Voices, The Peoples News
May 6, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Key reports addressing violence against Indigenous women are gone from federal sites. The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/indigenous-women-key-reports-removed-federal-sites/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car. Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-photo-everyone-in-vehicle-us-border/
Undocumented Irish rounded up and deported from US as panic surges over immigration crackdown
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/dozens-undocumented-irish-rounded-up-35174677
New ICE Tech Seeks To Track Millions Of Migrants; Critics Warn ‘You Might Not Be Safe for Long’: President Donald Trump has set a goal of deporting 1 million people annually, and the new system aims to help prioritize who gets targeted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/ice-deportation-tracking-palantir-thiel/83375538007/
Anonymous hackers breach airline tied to ICE deportations and leak flight records
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-05-05/website-for-us-deportation-airline-globalx-defaced-by-hackers
Deported from Florida to Cuba, this mom saw her 17-month-old US daughter, and her American dream, ripped away. Heidy Sánchez says she was told her 17-month-old, who has health problems and is breastfeeding, couldn’t go with her
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-florida-mom-cuba-deported
Pam Bondi Declares Housing Detained Migrants in Alcatraz Would Be ‘Cost Saving’ Despite Prison Being Shut Down Over Pricey Upkeep
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trumps-ag-says-reopening-alcatraz-which-closed-because-it-was-so-expensive-will-lead-to-cost-savings/
Guatemalan mom detained by ICE moments after giving birth is reunited with her U.S. citizen newborn. Erika was detained by ICE after giving birth while agents stood near. After community pressure, she is no longer in custody and is awaiting an immigration court hearing, her attorney tells The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucson-ice-hospital-pregnant-reunited-b2745137.html
Judge rules U of M student detained by ICE cannot be deported. ICE coerced his co-workers to stage a fake meeting so they could make a surprise arrest, then backdated the cancellation of his visa so they could charge him with overstaying that visa.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia
Democrats say attacks on migrants preview risks to civil rights for citizens
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5283892-trump-authoritarianism-immigration/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Scientists make alarming discovery about toxic chemicals lurking in everyday products. Traces can be found in human and animal blood, in the food we eat, and in our waterways.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pfas-susceptibility-genetic-differences/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Is Obliterating American Industry. The Loan Programs Office is one of the most successful government agencies in history—or it was until Elon Musk arrived.
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-05-05-doge-obliterating-american-industry/
DOGE access to personal data is legal. DOJ attorney Jack Starcher argued that DOGE should have access to data of the Education and Treasury departments, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, according to the report.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doj-doge-access/2025/05/05/id/1209693/
Kansas Democrat sees ‘awakening’ in suppressed public comments that criticize DOGE and Instead of looking for waste, she said on the Kansas Reflector podcast, Republicans at both the federal and state level have hurt people by eliminating critical services and jobs.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/05/kansas-democrat-sees-awakening-in-suppressed-public-comments-that-criticize-doge-and-coge/
Commission on Government Efficiency, known by its catchier acronym, COGE, is beginning its work to investigate better ways to structure state departments.
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/02/27/im-not-elon-musk-nhs-coge-members-say-they-wont-upend-state-government/#:~:text=New%20Hampshire%20Bulletin)-,Gov.,t%20compare%20us%20to%20DOGE.
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
IRS has lost 31% of its auditors after DOGE cuts, report says
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-lost-31-tax-auditors-171938050.html
Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies. Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
https://newrepublic.com/post/194830/where-trump-got-idea-tariff-foreign-movies
How China Is Dodging US Tariffs. Chinese social media platforms are increasingly being courted by freight brokers offering the service since the Trump administration hiked duties on Chinese imports to as high as 245 percent.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-tariff-dodging-transshipment-trump-2068086
‘Unmistakable vibe of corruption’: MSNBC panelist accuses Trump of ‘market manipulation.’ Wall Street has been whipsawed for more than a week by President Trump’s every word about tariffs. Now he’s facing accusations of using his power to deliberately manipulate the markets.
