Voices, The Peoples News
January 30, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Better Navajo Nation ID system wanted after immigration raids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmr_-GuE88
Indigenous people questioned about immigration. The largest indigenous tribe in the U.S., the Navajo Nation, says it’s received concerning reports from its own people about immigration enforcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj030QF3FCE
Trump Urged to Stop ICE ‘Harassment’ of Native American Citizens. Agroup of Democratic lawmakers is demanding immediate action to halt what they describe as “unconscionable” harassment of Native American citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ice-native-americans-harassment-2022615
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Guantánamo Bay Plan: The US government will repurpose Guantánamo Bay to hold as many as 30,000 undocumented migrants after President Donald Trump said yesterday the facilities will be used as a holding center for high-priority migrants facing deportation with criminal backgrounds
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-45454/trump-says-u-s-will-send-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay
Order: Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expanding-migrant-operations-center-at-naval-station-guantanamo-bay-to-full-capacity/?user_id=6717b5c8b449f59fb206a87d
‘Severe Consequences’ Pa. bill could give illegal immigrants the death penalty
https://www.wtaj.com/news/regional-news/severe-consequences-pa-bill-could-give-illegal-immigrants-the-death-penalty/
Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers who posted photo of baby sitting on pile of illegal cash get taken down in NYPD sweep
https://www.aol.com/tren-aragua-migrant-gangbangers-taken-173218286.html
# Business / Industry / Corporations
U.S. Senators Reintroduce Legislation to Block Chinese Ownership of American Land. Not One More Inch or Acre Act, legislation aimed at preventing individuals or businesses affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from owning real estate in the United States.
https://calhounjournal.com/u-s-senators-reintroduce-legislation-to-block-chinese-ownership-of-american-land/
Not One More Inch or Acre Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1136
ICE deportations affecting Texas businesses. Working class industries, like farming and construction, which heavily rely on migrant labor for productivity, warn that deportations could have far-reaching impacts that affect Texans beyond these sectors.
https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/texas-farmers-and-contractors-warn-that-trump-deportations-could-harm-industries/
Inside Amazon’s plan to cut managers: More direct reports, fewer senior hires, and pay cuts. Amazon’s reorg reflects a broader trend in corporate America to trim middle managers.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-plan-cut-managers-aws-internal-guidelines-2025-1
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
What Trump’s Colombia tariff flap means for China, Canada, and Mexico as deadline looms
https://gazette.com/news/wex/what-trump-s-colombia-tariff-flap-means-for-china-canada-and-mexico-as-deadline-looms/article_4d2972da-92e3-58b2-91d2-01d94d115cda.html
Cruz to revive push to abolish government consumer protection agency
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5114039-ted-cruz-cfpb-funding-bill-fed/
CFPB: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A U.S. government agency dedicated to making sure you are treated fairly by banks, lenders and other financial institutions.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
The Trump administration is reviving efforts to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, a rule that compels the agency to regulate greenhouse gases as harmful pollutants, despite legal and industry resistance.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/trump-pushes-to-roll-back-key-climate-rule-2671031794.html
# Education / Schools
Trump signs sweeping executive orders that overhaul U.S. education system. The executive orders come as Trump has railed against the U.S. education system, accusing it of indoctrinating children in radical anti-American, racist and gender ideologies.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/29/Trump-education-executive-orders/5261738201943/
Trump antisemitism executive order invokes anti-KKK law and targets ‘leftist, anti-American’ universities
https://forward.com/news/692632/trump-antisemitism-executive-order/
Trump signs executive orders prioritizing school choice, ending K-12 ‘indoctrination.’ Trump’s latest orders call for the Education Department to explore options to fund school choice, while ending support for “discriminatory equity ideology.”
https://www.k12dive.com/news/trump-signs-executive-orders-prioritizing-school-choice-ending-k-12-indoc/738718/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
A top legal expert says that Trump’s decision to fire the head of the NLRB is ‘completely unprecedented’: ‘Workers need to buckle up’
https://fortune.com/2025/01/30/a-top-legal-expert-says-that-trumps-decision-to-fire-the-head-of-the-nlrb-is-completely-unprecedented-workers-need-to-buckle-up/
NLRB: National Labor Relations Board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump pushes for more oil and gas production and a roll-back of climate initiatives. Within hours of taking office, President Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of his plan to push for more oil and gas drilling and to heavily boost fossil fuels. He also started a process to reverse much of what the Biden administration did on greener energy.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-pushes-for-more-oil-and-gas-production-and-a-roll-back-of-climate-initiatives
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Researchers Unravel Decades-Old Mystery Behind ‘Ghost Islands’ That Showed up in the Arctic Ocean. In 2021, a team of researchers landed on this mysterious uncharted landmass while scouring the surrounding ice for samples.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/researchers-unravel-decades-old-mystery-behind-ghost-islands-that-showed-up-in-the-arctic-ocean
Physicist Finally Solves the Mystery Behind Strange Polka-Dot Patterns Found in the Grand Canyon. A region north of the Grand Canyon is riddled with mysterious spots and the expert came up with the most probable cause of it.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/physicist-finally-solves-the-mystery-behind-strange-polka-dot-patterns-found-in-the-grand-canyon#:~:text=Physicist%20Amelia%20Carolina%20Sparavigna%20first,area%20resulting%20in%20patterned%20vegetation
Scientists discover California is ‘peeling apart’ below the surface. dense rocks under the Sierra Nevada mountain range are detaching and sinking deeper into the mantle.
https://www.businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/the-continents-are-collapsing-scientists-just-found-a-hidden-process-reshaping-earth-206145-30-01-2025
# Food General News
U.S. farmers concerned with immigration crackdown. The concern is especially profound in Texas, which leads the nation in the number of farms and ranches, and where agriculture is a more than $30-billion-a-year industry.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2025/01/30/mass-deportations-agriculture-migrant-labor
Scientists hope to turn bacteria, algae into dinner. At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.
