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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-11

Saint-Malo Voices, The Peoples News

June 11, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
New Report Details ICE’s Expanding and Increasingly Unaccountable Detention System
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-expanding-detention-system/
Annals of immigration detention: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Annals+of+immigration+detention.&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Ousted by the Trump Administration, U.S. Immigrants Remain Locked up in African Kingdom. Held indefinitely, immigrants imprisoned in Eswatini lack medical attention, food and clothing, according to complaint.
https://capitalandmain.com/ousted-by-the-trump-administration-u-s-immigrants-remain-locked-up-in-african-kingdom

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
White House names Texas cattleman as screwworm advisor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iHWZvy6k4

White House and data at odds over who’s to blame for screwworm invasion. Screwworms, eradicated 60 years ago, have returned to Texas. Six cases confirmed across two states
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-biden-new-world-screwworm-blame-12049389

Bee thought extinct since 1960 found in Rhode Island among 25 never-before-recorded species. Researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s Bee Lab recently recorded over 25 never-before-seen bee species in the state, bringing the state’s total to over 280. The discovery offers a rare piece of good news.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/bee-reappears-in-rhode-island-after-decades/

Lawyers Are Building a New Infrastructure to Fight Trump’s Deportation Machine. Lawyers and activists are organizing “habeas projects” to file petitions on behalf of unlawfully detained immigrants.
https://truthout.org/articles/lawyers-are-building-a-new-infrastructure-to-fight-trumps-deportation-machine/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
‘A New Pinnacle of Oligarchy’: Elon Musk Poised to Become World’s First Trillionaire. With Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to go public on Friday, the world’s richest man could soon become the first-ever trillionaire—an achievement that one leading humanitarian group called “a new pinnacle of oligarchy and a dark day for democracy.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-trillionaire

Chase has confirmed it will shut down all 5,000 locations for 24 hours – but here’s how you can access your money. The brief closures come amid several changes from the financial institution, including the opening of more than 160 new spots.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/16481682/chase-bank-closes-branches-juneteenth/

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
Education Department admits it violated court order in Title IX cases. The U.S. Department of Education confirmed a whistleblower’s allegations that the agency violated a federal court order while handling Title IX cases tied to gender identity and sexual orientation
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0aaa5d8a-d2f2-4d94-bb38-0e583f8bb060.html

# Employment / Labor / Unions
20 House Republicans Break Ranks to Join Democrats in Passing Pro-Union Bill. The bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act aims to accelerate contract negotiations between newly-unionized workplaces and their employees.
https://time.com/article/2026/06/10/20-house-republicans-break-ranks-pass-democratic-led-labor-bill/

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Trump Administration Is Turning Ocean Into a Gas Station and Garbage Dump. EPA “has failed to conduct any meaningful review of the impacts of dumping fracking waste into the water.” That waste includes arsenic, lead, mercury and benzene, the release of which may imperil threatened and endangered species. Those include three whale species, turtles such as leatherbacks and loggerheads, sturgeon, grouper and many types of coral, Monsell wrote in her letter to the EPA.
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/trump-letting-oceans-turn-into-toxic-waste-dumps-conservationist-group-claims/article_da9e9fa6-fe55-5aa0-9eca-107a456b0aba.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
‘It’s Over For Iran!’ Trump Announces ‘Secret Mission’ Has Taken Millions of Barrels of Oil Away From Iran
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/over-iran-trump-announces-secret-190039350.html
Did US sneak 100 million barrels of oil out of Hormuz, as Trump claims?
The maths doesn’t appear to hold up, even though the US has likely managed to get some oil out of the strait during the blockade.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/11/did-us-sneak-100-million-barrels-of-oil-out-of-hormuz-as-trump-claims

# General News
After the Karmelo Anthony Verdict, Black Parents Are Having Conversations They Never Wanted To Have. It’s the conversation no parent wants to have, but every Black parent must after Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf.
https://www.theroot.com/after-the-karmelo-anthony-verdict-black-parents-are-ha-2000110723

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein’s Longtime Assistant Claims She Set Up Several Calls Between Donald Trump and Disgraced Financier. . Groff stated these calls were infrequent, occurring about once per quarter, and took place before Trump won the 2016 presidential election
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/09/congress/trump-and-epsteins-phone-calls-00954798

Who is Lesley Groff: Groff worked for Epstein from 2001 to July 2019, when the late, disgraced financier was arrested on sex-trafficking charges. Her name appears more than 160,000 times in the millions of documents the Justice Department has released related to Epstein.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-lesley-groff-jeffrey-epsteins-former-assistant-being-interviewed-in-house-probe

# Gov / Politics / US
Expert shares sobering warning on Trump’s ‘sinister’ election scheme: ‘This is not legal’: A political expert offered a sobering warning about President Donald Trump’s latest scheme to restrict voting access ahead of the 2026 midterm elections
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-2677025011/

Election equipment dispute escalates into criminal investigation in Maricopa County. A power struggle, a special investigator and the theft of election equipment has led to quite the situation in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Local officials have accused county recorder Justin Heap’s office of improperly seizing election equipment and documents as votes were being counted in local elections earlier this year.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/maricopa-county-supervisor-board-recorder-justin-heap-election-machines-ballot/

Trump warns Iran to make a deal or ‘we’ll bomb the s–t out of them tomorrow’ after latest strikes: President Trump warned that additional attacks on the Islamic Republic were coming to try to force Tehran to re-enter serious peace negotiations.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/us-launches-new-strikes-on-multiple-targets-in-iran-centcom-says/

President Trump said he is readying new strikes on Iranian infrastructure — after warning that the Islamic Republic will “have to pay the price” for taking “too long” to negotiate a peace deal.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/10/us-news/president-trump-readying-new-strikes-on-iranian-power-plants-bridges-have-to-pay-the-price/

Former Trump official Miles Taylor says the president’s agenda may soon push Republican senators too far. Then he predicted what’s coming next. Taylor’s comments come amid what appears to be a broader pattern of Republican lawmakers breaking with Trump on certain issues in recent weeks. On top of that, four House Republicans voted alongside Democrats to curb Trump’s war powers last week.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/former-trump-official-miles-taylor-says-the-presidents-agenda-may-soon-push-republican-senators-too-far-then-he-predicted-whats-coming-next/

GOP’s California lies are setting the stage to subvert the midterms. Trump and the GOP’s false claims of fraud over mail ballots in California’s primary offer a grim preview of what’s to come during the midterms this November. They are gearing up to undermine elections when control of the House of Representatives could hinge on the Golden State
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-lies-over-california-vote-counting-set-stage-to-subvert-midterms/

Experts Warn Trump Order Would Effectively End the Ability to Vote by Mail. Congressional Democrats and all 23 Democratic state attorneys general are urging courts to block the order.
https://truthout.org/articles/experts-warn-trump-order-would-effectively-end-the-ability-to-vote-by-mail/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Another incarcerated woman has died behind bars at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan, prompting bipartisan calls by lawmakers for the state’s corrections director to resign or be removed. Three women have died in custody since May 13
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-womens-prison-deaths-lawmakers-action-b63b5a82e573e56e5dfddc5353083333?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=9a46348bb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_06_11_10_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-9a46348bb8-486092373

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry. Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links. It’s not hyperbole to suggest that this change could spell the death of digital journalism.
https://insider-gaming.com/google-ai-changes-threaten-future-digital-journalism/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
VC-25B Air Force One “Bridge” Aircraft Now Wears Trump’s Preferred Red, White, and Blue Paint Job. The VC-25B “Bridge” jet is also undergoing a final round of modifications before its official debut this summer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/qatari-donated-air-force-one-172813599.html

US and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyp9v0e93o

# Planetary / Solar Activity
California’s Primed for an Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds. Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and San Jacinto, where large tectonic plates grind past each other, occasionally triggering violent earthquakes. The densely populated LA region is home to the Cajon Pass, a “critical fault junction,” meaning that a major earthquake could cross from one fault line to the other.
https://earthsky.org/earth/california-faults-record-levels-of-stress-earthquake-risk/

Unusual earthquakes have been rattling Earth. Is it a warning? The danger is not evenly distributed, but it is never limited to a single country. Earthquakes are a worldwide reminder that the ground beneath us is not as still as it looks.
https://www.newsbreak.com/timeless-dishes-377396610/4703214808392-earthquakes-are-rattling-the-world-but-the-real-warning-is-not-what-people-think

Earthquake in Florida? Social media reports feelings of tremors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86wbVC3-cEI

Seattle Is Under Serious Earthquake Threat, Scientists Warn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3chSkrcvxw

A notably strong magnitude 7.8 quake struck the Philippines. And Cuba saw its strongest earthquake in decades.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/10/earthquakes-philippines-cuba-aftershocks/90471506007/

# Security / DHS / Communications / Surveillance / Secret Service
Sen. Rand Paul releases timeline of Dr. Fauci’s extensive contacts with intel community. Follow the science, or follow the spies? Fauci’s involvement with the intel community dates back more than two decades.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/sen-rand-paul-builds-damning-timeline-connecting-fauci-shady-intel-community

# Sports
Scared of ICE, Angry at Trump, and Facing Red Tape, Many Are Skipping World Cup. Hotel bookings lag in all US host cities, and in several a majority of hotel owners say the tournament is a “non-event.”
https://percevalpress.com/scared-of-ice-angry-at-trump-and-facing-red-tape-many-are-skipping-world-cup/

Iran’s Soccer Team Says US Revoked Its Ticket Allocation Ahead of World Cup. The US has posed numerous obstacles for Iran’s soccer team, and is now restricting other participants.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49008116/world-cup-tickets-iran-fans-revoked-says-country-federation

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet. “Taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it.” The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are allowed to say online.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/08/white-house-hill-relaunch-effort-block-state-ai-laws

An unprecedented data center boom means new challenges for Texas. Find out what’s planned near you. A Texas Tribune analysis identified at least 248 planned data center projects. Developers and speculators had been buying up land across the state, looking to cash in on a chance to construct massive warehouses filled with computers to power artificial intelligence for companies such as Meta, Amazon and Google.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/08/texas-regulation-data-centers-electricity-power-water/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-10

Voices, The Peoples News

June 10, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Recalled pet foods may cause neurological issues. Additional products have been added to a list of recalled pet food that could cause life-threatening nutritional deficiencies.
https://www.aol.com/articles/recalled-pet-foods-may-cause-191140307.html

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Border Wall Is Coming: Steel Deliveries and Worker Camps Signal Major Texas Construction Push. Between extending the border wall itself and adding waterborne barriers in the Rio Grande River, the federal government is adding more obstacles for immigrants who are trying to enter the United States illegally.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/texans-pushing-border-plans/

Democrats wanted oversight. Republicans approved $70 billion instead. The House has approved a $70 billion immigration enforcement package, and President Donald Trump is expected to sign it Wednesday morning.
https://abc7news.com/post/house-passes-70b-bill-fund-immigration-enforcement-3-years-sending-measure-trump/19265295/

New York Immigration Coalition employees push for union recognition: Higher wages, financial transparency and a seat at the decision-making table are among the workers’ demands
https://documentedny.com/2026/06/09/nyic-workers-demand-union/

The country’s largest contractor for ICE, which owns and operates detention centers nationwide, is challenging a new law alleging that it oversteps the bounds of the state’s authority. State Health Commissioner Raynard Washington said the department needs full access to the detention facility, not just the food services area to get an accurate picture of conditions. The contractor argues the legislation is preempted by federal law, singling out the state’s only immigration center
https://www.law360.com/publicpolicy/articles/2487593/ice-contractor-challenges-colo-health-inspection-law

Supreme Court deals setback to ICE detention contractor in fight over detainee work The justices denied GEO Group’s bid to toss out a lawsuit claiming prisoners in Colorado were illegally forced to work.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/supreme-court-ruling-ice-detention-contractor-00797951

ICE to purchase private detainment facilities to circumvent states’ authority. Homeland Security has been in talks with the private prison company to purchase “turn-key” facilities as detention centers to avoid oversight in Democrat-led states via the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. This strategy follows increased litigation by states against immigration jails over inadequate “medical services, food services, and general cleanliness.”
https://www.projectcensored.org/ice-private-detainment-states-authority/

Red state moves to strip life-sustaining care from critically ill immigrant children. Tennessee to report disabled immigrant children receiving public healthcare to ICE, advocates say: The state’s department of health is now required to verify and report their immigration statuses, potentially endangering access to critical medical care, according to the Tennessee Justice Center.
https://www.rawstory.com/tennessee-to-report-disabled-immigrant-kids-getting-public-healthcare-to-ice/

ICE jail in Louisiana reports second detainee death in less than two months, marking 50th detainee death under Trump: Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian national, was found “unresponsive” in the Winn Correctional Center, according to a press release from ICE.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-ice-facility-second-detainee-death-less-2-months-rcna349107

Five hundred babies and toddlers held in immigration detention. Trump administration officials have dramatically increased the number of infants and toddlers being held in the nation’s federal immigration detention facilities.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/babies-and-toddlers-in-ice-detention

Latino families report rising costs, thin savings and immigration fears in new survey
https://share.newsbreak.com/iolswiud

