Month: April 2025

Voices, The Peoples News

April 28, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Rights to Native American Land and Natural Resources: The federal government holds 56 million acres of land in trust for Native American tribes and individuals. This means that the government holds title to the land, but the Native American tribe or individual holds the beneficial interest.
https://www.justia.com/native-american-law/rights-to-native-american-land-and-natural-resources/#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20holds%2056,individual%20holds%20the%20beneficial%20interest

American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. That the rights of indigenous peoples are both essential and of historical significance to the present and future of the Americas
https://www.oas.org/en/sare/documents/decamind.pdf

Rights-of-Way on Individually Owned Indian and Tribal Lands. The Division of Real Estate Services coordinates the process of granting access to American Indian and Alaska Native lands for major infrastructure projects.
https://www.bia.gov/service/rights-of-way-individually-owned-indian-and-tribal-lands

# Indigenous / Global
Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands? In Ecuador, Indigenous communities are fighting for stronger safeguards to protect their sovereignty as more oil drilling looms. A right to say no to unwanted development could revolutionize consultation processes used around the world.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27042025/ecuador-indigenous-land-rights-oil-drilling/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘We’re breaking our promises’: Afghans who helped US at risk of deportation as Trump ends protections. Afghans who fled the Taliban, including some who helped the U.S. military during America’s 20-year war there, are facing the risk of deportation as the Trump administration moves to end legal protections for them
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/25/were-breaking-our-promises-afghans-who-helped-us-risk-of-deportation-trump-ends-protections.html

Secret Trump Memo Tells ICE to Break into Homes Without Warrants
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrantless-search

Lawmaker defends bill providing health care to undocumented Minnesotans
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-undocumented-immigrants-health-insurance-debate/

Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3391499/mexico-instructs-broadcasters-ban-kristi-noem-ad-illegal-immigration/

I Was Told I’m Not a U.S. Citizen – My Panic to Prove My Identity: The original poster (OP) received an alert that said he was not a U.S. citizen. The OP clearly has documentation showing that he is, in fact, a U.S. citizen. The poster was born here, and the U.S. follows birthright citizenship rules that say people born in this country are citizens of it.
https://www.aol.com/told-m-not-u-citizen-181504025.html

Undocumented immigrants find legal representation with help of non-profit organization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1OOI0OWw5A

US judge in Texas orders release of Venezuelan couple, temporarily blocks deportations
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-texas-venezuela-a2b8e109b98c4ff62ac7719614056ac3

Haitians living in U.S. face uncertain future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbg4Ix-Gcvo

Irish woman legally residing in US for 30 years detained following visit to ill father in Ireland is being held in a large immigration prison in Washington state. Cliona Ward holds a valid green card and is the sole caregiver for her chronically ill son in Santa Cruz, California.
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-woman-us-detained-cliona-ward-6689583-Apr2025/

Lawsuit says migrants endure isolation and intimidation at US’ Guantanamo detention center
https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-navy-base-immigrants-detained-1ce6ef448f50bc89a47e32a919befc45

ICE admits detained New Jersey man has no criminal history
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/sen-andy-kim-ice-arrest-karim-daoud-new-jersey/

A federal judge wants the Trump administration to explain why a 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother and older sister.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-demands-answers-whether-2-year-old-u-s-citizen-deported-to-honduras/

Border czar maintains “no U.S. citizen child was deported” in incident of girl removed to Honduras with mother
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-homan-border-czar-deportation-us-citizen-honduras-face-the-nation/

Homan says having US-born children does not make people ‘immune’ from deportation
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5270048-homan-us-born-children-deportation/

ICE works with Florida cops to arrest nearly 800 undocumented immigrants in a ‘first-of-its-kind’ agreement
https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2025/04/28/ice-florida-operation-law-enforcement-initiative-arrests/83322522007/

Protests target courthouse, FBI after judge arrested for allegedly protecting illegal immigrant
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hannah-dugan-protest

Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It. In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/25/judge-arrest-trump-immigrants-deport/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Over $300M raised for DEI initiatives in higher education across U.S.
https://www.aol.com/report-over-300m-raised-dei-143100242.html

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Poll: Independent voters turn against DOGE
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7d3cd07b-105b-451c-9204-21a3da1b99af.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Walmart and Target CEOs issue dire tariff warning on everyday items far worse than price rises, empty shelves. The CEOs of Walmart and Target are warning that store shelves could be empty in weeks unless trade policy changes soon.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-target-warn-massive-price-224437154.html

SC Senate votes to give themselves $18,000 pay raise. The South Carolina Senate has voted what is effectively an $18,000-a-year pay raise into the state’s spending plan for the next budget year.
https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-senate-legislators-pay-raise-7c2a3ec068c5316a019c529abd3358f9

Trump Boldly Claims Steep Tariffs Could Lead To Taxes Being ‘Completely Eliminated’ For Some Workers
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-taxes-eliminated_n_680e4676e4b052c33e2744e9

Taxed Baby Products Skyrocket as Trump Pushes for More Kids. The “baby tax” has already made essential gear go up by 30%, and prices are expected to climb higher in the coming weeks.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/26/tariffs-baby-product-prices

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Trump administration proposes elimination of Head Start funding | Here’s what that means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTWeQ8MNhc

Federal judge restricts Trump administration’s efforts to withhold school funding based on DEI
https://www.k12dive.com/news/judge-restricts-education-departments-dei-threats/746293/

ICE restoring legal status for international students with revoked visas
https://apnews.com/article/international-student-status-restored-9e8a7cb90f4193ec52bf06edc5094cd9

Campus communities rally around international students threatened by ICE
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5266036-campus-communities-rally-around-international-students-threatened-by-ice/

These Pennsylvania College and University Presidents Say the Trump Administration’s ‘Unprecedented Government Overreach’ Endangers Higher Education
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/27/nx-s1-5349442/black-federal-employees-trump-cuts

Ex-Tesla exec. urges federal workers to stand up to Elon Musk
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/ex-tesla-exec-urges-federal-workers-stand-up-elon-musk/

Federal workers are waging a resistance against Trump agenda. It’s captured in videos and polling
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/federal-workers-paid-taxpayers-openly-defying-trump-agenda-will-voters

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Deep-sea miner seeks Trump intervention ahead of meeting. Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet (200 meters) below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/marine-life/deep-sea-miner-seeks-trump-intervention/

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the ocean floor despite the objections of environmentalists.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-moves-ramp-deep-sea-215958968.html

Senators unite in rare bipartisan push to keep energy affordable: ‘We believe the final bill can support smart policies’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/clean-energy-tax-credits-republican-senators/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Improving methane measurement in the age of rising emissions
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/engineering/iimproving-methane-measurement/#:~:text=Knowing%20how%20much%20methane%20is,detection%20of%20local%20sources%20easier

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Proposed Changes to FEMA and the Future of Federal Disaster Response. An analysis of how recent executive actions may reshape disaster management and their potential impact on affected communities
https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/proposed-changes-to-fema-and-the-future-of-federal-disaster-response/

Trump’s Cuts to FEMA Leave Us Unprepared for Disasters. Reports of hundreds of staff cuts to FEMA and agency disaster response. Additional cuts are possible as the Trump administration looks to get rid of even more staff, according to news reports. These will reportedly target FEMA staff who work on climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.
https://www.nrdc.org/media/trumps-cuts-fema-leave-us-unprepared-disasters

# Food General News
PA bill passes exempting farmers from unemployment tax for migrants
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_5b272015-4f0f-4176-af9e-d5d7c263f54e.html

Experts Warn Getting Food Is ‘Going To Be Complicated’ As Trump Deportations Target Farm Workers
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mass-deportation-farms-breaking-point-2064190

How Trump’s Deportation Plans Could Blow Up the Food System and Increase Migrant Labor. Instead of cutting back on undocumented immigrants, the new administration will be forced to provide more visas to keep food flowing to stores.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/23/trump-deportation-plans-food-system-00200013

# General News
Donald Trump says major US holiday ‘will return from the ashes’ with attack on Democrats
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vows-bring-columbus-day-220400584.html

Donald Trump going after women’s freedom and cooking legal ‘loopholes’ to beat constitution to become president again. Because two terms are not enough to destroy every right women have won in America.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/donald-trump-going-after-womens-freedom-and-cooking-legal-loopholes-to-beat-constitution-to-become-president-again/

# Gov / Politics
Musk Leads MAGA Meltdown After Dem Demand for Mass Protests. Thousands of protesters gathered across the U.S. Saturday to object to Trump administration policies, including Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) federal downsizing, reciprocal tariffs and immigration reform
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-rally-against-trump-musk-225758310.html

Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker’s office in backlash against Musk. Reps. Judy Chu and Gwen Moore denounced DOGE’s access to a vast government payments system.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/05/congress/two-dem-lawmakers-invade-house-speakers-office-in-backlash-against-musk-00202667

However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough: During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump pretended his “Dictator on Day 1” talk was just a joke. Nearly 100 days in, it’s clear he was dead serious
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-autocrat-supreme-court_n_680ab464e4b031fa917d7610

Ron and Casey DeSantis were plotting a political dynasty in Florida. Then came a scandal
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/ron-casey-desantis-florida-scandal/index.html

‘Might be the big one’: Trump accused of ‘freezing’ out future GOP presidential hopefuls
https://www.rawstory.com/this-might-be-the-big-one-trump-accused-of-freezing-out/

Trump poised to offer Saudi Arabia over $100 billion arms package, sources say
https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/systemfiles/U.S.%20Offers%20Billions%20in%20Arms%20to%20Ease%20Mideast%E2%80%99s%20Iran%20Anxiety%20%20-%20Quoting%20Yiftah%20Shapir%20in%20Bloomberg%20Business.pdf

We Finally Know Exactly What The Saudis Are Getting In That Huge Arms Deal. The package includes major upgrades for the country’s Air Force and Navy, as well as new space-based capabilities.
https://www.twz.com/11329/we-finally-know-exactly-what-the-saudis-are-getting-in-that-huge-arms-deal

Putin is ‘Playing America as a Patsy.’ The senior senator from Iowa has been one of the most vocal congressional Republicans criticizing Russian aggression in Ukraine.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/russia-ukraine-trump-negotiations-00310360

Congress won’t back a Trump invasion of Greenland, top Democrat says. “I don’t believe that there is real bipartisan support…to aggressively move on Greenland,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in Denmark.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/congress-democrats-trump-greenland-invasion/83273753007/

‘Should Not Treat Them Nicely!’ Trump Calls For Republicans to Crack Down on ‘Disruptors and Troublemakers’ at Town Hall Events
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/should-not-treat-them-nicely-trump-calls-for-republicans-to-crack-down-on-disruptors-and-troublemakers-at-town-hall-events/

Trump dismissed Israeli plans to attack Iran in favour of negotiations. Splits within US administration eventually led to ‘rough compromise’ against military action
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-dismissed-israeli-plans-attack-iran-favour-negotiations

US amb. to Israel Mike Huckabee supports starving Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgSwIGTPIE4

Trump Doesn’t Need an Executive Order to Kill Progressive Nonprofits. Fearing retribution from Trump, major donors to progressive organizations are holding back at a time when they need it most.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/25/trump-nonprofits-philanthropy-donors/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Greenland’s prime minister says island can’t be bought and US isn’t showing respect
https://apnews.com/article/greenland-trump-denmark-us-87b669843fc1edc2c40cea47e6a40043

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts. The conservative legal movement’s latest broadside against the judiciary is likely to fail, but it illuminates how far they’re willing to go to dismantle the rule of law.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194461/trump-allies-commandeer-federal-courts

‘Wasting Judicial Resources’: Judge Shreds Trump Admin’s Alien Enemies Act Case. A federal judge in El Paso ruled that Trump’s attempt to deport a couple under the wartime law had no “basis” other than “multiple levels of hearsay”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-judge-shreds-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case-1235325882/

‘Information manipulation’: Trump DOJ goes after Wikipedia for ‘masking propaganda’ and threatens nonprofit status, accuses it of boosting ‘foreign powers’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/information-manipulation-trump-doj-goes-after-wikipedia-for-information-manipulation-and-threatens-nonprofit-status-accuses-it-of-boosting-foreign-powers/

Judge blocks parts of Trump elections overhaul, including proof-of-citizenship requirement
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-citizenship-lawsuit-4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Don’t Let Elon Musk Privatize the Postal Service. In a rare display of bipartisanship, politicians of both parties are telling the Trump Administration not to sell the public service to for-profit corporations.
https://progressive.org/op-eds/dont-let-elon-musk-privatize-the-postal-service-anderson-20250423/

Maddow Declares Trump Attempting ‘Authoritarian Overthrow’ of U.S. But So Far Too ‘Incompetent’ to Pull it Off
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maddow-declares-trump-attempting-authoritarian-overthrow-of-u-s-but-so-far-too-incompetent-to-pull-it-off/

California Democrat pushes to tax social media
https://www.newsweek.com/california-tax-social-media-legislation-2064045

What’s happening at “60 Minutes” matters to anyone who cares about protecting free speech. We should rewatch the SLAPP Suits episode of “Last Week Tonight” in the context of Trump’s threat to press freedoms
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/27/whats-happening-at-60-minutes-matters-to-anyone-cares-about-protecting-free-speech/

# Medicare / Medicaid
Medicaid cuts may disproportionately affect Black, Latino doctors and their patients
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/medicaid-cuts-impact-black-latino-patients-doctors/

Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Are Sitting in to Stand up for Medicaid. The lawmakers are having “An Urgent Conversation with the American People” on the Capitol steps to oppose Republican plans to cut public healthcare benefits
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/booker-jeffries-capitol-sit-in-medicaid-1235326047/

Virginia lawmakers demand Medicare oversight reforms
https://www.insidenova.com/news/state/virginia-lawmakers-demand-medicare-oversight-reforms/article_bdcae3c9-d732-51a3-91bf-3ca43f247a7c.html

# Medical / Health News
Trailblazer: a gene therapy pathway to a cure for HIV
https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/a-gene-therapy-pathway-to-a-cure-for-hiv/

For This Insurer, Breathing Now Comes With A Catch. Blue Cross Blue Shield just made it harder for many patients to get vital asthma and allergy medications, all while channeling more profits toward a PBM-affiliated pharmacy.
https://www.levernews.com/for-this-insurer-breathing-now-comes-with-a-catch/

Increasing Barriers To Care: Many health insurers have long required prior authorizations, in which providers must obtain insurance approval for services or medications, to ostensibly guard against unnecessary procedures. However, many experts say the real reason for such requirements is to create barriers to care and reduce coverage costs.
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-prior-authorization#

# Military / DOD / General News
‘Completely Unacceptable’: Pete Hegseth Calls Out ‘Fat’ Military Troops and Demands For ‘Real Fitness and Weight Standards’ — ‘This is What We Are Changing’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5267720-reserve-troops-weight-standards/

Hegseth Purges Defense Advisory Board After MAGA Came For It. On Tucker Carlson’s show, a MAGA loyalist ripped the Defense Policy Board. In short order, Pete Hegseth purged all its members.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/25/hegseth-defense-policy-board-pentagon-tucker-carlson/

# NASA / Space
Trump administration cancels lease for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies lab in New York City. GISS is a leading Earth science research organization.
https://www.space.com/the-universe/earth/trump-administration-cancels-lease-for-nasas-goddard-institute-for-space-studies-lab-in-new-york-city

SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission. SpaceX launched a milestone mission on Sunday night (April 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-250th-starlink-satellite-mission-lands-rocket-at-sea-photos

# Nuclear
Israeli spokeswoman asked forbidden question about secret nukes
https://www.radiofree.org/2025/04/27/israeli-spokeswoman-asked-forbidden-question-about-secret-nukes/

# Pharmaceuticals
Trump’s planned pharmaceutical tariffs would raise costs by $51bn annually, report finds
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pharmaceutical-tariffs-costs-b2739812.html

# Social / Social Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs. A draft document outlines steep cuts or the elimination of funding for programs that provide child care, housing assistance, foreign aid and health research.
https://www.startribune.com/trump-budget-to-take-ax-to-radical-safety-net-programs/601339585

IRS can seize your social security, property, and paycheck once a year  if you fail to pay your taxes. Here’s what you need to know about the process and how to avoid it
https://www.the-express.com/finance/personal-finance/170059/irs-can-seize-your-social-security-property-paycheck

# Solar Activity
The world’s most advanced solar telescope just unlocked a new level of discovery with the first light from its Visible Tunable Filter—a revolutionary instrument built with atomic precision to capture the Sun in stunning spectral and magnetic detail.
https://scitechdaily.com/worlds-most-powerful-solar-telescope-captures-the-suns-explosive-activity-in-unmatched-detail/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show. Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.
https://www.stopspying.org/wiretaps-on-wheels

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Voices, The Peoples News

April 27, 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

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
DHS Spox Touts ‘Major Success’ In Florida After Nabbing Nearly 800 Illegals In 4 Days. Tricia McLaughlin described the arrest records of some illegal immigrants arrested by ICE as part of “a large-scale operation” during an appearance on Fox News.
https://www.aol.com/dhs-spox-touts-major-success-020838833.html

Trump’s New Defense For Violating Immigration Orders: A Different Agency Did It
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/04/24/trumps-new-defense-for-violating-immigration-orders-a-different-agency-did-it/

ICE deports three U.S. citizen children to Honduras. Three U.S. citizen children were deported to Honduras from Louisiana, sparking national outrage and prompting a U.S. District Judge to criticize the deportation process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16Ej34pS1A

ICE makes insane number of illegal migrant arrests in one swoop during stunning blitzkrieg
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14652069/ICE-illegal-migrant-arrests-blitzkrieg-Florida.html

ICE planning dramatic detention expansion as it tries to deport 1 million people annually. Private prison company CEO calls $45 billion detention expansion plans ‘exciting’ as President Trump ramps up deportations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/trump-contractors-ice-detentions-deportations/83250623007/

Trump admin rips 4-year-old cancer patient from her mother and deports US citizen kids. The deportation of children along with their undocumented parents has raised serious questions about who the administration is targeting during it’s mass deportation efforts
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-rips-4-year-35125837

US judge temporarily stops west Texas immigrant deportations under Alien Enemies Act
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-texas-venezuela-a2b8e109b98c4ff62ac7719614056ac3

Venezuela accuses El Salvador president of ‘human trafficking.’ Venezuela’s attorney general accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of “human trafficking” and suggested he face international justice for accepting cash to jail deportees from the United States.
https://www.barrons.com/news/venezuela-accuses-el-salvador-president-of-human-trafficking-e4ab35f1

Trump team may have violated another judge’s order by moving Venezuelan to Texas for deportation. Administration appears to have bucked yet another court order as officials prepare for more removals under the Alien Enemies Act
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deport-texas-court-order-b2739003.html

Border Patrol, Mexican government dismantle cartel lookout posts: Solar panels and radios were critical tools for cartel lookouts stationed in the desert to spy on Border Patrol movements, guide smugglers through gaps along the Arizona border. But this joint operation sent a loud message: Cartels can set up shop, but the U.S. and Mexico will tear it down.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/border-patrol-mexican-government-cartel-lookouts/

The Kafkaesque Case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez Is a Warning to Us All. In a clear case of racial profiling, immigration police in Florida unlawfully arrested and held a US-born citizen.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-kafkaesque-case-of-juan-carlos-lopez-gomez-is-a-warning-to-us-all/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Lawmakers want to know why DOGE is building a database of sensitive Social Security info. Whistleblower information suggests DOGE is “rapidly, haphazardly, and unlawfully” making changes at the Social Security Administration.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-tech/data-privacy-and-cybersecurity/lawmakers-want-to-know-why-doge-is-building-a-database-of-sensitive-social-security-info

