Voices, The Peoples News
January 18, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
EPA takes unprecedented step to remove uranium waste from the Navajo Nation. The decision opens the door for new ways to manage uranium pollution on tribal land.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-navajo-nation-select-cleanup-plan-remove-waste-quivira-mines-site
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Texas is policing the Mexican border, and will play a role in any Trump plan to crack down on immigration. State lawmakers passed Senate Bill 4, allowing Texas police to arrest those illegally crossing the border from Mexico.
https://theconversation.com/texas-is-already-policing-the-mexican-border-and-will-play-an-outsize-role-in-any-trump-plan-to-crack-down-on-immigration-247529
US ‘knowingly killing’ migrants, Texas commissioner claims: People crisscrossing the U.S.-Mexico border is a way of life in El Paso, Texas, but data compiled by an immigrant advocacy group shows that the region is the deadliest for migrants attempting to illegally enter the United States.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/us-killing-migrants-commissioner/
5th Circuit rules DACA is unlawful, but limits its ruling to Texas
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5092787-federal-appeals-court-daca-texas/
Feds To Descend on Chicago In Mass Deportation Raid Hours After Trump’s Inauguration: Report
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/feds-to-descend-on-chicago-in-mass-deportation-raid-hours-after-trumps-inauguration-report/
Florida abduction report leads to discovery of U-Haul van with more than 30 migrants, “Officers opened the back of the truck, filled with mostly Chinese migrants
https://www.aol.com/florida-abduction-report-leads-discovery-235832028.html
Local immigration attorney: Mass deportations will bog down entire system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DbqHOx2jV8
NJ leads effort before Trump inauguration to protect health care access for DACA recipients
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/15/new-jersey-trump-health-care-daca-recipients-00198387
Noem pledges to secure border as DHS chief, will shut down mobile app for migrants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/17/kristi-noem-dhs-border-control-biden/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Voters who backed Trump identify new swamp to drain: corporate power. Saginaw county Republicans want new president to target big pharma, healthcare and food – can they rely on him?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/michigan-voters-trump-saginaw
Biden Administration Reaches Deal Limiting Controversial Protections for Multinational Corporations. The U.S.-Colombia agreement aims to rein in a common part of investment treaties that, Inside Climate News investigations show, let polluting companies force big payouts from governments.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17012025/biden-administration-limits-controversial-multinational-corporation-protections/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE weighs recommendations to cut federal programs. In private talks, the nongovernmental fiscal-efficiency group is deliberating policies that counteract initiatives assailed by opponents as “DEI” programs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/16/musk-ramaswamy-diversity-doge-dei/
Republicans Reveal Dark Plan to Let Kids Go Hungry to Fund Tax Cuts
https://newrepublic.com/post/190399/republicans-plan-cut-school-food-tax-cuts
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
House Budget Republicans eye more than 200 spending cuts, tax changes for major bill
https://thehill.com/business/5092129-house-budget-republicans-eye-more-than-200-spending-cuts-tax-changes-for-major-bill/
2 Painful Social Security Changes to Brace for in 2025
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2025/01/17/2-painful-social-security-changes-to-brace-for-in/
Feds disbar EcoHealth Alliance and its former president after COVID controversy: “Today’s decision is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in a statement.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/breaking-hhs-formally-debars-ecohealth-alliance-dr-peter-daszak-after-covid-select-reveals-pandemic-era-wrongdoing/
EcoHealth Alliance’s Response to Recent Allegations
https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2024/06/ecohealth-alliances-response-to-recent-allegations
‘Warning for Trump’ as bond markets call bluff on GOP tax cut plan: reports
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tax-cuts-2670880620/
House Dems threaten to block Trump’s big tariff plans: ‘Unacceptable’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxcqe7zvG8
Trump’s ‘External Revenue Service’ plan will strike fear into countries doing business with US, economist says
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/trump-external-revenue-service-ers-tariffs
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Starting Today, Biden Administration Lifts Country Restrictions and Expands Flexibility for Temporary Workers
https://www.newsbreak.com/nepyork-288847545/3765924324985-starting-today-biden-administration-lifts-country-restrictions-and-expands-flexibility-for-temporary-workers
Trump Treasury secretary nominee won’t support raising minimum wage
https://thehill.com/business/5090420-trump-treasury-secretary-nominee-wont-support-raising-minimum-wage/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Cruz files bills to repeal natural gas tax, offshore drilling ban
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_b2cfe504-d509-11ef-8351-af998c75c820.html
Ground source heat pumps could bring geothermal heating and cooling to millions of homes in the coming decade, a report from the U.S. Department of Energy concludes.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012025/geothermal-heat-pumps-doe-report/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Biden administration moves to protect more of Alaska refuge from drilling
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-moves-protect-more-alaska-refuge-drilling-2025-01-16/
The US state of Alaska has sued the Biden administration for what it calls violations of a congressional directive to allow oil and gas development in a portion of the federal Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/alaska-biden-oil-drilling-lawsuit
# General News
Caught secretly selling car owners’ driving data, what many of these GM customers did not know, is the carmaker had been cashing in on the sale of their personal data to third parties, irrespective of whether it would be to the detriment of the carmaker’s unwitting customers, who believed it was for internal purposes only. General Motors slapped with a hefty ban by Lina Khan’s FTC
https://fortune.com/2025/01/17/general-motors-ftc-settlement-gm-caught-sellling-driver-data-insurers/
# Gov / Politics
Trump Plans to Unleash Flood of Dark Executive Orders on Day One
https://newrepublic.com/post/190390/trump-executive-orders-day-one
Biden Just Gave Away Netanyahu’s Whole Game. And It’s Bad. Joe Biden tried to joke about Benjamin Netanyahu “carpet bombing” Gaza. ‘But Bibi, you can’t be carpet bombing these communities.’ And he said to me, ‘Well you did it. You carpet bombed Berlin. You dropped a nuclear weapon. You killed thousands of innocent people because you had to in order to win a war.’”