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump family ‘made $500 million from crypto coin deal’ — before the bottom fell out on individual investors: Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they’ve wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, a Reuters examination found.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
After a year of pushing employees out, OPM embraces familiar recruiting playbook. In order for agencies to attain top talent, Office of Personnel Director Scott Kupor pointed to job websites specific to college students, multi-agency position postings and tech recruiting programs, strategies the Biden administration employed.
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/06/after-year-pushing-employees-out-opm-embraces-familiar-recruiting-playbook/414074/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
One company, Zelestra, is building a massive 1.4 GW solar portfolio for Meta
https://electrek.co/2026/06/09/one-company-is-building-a-massive-1-4-gw-solar-portfolio-for-meta/

A Texas Oilfield Equipment Manufacturer Has Entered Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/oil-field-vendor-nine-files-bankruptcy-to-cut-320-million-debt

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Lake Mead nearing ‘system crash’ as experts warn a ‘world of hurt’ could be coming for some states
https://share.newsbreak.com/iojz5qcj

The Colorado River’s largest reservoirs are heading toward a ‘system crash,’ The warning comes as seven Western states and the federal government struggle to agree on new rules for managing the shrinking river.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/06/05/colorado-river-system-track-crash/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Bill Gates questioned over his Epstein ties. Photos of Gates, along images of powerful figures in politics, business and entertainment. that the committee members said were from Epstein’s estate were made public in December and were released without accompanying context information.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/politics/2026/06/10/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-investigation-lesely-groff-probe-house-oversight-committee

# Gov / Politics / US
One month into 2026 and Republicans are losing their minds. Sending in ICE and federal agents to patrol elections isn’t just about immigration. We know that ICE won’t hesitate to go after American citizens, and just their presence alone will prevent people from going to the polls.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/one-month-into-2026-and-republicans-are-losing-their-minds/

California election fraud conspiracy theories run rampant. Election fraud conspiracy theories ahead of recall vote raise fears of violence
https://lookout.co/california-newsom-recall-election-fraud-conspiracies-run-rampant-will-they-help-or-hurt/story

Why the GOP’s voter fraud theories in California don’t make sense. Many on the right have cried foul over late shifts toward Democrats in results from California’s June 2 primary.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/voter-fraud-theories-california

After Landslide Primary Win, Graham Platner Vows to Defeat ‘Spineless and Corrupt’ Susan Collins. “The truth is, Susan Collins doesn’t serve us, she serves Donald Trump,” said Platner. “She serves her corporate donors and the corrupt political system that has rigged the economy against us.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-wins-primary

‘Every Time We Rise’: Ayanna Pressley Says Supreme Court Is Rolling Back Black Americans’ Rights. Pressley Rips SCOTUS Decision Gutting Voting Rights Act: “An Assault on Our Democracy and Black Political Power.” Congresswoman Renews Calls for Passage of John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and Supreme Court Reform, Including Expansion
https://pressley.house.gov/2026/04/29/pressley-rips-scotus-decision-gutting-voting-rights-act-an-assault-on-our-democracy-and-black-political-power/

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Trump admin halts contraceptive aid, leaving millions of women facing growing health
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/tipsheets/the-quickie-the-trump-administration-destroys-millions-of-dollars-of-needed-contraception

Ron Johnson calls on Trump administration to recognize COVID-19 vax injuries as medical condition
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/sen-ron-johnson-calls-icd-code-patients-covid-19-vaccine-injuries

US insurers’ move to back vaccines sends ‘powerful’ message about safety of shots, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/07/insurance-coverage-vaccines-trump

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
U.S. launches retaliatory strikes against Iran. U.S. forces have begun launching “self-defense strikes” against Iran after President Donald Trump announced a response to the Islamic Republic’s shooting down of a U.S. Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/09/us-retaliatory-strikes-iran-00955278

# Other Interestimg Stuff
Buried History: The Statue of Liberty Was Never About Freedom — It Sits on an 11 Pointed Star Fort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfoZJh2Vq-8

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Supreme Court rules AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile sold your data. The FCC case centers on location data that can reveal where customers live, work, shop, and spend time.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/att-and-verizon-lose-supreme-court-case-over-fines-for-selling-location-data/

Plans for huge ‘man camp’ for thousands of data center construction workers enrage Wyoming locals
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/wyoming-ai-boom-comes-man-183138599.html

East Texas county judge urges state lawmakers to help locals combat data center proliferation. A proposed data center in Angelina County will occupy more than 1,000 acres outside of Lufkin. The county judge says there’s nothing he can do to stop it.
https://www.kwtx.com/2026/06/10/east-texas-county-judge-urges-state-lawmakers-help-locals-combat-data-center-proliferation/

Seattle City Council votes unanimously to pause big new data centers. Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/seattle-ai-datacenters-ban

How communities are pushing back against data centers: As Big Tech aggressively peddles AI technology, corporate entities like BlackRock and xAI are aiming to construct massive data centers across the country. Communities across the country are pushing back — and winning.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/18/communities-are-blocking-billions-in-data-centers-big-tech-has-wagered-1-trillion-otherwise/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-09

Voices, The Peoples News

June 9, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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Sun erupts with 3 colossal solar flares in less than 24 hours,
boosting chances for northern lights.
A trio of major solar flares triggered radio blackouts across
Earth and may spark impressive northern lights as possible
solar storms head our way.
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Homan says ICE preparing to send the largest deployment to New York City it has ever seen. Tom Homan says he made Kathy Hochul promise after governor signed bill protecting New Yorkers against ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/ice-agents-new-york-city-tom-homan

The Trump Administration Moves to Strip Citizenship From 17 People in Expansion of Aggressive Denaturalization Efforts
https://time.com/article/2026/06/08/trump-administration-denaturalization-citizenship-immigration/

‘There Must Be Accountability,’ Says Jayapal in Response to 50+ ICE Detainee Deaths. “This is unprecedented and further proof that ICE and their private, for-profit prison contractors should not be sent another cent of taxpayer dollars.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jayapal-ice-deaths

Inside Delaney Hall’s Black Box: Senator Andy Kim entered ICE’s Delaney Hall—and found a woman curled up in pain. Sen. He saw people in visible medical distress—but GEO Group guards refused to let him speak to anyone detained there. What he was able to see was disturbing.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/inside-delaney-halls-black-box/\

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
The ‘New NAFTA’—officially known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)—is a cornerstone of the North American economy. You should care about this deal because it heavily influences your job, the prices you pay at the store, and international supply chains.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2026-06-08/usmc-what-why-you-should-care-about-new-nafta

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record. A 5-year-old boy was killed by a school bus in Boston. Transdev, the company that operated it has more reported fatal crashes nationwide, but most are missing from its official federal safety record.
https://www.newsgram.com/accidents/2026/06/09/school-bus-kills-5-year-old-dozens-missing

Higher Education Must Not Become a Research Arm of Militarized Power. Universities risk becoming agents of militarized socialization rather than sites of democratic education.
https://truthout.org/articles/higher-education-must-not-become-a-research-arm-of-militarized-power/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Another lawsuit alleges DOJ is illegally rejecting telework requests from employees with disabilities.
Some of the plaintiffs said that the revocations of their telework reasonable accommodations have forced them to take leave and worsened their health.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/06/lawsuit-claims-doj-retaliating-against-employees-disabilities-who-request-telework/413955/?oref=ge-featured-river-top

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies. In the past decade, Southern Coal and other Justice corporations have racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and have been sued repeatedly by state and federal prosecutors over their failure to properly follow environmental laws at their mining sites.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/insight/doj-halts-criminal-probe-into-maga-senator-s-coal-empire/gm-GM0A42A9BB?gemSnapshotKey=GM0A42A9BB-snapshot-3&uxmode=ruby

Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal. US president announces plans for two new coal plants, in Alaska and West Virginia, using Defense Production Act
https://grist.org/energy/trump-uses-wartime-powers-to-dole-out-700-million-to-clean-beautiful-coal/

Texas Gas Drillers Shut Out of Oil Price Rally Shut Off Wells. Two extremes are currently playing out in the Permian Basin. Drillers are reaping the benefits of a historic price rally due to the Iran war. But when it comes to natural gas, they’re having to pay customers to take it away.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-08/texas-gas-drillers-shut-out-of-oil-price-rally-turn-to-shutting-off-wells

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One. Senator Tim Sheehy, a former firefighting pilot and founder of an aerial firefighting company, is pushing for the Forest Service to end its own aircraft inspections, calling them redundant to FAA checks
https://www.firerescue1.com/wildfire-and-wildland-urban-interface/mont-senator-calls-for-end-of-usfs-wildfire-aircraft-inspections

Ecology Says Forests That Were Clear-Cut a Century Ago Are Now Communicating Underground Through Fungal Networks That Predate the Trees Themselves. Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48257315

How an underground fungal map of the world’s oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost the resilience of Earth’s long-term carbon sinks
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1118515

The Amazon Tributary NASA Has Been Monitoring for Three Years Just Triggered Emergency Alerts Across Four Research Institutions
https://discoverwildscience.com/the-amazon-tributary-nasa-has-been-monitoring-for-three-years-just-triggered-emergency-alerts-across-four-research-institutions-1-405100/

Pennsylvania Communities Are Beating Back a Wave of Water System Privatization. As corporations angle to squeeze profits out of water systems throughout Pennsylvania, towns are fighting back.
https://popularresistance.org/pennsylvanians-are-beating-back-a-wave-of-water-system-privatization/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. As raw milk continues to sicken consumers, high-level lawmakers and government officials are championing the industry’s expansion rather than curbing the danger.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mcafee-raw-milk-recalls-maha

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Gates is among several individuals brought in by lawmakers on the oversight committee to testify about their relationship with Epstein. Previously, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former president Bill Clinton were brought in to testify about Epstein.
https://www.cbs19news.com/bill-gates-to-testify-on-epstein-relationship-wednesday/article_e83f1034-9006-5183-a566-28208770ac0b.html

‘The Epstein files are about more than men and money’: All the Rage, the ‘guerrilla’ play fuelled by 80 furious women. Enraged at how the victims of Jeffrey Epstein are being forgotten, more than 80 female and non-binary writers united – to create an epic drama fusing art, activism and anger. How will it work?
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/08/epstein-files-men-money-all-the-rage-guerrilla-play

# Gov / Politics / US
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143676326

New World screwworm gets political in Texas governor’s race
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/new-world-screwworm-texas-governor-race

Trump considers buying Chagos Islands from Mauritius to secure base. US draws up proposal to bypass Britain and make its own deal to take control of Diego Garcia
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/06/07/white-house-plan-chagos-islands/

Texas Secretary of State resigns. By law, Gov. Greg Abbott is required to nominate someone to fill the vacant position “without delay.” It’s unclear how quickly Abbott will move to fill Nelson’s role or whom he is considering for the job.
https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/06/02/secretary-of-state-jane-nelson-resigns-greg-abbott/

Here’s how the Texas secretary of state’s resignation could complicate the midterm elections. “If the new secretary of state has a laundry list of demands that election administrators can’t meet, that’s going to throw our elections into disarray,” said Emily Eby French, policy director at Common Cause Texas.
https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/06/08/secretary-of-state-jane-nelson-greg-abbott-nomination/

White House slams bombshell leak from US officials on new ‘critical’ threat – from US ally. Two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official, speaking with NBC News under the condition of anonymity, claimed that the Pentagon had grown “increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S.”
https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/israel-2677007113/

Jasmine Crockett says the Supreme Court is bending to the will of a “wannabe king,” and the backlash has been immediate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0EibrbDs_s

Donald Trump’s ‘CIA shame.’ Radar lifts lid on furious reaction to $2million Kennedy Center ‘spy bribe’ case
https://radaronline.com/p/donald-trump-cia-shame-kennedy-center-spy-bribe/

A Virginia firm that organized Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, ‘Stop the Steal’ rally is set to receive a further $1.2 million in taxpayer funds to help promote ‘Trump Accounts’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-accounts-jan-6-organizer-federal-contracts-b2992008.html

Trump Storms Off After “Meet the Press” Host Asks for Proof of “Rigged” Races. Election officials are “crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked,” Trump told a reporter.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-storms-off-after-meet-the-press-host-asks-for-proof-of-rigged-races/

‘Schumer Is Far Out of Touch’: 80% of New York Democrats Oppose US Weapons Transfers to Israel. “If current party leadership is unwilling to represent their own voters and the majority of Americans, then it is time for new leadership.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chuck-schumer-weapons-israel

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Inmate serving life sentence convicted of selling 165 pounds of meth while in prison
https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/inmate-serving-life-sentence-convicted-selling-165-pounds-meth-while-prison/YBYN2Y26MZAJHMGVDHAHASZLCQ/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1781012181

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
https://projects.propublica.org/measles-outbreak-analysis-utah-texas/

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues. As the U.S. pulls international aid, deadly and disabling diseases like diphtheria, rubella and polio continue to harm people overseas and can easily reach the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish. Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children. When immunization rates drop, however, plagues from the past can come roaring back, as measles has in American communities where parents decided not to vaccinate their children.
https://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
‘Conspiracy theorists were right’: Thomas Massie warns NDAA Section 224 merges US and Israeli militaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4QEhPNHxew

Sen. Schiff introduces bill to restrict Defense Department’s use of AI without human involvement. The legislation, called the Human Authority in Lethal Operations Act, seeks to establish a “clear chain of command” under which a designated commander has the final say over decisions to use force that involve autonomous weapon systems.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5914836-human-authority-lethal-operations/

Hegseth warns Europe to defend itself against a second D-Day: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a stark warning, asserting that Europe faces an “invasion of dangerous ideologies” arriving by sea, drawing a controversial link between contemporary immigration and the legacy of the D-Day landings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWY0pt0SU2M