Musk’s team started by searching for cost-savings in federal government. Today they are DOGE the immigrant hunters. In the last few months DOGE has pursued immigration-related data across the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-immigration-data-b2738847.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Elon Musk Is Shutting Down The Government Loan Office That Gave Him The Money To Grow Tesla
https://www.jalopnik.com/1843586/elon-musk-doe-cuts-tesla/

China foreign minister says US tariffs show “extreme egoism.” “Certain countries” resort to “pressure and coercion, and trigger unjustified trade wars. This extreme selfishness only harms their credibility.”
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/trade-war-tariffs-china-hits-out-extreme-selfishness-us-trump-5091491

How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs. Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
https://www.levernews.com/how-trump-is-helping-price-gougers-exploit-his-tariffs/

Crypto Scams Are Exploding, And There’s No Plan To Protect You. New data reveals Americans lost a record $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency fraud last year, yet the government has no unified strategy for combating online scams.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/02/26/crypto-scams-are-costing-people-millions-heres-how/

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Smithsonian begins removing exhibits, artifacts from African American History Museum. It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/smithsonian-begins-removing-exhibits-artifacts-from-african-american-history-museum/

Civil rights leader says artifacts were removed from Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History. Full interview with the Rev. Amos Brown, after a crucial Civil Rights Era artifact was removed from the Museum of African American History and Culture. [Video]
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/black-history/civil-rights-museum-of-african-americna-history-trump-administration/65-34b205a3-8763-48ce-9aa3-a8bacb71e926

Three judges, including two Trump appointees, rule against the Department of Education’s anti-DEI policy
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-education-department-from-enforcing-dei-orders-00307831

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Automaker’s Tariff Plan: Cut Jobs And Pay Off Wall Street. Stellantis laid off a thousand U.S. workers in response to tariffs, then authorized billions in shareholder payouts.
https://www.levernews.com/automakers-tariff-plan-cut-jobs-and-pay-off-wall-street/

Buffalo hotel workers are facing off with a Trump-aligned developer in their battle to unionize.
https://truthout.org/articles/buffalo-is-a-union-town-but-for-hotel-workers-union-busting-runs-rampant/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System. This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially.
https://www.wired.com/story/grid-scale-battery-storage-is-quietly-revolutionizing-the-energy-system/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Report: Trump Administration Considers Attacking Six National Monuments for Energy Development. The monuments comprise over 5 million acres of national public lands across the west
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/report-trump-administration-considers-attacking-six-national-monuments-for-energy-development

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Memo Recommends Denying Disaster Declarations For All Snowstorms.  The memo, authored by acting FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton, aligns with President Donald Trump’s executive order to shift disaster response responsibilities from the federal government to individual states.
https://www.iheart.com/content/2025-04-25-fema-memo-recommends-denying-disaster-declarations-for-all-snowstorms/

Trump officials discuss making it much harder to qualify for federal disaster assistance, starting this hurricane season
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fema-aid-disaster-assistance-memo/index.html

Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people. Latest denial of disaster funding comes as Trump has repeatedly stated he wants to eliminate Fema
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-denies-aid-arkansas-tornados

# Food General News
Walmart CEO issues stark two-week warning over prices and ’empty shelves’ as customers brace for new fees. Tea, avocados, sneakers, home furniture, bananas, video games, clothes, toys, and foreign-made cars are all expected to become much more expensive under Trump’s trade plan. “Even if it’s made in the USA, they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs,”
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14095700/walmart-ceo-doug-mcmillon-tariffs-trump-prices/

‘Time Is Of The Essence’: USDA Threatens Mexico Over Fast-Moving Flesh Eating Fly. AgSec Brooke Rollins threatened Saturday to restrict Mexican animal exports if they don’t allow the U.S. to help eradicate a deadly flesh eating insect outbreak.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/26/usda-mexico-brooke-rollins-flesh-eating-fly-new-world-screwworm-darien-gap/

Government enacts emergency food law to rein in soaring prices — and it could set off a global chain reaction. If successful, this could turn an emergency into a commercial opportunity.
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/japan-staple-food-production-law-farming/

# General News
Trump admin brainstorms aggressive tactics to clear homeless camps in cities and forcibly hospitalize people, report claims. Justice Department asks employees for ideas on how to ‘more efficiently shift chronic vagrants away from the public square and into a more concentrated space’ to better deploy services
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clear-homeless-encampments-mental-illness-b2740126.html

Trump Refused to Give Biden Air Force One Ride to Pope’s Funeral. Trump said that a meeting with Biden during the trip to Italy was “not high on my list.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-refuses-biden-air-force-145829857.html

Trump Gets Called Out in Front of Millions at Pope’s Funeral. In 2016, Pope Francis had criticized Trump’s proposed border wall, stating that “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-called-out-by-cardinal-at-popes-funeral-who-is-giovannibattistare-article-151507001

‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/trump-project-2025-book

Ossoff: Trump’s recent actions ‘should chill us to the bone.’ “I think it’s clear. We have never seen a president try to wield the federal government to crush his critics and political adversaries. That’s something new in American history, and it is, in my view, un-American.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5269706-ossoff-trumps-recent-actions-should-chill-us-to-the-bone/

“Soft Launching A Fascist Dictatorship Is Insane” — People Are Floored By Donald Trump Selling “Trump 2028” Hats On His Official Store Website
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/reactions-to-trump-selling-trump-2028-hats

# Gov / Politics
‘America can no longer be the same’: Trump unleashes tirade on what courts won’t ‘allow’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-courts-wont-allow-tirade/

New Report: Human Rights Organizations Urge United Nations to Address U.S. Violations of Free Expression, Calling Global Attention to Entrenching Authoritarianism
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/new-report-human-rights-organizations-urge-united-nations-address

# Gov / Politics / Global
Shocked by US peace proposal, Ukrainians say they will not accept any formal surrender of Crimea
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-crimea-peace-talks-concession-58de3cf0bd289e2e2377a9e4914285c0

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
The gap in crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and U.S. natives is huge. New study suggests we need to rethink our attitudes on immigration.
https://www.upworthy.com/the-gap-in-crime-rates-between-undocumented-immigrants-legal-immigrants-and-us-natives-is-huge

Trump fires nearly all investigators of firefighter deaths, ProPublica reports
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-immigration-data-b2738847.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Donald Trump went after one of America’s top law firms. Its decision to fight back took just two hours. The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump. Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/the-conservative-lawyer-defending-a-firm-from-donald-trump

The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f

# Medicare / Medicaid
Mark Cuban Says Health Insurance Shouldn’t Exist. Mark Cuban isn’t interested in patching up the healthcare system with duct tape and buzzwords. He wants to rip it open, throw it under a spotlight, and ask what a lot of Americans are already thinking: Why is this entire industry allowed to operate in complete darkness?
http://blog.riskmanagers.us/mark-cuban-says-health-insurance-shouldnt-exist/

# Medical / Health News
Trump to end $56 million grant to give Narcan to first responders to help save lives during an overdose. Narcan, known generically as naloxone, is a nasal spray that works to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose in two to three minutes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-narcan-overdose-grant-b2739727.html

It Pays Well To Deny Coverage. As Cigna fights off a lawsuit claiming it systematically denied patients coverage, the health insurance giant just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance.
https://www.levernews.com/it-pays-well-to-deny-coverage/

# Military / DOD / General News
Hegseth Fires Dozens of Pentagon Advisory Board Members, Cites Need for ‘Fresh Thinking’ to ‘Drive Bold Change’
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-dismisses-pentagon-advisory-board-members-f72ae662

# Pharmaceuticals
Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals May Be the Next Front in Trump’s War on Public Health. Trump and his commerce secretary are threatening to make medications more expensive by slapping tariffs on them.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5265790-pharmaceutical-tariffs-national-security/

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Rights Groups Detail ‘Authoritarian’ Reality of US Surveillance in Report to UN: Trump is weaponizing a high-tech surveillance state in violation of international human rights law, experts say.
https://truthout.org/articles/rights-groups-detail-authoritarian-reality-of-us-surveillance-in-report-to-un/

# Social / Social Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Trump admin demands crackdown on illegal immigrants’ use of taxpayer-funded food stamps
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/usda-makes-it-tougher-for-illegals-to-get-food-stamps/

AZ’s U.S. senators sign onto letter urging SSA field offices to remain open. The letter to Leland Dudek, acting commissioner of the SSA, signed by more than 100 Congressional Democrats, notes that field offices “provide vital services” to Social Security recipients and adds that “beneficiaries need the opportunity to seek assistance” in person.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/arizona/article_fbd8e787-cab4-45ad-ab5f-6c080f781597.html

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April 26, 2025
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dependent on that world. It provides our food, water, and air.
It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
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# Indigenous
‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations. Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the displacement of their communities.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042025/indigenous-women-come-together-during-new-york-united-nations-event/

Montana Farmers Union joins Blackfeet Nation in lawsuit against tariffs
https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-ag-network/montana-farmers-union-joins-blackfeet-nation-in-lawsuit-against-tariffs

How one Native American tribe is working to protect the Delaware River
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-native-american-tribe-working-234509046.html

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation. Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer. Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged two, four, and seven — were abruptly deported under “troubling circumstances,”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-deport-child-cancer-us-citizen-1235325778/

New Orleans-born toddler deported to Honduras, court documents show. The judge has warned that the deportation was carried out “with no meaningful process” but the Trump administration argues the deportation was carried out according to the wishes of the mother, who had asked officials to be able to take her daughter with her to Honduras.
https://www.newsweek.com/two-year-old-deported-honduras-trump-administration-2064519

White House Blocked Plan to Return Wrongfully Deported Maryland Dad
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-blocked-plan-to-return-wrongfully-deported-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

El Salvador’s president says he will not return wrongfully deported Maryland man. “How could I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele said. The administration has not publicly presented evidence that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 or a terrorist, and he has not been charged with any crime or convicted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWjhB6iziU

Trump’s migrant arrests forces all-male ICE center to hold women and exceed nearly triple capacity
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/trump-migrant-arrest-deportations-ice-krome-florida-b2739506.html

‘It’s time for you to leave the United States.’ DHS tells temporary US residents to self-deport
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-barbie-staff-tell-u-170108956.html

Trump Customs and Border official fired over a wedding photo: report
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-firing-2671845181/

New Mexico Tech doctoral student challenges Homeland Security’s termination of his student status
https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-releases/ghanaian-doctoral-student-challenges-abrupt-termination-international-student-status

Court grants NM Tech student temporary restraining order against Homeland Security
https://sourcenm.com/briefs/court-grants-nm-tech-student-temporary-restraining-order-against-homeland-security/

DHS forced to respond as flurry of letters sent to Americans telling them to leave country – despite being US citizens
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14105462/dhs-citizenship-letter-american-immigration-mistake/

Cuban-American Community Divided by ICE Deportation of Migrant Mother in Tampa. The deportation occurred after Sánchez attended a routine immigration appointment, despite her ongoing efforts to regularize her status and her compliance with all immigration requirements.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cuban-american-community-divided-by-ice-deportation-of-migrant-mother-in-tampa/ar-AA1DDknc

Trucking co. owner, four others, guilty in $64 million scheme to transport liquid meth from Mexico to Oklahoma in semi truck fuel tanks. 18 Now Convicted as Part of Drug Trafficking Organization Responsible for Approximately 16,000 Kilos of Methamphetamine with Estimated Street Value of $64,000,000
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/federal-jury-convicts-five-drug-trafficking-conspiracy-used-semi-trucks-transport

Miami Migrant Detention Center Staff Fear Migrant Uprising As Population Swells To Three Times Its Capacity
https://www.latintimes.com/miami-migrant-detention-center-staff-fear-migrant-uprising-population-swells-three-times-its-581728

Family Arrested by US Border Agents While Trying to Relocate to Canada. “They reduced us to nothing when they didn’t believe us. They destroyed all our hopes, all our happiness that we would have a life of safety in Canada after so many years of fear. We are so afraid,” she said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-arrested-by-us-border-agents-while-trying-to-relocate-to-canada/ar-AA1DEDWg

Federal agents detain day laborers in Pomona, sparking community outrage. The Department of Homeland Security confirms it arrested 10 undocumented migrants during a targeted operation outside of a Home Depot in Pomona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_3XMKKC9iE

Mexican citizens left confused after being denied entry to Mexico at Laredo border. “We were coming back home to San Miguel de Allende, a city in Guanajuato, Mexico. We were trying to cross the border around 5:30 a.m., and we got detained by the National Guard,” Silva said. Authorities had an issue with Silva’s truck, which has never been an issue for the last five years.
https://www.kold.com/2025/04/23/mexican-citizens-left-confused-after-being-denied-entry-when-returning-mexico/

Venezuelan family seeks answers after loved one deported to El Salvador prison. The Trump administration claims many of the immigrants deported there are criminals, but his family argues that he has no criminal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIluC29LckE

Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-war-immigrants-become-attack-100000304.html

Another deported man ordered to be returned
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/deported-migrant-el-salvador-trump.html

‘The United States wants you to leave’: Unaccompanied migrant kids are being forced — some just toddlers — to represent themselves in deportation proceedings.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-cuts-leave-thousands-of-kids-to-face-immigration-court-alone/

Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant. The Justice Department quietly authorized immigration agents to seize power in arresting people under the Alien Enemies Act—no warrant required.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing “homegrowns” to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t “deportation.” It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193971/big-law-firms-cave-trump-immoral-work

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Empty store shelves are coming as companies cancel orders from China amid tariff concerns. Number of freight vessels scheduled to arrive at the Port of Los Angeles is on track to be down by 31 percent for the week ending May 10
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-china-tradewar-tariffs-empty-shelves-b2739686.html

China accuses US of ‘bullying’ the world with tariffs at UN meeting
https://unwatch.org/china-convenes-u-n-security-council-meeting-on-u-s-bullying-in-international-relations/

Connecticut to join multistate lawsuit against ‘unlawful’ tariffs
https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-04-24/connecticut-to-join-multistate-lawsuit-against-unlawful-tariffs

The Tariffs Are Coming for Baby Products. “These tariffs are essentially a baby tax on already-struggling families,” says one CEO of a baby registry company.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/26/tariffs-baby-product-prices

# Education / Schools / Libraries
Bill to keep ICE officers out of public schools heads to state Senate
https://www.thecentersquare.com/nevada/article_2dc07115-5a03-4464-9718-a6eb023b7c0d.html

Ed Dept Opens Investigation Into University With ‘Deep Involvements With Chinese Entities.’ The Department of Education opened an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley over its reported ties to Chinese sources.
https://www.aol.com/ed-dept-opens-probe-university-155443547.html

Trump Strikes Again! Grants Pulled From Whitney Plantation Museum, Which Teaches Slavery Truths
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/whitney-plantation-museum-trump-funding

ICE backs down, says it will restore status of thousands of foreign students
https://apnews.com/article/international-student-status-restored-9e8a7cb90f4193ec52bf06edc5094cd9

Zuckerbergs leave parents ‘dumbfounded’ as they pull plug on lifeline in poor community, blindsiding parents who rely on those schools and leading some to wonder if it has anything to do with Trump’s crusade against diversity policies.
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-2671845841/

Alabama Senate approves bill requiring school boards to adopt religious instruction policies. The updated “release time” policies would allow off-campus religious instruction with parental consent.
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/04/23/alabama-senate-oks-bill-expanding-release-time-for-religious-education/

Lawmakers revisit bills to ensure diverse histories are taught in Maine schools
https://www.mainepublic.org/education-news/2025-04-23/lawmakers-consider-bill-to-strengthen-wabanaki-studies-in-schools-statewide

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Workers in 600 cities to mobilize against ‘billionaire takeover’ in massive May Day protests
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/25/workers-in-600-cities-to-mobilize-against-billionaire-takeover-in-massive-may-day-protests/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
As US Dismantles Its Climate Policy, Other World Leaders Seek Solidarity. The day after a U.S. State Department proposal to shutter its climate-negotiations office, the U.N.’s secretary-general said, “No group or government can stop the clean energy revolution.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042025/un-responds-to-state-department-proposal-to-shutter-climate-office/

Judge rules federal government owes nearly $28 million to North Dakota for pipeline protests
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/24/Dakota-Access-pipeline-ruling/1641745484489/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
As Trump pushes public land sales, advocates rally. Broad support for public lands in the West is forcing some Republicans to break with the White House.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/will-the-u-s-housing-crisis-be-exploited-for-a-massive-public-lands-sell-off/

# Food General News
US Justice Department unit for drug and food safety cases being disbanded. A Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of U.S. food and drug safety laws is being disbanded as part of an ongoing cost-cutting campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration, according to…
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-04-24-justice-department-shuts-branch-that-prosecutes-consumer-fraud-cases/

# Gov / Politics
The U.N. rebukes Trump in his hometown: Foreign leaders came to President Donald Trump’s hometown of New York this week. But they refused to show the U.S. president the fealty that he’s come to expect from Republican lawmakers, conservative groups and even businesses.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/trump-un-foreign-policy-843110

‘Don’t be a ball buster, OK’: Inside Trump’s brash approach to silence dissenters and push his agenda
https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-ball-buster-ok-134348511.html

Trump Appears Unaware Supreme Court Ruled 9-0 Against Him: ‘That’s Not What My People Told Me’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/thats-not-what-my-people-told-me-trump-defends-defying-9-0-supreme-court-ruling-ordering-kilmar-garcia-returned/

‘Dark path’: Ex-national security official speaks out after Trump labels him a ‘traitor.’ “I said this would happen,” Taylor told his X followers. “Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path.”
https://www.rawstory.com/miles-taylor-2671729890/

Donald Trump just confirmed we’re living under a dictatorship with his latest merch
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72

Senator joins group of far-left lawmakers who think Trump has — again — committed impeachable offenses
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senator-joins-group-far-left-212736287.html

MAGA host: ‘Money-grubbing’ welfare recipients don’t deserve Trump’s $5,000 ‘baby bonuses’
https://www.rawstory.com/gina-loudon-baby-bonuses/

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool. This presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/ukraine-donald-trump-true-identity-vandal-autocrat-gangster-fool

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Says He’s ‘Gotta Be Doing Something Right’ Because Law Firms Are Giving Him ‘A Lot of Money.’
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-says-hes-gotta-be-doing-something-right-because-law-firms-are-giving-him-a-lot-of-money/

Wisconsin governor says arrest of judge is part of Trump administration effort to ‘undermine our judiciary’
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-7997186bbca5730e70a25f2347e631f6

‘Employees shell-shocked’: Ex-insider sounds alarm as Trump disarms ‘crown jewel’ of DOJ
https://www.rawstory.com/doj-civil-rights-division-jewel/

‘Exonerated Five’ Raymond Santana Says There’s A ‘Solid Case Against Trump’ After Judge Blocks Lawsuit Dismissal Attempts
https://www.blackenterprise.com/raymond-santana-breaks-silence-on-facing-trump-in-court/

Judge refuses to dismiss Central Park Five’s defamation case against President Trump
https://apnews.com/article/central-park-five-donald-trump-defamation-lawsuit-d7107a64130be9723d79c6cc52dfd0dd

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Justice Department says it will resume practice of obtaining reporters’ records in leak inquiries
https://nypost.com/2025/04/25/us-news/justice-department-says-it-will-resume-practice-of-obtaining-reporters-records-in-leak-inquiries/

