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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Immigration Judge Fired by Trump Admin Last November Speaks Out: ‘I Was Not Given a Reason.’ Since January 2025, hundreds of immigration judges across the country have either been fired, retired or resigned
https://www.latintimes.com/immigration-judge-fired-trump-admin-last-november-speaks-out-i-was-not-given-reason-597058
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump Family’s Net Worth Surged 191% To $6.7 Billion In ’25 – But Their Investors Saw Huge Losses. Over one year into his second term, President Donald Trump has doubled his net worth and increased his family’s, but his investors have not experienced the same benefits.
https://uinterview.com/news/trump-familys-net-worth-surged-191-to-6-7-billion-in-25-but-their-investors-saw-huge-losses/
# Education / Schools / Children / Youth / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
States consider drones to stop school shootings. Florida’s legislature has appropriated $557,000 to have drones in the Broward, Leon, and Volusia school districts, with Deltona High School being the first. Georgia has also appropriated $550,000 for drones in five of their high schools, yet to be decided by the State’s Department of Education.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_412146e0-0ed9-4598-8a0d-a4f5e6464454.html
DeSantis says signed bill ‘provides for the decertification of partisan teacher unions.’ The new law requires unions to be recertified if membership drops below a certain threshold and sets different standards for public safety unions.
https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2026/05/01/desantis-signs-union-bill-that-critics-say-could-be-a-kill-shot/89426967007/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump signs order authorizing pipeline from Canada to Wyoming, potentially reviving parts of Keystone XL
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-signs-executive-order-revive-portions-keystone-xl-pipeline-project
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Reducing air pollution triggered something worse scientists didn’t predict. In simple terms, fewer air particles produce dimmer clouds, which means less sunlight is reflected into space. The shortwave energy that used to be reflected by clouds now reaches the sea surface. That, in turn, leads to ocean temperatures rising faster than ever before.
https://www.earth.com/news/reducing-air-pollution-less-sun-reflectivity-warmer-oceans-clean-air-paradox/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Promises made and kept: More USDA bureaucrats booted from the Beltway. Fresh off the news that over 62,000 federal jobs have been eliminated or relocated out of Washington since President Trump took office for his second term, another 200 jobs will be relocated from the swamp to Iowa and Georgia.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/promised-made-and-kept-more-usda-bureaucrats-booted-beltway
# Gov / Politics
Trump reviewing new Iranian proposal aimed at ending war: What’s Iran’s 14-point proposal to end the war? And will Trump accept it? Trump is reviewing the latest Iranian proposal to end the war but the mistrust between the two sides is a big obstacle, analysts say.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/whats-irans-14-point-proposal-to-end-the-war-and-will-trump-accept-it
Redistricting wars at a glance: Where the states stand after historic Supreme Court ruling. Democrats need to net just three seats to flip the lower chamber this fall, which upped the stakes for either party to secure the edge through gerrymandering.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5853214-redistricting-war-gop-democrat-gains/
Death penalty for free speech? SEC gag orders challenged by its ex-lawyers, First Amendment legend. Courts “repeatedly voided conditions on speech that were not nearly as sweeping, intrusive, and long-lasting,” securities group tells SCOTUS. U.S. Chamber compares to death penalty for “defendants who pleaded not guilty or demanded jury trials.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/death-penalty-free-speech-sec-gag-orders-challenged-its-ex-lawyers-first
Pete Hegseth just got grilled by the House Armed Services Committee, and what’s waiting for him in the Senate could be significantly worse
https://attackofthefanboy.com/politics/pete-hegseth-just-got-grilled-by-the-house-armed-services-committee-and-whats-waiting-for-him-in-the-senate-could-be-significantly-worse/
‘Cornered animal’: Ex-prosecutor issues dark warning as Trump gets more desperate
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2676842150/
Mark Kelly Grills Hegseth On His ‘No Quarter No Mercy’ War Declaration: ‘So You’re Not Clarifying’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mark-kelly-grills-hegseth-no-185044281.html
Jerome Powell Is Doing Something No Fed Chair Has Done Since 1948. The Federal Reserve remains deeply divided with four dissenting votes on interest rate policy at the most recent meeting, marking unusual fragmentation as Jerome Powell announces he will stay on the Fed Board after his term as chair ends.
https://www.aol.com/articles/jerome-powell-doing-something-no-113036294.html
Social Media Thinks Donald Trump Is ‘Getting Treatment For Something’ After Seeing New White Spots On His Hands Amid Health Concerns: His ‘Presidency Is Turning Into A Medical Thriller’
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-hand-makeup-found-home-212737980.html
Trump aides get warning they face prison after taking part in revenge attack: “They should not be worried about whether the James Comey charges stick – they won’t, this is a fake case, these are false charges,” said Miles Taylor.
“What they should be worried about is whether any of them engaged in criminal conduct to bring these charges. I’m as serious as a heart attack about this; deprivation of rights, selective vindictive prosecution… these are things that are illegal and unconstitutional.”
