Voices, The Peoples News
February 22, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE acting director Caleb Vitello removed from role
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/ice-acting-director-vitello-removed/
Border czar Tom Homan: ICE agents are ‘prioritizing security threats’
https://www.newsbreak.com/newsnation-2045693/3824276094183-border-czar-tom-homan-ice-agents-are-prioritizing-national-security-threats-cuomo
Trump’s new order poised to flip 500K migrants from legal status to illegal
https://www.rawstory.com/haitian-tps/
They moved to the US ‘the right way.’ But with babies due imminently, these families are afraid for their future. Families on H-1B visas who are expecting babies imminently tell Rhian Lubin how Trump’s birthright citizenship order has left them fearing for their children’s future
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/birthright-citizenship-order-h1b-deadline-b2701215.html
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
You Won’t Believe How Much DOGE’s Latest Cuts Have Actually Saved. Elon Musk and his cronies continue to lie about how much money they’re saving.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191822/doge-cuts-social-security-savings-low-amount
Social Security Administration: DOGE Cannot Make Changes to Benefit Payments. The acting Social Security Commissioner released a statement that the agency will uphold SSA’s history of protecting benefits and data amid concerns about DOGE access.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/social-security-administration-says-doge-will-not-disrupt-your-payments
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The Secret Society Raising Your Electricity Bills. A breakthrough report details how utility companies use bogus models to earn excess profits. The Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts, or SURFA. And they are a large part of the reason why you’re paying way too much for electricity.
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-02-21-secret-society-raising-your-electricity-bills/
Railroad Commission Approves More Waste Disposal in East Texas. Oil and gas commissioners overruled the recommendations of technical staff, authorizing an oilfield waste site in Paxton, Texas. “We are not against the oil and gas industry,” he said. “But we need to move away from drinking water supplies.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022025/railroad-commission-approves-waste-disposal-east-texas/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Plan to Build a Road With Radioactive Waste in Florida Prompts Legal Challenge Against the EPA. The project, located east of Tampa, involves phosphogypsum, a radioactive, carcinogenic and toxic waste generated by the fertilizer industry.
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-challenges-epas-approval-of-radioactive-roads-2025-02-19/
Climate and Environmental Justice Programs Stalled by Trump Freeze, Despite Court Orders
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022025/climate-environmental-justice-programs-trump-freeze/
Trump Order Fast-Tracks Projects That Would Damage Wetlands, Environmental Groups Say
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19022025/trump-fast-tracks-projects-that-would-damage-wetlands/
# General News
LAFD chief removed over handling of LA fires
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/lafd-chief-fired/
Fact Check: Yes, Musk reposted meme calling Americans who use federal programs the ‘Parasite Class’
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-parasite-class/
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s ‘Friday night massacre’ sent a stark message that ‘could not be clearer’: “None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or ‘lethality,’ or promoting ‘warfighters,’ or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple,” Tom Nichols concluded.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-military-2671196630/
Trump’s Executive Orders Build Toward Dictatorial “Unitary Executive” Power. The president’s power grab over federal agencies is the latest example of his use of the controversial legal theory.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-executive-orders-build-toward-dictatorial-unitary-executive-power/
‘What’s it Gonna Take?’ Angus King Warns Americans to Realize We Are In ‘Biggest Constitutional Crisis’ In U.S. History
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/whats-it-gonna-take-angus-king-warns-americans-to-realize-we-are-in-biggest-constitutional-crisis-in-u-s-history/
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Idaho firing squad bill moves to Senate floor. University of Idaho killings suspect Bryan Kohberger could be executed by firing squad
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/02/19/bill-to-make-firing-squad-main-method-of-execution-in-idaho-moves-to-senate-floor/
Trump deletes nationwide database on police misconduct founded after George Floyd murder
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/database-federal-police-misconduct-trump-deletes
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/large-law-firm-sends-panicked-212032335.html
# Medicare / Medicaid
Senate Republicans Signal Intent to Slash Medicaid Funding in Upcoming Budget. Republicans rejected a series of Democratic amendments aimed at preventing cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
https://truthout.org/articles/senate-republicans-signal-intent-to-slash-medicaid-funding-in-upcoming-budget/
# Medical / Health News
US justice department opens civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealthcare. Federal government examining whether insurance giant is illegally raising Medicare program users’ monthly payments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/united-healthcare-justice-department-investigation
New vaccine shows promise for treating one of the deadliest forms of cancer
https://www.aol.com/mrna-vaccines-show-promise-against-162241160.html
# Military / DOD / General News
Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers, and announced he will nominate a retired three-star general to succeed him as the nation’s top military officer.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305288/trump-fires-chairman-joint-chiefs-of-staff-charles-brown-pentagon
Pentagon says it will cut 5,400 probationary workers starting next week
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/21/pentagon-fire-5400-civilian-employees-first-step-trumps-purge-of-federal-workers.html
# NASA / Space
Elon Musk Got Humiliated by a Space Station Astronaut Immediately Before Announcing Space Station Should Be Destroyed. Musk is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill over the fact that the original February date for the return mission was pushed back a month, this was done to give Musk’s own company, SpaceX, more time to get its next Crew-10 mission ready, which will be bringing Williams’ and Wilmore’s replacements.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-argument-iss-destroy
NASA Heard a Strange ‘Chirping’ Sound 62,000 Miles Away From Earth — Then They Realized What It Was. While the deep space is soundless, this field now buzzes with a constant sound that resembles a bird song.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/nasa-heard-a-strange-chirping-sound-62-000-miles-away-from-earth-then-they-realized-what-it-was
# Other Interesting Things
Scientists discover mysterious form of energy in Egypt’s pyramids that should only exist in modern times. New discovery suggests the structure was not just a pharaoh’s final resting place, but also a giant power plant.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/3823724490421-scientists-discover-mysterious-form-of-energy-in-egypt-s-pyramids-that-should-only-exist-in-modern-times
# Science / Science Engineers
US science labs face ‘growing threat’ of espionage – with some Chinese researchers involved in ‘nuclear weapons work’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/us-science-labs-face-growing-threat-of-espionage-with-some-chinese-researchers-involved-in-nuclear-weapons-work/
DOGE shut the funding spigot for medical research overnight. Scientists are calling it ‘the end of science’ in America
https://fortune.com/2025/02/21/doge-national-institute-health-funding-indirect-funds-elon-musk-medical-research-science/
# Social
Neo-Nazis rattled an Ohio town. Now masked, armed civilians are patrolling neighborhood streets. One of the armed individuals intent on keeping neo-Nazis at bay reportedly told a concerned resident: ‘We are the police’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/neo-nazi-ohio-town-armed-civilians-b2702624.html
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