetoric toward much of the rest of the world is creating a …

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Monthly mortgage payment needed to buy the median priced home for sale in the US increased 89% over the last 5 years

This chart shows the median U.S. homebuyer housing payment on a median-priced home from January 2020 to April 2025, according to Redfin data. It starts at $1,484 in early 2020. It dips slightly to $1,688 by late 2020. Then it rises steadily, hitting $2,404 by mid-2022. It peaks at $2,555 in early 2023, then fluctuates, …

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Bernie and AOC pull over ten thousand to anti-capitalist tour stops…

🇺🇸 SOCIALISM SELLS OUT: BERNIE & AOC'S ANTI-CAPITALIST TOUR RAKES IN CAPITALIST-SIZED CROWDS Bernie and AOC are barnstorming the West with their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, pulling crowds topping 10,000. Their next rally lands in Folsom, California—moved from Auburn due to sheer… https://t.co/eRHLPXHk1s pic.twitter.com/MysoH5HWx0 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 15, 2025 It’s also funny because the …

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