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While Pentagon budgets have steadily increased over recent decades,
the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated,
and less labor-intensive 
— upending the idea that the warfare state is an effective economic development strategy for working people,
and strengthening the case for a state-led shift toward a civilian industrial base focused on green manufacturing

War isn’t working for American workers
While Pentagon budgets have steadily increased in recent years, the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated, and less labor-intensive. The warfare state is not an effective economic development strategy for working people.

Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-trillion-dollar-val…

Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Jimmy Smith:
🎵 The Sermon (single edit)
#JimmySmith
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FKSGg1vgYM4mF3P9ccHQQ

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- A plague on both your houses
Hannah French is joined by conductor Jeremy Summerly to explore music associated with the plague - composers who succumbed to the disease and pieces that responded to great loss.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v8f5

Speaker Emerita Pelosi:
Trump took $500 billion out of Medicare
and $1 trillion out of Medicaid,
took many off SNAP
-- and the Republicans just stood up and cheered.
All of that to give a tax cut to the richest people in America.
https://bsky.app/profile/larrycolvin.b

Software stocks in the State Street ETF lost $1.6T in combined market cap in 2026 due to AI fears; Microsoft, AppLovin, Intuit, and Salesforce each lost $50B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/th…

Congress members of the Hispanic Caucus speak out on their concerns on ICE and Border Patrol,
with their first question being:
why is an additional $70 billion needed
after the record breaking $140 billion allocated last year from the Big Beautiful Bill?
The budget for ICE has already increased by 400% within the past year,
so speculation as to how these new funds would be used now leans towards intimidation and interference at the upcoming midterm elections…

Will ICE be used to intimidate voters? A new bill might make that possible.
With ICE funding already up 400%, lawmakers question whether another $70 billion is about enforcement, or expanding unchecked power ahead of the midterms.

EQT and McKinsey study: between 2014 and 2025, European tech companies with a current combined value of ~$1.4T listed abroad or were acquired by foreign buyers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-25/eur…

Just minutes before Donald Trump momentarily boosted the stock market —and sent oil prices tumbling
—with his disputed Monday announcement of peace talks with Iran,
unknown traders loaded up on positions that allowed them to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities.
The Financial Times reported that
“roughly 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate futures contracts changed hands between 6:49 am and 6:50 am New York time on Monday,
just a quar…

‘Mind-blowing corruption’: traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump post on Iran
“Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer?” asked US Sen. Chris Murphy.