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-04-10/why-some-are-accusing-trump-of-manipulating-stock-markets
Trump’s sons promote real estate and crypto deals across world that will benefit the president
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-sons-promote-real-estate-214046830.html
NY Times exposes Trump family deal-making blitz involving billions of dollars. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-children-2671892402/
Trump’s crypto dinner, where plates cost $1.5m, draws ethics concerns as president could make millions from meme coin
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-crypto-dinner-where-plates-194703229.html
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Colorado House passes immigration bill to limit ICE access to schools, hospitals
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/04/09/colorado-immigration-bill-would-limit-ice-cooperation-at-school-and-colleges/
Stephen Miller Rolls Out MAGA’s Indoctrination Plan for Kids: “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 Department of Education and provide funding to states, we’re going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-rolls-out-magas-indoctrination-plan-for-kids/
McMahon says Harvard is no longer eligible for new federal research grants
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5284054-mcmahon-harvard-federal-research-grants-trump-funding/
Morrisey signs bills into law to suppress voting. Governor Patrick Morrisey signed the state’s new voter ID bill into law, requiring voters to have a valid photo ID to cast a ballot in person. Opponents say it’s an attempt at voter suppression.
https://woay.com/governor-morrisey-signs-new-voter-id-bill-into-law/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Move to Bust Federal Employee Unions
https://www.afge.org/publication/unions-sue-trump-administration-over-move-to-bust-federal-employee-unions/
Donald Trump’s Catastrophic and Devastating Anti-Labor Track Record. Donald Trump told us in 2016 he would stand with workers. He lied. The difference now is that he has a record he can’t hide from.
https://aflcio.org/press/releases/donald-trumps-catastrophic-and-devastating-anti-labor-track-record
AFGE Will Challenge Trump’s Illegal Directive Outlawing Federal Unions. AFGE will challenge the Trump administration for illegally attempting to strip over one million federal workers of collective bargaining rights and rip up union contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-will-challenge-trumps-illegal-directive-outlawing-federal-unions/
NIOSH Upheld Workplace Safety for Millions in the US. Trump Is Dismembering It. Trump is destroying the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, sacrificing workers on industry’s altar.
https://truthout.org/articles/niosh-upheld-workplace-safety-for-millions-in-the-us-trump-is-dismembering-it/
NIOSH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Occupational_Safety_and_Health
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump wants states to control National Park system as he proposes $1 billion cut to its budget: “This is the most extreme, unrealistic and destructive National Park Service budget a President has ever proposed in the agency’s 109-year history. It’s nothing less than an all-out assault on America’s national parks.” Theresa Pierno, NPCA’s President and CEO
https://www.npca.org/articles/8429-president-trump-s-proposed-budget-takes-axe-to-national-park-service
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320742/-Well-This-is-just-Terrible-FEMA-Is-Ending-Door-to-Door-Canvassing-in-Disaster-Areas
Humanitarian aid restrictions may violate US law, US Democrats say
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/humanitarian-aid-restrictions-may-violate-us-law-us-democrats-say-2025-05-06/
# General News
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too. He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194769/elon-musk-evil-garbage-fraud
Keep demonstrating against Trump, but also for a better future. Trump’s regressive populism — cruel, tyrannical, bigoted, authoritarian, must be met by a bold progressive populism that strengthens democracy and shares the wealth.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-clear-what-were-demonstrating
Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump. Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/01/may-day-protests-trump-musk-billionaires/83362729007/
Democrats Find Crypto Too Corrupt to Collaborate on for the Moment. Today on TAP: A stablecoin bill is stopped in its tracks after Trump’s organization starts a stablecoin.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-05-democrats-find-crypto-too-corrupt-to-collaborate/
Bill to criminalize homelessness awaits senate vote: Senate Bill 196 creates the Homeless Court Program, connecting people to resources for mental health treatment and drug addiction. However, to get these people into the program, the bill creates the crime of unauthorized camping, punishable with up to two years’ hard labor for repeat offenders.