https://newrepublic.com/post/190365/joe-biden-benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-bombs
Ohio Governor Snubs Trump With Vance Replacement in Senate. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine picked JD Vance’s replacement—and it’s not who Donald Trump wanted.
https://san.com/cc/ohio-governor-picks-lt-gov-jon-husted-to-replace-jd-vance-in-senate/
‘Something is going to happen’: Report said to reveal source of Trump’s Panama ‘fixation’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-panama-canal-2670878956/
A US exit from NATO under Trump would likely trigger a legal showdown
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-exit-nato-under-trump-100402548.html
Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-equal-rights-amendment-150107087.html
Since Donald Trump last entered the White House, the Supreme Court created a more powerful president. No mystery exists as to what Trump is all about – or whether the Supreme Court majority is mostly with him.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/politics/trump-relationship-with-supreme-court-second-term
Mike Pence to Trump: cutting Taiwan support would ‘likely spark a new nuclear arms race’
https://www.newsweek.com/new-nuclear-arms-race-taiwan-mike-pence-warns-trump-2016563
Washington DC residents flee ahead of Trump inauguration: ‘I can’t be here.’ Republicans and conservatives meanwhile are pouring in for celebrations with hotels being nearly 70% booked
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/trump-inauguration-washington-dc-residents-leave
For the first time in U.S. history, foreign leaders are invited to an inauguration. Most are right-wing politicians, though a few notables didn’t make the cut.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-01-17/the-far-right-foreign-leaders-getting-a-historic-invite-to-trumps-inauguration
# Gov / Politics / Global
Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal for ceasefire in Gaza and release of dozens of hostages that will pause the 15-month war with Hamas for six weeks. The deal brings Israel and Hamas a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever.
https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-ceasefire-updates
# Medical / General News
Lawmakers consider higher bar for constitutional amendments and a trigger to end Medicaid expansion
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/lawmakers-consider-higher-bar-constitutional-amendments-and-trigger-end-medicaid-expansion
RFK Jr. Secretly Got Rich Off of “Public Health” Efforts
https://newrepublic.com/post/190399/republicans-plan-cut-school-food-tax-cuts
# Military / General News / Militia / Bio-weapons
It’s not clear who will lead the Pentagon when Trump takes office. What happens then?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-defense-department-transition-secretaries-inauguration-bf535549800d166060f1c4399360d06f
Littoral Combat Ship Can Now Rapidly Shoot Down Aerial Drones With Hellfire Missiles. Houthi attacks in the Red Sea prompted the Navy to rush the counter-drone Hellfire capability to the Freedom class LCS.
https://www.twz.com/sea/littoral-combat-ship-can-now-rapidly-shoot-down-aerial-drones-with-hellfire-missiles
Face the facts: America has outsourced its military supply chain to China
https://www.aol.com/opinion-face-facts-america-outsourced-203000283.html
‘Hyperscale’ Weapons Coming to Ohio. Arsenal-1 will redefine the scale and speed that autonomous systems and weapons can be produced for the United States and its allies and partners.
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-building-arsenal-1-hyperscale-manufacturing-facility-in-ohio/
# NATO
NATO on red alert as Russian drones hit member nation amid ‘strong condemnation’
https://www.newsweek.com/four-nato-fighter-jets-scrambled-over-russian-drone-attack-1962542
# NASA / Space
NASA wants a ‘Super-Hubble’ space telescope to search for life on alien worlds
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/nasa-wants-a-super-hubble-space-telescope-to-search-for-life-on-alien-worlds
# Other Interesting Things
World’s Most Isolated Tree Survived Centuries in Sahara Dessert- But Couldn’t Withstand Human Recklessness. The tree itself was only a couple of meters tall with few living branches, but it still clung on to life to serve as a testament to the resilience required for hardy desert people to survive. But a double whammy of back luck would cut the tree’s life short – literally.
https://thetreeographer.com/2018/03/08/the-worlds-loneliest-tree-the-tree-of-tenere/
New research reveals a “major mystery” deep beneath the planet’s bodies of water and crust, and now experts are rethinking what they know about Earth’s terrain. They suggest it could even mean “a lost world” under the sea.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/10/science/newly-discovered-undersea-structures-stun-scientists-is-there-a-lost-world-beneath-the-pacific-ocean/
# Pharmaceuticals
EpiPen price lawsuit: Indiana attorney general says drug companies have illegally hiked prices: EpiPens are a life-saving treatment for severe allergic reactions. Indiana’s AG says Pfizer and Mylan have broken the law to increase the price by more than 600%.
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/drug-price-gauging-pfizer-mylan-epipen-allergic-reaction-hike-anaphylaxis-lawsuit-state-indiana-attorney-general-todd-rokita-manufacturer-company/531-0026c7d5-9e42-4d36-9905-ae76ce3ab1bf
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Biden Slams Tech Platforms Such As Facebook And X For Kowtowing To Trump
https://www.aol.com/biden-slams-tech-platforms-facebook-032918629.html
Biden signs ambitious order to bolster energy resources for AI data centers. The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure development at government sites, while imposing requirements and safeguards on the developers building on those locations. The Energy Department issued a report warning that data centers’ energy consumption, water use, and emissions are already skyrocketing amid increasing electricity costs, droughts, and climate disasters.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-white-house-ai-artificial-intelligence-7458d9d1bb537929c5dcfb5192695223
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