USPS workers sound alarm over Trump efforts to dismantle service: ‘The hounds are at the door. The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk’s Doge over privatization
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/24/usps-workers-sound-alarm-over-trump-efforts-to-dismantle-service-the-hounds-are-at-the-door

# Medicare / Medicaid / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Cutting federal Medicaid expansion funding could lead to 30K additional deaths: Analysis
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5261905-medicaid-cuts-house-republican-budget-plan/

# Medical / Health News
House oversight committee demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office. The top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability wants answers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about why its public records staff was gutted on April 1, when thousands of federal health agency workers were fired.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5375065/cdc-hhs-public-records-foia

# Military / General News / Global
Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5377192/houthis-reaper-drones-us-military-yemen

# Science /  Science Engineers
Trump’s first-term pick to run the National Science Foundation quits: ‘I have done all I can.’ Sethuraman Panchanathan has left the scientific research funding agency amid widespread layoffs and canceled grants.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-national-science-foundation-leader-resigns-00308198

Scientists scramble to save climate and health data as government deletions escalate
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

# Social / Social Programs
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has notified staff at the Social Security Advisory Board that it plans to cut the board’s annual budget from around $3 million to zero
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-white-house-wants-defund-171747507.html

Trump and DOGE’s cuts to Social Security Administration spark fears that benefit payments will be ‘interrupted’ soon
https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/social-security-benefits-could-face-interruption-within-30-days

‘A gut punch’: Trump admin cuts wipe out firefighter health and safety programs
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/a-gut-punch-trump-admin-cuts-wipe-out-firefighter-health-and-safety-programs-00308864

California Democratic mayor calls for jailing homeless people refusing housing amid encampment crisis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3390727/california-democratic-mayor-matt-mahan-san-jose-homeless-people/

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Thousands of migrant children must face court alone after cuts to legal aid, rights groups warn. Immigrant rights groups argue that the Trump administration’s slashing of aid hurts vulnerable unaccompanied children, violating federal law and increasing risks of trafficking.
https://www.courthousenews.com/thousands-of-migrant-children-must-face-court-alone-after-cuts-to-legal-aid-rights-groups-warn/

Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All. What began as Trump’s mass deportation scheme has spiraled into a campaign of intimidation against citizens lawfully using their rights.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/04/09/trumps-attacks-immigrants-damage-democracy-250350

Trump Makes Alarming Confession on Wrongly Deported Immigrant. Donald Trump is openly admitting his defiance of the Supreme Court on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Trump said he hadn’t asked Salvador President Nayib Bukele to release Abrego Garcia because “nobody asked me to ask him that question.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-makes-alarming-confession-wrongly-130304829.html

Wrongly Detained U.S. Citizen With Learning Disabilities Allegedly Forced To Sign Documents He Couldn’t Read. Jose Hermosillo, who lives in New Mexico was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and charged with illegal entry into the country.
https://www.latintimes.com/wrongly-detained-us-citizen-learning-disabilities-allegedly-forced-sign-documents-he-couldnt-581552

Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails. Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detention
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
‘Who Is DOGE?’ Has Become a Metaphysical Question. The acting head of the General Services Administration says it has no DOGE team. It merely lists at least a half-dozen DOGE affiliates on payroll and has a section of its building for DOGE use only.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/

Don’t Be Fooled. Elon Musk Isn’t Going Anywhere. Tthe world’s richest person will continue to wield oligarchic influence over our politics, and therefore our lives.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/don-t-fooled-elon-musk-100000283.html

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Going Anywhere—At Least Not Right Away. When Elon Musk puffed a joint on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently, shareholders were relieved to know he was just high and not nuts
https://chiefexecutive.net/elon-musk-going-anywhere-not-right-away/

DOGE deactivates 500,000 credit cards in unprecedented new program. The new government squad headed by Elon Musk cut nearly half a million credit cards used by Americans, with 200k customers suspended in just the last month
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/doge-deactivates-500000-credit-cards-1105922

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Team Tips Off Wall Street Execs About Coming Trade Deal. Trump is making sure his billionaire friends know what’s happening before the rest of the public. “Wall Street execs are getting a direct heads-up from the White House about news that could earn them billions on the stock market.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-wall-street-trade-talks

Trump’s Feud With the Federal Reserve Will Hit Your Pocketbook. The threat to the Fed’s independence affects more than just the stock market—ordinary Americans stand to lose out as well.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-feud-federal-hit-pocketbook-100000501.html

Fox Reporter Says the Trump White House Is Giving Wall Street Executives Inside Info on Tariff Negotiations
https://www.mediaite.com/news/fox-reporter-says-the-trump-white-house-is-giving-wall-street-executives-inside-info-on-tariff-negotiations/

‘Upended the constitutional order’: Trump has ‘no authority’ to impose tariffs for ‘whatever reason he finds convenient,’ lawsuit says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/upended-the-constitutional-order-trump-has-no-authority-to-impose-tariffs-for-whatever-reason-he-finds-convenient-lawsuit-says/

Sen. Chuck Schumer to force vote on restoring congressional power over trade, tariffs
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-chuck-schumer-force-vote-005140757.html

# Education / Schools / Libraries
Parents outraged after ‘whites’ and ‘colored’ signs are posted above water fountains in Georgia elementary school. Students reported seeing the signs above water fountains and in the cafeteria at Honey Creek Elementary in Conyers, Georgia, southeast of Atlanta, according to local outlet WSB-TV.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-outraged-whites-colored-signs-223506436.html

DODEA schools included in new Trump order to end race factors in disciplining
https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/military-schools-offer-test-case-for-trump-education-reforms/amp/

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reinstates Commonsense School Discipline Policies
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinstates-commonsense-school-discipline-policies/

Donald Trump Administration To Seize Wages, Pensions, And Tax Refunds To Repay Student Loans: ‘Debt Cannot Be Wiped Away’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-seize-wages-pensions-tax-refunds-repay-student-loans-debt-cannot-wiped-away

# Employment / Labor / Unions
The Teamsters Make Some Moves on Amazon. They’re compelling the company to bargain with their warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Despite the Trump administration’s baseline hostility to organized labor, union organizing continues apace, even—or perhaps, especially—at Amazon.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-04-24-teamsters-union-amazon-nlrb/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience. The latest floods, wildfires, and other disasters reveal the flaws of adaptation as the main response to climate change.
https://undark.org/2025/04/23/opinion-climate-resilience-illusion/

Yellowstone Caldera has a secret that could reveal how close we are to an eruption. Is Yellowstone Going To Erupt? New Research Reveals That the Volcano Is Venting
https://scitechdaily.com/is-yellowstone-going-to-erupt-new-research-reveals-that-the-volcano-is-venting/

Humanity on path to climate collapse as study warns 16 tipping points at risk. New research finds current climate policies put Earth on a collision course with multiple environmental tipping points, threatening irreversible damage to global systems.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/multiple-tipping-points-at-threat-if-global-policies-dont-change/#:~:text=Multiple%20climate%20’tipping%20points’%20are,and%20vast%20forests%2C%20have%20warned

Trump administration slashes environmental reviews to speed fossil fuel permits
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-slashes-environmental-reviews-to-speed-fossil-fuel-permits

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Trump officials discuss making it much harder to qualify for federal disaster assistance, starting this hurricane season
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fema-aid-disaster-assistance-memo/index.html

# General News
Trump Team Unveils Gross New Target in Abrego Garcia Attacks: His Wife. Donald Trump’s administration has managed to sink even lower in their efforts to smear Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194360/donald-trump-team-new-attack-kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife

Judge Napolitano: Trump Pentagon fumbles at home, fails in Yemen: Max Blumenthal assesses the chaos at the Trump Pentagon under the abysmal leadership of Pete Hegseth, and how it might shape a potential war with Iran.
https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/judge-napolitano-trump-pentagon-fumbles

Transcript of Scott Ritter: Why Would US Fight in Yemen?  full transcript of a conversation between Judge Andrew Napolitano and former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Judging Freedom Podcast titled “Why Would US Fight in Yemen?” premiered March 24, 2025.
https://singjupost.com/transcript-of-scott-ritter-why-would-us-fight-in-yemen/?singlepage=1

# Gov / Politics
Trump tells Putin “STOP!” after Russia’s deadly strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. President Trump posted on social media a scathing plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt attacks on Ukraine after drones and missiles were launched toward Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCdXe18oMs

Trump Has a New Plan for Ukraine. Hoo Boy. Anyone who believes Putin would hold the line at Donbas hasn’t been paying attention.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-ceasefire-peace-plan.html?pay=1745584795143&support_journalism=please

What Did Rubio Mean About “Moving On” From Ukraine? There Are a Few Clues. Signs point to a potential new area of focus.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-russia-rubio-ukraine-putin-zelensky-iran.html

Pete Hegseth’s Signalgate Scandal Somehow Just Got Worse. The defense secretary went out of his way to use Signal on the Pentagon premises. The Washington Post reports that the former Fox News host had Signal installed on his office computer at the Pentagon, a major security risk
https://newrepublic.com/post/194337/pete-hegseth-signal-computer-pentagon

Pete Hegseth Is Self-Destructing at Lightning Speed. A new Signal scandal. Personnel nightmares. A torrent of leaks and condemnations. It’s almost as if he was a terrible choice for this gig.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pete-hegseth-scandal-signal-wife/

Trump Guts Key Civil Rights Protections With New Executive Order. “With the swipe of his pen, Donald Trump has just made an attempt to re-segregate America by repealing and deprioritizing landmark civil rights regulations and laws,” legislative researcher Allison Chapman told Truthout.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-guts-key-civil-rights-protections-with-new-executive-order/

Trump’s Surprise Admission About Putin Wrecks “Great Dealmaker” Scam. As Trump reveals that he’s not expecting serious concessions from Russia in peace talks, the author of a new piece on his strategy explains why it’s likely to prove counterproductive—with tragic and disastrous results.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194392/trump-surprise-admission-putin-wrecks-great-dealmaker-scam

‘Like a slap in the face’: Trump officials cut hundreds of millions to combat gun violence and opioid addiction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/trump-administration-funding-gun-violence-opioid-addiction

Donald Trump Goes Full Authoritarian In New Attack On Democratic Party. Donald Trump Targets Democratic Party Fundraising Platform ActBlue. Taking a page from authoritarians around the world, Trump is targeting his political opposition with criminal investigations.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-actblue_n_680a971ce4b042d1248573cb

# Gov / Politics / Global
UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal. The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/

Israeli Minister Says GOP Leaders Agree That Gaza “Aid Depots Should Be Bombed.” GOP leaders met with Israeli minister who called for bombing Gaza aid depots. Experts have said that Israel’s withholding and targeting of humanitarian aid amount to genocidal acts.
https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-minister-says-gop-leaders-agree-that-gaza-aid-depots-should-be-bombed/

Putin Hasn’t Decided Whether to Ditch Trump or Keep Trying to Manipulate Him. The last-minute announcement of an Easter truce in Ukraine was symbolic of the Russian president’s indecision.
https://finchannel.com/putins-unilateral-easter-truce-was-never-intended-to-last/125388/opinion/2025/04/

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Make No Mistake, Trump Is Turning the US Into a Police State. The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is a blatant attack on the civil liberties without which there can be no meaningful democracy for anyone. Our dark days are getting darker by the moment.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-s-police-state

Trump Signs Executive Orders in Support of Law Enforcement and Public Safety
https://www.napo.org/washington-report/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-in-support-of-law-enforcement-public-safety/

Trump Promises to Militarize Police, Reincarcerate Thousands, and Expand Death Penalty
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/trump-promises-to-militarize-police-reincarcerate-thousands-and-expand-death-penalty

Donald Trump and the police state. Donald Trump Will Need a Police State to Implement His Agenda
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/biden-trump-federal-power-police-state/

Trump is Erecting a Police State in America. The Constitution’s framers were aware that their system would rest on the willingness of all – particularly the president – to respect and maintain it.
https://www.resetdoc.org/story/trump-erecting-police-state-america/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller gave an outrageous ultimatum during a rant attacking U.S. federal judges for upholding the rule of law in the face of Donald Trump’s mass deportations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-delivers-chilling-warning-165640958.html

Democrats Warn Law Firms That Caved to Trump are Helping Him Break Law. Multiple law firms have preemptively bent the knee to Donald Trump and agreed to provide him with free legal services.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194376/democrats-warn-law-firms-caved-donald-trump

Democrats Demand Answers From Top Law Firms That Caved To Trump’s Wishes. “Your agreement makes you complicit in efforts to undermine the rule of law,” they fumed to five prominent firms that paid off Trump to avoid his attacks.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-law-firms-caved-trump_n_6806aecee4b06d0beefcfb3f

Trump’s bad day in court: President loses three times within 90 minutes on DEI, sanctuary cities and voter registration. Federal judges across the country dealt blows to executive orders and other policy maneuvers
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-executive-order-court-rulings-today-b2739062.html

George Santos, Disgraced Congressman Turned Cameo Star, Sentenced to More than 7 Years in Prison for Fraud. The disgraced former congressman pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in August 2024
https://people.com/george-santos-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-11721249

# LGBTQ / Gender
The “Parental Rights” Movement Takes Its Anti-LGBTQ Agenda to SCOTUS. The right-wing movement wants the Supreme Court’s help to alienate students from LGBTQ-inclusive books.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-parental-rights-movement-takes-its-anti-lgbtq-agenda-to-scotus/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
CBS News Falls to Trump: The Shocking Resignation of Bill Owens. How corporate pressure and a $10 billion Trump lawsuit against “60 Minutes” gutted one of America’s most trusted news programs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2025/04/23/bill-owens-and-10-other-media-figures-who-quit-because-of-trump/

# Medical / Health News
That Fluoride Added to Your Town Water to ‘Prevent Cavities?’ The EPA Says It’s Hazardous Waste
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fluoride-drinking-water-prevent-cavities-epa-hazardous-waste/

EPA cuts key children’s health experts in push to end diversity efforts. “The moves are aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and environmental justice programs at the E.P.A., Trump administration officials say.”
https://www.sej.org/headlines/child-health-experts-diversity-roles-will-be-fired-or-reassigned

# Military / DOD / General News
Navy Commissions Its Newest Submarine, the USS Iowa. The new Navy submarine, a nuclear-powered Virginia-class vessel, is the first submarine to be named for the state.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-uss-iowa-submarine-commissions/

Global Tensions Surge as U.S. Expands Strikes in Yemen, Calls Out Russia on Ukraine Attacks
https://thedebrief.org/global-tensions-surge-as-u-s-expands-strikes-in-yemen-calls-out-russia-on-ukraine-attacks/

U.S. warship sent to China’s coast: An American warship sailed through a narrow sea corridor between China and Taiwan in a subtle show of force by the Trump administration amid geopolitical and trade tensions with Beijing
https://www.newsweek.com/us-navy-ship-taiwan-strait-transit-trump-china-2063395

# Military / General News / Global
North Korean Troops in Russia: A Dangerous New Phase in the Ukraine War. The alliance could further escalate and globalize the conflict.
https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/north-korean-troops-russia-dangerous-new-phase-ukraine-war

# Other Stuff
Strange Desert Markings Resembling “Mysterious Writing” Spotted by Cameras on the International Space Station. Strange markings that resemble writing were recently spotted in the Tunisian desert by cameras aboard the International Space Station.
https://thedebrief.org/strange-desert-markings-resembling-mysterious-writing-spotted-by-cameras-on-the-international-space-station/#:~:text=Strange%20markings%20that%20were%20recently,Tunisia%20on%20April%2015%2C%202025

# Social / Social Programs
Trump Comes Up With New Plan to Gut Social Security. Trump’s team has just paved the way for mass layoffs at the Social Security Administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-comes-plan-gut-social-163722878.html

FACT CHECK: President Trump Will Always Protect Social Security, Medicare
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/

Biden alleges Trump has ‘taken a hatchet’ to Social Security in his first post-presidency speech. “Social Security is more than a government program. It’s a sacred promise we made as a nation.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-speak-social-security-040723788.html

‘Thousands’ of Social Security Employees Changed to ‘Political Appointees’ Despite Career Status: “The agency has contorted the term ‘policy-influencing’ beyond all recognition.”
https://www.ibtimes.com/thousands-social-security-employees-changed-political-appointees-despite-career-status-report-3771293

Democrats call on Social Security Administration to keep field offices open
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5265540-democrats-social-security-administration-field-offices/

# Space Force
The NRO and the U.S. Space Force Just Conducted Another Secret Launch. On Sunday, the U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) conducted another secret launch of a classified payload.
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/04/22/space-force-and-nro-just-launched-another-secret-mission-heres-what-we-know/

# Veterans / VA
Donald Trump Faces Backlash After Telling Wounded Soldiers It’s ‘Amazing’ They ‘Got Hit’: ‘He Is Hopeless’
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-backlash-wounded-soldiers-amazing-hit-hopeless-empathy/

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations. Amid the fury over Trump’s deportations to El Salvador, the administration just deported someone to Rwanda. And no, he’s not from there.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194312/trump-deportation-rwanda

Dominican Republic deports dozens of Haitian pregnant women and children in hospital crackdown. Medical care and human rights should not depend on immigration documents.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2541976/dominican-republic-deports-pregnant-women-and-children-to-haiti-amid-border-clampdown

New York judge blocks ICE from setting up office inside Rikers Island
https://san.com/cc/new-york-judge-blocks-ice-from-setting-up-office-inside-rikers-island/

ICE Accused of Lying to School Staff as Part of Bid to Detain Elementary Students
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/826-boston-federal-funding-dei-trump-b2737616.html

‘Horrified’: Harvard scientist’s ICE arrest leaves cancer researchers scrambling
https://www.rawstory.com/harvard-ice-arrest/

U.S. Deportation Of Venezuelan Migrants Sparks Legal And Human Rights Concerns
https://theowp.org/u-s-deportation-of-venezuelan-migrants-sparks-legal-and-human-rights-concerns/

# Border / Immigration / General News
DOGE gets permission to access sensitive Justice Department immigration data
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2671830936/

Trump fires more immigration judges in what some suspect is a move to bend courts to his will
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-more-immigration-judges-100006091.html

You Don’t Have To Carry Proof Of U.S. Citizenship. But Amid ICE Detainments, You Might Want To.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proof-of-citizenship-trump-deportations_l_680675f2e4b066a6887ab2f0#:~:text=Carrying%20copies%20of%20your%20IDs,your%20naturalization%20or%20birth%20certificate.