https://www.newsbreak.com/wafb-1982267/3993161346802-bill-to-criminalize-homelessness-awaits-senate-vote
ChatGPT Was Asked To List Everyone Trump Has Called ‘A Low-IQ Individual’ — And It’s Pretty Racist
https://www.aol.com/chatgpt-asked-list-everyone-trump-235231564.html
Trump opening $500,000-per-person golf club called the Executive Branch with dubious list of founders
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/trump-opening-500000-per-person-1133085
# Gov / Politics
Fact Check: Yes, FDR warned of ‘selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.’ Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his “Four Freedoms” speech in 1941, days before beginning his third term.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/quotes-american-men-eagle-fdr/
Donald Trump Wants to Reopen Alcatraz — After Watching ‘Escape From Alcatraz’ on TV. The president is apparently making decisions about America’s penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie. United States is making major decisions now?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-reopen-alcatraz-escape-from-alcatraz-pbs-1236207822/
MTG Warns Republicans Will Suffer Crushing Election Loss at This Rate. “It’s the Republicans that are the problem,” said GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-midterms-warning-republicans-2065438
Stephen Miller Unveils Totally Made-Up Definition of “Due Process.” The Trump adviser is trying to redefine the Constitution in order to carry out his extreme immigration agenda.
https://lemmy.world/post/29191572
Declassified Memo Shows Trump’s Own Intel Agencies Reject His Claim About Notorious Gang: A declassified U.S. intelligence memo obtained by The New York Times contradicts a claim by President Donald Trump that the government of Venezuela controls the Tren de Aragua gang.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/declassified-memo-shows-trumps-own-intel-agencies-reject-his-claim-about-notorious-gang/
Dershowitz Says Trump Won’t Be a Convicted Felon for Long – Courts ARE ‘Going to Reverse’ It
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/dershowitz-says-trump-wont-be-a-convicted-felon-for-long-courts-are-going-to-reverse-it/?cfp
Trump uttered ‘most important words ever spoken’ by a president: conservative ex-judge: He, the president of the United States, doesn’t necessarily believe that he is obligated to uphold the Constitution of the United States, as it is interpreted by the Supreme Court.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/conservative-legal-icon-calls-trump-104210453.html
Trump just admitted it: The Constitution only counts if it’s convenient
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/06/trump_admits_constitution_only_counts_if_its_convenient_646080.html
Trump Vows Aide to Palestinians As Axios Reports Israel Ready to ‘Flatten’ Gaza: ‘We Are Going to Help’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-vows-aide-to-palestinians-as-axios-reports-israel-ready-to-flatten-gaza-we-are-going-to-help/
‘Dark places’: Expert sounds alarm on little-known theory weaponized by Trump. The powers of President Donald Trump are being placed into question because of his use of unitary executive theory, according to a new analysis
https://www.rawstory.com/executive-power/
The problems are piling up for the GOP megabill. The House’s early stumbles paint a clear picture: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is nowhere near ready for prime time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/trump-republicans-megabill-reconciliation-problems-00324861
Warnock: Fight back against the dangerous actions of this administration. At a South Atlanta town hall that lasted more than two hours, U.S. senator condemns Trump administration, calling its first 100 days ‘unabashed corruption’
https://www.ajc.com/politics/sen-warnock-says-democrats-must-flip-house-and-seize-trumps-power/5VSYTSRSHJGMVLZIAJR5FSN2GI/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Monday briefing: How Australia became the second nation in a week to reject the Trumpist right. In today’s newsletter: The Australian election saw a remarkable comeback for Anthony Albanese’s Labor party – and a crushing defeat for Peter Dutton and the Liberal-led Coalition
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/05/monday-briefing-how-australia-became-the-second-nation-in-a-week-to-reject-the-trumpist-right
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump’s trip
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal
Israel approves plan to capture all of Gaza, calls up tens of thousands of reserve troops: The new plan, which was approved in an early morning vote by Israeli Cabinet ministers, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza’s south. That would likely amount to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-05-05-2025-d22caabfd2cf89e83fe06e649e6438ba
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘You Don’t Belong Here’: White Man Follows Black Woman To Work, Hits Her
https://www.binnews.com/content/2025-05-05-you-dont-belong-here-white-man-follows-black-woman-to-work-hits-her/
‘Unconstitutional retaliation’: Judge blocks Trump order targeting law firm. A federal court has declared Trump’s attacks on law firms an ‘overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/judge-strikes-down-trumps-executive-order-targeting-law-firm-perkins-coie
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that judges who ruled against President Donald Trump were guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death.
