Scott Roberts

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion.

On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM.

Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated."

The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership.

It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made."

By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received.

We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries.

In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not.

An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions.

The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport.

The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew.

That is retention.

Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%.

These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off.

We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day.

Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House.

The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin.

Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model.

Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot.

One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop.

The role is still open.

The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@EricLDaugh You are so stupid!

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

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[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

SCOOP: Nursing home firms donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug-Sept.

Their executives got a lunch in Aug. at Trump's golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect.

His administration revoked the rule https://t.co/mlwx4w1DVA

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FLASHBACK: “You will not see Republicans bailing out those who were arrested…. Americans do not need lectures from hypocrites in hair and makeup…”

Fascinating to revisit @Gutfeldfox’s epic hypocrisy from January 7th, now that Trump has pardoned them all. 😕🇺🇸🤷🏼

[Carey @carey_wedler]

No one could have predicted a politician saying one thing but doing another. 😱😵‍💫

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Below is a non-exhaustive list of individuals who defrauded the American public, U.S. financial institutions, and taxpayer-funded systems out of billions of dollars through bank fraud, securities fraud, Medicare fraud, insurance fraud, and foreign-influence schemes.

They collapsed banks, looted public insurance pools, exploited federal healthcare programs, corrupted political processes, and wiped out retirement savings.

And they all share one thing in common.... Donald Trump pardoned or commuted them.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

A Fox News host just debunked many of the MAGA talking points and lies on Minnesota’s fraud issue live on air. This is worth a watch.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Meet Michele Fiore, a former JOP in Nevada who raised funds to create a memorial to honor fallen police officers.

Instead, she spent the money on cosmetic surgery and other personal items. She was convicted in 2024 and Trump pardoned her before she was sentenced.

Not Somali

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@Hunter_Eagleman lol You might be the most gullible person ever!

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@StandUpForElonn Richard Nixon

[🪷 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🟦 Catherine votes 4 normie Dems💙 @CMargaronis]

@Acyn Yes, @JesseBWatters — Joe Biden did give Trump 2.9% inflation. Biden also had the highest real wage growth in the post-COVID years of all western Democratic countries. Cope.

[White House Xray @xray_media]

Cotton in 2021: "Trump caused inflation." Cotton in 2025: "Trump cured it." Consistency sacrificed at the altar of political convenience—while tariffs bleed households dry.

Trump's 15.8% tariffs—highest since 1936—cost $2400/year per household, projected to push inflation to 3.1%. Yet real income grew a microscopic 0.05% since Aug '24, savings dropped to 4.6%, while auto insurance surged 4.7%. Where are these "savings"?

This isn't economic stewardship—it's a wealth transfer from struggling families to government coffers.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Republicans Broke the ACA, Then Blamed the Wreckage

Republicans spent a decade deliberately destabilizing the ACA — repealing the mandate, cutting CSR payments, and flooding the market with junk plans — all of which shrank the risk pool and drove premiums up. Their so-called “replacements” (HSAs, high-risk pools, deregulated skinnier plans) don’t lower costs; they shift them onto the sick, gut coverage, and hammer the middle class. The coming 2026 subsidy cliff is their doing too. Rising healthcare costs aren’t a mystery — they’re a Republican policy outcome dressed up as inevitability.

Sources

[1] Brookings Institution (2025). “New CBO estimates show 2025 reconciliation bill mirrors the impact of 2017 ACA repeal attempts.” https://t.co/pRLJOMIY4x

[2] CNN Politics (2025). “How GOP policy changes contributed to rising ACA premiums and market instability.” https://t.co/G4y9x9uxjV

[3] Commonwealth Fund (2017). “CBO score: Senate repeal bill would leave 50 million uninsured and sharply raise premiums.” https://t.co/XHDscgSb9g

[4] Health Affairs (2017). “Analysis: ACA repeal proposals shift costs to the sick and destabilize risk pools.” https://t.co/LqX3m15w3u

[5] Congressional Budget Office (2017). “Cost estimate: H.R. 1628 as passed—projected coverage losses and premium effects.” https://t.co/moSWZyhcIM

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@Michele_Tafoya @amyklobuchar Republicans happened do some research

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@Sadie_NC MAGA

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@Milajoy Racist

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@WarClandestine Right before that he said it was a hoax! lol even though he’s all over it

[Scott Roberts @srob4ut]

@C_3C_3 No you don’t! It would start at the top of the MAGA party!