# Other Interestimg Stuff
Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica. The structure is shaped like a fan. Researchers say it was formed by the Earth’s crust spreading out from a focal point near the South Pole, similar to the fingers spreading apart on a hand. This spread occurred before the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, and may have influenced the separation of the landmass into the modern continents we know today
https://nautil.us/vast-hidden-structure-discovered-beneath-antartica-1281798

# Security / DHS / Communications / Surveillance / Secret Service
Dozens of U.S. lawmakers demand privacy reforms as FISA deadline looms. Congressional leaders are desperate to renew the federal government’s authority to conduct mass electronic surveillance before the authority expires, but dozens of lawmakers in both chambers are bucking a long-term extension unless it includes significant reforms.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_85bd64c9-e111-4367-a9ad-8b89eb0eec6a.html

# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
Retirees Are Opening Their Mail to Find $14,000 Social Security Bills: Here’s What’s Happening
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/14-000-demand-letter-retirees-181500231.html

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
President Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders agree: Americans should get a cut of the AI boom. President Trump is pursuing a Bernie-like interest in having the U.S. government take stakes in AI giants — not out of populism, but with a dealmaker’s eye for profit.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/08/trump-bernie-sanders-ai

Barton, Zillow co-founder, co-founded Expedia Group in the Seattle area. and Seattle tech icon Rich Barton takes up residence in Las Vegas. The news marks the end of an era for one of Seattle’s most prolific entrepreneurs.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/zillow-co-founder-and-seattle-tech-icon-rich-barton-takes-up-residence-in-las-vegas/?utm_source=GeekWire+Newsletters&utm_campaign=282e596d04-daily-digest-email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4e93fc7dfd-282e596d04-1433410559&mc_cid=282e596d04&mc_eid=ef5d740e7f

# Travel / Tourism / TSA
Federal judge blocks Trump’s 100K visa fee. A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s policy seeking to implement a $100,000 fee on visas for highly skilled foreign workers.
https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-foreign-workers-technology-de169f36bb0bbdc7c982b556d62e9560

# UFO / UAP Disclosure
Scientists Release Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. It streaked into the Solar System on a path so extreme that astronomers could quickly tell it did not originate here.
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/seti-checked-3i-atlas-for-alien-signals-heres-what-they-found/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-08

Voices, The Peoples News

June 8, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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“Caring comes from being able to put yourself
in the position of the other person.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Feds seek expansion of ICE detention centers: Shuttered Appleton prison will convert to immigrant detention under proposed contract. Prairie Correctional Facility owner CoreCivic already operates nearly a dozen immigration detention facilities nationwide.
https://www.startribune.com/shuttered-appleton-prison-will-convert-to-immigrant-detention-under-proposed-contract/601853735

Trump visa restrictions trigger Texas housing slowdown: North of Dallas, towns like Frisco, Prosper and Celina became some of the fastest-growing suburbs in the US, fueled in part by corporate relocations and Indian-born workers with H-1B visas. But tech layoffs, higher visa costs, tighter immigration rules and AI disruption are now cooling demand in a housing market built around rapid growth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUnh1vwrFV8

Geo Group founder came to U.S. via Ellis Island in 1953: “My own immigrant story has shaped the core values that have guided my entire life and career, which include the principle of never placing profit above the value of people,” said the CEO of the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and ICE’s biggest contractor.
https://edition.cnn.com/us/george-zoley-geo-group-ice-immigration

Federal judge strikes down Trump. admin limits on asylum and immigration processing, cites “anti-immigrant animus”: U.S. District ‌Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ‌Services had adopted a series of unlawful policies ‌targeting people from 39 African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries.
https://www.aol.com/articles/us-judge-invalidates-trump-policies-144814000.html

Senate GOP passes immigration funding bill, bypassing Democratic filibuster: The bill, which next heads to the House for a vote, will give an additional $70 billion in funding to ICE and Border Patrol over the next three years. The package includes roughly $38.5 billion for ICE, over $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and $5 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/06/senate-in-overnight-session-as-republicans-debate-limits-on-1-8b-trump-settlement/

Sen. Murkowski Stands Alone as Only Republican to Vote Against Trump’s $70 Billion Immigration Enforcement Package
https://share.newsbreak.com/inwrs318

Federal officials accused of ‘strange secrecy’ as court cases fast-tracked. Lawyers representing immigrants being swept up by the Department of Homeland Security are raising the alarm that federal authorities are deploying new tactics to fast-track deportations.
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-deportation-2677007505/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Bessent backs 3% deficit goal despite 5% budget forecasts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_438579cf-67a1-4aac-8e69-18d6d3eb6c87.html

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
Trump Admin Suspends 27,000 Loan Borrowers: Millions of student-loan borrowers risk facing debt collectors who were penalized for ‘misleading’ behavior
https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-debt-transfer-to-treasury-private-collectors-trump-borrowers-2026-6

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump’s edict making 8,000 feds at-will employees draws swift outcry. Schedule Policy/Career is part of a larger effort by the president to reshape the federal government to his liking, critics warn.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-rattles-federal-workforce-with-latest-order/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Texas Landowner Finds New Lock on Oil Pipeline Gate He Thought He Controlled—Then Learns the Company Changed Hands and Locked Him Out of His Property
https://kfdm.com/news/local/southeast-texas-landowner-and-oil-company-take-legal-action-against-each-other

Ohio Supreme Court overturns permit for massive 6,000-acre solar farm after local officials fight back. “Are the township and county officials actually impacted or is it just a case of NIMBY?”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/clean-energy-project-ohio-roadblock/

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Pennsylvania Communities Are Beating Back a Wave of Water System Privatization. As corporations angle to squeeze profits out of water systems throughout Pennsylvania, towns are fighting back.
https://truthout.org/articles/pennsylvania-communities-are-beating-back-a-wave-of-water-system-privatization/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
How a Tiny Insect From China Decimated Florida’s Citrus: Florida’s wonky weather patterns (a.k.a. hurricanes) have played a small part in the disruption of citrus production, but the real culprit is much smaller — and much more lethal. Its name is the Asian citrus psyllid, and it’s caused complete mayhem in the citrus industry.
https://onlineentomology.ifas.ufl.edu/how-the-asian-citrus-psyllid-brought-the-citrus-industry-to-its-knees/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
“I’m Done Staying Silent”—Jimmy Kimmel Risks It All, Salutes Scott Pelley, and Publicly Names the Puppet Master Behind the Epstein Cover-Up!
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-defends-scott-pelley-slams-cbs-trump-suck-ups-1236766917/

Straight to the Point: The Epstein Files: Global social media is exploding with leaked confidential documents from the shocking hearing on May 29th!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ic5GSWFfaw

The Pandora Papers: Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak. The release of these files has fueled immense public scrutiny into the guardrails of the legal and financial systems that shield high-profile individuals
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/

# Gov / Politics / US
Trump RAGES after major A-List celebrities REFUSE to attend his trashy, embarrassing UFC cage fight! The president and his followers are eagerly anticipating UFC 250, a major event organised by Dana White set to take place at an “eyesore” ring erected on the South Lawn on his 80th birthday.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-snubbed-celebrities-ufc-37260618

‘The Humiliation Just Compounds’: Trump Tells Netanyahu Not to Bomb Iran, Then Israel Strikes Anyway. The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came in retaliation for Israel’s earlier bombing of Beirut.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-netanyahu-iran-2677009860

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate. Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won. A new constitutional right to discriminate, thanks to the six Republican appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court. Black voters have no rights that anyone is bound to respect.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/alabama-racial-discrimination-voting/687448/

White House correspondent fact-checks Mike Johnson’s Jan. 6 claim: They were walking through the building, destroying property, spreading feces on the walls, stealing things, rioting and threatening to kill the Vice President. But other than that . . .” Johnson’s remarks surfaced through The Intellectualist, which flagged the clip and noted the claim had already been fact-checked as false.
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2677008454/

Democrats eyeing investigations, and perhaps prosecutions, of Trump officials
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912666-democrats-trump-officials-investigations-prosecute/

A fresh voice has broken through the noise — and it’s sending MAGA insane
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/hunter-biden/

Trump’s latest crime was caught by a rolling camera
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-stock-market/

Trump just pardoned a convicted insider trader, which is terrible timing because three insider-trading stories swirl around him right now
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trump-just-pardoned-a-convicted-insider-trader-which-is-terrible-timing-because-three-insider-trading-stories-swirl-around-him-right-now/

# Politics / Global
Iran says United States’ ‘contradictory’ positions are main obstacle to deal. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran’s main issue when it comes to negotiating with the U.S. is its contradictory positions.
https://san.com/cc/iran-says-united-states-contradictory-positions-are-main-obstacle-to-deal/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
They Asked for Help. Instead, They Died in Solitary: 47 people died by suicide inside restrictive housing units in Mississippi between 2015 and 2025, investigation reveals. State corrections officials continue to send people diagnosed with mental illness, including those who say they want to kill themselves, into isolated detention despite growing evidence that such treatment exacerbates mental illness and makes suicide more likely.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/08/mississippi-prison-solitary-confinement-suicide

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Southern Poverty Law Center floats sanctions against DOJ after unsigned indictment shared with media before being filed in court
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/southern-poverty-law-center-floats-013646883.html

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Sen. Ron Johnson: “The FDA now fully admits the COVID-19 vaccines killed American children.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-covid-vaccines-children-deaths-rcna246437

Eli Lilly Poised to Suspend Drug Discounts to Large Hospitals: Eli Lilly issued an ultimatum to approximately 50 large hospitals, threatening to suspend their access to federal 340B drug discounts. The move is part of an ongoing clash over how to prevent duplicate discounts and curb perceived waste within the healthcare system
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2026/06/01/lilly-warns-hospitals-submit-claims-data-or-lose-340b-drug-discounts/

# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp
The White House Office of Management and Budget is urging Congress to “update the statutory definition of final hemp-derived cannabinoid products to allow Americans to benefit from access to appropriate full-spectrum CBD products” while restricting “products that pose serious health risks.”
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/white-house-pushes-congress-to-keep-some-hemp-products-legal-newsletter-june-8-2026/

Changes to the Statutory Definition of Hemp and Issues for Congress: . This ‘In Focus. discusses congressional actions regarding the definition of hemp, the potential effect of the new definition on the hemp industry, and selected issues for Congress.
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13136/IF13136.3.pdf

# Other Interestimg Stuff
A Drone Reached the Bottom of the Bermuda Triangle — What It Filmed Shocked Everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZGt0Z9lAc

The Great Barrier Reef Just Sent a Chemical Signal That Marine Researchers Say Has No Natural Precedent: Climate change isn’t the only existential threat to the coral that make up Australia Great Barrier Reef, it seems – a scientific team has just revealed a previously hidden chemical threat seeping out from beside and beneath the iconic reef.
https://divernet.com/scuba-news/conservation/revealed-hidden-chemical-threat-to-gbr/

Mount Rushmore Is Cracking From the Inside Out – And Engineers Say There’s No Way to Stop It.
The monument is broken down into approximately 144 mapped inconsistencies and 22 distinct rock blocks.
https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/preservation.htm

# Science / Research
The Trump administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants, giving political appointees a much larger role in funding decisions
https://share.newsbreak.com/inru5rs4

# Social / Communities / Housing
‘They found out the president was stealing all the money’: Houston residents launch petition to oust HOA board
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/homeowners-petition-remove-hoa-board-houston/

# Social Media Platforms
Can you tax social media? Illinois faces legal questions over proposed law. Facing a budget shortfall, Illinois is hoping to raise $200M by taxing social media companies based on their usage in the state.
https://san.com/cc/can-you-tax-social-media-illinois-faces-legal-questions-over-proposed-law/

Illinois’ New Social Media Tax Is a Shambles
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/illinois-social-media-tax/

# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
Oversight Committee Releases Bombshell Report Exposing Rampant Fraud Plaguing Minnesota’s Taxpayer-Funded Social Programs
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-bombshell-report-exposing-rampant-fraud-plaguing-minnesotas-taxpayer-funded-social-programs/

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Texas Community Pushes Back Against Proposed Data Center Boom: ‘If You Keep Electing Clowns, You’re Gonna Keep Getting a Circus’
https://thenerdstash.com/texas-community-pushes-back-against-proposed-data-center-boom-if-you-keep-electing-clowns-youre-gonna-keep-getting-a-circus/

AI is evolving faster than the news can tell you what’s happening
https://san.com/cc/ai-is-evolving-faster-than-the-news-can-tell-you-whats-happening/

Amazon plans 1,500-foot wells beneath Missouri town for data center set to use 50 million gallons a year. While the plan is designed to avoid affecting private wells, locals have voiced opposition to the project.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/amazon-data-center-new-florence-missouri/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-07

Voices, The Peoples News

June 7, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works
are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson, “The Prince of Abissinia”
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Texas Animal Health Commission Issues Quarantine for Zavala County, Texas Following New World Screwworm Detection
https://abc13.com/post/second-screwworm-case-texas-confirmed-abbott-expands-state-disaster-declaration/19246694/

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Trump administration’s proposed rule would limit some immigrants’ ability to legally work in the U.S; the proposed DHS rule (RIN 1615-AC98) outlines several key changes to employment authorization
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-work-permit-change-immigration-us-visa-update-12032269