https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/3993038352496-mtg-says-judges-who-rule-against-trump-are-guilty-of-treason-as-they-face-death-threats
A legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller sued Chief Justice John Roberts in a brazen but unlikely attempt to seize control of the federal court system.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-ally-stephen-miller-sues-john-roberts-control-courts/
Department of Justice opens racial discrimination investigation against the Hennepin County Attorney. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-announces-civil-rights-investigation-consideration-race-prosecutorial
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
’60 Minutes’ airs segment on ‘First felon in the Oval office’ despite pressure to avoid sensitive stories about Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/news/60-minutes-airs-scathing-segment-on-first-felon-in-the-oval-office-despite-pressure-to-avoid-sensitive-stories-about-trump/
Trump is trying to chill the investigative journalism that holds him to account
https://www.aol.com/analysis-trump-trying-chill-investigative-140050161.html
‘It’s Not a Threat, That’s a Penalty’: Pro-Trump FCC Chair Raises Prospect of Pulling CBS’s Broadcast License. “And over the years, the FCC has stepped back from enforcing that public interest obligation. I think the FCC should do what Congress wants us to do and enforce those laws. We’re going to see where this investigation goes,” Carr told Eisen.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-not-a-threat-thats-a-penalty-pro-trump-fcc-chair-raises-prospect-of-pulling-cbss-broadcast-license/
FCC Chair on Blocking $20 Billion Merger Over DEI, “Yeah, Of Course”: Verizon (NYSE: VK) announced in September that it would acquire the internet service provider Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FYBR) in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion. Today on CNBC, President Trump’s FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked if he would potentially block the merger because of DEI policy.
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/05/fcc-chair-on-blocking-20-billion-merger-over-dei-yeah-of-course/
# Medicare / Medicaid
Republican Senators Push Back Against Own Party Over Proposed Medicaid Cuts: ‘It Actually Infuriates Me’
https://www.governing.com/policy/republicans-face-pushback-on-potential-medicaid-overhaul
Congressional Republicans Can’t Cut Medicaid by Hundreds of Billions Without Hurting People
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-cant-cut-medicaid-by-hundreds-of-billions-without-hurting
California, other states sue to preserve Health and Human Services
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_9f126856-6a75-408d-9215-0976c662e5de.html
Coalition of 20 states ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/05/coalition-of-19-states-ask-federal-judge-to-reverse-deep-cuts-to-us-health-and-human-services/
# Medical / Health News
‘Abolitionists’ Push Legislation to Criminalize All Abortions as Homicide. Measures introduced in 13 states this year would impose criminal penalties on people who obtain an abortion
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/01/abolitionists-push-legislation-to-criminalize-all-abortions-as-homicide/
Medical researchers baffled by Trump administration’s stop work order for clinical trial system: ‘A giant step backwards.’ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-life-changing-scientific-study-ended-by-the-trump-administration
NIH lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/national-institutes-of-health/2025/05/05/id/1209661/
Protesters gather outside Tucson Medical Center asking hospitals to keep immigration officials out
https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/eastside-news/protesters-gather-outside-tucson-medical-center-asking-hospitals-to-keep-immigration-officials-out
# Medical Science
‘Slippery slope to eugenics’: Alarm sounded as government plans $50M research project: Researchers and parents are sounding the alarm over an autism database the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is building for a major research study.
