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EDUCATION
Finland bans smartphones in schools
NYC Joins National Effort to Ban Cellphone Use in Schools
Pupils will be able to use their phones in some circumstances, but they will need to get permission from teachers.
POLITICS
THANKS TO TRUMP THE ECONOMY IS ABOUT TO ABSOLUTELY CRASH
Philadelphia to honor International Workers’ Day and to stand against the Trump administration’s policies. A rally was organized at Philadelphia City Hall, where participants gathered to protest unfair labor practices and support workers’ rights.
BREAKING: Top Chinese officials say Trump has been calling them a dozen times every day to beg for a trade deal, and they put him on hold while playing audio of Obama speeches until he hangs up. (yea its just a joke)
Convicted Rapist and 34 count Felon Trump owes his presidency and freedom to due process especially Merrick Garland and Elon Trump.
Now, he’s shredding this foundational constitutional right for everyone else.
A U.S. citizen was detained by immigration officials in Arizona for 10 days, according to AZPM.
Born here. Legal. Still detained.
This isn’t border security. It’s the erosion of civil rights under the banner of nationalism. When even citizens aren’t safe from ICE, the Constitution becomes a suggestion, not a safeguard.
THE IRONY IS ASTOUNDING FURY OVER LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE BORDER
Thomas Horman, the ACTING ICE DIRECTOR told Tucker Carlson that he OBJECTS TO BEING COMPARED TO NAZIS
because ICE is “SIMPLY FOLLOWING ORDERS”
@JudiciaryGOP VIDEO JUST VOTED TO ALLOW IMMIGRATION AGENTS TO USE BILLIONS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO ARREST, DETAIN, AND DEPORT US CITIZENS.
How long are Americans gonna put up with this BS?
Stephen Miller: “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding. So as we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we’re going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.”
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority have signaled that they are open to allowing the Catholic Church to launch the country’s first publicly funded religious charter school, despite opposition arguing that it violates the Constitution.
The group chats that changed America | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
This constellation of rolling elite political conversations revolve primarily around the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and a circle of Silicon Valley figures. None of their participants was surprised to see Trump administration officials firing off secrets and emojis on the platform last month.
BREAKING NY AG Letitia James has the power to investigate Trump tariff-related stock market manipulation and insider trading? IT’S HAPPENING.
James just confirmed an investigation has been opened.
This is unusual trading by a politician.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop Immigrations.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
Rand Paul calling out House Republicans for their hypocrisy, who claim to want to balance the budget while adding $5 trillion in debt for tax cuts to billionaires!
Musk paid ZERO federal taxes in 2024. WTH are we doing?
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost @RepMaxwellFrost
House Republicans are trying to rob the American people of their earned benefits like Social Security. And then they run and hide and pretend like they don’t have the power to protect these programs. Get out of here with that bullshit.
House Republicans propose the following:
$4,500,000,000,000 in tax cuts to the richest people in America
$1,500,000,000,000 in spending cuts to things that make life better for everyone else — $3,000,000,000,000 added to the debt
NYT “In a Toy Association survey of 410 toy manufacturers with annual sales of less than $100 million, more than 60 percent said they had canceled orders, and around 50 percent said they would go out of business within weeks or months if the tariffs remained.”
Young Workers Ready To Quit: Burnout, Pay Concerns Driving Exodus
House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign
You can’t remodel a home after burning it to the ground. And Congress’s role shouldn’t be to simply rubber stamp the arsonists’ work
Yet, House Republicans are sitting silently while @SecRubio allows Elon & DOGE to dismantle the very agencies they have supported in the past.
MUSK
A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day. Many are now on DOGE’s chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk’s corporations.
“Conflict of interest” is an understatement.
Elon has packed up his office and moved out of the White House.
Elon helped tRUMP hack the election to help him avoid going to prison. Trump ran to keep himself free. In exchange for what Elon did for him, he is under his thumb.
2 Criminals Trump and Musk made a deal to keep each other out of jail.
We now have two corrupt illegitimate Russian-owned oligarchs destroying us from the inside. When is our intelligence community and military going to remove these traitorous fucking criminals?
The full bench of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals votes 9-6 to maintain a block on DOGE’s access to sensitive social security records.
ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/
APPLE / GOOGLE MONOPOLIES
CNBC Court finds Apple, executive lied under oath in Epic Games trial
PUBLISHED WED, APR 30 2025-6:50 PM EDT
@jason_kint
Epic just took a sledgehammer to Apple in its antitrust lawsuit. Court finds against Apple and its compliance theatre killing all commissions for 3rd party sales and issuing sanctions against Apple for its Kent Walker-like fake privilege. A BFD!!! Congrats, Epic.
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
The judge in Epic v. Apple has banned Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store because of its ongoing anticompetitive behavior.
Apple sent notifications this week to users around the world, whom the company told they were targets of government spyware.
As of today, only two people have come forward to reveal they were among those who received the notifications from Apple.
@jason_kint
Unbridled data – whether Google’s or Meta’s – is the real market power.
At the core of Google’s monopoly is real-time data scale: clicks, queries, and user data – captured by default deals, recycled across products. that’s why the court ruled: Google broke the law. Google’s worst nightmare and the best cure involve Google losing access to its surveillance tentacles across the open web. When it uses privacy as its defense in remedies, it’s total hypocrisy. Chrome as the major browser still allowing tracking cookies is proof of this. Anyway, so when Google jazz hands AI, DOJ remedies matter to level playing field there; when they cite open web growth, the data underneath is their secret sauce (driving $350B in revenue); when they cite declining “Network” revenue, it’s the data harvesting that matters.
DOING BUSINESS IN AMERICA
HILARIOUS Hotel Manager SHUTS DOWN Trump’s Fundraiser – Shocking Debate Unfolds
New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to a Foreign Government
In 2021, as Businessman H. awaited an extradition hearing in France, he got an unexpected call from Alibaba’s Jack Ma.
The billionaire had a message from Chinese authorities: return to China.
“If you don’t come back, they’ll definitely destroy you,” Ma said.
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.
You have a right to see this file.
https://www.propublica.org/article/find-out-why-health-insurance-claim-denied
For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.
@JoePostingg
Tariffs may cause short term economic contraction, but in the long run they’ll unlock the American dream of working in a factory and making less than a cashier at Walmart.
REDFIN Survey
24% of Americans are Scrapping Plans to Make a Major Purchase Like a Home or Car Due to Tariffs:
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers
NYT this morning: The President running a crypto operation with largely anonymous offshore investors at a time when he regulates the industry is a huge red flag that you can’t imagine being tolerated by Washington or the public in any other era.
VIDEO CIA JUST OPENLY CONFIRMED THAT THEY ARE EXCITED ABOUT #BITCOIN AND IT IS HERE TO STAY — THIS IS WILD!!!
JUST IN: EUROPE’S MICROSTRATEGY BLOCKCHAIN GROUP PLANS TO BUY 260,000 #BITCOIN WORTH $24 BILLION OVER THE NEXT DECADE
THAT’S 1% OF ALL BTC. MASSIVE
MICHIGAN CONGRESSMAN POSTHUMUS JUST PUBLICLY COMMITTED TO PASSING STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE LEGISLATION MICHIGAN IS FOLLOWING ARIZONA.
Wait until the cryptobros lose all their meme coins, it’ll be the greatest crashout the internet has ever seen. It’s coming.
4 major wirehouses managing $10 TRILLION to start offering Bitcoin ETFs to clients this year, says BitWise CIO Matt Hougan
Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and UBS are coming to the party.
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