https://undark.org/2025/01/29/new-food-bacteria-algae/
# Gov / Politics
Elon Puts Kid Who Just Graduated From High School in Charge of Disemboweling the US Government
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-puts-kid-just-graduated-180045885.html
As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Gov. Sometimes, you can foresee a catastrophe long before it actually takes place. This is one of those times.
https://futurism.com/trump-openai-chatgpt-gov
‘Disastrous, Cruel, and Dumb’: Schumer Levels Scathing Criticism At Trump After Spending Freeze Reversal
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/disastrous-cruel-and-dumb-schumer-levels-scathing-criticism-at-trump-after-spending-freeze-reversal/
Former VP candidate issues three-word warning to federal employees considering Trump’s buyout. Democrat Tim Kaine summed up his view on the proposed buyout on the Senate floor
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tim-kaine-trump-federal-buyout-warning-b2688840.html
The 50-Year-Old Law Trump Is Challenging To Create Chaos. President Donald Trump took steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-presidential-power-executive-congress-grants-freeze-60fa3a9fabf6328f9aa3c45ed34e2cc3
Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/role-of-us-in-russia-ukraine-war
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘He defunded the police!’ NJ official claims Trump’s funding freeze has damaging potential
https://www.rawstory.com/nj-ag-claims-trump-defunded-the-police/
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Buddy Is Gonna Help Run the FBI
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/3783623742624-now-elon-musk-s-spacex-buddy-is-going-to-help-run-the-fbi
Musk affiliate in FBI director’s office sparks fear of partisan interference. A person who has been affiliated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former aide to a top FBI critic in Congress are now advising the FBI director, current and former officials say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/people-ties-musk-top-fbi-critic-are-advising-fbi-director-rcna189567
# Medical / General News
‘Chose rent over his medicine’: Parents of 22-year-old who died from asthma attack sue pharmacy over inhaler price jump from $66 to $539.
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/chose-rent-over-his-medicine-parents-of-22-year-old-who-died-from-asthma-attack-sue-pharmacy-over-inhaler-price-jump/
Democrats: Americans’ health on the line if Medicaid scaled back
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5113432-medicaid-cuts-dnc-analysis/
Infant deaths increased with stricter abortion laws. Infant mortality in the U.S. has increased by 7% since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned the constitutional right to abortion, according to an October 2024 study
https://theconversation.com/stricter-abortion-laws-may-cause-increased-infant-deaths-2-maternal-and-child-health-researchers-explain-the-data-243881#:~:text=Infant%20mortality%20in%20the%20U.S.,to%20an%20October%202024%20study
# Medical Technology / Bio-Engineering / Bio-Science
Investigation: Healthcare Driven by AI Technology Will Lead to More Mass Surveillance of Americans. Well before President Donald Trump announced support for Stargate, a $500 billion private-sector AI project, Silicon Valley and the DOD had already teamed up to transform U.S. healthcare into an AI-driven system reliant on the widespread collection of personal healthcare data, according to a new investigative report by Unlimited Hangout’s Max Jones.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ai-healthcare-predictive-medicine-biometric-surveillance/
Daunting biological threats: Humanity continues to face threats from emerging and reemerging infectious disease, proliferation of high-risk research laboratories, the combination of AI with biological research, and offensive bioweapons programs
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/biological-threats/
# Military / General News
American fighters are dying in Ukraine in growing numbers. Bringing their bodies home is a complex task
https://www.allsides.com/news/2025-01-29-2200/politics-american-fighters-are-dying-ukraine-growing-numbers-bringing-their
Former State Department officials concerned about the U.S. role in Israel’s war in Gaza
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-state-department-officials-concerned-about-us-role-israel-war-in-gaza-60-minutes-transcript/
In 60 Minutes Interview, Ex-State Dept. Officials Spotlight US Complicity in Gaza Assault. “There is a linkage between every single bomb that is dropped in Gaza and the U.S.,” said one former official.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-state-department-officials-60-minutes
The US military wants to explore blood biohacks to boost warfighter performance in extreme conditions. DARPA wants to test whether modifying red blood cells would enhance troop performance. The Red Blood Cell Factory program aims to insert biologically active components in cells.
https://bgr.com/science/us-military-is-trying-to-biohack-blood-to-make-better-soldiers/
# NASA / Space
NASA Researchers reveal first map of the ice-free land area of Antarctica, which makes up less than 0.5% of the continent; survey expected to aid in future conservation measures
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3848
Also: First map of vegetation across Antarctica reveals a battle for the continent’s changing landscape
https://theconversation.com/first-map-of-vegetation-across-antarctica-reveals-a-battle-for-the-continents-changing-landscape-231111
Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA. Donald Trump’s pick for NASA head, billionaire Jared Isaacman, should worry anyone who cares about space.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189046/trump-elon-musk-buddy-jared-isaacman-head-nasa
# Nuclear
Nuclear risk: Extremely dangerous trends continue. No calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons, this is hardly good news. Longstanding concerns continued or were amplified in 2024
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/nuclear-risk/
# Science / Science Engineers
Dead” Cells Spring to Life: Scientists Reveal Shocking Third State Between Life and Death. In a research review, two biologists explore the latest research in this growing field of xenobots and anthrobots that appear to live on after the original organism has died.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a62244774/biobots-third-state/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI accuses Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of using its models to train its own chatbots; recent announcement of DeepSeek’s cheap-but-powerful R1 model caused shockwaves in Silicon Valley
https://www.theverge.com/news/601195/openai-evidence-deepseek-distillation-ai-data
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