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America.
Understanding this administration’s immigration policy;
* An attack on our democracy
* An attempt to overhaul the federal government
* An exercise in bending reality to match propaganda
* A maelstrom of fear and chaos in service of the administration’s policy goals
* A radical revision of America’s place in the world
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-deportation-trump-democracy/

Federal Court Rejects Trump Immigration Crackdown, Restores Processing of Immigration and Asylum Claims. The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/asylum-immigration-ruling.html

Outrage Mounts at Assaults of Journalists and Hunger Strikers at Delaney Hall. Press freedom groups and hunger strikers detail abuses and retaliation by ICE agents, police, and GEO Group staff. Protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged at demonstrators outside the jail in New Jersey.
https://truthout.org/articles/outrage-mounts-at-assaults-of-journalists-and-hunger-strikers-at-delaney-hall/

Senate Bill to Fund ICE and CBP Contains Zero Reforms to ICE. This rewards agencies “that have terrorized communities across the country,” said Amnesty International.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5911411-senate-passes-reconciliation-immigration-bill/

# Consumer Protection / Product Safety
It’s Not Your Truck Anymore. They Won. Ford has filed a series of patents between 2023 and 2026 that, taken together, describe a vehicle that listens to private conversations, scans the driver’s face and iris, and runs biometric data against outside databases including criminal records. This investigation walks through what each patent actually says, where the public reporting has it right, and what the filings reveal about the future of car ownership for people who still believe the truck in their driveway belongs to them.
https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/its-not-your-truck-anymore-they-won.719778/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Amazon Is Using AI to Disempower Workers. The US Labor Movement Must Fight Back. Amazon is using AI in terrifying ways to disempower workers. We must fight back.
https://truthout.org/articles/amazon-is-using-ai-to-disempower-workers-the-us-labor-movement-must-fight-back/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump’s Controversial Sale of Arctic Drilling Rights Draws Almost No Interest
https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/06/05/controversial-oil-lease-sale-in-alaska-wildlife-refuge-draws-limited-interest/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
‘Our soil is dying’: Texas farmer warns we may have only 50 to 80 harvests left. “The Greedy Few keep treating our land like it’s disposable.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/soil-loss-texas-farmer-warning-future-food/

Judge pauses USDA plan to tie SNAP benefits to Trump’s gender, immigration ideology. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun granted a preliminary injunction against the USDA’s requirements. Twenty states and D.C. argued the terms threatened low-income family programs.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/6/federal-judge-pauses-trump-administrations-snap-restrictions/

# General News
Backlash Grows Over Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Plan to Develop One of the Mediterranean’s Last Untouched Islands. Local protests erupted over environmental concerns for birds, turtles, and sea life.
https://parade.com/news/backlash-grows-over-ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-plan-to-develop-one-of-the-mediterraneans-last-untouched-islands

# Gov / Politics / US
30 cases will determine the future of our elections. It is no exaggeration to say that their outcome may determine whether Trump can steal the 2026 midterm elections.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/these-30-cases-will-determine-the-future-of-our-elections/

A key group that helped power Trump’s 2024 comeback may now decide whether Republicans suffer a stunning upset in Texas
https://thehill.com/video/republican-midterm-concerns-rise-after-election-upset-in-texas/11484758/

Trump Deports Hundreds Who Fled War He Dodged. Trump dodged the Vietnam War draft five times—and now … he’s deporting refugees from that conflict at five times the pace of Biden
https://thepunchup.substack.com/p/trump-deporting-hundreds-of-people

Former Trump Staffer Says Bondi ‘Laid The Groundwork’ For Todd Blanche To Have ‘Difficult Confirmation’
https://grabien.com/story?id=592700

‘Newsflash— it’s not working’: MS NOW dumps more bad news in Trump’s lap. Trump sees his slate of D.C. vanity projects a “welcome distraction” from an ongoing affordability crisis, but MS NOW slammed the idea. “Americans are not getting on board with this distraction,” Traylor said. “Even if it is something that’s working in the president’s mind right now.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-projects-on-ms-now/

‘A lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there’: Trump orders fresh purge of officials. President Donald Trump has instructed Bill Pulte, the controversial new acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), to execute sweeping personnel cuts across the nation’s 18 federal intelligence agencies and units before a permanent successor is confirmed.
https://www.rawstory.com/pulte-trump/

How Constitutional Liberties Are Being Erased By Hidden Algorithms: Surveillance technologies come in many guises, including closed-circuit television, automated license plate and facial readers, aerial cameras, and GPS tracking. Also classifiable as surveillance technology are devices such as thermal and electromagnetic imagers that can “see” through walls and clothing. Finally, surveillance includes wiretapping and other forms of communication interception.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10704392/

The Constitution Leaves No Room for Secret Law. There are still many questions to be answered about Yahoo’s secret scanning of all of its customers’ incoming emails under a mysterious government order.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/constitution-leaves-no-room-secret-law

# Politics / Global
New Iraqi leader promises security deals for U.S. oil companies ahead of Trump meeting. Iraqi civilian authorities say they would compensate international and U.S companies for losses resulting from attacks on their facilities if they originated within Iraq.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/sunnew-iraqi-leader-seeks-security-deals-back-pay-us-oil-companies

Russia Moves To Lower Working Age to 12 and Revive Soviet Child Labor Camps as Ukraine War Drains Workforce to Historic Lows. “The Return of Labor Camps Is a Realistic Scenario That Our Children Will Support”
https://share.newsbreak.com/injl9hhp

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Families of Victims Who Died From Heat in Prison Fight to Prevent More Deaths. Over 200,000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas.
https://truthout.org/articles/families-of-victims-who-died-from-heat-in-prison-fight-to-prevent-more-deaths/

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Texas Children’s Hospital says it has no more ‘viable options’ to treat toddler who nearly drowned. Annelise Camp’s case caught statewide attention after Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday on social media that he was “closely monitoring” the situation. “Annelise Camp is fighting for her life and deserves a medical team that will fight just as hard,” Paxton said. “I’m calling on Texas Children’s to prioritize the treatment her family is seeking or allow adequate time to transfer her to a hospital that will.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/texas-childrens-hospital-says-no-230722729.html

# Military / Global
Shootings erupt near West Bank, killing at least 1 and injuring 5 Israel’s rescue services say
https://www.news10.com/news/international/ap-1-dead-and-5-wounded-in-shootings-near-the-west-bank-israels-rescue-services-say/

# Other Interestimg Stuff
Archaeologists Found SECRET Chambers Beneath the Sphinx. What lies beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza? Are there hidden chambers or ancient secrets being kept from the public? In this deep dive, we explore the mysteries under the Sphinx, ancient tunnels, and controversial theories that suggest there’s more than meets the eye. Discover what scientists, researchers, and historians have uncovered—and what might still be hidden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7UfEQB2tf8

Drilling under the Sphinx (Featuring Dr Zahi Hawass and Dr Mark Lehner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qGzfZHWbZE

# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability
10,000 Boomers a day, $39 trillion in debt, and no benefit cuts: Bessent stakes Social Security on the Trump economy. “In our plan,” Bessent vowed, “the senior citizen does not pay more taxes and the senior citizen does not get less benefits.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/10-000-boomers-day-39-153812949.html

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday that calls for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence, while acknowledging the need to protect civil liberties and maintain oversight over autonomous weapon systems.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-calls-military-accelerate-ai-213905083.html

Candidate for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture warns AI data centers could drain water and drive up power bills. Dozens of communities across the state have been pushing back against data centers, and farmers are weighing in. Concerns continue to grow over the amount of water these projects require. Spectrum News has reported on county judges pushing for moratoriums to limit the growth of data centers. Now, the Texas Farmers Union is also calling for a halt to data center growth.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2026/04/15/texas-agriculture-commissioner-candidate-on-data-centers

‘Trying to take advantage of country bumpkins’: Texas counties say they can’t stop 248 planned data centers. The tension escalated after Hood County enacted a one-year building pause in its unincorporated areas. County commissioners said Texas law leaves them without the authority to set substantial limits on Brazos River basin water withdrawals, noise from generators, or potential effects on nearby property values.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/hood-county-data-centers-texas-ai-internet-tech-companies/

What if the next computer isn’t a computer? Microsoft pulled back the curtain this week on Project Solara, a new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, built on Android, designed to go places a phone or PC can’t, and headed to pilots with Best Buy, CVS Health, Target and others. A behind-the-scenes look at two concept devices: a desktop hub that recognizes your face and surfaces your day’s priorities, and a wearable badge that records conversations and runs agents tailored to a specific job.
https://www.zdnet.com/video/your-next-computer-isnt-a-computer-microsoft-build-2026/

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-06

Voices, The Peoples News

June 6, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
‘Recipe for disaster’: Alarm as unearthed ICE plan stokes fears of ‘terrorizing’ Americans: An unearthed internal document revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to arm over 1,200 local police departments with a facial recognition app. Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm, calling the deployment of unregulated scanning technology a “recipe for disaster” that will empower officers to track anyone without warrants, consent, or notice
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-local-cops-facial-scanning/

Immigrant families in Texas have gone into hiding after latest Trump administration policy. The order has caused fear and uncertainty among immigrant communities in Texas, leading to families going into hiding and impacting international students studying at colleges and universities. Sara and her family, who had spent nearly a decade building a life in the U.S., now face the possibility of deportation and separation as a result of the changing immigration policies under the Trump administration.
https://www.crossroadstoday.com/news/immigrant-families-in-texas-have-gone-into-hiding-after-latest-trump-administration-policy/article_686b6a17-17e7-40a7-9f9d-d573d2c83c72.html

Judge orders Trump to restart asylum and immigration applications. A judge ordered the Trump administration to restart asylum and immigration processing after it left some migrants living in the U.S. in legal limbo.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-asylum-citizenship-10591d120e5cb13da736d9eeb06757c8

Federal Court Vacates Trump-Vance Administration Policies Targeting Immigrants Based on Country of Origin
https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/federal-court-vacates-trump-vance-administration-policies-targeting-immigrants-based-on-country-of-origin/

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees say guards deny them food and clean water until they sign English documents. “They’ve taken reprisals with us for not taking that paper, not signing that paper. They took away the water and medicine to people who need medication. Today the medicine came very late, but here we have people here who are diabetic, one here with high blood pressure.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-denied-food-water

Trump’s DOGE team wanted to declare nearly 3 million living people dead to help drive out migrants, whistleblower claims. The plan, which was never implemented, would have placed individuals, including U.S. citizens, into the Social Security Administration’s “Death Master File,” potentially impacting their access to wages, benefits, and banking services.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doge-team-wanted-declare-143220150.html

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Trump Moved to Eliminate Chemical Safety Board Before Deadly Spill Killed 11. Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents. New polling shows even 82 percent of Trump supporters want stronger federal protections from toxic pollution.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5902007-chemical-plant-disasters-trump-epa/

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
Sen. Ted Cruz Chairs a Commerce Hearing Examining the Impact of Technology on America’s Youth. Sen. Cruz says he ‘is glad’ officials are reviewing billion-dollar school internet program after research found that excessive screen time is linked to lower grades
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/videos/watch/sen-ted-cruz-chairs-a-commerce-hearing-examining-the-impact-of-technology-on-americas-youth

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Unions Condemn Executive Order Allowing Trump to Replace Federal Workers With ‘Political Loyalists.’ President Trump’s executive order betrays a foundational American value: that our government works for the people, not for one man’s political agenda.
https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-condemns-executive-order-replace-federal-workers-political-loyalists

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Ken Paxton files first lawsuit against rooftop solar industry: Attorney General Ken Paxton sued CAM Solar Inc. (“CAM Solar”) for engaging in fraudulent and deceptive practices in its sale of solar panel systems. CAM Solar is headquartered in San Antonio and markets and sells solar panel systems throughout Texas.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-san-antonio-based-solar-company-fraudulent-sales-solar-panel

‘Hands Off the Arctic,’ Say Wilderness Defenders as Trump Holds Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Sale.
“Some places are too important to sacrifice,” said one Indigenous leader as the Trump administration invited fossil fuel companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/anwr-oil-gas-lease-sale

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
House GOP, With Help of 4 Dems, Votes to Take Food Aid From Millions of Women and Kids. “While working families struggle to feed their families, Republicans are cutting funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants, and children.” The House was able to strip millions from the WIC program meant to help pregnant women and kids.
https://newrepublic.com/post/211416/democrats-republicans-wic-food-aid-pregnant-women-children

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Anna Paulina Luna Discusses Why She Thinks Epstein Was an Intelligence Agent and Trump Opposed Releasing the Files
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/anna-paulina-luna-discusses-why-she-thinks-epstein-was-an-intelligence-agent-and-trump-opposed-releasing-the-files/

Pam Bondi Finally Breaks Silence on Why Howard Lutnick Photo Vanished From Epstein File Release
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pam-bondi-explains-why-howard-lutnick-photo-was-excluded-from-epstein-records/vi-AA24VH59

Jeffrey Epstein Death Bombshell: Ex-Correctional Officer Gives Chilling Testimony on Mysterious Figure Seen Near His Cell Before Suicide. Despite official ruling of suicide, speculation continues due to technical failures in surveillance and unanswered questions about the mysterious orange figure.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/testimony-raises-questions-figure-seen-195934807.html

# Gov / Politics / US
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https://note.jervisfamily.com/posts/i-aint-sweatn-losing-fans-neil-young-drops-explosive-ultimatum-phuongluu123-team-clover-02d6

