April 2025 – MPEN

Voices, The Peoples News No. 2025-04-02

Voices, The Peoples News

April 2, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Indigenous
Trump grants clemency to man who stole millions of dollars from Oglala Sioux Nation. Jason Galanis was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for a scheme that defrauded a Native American tribe
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-jason-galanis-fraud-00262087

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘No ability to bring him back’: Trump lawyers forced to admit they permanently sent an innocent man to a nightmare prison. It’s a stunning admission by the Trump administration, but outside of court its key figures are refusing to admit any wrongdoing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-admits-wrongfully-deported-151733434.html

Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over. As JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily defend the removal of a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error,” a shrewd immigration observer says we’re now in alarmingly lawless territory. Here’s the real story: They’re all fine with “accidental” deportations because they want immigrants to fear they’re going to be next.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193460/trump-arrests-take-dark-unnerving-turn-maga-rage-boils

With Detention of Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement. “We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-detention-of-beloved-farmworker-organizer-ice-comes-for-the-labor-movement/

Pentagon has spent about $376M on new border ops that NORTHCOM general expects to last ‘years not months.’ New military deployments have surged to the southern border since Jan. 20
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-01/border-security-troops-pentagon-17332934.html

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/

How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies: Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-02-how-corporate-pardons-create-monopolies-rocket-mortgage/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE’s access to the payroll system of 276,000 federal employees puts government on path to have ‘unprecedented power and control’ over Americans’ information, experts say.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free. It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-wins-control-500-million-building-washington-dc-2054209

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Donald Trump is considering tariffs so high it would be a shock to the entire global economy. The president will announce his full tariff plan at 4 p.m. Wednesday, while 20 percent tariffs are under consideration, there is still no final decision about how big or extensive the tariffs will be, and what else they will specifically target.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193440/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-draft-plan

Untraceable $4.7 Trillion Treasury Payments: Implications and Proposed Solutions. The report has prompted Republican senators to propose legislation aimed at holding the agency accountable.
https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/doge-reports-140-billion-savings-amid-unaccounted-treasury-funds-elon-musk-republicans-legislation-next-steps-trump

Former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Kim Darroch, has expressed concern over the potential US-UK trade deal in light of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs that have ignited global trade wars.
https://thehill.com/business/trade/5222652-ex-british-ambassador-to-us-who-criticized-trump-urges-starmer-not-to-concede-on-retaliatory-tariffs/

Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming, but at a Cost to U.S. Alliances. President Trump is already showing signs of concern that his targets may team up against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-tariffs-nato-allies.html

The European Union is warning President Donald Trump as tensions continue to heighten ahead of the April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement. For weeks, Trump has been promoting April 2 as “Liberation Day” in America, when various hefty tariffs will be unveiled to implement his administration’s radical economic agenda.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eu-issues-two-word-threat-to-donald-trump-as-tensions-high-ahead-of-liberation-day-announcement/ar-AA1C5fwS

Texas will be among states hardest hit in trade war, EU ambassador warns. $100B a year in EU investments in Texas in jeopardy, EU ambassador to US says
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/texas-among-states-hardest-hit-trade-war-eu-looming-car-tariffs

Trump tariffs live updates: Bessent says Trump will impose high tariffs as cap for countries to bring down
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-bessent-says-trump-will-impose-high-tariffs-as-cap-for-countries-to-bring-down-191201577.html

GOP tax proposals could add $9 trillion to nation’s deficits: Analysis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5226077-republican-tax-cut-proposals-debt/

# Education / Schools
Republicans advance bills to create book removal process in public schools. Texas Bill Threatens Jail Time for Teaching Books Like “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a pretty “crummy” situation, as Holden Caulfield might say.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/texas-bill-prison-teachers-librarians-books-sexual-profane-content-ban/

Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_l_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2

NC GOP bill would allow school librarians to be charged over books ‘harmful to minors’: Wide-ranging legislation filed Monday by North Carolina Republican lawmakers would make it easier to prosecute librarians on obscenity charges, restrict what books can be in school libraries and change how sex education is taught.
https://www.aol.com/nc-gop-bill-allow-school-154809576.html

Texas Senate approves bill changing how schools select library books. Senate Bill 13 would create school library advisory councils largely made up of parents. It would give school boards, rather than librarians, the final say over new books.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/05/texas-school-library-book-bans-senate-bill/

