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Bill’s Commentary:
“This is why you send your kids to trade school rather than letting them get indoctrinated by leftard stupidity at a college!”
The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
PHILADELPHIA—Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.
Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.
Employers ranging from the local transit system to submarine manufacturers make regular visits to Father Judge’s welding classrooms every year, bringing branded swag and pitching students on their workplaces. When Rios graduates next year, he plans to work as a fabricator at a local equipment maker for nuclear, recycling and other sectors, a job that pays $24 an hour, plus regular overtime and paid vacations.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Why is it a problem now? With all the new high tech? They did it smoothly 50 years ago with super low tech…”
Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport
CNN — Air traffic controllers in Philadelphia were guiding planes to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey last week when communications suddenly crashed.
“Approach, are you there?” one pilot asked the controller.
The controller stopped responding.
United Airlines Flight 1951, flying from New Orleans to the Newark hub, tried to radio the controller five times before finally getting a response.
“United 1951, how do you hear me?” the controller asks, according to air traffic control conversations recorded by the website LiveATC.net.
“I got you loud and clear, United 1951,” the pilot responds.
For at least 90 seconds, controllers lost the ability to see planes on radar scopes and for a minute they could not communicate with pilots, a source with knowledge of the situation tells CNN. (Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday air traffic controllers lost contact for 30 seconds.)
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Bill and Denny sat down with TRX CEO Stephen Mullowney for an update on operations.
Bill’s Commentary:
“How much “citizen rights” would an American receive if they broke into another country illegally? This should not even be a discussion…”
How much “Due Process” is Actually Due
A series of legal challenges are mounting against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to remove noncitizens, many of which allege violations of constitutional due process protections. Attorneys for the noncitizens in these cases argue that removals have been carried out without “due process.”
But what exactly is “due process” in this context? Everyone seems to be certain that everyone is entitled to it. Everyone seems pretty certain that it’s being denied. But does everyone clamoring for it actually know what “due process” would look like?
It turns out, not much.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Gold coming into the system, not out of it…”
China to boost yuan with overseas gold storage facilities as it challenges US hegemony
China will allow certain products traded on the Shanghai Gold Exchange to be delivered overseas by establishing storage facilities in other countries – part of a broader effort to promote the yuan and reduce reliance on the US dollar and US financial systems, according to top regulatory agencies.
In an action plan aimed at enhancing Shanghai’s cross-border financial services to support outbound investment and the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese regulators said key financial platforms would be strengthened to better allocate global financial resources and enable deeper international investor participation in China’s markets.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Here is my opinion, guaranteed by the 1st Amendment, and enforced by the 2nd…this woman is an idiot. She could not even define a woman while testifying to Congress! Did she lie under oath or just stupid?”
Supreme Court’s Ketanji Jackson Says Criticizing Judges Is ‘Attack On Democracy’
People who criticize activist judges (who often refuse to recuse themselves amid wide-ranging conflicts of interest while ruling against Donald Trump’s agenda) are ‘attacking democracy,’ according to US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
On May 1, Jackson – who was apparently referring to recent comments by Donald Trump, though not specifically naming him – told an audience at the First Circuit Judicial Conference in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.”
Bill’s Commentary:
“You know, these are the ones coming of age to buy starter homes…”
Federal student loans are due again. A record percentage of borrowers are seriously delinquent
About 4 million, or roughly one in five, federal student loan borrowers with a payment due are seriously delinquent, according to a new analysis published Monday by TransUnion.
Research from the information and insights company suggests that a significant numberof Americans with student loan debt are not able to make payments, did not know payments were due or decided not to pay.
The findings come as the Department of Education has vowed to restart collecting federal student loans in default starting Monday following a Covid-era pause.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Here is some sad math for you…”
Interest Costs on the National Debt
Every month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury releases data about the federal budget, including the interest costs that the federal government pays on the national debt. The following contains budget data through March 2025, the sixth month of fiscal year (FY) 2025.
Interest Payments in FY25
The rapid accumulation of federal debt, in addition to higher interest rates on that debt (relative to the past decade or so), has pushed up the federal government’s cost of borrowing. In fact, through the six months of FY25, interest payments on the national debt have been higher compared to previous years.
Bill’s Commentary:
“More sad math…”
U.S. National Debt by Year
National debt refers to the outstanding financial obligations of a country. The national debt of the United States is what the federal government owes to its creditors.
