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Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought twitter Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with AI Microsoft are cutting 4.1% of jobs (9,100) to replace with AI Intel are cutting up to 25% of staff to replace with AI What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

Why had no one ever thought of this before?? 🤪Unless, of course, there are no grandparents available or they actually have jobs…

Talk about Trump's approval falling off a cliff - Napolitan, the most Trump-friendly pollster, has his negative net approval DOUBLING its lowest point, from -9 to -18 in one week! Holy cow.

Let's get this straight, @StateDept. You plan to reach Russians on a platform we just banned? That's smart.

Democratic senators: It's time to draw a line in the sand. A nominee for Attorney General will soon come before you. Make the confirmation process about releasing ALL of the Epstein files (without redactions) and prosecuting the Epstein class. Trump’s nominee should be pressed hard to commit to those two specific actions. While the administration continues its cover up, Democrats must be relentless in our commitment to pursue truth and accountability. Credit to @RoKhanna for again leading the charge on this. Fight, don't fold.

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

🚨 5 of the biggest names in finance just restricted withdrawals from their private credit funds: – BlackRock – Blue Owl – Morgan Stanley – Apollo – Ares Combined exposure: roughly $2 trillion. Something big is about to happen and we all know it…

🔥 Ukraine killed Russian general off Libyan coast in December - RFI At the time of the attack on the tanker Qendil, about ten high-ranking Russian intelligence officers were on board, disguised as sailors. RFI's Libyan interlocutors claim that two people were killed and seven were injured as a result of the strike. Among the dead was Andrey Averyanov, a high-ranking representative of Russian intelligence.

THIS MAN SAID ALL OF THIS IN 72 HOURS 💀 April 1: "Talks going very well." "Pausing attacks at Iran's request." April 2: "Our Military hasn't even started destroying what's left." "Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!" April 2 (Hegseth): "Iran's air defenses cannot touch us." April 3, morning: "OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, MAKE A FORTUNE." April 3, afternoon: Iran shoots down an F-15E and an A-10 Warthog. April 3, 3:20 PM: "KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?" Pick one: Are talks going well? Or are bridges next? Is Iran unable to touch us? Or did Iran just touch us? Is this a war that pays for itself? Or did gas just nearly double? All of these posts are real. All of them were written by the same man. None of them can be true at the same time. And he's asking for $1.5 trillion from Congress. On the same fucking day.

AG Uthmeier is flat wrong. The First Amendment protects religious freedom, not taxpayer funding of religion. You don’t get to rewrite the Constitution to privilege Christianity while excluding others. That’s not freedom. That’s favoritism and it’s unconstitutional.

Saying you're no longer a Trump supporter is like saying you're no longer a cannibal. People might believe you, but no one is ever going to ask you to babysit their kids—or eat at your house again.

60- 70% of aid to Ukraine went to American companies. Oh well.

FUN FACT: Here's why your tax dollars just bought a trillionaire his rocket hobby. SpaceX has taken 84% of its revenue from government contracts—that's your money. Yet it has paid $0 in federal income taxes for 23 straight years (2002-2025). Zero. Now it's filing a $1.75 trillion IPO—the biggest in history. The math? You paid for the rockets. He keeps the trillion. "But Starship works!" Yeah, now. After exploding for 3 straight years (Flight 10 finally caught it yesterday). NASA's been begging Congress for funding while Musk's been blowing up your tax dollars in Texas—tax dollars he'll never pay back. Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" just locked this in: $5.3 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing Medicaid and SNAP. Penn Wharton ran the numbers: the bottom 20% gets $320 while the top 1% pockets $13,320. That's not a typo. Your tax dollars built the $800B empire. Now he's buying politicians to make sure you never see a return. Socialism for billionaires, scraps for everyone else.

The big picture: The US economy has added only 260,000 jobs in the past year. 380,000 jobs were added in healthcare. Most other industries *lost* jobs Federal gov't -330,000 in past year Information -76,000 Manufacturing -75,000 Finance -67,000 State gov't -47,000 Professional services -40,000 Retail -30,000 Mining -17,000 #jobs

Closing over 400 hospitals because of Trump’s Big Ugly Betrayal Act means life or death for families across the country. We should be making health care easier to access, not harder.

NEW: The White House's app is full of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. It regularly shares its users' data to third parties and relies on a Russia-founded company that made public the personal information of some White House staffers. notus.org/technology/tru…

THE MACHINES ARE DRINKING YOUR WATER Ohio became America's 4th largest data center hub while you weren't looking. Now your utility bills are explaining why. 1/ 201 data centers operating in Ohio right now. Not proposed. Not planned. Running today. That's more facilities than most entire countries possess. 2/ Intel alone scored $2 billion in state incentives plus $650 million in tax breaks. One company. $2.65 billion of your money. Gone. 3/ By 2030, these server farms will consume 40 million gallons of water daily. By 2050, that hits 90 million gallons per day. Meanwhile, 1.25 million central Ohio residents use 140 million total. 4/ Your electricity bill jumped 23.3 percent, third worst increase in America. You're paying to cool servers for corporations that pay zero taxes. They gave Big Tech billions in breaks and handed you the shortage.

Can anyone explain this?

🚨 ABC News confirms: Iran used advanced passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. It cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. It is invisible to the technology America has spent trillions building its air superiority around.

This is actually useful resource for fact-checking Kremlin's diarrhea, and @EUvsDisinfo is a good account in general.