u/grackychan

Among all the celebratory posts these few days, there's this. Ugh. Have not had an issue in the past receiving my Rakuten payout to Bilt, not sure what changed?

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Listening to LiveATC JFK Final App, our approach was rudely cut off due to “VIP movement”, then I start hearing Air Force One being vectored in to land 31L before us. Look up ADSB exchange and there she is. AF1 pilot took a really short final which was impressive. We proceeded to be vectored around a wild set of turns. That is all.

According to FINRA and Fed Filings, it appears SoFi has quietly acquired https://www.composer.trade , this does not show on SoFi 10-Q because Composer is a small company by comparison to SoFi and may qualify as a "non-material aquisition".

Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Cloudera Inc. (Cloudera), a Santa Clara, California-based technology company for violating the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by intentionally discriminating against U.S. workers in favor of hiring workers with temporary visas. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, which has jurisdiction over cases arising under the INA.

“Employers cannot use the PERM sponsorship process as a backdoor for discriminating against U.S. workers,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Division will not hesitate to sue companies who intentionally deter U.S. workers from applying to American jobs.”

The complaint alleges Cloudera intentionally created a separate recruitment and hiring process to deter U.S. workers from applying, and also did not consider them, for lucrative technology jobs that the company earmarked for people with temporary employment visas. Cloudera created an email account that did not allow external emails, but still instructed applicants to use that unworkable email address to apply for jobs. The Division received a charge of employment discrimination from one U.S. worker who tried to apply using the email account Cloudera set up, but received a bounce back notification. When sponsoring current employees under the permanent labor certification program (PERM), Cloudera purposely failed to recruit U.S. workers in good faith.

The PERM program allows employers to sponsor workers for permanent resident status, only after completing recruitment of U.S. workers. But, as with any recruitment or hiring, employers cannot illegally discriminate against U.S. worker applicants based on their citizenship status during the PERM process.

This lawsuit is part of the Department’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, which was relaunched in 2025. The Initiative, under which the Division has already obtained ten settlements in the last year, focuses on companies that illegally discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of those with temporary employment visas.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/civil-rights-division-sues-cloudera-excluding-us-workers-applying-high-paying-technology

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/mid-cap/26/04/52066550/critical-metals-shares-trade-higher-on-european-lithium-deal

Critical Metals Corp. (NASDAQ:CRML) shares are up on Monday as the company is moving forward with plans to acquire **European Lithium Ltd.**European Lithium shareholders would receive 0.035 shares of Critical Metals for each share held.Based on this exchange ratio and market conditions as of April 22, the implied total equity value of the transaction is around $835 million.European Lithium Acquisition Plans

This proposed transaction is expected to consolidate ownership of the Tanbreez Rare Earth Project in Greenland and boost Critical Metals’ strategic position in the critical minerals market.

European Lithium also holds significant cash reserves and marketable securities, including about 45.5 million Critical Metals shares (~34% ownership), valued at roughly $540 million.

Post-transaction, these cross-held shares are expected to be canceled, reducing dilution while significantly increasing public float and liquidity.

European Lithium's cash of roughly $219 million, combined with Critical Metals' ~$124 million, would create a stronger balance sheet to advance Tanbreez.