Source: Fox News
“The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) racked up a $1.2 million tab at D.C.’s five-star Salamander Hotel during a lobbying trip to oppose President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a new report from the Center for Union Facts (CUF) found. Social media posts show that SEIU members from around the country converged in Washington, D.C., between June 23 and June 29, 2025, to confront lawmakers and stage protests against the tax and spending cuts under consideration in Congress. Department of Labor disclosures logged on June 30, 2025, reveal that the union spent $1.2 million of members’ dues at the Salamander Hotel to cover a series of expenses labeled as ‘support for political activities.'” (04/30/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/union-racked-up-massive-tab-swank-dc-hotel-stay-battle-trump-still-lost
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“The Revolutionary Spirit of Iran (w/ Behrooz Ghamari).” (04/29/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-revolutionary-spirit-of-iran
Source: Niskanen Center
“Can we improve trust in elections if the losers don’t concede?” (04/29/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/can-we-improve-trust-in-elections-if-the-losers-dont-concede
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“American Independence was built on the understanding that compliance with arbitrary power isn’t safety – or peace. It’s surrender. That’s an essential, but long-forgotten foundation of the American Revolution: Laws made outside the limits of the constitution aren’t law at all. And they should be treated that way too.” (04/29/26)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/04/29/foundation-of-the-revolution-compliance-destroys-freedom/
Source: Fox News
“The Minnesota House of Representatives introduced a bill that could penalize cities and counties for not flying the redesigned state flag. Members of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party pushed legislation Monday to reduce state aid to a county or city that ‘flies or otherwise makes use of a state flag other than the design of the state flag as certified in the report of the State Emblems Redesign Commission.’ If passed, the bill would go into effect in 2027. Fox News Digital reached out to Minnesota state House members and the speaker of the House for comment. The bill followed several cities and communities in recent years voting in favor of returning to the original state flag, which was adopted in 1893. On the same day the bill was introduced, the Inver Grove Heights City Council voted to join Elk River, Champlin, Zumbrota and Plainview in flying the original flag on city buildings.” (04/30/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/minnesota-democrats-push-bill-cut-state-aid-cities-fly-original-state-flag
Source: Quillette
by Ron Capshaw
“The son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers has written a perceptive, fascinating, and rather sad book about his lonely life as the child of violent revolutionaries.” (04/29/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/04/29/radical-lessons-in-solidarity-and-resistance-dangerous-dirty-violent-young-a-fugitive-family-in-the-revolutionary-underground-zayd-ayers-dohrn-review/
Source: NBC News
“Elon Musk repeatedly fired back at OpenAI’s lawyer in a tense cross-examination during the second day of a tech trial that could help define the future of artificial intelligence. Musk testified as part of his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in which he accuses Altman of betraying the public by enriching himself through the AI company they founded together in 2015 as a nonprofit venture. ‘They can’t have it both ways,’ Musk said of OpenAI on the stand Wednesday. ‘They can’t have a nonprofit and free funding and the positive halo effect of being a nonprofit charity and also enrich themselves greatly.'” (04/29/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-trial-day-two-testimony-cross-examination-rcna342660
Source: AI Summer
“Alex Imas explains why AI (probably) won’t put everyone out of work.” (04/29/26)
https://www.aisummer.org/p/alex-imas-explains-why-ai-probably
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Let’s Put Lindsey Graham in a Home.” (04/29/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2756-lets-put-lindsey-graham-in-a-home/
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley
“Dr. Erica Schwartz, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control, comes billed as a ‘home run pick’ but may face pressure from the ‘vaccine-skeptical’ Robert F. Kennedy’s HHS. Kennedy ally Aaron Siri recalls that Schwartz, ‘with threat and force, mandated almost every major vaccine on civilians and military members’ and disciplined those who refused. Others see the Schwartz pick as a political move in the run-up to the midterms. While confirmation awaits, the people might look back to the way the CDC handled COVID in the election year of 2020.” (04/29/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/04/29/trump-cdc-pick-not-just-about-vaccines-or-elections/