The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on Hyper-Targeted YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03/15/dhs-launches-international-ad-campaign-warning-illegal-aliens-self-deport-and-stay

U.S. Citizen Detained for 10 Days Says DHS Lied About Everything. Immigration officials detained Jose Hermilloso for over a week. He says their version of what happened is completely inaccurate.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-wrongly-detained-ice-patrol-governments-account-false/

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up. Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/abrego-garcia-wife-forced-hiding-150754945.html

Democrats Travel to Louisiana ICE Prisons to Demand Release of Khalil, Öztürk. “[Donald Trump] is a dictator, and the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said.
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/

Department of Homeland Security points to another agency when asked about court-barred deportations
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/national/department-of-homeland-security-points-to-another-agency-when-asked-about-court-barred-deportations/article_6ca3d7fd-0f66-5bcd-bccf-03355a2c8fe8.html

Judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador. A Trump-appointed judge ruled that the administration deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan man last month in violation of a legally binding, court-approved settlement agreement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-deportation-venezuelan-minor-judge-00307336

Private prison companies positioned to benefit from increased deportations
https://www.allsides.com/blog/private-prison-companies-positioned-benefit-increased-deportations

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Deadline looms for schools to eliminate DEI or risk losing funding
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/dei-schools-deadline-risk-losing-funding/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/04/doge-cuts-hit-thousands-americorps-volunteers

DOGE Unleashes Wrecking Ball That Rips Into DC’s Special Status
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/dcs-special-status-gets-ripped-up-by-doges-job-and-cost-cuts

Big DOGE Cuts Are Coming to Small Towns: BGOV Starting Line. If Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gets its way, the federal government will terminate 653 building leases. Jack Fitzpatrick reports that the shutdown hit list disproportionately targets small towns.
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/big-cuts-are-coming-to-small-towns

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims, Justice Dept documents show
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-cancels-hundreds-grants-police-crime-victims-2025-04-23/

Elon Warns: Exec Order 14024 Targets Dollar
https://kit.prioritygold.com/56081ddm/?transaction_id=38a1eed45087476a977dd0395c5821ef&sub1=DDM&sub2=0206&sub3=BB&sub4=A&msid=56081

Congress’s Biggest Financial Priority Is “Stablecoin.” What the Hell Is That? Instead of tackling crashing markets, Congress is pushing a crypto sector that the Trump family is financially involved in.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/21/congress-crypto-stablecoin-trump/

China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5264774-china-us-tariff-negotations/

Boston nonprofit rejects federal funding so it doesn’t have to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI demands
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/826-boston-federal-funding-dei-trump-b2737616.html

# Education / Schools / Libraries
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish. The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/

Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks. The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.” Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/23/trump-administration-resumes-student-loan-collections-threatening-millions-with-garnished-wages-and-economic-hardship/

Trump signs flurry of seven executive orders targeting education
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-signs-flurry-seven-executive-orders-targeting-education

FBI raids homes of alleged anti-Israel protesters who demonstrated at University of Michigan
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-raids-homes-of-anti-israel-activists-who-protested-at-university-of-michigan/

Harvard University sues the U.S. Government after it cuts grants
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372214/harvard-sues-trump-administration-research

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Is Shutting Down a School for Low Income Families
https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/primary-school-closure-zuckerberg-chan-funding/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Musk threatens federal employees still working from home with administrative leave. Forcing federal workers back to the office was one of many day one executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/musk-federal-employees-administrative-leave-022452

Labor Department Employees Threatened With Criminal Charges for Speaking Out
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Hike Solar Tariffs for 4 Countries
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5263631-commerce-department-plans-hike-tariffs/

Can Trump bring back ‘clean, beautiful coal’? The fossil fuel-fetish once again trumps economics and common-sense.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/can-trump-bring-back-clean-beautiful-coal/

FactCheck: Trump’s Misleading Promotion of ‘Clean’ Coal. President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry’s decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred to coal as “clean.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-promotion-of-clean-coal/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
NASA Airborne Sensor’s Wildfire Data Helps Firefighters Take Action
https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/nasa-airborne-sensors-wildfire-data-helps-firefighters-take-action/

Bureau of Land Management accepting applications for fracking in Wayne National Forest
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/22/federal-officials-seek-applications-to-drill-at-wayne-national-forest/83193199007/

Satellite imagery exposes crimes occurring at massive scale: ‘A serious and longstanding problem.’ “We need to end the current logic.” An alarming new report revealed that Amazonian trees aren’t the only thing being cut; corners are being cut too with massive amounts of illegal deforestation being reported.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/illegal-deforestation-amazon-report-brazil/#:~:text=and%20longstanding%20problem’-,Satellite%20imagery%20exposes%20crimes%20occurring%20at%20massive%20scale%3A%20’A%20serious,to%20end%20the%20current%20logic.%22&text=An%20alarming%20new%20report%20revealed,of%20illegal%20deforestation%20being%20reported

Record ocean heat drives catastrophic coral bleaching across 84% of reefs worldwide
https://www.ehn.org/record-ocean-heat-drives-catastrophic-coral-bleaching-across-84-of-reefs-worldwide

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say. Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation,” says one.
https://www.wired.com/story/fema-isnt-ready-for-disaster-season-workers-say-hurricanes-fires-floods/

Tornado victims blocked from federal recovery aid after Trump denied request
https://www.aol.com/news/tornado-victims-blocked-federal-recovery-192915543.html

FEMA losing roughly 20% of permanent staff, including longtime leaders, ahead of hurricane season
https://www.aol.com/fema-losing-roughly-20-permanent-223652930.html

# General News
Elon Musk was supposed to work in government as a special employee for 130 days. He just pledged to spend ‘a day or two’ per week for the remainder of Trump’s 4-year term
https://fortune.com/article/elon-musk-special-government-employee-doge-trump-countdown/

A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on U.S. soil. I think I know why no one objected
https://forward.com/opinion/714814/holocaust-collaborator-roman-shukhevych-ukrainian/

Trump Administration Urges Workers To Snitch On One Another For ‘Anti-Christian Bias’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535

# Gov / Politics
The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America. By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is using a far-right ally for his own ends.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/22/trump-latin-america-bukele-el-salvador-prison/

‘More like ISIS than the mafia’: Waltz suggests cartels, gangs could face military action. Waltz said “all aspects of our national power” should be used to defeat threats from the cartels and transnational gangs.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/barr-cartels-are-more-like-isis-than-american-mafia/

We Shouldn’t Use the Military to Fight Mexico’s Drug Cartels: Trump and Republicans want to bomb Mexico to fight the “invasion” of fentanyl. Apparently, no lessons have been learned from the failed war on drugs.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/we-shouldnt-use-military-fight-mexicos-drug-cartels

As Iran talks proceed, a debate over preemptive bombing rages inside and outside the administration. Recent news reports have suggested that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are leading the hawkish camp as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance lead the realists.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/thuto-bomb-or-not-bomb-internal-admin-divides-go-public-iran-negotiations-progress

Unredacted Hunter Biden search warrants detail payments linked to Ukraine and China
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/04/23/unredacted-warrants-show-hunter-bidens-payments-tied-to-ukraine-china/

Trump’s retribution campaign is criminal, but the Supreme Court gave him immunity
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5261567-trumps-retribution-campaign-is-criminal-but-the-supreme-court-gave-him-immunity/

Danielle Moodie Believes Trump Is Deliberately Plunging The U.S. Into Chaos: ‘This Is Not Accidental—It’s Oligarchy by Design’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hvspsv5ic

The Guardian view on US-Russian talks: Trump wants a deal, whatever it means for Ukraine. Washington, like Moscow, prefers bilateral talks to a wider diplomatic process. Kyiv and other European governments are rightly alarmed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/the-guardian-view-on-us-russian-talks-trump-wants-a-deal-whatever-it-means-for-ukraine

Richard Branson accuses Trump of ‘doing so much damage’ to the world. Virgin Atlantic founder says ‘erratic’ decisions from US president have been ‘awful for everyone’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/23/richard-branson-accuses-trump-of-doing-so-much-damage-to-the-world

‘Never forget road to Holocaust began in a democracy’ – Home Secretary
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/yvette-cooper-jewish-ephraim-mirvis-nazis-home-secretary-b2738313.html

‘Can’t do everything’: Trump’s ‘defiance’ of court order is ‘grounds for impeachment’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2671830936/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Top Russian official says Moscow has right to use nuclear weapons if attacked by West, TASS reports
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-reserves-right-to-use-nuclear-weapons-in-response-to-western-aggression-security-chief-says/3547135

Dictators and Civil Wars: The Cold War in Latin America
https://retroreport.org/video/dictators-and-civil-wars-the-cold-war-in-latin-america/

Latin America’s Foreign Policies at a Crossroads. The foreign policy actions of many Latin American governments often contradict their principles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-wSBgKGe2g

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary. As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague.
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-icc-netanyahu-court-orban-413aa32cd85f2aaec65fdb6a4551ad33

‘We will not confess wrongdoing’: DOJ prosecutors quit in scathing resignation letter
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-department-eric-adams-resignations/

We sat with 350 lawyers as they strategized against Trump. Big Law was absent — but Smaller Law is itching to fight.
https://www.aol.com/sat-350-lawyers-strategized-fighting-213237708.html

Democratic lawmakers question Justice Department over warning to fired official
https://www.aol.com/news/democratic-lawmakers-justice-department-over-090442300.html

# LGBTQ / Gender
LGBTQ Suicide Hotline at Risk Under Trump’s HHS Budget Proposal. The 988 LGBTQ crisis line is still active. Proposed cuts wouldn’t take effect until October, if approved by Congress.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/lgbtq/federal-government-plans-to-cut-funding-for-crisis-lifelines-lgbtq-youth-services

Attorney general directs Justice Department employees to enforce policies targeting care for transgender minors
https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-directs-justice-department-024323033.html
See also: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/

# Medical / Health News
The federal government’s purported plan to track Americans who have autism, which social media users have referred to as an “autism registry,” is facing heavy criticism.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-04-23/is-rfk-jr-creating-an-autism-registry-what-to-know

Republicans walk out after WA House committee votes to close center for people with disabilities
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/04/23/republicans-walk-out-after-wa-house-committee-votes-to-close-center-for-people-with-disabilities/

The National Institutes of Health has begun slashing funds for various research initiatives. Scientists expect climate-related grants to be on the chopping block, raising fears about preparedness to avoid preventable deaths.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/federal-funding-nih-climate-related-health-research/

# Military / DOD / General News
Dismantling the government while pumping up the Pentagon.
https://countercurrents.org/2025/04/the-ever-expanding-war-machine-dismantling-the-government-while-pumping-up-the-pentagon/

‘Don’t know who to trust’: Ex-general warns US commanders wary of sharing info with boss
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-signal-pentagon-2671823414/

# NATO
NATO on ‘highest state of readiness’ after Russia launches new attack
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-fighter-jets-scrambled-russia-ukraine-poland-2063408

# NOAA / Weather
When scientists and weather forecasters are targeted, everyone loses. The Trump regime has taken aim at the weather and climate messengers, writes an atmospheric and environmental scientist. “Everyone will suffer as a result.”
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/when-scientists-and-weather-forecasters-are-targeted-everyone-loses/

# Nuclear
Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently
https://www.wired.com/story/finland-is-developing-a-permanent-way-to-deal-with-spent-nuclear-fuel/

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance
https://theconversation.com/from-help-to-harm-how-the-government-is-quietly-repurposing-everyones-data-for-surveillance-254690

# Social / Social Programs
Democrats call on Social Security watchdog to investigate DOGE cuts’ impact
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5262768-democrats-social-security-watchdog-doge-cuts/

# Space Force
Governors ‘Alarmed’ by Looming Transfer of Air National Guard Units to Space Force
https://www.yahoo.com/news/governors-alarmed-looming-transfer-air-213312861.html

# Veterans / VA
VA secretary launches task force targeting anti-Christian bias at the agency
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/23/officials-launch-task-force-to-root-out-anti-christian-bias-in-va/

Special committee would give disabled veterans a voice on accessibility challenges at VA facilities
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/23/officials-launch-task-force-to-root-out-anti-christian-bias-in-va/

House adopts 7 bills for improving veterans care and services
https://veterans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6686

# Water
This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem
https://www.wired.com/story/this-artificial-wetland-is-reusing-wastewater-to-revive-a-lost-ecosystem/

Scientific dispute over using sewage to restore Louisiana’s wetlands turns political. LSU researcher opposes projects that divert wastewater sediment into marsh
https://lailluminator.com/2025/04/13/dispute-louisianas-wetlands/

Colorado River Basin states have just weeks left to agree on plan
https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/wednesday-top-scroll-colorado-river-basin-states-have-just-weeks-left-agree-plan

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# Indigenous
At the 2025 UN Forum on Indigenous Issues Trump’s border policies will play a major role. The Trump administration’s border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.
https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/your-guide-to-the-2025-un-permanent-forum-on-indigenous-issues/

Workforce Matters Hosts Listening Session for Tribal Leaders and Tribal Program Staff
https://workforce-matters.org/shifting-the-workforce-through-investments-in-native-and-tribal-led-communities/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
DHS Secretary Threatens Fines Up to $1,000 Per Day, Imprisonment, and Deportation for Unlawful Presence in the U.S.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/21/dhs-releases-new-nationwide-and-international-ads-warning-illegal-aliens-self

‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails. Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/mahmoud-khalil-rumeysa-ozturk-ice-detention

Rising hate drives Latinos and immigrants into silence
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/rising-hate-drives-latinos-and-immigrants-into-silence/

US-born Californian warned to leave country immediately by DHS: The letter read, in part, “If you do not depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States.” “Do not attempt to remain in the United States — The federal government will find you.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/californian-dhs-letter-immigration/

American-born doctor receives DHS email telling her to leave U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6JdTVZUMY

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow with the American Immigration Council. The United States has disappeared a man. A respected immigration attorney expressed his shock and dismay on social media over the fate of a Venezuelan immigrant who disappeared after accidentally crossing into Canada and being detained by U.S. authorities.
https://www.rawstory.com/venezuela-immigration/

Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law. The federal government is blaming a U.S. citizen for his arrest during a traffic stop in Leon County last week under a temporarily blocked state immigration law.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-2671816657/

Costa Rica will give migrants deported from the US permits to stay in the country for 3 months
https://apnews.com/article/costa-rica-deportees-trump-panama-lawsuit-fb81272031de0bea9f75568771747783

# Border / Immigration / General News
Kristi Noem Turns Cruelty Into Content for Her DHS Deportation Ads. Noem, wearing a $50,000 watch in her ICE cosplay videos, encapsulates the aesthetic cruelty of the Trump regime.
https://truthout.org/articles/kristi-noem-turns-cruelty-into-content-for-her-dhs-deportation-ads/

Dozens of immigrants become US citizens at naturalization ceremony in Rock Island. Around 90 immigrants from 27 countries took the Oath of Allegiance and were sworn in as U.S. citizens at Augustana College on Monday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/dozens-of-immigrants-become-us-citizens-at-naturalization-ceremony-in-rock-island/vi-AA1Dlqw8

Colombian president says US has revoked his visa and appears to mock Trump as ‘Donald Duck’: The international snub follows Trump threatening “decisive retaliatory measures” against Colombian government officials who refused to let a couple of U.S. Military flights packed with migrants land on Jan. 26.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-leader-stunned-donald-duck-200150571.html

ICE agents checking on minors: ICE Cannot Effectively Monitor Location and Status of Unaccompanied Children. DHS’ Office of Inspector General published a report finding that ICE cannot effectively monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied children once released or transferred from DHS and HHS custody.
https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/report-dhhs-launches-major-investigation-into-vetting-procedures-of-sponsors-of-migrant-children/#:~:text=2025.03.,from%20DHS%20and%20HHS%20custody.

Trump’s Ugly New Eruptions Over Abrego Garcia Wreck His Own Arguments. As Trump accidentally exposes the weakness of his own case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an expert on MS-13 takes us inside what this gang really is—and why tying this man to the group is implausible.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194171/trump-ugly-new-eruptions-abrego-garcia-wreck-arguments

Immigrants feel hope, hate and hunted. Immigrants across the West worry for their safety.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/rising-hate-drives-latinos-and-immigrants-into-silence/

Costa Rica Tells Trump Deportees They Can Stay and Integrate, or Leave. The country is taking action to “protect” dozens of migrants from faraway nations who were deported from the United States and recently, indefinitely detained.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/world/americas/costa-rica-deported-migrants.html

Donald Trump’s war on sanctuary cities has begun: A detailed threat sent by America First Legal, led by future homeland security advisor Stephen Miller, to 249 jurisdictions that do not cooperate on immigration matters is the first attack against one of the biggest obstacles to mass deportation
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-08/donald-trumps-war-on-sanctuary-cities-has-begun.html

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Researchers ‘Shocked’ to Find Toxic Chemicals in Common Children’s Mattresses
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250417/Toxins-in-kidse28099-mattresses-and-bedding-raise-health-concerns-study-shows.aspx

# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
Nearly Half of ‘COVID Deaths’ Not Caused by the Virus, Researchers Find. A team of Greek doctors and researchers studying deaths that occurred in seven Athens hospitals between January and August 2022 determined the virus was directly responsible for only a quarter of the deaths.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nearly-half-covid-deaths-not-virus-caused-researchers-find/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Federal Government Layoff Tracker: State Department Reportedly Cutting 15% Of U.S. Staff, EPA Firing DEI Workers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/04/22/federal-government-layoff-tracker-state-department-reportedly-cutting-15-of-us-staff-epa-firing-dei-workers/

Milwaukee church saw opportunity to plant trees on empty land. Trump team saw DEI effort
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/22/federal-review-stalls-church-tree-planting-project/83180469007/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To. Elon Musk’s DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-data-access-hhs/

The Conservative Plan To Bring DOGE To Canada. With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/revealed-the-conservative-playbook-for-bringing-doge-to-canada-elon-musk-pierre-poilievre/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Donald Trump Is Hell-Bent on Destroying the Economy. Less than two weeks after narrowly averting self-inflicted disaster, the president is once again on the verge of doing something both stupid and catastrophic.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194273/trump-jerome-powell-destroying-economy

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his 145% tariff on goods from China will come down “substantially,” claiming that a deal with Beijing is within reach.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/business/video/trump-china-trade-war-tariffs-reduction-digvid

The Guardian view on the IMF’s warning: Donald Trump could cost the world a trillion dollars. World body says ‘sharp repricing of risks’ possible amid growing concern over role of ‘nonbank’ lenders
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/22/imf-warns-trump-tariffs-are-putting-global-financial-system-under-strain

Trump team opts to keep US shell companies in the shadows
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/arms-trade-2671753399/

“Madness”: Trump Tariff Lunacy Suddenly Darkens Amid Brutal Poll Drop. As the IMF downgrades growth projections and Trump’s approval on the economy slides, economic commentator Heather Long explains why the future looks so grim—with no easy exit for the president
https://newrepublic.com/article/194279/madness-trump-tariff-lunacy-suddenly-darkens-amid-brutal-poll-drop

# Education / Schools / Libraries
Trump’s attempted Harvard ‘takeover’ mirrors Hitler, Orban, Erdoğan: Laurence Tribe. “That’s what Orban has done in Hungary. That’s what Erdoğan has done in Turkey,” he added later. “It’s a standard technique.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5261119-trump-harvard-laurence-tribe/

Trump’s attacks on higher education are driving up the trade deficit
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5256541-trump-trade-deficit-education/

Federal Judge Orders ICE To Reinstate Legal Status Of 133 Foreign Students
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-orders-ice-reinstate-123936561.html

The Supreme Court Looks Eager to Further Undermine Public Schools. The conservative justices are poised to side with religious parents who want to opt their children out of lessons involving LGBT-themed books.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194277/supreme-court-lgbt-books-montgomery-county-schools

Education Department Restarting Loan Collections for First Time Since 2020. The administration said it will begin garnishing wages for millions this summer.
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-begin-federal-student-loan-collections-other-actions-help-borrowers-get-back-repayment

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
New law may lower electricity bills by 40% for millions as chiefs insist Americans shouldn’t ‘sacrifice groceries’
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14083348/new-law-lower-electricity-bills-americans-sacrifice-groceries-connecticut/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump admin marks Earth Day by gutting Environmental Protection Agency: report
https://www.commondreams.org/news/epa-staff

Consecutive El Niños happening more and result is more devastating
https://theconversation.com/consecutive-el-ninos-are-happening-more-often-and-the-result-is-more-devastating-new-research-251504

Nearly all federal workers who investigate firefighter deaths fired. Trump administration made cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which halted a study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cuts-firefighter-deaths