A new bill could ban Huck Finn and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” from Texas public schools.
https://www.txftrp.org/first_look_at_sb13

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say. The Trump administration on Tuesday eliminated the entire staff of a federal program that helps low-income households pay utility bills, sources said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-staff-responsible-utility-assistance-224807665.html

# Food General News
Trump administration cancels program that paid Wisconsin farmers to grow for food pantries
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/

# Gov / Politics
U.S. Senate Session: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered the longest-ever Senate floor speech, speaking for over 25 hours in protest of the Republican budget and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts being implemented by the Trump administration. The New Jersey senator concluded by quoting civil rights leader and former Representative John Lewis (D-GA): “He said for us to go out and cause some ‘good trouble, necessary trouble,’ to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/cory-booker-senate-speech-record-thurmond

Trump has largely followed Project 2025 playbook — but its key goal still to come: The Heritage Foundation’s sweeping guidebook laid out four goals for preserving its version of freedom: dismantling the federal bureaucracy, defending U.S. sovereignty, securing “our God-given individual rights to live freely,” and placing the family “as the centerpiece of American life” – and it contains detailed descriptions for how the government can decide how families should operate, wrote The Atlantic’s David Graham.
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-family-life/

Trump Lawyer Seriously Explored Options for Third Term. It’s not just talk: Trump’s team is really thinking about how to make a third term possible.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193465/trump-lawyer-explored-options-third-term

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Suddenly Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Ukraine Peace Talks. Russia has poured cold water on Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-suddenly-gives-trump-middle-180815175.html

# Medical / Health News
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr: Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/the-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159

RFK Jr.’s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling. The cuts sent shockwaves through the department’s sprawling workforce, prompting a scramble among senior agency officials to figure out which employees and policy priorities were affected.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/very-few-people-know-whats-happening-rfk-jr-cuts-surprise-and-alarm-00254822

RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA’s public records teams, despite “transparency” promises. Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-purges-cdc-fda-records-transparency-teams/

US is on track to have the worst measles outbreak of this century, former Covid response coordinator warns. “We should not be at this point in our country,” he noted, “And yet, here we are because of bad information being spread by Secretary [Robert] Kennedy and others.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-track-worst-measles-outbreak-163227468.html

‘Gut punch’: Approximately 10,000 people were fired or laid off from the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday and, if those affected had any discrimination complaints, they were told to contact a woman who died last year.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-human-services/

Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies. Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/

‘An attack on the well-being of millions’: Trump admin sued by 23 states over ‘illegal and irresponsible’ decision to ‘claw back life-saving health funding’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/an-attack-on-the-well-being-of-millions-trump-admin-sued-by-23-states-over-illegal-and-irresponsible-decision-to-claw-back-life-saving-health-funding/

‘It makes me kind of rage’: Special ed parents furious as RFK Jr. seizes control. Another fast-growing controversy concerns his influence over how neurodivergent kids are treated in special education
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2671650197/

HHS layoffs put Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors, disabled at risk
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl

‘People Are Going to Die’—Doctors Condemn Mass Firings at CDC Amid Measles Outbreak
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/3945751778875-people-are-going-to-die-doctors-condemn-mass-firings-at-cdc-amid-measles-outbreak

The CDC Has Been Gutted. DOGE Moves to Gut CDC Work on Gun Injuries, Sexual Assault, Opioid Overdose Data
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-cdc-layoffs-doge-musk/

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://lemmy.world/post/27678964

# Military / DOD / General News
Leaked Pentagon file reveals US will not step in to help Europe if Russia attacks. Leading UK defence voices have warned that the memo will “embolden” and “encourage” Putin to launch a new assault on Europe.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2035101/us-not-help-europe-russia-attacks-memo

Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office
https://apnews.com/article/military-academies-dei-hegseth-trump-ba9731f24b4eb4bd9c02b568209f97af

# Science / Science Engineers
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research. “A climate of fear has descended on the research community,” the letter says. Researchers fearing for their jobs are “removing their names from publications, abandoning studies, and rewriting grant proposals and papers to remove scientifically accurate terms (such as ‘climate change’) that agencies are flagging as objectionable.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347411/scientists-trump-research-national-academies-open-letter#:~:text=Nearly%202%2C000%20leading%20American%20scientists,fear%22%20that%20jeopardizes%20independent%20research