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-2676843805/
The king went to Washington to save Britain’s bacon. He may also have shown the US how to save itself
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/king-charles-iii-washington-britain-bacon-us-save-itself
Trump Expands Cuba Sanctions; Díaz-Canel Says Nation Won’t “Surrender.” “We must rein in this lawless president,” Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen said.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-expands-cuba-sanctions-diaz-canel-says-nation-wont-surrender/
Former Candidate for Plainfield Mayor Pleads Guilty to Forgery in Connection with His Submission of Fraudulent Voter Registration Applications
https://www.njoag.gov/former-candidate-for-plainfield-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-forgery-in-connection-with-his-submission-of-fraudulent-voter-registration-applications/
Social Media Calls Donald Trump ‘The Biggest Joke’ After The White House ‘Rage Baits’ With ‘Two Kings’ Tweet With King Charles: ‘No Respect For Democracy’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/social-media-calls-donald-trump-083053917.html
Iran war ‘likely’ to restart, senior Tehran official warns after Trump says US might be ‘better off’ without deal
https://www.aol.com/articles/iran-war-likely-restart-senior-134025826.html
Graham Platner unveils plan to ‘shut this White House down,’ stop Trump admin from functioning
https://www.aol.com/news/graham-platner-unveils-plan-shut-154324445.html
‘They got executed’: Iraq war veteran sees no difference between Hegseth’s Caribbean actions and war crimes Nazi’s were convicted for
https://www.aol.com/news/rep-seth-moulton-says-hegseth-141932606.html
Donald Trump Says US Will Take Over Cuba ‘Almost Immediately’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-us-take-over-cuba-11905781
# Gov / Politics / Global
‘I have great respect’: Pakistan just embarrassed Donald Trump on the world stage by doing the one thing he didn’t plan. New Trump ally Pakistan just handed Iran a lifeline.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/i-have-great-respect-pakistan-just-embarrassed-donald-trump-on-the-world-stage-by-doing-the-one-thing-he-didnt-plan/
How the CCP Attacks Taiwan Without Firing a Single Shot | Amb. Alexander Yui. Just 12 miles long and six miles from mainland China, Kinmen island is an unlikely staging post for an invasion without a war
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/kinmen-islands-china-taiwan-xi-fj5vm79hk
‘No Aggressor, No Matter How Powerful, Will Find Surrender in Cuba,’ President Warns Trump. After the US president again threatened invasion, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said he would only “find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of the national territory.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-responds-to-trump-invasion-threat
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Federal Appeals Court Won’t Rehear $83M Verdict Against Trump. A divided federal appeals court in Manhattan says it will not grant a rare meeting of all of its judges to hear an appeal of an $83 million verdict against President Donald Trump for defaming magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/federal-appeals-court-wont-rehear-83m-verdict-against-trum_n_69f2550ae4b084a938d78faf
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Nebraska becomes first state to implement Medicaid work requirements. All eyes are on Nebraska this week as it becomes the first state to implement a policy taking Medicaid coverage away from people not meeting work requirements.
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/nebraska-launching-punitive-medicaid-work-requirements-early-even-as-states-lack-information
# Medical / Nursing / Biologicals / Pharmaceutical / Chemistry / FDA / CDC
With $1M per body in play, some in Congress asking if organ donors are declared dead too quickly. Since 1988, more than half a million U.S. organ donors have made 1.1 million transplants possible. 170 million Americans are registered donors, yet more than 100,000 people still wait. Organ Procurement Organizations, OPOs, are nonprofits tasked with managing removal and transfer.
https://www.therightreasons.net/topic/120517-with-1m-per-body-in-play-some-in-congress-asking-if-organ-donors-are-declared-dead-too-quickly-by-sharyl-attkisson/
# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp
Court order allows smokable hemp to stay on shelves in Texas. Texas hemp businesses can keep selling cannabis flower and concentrates for now after a Travis County judge blocked key parts of the state’s new hemp regulations while a lawsuit plays out.
https://www.kut.org/business/2026-05-01/austin-tx-hemp-cannabis-ruling-temporary-injunction-granted-thca
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO
Two U.S. service members are missing in southwestern Morocco. Search and rescue operation launched after service members reported missing near south-western city of Tan Tan. The US, Morocco and other countries participating in the African Lion exercise have launched a search and rescue operation, Africom said. “The incident remains under investigation and the search is on-going,” it said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/service-members-missing-military-exercises-morocco
GAO finds U.S. Army software delay leaves $130 million in cost savings on the table. In the report, the GAO found that the Department of Defense identified 14 weapon systems with what it classifies as “critical” operating and support cost growth out of 36 systems reviewed in fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/gao-finds-us-army-software-delay-leaves-130-million-cost-savings-table
# Other Interestimg Stuff
The Giza Frequency: The Mathematical Proof That the Pyramids Were Built to Mirror Saturn’s Rings. The architects of ancient Egypt’s monuments were far more purposeful in their proportions, measurements, angles, and equations than most modern-day archaeologists credit them with. There is also the distinct possibility that these architects found a way to naturally harness electricity from the Earth itself. A Mathematical Code of the Universe?
https://www.gaia.com/article/the-mathematical-genius-encoded-in-the-great-pyramid
# Social / Communities / Housing
Weeks before runoff, Cornyn launches attack on Paxton over Muslim development in North Texas. U.S. Senator John Cornyn released a new digital ad on Friday attacking Ken Paxton for not doing enough to stop the development. In a press release Friday, Cornyn’s campaign said Paxton has the “legal authority to put a stop to EPIC City,” but has delivered only “bluster and strongly worded press releases.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/weeks-runoff-cornyn-launches-attack-154756426.html
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