https://www.rawstory.com/autism-database/
Donald Trump bans ‘dangerous’ virus research funding to China that supporters claim led to Covid-19 leak from Wuhan lab
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5267612/trump-gain-of-function-research-funding
# Military / Militia / General News
Hegseth Reportedly Used At Least 12 Signal Chats For Pentagon Business—Here Are The Other Security Allegations Against Him
https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-had-least-12-signal-chats-pentagon-business-report-2068301
Army to create space specialist career field, offering new avenue of electronic warfare
https://spacenews.com/army-creates-space-career-field-for-enlisted-soldiers/
Trump’s $36 Billion Army Reform: What ‘Generational Change’ Looks Like
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-billion-army-reform-generational-change-look-2067862
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders 20% reduction in four-star generals: ‘Less Generals More GIs’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/6/us-defence-secretary-hegseth-orders-20-percent-cut-in-ranks-of-top-officers
Air Force, Space Force brace for wave of civilian staff reductions. The personnel chiefs for the Air Force and Space Force told lawmakers that plans to lay off thousands of civilian employees could present challenges to recruitment efforts and perhaps even operations, particularly for the Space Force.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-space-force-civilian-reduction/
# Military / General News / Global
Myanmar militia leader sanctioned by US over cyber scam connections. The designation targets the Karen National Army (KNA) and Saw Chit Thu, a longtime power broker in the Myawaddy area of Karen State along the border with Thailand.
https://therecord.media/myanmar-militia-leader-us-sanctions-cyber-scam-industry
A Brit who fought in Ukraine says Russia’s army is so barbaric his unit vowed never to be taken alive. Macer Gifford told BI that Putin sees this as a “war of annihilation,” with tactics taken from ISIS.
https://www.aol.com/brit-fought-ukraine-says-russias-093310987.html
UK ‘secretly’ prepares for direct attack by Russia & updates decades-old emergency plans as World War 3 fears spiral
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14172932/uk-secretly-prepares-for-direct-attack-by-russia/
# NASA
Physicists create ‘black hole bomb’ for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory. If there’s one thing black holes are known for, it’s their insatiable, inescapable gravity. Stuff goes into a black hole. You’re not really going to get much out.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-build-first-ever-black-hole-bomb-analog
# Social Media / Internet
Gmail users warned over ‘extremely sophisticated’ new scam that takes advantage of Google: The scam involves cybercriminals creating emails that appear to be official messages coming from Google. They use those emails to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials and take over their accounts.
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/gmail-users-warned-of-extremely-sophisticated-scam
# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Trump and Musk Are Trying to Dismantle Social Security From the Inside. Elon Musk’s DOGE is inflicting crashes, hang-ups and hours-long waits on Social Security recipients, eroding trust.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-space-force-civilian-reduction/
US Senator Warns of ‘Backdoor’ Way Trump and Musk Could Destroy Social Security — Is She Right? “This is Donald Trump and Elon Musk working together as co-presidents to keep people from getting the Social Security benefits that they earned and they were promised by law.”
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/news-coverage/warren-warns-of-backdoor-way-trump-and-musk-want-to-gut-social-security
# Space Technology / Global
China’s New Space Laser Can Find A Satellite 130,000 Kilometers Away – Even During The Day. Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The approach was able to find the Tiandu-1 satellite at a distance of about 130,000 kilometers (81,000 miles) from Earth, well beyond where most satellites are located.
https://www.iflscience.com/chinas-new-space-laser-can-find-a-satellite-130000-kilometers-away-even-during-the-day-79072#:~:text=In%20a%20world%20first%2C%20Chinese,where%20most%20satellites%20are%20located
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Ends Profit Cap in Restructure, Microsoft Yet to Sign Off. OpenAI lifts its profit cap and restructures as a public benefit company, but Microsoft approval remains uncertain.
https://decrypt.co/318026/openai-ends-profit-cap-restructure-microsoft-yet-to-sign-off
OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback. The startup behind ChatGPT is going to remain in nonprofit control, but it still needs regulatory approval.
https://followin.io/en/feed/17870613
Microsoft Shuts Down Skype After 22 Years. The company finally pulled the plug on the pioneering video-messaging service after announcing it would be retired in February. The company’s decision to discontinue Skype is apparently part of a broader effort to prioritize artificial intelligence features within Teams. Employees who worked on Skype will be reassigned to other projects rather than being laid off.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/06/skype-shuts-down/
# Veterans / VA
White House says Trump’s proposal to rename Veterans Day has been scrapped
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/05/white-house-retreat-trumps-short-lived-proposal-rename-veterans-day.html
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