Top US Scientists Write Open Letter To The American People: “We See Real Danger In This Moment”: Almost 2,000 US scientists and engineers warn the public that the Trump administration is decimating science.
https://www.iflscience.com/top-us-scientists-write-open-letter-to-the-american-people-we-see-real-danger-in-this-moment-78642

# Social / Social Programs
Trump’s Social Security sleight of hand: MAGA’s magic trick will make your benefits disappear. The president’s promise to make Social Security great again is a charade
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/02/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-magas-magic-trick-will-make-your-benefits-disappear/

Trump’s Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don’t Fall for It. Trump has a long record of unfurling legally laughable nonsense orders when the political heat is on. This is that.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-is-another-scam-dont-fall-for-it/

Social Security Administration At ‘Risk Of Collapse’ After DOGE Cuts, Former Head Martin O’Malley Warns. “The Musk/Trump co-presidency has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to drive Social Security into a total system collapse.”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-total-system-collapse-martin-omalley-2050747

# Veterans / VA
2 Democratic senators pledge to block VA nominees over plans to fire 83,000 workers. A Senate confirmation hearing for three nominees to assume leadership posts at the Department of Veterans Affairs was derailed Tuesday
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-01/veterans-nominees-workforce-firings-senators-17333829.html

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2025-04-01

Voices, The Peoples News

April 1, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm. The nonprofit estimate nearly 1.25 million colonies have been lost since June of 2024.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/23/beekeepers-say-catastrophic-honeybee-losses-are-cause-for-alarm

Hundreds of millions of bees mysteriously dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsBZbnt_4A

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes. Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school’s website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/indiana_cybersecurity_professor_fbi/

Stunning ICE List Reveals Flimsy Way People Are Labeled Gang Members. Here’s the cruel way people are being deported from Trump’s America.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193373/ice-list-people-deported-gang-members

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”: Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

Immigration officials silent after another graduate student detained at the University of Minnesota. The issue that appears to have put the student on the radar of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is more mundane: a 2023 drunk-driving case in which he pleaded guilty, not participating in campus activism or been outspoken about political issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/minnesota-student-immigration-arrest.html

Trump admin accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian mega-prison and says it can’t get him back. The father and union worker had been living in the US for about 14 years after fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. ICE accused him of gang affiliation, a claim his lawyers dispute.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-deportation-el-salvador-cecot-b2725052.html

The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating. ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193391/juarez-zeferino-ice-detention-activists

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump’s Mass Purge Finally Hits Museums and Libraries. Donald Trump’s overhaul of the federal government has reached the agency that helps museums and libraries across the country.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193405/trump-museums-libraries-imls-administrative-leave

# Children / Youth
Toddler accused of being transphobic or homophobic was suspended from nursery: Data from the Department for Education showed a child aged three or four, suspended from a state school in the academic year 2022/23 for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity,” according to a freedom of information request (FOI) by The Telegraph.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/toddler-suspended-nursery-transphobic-b2724495.html

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show. A DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/

Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems. DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court’s paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The ‘Dirty 15’ countries braced for harder hit from Trump’s tariffs as world prepares for ‘Liberation Day’ Trump is set to unleash his largest batch of trade tariffs on so-called ‘Liberation Day’ this Wednesday
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-dirty-15-liberation-day-countries-b2725113.html

Taxpayers covering California rents over $7,000 near Mexican border. According to federal data, taxpayers may now be helping cover California rents of up to $7,030 near the Mexican border. Under the federal Section 8 housing voucher program, families are expected to dedicate 30% of their incomes to housing costs, while a federal voucher covers the rest.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_de7361eb-aa9c-4988-bc49-61706618b79e.html

Trump Yawns at Tariff Price Hikes: After years of wrongly insisting that other countries pay the tariffs he imposes, thereby enriching America, President Donald Trump now seemingly accepts that those duties are ultimately paid by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-03-31/trump-yawns-at-tariff-price-hikes

The Zelle app is shutting down for good tomorrow. Here’s what it means for people who rely on Zelle, along with some other options for cashless digital transactions.
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/the-zelle-app-disappears-tuesday-heres-how-you-can-send-money-instead/

Trump Insists Economy Not About to Explode as Banks Warn Differently. Donald Trump appears to be driving the U.S. right into a recession.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-insists-economy-not-about-to-explode-as-banks-warn-differently/ar-AA1C0S4l?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

Trump has just made his most extreme tariffs threat yet.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193384/trump-tariffs-threat-all-countries