How the closure of EPA offices puts poor and minority communities at risk. For three decades, the EPA established offices nationwide to address disproportionately high levels of pollution in poor and minority communities.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-closure-of-epa-offices-puts-poor-and-minority-communities-at-risk

The 89%: Exposing the climate majority and the media silence that keeps them unheard. Despite overwhelming global support for bold climate action, most governments are falling short—and newsrooms may be helping them do it.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/22/the-89-exposing-the-climate-majority-and-the-media-silence-that-keeps-them-unheard/

EPA Continues to Dismantle Environmental Justice Office, Announces Plans to Terminate Nearly 300 Employees
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22042025/epa-announces-plans-to-terminate-nearly-300-employees/

EPA administrator defends sweeping grant terminations amid legal blowback. At a press gathering, Lee Zeldin doubled down on his decision to cancel billions of dollars in clean energy grants, despite a court ruling calling the move unlawful.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21042025/epa-lee-zeldin-defends-grant-terminations-amid-legal-blowback/

America’s National Parks Are in Some Very Serious Trouble. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just handed the country’s public lands over to a DOGE staffer and former oil exec.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/04/doug-burgum-interior-secretary-musk-doge-national-parks.html

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
When billions in emergency funds were stalled, the Trump administration sped FEMA money to some GOP-led states
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/politics/fema-money-slowed-trump/index.html

AmeriCorps NCCC and FEMA Corps Volunteers Won’t be Assigned to Altadena…or Anywhere Else. Scores of volunteers with AmeriCorps youth program let go after DOGE visit
https://localnewspasadena.com/2025/americorps-nccc-and-fema-corps-volunteers-wont-be-assigned-to-altadena-or-anywhere-else/

# Food General News
‘Always Listen to the Mom’: U.S. to Phase Out Artificial Dyes Used in Food Products
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/us-phase-out-artificial-dyes-used-food-products-hhs/

EXPERTS have warned that shelves at select retailers could be vacant soon. The lack of merchandise is expected to stem from the global reciprocal tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this month.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-us-sun-513995/3973942998625-shoppers-to-see-empty-shelves-in-just-weeks-as-experts-reveal-which-retailers-will-be-first-to-run-out-of-inventory

New report warns of unexpected threat that could cause food prices to spike. ‘This will be a critical area to monitor.’ “By implementing context-specific agricultural practices, farmers can mitigate and adapt.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/global-drought-impact-food-ingredient-prices/

# Gov / Politics
Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/

Trump is transforming Americans from citizens to subjects
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5258862-us-transformation-from-citizens-subjects/

Al Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality.’ Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a scathing critique of the Trump administration, drawing parallels between their tactics and those of Nazi Germany.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/creating-their-own-reality-al-gore-compares-trump-2-0-to-nazi-germany-8230538

‘Bad faith’: Judge hits Trump admin with ‘blistering’ new court order. The judicial tongue-lashing came after the judge ordered daily updates from the government on what they’re doing to “facilitate” the return of Ábrego García.
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2671825372/

Trump Says He Has ‘No Intention’ of Firing Fed Chair Powell. The U.S. president previously insinuated otherwise, he said he could fire Powell if he wanted, having been frustrated by the Fed putting a pause on cuts to short-term interest rates.
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-trump-jerome-powel-4710172f1fd4d6493769ac0b81703c01

Trump’s ‘Final Offer’ For Peace Requires Ukraine To Accept Russian Occupation
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-crimea-donbas

Trump’s War on Cities Starts With Washington. This isn’t about cherry blossoms or clean parks. This is a war on cities and communities that don’t look like his voter base.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/20/trump-republicans-make-d-c-ground-zero-in-their-war-on-cities

Trump’s war against federal workers is hurting Washington D.C.’s residents. As Trump declares war on Washington, it’s worth remembering that it’s a real place filled with real people, and these attacks are doing real damage.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-federal-worker-firings-washington-dc-rcna192634

Anti-Trump protesters turn out to rallies in New York, Washington and other cities across country. Some of the events drew on the spirit of the American Revolutionary War, calling for “no kings” and resistance to tyranny.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country

‘Startling,’ ‘Lawless,’ ‘Disturbing’: Legal Experts Unanimously Sound the Alarm Over Trump in The Free Press
https://www.mediaite.com/news/startling-lawless-disturbing-legal-experts-unanimously-sound-the-alarm-in-the-free-press/

How to Undo Trump’s Growing Dictatorship and the Damage it Is Inflicting. Not giving in to tyrants who count on obedience in advance is the key to defeating them
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-to-undo-trumps-growing-dictatorship

“We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary. “There’s not a coming constitutional crisis,” says Mystal. “We are in a constitutional crisis right now.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/elie_mystal_trump_constitutional_crisis

The Trump Administration’s War on Children. The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse

# Gov / Politics / Global
Nova festival founder outed as Israeli intel collaborator involved in Gaza genocide. One of the founders has openly bragged of serving as a top Israeli military intelligence asset involved in the Gaza genocide.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/22/nova-founder-israeli-intel/

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Trump administration charges 27 alleged Tren de Aragua members under RICO Act in New York. The move marks the first time that the federal government has used the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute a foreign terrorist organization, or drug cartel.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/27-members-or-associates-tren-de-aragua-charged-racketeering-narcotics-sex-trafficking

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Dem judge in New Mexico steps down after man with alleged Tren de Aragua ties found in his home
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/04/23/judge-jose-cano-resigns-tren-de-aragua-gang

How A New Supreme Court Could Forever Change America. One of the nation’s top legal experts says: “A Trump appointment will very much solidify the power of corporations and businesses on the Supreme Court.”
https://www.levernews.com/how-a-new-supreme-court-could-forever/

Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary. As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague.
https://truthout.org/articles/orban-faces-icc-investigation-after-refusing-to-arrest-netanyahu-in-hungary/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
‘Fascism is taking over’: Trump claims another victory as ‘60 Minutes’ producer quits
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/fascism-is-taking-over-bully-in-chief-trump-claims-another-victory-as-60-minutes-producer-quits/

USPS faces Supreme Court grilling after customers left without meds as workers ‘refused to deliver mail’
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14083662/usps-supreme-court-customer-texas-black-accusation/

Judge Deals Trump Major Blow in His Effort to Shutter Voice of America
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-handed-huge-loss-fight-193911979.html

# Medicare / Medicaid / SNAP [Food Stamps]
How Medicaid Cuts Could Leave Millions Without Health Care in the U.S: With Medicaid being threatened by the current administration, it is imperative to recognize its importance in the fight for health equity.
https://www.pih.org/article/medicaid-cuts-millions-without-healthcare

Trump administration is cutting off a key Medicaid financing tool used to help states pay for health care programs it says diverge from the program’s core mission, including high-speed internet for rural health providers
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-federal-medicaid-funding-states

# Medical / Health News
Glyphosate Causes Permanent Damage to Reproductive Organs, Affects Fertility. Pathological changes have been observed in male and female reproductive systems, potentially leading to reproductive toxicity. Prenatal exposure may lead to transgenerational inheritance of pathologies and sperm epimutations.
https://www.ehn.org/glyphosate-exposure-linked-to-infertility-and-reproductive-disorders-study-finds

How ‘Corporatized Healthcare’ Turned Family Doctors Into Pill Pushers
https://pnhp.org/news/big-corporations-are-quietly-taking-over-your-medical-practice-some-doctors-and-experts-say-its-ruining-healthcare/

Scientists Find Microplastics in Ovarian Follicular Fluid for the First Time. Microplastics have been found in human brains, placentas, testicular tissues, lungs and blood.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651325002040#:~:text=Microplastics%20were%20found%20in%20human,bloodstream%2C%20reaching%20the%20granulosa%20cells.

Driving Disease Risk Prediction and Preventative Healthcare with AI – with Dan Elton of the National Human Genome Research Institute
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651325002040#:~:text=Microplastics%20were%20found%20in%20human,bloodstream%2C%20reaching%20the%20granulosa%20cells

Dye ban lacks detail; Baby food lead levels breach California standards. This regulation comes on the heels of several highly publicized cases of dangerous levels of lead in baby food.
https://www.pureearth.org/heavy-metals-in-baby-food-ca-regulation/

Hyperbaric Oxygen Repairs Radiation Damage Permanently
https://www.hyperbaricmedicalsolutions.com/blog/treating-radiation-damage-with-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy

# Military / DOD / General News
The vicious rivalries tearing apart Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon. A feud between the secretary’s advisers and his chief of staff created backbiting and distrust that has erupted into the open.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pentagon-infighting-hegseth-fired-officials-00302709

Rising B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Costs Hit Northrop Grumman. The firm says that the losses are front-loaded and the B-21 will be profitable once production hits high gear.
https://www.twz.com/air/rising-b-21-raider-stealth-bomber-costs-hit-northrop-grumman

# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
USMC anti-ship missile deployment to highly strategic Luzon Strait is unprecedented. From the Batanes Islands, naval strike missiles would be able to engage any surface vessel transiting the channel between Taiwan and the Philippines.
https://www.twz.com/air/usmc-anti-ship-missile-deployment-to-highly-strategic-luzon-strait-is-unprecedented

MQ-1C Gray Eagle Is Shooting Down Drones With Hellfire Missiles In Tests. Using the MQ-1C as a drone-hunter is a new development, and there are plans for new kinetic and laser weapons for the Gray Eagle.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-spy-drone-gets-hellfire-missiles

# Military / General News / Global
China Deploys J-10 Fighters To Egypt. The air combat exercises between Egypt and China serve multiple purposes, but Beijing’s eye on Africa is highlighted by the drills.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/egypt-hosts-chinese-j10c-flying-radar-joint-exercises

EA-18G Bristles With Rare Four Anti-Radiation Missile Loadout On Yemen Mission. A Growler electronic attack jet packing four AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles launched on a mission as Houthi air defenses remain a problem.
https://www.twz.com/air/ea-18g-bristles-with-rare-four-anti-radiation-missile-loadout-on-yemen-mission

# NASA / Space
As more countries enter space, the boundary between civilian and military enterprise is blurring. Dangerously.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/as-more-countries-enter-space-the-boundary-between-civilian-and-military-enterprise-is-blurring-dangerously/#post-heading

# Science / Science Engineers
US scientists give grim view from within. “Totally broken and non-functional.” That’s how one anonymous principal investigator at the US National Institutes of Health characterizes the huge biomedical-research funder afterTrump administration cuts
https://grist.org/article/green-skies-are-the-new-black/

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
US is now consolidating personal data for mass surveillance
https://theconversation.com/from-help-to-harm-how-the-government-is-quietly-repurposing-everyones-data-for-surveillance-254690

# Social / Social Programs
Joni Ernst Reveals More Examples Of HUD Bureaucrats Bilking Taxpayers. Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa highlighted more cases of bureaucrats at HUD abusing a program that allows them to do work for unions on the taxpayer’s dime.
https://www.aol.com/exclusive-joni-ernst-reveals-more-120141514.html

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Apple Fined $570 Million And Meta $228 Million For Breach Of EU Law
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-fined-570-million-and-meta-228-million-for-breach-of-eu-law/articleshow/120549569.cms?from=mdr

How companies like Palantir have infiltrated government to usher in a new era of AI warfare and policing
https://aimresearch.co/ai-startups/palantir-started-by-spying-on-a-city-now-sells-ai-for-war

Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/move-fast-kill-things-the-tech-startups-trying-to-reinvent-defence-with-silicon-valley-values

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Elon Musk & Tesla Are Being Sued In Lawsuit That Allegedly Exposes Their Wild Odometer Scandal
https://www.newsbreak.com/total-pro-sports-313944020/3973888575688-elon-musk-tesla-are-being-sued-in-lawsuit-that-allegedly-exposes-their-wild-odometer-scandal

Driverless Trucks Ready to Hit the Road in Texas. Terrifyingly, trucking companies are hoping to “pull the driver” completely and go autonomous by 2026.
https://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=118470

# Veterans / VA
Operation Timeline: What Is the Trump Administration’s Impact on Veterans and the Military? The timeline features links to executive orders, directives and other official actions plus news articles and social media posts highlighting the impact of the administration’s first months in office.
https://thewarhorse.org/trump-timeline-military-veterans/?mc_cid=d32503b82e&mc_eid=ad5a87e32e

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# Indigenous
‘An affront to our great Indian population’: Trump rages as school ordered to swap mascots
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-truth-social-2671816411/

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same land base, the Northern Arapaho are expected to vote on the distinction as well.
https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-buffalo-wildlife-cattle-048e8c6f7d7bac94d6035f3b967df873

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Troops can now detain, search people on newly minted military land on the border. A 60-foot-wide zone of New Mexico land that runs along the U.S. border with Mexico has been deemed part of Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to allow troops to begin arresting people for trespassing on military territory
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-21/new-mexico-border-military-zone-17537794.html

Fans Split As Donald Trump Has Athlete Deported From The United States (Report): Because of a ‘misinterpreted’ tattoo on his arm, a Venezuelan soccer player was deported to El Salvador
https://gridironheroics.com/donald-trump-soccer-deportion/

German teens traveling to US jailed and deported over loosely planned vacation being found ‘suspicious,’ deported over missing hotel reservation. Despite having ESTA approval, the travelers were detained overnight and deported to Tokyo.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/04/21/german-tourists-turned-away-us-border/83195396007/

Venezuela accuses El Salvador of human trafficking as prisoners caught in row between authoritarians. Nayib Bukele offered to exchange 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador for 252 prisoners in Venezuela
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/venezuela-el-salvador-bukele-maduro-prisoners

ICE buses full of Venezuelan migrants heading for deportation flights turn around as SCOTUS ruling drops:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/ice-buses-full-of-venezuelan-migrants-heading-to-airport-for-deportation-flights-turned-around-video-shows/?utm_source=threads&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social

# Border / Immigration / General News
Bukele Has Cruel Plan to Make Trump’s Mass Deportations Even Worse. The president of El Salvador has a new idea for what to do with Venezuelan deportees from the U.S.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194203/nayib-bukele-donald-trump-mass-deportations-venezuela

Border Agents’ Aggressive Tactics Against Black Organizer Raise Alarms About Dissent Suppression. “Customs and Border Patrol does not merely police borders—they police dissent.”
https://newsone.com/6092371/border-agents-aggressive-tactics-against-black-organizer-raise-alarms/

Trump took his attacks about wrongly deported Maryland immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a new level on Easter Day, threatening to pursue legal action against those who do not follow his lead
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-threats-kilmar-abrego-garcia_n_68064b2fe4b02ca6f7ee4180

GOP Senator Admits Dad’s Deportation Was a ‘Screwup’—But Says He’s ‘Never Coming Back to the U.S.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-admits-dad-deportation-112441261.html

Trump proposal to deport U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to El Salvador faces legal hurdle
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-proposal-deport-u-citizens-200700769.html

Can Trump legally deport US citizens to El Salvador prisons? Proposal to deport criminals who are US citizens could test the limits of the US Constitution, experts say.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/16/can-trump-legally-deport-us-citizens-to-el-salvador-prisons

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Lead and Arsenic Discovered in Trusted Toothpaste Brands: Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds. Most of 51 brands tested, including those for children, contained dangerous heavy metal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/toothpaste-lead-heavy-metals

This non-profit tested common toothpaste brands for toxic metals. Here’s what it found
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/non-profit-tested-common-toothpaste-191739568.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program. A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system

The first shockwaves of Trump’s tariffs are about to hit the world economy.
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/first-shockwaves-of-trumps-tariffs-about-to-hit-world-economy

Wall Street and the dollar tumble as investors retreat further from the United States. Wall Street weakened Monday as investors worldwide get more skeptical about U.S. investments because of President Donald Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve, which are shaking the traditional order.
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-rates-inflation-trump-68a6a7f7765d78d46329abbecfbe0797

Trump Tries To Isolate China: A White House strategy to strong-arm trade partners into joining its efforts to isolate China economically is far from assured of success, economic analysts said. Trump admin to offer more than 70 US trade partners reduced tariffs if they isolate China from their economies
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-admin-planning-isolate-china-tariff-pressure-campaign

China Threatens Retaliation if Trump Tries to Isolate Country, in response to reports that President Donald Trump is attempting to economically isolate China in negotiations over reciprocal tariffs.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-retaliation-threat-donald-trump-isolation-2062532

Why Trade Wars Lead to Real Wars—and This Time May Be No Different: From at least the time of Ancient Greece, tariffs and trade restrictions have been a factor behind wars. As U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs worldwide and particularly on America’s greatest rival, China, the question is whether it will happen again.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-us-china-trade-war-tariffs-2061997

‘This is an administration priding itself on revenge’: Ex-IRS head sounds alarm over Trump’s weaponization of agency
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-irs-tax-harvard-warning-b2736146.html

Trump Sends the Economy Tanking Over Fight With Fed Chair. Donald Trump has made it clear he wants to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194214/donald-trump-economy-tanking-fight-federal-reserve-jerome-powell

# Education / Schools / Libraries
Millions of student-loan borrowers could lose Social Security benefits and tax refunds in 2 weeks if they don’t pay up
https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-borrowers-default-repayment-wage-social-security-garnishment-2025-4

Trump Admin Freezes Additional $1 Billion In NIH Grants To Harvard University. NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them. Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them

Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grants
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-lawsuit-grants-f098f55c6986b37e1227e7bcf8967a46

Trump Admin Gets Serious About Collecting Defaulted Student Loans After Borrowers Got A Pass Under Biden. The Department of Education (ED) Monday announced it is beginning involuntary collection efforts for student loans after a five year pause.
https://san.com/cc/trump-administration-to-resume-collecting-defaulted-student-loans-may-5/

As Trump Guts Support for Disabled Students, Their Families Are Fighting Back. Disability rights advocates are filing lawsuits as students, teachers and parents organize to protect education.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-guts-support-for-disabled-students-their-families-are-fighting-back/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump Administration Opens Up Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument To Commercial Fishing
https://www.iflscience.com/trump-administration-opens-up-pacific-islands-heritage-marine-national-monument-to-commercial-fishing-78884

EPA chief defends sweeping rollback of environmental rules as safe for public and planet. The Trump administration’s effort to dismantle environmental regulations may not survive court challenges, but the attempt alone could create enough disruption to slow climate policy for years.
https://www.ehn.org/epas-deregulatory-push-faces-legal-roadblocks-but-could-still-delay-climate-action

Trump Admin Aims to Gut Endangered Species Act Habitat Protections. The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would eliminate endangered species’ habitat protections in the United States.
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-moves-to-gut-habitat-protections-for-endangered-wildlife-2025-04-16/

Scientists Flew Gophers to Mount St. Helens After an Eruption for Just a Day, the Ecosystem After Will Surprise You. The eruption of Mount St. Helens was catastrophic and caused the wipeout of various species, demanding a revival of the lost ecosystem.
https://knewz.com/world/scientists-flew-gophers-to-mount-st-helens-after-an-eruption-for-just-a-day-the-ecosystem-after-will-surprise-you/

Massive hole the size of Switzerland appeared in the Antarctica sea ice, now we know why. According to a new study, it ultimately formed due to a combination of wind, ocean currents and underwater geography that created the perfect salty conditions to melt the sea ice.
https://www.space.com/antarctica-sea-ice-hole-2016-2017-explained

Climate Leaders Warn About Potential Trump Action Against Environmental Groups. Leading climate action advocates spoke out against anticipated moves by President Trump’s administration to strip the nonprofit status of groups who have been at the front line of the fight against its rollbacks of environmental protection.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21042025/climate-leaders-vow-to-defend-environmental-groups-against-trump-action/

Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA grants sweeping exemptions to industry. As the Trump administration intensifies its deregulation of environmental protections, watchdog groups and public health advocates are warning of far-reaching consequences for communities overburdened by industrial pollution.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/21/trump-administration-dismantles-pollution-protections-and-deletes-public-data-as-epa-grants-sweeping-exemptions-to-industry/

# Food General News
Tainted fertilizer spread across 10,000 acres may trigger first Superfund designation for farmland. Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock. An untold number of farmers and ranchers across Texas have spread it on their land.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/02/texas-farmers-pfas-forever-chemicals-biosolids-fertilizer/

Sewage sludge, the raw material for fertilizer, & the issue of PFAS. The researchers were concerned. The data suggested that the toxic chemicals, made by 3M, were fast becoming ubiquitous in the environment. The company’s research had already linked exposure to birth defects, cancer and more.
https://ariescleantech.com/the-new-york-times-sewage-sludge-the-raw-material-for-fertilizer-the-issue-of-pfas/

Roughly One-Sixth of Croplands Globally Polluted With Toxic Heavy Metals, Researchers Say. Heavy metals are elements that come from both natural and human-made sources. They do not break down in the environment and stay in soils for decades. They accumulate in the body over time, leading to chronic diseases that may not appear for years.
https://www.ecowatch.com/cropland-heavy-metal-pollution.html

# General News
Pope Francis’ successor ‘revealed’ in ancient prophecy plucked from secret Vatican archives. The “Prophecy of the Popes” is a series of cryptic Latin phrases in a document that has been interpreted as describing the lineup of church leaders starting with Celestine II in 1143 and ending with “Peter the Roman” in 2027.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/lifestyle/pope-francis-successor-revealed-in-ancient-prophecy-plucked-from-secret-vatican-archives/

White House Announces It Can Now “Manipulate Time and Space”: You might be thinking to yourself: “They didn’t really say that, though, did they?” Reader, they did. While the statement was likely intended as aspirational language about technological progress, it has since circulated widely online, with some interpreting the comment literally.
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-says-tech-can-manipulate-time-space-2060986

# Gov / Politics
Behind Trump’s imperial presidency (and Elon), there’s Russell Vought. Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project 2025.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/?embedded-checkout=true

Why Pete Hegseth Is Just the Tip of the Lunacy and Chaos Iceberg
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/3972889307309-opinion-why-pete-hegseth-is-just-the-tip-of-the-lunacy-and-chaos-iceberg

Patience runs thin as Trump’s battle with Supreme Court intensifies
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5258916-supreme-court-trump-administration/

Texas Politician Stabbed and Husband Killed After Attack in Their Own Home: The first Black mayor of a city in Texas was stabbed and her husband killed, allegedly at the hands of their grandson in their home
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/texas-politician-bobbie-mitchell-stabbed-husband-killed-after-being-attacked-by-their-grandson-at-home/

House Republicans unanimously voted yes to move forward an extreme, Trump-backed bill that would disenfranchise millions of voters. This is blatant voter suppression, and there’s a real risk of it becoming law
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/save-act-voter-suppression-trump/

Trump targets officials who opposed his election lies: Donald Trump Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Retaliating Against Anyone Who Resisted His Lies About the 2020 Election
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-cant-stop-wont-stop-retaliating-against-anyone-who-resisted-his-lies-about-the-2020-election?srsltid=AfmBOooXiPQ4wfVQOYK11SzICWmepLA1MIV_Hc2us8GelDVzHs3yLdYn

The SAVE Act extends the GOP’s war on women to the voter rolls. If passed into law, the SAVE Act could impede a swath of Americans from accessing the polls, but one of the largest groups of people who could be disenfranchised is married women who changed their last name.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2025/04/18/what-the-save-act-means-for-women-00298305

‘Most dangerous time’ in America: Ex-lawmaker warns nation now at huge risk of attack
https://www.rawstory.com/us-cyber/

Trump harvests autocratic powers. Planted by Bush and Cheney
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/21/trump-harvests-autocratic-powers/

Ex-Trump Staffers Call Out His ‘Royal Despot’-Like Behavior. Over 200 people signed the open letter criticizing the president.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=149509

# Gov / Politics / Global
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement), on Yemen’s direct confrontation with a US military machine which is hellbent on destroying its ability to resist Israel.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/21/houthi-spokesman-confronting-us-israel/

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Two Mississippi Capitol cops indicted for manslaughter after shooting of Black man during traffic stop. Police officers are accused of unreasonably using gunfire against a 25-year-old during a 2022 traffic stop
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/mississippi-capitol-police-jaylen-lewis-b2736913.html

FBI Director Kash Patel replaced as temp ATF director weeks earlier than previously disclosed. It is not clear whether Patel even knew that he had allegedly been replaced as ATF director back in February, and nobody in an official capacity wants to talk about it.
https://apnews.com/article/atf-director-army-secretary-driscoll-kash-patel-9de7e829b0585a9c4b5c13c08d4e7a38

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Comer refers former NY Gov Andrew Cuomo to DOJ for prosecution for Lying About Nursing Home Deaths. The recommendation also comes after the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a referral to the Justice Department over the same allegations last year.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/comer-refers-andrew-cuomo-to-doj-for-criminal-charges-for-lying-about-nursing-home-deaths/

‘I’m astounded’: State AG slams brakes on immigrant arrests after judge rips state prosecutors and law enforcement for violating order she gave blocking them
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/im-astounded-state-ag-slams-brakes-on-immigrant-arrests-after-judge-rips-state-prosecutors-and-law-enforcement-for-violating-order-she-gave-blocking-them/

‘Truly galling’: Law expert accuses Justice Alito of ‘inventing’ procedure to help Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-samuel-alito-2671815052/

‘Get in the mud with a pig’: Law professor gives lesson on Trump’s ‘extortion’ scheme. She called the deals “extortionate demands,” and referred to her former work as a prosecuting attorney. “The extortionist always comes back for more,” she warned. Of the “murky” deals, McQuade said, “One of the things we haven’t seen is the details.”
https://www.rawstory.com/shame-on-you-lawyer-deals/

# LGBTQ / Gender
What Happens When The State Decides It Knows Best For Your Child? We Found Out. The terrifying truth? Affirming reality, not delusion, is now grounds for taking away your child.
https://www.aol.com/happens-states-decides-knows-best-161145952.html

# Media / Press / Mail
Former Fox News host Steve Hilton announces bid for California governor. Hilton said he loved California and one-party rule had ruined the state.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/former-fox-news-host-steve-hilton-running-california-governor-00301302

IDF report on Gaza medics’ killing called a cover-up as rights groups demand independent probe. Despite video evidence and global outrage, Israeli military denies executions and offers limited disciplinary action for deadly March 23 attack
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-report-medics

# Medical / Health News
Wyoming Judge Clears The Way For Abortion Clinic To Resume Services
https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-abortion-law-court-injunctions-f5f865b9e40b670d72bf7fbb7b83ac1c

Massachusetts Proposes Laws to Remove Religious Exemptions, Parental Consent for Vaccines
https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2025-03-11/lawmakers-take-another-stab-at-getting-rid-of-vaccine-religious-exemptions

Vaccines and Autism: Can We Get to the Truth? After so many decades of silence and a near ban on any and all speculation in media and research in academia, the dam seems to have broken all at once. The NIH is working with teams of researchers in academia and private nonprofits to study the causes of autism, and vaccines are not off the table.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccines-autism-can-we-get-to-the-truth/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250421

Microplastics found in women’s ovaries raise concerns about fertility and toxic exposure, Peer-reviewed study’s findings raises fresh question on the toxic substances’ impact on fertility
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/19/microplastics-human-ovary-follicular-fluid

Experts sound alarm as health crisis threatens more than 1 billion children: ‘We cannot ignore.’ 48% of the world’s children are suffering from malnutrition
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/malnutrition-caused-by-changing-temperatures-children-save-the-children/

# Military / DOD / General News
White House has started the process of finding someone to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department

White House denies reports that it plans to replace Hegseth
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/21/pete-hegseth-trump-signal

Boeing looks to existing production lines for Golden Dome pitch. The head of Boeing’s space mission systems business envisions at least two of the company’s product lines as a clear fit for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome homeland missile defense capability — the X-37B spaceplane and a fleet of missile-tracking satellites
https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/04/21/boeing-looks-to-existing-production-lines-for-golden-dome-pitch/

US Bolsters Israel with Airlift: At least eight U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft were tracked flying from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to Israel’s Nevatim Airbase.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-bolsters-israel-airlift-iran-nuclear-tensions-2062043

# Military / General News / Global
Map shows Putin’s warships in Asia amid war in Europe. President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been flexing its naval muscles in the Indo-Pacific region in recent months while Moscow’s forces simultaneously wage war on Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-news-navy-deployment-asia-pacific-vladimir-putin-ukraine-war-2062066

# Nuclear
China Fires Up World’s First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor. The country’s nuclear industry has blown the lid off fission tech. “Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance.”
https://futurism.com/china-thorium-nuclear-power

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Rep. Shontel Brown Leads Demand To Probe Elon Musk’s Starlink Being Wired Into White House Data Center: ‘This Is a Huge Red Flag’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/white-house-starlink-musk-house-dems

Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data. Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag, 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue, has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/oogle-wiz-cybersecurity-data-deal/289413/

# Social / Social Programs
‘No additional funding’: Trump admin announces cut that could make 60K people homeless. People who rely on Emergency Housing Vouchers to pay their rent are facing upheaval, according to a new report.
https://www.rawstory.com/funding/

# Solar Activity
Mysterious 100-Year-Old Solar Cycle Has Been Awakened, Scientists Claim it Could Make Space Weather Dangerous. New research on recent solar intensity revealed connections to a 100-year solar cycle, which could lead to a continuous increase in solar activity.
https://knewz.com/world/mysterious-100-year-old-solar-cycle-has-been-awakened-scientists-claim-it-could-make-space-weather-dangerous/

# Space Force
To fully implement the White House orders, Space Force officials say they need more funding, personnel and budget flexibility. A sweeping Space Force acquisition review geared toward finding avenues for more commercial integration appears to have given the service a head start in aligning with several Trump administration directives aimed at reforming defense acquisition and pulling more private sector capabilities into the federal government
https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/04/17/space-force-gets-head-start-on-trumps-commercial-buying-push/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
“He’s pure evil.” Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes. According to Balan, she was simply following Musk’s orders to “talk to me” if staffers thought it was the “fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company.”
https://futurism.com/tesla-engineer-elon-musk-deport-team-safety

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
US government offers $8 million reward for cartel brothers. The Trump administration is now targeting the leaders of La Nueva Familia Michoacana. The brothers are currently fugitives and are believed to be hiding in Mexico, according to federal officials.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/cartels/us-government-8-million-reward-cartel-brothers/

‘Risk of deportation’ warning for thousands of Irish students on J1 visa in USA
Students are among the many groups being targeted by the Trump Administration for deportaations with student groups advising foreign nationals to be particularly careful
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-students-j1-visa-deported-35080863

US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days. Hermosillo’s wrongful arrest and prolonged detention comes amid escalating attacks by the Trump administration on immigrants in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-border-patrol

Aurora soccer coach detained by Customs at airport after traveling internationally
https://www.newsbreak.com/9news-524542/3969157125221-aurora-soccer-coach-detained-by-customs-at-airport-after-traveling-internationally

# Border / Immigration / General News
Neenah man told to leave U.S. despite being a born-and-raised citizen
https://www.yahoo.com/news/neenah-resident-u-citizen-told-212124640.html

Legal group sues Costa Rica alleging the rights of 81 children deported by Trump were violated. A legal challenge aims to encourage Central American countries to push back against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/americas/costa-rica-migrants-lawsuit.html

The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One. The court didn’t even wait to let Alito write his dissent.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-blocks-deportations-donald-trump-alito-dissent.html?pay=1745152540568&support_journalism=please

After remarkable Supreme Court rebuke, Trump administration slams ‘meritless litigation.’ The White House’s statement comes as the Trump administration faces a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and legal experts over due process and the rule of law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/19/supreme-court-trump-immigration-ruling-00299717

Trump-Appointed Judges Clear Path for Deportation Flights to Take Off. The Department of Homeland Security has said that no deportation flights are currently scheduled, but that it maintains the right to carry them out at any time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appointed-judges-clear-path-044701186.html

Donald Trump Is Defying The Supreme Court: In the case of the wrongfully removed immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration is defying, and lying about, a Supreme Court order.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-defy-supreme-court_n_67fd3ad6e4b0c8069e85c34e

Supreme Court will review Trump’s plan to ban birthright citizenship. Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-6f0cb929c4604ec1d9bf9fea99765b61

Alito lambastes Supreme Court for late night order to block Trump’s deportation plans. ‘Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief,” conservative judge wrote in dissent
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/alito-dissent-supreme-court-trump-deportations

MAGA Goes Into Full Meltdown Over SCOTUS Ruling on Deportations. Stephen Miller and others are adamant that Donald Trump can deport whomever he wants.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194065/donald-trump-deportations-due-process-stephen-miller

‘We’re removing public safety threats’: Trump’s border czar thinks tattoos are a crime
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/20/border_czar_tom_homan_no_ones_removed_just_because_of_a_tattoo.html

How all of Trump’s gang claims against wrongfully deported man boil down to one unnamed informant
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision

A German-American from Nashua has been jailed for more than a month. It’s still unclear why. Schmidt has lived in the U.S. since he was a teenager and has legal permanent resident status, according to the family. Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have not provided a justification for Schmidt’s detainment.
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/04/15/a-german-american-from-nashua-has-been-jailed-for-more-than-a-month-its-still-unclear-why/

The Evidence Linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia to MS-13: A Chicago Bulls Hat and a Hoodie. What’s it take for Trump to label someone a gang member and deport them to a prison in El Salvador? Little more than a Chicago Bulls cap. “Wearing the Chicago Bulls hat represents that they are a member in good standing with MS-13.” Oh really?
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/18/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ms13-gang-database/

Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/20/trump-racism-white-demographic-fears-immigration/

No-Bid ICE contract went to former ICE agents being sued for fabricating criminal evidence on the job. The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to company executives accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Blue States Are Keeping DEI On Life Support. Several states are promising to resist the Trump admin’s effort to root out divisive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)  initiatives from schools.
https://www.aol.com/blue-states-keeping-dei-life-145453310.html

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE is trying to outsource the US government — and Trump wants Big Law to make it happen
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-trying-outsource-us-government-112344031.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
‘Surge’: Rich Americans dump money into Swiss banks as Trump chaos creates dollar anxiety
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-taxes-2671801768/

Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon want billionaires to pay their fair share to Uncle Sam. But a ‘millionaires tax’ would likely affect all the wrong people
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-jamie-dimon-want-110500081.html

Make China great again? How Trump’s attacks on universities will backfire. In the name of saving 0.006 percent of the federal budget, we’re surrendering America’s technological leadership.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/make-china-great-again-how-trumps-attacks-on-universities-will-backfire/

How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs. Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/what-will-trumps-tariffs-do-for-u-s-consumers-workers-and-businesses/

# Education / Schools / Librarys
DHS threatens to ban Harvard from hosting international students unless school turns over records
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/17/dhs-harvard/

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets? Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/18/us-revokes-nearly-1500-student-visas-who-are-the-targets

Student visas emerge as Washington’s leverage against foreign adversaries. As the U.S. struggles to attract concessions from adversarial nations, Washington appears ready to use those nations’ people within its borders on a visa as an apparent source of leverage.
https://tennesseestar.com/news/student-visas-emerge-as-washingtons-leverage-against-foreign-adversaries/jtnews/2025/04/16/

Chinese Students and Scholars Faced Targeting Before Trump, Now It’s Escalating. As the US and China jockey for dominance, anti-Chinese bigotry is driving visa denials for students and scholars.
https://truthout.org/articles/chinese-students-and-scholars-faced-targeting-before-trump-now-its-escalating/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump says career gov employees working on policy will be fired if they don’t adhere to his agenda. Remaking the federal workforce is part of a larger administration push to shrink the size of government and exert more control over it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-invoke-schedule-f-easier-193243220.html

Critics Slam Trump’s Plan to Fill Federal Government With “Political Cronies”: Around 50,000 career civil servants would be reclassified as “at-will” employees and lose civil service protections.
https://truthout.org/articles/critics-slam-trumps-plan-to-fill-federal-government-with-political-cronies/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Repeal of the EPA endangerment finding vital to Trump’s unleashing American energy agenda: A panel of experts from the Heartland Institute, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the American Energy Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow say there are a dozen reasons to repeal the EPA’s endangerment finding. And there are multiple ways to make it happen, none of which will be easy.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/repeal-epa-endangerment-finding-vital-trumps-unleashing-american-energy

Toward more sustainable EVs: A British recycling company is turning shredded electric vehicle batteries into new power cells, offering a path toward cleaner supply chains
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250404-where-ev-batteries-go-to-die-and-be-reborn

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters. A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s removal of environmental justice.  A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s removal of environmental justice maps and datasets.
https://truthout.org/articles/epa-deletes-pollution-tracking-tools-as-it-offers-exemptions-to-polluters/

Melting Andes glaciers: water supply of 90 million people at risk
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/melting-andes-glaciers-water-supply-of-90-million-people-at-risk/

# Food General News
The FDA Buried an E. Coli Outbreak. Now It’s Scaling Back Food Safety. The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly considering shifting large swaths of its core function to states after mass DOGE layoffs
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fda-food-inspections-e-coli-outbreak-1235320568/

# General News
The Connection Between Elon Musk’s Net Worth And The US Government Will Surprise You. According to a report, throughout the last two decades, as much as $38 billion dollars of Musk’s net worth has come from “government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits” to his various companies. However, it’s likely that in reality this number is far higher.
https://www.moneydigest.com/1836456/elon-musk-net-worth-funded-united-states-government/

Why Married Women Could Have Trouble Getting REAL IDs. The difficulties in obtaining a Real ID for some people comes because documentation of name changes—like a marriage certificate or a court order—is required.
https://www.newsweek.com/real-id-act-requirements-2025-deadline-travel-tsa-2029573

# Gov / Politics
Donald Trump and fascism: Critics of Trump have drawn comparisons between him and fascist leaders over authoritarian actions and rhetoric, while many have argued that Trump is not fascist but an authoritarian populist, or have accused critics of using the term as an insult rather than making legitimate comparisons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism

What basis do the claims of Trump being a fascist and will turn dictator have?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDebate/comments/1ifercj/what_basis_do_the_claims_of_trump_being_a_fascist/

Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started. Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/19/el-salvador-donald-trump-model-nayib-bukele

Trump is throwing the rule of law out the window and imperiling our democracy. Murphy warned these moves send a dangerous signal that political violence will be excused if it serves Trump’s interests, undermining the rule of law and putting the country’s democratic institutions at risk.
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-donald-trump-is-throwing-law-and-order-out-the-window

Trump administration estimates 50,000 federal employees will lose civil service protections
Some experts warned that a new “Policy/Career” classification will create a chilling effect on the federal workforce and lead to incompetence and corruption.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/trump-administration-estimates-50000-federal-employees-will-lose-civil-service-protections/

Trump Slams Biden and Courts in Hate-Filled Easter Message
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-slams-biden-courts-hate-155809846.html

Trump’s ‘America first’ reveals a massive misunderstanding of international law
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5256206-international-law-sovereignty-trump/

Trump’s $239 Million Inauguration Haul Is Officially the Biggest Presidential Suck-Up in History
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/3971822426951-trump-s-239-million-inauguration-haul-is-officially-the-biggest-presidential-suck-up-in-history