Trump Is Liquidating the United States: ‘The Country Is Not Trump’s to Liquidate’: New Report Details Depths of Presidential Corruption and Grift. “Americans know they’re being ripped off and are demanding accountability.” The American Economic Liberties Project and Groundwork Collaborative released a joint report detailing how President Donald Trump’s unprecedented corruption is padding his own pockets at the expense of US taxpayers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-corruption-report

Four Senate Republicans Block SAVE Act in Latest Split With Trump as Fellow GOP Senator Says They ‘Betrayed Their Constituents.’ Republican senators joined Democrats to block another effort to advance President Donald Trump’s voter ID and election overhaul legislation, marking the latest instance this week in which GOP lawmakers have broken with a major White House-backed initiative.
https://www.latintimes.com/four-senate-republicans-block-save-act-latest-split-trump-fellow-gop-senator-says-they-betrayed-597757

Cornyn refuses to back down after primary loss, says Paxton’s nomination could complicate Republican efforts to hold the Senate
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5905200-cornyn-paxton-texas-senate-runoff/

Leaked Documents Raise Alarm Over Trump Administration’s Use of Military-Grade Tools to Monitor Domestic Political Dissidents
https://www.rawstory.com/israel-2677007113/

Federal Court Hears Challenge to Trump Executive Order Restricting Mail-in Ballots. Voting rights groups say order is unlawful, warn of mass disenfranchisement
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-hears-challenge-to-trump-executive-order-restricting-mail-in-ballots

‘Pay-to-Play Loyalty Program’: Trump Ballroom Donors Have Been Handed $50 Billion in Federal Contracts.
“Corporations wrote big checks to build Trump’s golden ballroom,” said Rep. Jason Crow. “Now they’re receiving billions of dollars in kickbacks—paid for by your tax dollars.”
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ballroom-donors-federal-contracts-b2990596.html

# Politics / Global
Underwater tunnel from Russia to Alaska will be built: Russia’s presidential envoy says that the country and the United States will sign an agreement Friday to continue designing an underwater tunnel connecting Russia’s Chukotka region to Alaska across the Bering Strait. Kirill Dmitriev made the announcement Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/underwater-tunnel-russia-alaska-putin/

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting on the 4-year-old conflict, saying he sees “no point” in it. The Russian leader insisted military action would only stop after Moscow achieves its ‘goals.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/russias-putin-says-no-point-meeting-ukraines-zelenskyy-for-now

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Three Americans arrested on charges they were helping fund ISIS
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-arrested-kansas-and-california-charged-plot-support-isis

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Federal judge refuses to block Trump order to create federal voter list and limit mail voting. A federal judge has declined to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail voting, clearing the way for potential sweeping changes in how American elections are run shortly before this year’s midterm elections.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-refuses-to-block-trump-order-to-create-federal-voter-list-and-limit-mail-voting

The Supreme Court Is Illegitimate: Whatever meager shred of legitimacy the U.S. Supreme Court had went up in flames with its shadow docket decision allowing Alabama to move forward with a racially discriminatory congressional map with no time for election administrators to prepare.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-alabama-voting-rights_n_6a22b848e4b0a18aef0b7ba7

Trump Lawyers Refuse to Provide Financial Records in $10B BBC Lawsuit. Trump is suing the publicly funded British broadcaster, claiming it defamed him by “intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively” editing two parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech to make it seem as though he had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-lawyers-refuse-financial-records-142119171.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
“This story is going to get you a gun in your face.” George Santos, to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn. ‘He was boiling with rage.’ George Santos Is Under Investigation for Insider Trading on Kalshi
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5911806-npr-bobby-allyn-george-santos-heated-talks-insider-trading-doj/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Trump’s New Medicaid Rule ‘Designed to Ensure People Lose Healthcare,’ Critics Warn. States will have some discretion to decide which medical conditions qualify, but the new rules implicitly link the definition of medical frailty to a person’s ability to work.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5906718-medcaid-work-requirements-rule/

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Texas leads U.S. in children without health insurance, Georgetown University study shows. Nearly 11% of Texas children under the age of 6 did not have health insurance in 2024, up from 7.9% in 2022
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/06/02/texas-leads-u.s.-in-children-without-health-insurance-georgetown-university-study-shows/

Justice Jackson Pens Unanimous Decision Backed by SCOTUS Conservatives. The justices ruled 9-0 in Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., reversing a lower court decision and sending the case back for further proceedings, marking a rare moment of full agreement on a court often portrayed as ideologically divided.
https://www.newsweek.com/justice-jackson-unanimous-supreme-court-ruling-generic-drugs-12032495

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
House panel demands more information on military firings
The move comes after the dismissal of multiple uniformed military leaders since President Donald Trump took office. Pentagon officials would have five days to tell Congress why senior uniformed military leaders had been dismissed or fired under a provision adopted by a House panel Thursday.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/04/congress/house-panel-demands-more-information-on-military-firings-00950405

U.S. intercepts Iranian ballistic missiles targeting Kuwait and Bahrain. According to CENTCOM, an initial assessment indicated that six of the missiles were intercepted and a seventh failed before hitting anything.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-898513

Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia. The decision is part of a broader American retrenchment from the NATO alliance.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/us-germany-tomahawks-missiles-cancel-00950284

Trump has a new GOP loyalty test — but voters might actually like it this time
https://www.alternet.org/trump-loyalty-2677003310/

# Other Interestimg Stuff
Scientists Just Discovered Something Still Alive Inside Ötzi the Iceman 5,300 Years Later. Researchers found cold-loving microbes still reproducing inside the 5,300-year-old mummy, turning the famous Iceman into a living laboratory.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-just-discovered-something-still-alive-inside-otzi-the-iceman-5300-years-later/

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Anthropic Scared, Calls for Global Freeze on AI Advances. They’re (supposedly) very freaked out. But we’ve heard this one before.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-scared-calls-global-freeze-ai

Kevin O’Leary Pleads With Locals to Allow His Massive Data Center If He Shrinks It Down to the Size of One Manhattan
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/943234/kevin-oleary-agrees-to-downsize-massive-utah-data-center

# UFO / UAP Disclosure
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out methane, here’s why that’s weird. After comet 3I/ATLAS reached perihelion, JWST took another look and detected methane on an interstellar object for the first time.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-is-blasting-out-a-bunch-of-methane-heres-why-thats-weird

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-05

Voices, The Peoples News

June 5, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
‘Even after death, you can’t escape deportation’: North Carolina judge orders deportation of 19yo murder victim killed in 2024. According to the judge, there were “no exceptional circumstances” stopping the murdered teen from appearing in court.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/even-after-death-you-cant-escape-deportation-north-carolina-judge-orders-deportation-of-17yo-murder-victim-killed-in-2024/

Trump promised deportations would protect American jobs. Brookings said ICE raids have cost the economy over 668,000 of them. A recent study from Brookings found that ICE arrests shocked local economies and drove unemployment.
https://www.newsbreak.com/?s=newsbreak.com_errorpage_desktop&err=%2Fshare%2F4691853829201–

‘Enraged’ Olivia Rodrigo ‘Deeply Disturbed’ After Her Song Was Used to Promote ‘Barbaric’ ICE Deportations. “What they’re doing is so awful and barbaric and cruel. I am really sad to be in a country that thinks that’s OK.”
https://deadline.com/2026/06/olivia-rodrigo-enraged-ice-using-her-song-1236941565/

ICE funding vote-a-rama kicks off. The Senate voted to begin debate on a narrow budget reconciliation package by a vote of 53-46, triggering the statutorily required 20 hours of debate. The bill provides $72 billion in funding through fiscal year (FY) 2035 for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
https://www.bhfs.com/insight/senate-kicks-off-vote-a-rama-on-dhs-funding-package/

Senate passes Trump’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, doesn’t ban weaponization fund
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-grapple-with-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund-ice-funding-vote-2026-06-04/

ICE reports 114 arrests in two South Carolina raids: It’s the latest effort in South Carolina to further crack down on immigration enforcement, which has ramped up under President Donald Trump’s second term.
https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/news/ice-sled-south-carolina-highway-arrests/article_42304526-68d2-42aa-913c-7becba8aa6ee.html

ICE to stop reporting deaths of individuals newly released from detention, internal memo says: The news comes as former Geo Group executive David Venturella takes the helm of ICE as acting director, and follows record numbers of deaths in ICE custody. ICE to only report ‘deaths that occur while an individual is in agency custody,’ says acting ICE director
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-immigration-officials-to-stop-reporting-deaths-of-recently-released-detainees-report/3957107

ICE detainee who spoke out about conditions in Moshannon was punished, transferred. An ICE detainee was put in solitary confinement, then transferred out of state after the private contractor that runs a Pennsylvania detention center claimed he encouraged others to refuse meals to protest conditions, a report obtained by Spotlight PA and WITF reveals.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/ice-detainee-spoke-conditions-moshannon-211226574.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
The DOJ Gave Trump’s Family IRS Audit Immunity. The Treasury Secretary Won’t Discuss It. “There’s continuing litigation, and I’m unable to comment on ongoing litigation,” Bessent told lawmakers at the Senate Finance Committee hearing.
https://apnews.com/article/treasury-scott-bessent-trump-irs-audit-immunity-d8723d90229829a12d0f5f9724a7ecfe

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump announces $700 million investment to support coal plants and build export terminal. The plan would upgrade 13 coal plants, build new plants in Alaska and West Virginia, restart a shuttered Maryland plant and, for the first time, export U.S. coal from a terminal in California.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-04/trump-invokes-emergency-powers-to-invest-700-million-in-coal-including-new-export-terminal-in-california

A drainage ditch and Tesla’s lithium refinery reveal Texas’ permissive permitting for industrial wastewater
https://www.tpr.org/environment/2026-06-03/a-drainage-ditch-and-teslas-lithium-refinery-reveal-texas-permissive-permitting-for-industrial-wastewaters

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Trump is using fees from national parks passes to fund supersized $1.6M DC fireworks display: $90M in entry fees are being steered to the costly aerial spectacle celebrating the nation’s 250th Independence Day
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-national-park-pass-fireworks-july-4-b2988784.html

Will Google release millions of bacteria-infested mosquitoes into US states? The technology company’s proposal for mosquito population control isn’t quite as dramatic as it sounds. When a male mosquito carrying wolbachia bacteria mates with a wild female, her eggs do not hatch, meaning population sizes decrease. Wolbachia bacteria cannot make humans or animals sick, and the risk to the environment from large-scale releases is negligible. At the time of this writing, the EPA had not granted Google permission for either proposed release. Therefore, we leave this claim unrated.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/06/03/google-bacteria-mosquitoes/

People aren’t happy about Google’s plan to release millions of bioengineered mosquitoes into the wild, Can’t imagine why. “Ask yourself who is to benefit most from this, and why is it being done?”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/google-mosquitoes

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
U.S. House narrowly passes bill to fund USDA, FDA in 2027. Less than four months before fiscal year 2027 begins, the U.S. House passed the second of the 12 annual appropriations bills that will fund the federal government.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3dec21d8-8f8c-4061-9af9-d1ed943e48de.html

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein assistant, Sarah Kellen, planning tell-all book — but fears giving away ‘get out of jail free’ card. Sarah Kellen began working as the late pedophile’s assistant in 2001 and worked for him for about 15 years. She also worked closely with his girlfriend, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/03/society/jeffrey-epstein-assistant-sarah-kellen-planning-tell-all-book-but-fears-giving-away-get-out-of-jail-free-card/

House committee refers duo for criminal prosecution after hearing from Epstein survivors. Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai are among the first names to emerge from the investigation
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-committee-philip-levine-frederic-fekkai-b2989698.html

# Gov / Politics / US
‘There is no longer a Voting Rights Act in America.’ The Supreme Court’s conservative majority delivered a final blow to the VRA this week when it allowed Alabama to use a congressional map previously found to have discriminated against Black voters. The erosion of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) happened in key stages: The “Preclearance” Erasure (2013); Gutting Section 2 (2021); Eliminating Protections in Redistricting (2026)
https://campaignlegal.org/update/us-supreme-court-has-eviscerated-voting-rights-act-whats-next

New York lays the groundwork for 2028 redistricting. We’re starting to learn some details about Democrats’ plan to redraw New York maps in response to Trump’s redistricting war. The party will amend the New York state constitution to allow the legislature to redraw the maps mid-decade by a simple majority vote.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2026/new-york-democrats-take-first-steps-toward-an-aggressive-2028-redistricting-plan/

Callais plaintiffs are already trying to eliminate Louisiana’s remaining majority Black district: Will Louisiana’s last majority-Black district survive Callais? A court will decide
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/will-louisiana-last-majority-black-district-survive-callais-a-court-will-decide/

Six Republicans vote against White House ballroom. A proposal sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to block the construction of President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom unless Congress authorizes the project.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5910606-gop-senators-trump-white-house-ballroom-amendment/

Trump Is Coming Apart. He Won’t Be Able to Put It Back Together: Donald Trump is facing severe, compounding political and institutional crises, including an abandoned $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, congressional pushback on war powers regarding Iran, and declining public approval. Critics and former allies have pointed to rising instability in his coalition, policy reversals, and erratic behavior
https://michaelwolffnyc.substack.com/p/trump-is-coming-apart-he-wont-be