‘They’re Laying the Groundwork for Things to Get Worse’: Why Trump’s Economic Messaging Isn’t Calming Wall Street
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/31/wall-street-insider-explains-market-spooked-00258083

# Education / Schools
The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America. Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america

So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans? The Trump administration’s efforts to dissolve the Department of Education have left a wave of chaos in its wake.
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html?pay=1743514554171&support_journalism=please

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration considers major cuts to clean energy programs, drawing bipartisan pushback
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-considers-major-cuts-to-clean-energy-programs-drawing-bipartisan-pushback-2671643909.html

Lawmakers and industry groups blast away at DOE project kill list. Draft lists of potential cuts have been rocketing around Capitol Hill this week, and lawmakers from both parties are working to save their projects.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/energy-departments-project-hit-list-draws-bipartisan-pushback-from-lawmakers-00254729

EPA Offers Industrial Polluters a Way to Avoid Rules on Mercury, Arsenic and Other Toxic Chemicals. Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-03-27/epa-offers-industrial-polluters-a-way-to-avoid-rules-on-mercury-arsenic-and-other-toxic-chemicals

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Scientists Detect Magma Movement Below Yellowstone Caldera
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-yellowstone-volcanic-shifting-northeast-geologists.html

# Food General News
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say. The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/agriculture-department-no-longer-safe-165348567.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump Threatens Iran With Bombing ‘They Have Never Seen’ If Nuclear Deal Isn’t Reached. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a bombing “the likes of which they have never seen before” if they did not agree to a nuclear deal. Iran is refusing to negotiate with the US
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-threatens-bomb-iran-agree-nuclear-deal/

Today is April 2! Did you miss last night’s executive order? Today is actually April 2. Your calendar may show April 1 but late last night President Trump issued an executive order making all months 30 days long. Henceforth, what had been known as January 31, March 31, July 31, August 31, October 31, and December 31 will be known as “Trump Days,” in which “the nation can show its gratitude to the 45th and 47th president.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-executive-orders

Democratic Senators Call for Privacy Act Reform in Response to DOGE Takeover.
https://fedscoop.com/lori-trahan-modernize-privacy-act-doge-data-access/

The mundane cruelty of the new Trump years. Mahmoud Khalil still hasn’t been charged with a crime. His detention is based solely on a broad and rare assertion made by the newly minted secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that his presence poses a threat to U.S. security.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/courtroom-friday-saw-firsthand-just-214121241.html

Why is Donald Trump referring to April 2 as ‘Liberation Day’? Here’s what we know.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-liberation-day-april-2-86639b7b6358af65e2cbad31f8c8ae2b

Trump ‘might not stop at Greenland’ as Congressman suggests ‘next three targets.’ The president’s quest could spiral into a plot to “take over” three more countries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-might-not-stop-at-greenland-as-congressman-suggests-next-three-targets/ar-AA1BVEPd

Signalgate exposed more than war plans: It pulled back the curtain on the administration
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5223588-signal-chat-leak-strategic-blunder/

Trump DOJ Caves to Elon Musk With Wild Punishment for Tesla Protester. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have described acts of vandalism on Teslas as “domestic terrorism.”
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-20-year-sentences-for-tesla-saboteurs/

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Every Atrocity Imaginable’: Litany of Israeli War Crimes Continues. “Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare and it should haunt us forever.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/more-israel-war-crimes

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
New York to release prisoners in droves after prison strike: Those guilty of class B-E violent felonies, sex offenses, and an array of other crimes will not be eligible, though Martuscello warned he expected a “large number” of inmates to qualify.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/new-york-release-prisoners-droves-after-prison-strike-memo

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Justice Sotomayor speaks out as Trump and Musk escalate attacks on the free press! The Trump administration is facing more than 130 lawsuits over the president’s flurry of executive actions, including four that are currently pending at the Supreme Court. Justice Sotomayor did not name President Trump directly on Friday. However, she alluded to ongoing developments.
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-trump-attacks-2052468

Will Elon Musk Buy Another Election? The race has become something of a proxy war over Elon Musk. Not satisfied with controlling the federal government, the shadow president’s political action committee is suddenly spending big on a crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/

House lawmaker moves to oust judge in deportation case with move that skips impeachment. Rep. Andy Biggs invoked the “good behavior” clause of the Constitution to argue Congress has the authority to remove judges short of impeachment.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-republican-proposes-alternative-method-remove-bad-judges-bypass-senate

