Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.

The overlap is the feature, not the bug. Institutional continuity survives the transition.

Most orgs botch this. Apple’s showing the blueprint.

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Apple’s leadership redesign just dropped and it’s textbook succession architecture.

Tim Cook → Executive Chairman (stays engaged, strategy + stakeholder relations)

John Ternus → CEO (day-to-day operations)

Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members...

The DOJ just asked a federal court to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders.
Not pardon. Not commute. Erase.
This is the government asking a court to undo what a jury already decided.
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#January6 #Democracy #DOJ

Trump just told the Pope — on Easter weekend — to “get his act together.”
Reason: Leo said people are living in fear of the Trump administration.
Trump’s response: You should be thankful I exist. Your brother gets it. You don’t.

#DemocraTrend #PopeLeo #ChurchAndState

“Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,b out of the house of slavery.You shall not have other gods beside me…you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God”

BULLA SATIRICA PRO DEFENSIONE PONTIFICIS VOX POPULI ÆTERNA

The Pentagon invoked Avignon to threaten the Pope.
Vox Populi — small, fuzzy, historically well-documented — has issued a formal Papal Bull in response.
For believers, skeptics, and everyone else with a sense of history.
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#DemocraTrend #PopeLeo #Satire

That’s not a NASA budget line. That’s a species-level drive.
Shakespeare called it the undiscovered country. Artemis II just sent four people to go look for it.

Ten days. Lunar orbit. Splashdown.
And the question people are asking is why.
Here’s why: because we are the animal that looked up, said “I wonder what’s there,” and then figured out how to go find out.

The transparency she’s calling for? She’s calling on a committee controlled by people actively blocking the Epstein inquiry.
This is a performance of openness. Not openness.
— Vox Populi | DemocraTrend

Melania “acted independently” from a room you need West Wing clearance to use, with an adviser already on the phone with Reuters, on the day the Iran ceasefire was publicly falling apart.

Lest we forget before he was Pope Leo XIV he was Father Bobbie from the south side. Some rich kid named Donnie doesn’t scare him.

“The Pope? How many divisions does he have?” — Stalin, 1935.
The empire that asked that question no longer exists.
The Pentagon just asked it again — this time about an American Pope who dared call the Iran war unjust.
Strongmen keep making this bet.
It keeps not paying off. 📜 #DemocraTrend

The Pentagon told the Vatican’s ambassador: we have unlimited military power. Get behind us.
Then someone referenced the Avignon Papacy — when France crushed the Church into submission for 70 years.
Pope Leo understood. He cancelled his U.S. trip.
Guillaume de Nogaret sends his regards. 📜

obama: inspections, 98% uranium reduction, 1-year breakout window ✅
trump 2018: tears it up, promises something better 🚪
iran 2025: enough uranium for 11 bombs ☢️
us-israel 2026: 39 days of war 💥
trump tonight: agrees to iran’s ceasefire terms 📄
the better deal was…worse
#IranWar #JCPOA #DemocraTrend

the “better deal” trump promised in 2018 when he scrapped the iran nuclear agreement
it arrived tonight
it’s iran’s 10-point plan
we started a war to get here

Originalists on the 14th: “It only meant what it meant in 1868.”
Originalists on the 2nd: “It absolutely covers weapons of war invented in the 20th century.”
That’s not a constitutional philosophy. That’s a conclusion in search of a framework.
#Constitution #Originalism #GunControl

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People keep calling Pope Leo progressive.
He’s not. He’s orthodox.
The language of mercy, solidarity, and care for the poor isn’t a liberal invention — it’s the beating heart of 2,000 years of Catholic teaching.
You don’t need faith in the resurrection to find the moral logic useful.
Happy Easter. 🕊️

Pam Bondi out as attorney general The president announced Bondi’s exit in a post Thursday on Truth Social.

Pam Bondi fired as AG.
Not for politicizing DOJ — for failing to politicize it fast enough to satisfy Trump.
Her successor: Trump’s own criminal defense lawyer.
The department that’s supposed to be independent is now run by the president’s personal attorney.
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

So that insecure mediocre white men could show how tough they are by making other people fight

25 minutes. One speech. $550 billion gone.
Trump said the war is “almost over.” Also said we’ll bomb Iran’s power grid in 2–3 weeks.
Markets only heard one of those things.
Oil above $100. Futures in freefall. Asia reversed overnight.
Words aren’t free when you’re Commander in Chief.

And you don’t get to call it freedom when what you mean is control. Those aren’t patriots. That’s just power wearing a costume.

Here’s what I know. You don’t get to wrap yourself in the flag while you’re setting fire to everything underneath it. You don’t get to swear an oath to a document you’ve decided is inconvenient.

Not flat

Artemis II: Final countdown begins as astronauts prepare for Moon mission launch - watch and follow live The crew on the 10-day mission won't land on the Moon, but plan to circle it, while travelling further from Earth than anyone has ever been before.

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

First person of color beyond low Earth orbit. First woman. First non-American in lunar space.
That’s the crew. That’s the mission.
That’s the country worth fighting for.
🚀 6:24 PM EDT — watch live:
www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
#Artemis2

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

T-minus 60 minutes.
Today the Supreme Court debated who is American.
Tonight, four astronauts point at the Moon and go.

SCOTUS today, April 1, 2026:
Trump argues kids born here to non-citizen parents may not be citizens.
Marco Rubio, born here to non-citizen parents, sat nearby as Secretary of State.
Chief Justice Roberts: “It’s the same Constitution.”
Indeed it is.

It’s time for the first game of the 2026 MLB season From now till October my mental health will be tied to grown men playing a kids game

LET’S GO YANKEES⚾️

Democrat flips Republican-held Florida state House district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — NBC News Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly won the special election for the district on Tuesday night, The Associated Press projects. Trump carried the area in 2024.

Hahahahaha

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