More than a dozen House Republicans help Democrats pass Ukraine aid package. Eighteen Republicans broke ranks to help pass the military assistance and Russia sanctions.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/04/congress/ukraine-aid-package-passes-house-00951299

Trump goes on midnight ‘lawfare’ tear demanding past prosecutions be ‘dismissed’: ‘I am an innocent man.’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-goes-on-midnight-lawfare-tear-demanding-past-prosecutions-be-dismissed-i-am-an-innocent-man/

Trump Makes It Official: The ‘Freedom 250’ Concerts Are Canceled to Be Replaced With ‘the Greatest Rally EVER!,’ Starring Him and (Surprise) Lee Greenwood. The rally will feature performances from MAGA-stalwart Lee Greenwood, tenor Christopher Macchio, and U.S. military bands, followed by a headlining speech by Trump himself
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/trump-cancels-freedom-250-concerts-rally-lee-greenwood-1236767406/

Trump faces impeachment threat as experts warn of ‘Democratic wave’ in midterms
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trump-faces-impeachment-threat-experts-1869913

# Politics / Global
Zelenskyy Sends Extraordinary Open Letter to Putin, Proposes Face-to-Face Meeting and Full Ceasefire to End Five Years of Full-Scale War. “This War Is Your Personal Choice — A War Without a Real Cause”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2ypyp4x4o

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Jasmine Crockett Calls for Supreme Court Expansion Amid Voting Rights Battles. “This court is racist, this court is immoral, and this court lacks any semblance of ethics,” Crockett declared during her remarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCTjKB-1xUM

Trump’s Department of Justice indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly funneling over $3 million to violent extremist groups from 2014 to 2023. Funds raised to “dismantle” hate groups were instead paid to leaders in the National Alliance ($1M), Aryan Nations ($300K), and ex-KKK members ($73K)
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/splc-charged-with-paying-neo-nazis-while-smearing/id1280961263?i=1000763265475

Who Would Jesus Kill? Abortion-as-religion court ruling opens door to legal murder, critics warn. Religious liberty scholars warn Indiana Supreme Court that “that no state could prohibit any religiously motivated homicide – stoning, honor killing, child sacrifice,” under logic of lower court ruling.
https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/who-would-jesus-kill-abortion-religion-court-ruling-opens-door-legal-murder-critics

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
USPS raising stamp prices again. Here’s when they take effect: U.S. Postal Service Recommends New Prices for July. The U.S. Postal Service today filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) of mailing services price changes to take effect on July 12. The new rates include a 4-cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2026/0409-usps-recommends-new-prices-for-july.htm

USPS financial crisis won’t be solved until Congress defines its service mission, regulator testifies. At a hearing Thursday, lawmakers also expressed doubt about a proposal from U.S. Postal Service leaders to raise the agency’s statutory debt limit.
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2026/06/usps-financial-crisis-wont-be-solved-until-congress-defines-its-service-mission-regulator-testifies/413977/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
New York dad shares a UnitedHealthcare letter addressed directly to his newborn daughter denying coverage for her NICU stay. The insurance company apparently sent a formal letter denying coverage for a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay. The letter was addressed directly to one of the couple’s newborn twin daughters “Baby Girl Twin A,” rather than to her parents.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/new-york-dad-shares-a-unitedhealthcare-letter-addressed-directly-to-his-newborn-daughter-denying-coverage-for-her-nicu-stay/

New Medicaid Work Rules Will Require 80 Hours a Month, Sick Americans Must Prove They Qualify for Exemptions. The work requirement applies to non-pregnant adults between 19 and 64 years of age who are not entitled to or enrolled in Medicare and who are eligible for or enrolled in the Medicaid adult group.
https://www.empr.com/news/millions-on-medicaid-may-soon-have-to-prove-theyre-working-to-keep-coverage/

# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
RFK Jr.’s health department is seeking Americans’ medical records. The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking data from little-known state systems that allow hospitals and clinics to exchange detailed, identifiable patient information, KFF Health News has learned.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/health/medical-records-vaccines-autism

Alzheimer’s patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in groundbreaking drug trial. After a decade of cognitive and functional decline, an 80-year-old patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease showed remarkable signs of recovery. Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms, has previously been touted as an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD — but now researchers say it has the potential to be used in Alzheimer’s intervention as well.
https://www.aol.com/articles/alzheimer-patient-gets-back-speech-140553000.html

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
A new service branch could be joining the U.S. Armed Forces family: If established, the proposed Cyber Force would be established as an independent branch of the U.S. Armed Forces — with “force generation responsibilities” to “man, train and equip” comparable to existing military services such as the Army, Air Force and Navy.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/06/04/cyber-force-report/#:~:text=If%20established%2C%20the%20proposed%20Cyber,Army%2C%20Air%20Force%20and%20Navy.

The Pentagon has gutted its civilian workforce under Trump. The cuts were haphazard, watchdog says
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2026/6/2/just-in-pentagon-has-not-properly-assessed-workforce-reductions-report-finds

America’s secret civilian killings echo one of its darkest chapters. The U.S. never reckoned with torture. Now it’s killing civilians at sea. The Trump administration has killed the 200th civilian in its military strikes against small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/04/americas-secret-civilian-killings-echo-one-of-its-darkest-chapters/

# NASA / NORAD / Space
SpaceX plans to raise $75 billion in its IPO, which could make Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-tesla-elon-musk-ipo-public-offering-6490112997adcbc47235479685a89b72

# Space / Global
Japan Sent a Probe to Collect Samples From an Asteroid. That Asteroid Might Actually Be a Derelict Soviet Spacecraft. The mysterious object known as 1998 KY26 could be a tiny asteroid, a dark comet, or maybe one very lost Soviet probe.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/japan-sent-a-probe-to-collect-samples-from-an-asteroid-that-asteroid-might-actually-be-a-derelict-soviet-spacecraft/

# Other Interestimg Stuff
This new species of jellyfish has been hiding in plain sight — and it’s extremely dangerous. It belongs to the Chironex genus, widely known as “sea wasps.” Their venom is capable of causing fatal cardiac arrest in humans in a matter of minutes.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-species-of-venomous-box-jellyfish-discovered-off-the-coast-of-sentosa

# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability
Social Security recipients could see their monthly income slashed by an average of $500 starting in 2032. This reduction stems from the projected depletion of the program’s retirement trust fund. If Congress fails to enact legislation to shore up the program’s finances, benefits would face an automatic 24% cut to align payouts with incoming payroll tax revenue
https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5908336-why-social-security-checks-could-be-500-less-each-month-by-2032/

Over 7,100 Social Security Administration employees exit, leaving ‘cases stuck in purgatory.’ The departures, which reduced the agency’s workforce by more than 13%, came alongside office consolidations, expanded use of artificial intelligence tools and a push to move more services online.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/business/social-security-administration-fires-7100-staffers-in-historic-cuts-leaving-cases-stuck-in-purgatory/

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Mayor Caught on Camera Saying the Only Voters Who Oppose Data Centers Are Disgusting Poor People. If nothing else, it certainly says something about who’s actually in favor of data centers. It’s never been more obvious that the pro data center camp is completely out of touch.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mayor-calls-data-center-critics-disgusting-poor-people

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to leave Microsoft board after nearly a decade
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/linkedin-co-founder-reid-hoffman-to-leave-microsoft-board-after-nearly-a-decade/

Samsung to relocate New Jersey operations to Texas, costing Garden State 1,000 jobs. “As part of this strategy, we will be optimizing parts of the organization to ensure our roles and functions align to key business priorities. We recognize such adjustments will have an impact on our people and we will be providing support to those affected,” it continued.
https://slashdot.org/story/26/06/04/0540213/samsung-ditches-new-jersey-for-texas-costing-garden-state-1000-jobs

# Veterans / VA
The VA just added hypertension, hypothyroidism, and monoclonal gammopathy to the Agent Orange presumptive list. Vietnam-era veterans denied for these can file again without re-proving service connection
https://share.newsbreak.com/imx32cr0

VA expands list of illnesses presumed to have been caused by Agent Orange. It will review and pay retroactive benefits to veterans and survivors whose VA disability and death benefits claims for the three diseases were previously denied, without requiring them to refile their claims.
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/veterans-benefits/2021/june/va-expands-list-of-illnesses-presumed-to-have-been-caused-by-agent-orange

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Trump Congratulated Him on His Freedom. Alligator Alcatraz Left Him With a Stroke. The six months Justo Betancourt spent at the Everglades camp “broke me mentally and emotionally.” With little warning, he was being released in the middle of the night. Once 55-year-old Betancourt got in the car, guards ordered them to leave immediately. His wrists and ankles were bruised from the shackles he wore during his detention, and his speech seemed slurred. Arianne noticed her father’s speech had worsened. She drove him to a nearby emergency room, where he was admitted, and doctors confirmed he had suffered a stroke while in detention.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-congratulated-him-on-his-freedom-alligator-alcatraz-left-him-with-a-stroke/

ICE’s Delaney Hall is being slammed with lawsuits. The converted prison “should be closed because of health and human safety,” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/ice-dhs-delaney-hall-baraka-sherrill-lawsuit-shutdown-strike-detainees/

Trump Administration Drawing Up Plans To Halt Immigration And Customs Processing At Sanctuary City Airports: Posts claim DHS plans to halt international flights to sanctuary cities. Here’s what we know. Travel industry insiders said an alleged DHS plan to stop immigration processing in sanctuary cities could lead to canceled or redirected flights.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/06/02/international-flights-sanctuary-cities-dhs/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump Admin Appeals Court Order to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs
The Trump administration has appealed a court order requiring U.S. customs authorities to refund roughly $166 billion in tariffs that the Supreme Court previously ruled were unlawfully imposed
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-admin-moves-delay-tariff-224242202.html

Nearly Half of Households Can’t Make Ends Meet. Affordability has been a politically potent word, but an ill-defined measure of financial pain, often used as a reference to inflated prices.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/americans-aren-t-just-on-the-financial-edge-because-of-inflation-wages-are-falling-behind-too

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science. “We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics.” As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level understanding of math and other subjects.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-professors-incoming-students-no-190105106.html

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Toshiba International Corporation’s Houston location is laying off 67 workers
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/toshiba-houston-lay-offs-22287409.php

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Gulf Coast is becoming America’s emergency fuel hub, study shows: The U.S. Gulf Coast is becoming the country’s “emergency fuel hub” following the Trump administration’s suspension of parts of the Jones Act, a federal law that restricts shipments of energy-related cargoes between domestic ports to American-flagged vessels, according to analyses of maritime data.
https://americanpress.com/2026/06/02/gulf-coast-is-becoming-americas-emergency-fuel-hub-study-shows/

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
‘Gift to Corporate Polluters’: Republicans Advance Massive Assault on Wildlife and EPA. “This morally bankrupt bill will only lead to dirtier air, more toxic water, and countless species shoved over the extinction cliff,” said one wildlife defender.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-slashes-epa-funding

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
House Dem Confronts Trump Ag Secretary Over Claim That 4.5 Million Being Kicked Off SNAP is ‘Good News.’ “The reality is that 4.5 million people were kicked off the program to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy,” said US Rep. Shontel Brown.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-rollins-shontel-brown

Democrat confronts Trump agriculture secretary on ‘totally screwed over’ farmers. Brooke Rollins faced a grilling by House Democrats over sweeping cuts to food assistance and how the Iran war’s impact on fertilizer prices has hurt American farmers.
https://www.ms.now/news/rollins-grilled-by-house-democrats-over-snap-cuts-iran-war

Plant closures and layoffs hit America’s biggest food brands in 2026: Major food manufacturers are slashing jobs and closing facilities across the U.S. as rising costs, shifting consumer habits, and automation reshape the industry. Since January 2026, some of the biggest names in food and beverage have announced plant closures, restructuring efforts, and mass layoffs affecting thousands of workers nationwide.
https://foodinstitute.com/focus/rolling-layoffs-hit-food-manufacturers-as-profit-pressures-intensify/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
House Oversight releases transcripts of Bondi, Epstein prison guard interviews. Bondi was criticized by lawmakers and survivors over the release of the files, particularly over redactions that some argue protect wrongdoers.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/pam-bondi-epstien-inteview-transcript-released/

# Gov / Politics / US
‘The Country Is Not Trump’s to Liquidate’: New Report Details Depths of Presidential Corruption and Grift. “Americans know they’re being ripped off and are demanding accountability.” The report details how Trump is abusing his position to direct taxpayer-funded kickbacks to his family and political allies, exacerbating the economic strain and high prices faced by working families.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-corruption-report

John Bolton to plead guilty to retaining classified information:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ex-national-security-adviser-john-144633682.html

Talarico Suggests Republicans Don’t Dignify People with Chromosomal Abnormalities. When asked about his past statements regarding human biology, Talarico clarified his view by stating: “I know there are two sexes, men and women. I also know there is a very small percentage of people who have these chromosomal abnormalities, and I believe they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/02/talarico-suggests-republicans-dont-dignify-people-with-chromosomal-abnormalities/

Trump’s proposed victory arch will have an observation deck – but a big question mark hangs over how to reach it. The proposed 250-foot structure has been a source of controversy for months
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-arch-observation-deck-dc-b2988978.html

Kristi Noem’s replacement leaves senators ‘freaked out’ after refusing to commit to complying with court orders: Markwayne Mullin, Kristi Noem’s replacement as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), stunned senators after repeatedly refusing to clearly commit to obeying court orders blocking the agency’s actions during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on DHS’ 2027 budget request on Tuesday, June 2.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kristi-noem-replacement-leaves-senators-023202684.html