# Media
Mere hours until USPS changes in effect as customers brace for slower deliveries – certain type of mail will be affected
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13899036/usps-changes-delivery-slowdown/

The Trump White House’s Latest Blow to the Press Is About Way More Than Seating Charts. As the White House reportedly considers taking over a function long managed by the White House Correspondents’ Association, Trump is tightening his grip on press access—again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/media/trump-briefing-room-seating-chart.html

# Marijuana / Hemp
PoliticsTrump’s New White House Drug Czar Called Medical Marijuana A ‘Fantastic’ Treatment For Cancer Patients
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trumps-new-white-house-drug-czar-called-medical-marijuana-a-fantastic-treatment-for-cancer-patients/?

A study involving nurses who have trouble sleeping found that using CBD-coated pillowcases led to “improvements in sleep quality, mood and anxiety, highlighting its potential as a non-invasive intervention for shift workers.”
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/using-cbd-infused-pillowcases-leads-to-improved-sleep-quality-for-nurses-new-study-finds/?

# Medical / Health News
Baby dies after receiving 6 shots for 12 vaccines. Doctors say ‘catching up’ kids on vaccines is common, and dangerous
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/baby-sa-niya-death-received-6-shots-12-vaccines/

# Medical Recalls
# Military / DOD / General News
Books On Jackie Robinson, MLK, Einstein To Be Removed From U.S. Naval Academy In DEI Ban
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/books-on-jackie-robinson-mlk-einstein-to-be-removed-from-u-s-naval-academy-in-dei-ban/ar-AA1C1gHl

# NASA / Space
Elon’s Secretly Working to Take Over NASA. Is NASA really getting ready to cancel the Artemis program?
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-working-nasa

Private Fram2 astronauts launch over Earth’s poles: SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles. The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
https://gizmodo.com/humans-could-orbit-earths-poles-for-the-first-time-today-what-took-so-long-2000582235

NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk’s Starship, Even Though It’s Never Launched Without Exploding “I’m sure whenever NASA needs a payload spread across 1000 km of ocean they’ll pick Starship.”
https://futurism.com/nasa-contract-elon-musk-spacex-starship

# Other Stuff
Giant, mysterious organisms discovered are impossible to categorize. For over 165 years, scientists have puzzled over a strange fossil called Prototaxites. Even its appearance was unusual. It stood up to 8 meters tall, and resembled a towering tree with no leaves.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life

# Pharmaceuticals
‘Largest Tax-dodging Scheme in the History of Big Pharma’: Pfizer Sold $20 Billion of Drugs to Americans in 2019, Paid No Taxes. Pfizer used an “egregious tax gimmick” to avoid paying taxes, joining a growing list of Pharma giants who have shifted their U.S.-based profit reporting offshore, according to a new Senate Finance Committee report.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-tax-dodging-scheme-offshore-profit-reporting-big-pharma/

# Social / Social Programs
DOGE Is Rushing to Rewrite the Social Security Codebase Using AI. A system responsible for over 65 million payments is poised for disaster. While it’s not yet clear what Musk’s band of dipshits plans to do exactly, Wired reports they aim to do it within “a few months,” a laughably audacious timeline for such a task.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-plans-to-rewrite-entire-social-security-codebase-in-just-a-few-months-report-2000582062

Congress weighs food stamp cuts: Millions of Low-Income Households Would Lose Food Aid Under Proposed House Republican SNAP Cuts. Cuts Would Take Assistance Away From People in Every State
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house

# Water
Harmful Contaminants Detected in “Almost All Water Systems” in the U.S: Perchlorate has been detected in almost all water systems including tap water, bottled water etc., which means it has entered our food chain with the potential to adversely affect human health (Dasgupta et al., 2006; Calderón et al., 2017).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653523018295#:~:text=Consequently%2C%20perchlorate%20has%20been%20detected,et%20al.%2C%202017

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2025-03-31

Voices, The Peoples News

March 31, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Inside The Billion-Dollar Business Of Deportation Flights. The recent GOP spending bill will mean more money for ICE — and less transparency for the private airlines making billions on deportation flights.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-billion-dollar-business-of-deportation-flights/

How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic. Trump’s “Operation Aurora” swept up only one suspected gang member — but set the stage for a radical expansion of government power.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/trump-deport-venezuela-gang-tren-de-aragua/

ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted Over Gaza Protests. The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/