The U.S. has always carried national debt and the majority of presidents have added to it. However, total national debt has been expanding rapidly since 2008 due to a combination of increased government spending and failure to raise taxes.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Erik on Trump and The Constitution”
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Japan says the quiet part out loud!”
Japan’s finance minister calls US Treasury holdings ‘a card’ in tariff talks with Trump
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be “a card on the table” in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday.“It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate decision,” Kato said during a news show on national broadcaster TV Tokyo.
Kato did not elaborate and he did not say Japan would step up sales of its holdings of U.S. government bonds as part of its talks over President Donald Trump’s tariffs on exports from Japan.
Bill’s Commentary:
“But offset by an increase in defense spending? Maybe the Pentagon could cut expenses by not paying $340 for hammers?”
Trump to Propose Slashing $163 Billion in Government Programs in Budget Blueprint
WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to propose far-reaching cuts to federal environmental, renewable energy, education and foreign-aid programs in a budget blueprint that slashes nondefense discretionary spending by more than $160 billion, according to administration officials.
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal, which the White House is planning to release on Friday, is a largely symbolic wish list that lays out the president’s spending and political priorities. Congress, which Republicans control by narrow majorities in both chambers, will spend months debating which elements of the proposed plan should be turned into law.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Russell Brand is getting the Julian Assange treatment?”
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Bill’s Commentary:
“As well they should be!”
Justices appear sympathetic to victims of SWAT raid on the wrong house
The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning was sympathetic to the victims of a “wrong house” raid in 2017, with several justices expressing surprise at the federal government’s efforts to contend that the actions of FBI agents were shielded from liability because their acts were discretionary. But it was not clear whether that their skepticism of the agents’ conduct would lead to the result that the victims were seeking.
The case began when a six-agent SWAT team, led by FBI Special Agent Lawrence Guerra, conducted a pre-dawn raid on the suburban Atlanta home where Hilliard Toi Cliatt, his then-partner, Curtrina Martin, and Martin’s seven-year-old son were living. The team broke down the front door with a battering ram and set off a flashbang grenade. The team then pulled Cliatt out of the closet where he had been hiding with Martin and handcuffed him, and it held both of them at gunpoint.
Bill’s Commentary:
“A better title would be ‘The Bankruptcy of a Civilization’“
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Joe Rogan Guest Completely Shatters the Vaccine Narrative
Dr. Suzanne Humphries, former board-certified nephrologist and co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, just made a bombshell appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience—and what she shared will completely change how you think about vaccines.
Most people are told vaccines are “safe and effective” with no real downside. But Dr. Humphries pulled back the curtain on decades of deception, starting with a major turning point in 1986—when President Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act into law.
Before that, vaccine manufacturers were getting hammered with lawsuits. Humphries explained that after the 1976 swine flu vaccine disaster, Guillain-Barré cases were piling up. It got so bad that the companies couldn’t even get insurance.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this an unintended, or intended, consequence?”
U.S. agriculture isn’t nearing a trade war tariff crisis, it’s in a ‘full-blown crisis already,’ farmers say
The clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what President Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has described as an unsustainable tariff war. But in the U.S. farming sector, the damage has already been done and the economic crisis already begun.
U.S. agriculture exporters say the global backlash to Trump’s tariffs is punishing them, especially through a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products, leading to canceled export orders and layoffs.
Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, or AgTC, a leading export trade group for farmers, told CNBC the number of canceled purchases of U.S. agricultural products should not be described as approaching a crisis. “It is a full-blown crisis already,” he said.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Ready or not, here it comes!”
BRICS: China Officially Launches Plan to Promote Its Own Payment System
BRICS member China officially rolled out a plan to promote its own payment system to replace SWIFT. The Communist country aims to reduce US dollar dependency to confront Washington’s aggressive stance on trade and tariffs. The new plan was jointly released by the Shanghai municipal government and the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank.
Also Read: BRICS: India Plays ‘Double Game’ With the US Dollar?
The new payment system from BRICS member China will incorporate the Chinese yuan through the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). China wants to leverage its dominance in the manufacturing and trade sector and push the Chinese yuan for settlements.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Welcome to the party pal!”
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Bill’s Commentary:
“As the world turns away from the dollar, the US only has itself to blame…”
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