‘It debases the democratic process.’ Sotomayor slams Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling. The fallout continues after the Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that it had already ruled was created by intentionally discriminating against Black Alabamians.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-alabama-ruling/

Warren Demands Answers on Trump’s Shady Stock Trades: Citing Shady Stock Trades, Warren Asks Bessent If SEC Should ‘Be Knocking on President Trump’s Door.’ “Instead of draining the swamp, what Donald Trump is doing is he is enriching himself by taking advantage of his position,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “That is not public service.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/warren-trump-stock-trades

Trump: ‘We don’t lose wars. We just stay for 15 years, bomb the hell out of everybody and nobody knows why we’re there’
https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trump-talking-about-pointless-war/5197814

Screen Icon Richard Gere’s Warning About ‘Maniac’ Trump Takes A Dark Historical Turn. “Whoever thought America could turn like this? Whoever thought that a maniac like this would be president of the United States?” he added.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-gere-donald-trump-warning-oslo_n_6a1ff808e4b0ba31730495a1

Marco Rubio sweats when pressed on secret Trump admin memo: ‘They don’t want us to see.’
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war-2676986234/

Supreme Court nears ‘extraordinary showdown with Trump’ as it enters ‘explosive’ term: The U.S. Supreme Court is entering its most consequential month in years with a series of significant decisions on the horizon, according to CNN’s reporting.
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-decisions-pending/

Inside the Trump money machine: How the president and his family are cashing in on his return to the White House. Trump has consistently faced scrutiny for leveraging his presidency for personal financial advantage, a pattern that has encompassed everything from merchandise deals and crypto ventures to hosting high-dollar political and official events at his properties
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-crypto-irs-doj-lawsuits-net-worth-b2987817.html

GOP lawmakers refusing to return for votes until Mike Johnson cleans up his mess
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-mess-politico-report/

Trump says he may keep UFC arena on White House lawn permanently. President likens South Lawn setup to Eiffel Tower. Area will stage Freedom 250 fight card on 14 June
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/03/donald-trump-ufc-arena-white-house-permanent

A brief history of The Marshall Project: The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom founded in 2014 by Neil Barsky and Bill Keller to create a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. Named after Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, it investigates systemic failures, police accountability, and prison conditions
https://www.themarshallproject.org/about

‘The People of Lebanon Can’t Wait,’ Says Tlaib After Dem Leaders Join With GOP to Vote Down War Powers Resolutions. “Every day that we do nothing, 11 more Lebanese children are killed or injured by the Israeli military in this US-supported invasion.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon-war-powers-punt

Over 80% of All US Voters Support Ending Dark Money’s Grip on Democracy. “The public’s conception of what has gone wrong goes far deeper than super PACs or White House ballrooms or even slush funds. To them, it is a system that is fundamentally misfiring.”
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/06/new-poll-shows-massive-cross-party-support-for-ending-dark-money

Watchdog Says Don’t Let Warner Hide Behind Pulte While Pushing Warrantless Spying Powers for Trump
Trump caught lawmakers off-guard with his appointment of Pulte to serve as “acting” national intelligence director. Now, Democrats are catching Trump off-guard with their threats to hold up a bipartisan deal on FISA.
https://www.ms.now/news/democrats-hardball-u-s-spying-authorities-bill-pulte-appointment

RFK Jr’s daughter-in-law reveals she quit Trump team over unsupervised movement of gold and cash by spies. Amaryllis Kennedy warns of unchecked spending by the CIA and denies leaving administration over Iran war
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/cia-spending-amaryllis-fox-kennedy-resignation-b2989803.html

Trump blasts Republicans who voted against him in war powers resolution: ‘Unpatriotic’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4594607/trump-blasts-four-republicans-voted-war-powers-resolution-unpatriotic/

# Politics / Global
Lebanese government never had control of the territory that Israel seized. Hezbollah terrorists had all that territory. Israel ran them out of it and occupied it so they don’t come back and shoot rockets from there
https://share.newsbreak.com/imibsxc1

Israel Adds to Its Constant Ceasefire Violations With Plans to Take More of Gaza. “Where is the ceasefire they keep talking about?” Palestinians worry Israeli expansion will further displace them.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-adds-to-its-constant-ceasefire-violations-with-plans-to-take-more-of-gaza/

‘Burning Entire Families to Death as They Slept’ in Gaza, Israel Kill Count Nears 1,000 Since Ceasefire. As Israel ratchets up its attacks and conquers more territory in Gaza despite a ceasefire, May was the deadliest month for Palestinians there in 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9v9uAwrQnw

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Homicide convictions reversed for Colorado paramedics who injected ketamine into Elijah McClain. A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was pinned down by police and injected with a fatal dose of ketamine.
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/homicide-convictions-reversed-colorado-paramedics-injected-ketamine-elijah-133597638

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Raskin Introduces BLANCHE Act to Destroy Trump DOJ’s Plot for ‘Super Pardon’ of President and His Family. “If the administration and its allies in Congress are truly walking away from the $1.8 billion criminal enrichment fund, they should have no problem joining us in banning it outright,” the Maryland Democrat said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-super-pardon-bill

# Medical / Biologicals / FDA / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Major Review Casts Doubt on a Generation of Alzheimer’s Drugs: Alzheimer’s drugs offer little benefit, major review finds – and the reasons go deeper than the science
https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-drugs-offer-little-benefit-major-review-finds-and-the-reasons-go-deeper-than-the-science-280833

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Rand Paul Torches Pentagon Spending Surge, Says $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Is ‘Fiscally Irresponsible’— ‘Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees.’ He argued that the greatest threat to America is not an invasion from abroad, but rather its internal deterioration.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/politics/26/06/52966703/rand-paul-torches-pentagon-spending-surge-says-1-5-trillion-defense-budget-is-fiscally-irresponsible-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees

Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list. Defense secretary’s latest interposition resulted in all-male, overwhelmingly white picks for promotion to admiralty
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/pete-hegseth-navy-promotion-list

# Military / Global
Israel Will Continue Operations in Lebanon. Israel will continue its operations on the ground in southern Lebanon despite agreeing to a ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/04/middle-east-crisis-israel-lebanon-hezbolllah-us-ceasefire-southern-military-attacks-continue-latest-news-updates

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Google pledges to invest $10M in Texas water as backlash over AI data centers grows. This pledge comes as Google has numerous data center projects underway in the Lone Star State, including an operational sit in Ellis County.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/google-announces-10m-texas-water-110000639.html

I Asked People Living Next to AI Data Centers About Their Bills and What They Said Was Disturbing. People living near some of the country’s fastest-growing AI data centers say the boom is showing up in a painful place: their monthly bills. In interviews across major data center hubs, residents described higher electricity costs, worries about water use, and frustration that growth is moving faster than public oversight.
https://herlifeadventures.com/i-asked-people-living-next-to-ai-data-centers-about-their-bills-and-what-they-said-was-disturbing/

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Voices, The Peoples News

June 4, 2026, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Legal Organizations File Lawsuit Over Immigration Detention Conditions at Camp East Montana in El Paso’s Fort Bliss Military Base. People detained by ICE describe rights violations at nation’s largest immigration detention center, including severe medical neglect, violence by guards, inhumane conditions.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/legal-organizations-file-lawsuit-over-immigration-detention-conditions-at-camp-east-montana-in-el-pasos-fort-bliss-military-base

# Children / Youth
In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations. The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church’s culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the U.S. and Canada, ensnaring parents, children and grandchildren in the same cycle of abuse.
https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-generational-sexual-abuse

# Illicit Drugs / Trafficking / DEA / Gangs
Four Tren de Aragua members plead guilty to 2024 double murder. The TdA Members Also Pleaded Guilty to Shooting and Injuring a Third U.S. Citizen During the May 2024 Shooting in the Bronx Following Homeland Security Task Force Investigation
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-illegal-alien-tren-de-aragua-members-plead-guilty-double-murder-2024

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
US Plans Tariffs for 60 Countries Over Forced Labor: U.S. cites 60 countries for forced labor failures, imposes new tariffs up to 12.5%. USTR report says banned imports hurt U.S. business
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/u-s-cites-60-countries-for-forced-labor-failures-imposes-new-tariffs-up-to-12-5
USTR: United States Trade Representative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Trade_Representative
USTR: https://ustr.gov/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump’s return-to-office mandate exempted feds with disabilities. Many are being ordered to work in-person anyway. Some agencies have put new conditions on granting telework as a reasonable accommodation for federal employees with disabilities.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/trumps-return-office-mandate-exempted-feds-disabilities-many-are-being-ordered-work-person-anyway/410524/

Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F. Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees. An executive order Wednesday formalized Schedule Policy/Career, a new employment category that will strip job protections from close to 8,000 federal employees.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/trump-moves-about-8000-federal-positions-to-schedule-policy-career/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Lithium batteries are a trap. We built the entire clean energy transition on a mineral that requires destructive mining, relies on fragile supply chains, and degrades after a few years of constant use.
https://www.albysinnovation.com/2025/12/Germany-salt-and-air-battery.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawSNPkRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFaUnUyQVdCVEszTWp6ejA2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnNwRpZNYM6zITBwXCGjzbquprNVUgIgPonQem41CNow5JxfgWv2wW5r5vsL_aem_BfahVy3xGDl6rYnb6HN4FQ

Documenting “Toxic Ground” in Oklahoma. Across Oklahoma, as ProPublica has reported, the fluid is spreading uncontrollably belowground, blasting out of old, unplugged wells, polluting land and contaminating drinking water.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-regulators-fort-gibson-meredith-family

# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
A judge said the Trump administration can’t dismantle a weather research center. The damage may already be done. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s efforts to chainsaw the federal government can happen too fast for the courts or Congress to counter. Staff are fleeing, equipment has been offered for sale and multiple critical projects are paused, possibly never to be started again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/03/a-judge-said-the-trump-administration-cant-dismantle-a-weather-research-center-the-damage-may-already-be-done-00948795

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
USDA confirms case of New World Screwworm in South Texas. Animal Health Officials Working Quickly to Protect U.S. Livestock and Wildlife. The affected animal is a 3-week-old calf and larvae were identified in its umbilical area. To date, there have been no further detections.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/usda-confirms-presence-new-world-screwworm-united-states

Trump’s USDA buildings responsible for containing pests infested with bedbugs: Federal Agency Working to Stop Invasive Bugs Invaded by Bugs. Government employees are getting sick after being forced to show up to work amid a bedbug infestation.
https://newrepublic.com/post/211269/federal-agency-agriculture-invasive-bugs-bedbugs

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Bondi blames botched release of Epstein files on Trump’s former personal lawyer: ‘I delegated oversight’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NG6jtFlito

# Gov / Politics / US
A ‘Dan Sullivan’ suddenly appeared in race to unseat Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan: GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan draws an unusual opponent in Alaska’s primary — and he’s not happy about it
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-senate-dan-sullivan-name-ballot-peltola-5d807b1c828c338ac3e94b342f47c3ec

Trump acknowledges Iranian hardliners could jeopardize deal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_cea51cd2-6a12-42fa-a751-c496b92cf0ab.html

Trump to nominate Todd Blanche to be permanent attorney general
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5909287-donald-trump-todd-blanche-permanent-ag-nomination/

Trump is hiding the enormous cost of a heinous scandal under our noses: Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman warned that President Trump is hiding the enormous cost of a secret bombing campaign in international waters. “We are already giving this tinpot dictator far more attention than he deserves, and yet not nearly enough to keep vigil over the enormous costs of his lawlessness,” Litman wrote.
https://www.mexc.com/news/1128018

New report says Trump’s no-bid $13.1 million reflecting pool contract doesn’t fix the leaky pipes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-problem-blue-color-b2987228.html

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson stepping down. Appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott in 2023, Nelson served as state’s top elections official for three and a half years but gave no specific reason for her resignation
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/02/texas-secretary-state-jane-nelson-resigns/

Thune hits breaking point with Trump. In a departure from the past 18 months, the Senate majority leader has publicly broken with the president on a string of recent controversies. It’s a sign that Trump’s sway with congressional Republicans is waning as he approaches the back half of his term.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/thune-trump-pushback-senate

“President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged.” Sen. Slotkin points to Epstein file release as the backdrop. “No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”
https://share.newsbreak.com/imj3ieyp

‘You Are Lying to Congress!’ House Dem Throws Down With Marco Rubio Over Trump Sleeping in Meetings. California Rep. Ted Lieu questions Secretary of State Marco Rubio about whether President Trump has ever fallen asleep at Cabinet or classified meetings. Rubio, responds, saying, “I’ve never seen him fall asleep.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/house-committee/rep-lieu-accuses-secy-rubio-of-lying-to-congress-over-whether-president-trump-falls-asleep-at-cabinet-meetings/5201167

Ex-Congressman George Santos Reportedly Under Federal Investigation For Insider Trading. The disgraced former Republican congressman is being investigated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
https://www.ms.now/news/federal-authorities-investigate-george-santos-for-alleged-prediction-market-insider-trading

National Democrats aim to flip 12 Texas House seats under newly expanded target list. Republicans would have just a 76-74 majority in the Texas House if the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee succeeds in flipping its targeted GOP districts.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/03/texas-house-national-democrats-target-list-gop-districts-2026-midterms-legislature/