Diplomats Freak Out Over Trump’s Leaked Executive Order. It calls for the elimination of dozens of positions and departments, slashing diplomatic operations in Canada, and closing ‘non-essential’ embassies and consulates in sub-Saharan Africa.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/bonkers-crazypants-american-diplomats-state-department-00300029

MSNBC’s Kumar Says Trump Using Deportations to Test U.S. Resistance Against Plan to ‘Tear Down’ Democracy
https://www.mediaite.com/news/msnbcs-kumar-says-trump-using-deportations-to-test-u-s-resistance-against-plan-to-tear-down-democracy/

Vietnam veteran Bob Hoeller says, “We are fighting an imperialistic, autocratic regime
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vietnam-veteran-bob-hoeller-says-we-are-fighting-an-imperialistic-autocratic-regime-that-seeks-to-undermine-our-four/vi-AA1DfuHA?ocid=sk216dhp

‘You Could Be Next’: House Democrat Tells MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace That Trump Could Disappear Anyone. Due process protections in the United States were under threat to such a degree that anyone could be sent away.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/you-could-be-next-house-democrat-tells-msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-that-trump-could-disappear-anyone/

Dem Rep. Agrees with MSNBC host that Trump will ‘whisk away’ any ‘people of color’ after Abrego Garcia
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dem-rep-americans-color-next-231517482.html

‘Delusional’ Trump vows to remove ‘millions of criminals’ from US but people spot issue
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/delusional-trump-vows-to-remove-millions-of-criminals-from-us-but-people-spot-issue/ar-AA1Dg7Vv

‘We Didn’t Even See the Border — Until Now’: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/20/jim-diodati-niagra-falls-mayor-canada-00296892

‘Absolute nadir’: Experts fear US vulnerable to attack after latest Trump moves
https://www.rawstory.com/cybersecurity-2671802541/

Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump’s sights for punitive action
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-exempt-crew-environmental-groups-harvard-5e1e0ffacfa040ccdeaf4e43fb72b5fe

‘Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters’: Leaked executive order draft stuns diplomats. A draft document from Donald Trump’s administration that details proposed cuts at the State Department has been leaked and it has set off a firestorm among diplomats who have been given an opportunity to review it.
https://www.rawstory.com/leaked-trump-document/

Monopoly Round-Up: Monopolies and Fascism. Centralization of economic power facilitates centralization of political power. That was once a hard-won lesson, and it’s a lesson we must re-learn. Plus, the end of big box tyranny.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-monopolies-and

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Suspects detained by police denied essential insulin, cancer and epilepsy drugs, damning report claims. One patient experienced such bad withdrawal symptoms that they admitted to crimes they did not commit so they could be remanded to prison where they would be allowed their prescription again, report claims
https://www.the-independent.com/news/health/police-custody-health-insulin-drugs-b2734154.html

# LGBTQ / Gender
Discrimination and Barriers to Well-Being: The State of the LGBTQI+ Community in 2022. A comprehensive new CAP study finds that many LGBTQI+ people continue to face discrimination in their personal lives, employment, housing, and health care, as well as in the public sphere.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/discrimination-and-barriers-to-well-being-the-state-of-the-lgbtqi-community-in-2022/

# Medical / Health News
Gretchen Whitmer’s bureaucrats sued for requiring ‘implicit bias’ training to keep medical license. Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs “lacks any statutory authority to impose these sweeping, one-size-fits-all mandates,” dentist’s suit says. Federal appeals court hears challenge to California law.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/whitmers-bureaucrats-sued-requiring-implicit-bias-training-keep-medical

Doctor, praised by RFK Jr as ‘extraordinary’ healer, treated children while infected with measles
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/18/video-doctor-treating-kids-measles-praised-rfk-jr-extraordinary/

California Halts Medical Parole, Sends Several Critically Ill Patients Back to Prison
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250421/California-halts-medical-parole-sends-several-critically-ill-patients-back-to-prison.aspx

Supreme Court hears ‘crucial’ case today on free preventive health care. Should plaintiffs prevail, over 150 million Americans could lose all free preventive benefits since the Affordable Care Act’s 2010 passage.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-supreme-court-hear-clash-over-obamacare-preventive-care-2025-04-21/

Will DOGE Destroy Rural Health Care?; Eliminating Mental Health Programs May Prove Deadly
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/viewpoints-will-doge-destroy-rural-health-care-eliminating-mental-health-programs-may-prove-deadly/

Labor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy. Labor leaders past and present have insisted on expanding the scope of what constitutes health.
https://truthout.org/articles/labor-was-crucial-in-building-public-health-institutions-trump-wants-to-destroy/

# Military / DOD / General News
Top Hegseth Aide Warns Even Bigger Bombshells Are Coming after Second Signal Chat
https://time.com/7278921/hegseth-second-signal-chat-wife-brother-lawyer-defense-reactions-resign/

Pentagon in Chaos After Hegseth Sheds Four Staffers in One Day
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/there-is-a-complete-meltdown-in-the-building-pentagon-reportedly-in-chaos-as-hegseth-loses-four-staffers-in-one-day/

Former top DOD spokesperson: Pentagon in ‘disarray’ under Hegseth
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5258195-john-ullyot-pentagon-disarray-hegseth/

# NATO
Russian attempt at smuggling nuclear plans sparks investigation in NATO country
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/russian-attempt-smuggling-nuclear-plans-1102038

# NASA / Space
NASA unsure ‘what to expect’ as probe set to uncover secrets of mysterious asteroid: ‘Not going to be a basic potato’
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2025/04/02/nasas-webb-finds-asteroid-2024-yr4-is-building-sized/

# Nuclear
Atomic secrets: Recently released short but powerful documentary about Dmitry Kalmykov, a Ukrainian scientist dedicated to eliminating environmental disasters, first at Chernobyl and now in Kazakhstan, at a former Soviet testing site for nuclear weapons. Worth your time.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/apr/15/atomic-secrets-a-chornobyl-scientist-warns-of-a-toxic-future?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

US, Iran agree to enter next phase of nuclear negotiations. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff held “indirect” negotiations with his Iranian counterpart
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/19/iran-us-nuclear-negotiations-00299713

# Pharmaceuticals
Trump admin launches probe into national security implications of importing certain pharmaceuticals. The Department of Commerce initiated what’s known as a Section 232 investigation targeting pharmaceuticals and related products April 1, according to a Federal Register filing (PDF).
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/trump-administration-launches-national-security-investigation-pharmaceuticals-paving-way

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Countries shore up their digital defenses as global tensions raise the threat of cyberwarfare. Countries around the world are preparing for greater digital conflict as increasing global tensions and a looming trade war have raised the stakes — and the chances that a cyberattack could cause significant economic damage or even escalate into military confrontation.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/04/21/countries-shore-up-their-digital-defenses-as-global-tensions-raise-the-threat-of-cyberwarf

# Veterans / VA
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits. Why won’t lawmakers stop it?
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/18/company-spending-millions-profit-off-veterans-benefits-why-wont-lawmakers-stop-it.html

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# Indigenous
Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It.
The group Apache Stronghold—a coalition of Apaches, other Native communities, and allies—has sued to stop the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a mining company owned by a Chinese parent corporation.
https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/trump-administration-charges-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy-oak-flat

New Stream Gauges and Weather Stations Poised to Help Wyoming Tribes Endure Flooding and Drought. The new devices, which are part of a slew of planned infrastructure upgrades, will help the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho improve their disaster warning system.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15042025/stream-gauges-weather-stations-help-wyoming-tribes-endure-flooding-drought/

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Trump administration plans Endangered Species Act rollback. Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/trump-administration-plans-to-remove-habitat-protections-for-endangered-species

Federal Judge Orders Florida to Address Pollution That Led to Manatee Deaths. Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass losses left the sea cows starving.
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/environment/lagoon/2025/04/14/bear-warriors-win-landmark-manatee-case-forcing-florida-scrutinize-brevard-sewage/83059276007/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘Vacate their home within 24 hours or be killed’: Family ‘explicitly threatened with death by cartel’ asks SCOTUS to halt deportation to Mexico
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/vacate-their-home-within-24-hours-or-be-killed-family-explicitly-threatened-with-death-by-cartel-asks-scotus-to-halt-deportation-to-mexico/

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency appeal to temporarily block the deportation of the family of four Mexican nationals, who, according to their filing, “are targets of cartel violence due to their family ties and refusal to comply with extortion demands.”
https://www.newsweek.com/elena-kagan-rejects-appeal-family-deportation-supreme-court-2061452

Supreme Court blocks Trump from conducting more deportations under Alien Enemies Act. President Trump has deployed the Alien Enemies Act — a war power last invoked during World War II,  to summarily deport foreign nationals he has labeled members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which Trump has designated a terrorist organization.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-211956368.html

New England Couple Detained “for Several Hours” at Border Despite Being Citizens. Border Patrol agents kept the couple in separate cells, and demanded to go through the husband’s emails.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-england-couple-detained-for-several-hours-at-border-despite-being-citizens/

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform. In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/18/headlines/ice_signs_30_million_deal_with_palantir_as_it_expands_mass_surveillance_of_immigrants

# Border / Immigration / General News
Due Process of Law: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-14/04-due-process-of-law.html

Van Hollen Meets Abrego García After Saying Officials Are Breaking International Law. Officials are in “violation of international law” by barring Abrego García access to legal counsel, the senator said.
https://truthout.org/articles/van-hollen-meets-abrego-garcia-after-saying-officials-breaking-international-law/

Immigrant Detainees Sound Alarm About Trump Administration Deporting Them. Voto Latino expresses deep concern over recent reports of Venezuelan immigrants allegedly being wrongfully deported under the Trump administration, even after their families’ urgent pleas for protection and claims that their loved ones have no gang affiliations.
https://votolatino.org/media/press-releases/voto-latino-sounds-alarm-as-families-refute-gang-allegations-against-deported-venezuelan-immigrants/

Denied, detained, deported: the most high-profile cases in Trump’s immigration crackdown
These are some of the people ensnared by the administration’s unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agenda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/people-detained-deported-trump-immigration-crackdown

U.S. citizen born in National City received deportation letter in DHS email. The man was born in National City and said he received an email to deport, even though he was born in the United States.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-citizen-born-national-city-181046987.html

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Birthright Citizenship Clause. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the case on May 15.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-hear-trump-bid-enforce-birthright-citizenship-order-2025-04-17/

Van Hollen Says White House Paid El Salvador $15 Million to Detain Prisoners
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/04/18/sen-van-hollen-says-trump-administration-made-15-million-deal-with-el-salvador-to-imprison-deportees-including-abrego-garcia/

Immigrants Prove They Are Alive, Forcing Social Security to Undo Death Label
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Common pesticide harms fertility and reproduction in bees. Pesticides can harm bees twice—as larvae and adults. Impacts on pollinators may be worse than thought
https://www.science.org/content/article/pesticides-can-harm-bees-twice-larvae-and-adults

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The rare dreaded ‘Death Cross’ just flashed in the US stock market and now experts fear a Wall Street crash. A death cross is when the 50-day moving average of an stock index drops below the 200-day average, indicating momentum is weakening. A moving average is the average range of prices of an asset over a given period of time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14623471/death-cross-stock-market-wall-street-crash.html

Beggar thy neighbor, harm thyself: Tariffs like Trump’s come with pitfalls, history shows. As the US imposes more tariffs, a global backlash is brewing – from subtle trade barriers to strategic countermeasures targeting red-state industries.
https://www.aol.com/beggar-thy-neighbor-harm-thyself-083050678.html

Trump Replaces IRS Chief Three Days After Appointing Him. The administration is going through acting IRS commissioners faster than Spinal Tap went through drummers
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-replaces-irs-commissioner-three-days-1235321031/

Trump Plans New Fees on Chinese Ships as Trade War Expands. The Trump administration plans to impose new fees on Chinese ships that enter U.S. ports, saying it wants to boost demand for vessels made domestically.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-levy-port-fees-chinese-vessels-caveats-2061429

# Education / Schools / Librarys
Trump’s Next Budget Cuts Take Aim at Poor Toddlers: White House Proposes Eliminating Head Start Funding in Sweeping Budget Cuts. A move that would cut early education for more than half a million of the nation’s neediest children and child care for their families.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/white-house-proposes-eliminating-head-start-funding-in-sweeping-budget-cuts/2025/04

Ten Commandments, ‘In God We Trust’ in classrooms is now Arkansas law: The governor signed Senate Bill 433, which mandates the display of the Ten Commandments and “In God We Trust” in Arkansas classrooms and public buildings maintained or operated with taxpayer funds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ten-commandments-god-trust-classrooms-231828340.html

The Ten Commandments could be in every Texas classroom next fall. Will the Texas GOP’s push to bring Christianity back into the classroom succeed?
https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/4/28/23699277/ten-commandments-texas-school-prayer-religion

Chinese Students and Scholars Faced Targeting Before Trump. Now It’s Escalating. As the US and China jockey for dominance, anti-Chinese bigotry is driving visa denials for students and scholars.
https://truthout.org/articles/chinese-students-and-scholars-faced-targeting-before-trump-now-its-escalating/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
President Trump has attacked workers’ safety, wages, and rights since Day One. The current administration has rolled back worker protections, proposed budgets that slash funding for agencies that safeguard workers’ rights, wages, and safety, and consistently attacked workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain.
https://www.epi.org/blog/president-trump-has-attacked-workers-safety-wages-and-rights-since-day-one/

Fired probationary workers at Commerce say their insurance is being cut early. Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5256687-commerce-department-workers-terminated/

OSHA Office Closure in ‘Cancer Alley’ Raises Fears About Risks to Workers. Louisiana is one of the most dangerous states in the U.S. for workers. The Trump administration plans to close its lone protection unit.
https://capitalandmain.com/doge-posts/osha-office-closure-in-cancer-alley-raises-fears-about-risks-to-workers

CFPB Slashed to the Bone, Threatening Financial Markets. The agency fired 1,500 workers, which violates a court order and threatens a meltdown of mortgage markets and more.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-doge-cfpb-elon-musk-456b747c367fccbcf3b74d2893cd1a35

Trump Revamps “Schedule F,” Making It Easier to Cut Federal Workers
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-civil-service-workforce-e6e4cf979b910b0f89877a9a09e7c4a4

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits. More stringent rules were scheduled to be enforced in 2027. Selected plants will now have two more years to comply.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042025/power-plants-exempted-from-federal-mercury-limits/

Trump Administration Severs ‘Lifeline’ for Families Struggling to Pay Utility Bills. A federal program that helps low-income households pay for heating and cooling costs is in limbo.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042025/trump-administration-layoffs-hurt-low-income-utility-bills-assistance/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump to rescind the Public Lands Rule. The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the importance of balancing development alongside protection.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04/18/trump-moves-to-rescind-public-lands-rule/

Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders Expected on Earth Day. Environmental groups say they are preparing for the worst—and preparing to fight back.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/trump-officials-weigh-earth-day-move-against-green-groups

National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced. “It’s a dire situation,” says one national parks advocate. “These spaces shouldn’t be taken for granted, and they are at risk.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042025/national-park-forest-service-staff-slashed-by-trump-administration/

Government officials arrested after illegal scheme threatens protected forest: ‘Anyone violating the law will face justice’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/mabira-forest-reserve-officials-arrested-uganda/

Natural resources, human rights, and corruption: What are the connections? In whatever form it takes, corruption is a human rights issue. Corruption negatively impacts the enjoyment of all human rights, including the right to development and rights related to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/tnrc-topic-brief-natural-resources-human-rights-and-corruption-what-are-the-connections

Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World. The decline of the island’s ice and increasingly volatile weather have made it hard to maintain some Indigenous traditions. The effects of those changes and other impacts of the climate crisis on mental health can be harder to see.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042025/greenland-inuit-climate-crisis-ice-melt/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say. Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation,” says one.
https://www.wired.com/story/fema-isnt-ready-for-disaster-season-workers-say-hurricanes-fires-floods/

# Food General News
Farmers face frozen jobs and heavier workloads under DOGE ‘efficiency’ budget. Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump-funding-cuts-farmers-feeling-pain-conservation-funds-frozen

# Foods / Things that impact your health
Cooking Oils Associated With Aggressive Cancer Growth. Experts are warning against overusing these common cooking oils because they contain a fat that is reportedly linked to breast cancer.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/lifestyle/cooking-oil-linked-to-aggressive-breast-cancer/

# Gov / Politics
Are We at an Inflection Point? Trump is governing more and more like an impulsive mad king who assumes he has absolute power. We will soon find out whether he does.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-04-18-are-we-at-inflection-point-trump/

VERIFY: What the U.S. Constitution really says about presidential term limits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuwDPH9kJjU

Pete Buttigieg Drops Ominous Warning: Trump Is In ‘Early Stages of Consolidating Total Power’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/buttigieg-warns-trump-is-in-early-stages-of-consolidating-total-power-a-test-if-we-are-actually-a-freedom-loving-people/

Here Are the Real Power Players in President Trump’s Administration
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24gze60yzo

‘Little Marco’ Rubio Splits With Trump With Brutal Slapdown on Ukraine. The secretary is a traditional Republican who has courted the party’s MAGA loyalists since being brought into the administration, but he is increasingly seen as out of step with Trump’s hard-line agenda.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/little-marco-rubio-splits-trump-174726305.html

A Rising Democratic Star Is Ready for New Leadership — Without Chuck Schumer. Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow says it’s time for a new generation to take on Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/25/mallory-mcmorrow-michigan-senate-chuck-schumer-00246369

President Donald Trump has been making it increasingly clear that he would like to start deporting American citizens to foreign prisons, but experts agree there’s no legal basis that would allow him to do that.
https://www.rawstory.com/can-trump-deport-american-citizens/

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights. Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won’t condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on “free and fair elections.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts
United States Department of State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State#Expenditures

Marco Rubio Forced to Admit Trump Might Not Actually End Ukraine War. Donald Trump had promised repeatedly to end the war in Ukraine on the first day of his presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/trump-ukraine-russia-war-00298898

What Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case Says About America. Trump seems eager to bring a Bukele-style authoritarianism stateside. Don’t Fall Into Trump’s Rhetorical Trap on the Wrongful Deportation Case
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/abrego-garcia-donald-trump-el-salvador-bukele.html?via=rss&pay=1745082854250&support_journalism=please

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Zero care left’: UN says Israel has destroyed Gaza’s last hospital amid mass graves and paramedic executions. Mass graves, targeted killings of medics, and relentless hospital bombings mark the collapse of Gaza’s health system under Israeli siege, UN and forensic reports confirm.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/18/zero-care-left-un-says-israel-has-destroyed-gazas-last-hospital-amid-mass-graves-and-paramedic-executions/

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Deputy caught on camera shoving woman out of Sacramento County jail fired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXC0CAlkAs

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Vance Melts Down at Reagan Judge Over Deported Dad Ruling. The ruling asked the question, “If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/reagan-appointed-judge-goes-nuclear-222308510.html

Trump’s pick to run the critical DC attorney’s office has appeared on Russian state media over 150 times: report
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dc-attorney-russian-state-media-b2734721.html

Supreme Court poised to make major decision that could set limits on the power of district judges
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-poised-make-major-decision-limits-power-district-judges

# LGBTQ / Gender
Blue State Bill Targeting ‘Misgendering’ Could Be Barreling Toward Free Speech Fight, Legal Experts Say. A Colorado bill aiming to restrict “misgendering” and “deadnaming” in public could spark another free speech debate, legal experts told the DCNF.
https://ijr.com/blue-state-bill-targeting-misgendering-could-be-barreling-toward-free-speech-fight-legal-experts-say/