ICE Is Canceling Students’ Legal Status Without Informing Them or Their Schools: The Trump administration has targeted for deportation foreign students who have espoused pro-Palestinian views
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-canceling-students-legal-status-1235306630/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections. More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.
https://www.levernews.com/a-dark-money-deluge-to-kill-consumer-protections/

Meta Drags Delaware To The Bottom. Delaware just passed a bill to let executives off the hook across the country — and Meta helped write it.
https://www.levernews.com/meta-drags-delaware-to-the-bottom/

# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial, vaccines do no stop covid
https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/43-46-Stilgoe-Viral-Suppression-Spring-2023.pdf

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
The Cover Up: Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the firm aims to deny victims remuneration
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/makeup-asbestos-lawsuit-berkshire-hathaway

Glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide altered key breast cancer-related genes, including BRCA1 and BRCA2, even at low doses and had varying toxic and proliferative effects on different breast cell types
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/glyphosate-health-concerns/#:~:text=A%20March%202025%20study%20in,on%20different%20breast%20cell%20types

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Analysis of CBO’s March 2025 Long-Term Budget Outlook. The federal budget is on an unsustainable path.
https://www.crfb.org/papers/analysis-cbos-march-2025-long-term-budget-outlook

Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

DOGE staffer who shared Treasury data now has more access to government systems
https://thepublicsradio.org/npr/doge-staffer-who-shared-treasury-data-now-has-more-access-to-government-systems-2/

Brace for impact, America. Trump’s tariffs will soon hit your bank accounts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/03/31/trump-tariffs-inflation-tax-increase/82688283007/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump Stomps Workers. Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-seeking-to-ban-natural-gas-in-new-buildings-just-got-a-big-win-in-court/

Trump’s EPA Is Giving Power Companies Free Reign to Leave Behind Toxic Coal Ash
https://grist.org/health/coal-ash-epa-lee-zeldin-trump/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Mark Pestrella says “we started this fire” during LA wildfire Eaton press conference. Freudian slip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0azx-3UKGA

# Food General News
‘Going to be a lot of hungry people’: Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/

How Gutting USAID Will Hurt American Farmers and Businesses. The effects of defunding it could be devastating to farmers
https://www.ohiosap.org/aws/OSAP/pt/sd/news_article/584540/_blank/layout_details/false

Breathing Injustice: How a New Scientific Tool Could Help Communities Oppose Industrial Animal Farming Pollution. Pig-2-Bac, from fecal bacteria in dust that has settled in and around locals’ homes, enabling them to show that pollution from pig operations has reached their residences.
https://usrtk.org/factory-farming/new-tool-measure-industrial-animal-farming-pollution/#:~:text=A%20tool%20to%20trace%20pollution&text=The%20tool%20can%20identify%20the,operations%20has%20reached%20their%20residences

# General News
Who is USIP? The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American independent, nonprofit, national institute funded by the U.S. Congress and tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide.[3] It provides research, analysis, and training to individuals in diplomacy, mediation, and other peace-building measures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace#Budget

# Gov / Politics
VP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash. The visit came a day after Donald Trump said his administration will “go as far as we have to go” to acquire the island.
https://truthout.org/articles/vice-president-and-second-lady-plan-visit-to-us-military-base-in-greenland/

US senator to force votes next week to block nearly $9B in new arms for Israel. ‘Netanyahu has clearly violated U.S. and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in the carnage,’ says Bernie Sanders
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-senator-to-force-votes-next-week-to-block-nearly-9b-in-new-arms-for-israel/3521978

What the past week reveals about the Trump team’s utter incompetence. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
https://www.alternet.org/what-the-past-week-also-reveals-about-the-trump-team-s-utter-incompetence/

The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”: The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal

Trump Goes Full Dictator With Delusional Threat About Term Limits. Donald Trump revealed he hasn’t been joking all this time. [power drunk maybe?]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-goes-full-dictator-delusional-131608127.html

Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president. Yes, a constitutional amendment explicitly prohibits it. Yes, such an attempt would trigger a legal showdown and a potential constitutional crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-voting-executive-order-2026-midterms-bd477e5ac8a7182f5aa01498ad79baaa

Biden-Era ‘Lawfare’ Target Says He’s Now Running ‘Most Important Agency’ You’ve ‘Never Heard Of’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/28/biden-era-lawfare-target-says-hes-now-running-most-important-agency-youve-never-heard-of/

Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/31/make-america-worse-the-corrosive-blueprint-driving-muskrat-trumps-high-risk-demolition-derby/

Donald Trump faces backlash after being accused of spending $85M on golf excursions
https://www.irishstar.com/sport/other-sports/donald-trump-backlash-golf-excursions-34964019

# Gov / Politics / Global
Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Reflect Desperation as Israel Escalates Genocide. As some Palestinians took to the streets this week calling for Hamas to step down, others condemned the demonstrations.
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-hamas-protests-in-gaza-reflect-desperation-as-israel-escalates-genocide/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Wisconsin AG sues to stop Musk’s check handout. Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, immediately labeled Musk’s plan as a violation of state law.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/wisconsin-ag-sues-to-stop-musks-check-handout/

The Supreme Court must rescue itself from its own madness. To stand up to Trump’s lawless power grabs, the Roberts court must disavow its own mirror-image corruptions. It may yet feel obliged to do just that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192540/supreme-court-trump-power-grabs

# Media
Gaza Journalist Fadi al-Wahidi Avoided Israel’s “Red” Zone. Israel Shot Him Anyway. Investigative journalists working as part of the Gaza Project used reporting, geolocation, and forensic analysis to reconstruct the shooting of Fadi al-Wahidi.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/israel-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/

Journalists Under Fire in Gaza, Israel’s Deadly War on Reporters. How reporters with the Gaza Project investigate the killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/briefing-podcast-gaza-palestine-journalists/

USPS customers warned of ‘downgraded services’ under April 1 changes as they’re forced to take extra step sending mail. The Postal Service will adjust its services for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services, meaning some customers will have to do more to ensure their mail gets delivered on time.
https://www.newsbreak.com/healthy-family-projects-316320343/3939305320248-usps-customers-warned-of-downgraded-services-under-april-1-changes-as-they-re-forced-to-take-extra-step-sending-mail

Postal Workers Defend USPS Against DOGE Attack. DOGE is helping the postmaster general hack away at workers’ retirement and a regulatory commission he doesn’t like.
https://truthout.org/articles/postal-workers-defend-usps-against-doge-attack/

# Medical / Health News
The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants
https://www.aol.com/lives-individuals-us-stake-researchers-192441141.html

Trump Wants to “Defund” Planned Parenthood — This SCOTUS Case May Help Him Do It. The court will consider a South Carolina policy preventing people from using Medicaid at clinics that provide abortions.
https://19thnews.org/2025/03/supreme-court-medicaid-planned-parenthood-abortion-trump/

Top official at FDA resigns citing RFK Jr. ‘misinformation’ and apparent lack of desire for “truth and transparency.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5221540-fda-official-resigns-kennedy-vaccines/

Health insurance CEO admits to hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on patients, doctors and politicians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-insurance-ceo-admits-hiring-164253164.html

# Military / DOD / General News
US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions. The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5221577-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-admissions/

DOD reopens deferred resignation program, offers early retirements in effort to cut civilian workforce. The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the size of the civilian workforce, the agency said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-03-30/dod-early-retirement-deferred-resignations-17306265.html

US ‘won’t bother defending Europe from Russia’, leaked Pentagon memo says. The leaked memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instead focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense
https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/wont-bother-defending-europe-russia-1060386

# NASA / Space
Scientists Track a Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Earth. A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/powerful-x-class-solar-flare-caught-on-camera-erupting-from-suns-surface

Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The Sun
https://www.iflscience.com/astonishing-video-shows-2-million-kilometer-helical-structure-emerge-from-the-sun-78624

# Other Stuff
Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-Per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth. The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married
https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/

# Social / Social Programs
Social Security boss confirms 2 changes coming – and it will make it harder for 70 million retirees to get their checks. The top boss of the Social Security Administration has confirmed that two big changes are coming to the federal government agency this spring.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13903635/social-security-boss-confirms-changes-harder-retirees-checks/

Trump and Musk are targeting Social Security, and you should worry. The Social Security trust fund is in trouble without the traps being laid by the Trump team. Their goal is to end Social Security. Open your ears to their increasingly loud attacks.
https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/5220003-social-security-attacks/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course. Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/29/elon-musk-says-xai-acquired-x/

Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley. U.S. companies paid $86 billion to Canadian workers in 2022—if they flee, workers will take the hit
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/trumps-tariff-war-could-compel-u-s-companies-to-flee-canada-that-could-hurt-one-in-10-workers/

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