‘Unlawfully withheld records’: Trump admin violating FOIA by refusing to release documents about Kash Patel’s expenses, lawsuit says. The Trump administration is violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to release records about FBI Director Kash Patel’s publicly funded trip to Italy earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed by a transparency-focused watchdog group.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unlawfully-withheld-records-trump-admin-violating-foia-by-refusing-to-release-documents-about-kash-patels-expenses-lawsuit-says/

The federal agency overseeing voting security is about to get gutted by Republicans. President Donald Trump and Republican allies demand voting restrictions including proof of citizenship requirements, citing election security concerns. However, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, or EAC— the sole federal agency dedicated to election security— faces severe budget cuts.
https://www.rawstory.com/congress-weighs-cuts-to-states-already-insufficient-election-security-dollars/

House Passes Historic War Powers Resolution Demanding Trump End the Iran War — “This Reckless and Costly War of Choice Needs to End Today.” The final vote was 215-208, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support of ending the war.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/congress/house-approves-war-powers-resolution-seeking-end-of-us-hostilities-against-iran

Trump slams judges, artists who pulled out of “Freedom 250” events in social media posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x1HpRNC-6Q

White House insider reveals staff to be fired over Donald Trump’s disastrous MAGA festival
https://www.aol.com/articles/white-house-insider-reveals-staff-105546000.html

New York Democrats introduce redistricting measure that could add 4 House seats in 2028. A constitutional amendment poised for first passage in the New York state Legislature this week could help Democrats gain up to four congressional seats in 2028 if ultimately approved by voters, experts say.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2026/06/03/new-york-s-proposed-redistricting-amendment–

# Politics / Global
Israel and Lebanon agree to conditional ceasefire. Deal is made through US-brokered talks in Washington, DC, that did not include Hezbollah.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/4/israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-conditional-ceasefire

Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire agreement as Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon. Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government, demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal. The announcement came as Israeli strikes killed four people and a U.N. peacekeeper in the crossfire.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/international/2026/06/04/us-iran-war-israel-lebanon-strikes-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz-ceasefire-talks–

Vladimir Putin warned by his own officials that mounting cost of Ukraine war is ‘unsustainable.’ The Kremlin has warned that cutting defence spending now would hurt Russian businesses dependent on lucrative contracts
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/putin-ukraine-russia-war-cost-b2988107.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley breaks silence with bombshell claim: CBS ordered him to put lies on air. “New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story,” Pelley wrote. “I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.”
https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-scott-pelley-new-statement/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say. https://www.axios.com/2026/06/04/new-medicaid-work-rules-states

Report: More young children losing health insurance. A new report shows Texas leading the country in its rate of uninsured children under 6. Researchers found that 10.8% of Texas children under 6 were uninsured in 2024, up from 7.9% in 2022. That comes out to more than 73,000 additional uninsured kids. Texas has the highest uninsured rate of any U.S. state for that age bracket, far exceeding the national rate of 5.3%.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/healthcare/2026/06/02/553416/texas-kids-uninsured-research-health-insurance-children/

Medicare Advantage Is Quietly Cutting One of Its Most Popular Perks for Seniors. Medicare Advantage plans are highly popular in part because of their supplemental perks, but many of those perks that help you save money in retirement may be going away. Perks like over-the-counter (OTC) allowances, grocery cards, transportation, and meal delivery are quietly being scaled back, and you might find that your plan lacks some of the extras that gave it its value.
https://financebuzz.com/news/medicare-advantage-plan-perks-changing

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
“13 Americans Dead, Billions Wasted” — Sen. Chris Murphy Blasts Hegseth’s Claims of a Destroyed Iranian Military as Iran Kills 13 Americans and Strikes Kuwait Airport Leaving Civilians Dead And 63 Injured
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4690029885633-13-americans-dead-billions-wasted-sen-chris-murphy-blasts-hegseth-s-claims-of-a-destroyed-iranian-military-as-iran-kills-13-americans-and-strikes-kuwait-airport-leaving-civilians-dead-and-63-injured

# Science / Research
Melissa Casias Found Dead: Scientist’s Body Discovered Alongside Handgun in New Mexico — As More in Her Field Remain Missing. Melissa Casias’ body was found by a hiker in New Mexico, but more scientists still remain missing at this time
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/missing-woman-hiker-new-mexico-body-melissa-casias-b2987185.html

# Social Services / Programs / Social Security / Disability
A $500 monthly cut? Social Security’s clock is ticking: Social Security is running out of money. Unless Congress acts, millions of Americans could soon lose $500 or more a month. The “Go-Broke” Date: The retirement trust fund is on pace to run dry in 2032.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5908336-why-social-security-checks-could-be-500-less-each-month-by-2032/

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Texas AI data center growth rises as other states consider bans. There are now more than 4,300 data centers—built to train, deploy and deliver AI—across the U.S., according to Data Center Map. This includes over 600 in Virginia, more than 460 in Texas, and over 130 in New York.
https://www.newsweek.com/resistance-data-centers-growing-12002472

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2026-06-03

Voices, The Peoples News

June 3, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Clashes continue as Newark seeks to inspect ICE detention center. Newark says it may expand its lawsuit against Delaney Hall’s operators if city officials are denied access to inspect an immigration detention center. Street clashes, a newly enacted nightly curfew, and conflicting federal and local claims over an alleged detainee hunger strike have placed a privately run immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, at the center of a widening legal and public safety crisis.
https://san.com/cc/clashes-continue-as-newark-seeks-to-inspect-ice-detention-center/

New Jersey is officially taking aim at Delaney Hall. Yesterday, the state sued Geo Group, the immigration detention center’s operator and the largest private prison contractor in the United States, as the company continues to deny health inspectors full access to the facility. Meanwhile, Newark announced yesterday it will try to shut the facility down altogether.
https://www.courthousenews.com/newark-mayor-calls-for-judge-to-shutter-delaney-hall-ice-facility/

Brooklyn man ICE arrested at hospital accuses agents of violating constitutional rights: Chidozie Okeke, a Nigerian national whose arrest in May sparked protests, is fighting to have his removal proceedings terminated.
https://documentedny.com/2026/06/02/chidozie-okeke-immigration-court/

Trump’s Plan to Strip Citizenship From Naturalized Americans Hits Legal and Logistical Barriers
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/06/weakening-career-staff-while-boosting-political-appointees-science-agencies-causing-generational-damage-nonprofit-warns/413923/?oref=ge-featured-river-top

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Google seeks to release 32 million infected mosquitoes in 2 states under little-known ‘Debug’ program. Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/google-permission-release-mosquitoes-california-florida

Inspection Of Texas Drainage Ditch Reveals Pipe Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla’s $1 Billion Lithium Refinery. Tesla holds a valid Texas wastewater permit allowing them to discharge up to 231,000 gallons daily of treated wastewater. When state regulators investigated in February, they found Tesla in full compliance—but only tested for conventional pollutants like dissolved solids and chlorides. Nobody checked for heavy metals or lithium itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/inspection-texas-drainage-ditch-reveals-170629588.html

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums / Childcare
Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns.
Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders linked to Houston’s controversial superintendent, Mike Miles. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-takeover-mike-miles-morath-beaumont-lake-worth-austin#:~:text=Since%202020%2C%20the%20state%20education,are%20at%20risk%20of%20takeover.&text=ProPublica%20is%20a%20nonprofit%20newsroom%20that%20investigates%20abuses%20of%20power.

Answer Sheet: The Real Story Behind the State Takeover of Houston Public Schools
https://nepc.colorado.edu/blog/state-takeover

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Toxic Ground: Inside Oklahoma’s Massive Oil Field Wastewater Crisis. About half of all Oklahomans live within a mile of an oil and gas site. A new documentary from The Frontier and ProPublica exposes the failure of state regulators to protect residents from a massive underground pollution crisis.
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/toxic-ground-how-oil-field-pollution-is-threatening-oklahoma/

America’s clean energy manufacturing boom is quietly gaining speed. Despite recent policy roadblocks, the U.S. has added more than 235 clean energy factories within the last five years.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/235-clean-energy-factories-opened-034000194.html

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Trump is literally ripping climate science out of the ocean — dismantling a $368 million monitoring system that took a decade to build, just as scientists warn the Atlantic current may be tipping toward collapse. The network is called the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-is-terminating-a-vast-network-of-ocean-monitors/
Ocean Observatories Initiative: https://oceanobservatories.org/

Researchers have developed a concrete-like material with incredible capabilities. Unlike traditional concrete, the production of which creates carbon pollution, this material absorbs carbon dioxide while hardening.
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/engineers-create-concrete-material-locks-200000861.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use House map eliminating a majority-Black district. A federal court had repeatedly blocked the map as an illegal racial gerrymander.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/supreme-court-alabama-map-redistricting-00947768

Weakening career staff while boosting political appointees at science agencies is causing ‘generational damage,’ nonprofit warns. The Partnership for Public Service reported that the federal government is spending less on scientific research in a majority of states and congressional districts.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/06/weakening-career-staff-while-boosting-political-appointees-science-agencies-causing-generational-damage-nonprofit-warns/413923/?oref=ge-featured-river-top

MAGA world revolts as Trump’s ex-national security adviser exposed as agent for Putin ally. Trump’s first national security adviser, after a report revealed he has registered as a foreign agent for a Bosnian Serb entity led by one of Vladimir Putin’s closest European allies.
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-flynn-2676984397/

House Democrat Confronts AG Blanche on Epstein — Claims There’s Proof in the Files That Trump ‘Has Lied About Being on Epstein’s Plane’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/house-democrat-confronts-ag-blanche-on-epstein-claims-theres-proof-in-the-files-that-trump-has-lied-about-being-on-epsteins-plane/

Congress Needs to End These Tragic, Stupid, Illegal Wars of Aggression, and Prevent New Ones. This should be easy, but it never is. Without pressure from voters, the war machine runs more or less on auto-pilot in Washington, DC.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/congress-needs-to-end-these-tragic-stupid-illegal-wars-of-aggression-and-prevent-new-ones

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
After the Trump DOJ Halted Police Reform, This City Stepped In. Then Officers Shot and Killed Katelyn Hall.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisville-trump-doj-police-reform-consent-decrees

Trump appoints housing regulator as acting spy chief
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-appoints-housing-regulator-acting-151100477.html

A Movement Is Growing to Close the Largest ICE Jail on the East Coast. An ICE jail in rural Pennsylvania has been accused of medical neglect, providing unsafe water, and serving spoiled food.
An ICE jail in rural Pennsylvania has been accused of medical neglect, providing unsafe water, and serving spoiled food.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-movement-is-growing-to-close-the-largest-ice-jail-on-the-east-coast/

# Legal / DO.J / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Lawmakers Demand Answers After the White House Initiated a $620M Loan to a Firm Tied to Donald Trump Jr. In a letter, a group of Democratic Congress members wrote that ProPublica’s reporting on the deal “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-lawmakers-letter

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Newspaper chain’s executives tell journalists to accept AI or face ruin. McClatchy Media is going all in on AI-generated articles, and demands its reporters get on board.
https://san.com/cc/a-major-newspaper-chain-is-pivoting-to-ai-created-articles-how-this-small-newspapers-staff-is-fighting-back/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Trump Administration Hires Convicted Jan. 6 Rioter for Key Pentagon Job Involving ‘Highly Classified’ Military Ops. The Trump administration previously hired an accused January 6 rioter to the Justice Department
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elias-irizarry-january-6-pentagon-b2988374.html

CENTCOM says US forces have defended against new, aggressive Iranian behavior
https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC-RELEASES/Article/4507109/us-partner-forces-defend-against-aggressive-iranian-behavior/#:~:text=TAMPA%2C%20Fla.,the%20Middle%20East%2C%20June%202.

# Space / Global
China launched a groundbreaking experiment sending synthetic human embryos to space. China sent the embryos to its Tiangong space station, hoping to learn if human life could begin in space. Yes, that is correct.
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/china-launches-human-artificial-embryos-to-space-in-bid-to-see-whether-reproduction-is-possible-off-world

# Nuclear
Markey Demands Trump Cancel Plan to Give Private Companies Enough Plutonium to Build 2,000 Nuclear Bombs. “Only Trump’s get-rich-quick bros would come up with this corrupt and moronic scheme,” wrote Democratic Sen. Ed Markey.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-plutonium-private-companies

# Science / Research
There’s something living in the fog. Repeat: there’s something living in the fog. The findings, published in a study in the journal Environmental Microbiology, showed that fog is teeming with so much life that the researchers liken it to a vast aquatic ecosystem unto itself.
https://futurism.com/science-energy/something-living-inside-fog

# Social / Communities / Housing
A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford
https://www.propublica.org/article/low-income-housing-tax-credit-portland

# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
Outrageous footage shows AI-powered robot hilariously fail at common human skill
https://www.tiktok.com/@paulsethscarpino/video/7618788509280701726

Scientists uncover hidden fly vision shortcut that could slash AI energy use. The finding matters because it challenges a long-standing assumption.
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/scientists-uncover-hidden-fly-vision-213500001.html

Bernie Sanders announced a plan to seize half of AI industry for the public good. “Who will own and control that future? Who will benefit from it, and who will be hurt by it?”
https://futurism.com/future-society/bernie-sanders-plan-seize-ai-industry

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared: As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-billionaires-scared-labor-automation

Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking
https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-tricked-meta-chatbot-access-instagram-accounts-2026-6

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