Colorado Bill Would Force Judges To Consider ‘Misgendering’ a Form of ‘Coercive Control’ in Custody Cases. The bill risks “punishing parents simply for disagreeing with the state’s preferred views on gender,” Aaron Terr, a First Amendment attorney, tells Reason.
https://reason.com/2025/04/16/colorado-bill-would-force-judges-to-consider-misgendering-a-form-of-coercive-control-in-custody-cases/

# Media / Press / Mail
USPS customers left in limbo after 200 packages are dumped in middle of road – they got frustrating response from agency. “Postal officials, with the help of local law enforcement, retrieved all packages, which have since been transported to their intended destinations,” the USPS said.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14058695/usps-mail-dumped-road-packages-pile/#:~:text=USPS’%20FRUSTRATING%20RESPONSE&text=%22Postal%20officials%2C%20with%20the%20help,have%20caused%2C%22%20it%20said

# Medical / Health News
Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-tariffs-medical-equipment-medicaid-dme/

The Impact of Tariffs on Healthcare: Not even healthcare is immune to the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Among healthcare companies, tariffs are expected to hit makers of medical devices and pharmaceuticals the hardest.
https://www.alpha-sense.com/blog/trends/impact-tariffs-healthcare/

Tariffs send healthcare industry into ‘unchartered waters.’ Provider groups and health systems warn tariffs will test healthcare’s fragile supply chain, threatening to disrupt patient care.
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/tariffs-aha-med-tech-brace-for-impact/744496/

NIH signals end to key research on climate change and health. The Trump administration is moving to end National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for research.
https://www.ehn.org/nih-signals-end-to-key-research-on-climate-change-and-health

Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health. This power shift hasn’t just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/18/sick-and-unsafe-trump-attacks-on-workers-rights-is-an-attack-on-public-health/

Abortion Bans Criminalize People, and Not Just Those Who Are Pregnant. Post-Roe, pregnancy outcomes, and even actions taken to help pregnant people, face escalating criminalization.
https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-criminalize-people-and-not-just-those-who-are-pregnant/

The criminalization of abortion and surveillance of women in a post-Dobbs world
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-criminalization-of-abortion-and-surveillance-of-women-in-a-post-dobbs-world/

Abortion bans don’t prosecute pregnant people. That may be about to change. Legislation in Oklahoma and remarks from the Alabama attorney general could foreshadow new efforts to punish people who induce their own abortions.
https://19thnews.org/2023/01/abortion-bans-pregnant-people-prosecution/

The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Silence on Criminalization Speaks Volumes. Every day we see the harm caused by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the GOP’s dangerous abortion bans. Anti-abortion extremists are making clear that they want more—more extremism, more harm, more surveillance, and more criminalization.
https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/resources/the-anti-abortion-movements-silence-on-criminalization-speaks-volumes/

# Military / DOD / General News
B-1B Bones Make Unprecedented Bomber Task Force Deployment To Japan. U.S. long-range bombers haven’t been stationed in Japan for any extended period since the Vietnam War.
https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4155350/us-airmen-deploy-in-support-of-first-rotational-bomber-task-force-mission-to-ja/

Lockheed Pitches Containerized Launchers To Help Close Australia’s Air And Missile Defense Gaps.
Australia is seeking to acquire longer-range air and missile defenses to work with its new battle management system that’s under development.
https://www.twz.com/land/lockheed-pitches-containerized-launchers-to-help-close-australias-air-and-missile-defense-gaps

U.S. Cutting Forces In Syria By Half, Possible Ripple Effects In Region. The U.S. withdrawing a significant portion of its troops from Syria could see notable shifts in the ongoing power struggle in the war-torn country.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-cutting-forces-syria-half-230234284.html

The Dark World Of USAF Special Ops Air Refuelers And Their Modified KC-135RT Tankers. We talk to an elite group of specially trained airmen that fuel low flying special operations aircraft in total darkness and in radio silence.
https://www.twz.com/21794/the-dark-world-of-usaf-special-ops-air-refuelers-and-their-modified-kc-135rt-tankers

# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
The Japan Self-Defense Forces have offered an official look at the turret-mounted electromagnetic railgun now installed on the test ship JS Asuka.
https://www.twz.com/sea/railgun-installed-on-japanese-warship-testbed

# Nuclear
Iran seeks support from Russia ahead of next round of nuclear deal talks with US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBzRzKZ24FI

Trump calls for nuclear deal with Iran amid deep distrust ahead of Rome talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEAIvYvmi6E

Iran-US talks live: Nuclear talks progress, expert-level talks to be held
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/19/iran-us-talks-live-nuclear-discussions-to-begin-in-italys-rome

# Pharmaceuticals
FDA to Remove Pharma Reps From Advisory Committees, But Conflicts of Interest Persist. Industry already plays a more limited role in advising the FDA
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/17/fda-advisory-panels-pharma-industry-employees-patients-caregivers/

# Social / Social Programs
“They want to rob it”: Former Social Security head says Musk, Trump are “wrecking” agency to raid it
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/18/they-want-to-rob-it-former-social-security-head-says-musk-are-wrecking-agency-to-raid-it/

Trump Kicks Citizen Off Social Security in Anti-Immigrant Purge.  The man’s English-speaking family appealed the letter, reversing the decision, but his case is yet another reminder that the president isn’t afraid to weaponize the federal programs in his war on immigrants … or really anybody he wants out of the country.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194155/donald-trump-kicks-citizen-off-social-security-immigration-purge

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
US Officials Claim DeepSeek AI App Is ‘Designed To Spy on Americans.’ NVIDIA’s ties to DeepSeek are also being called into question by some US government officials.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-deepseek-nvidia-ai-us-committee-chinese-communist-party/

# Veterans / VA
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits. Why won’t lawmakers stop it? Veterans Guardian says it’s fighting to give veterans a choice. Critics say they’re guardians of greed.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/18/company-spending-millions-profit-off-veterans-benefits-why-wont-lawmakers-stop-it.html

Veterans became eligible for billions. These firms saw a chance to profit.
Despite a federal law that prohibits charging veterans for help in applying for disability benefits, for-profit companies are making millions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/23/va-benefits-for-profit-companies-pact-act/

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
What Trump’s executive order on the Roosevelt Reservation means at the Arizona border
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2025/04/15/trump-shifts-border-land-to-military-control/83090945007/

Trump Administration To Install 17 Miles Of Buoys In River At US-Mexico Border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3382151/trump-administration-install-miles-buoys-river-us-mexico-border/

Trump Clears Path to Send Non-Criminal Migrants to Guantanamo Bay. The agreement is in stark contrast to Trump’s vow to hold only “the worst” offenders at the naval base.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-45454/trump-says-u-s-will-send-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay

Woman Speaks Out After ICE Agents Smashed Her Car Window in Video. After one agent used a large hammer to break the glass, the woman and her husband were dragged out of the vehicle.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ice-agents-smashed-car-window-in-seizing-guatemalan-man-whos-seeking-asylum-family-says

# Border / Immigration / General News
Point: A Defense of Birthright Citizenship: In the United States, birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Trump’s actions demonstrate, repeatedly, that he thinks people in America on visas and illegal immigrants are subject to the legal jurisdiction of the United States. If this is the case, these same immigrants and their children are covered by the 14th Amendment.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topics/birthright-citizenship
Counterpoint: Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong: United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a Supreme Court case from 1898 that supporters of automatic birthright citizenship say settled the matter. It didn’t, not even close.
https://themercury.com/counterpoint-conventional-wisdom-behind-birthright-citizenship-is-flat-error/article_db39a43c-ef5a-4980-bc40-845da2663d14.html

DHS official defends recent deportations under Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/06/nx-s1-5353462/dhs-official-defends-recent-deportations-under-trump-administration

Top Trump Official Claims Defending Due Process Is ‘Aiding’ Terrorists. A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/3966554926150-top-trump-official-claims-defending-due-process-is-aiding-terrorists

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Calls Returning Deported Man Back To U.S. ‘Preposterous’ Despite Supreme Court Order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations/

‘Impeachable’: JD Vance gets in hours-long spat as he opposes ‘due process’ for migrants
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-due-process/

‘Open Enemy of the Constitution’: JD Vance Ripped for Defending End of Due Process. “In Vance’s America, the police can knock on any immigrant’s door, deport him to a dictatorship without due process, and then wash their hands of his fate,” said Rep. Ro Khanna.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jd-vance-due-process

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Syngenta agrees to settle most paraquat lawsuits as Parkinson’s claims mount
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/syngenta-moving-to-settle-thousands-of-lawsuits-claiming-paraquat-causes-parkinsons-disease/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/doge-breach-sparks-cybersecurity-crisis-as-russian-ip-tries-to-access-federal-labor-systems-senate-receives-urgent-complain/articleshow/120350816.cms?from=mdr

NLRB Whistleblower Reveals Alleged Russian Access to DOGE
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nlrb-whistleblower-claims-musks-doge-potentially-caused-significant-security-breach

Scores of volunteers with AmeriCorps youth program let go after DOGE visit
https://apnews.com/article/americorps-volunteers-fema-doge-05b1d1cd53e0b5b9f64c17eaba7adf95

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The United States’ ruling class is considering eliminating funding for the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as part of a State Department budget proposal. This would cut about half of the State Department’s budget.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/u-s-considers-eliminating-un-and-nato-funding

Federal Spending Is Only Going Up: Trump Pushes Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget
https://mises.org/mises-wire/federal-spending-only-going-trump-pushes-trillion-dollar-defense-budget

‘Jaw-dropping conflict of interest’: Trump accused of new scheme to benefit from trade war
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-media-and-technology-group/

White House quietly floats millionaire tax hike proposal in Congress as GOP leaders signal opposition
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millionaire-tax-hike-gains-steam-183214743.html

The Left’s Fragile Foundations. Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?
https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=They%20Are%20Not%20Going%20to%20Stop%20at%20Harvard&utm_campaign=04162025%20Fundraising%20Spring%20Campaign%204

Fed Chief Warns Trump’s Tariffs ‘Highly Likely’ to Spark Inflation
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/trump-tariffs-inflation-powell-interest-rates

# Education / Schools / Library’s
Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-administration-federal-cuts-037c3f5b259a7577358c5979e701c7c7

Trump’s administration freezes Harvard grants over campus activism
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/16/trumps-administration-freezes-harvard-grants-over-campus-activism/

Why Harvard is standing its ground against Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brawl-harvard-sets-unprecedented-211759499.html

Trump’s War on Universities Is More Dangerous Than You Think. What his attack on Columbia means for America’s entire democratic system.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/18/trump-columbia-universities-attack-education-global-leader/

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday made the drastic moves of placing the entire AmeriCorps staff on leave, more than 200,000 members, and directed the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-escalates-harvard-attacks-telling-031914084.html

Noem Announces Cancelation Of $2.7 Million In Grants To Harvard
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5253052-noem-announces-cancelation-grants-harvard/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5351799/scotus-probationary-workers

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration backs coal expansion despite safety risks and methane threats in Alabama mines
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-backs-coal-expansion-despite-safety-risks-and-methane-threats-in-alabama-mines

Texas bill would require drillers to notify landowners before burying toxic waste
https://www.ehn.org/texas-bill-would-require-drillers-to-notify-landowners-before-burying-toxic-waste#:~:text=Texas%20lawmakers%20are%20weighing%20new,over%20health%20and%20environmental%20risks

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Proper forest management to return to U.S., including logging and controlled burn operations
https://teamrubiconusa.org/news-and-stories/wildfire-mitigation-strategies-return-to-their-roots/

# Food General News
Shoppers will be banned from buying soda and candy under rule change – and it even applies to certain fruity treats: 4 states aim to prevent food stamps recipients from using program to buy candy, soda
https://www.aol.com/least-4-states-attempting-ban-220543284.html

# General News
Stephen Colbert Says America Isn’t on Its Way to a Dictatorship: ‘We’re on the Ship!’ Late-night hosts lamented Trump’s latest ‘insane dictatorial demands’ and showed support for his latest target: Harvard
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/16/colbert-kimmel-trump-harvard-late-night-roundup

Fraud alert: Thieves just stole big money from a dozen politicians and political committees
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04/fraud-alert-thieves-just-stole-big-money-from-a-dozen-politicians-and-political-committees/

# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All. President Donald Trump’s use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-expanded-domestic-military-use-should-worry-us-all

Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists
https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=vjtl

Why Trump Doesn’t Want You to Notice His Most Dangerous Move. Trump’s record-breaking pace seems dependent upon a penchant for inventing ways to use these orders to further personal grievances which are untethered to the law.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-why-trump-doesn-t-162131925.html

Trump’s Government of Billionaires No Good for the Working Class. With a cabinet full of billionaires, the new administration is poised to carry out a program of continuing to enrich themselves while dividing, repressing and bankrupting the working class. Our country is fast moving towards a more blatant and transparent form of oligarchy — rule by the super-rich.
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2025/trump-government-of-billionaires-no-good-for-the-working-class

Democrats Ignore Black Hole Threatening To Suck Them In. Democrats are increasingly becoming apathetic to the rise in political violence in America, even against their own.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/16/rooke-democrats-violence-shapiro-trump/

Why not tyranny? JD Vance says he’s fine with the “inevitable errors” of abandoning due process. The vice president argues it would too difficult to provide due process to those he wants to imprison or deport
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/16/why-not-tyranny-jd-vance-says-hes-fine-with-the-inevitable-errors-of-abandoning-due-process/

‘Soviet’-style oversight: Musk’s DOGE eyes embedding monitors in federally funded orgs
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2671776619/

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags. His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193969/donald-trump-asked-attorney-general-deport-us-citizens

Trump Axed Elon Musk’s Secret Pentagon Meeting in Pure Outrage. Elon Musk is finally facing (some) consequences for trying to play president.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-china-war-pentagon-meeting-elon-musk

MAGA’s New Meltdown Shows How Little They Actually Know About the Law. Stephen Miller and other MAGA stooges are adamant that Donald Trump can deport whomever he wants.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/3965465559676-maga-s-new-meltdown-shows-how-little-they-actually-know-about-the-law

# Gov / Politics / Global
WARNING: Greenland Signals Closer Co-Operation With Chinese Communist Party.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/04/15/warning-greenland-signals-closer-co-operation-with-chinese-communist-party/

Israeli Defense Minister Says No Humanitarian Aid Will Enter Gaza, Vows Indefinite Occupation. Israel Katz says blocking aid is ‘one of the main pressure levers’ on Hamas while military announces it has turned 30% of Gaza into buffer zone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was neither “overly optimistic or overly pessimistic” regarding the Oman talks with the United States in his first remarks since Saturday’s meeting. President Donald Trump has said he is determined to seek a new binding agreement for Iran’s nuclear expansion through negotiations but does not rule out the possibility of a military attack.
https://www.newsweek.com/khamenei-iran-supreme-leader-trump-us-2059895

Mexico’s Sheinbaum says country will not renew diplomatic relations with Ecuador
https://www.aol.com/news/mexicos-sheinbaum-says-country-not-152945722.html

Iran and Russia Deepen Alliance Amid US Tensions
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-russia-deepen-alliance-amid-us-tensions-2060511

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Federal judge finds ‘probable cause’ to hold Trump administration in contempt – a legal scholar explains what this means
https://theconversation.com/federal-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-administration-in-contempt-a-legal-scholar-explains-what-this-means-254767

# Medical / Health News
‘Genes Do Not Cause Epidemics’: Kennedy Lambastes Media for Denying Autism Epidemic, Vows to Research Environmental Triggers
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366676/autism-cdc-rates-rfk-research

Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-health-budget-cuts-hhs

# Military / DOD / General News
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
https://www.armytimes.com/education-transition/2025/04/16/students-sue-defense-department-over-book-bans-in-military-schools/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touts ‘historic’ deals to deter ‘Chinese influence’ in Panama Canal
https://www.yahoo.com/news/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-touts-234924569.html

U.S. Cutting Forces In Syria By Half, Possible Ripple Effects In Region.The U.S. withdrawing a significant portion of its troops from Syria could see notable shifts in the ongoing power struggle in the war-torn country.
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-cutting-forces-in-syria-by-half-possible-ripple-effects-in-region

US cutting forces in Syria by half, possible ripple effects in region. The move comes even as the Pentagon is surging resources to the Middle East and could have wide regional ramifications
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-cutting-forces-in-syria-by-half-possible-ripple-effects-in-region

Trump unleashes massive 27,000lb ‘Bunker Buster’ bombs on Houthis from B-2 stealth bombers in chilling warning to Iran. The bomb is designed specifically to neutralise deeply buried and fortified targets
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14038446/trump-unleashes-bunker-buster-bombs-houthis/

Third Pentagon official implicated in DOD leak probe. A third Pentagon official on Wednesday has been placed on administrative leave as part of an ongoing investigation into leaks at the Defense Department, a defense official confirmed.
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/security/2025/april/third-pentagon-official-implicated-in-dod-leak-probe

# Military / General News / Global
Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen border areas hours after intense US airstrikes. UAE-backed militias in southern Yemen are reportedly preparing a ‘ground offensive’ against Ansarallah with the support of the US
https://thecradle.co/articles/saudi-arabia-bombs-yemen-border-areas-hours-after-intense-us-airstrikes

Turkey hosts Black Sea security talks with Ukraine, France, UK. Turkish officials have clarified that no Russian representatives are participating, and that this is not a direct negotiation between Russia and Ukraine
https://balkaneu.com/turkey-leads-strategic-talks-on-black-sea-security-with-ukraine-france-and-uk/

# Nuclear
DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/doges-staff-firing-fiasco-at-the-nuclear-weapon-agency-means-everything-but-efficiency/

# Other Stuff
Strange ‘sea pigs,’ sea spiders and a spawning ‘butterfly’ discovered on Antarctic ocean floor by scientists. Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica’s ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/strange-sea-pigs-sea-spiders-and-a-spawning-butterfly-discovered-on-antarctic-ocean-floor-by-scientists

# Recycle / Repurpose / Reuse
Plastic recycling stalls as fossil fuel-based plastics keep flowing into the global market. The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-global-plastic-recycling-stagnant.html

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
CISA extends CVE program contract with MITRE for 11 months amid alarm over potential lapse. The MITRE Corporation will continue operating the CVE program for at least another 11 months after federal cybersecurity officials confirmed that they temporarily extended their contract with the organization to keep the platform running.
https://therecord.media/cisa-extends-cve-program-contract-with-mitre

# Social / Social Programs
How privatizing Social Security could impact retirees. With average monthly retirement payout of $1,980.86 as of February 2025, according to the Social Security Administration, the idea of privatizing Social Security reared its head once again.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-privatizing-social-security-could-impact-retirees

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
NVIDIA to Build AI Supercomputers in U.S. Amid Chinese Rare Earth Export Ban
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/amid-trump-tariff-chaos-nvidia-launches-ai-chip-production-on-us-soil/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Once The Deadline On May 7th Arrives, They Will Ask You To Show A National ID Card If You Want To Travel By Plane
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/04/09/tsa-highlight-real-id-enforcement-deadline-may-7-2025

Tesla Accused of Hacking Odometers to Rip Off Customers. Tesla has been accused of manipulating the odometers in its cars. Why? Well, to avoid repair responsibilities and warranty agreements, of course.
https://futurism.com/tesla-accused-odometers

# Water
Profanity-ridden Emails, Misuse of CDC Funds: How Big Fluoride Tries to Prevent Towns From Cleaning Up Their Water
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/north-dakota-towns-effort-end-water-fluoridation-exposes-cdc/

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