Voices, The Peoples News
March 21, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
‘A slap in the face’: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-missing-murdered-indigenous-peoples-report-removed
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
California couple deported after living in US for 35 years
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/california-couple-deported-gonzalez/
Georgetown Academic ‘Abducted by Masked DHS Agents’ at Risk of Deportation. One of Badar Khan Suri’s lawyers called the case “emblematic of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to suppress voices—citizens and noncitizens alike—who dare to speak out.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/georgetown-student-suri-arrest
Trump’s Migrant Gang Members Appear to Be Anything But
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-migrant-gang-members-appear-035842588.html
Trump Scheme Would Turn US Border Into Sprawling Military Base as Loophole to Detain Migrants. One journalist warned the proposal would create vast “buffer zone” in which “no normal U.S. laws apply.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-border-military-deployment-plan
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Goons Delete $140 Million Savings From ‘Receipts’ Website
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-goons-delete-140-million-183119960.html
# Education / Schools
Trump signs Executive Order to dismantle the Education Department
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-shutdown-b1d25a2e1bdcd24cfde8ad8b655b9843
DNC chair: Trump told students ‘he doesn’t give a damn about them’ with move against Department of Education
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5206607-dnc-chair-trump-told-students-he-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-them-with-move-against-department-of-education/
Revealed: Trump education cuts mean years of work – and millions of dollars – go to waste
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-education-department-cuts-waste
Department of Education’s (ED) duties are being transferred to other agencies. Student loans will now be handled by the Small Business Administration (SBA) “immediately,” while special needs and nutrition programs will be moved to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the president said.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/21/trump-begins-process-of-redistributing-department-of-educations-duties/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
White House Begins Review Of Federal Agency Plans For Second Round Of Mass Layoffs. The potential layoffs have sparked debates about economic impacts, legal challenges, and social consequences as federal workers face uncertainty.
https://opentools.ai/news/white-house-reviews-second-round-of-mass-layoffs-implications-for-federal-workforce
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump invokes wartime powers to increase production of critical minerals. An executive order signed by the president Thursday taps the Defense Production Act as part of an effort to provide financing, loans and other investment support to domestically process critical minerals and rare earth elements
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-expand-critical-mineral-production-201457579.html
Trump’s team opens Alaska lands to oil, reigniting drilling debate
https://www.ehn.org/trumps-team-opens-alaska-lands-to-oil-reigniting-drilling-debate-2671376551.html
# Food General News
FDA Freezes Safety Rule; New Tool Makes Chemical Contaminants in Food Searchable. “This new Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool is a critical step for industry to Make America Healthy Again.”
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/hhs-fda-announce-chemical-contaminants-transparency-tool-foods
RFK Jr. plans to eliminate GRAS food standards for most products, applies to substances added to food that are considered safe under the conditions of their intended use
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/trump-administration/
GRAS food standards: Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), any substance that is intentionally added to food is a food additive, that is subject to premarket review and approval by FDA
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/generally-recognized-safe-gras
# General Recalls / Alerts
Tesla Recalls Thousands of Cybertrucks for Eighth Time
https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7
# Gov / Politics
WA bill could allow noncitizens to police, prosecute U.S. citizens, a move one critic says would enable noncitizens to “take away the rights of U.S. citizens.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_2fcfa491-7ad2-4e1c-9f73-4b6b3fb0802b.html
Donald Trump Hints At The Possibility Of World War III While Commenting On The Russia-Ukraine Row
https://nypost.com/2025/03/18/us-news/trump-warns-americans-could-become-involved-in-ukraine-war-if-it-escalates-to-world-war-iii/
Republican Senator Defiantly Accuses Elon Musk Of Trying to Silence GOP Members: ‘We Cannot be Cowed!’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-senator-defiantly-accuses-elon-musk-of-trying-to-silence-gop-members-we-cannot-be-cowed/
Trump Has Launched a Second American Revolution. This Time, It’s Against the World. In ten dramatic shifts, the president has declared independence from the global system that America made.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/03/trump-foreign-policy-second-american-revolution-nato-un?lang=en&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-K_1UrauGG7cdfLYIW3v4r_tdkmmdfs9gleXiFwCQaEpxEHNz30vIoK0_aem_jE1Gx-KLtWjPqYkfzCwVUw
The Fragile Axis of Upheaval. An Autocratic Alliance Is Mostly an Illusion—but Could Become a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/fragile-axis-upheaval
Is the Muskrat working for China? (Is Trump working for Putin?)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-the-muskrat-working-for-china
# Gov / Politics / Global
US Warns Over China’s Expansion on its Doorstep. “The expanding role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Western Hemisphere threatens U.S. interests.”
https://www.newsweek.com/china-western-hemisphere-expansion-threat-us-latin-america-caribbean-2048398
67,000 white South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-refugee-afrikaner-south-africa-0fbca411470d3b439886cabc12c7600d
What’s the thinking behind Putin’s maneuvering around Trump? The Kremlin is ready to throw Trump a few insignificant or even fictitious bones to prevent fundamental disagreements over Ukraine from disrupting the trend toward the normalization of bilateral relations.
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/03/putin-trump-call-results?lang=en
Taiwan critical infrastructure targeted by hackers with possible ties to Volt Typhoon
https://therecord.media/taiwan-critical-infrastructure-hacking-uat-5918
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘Destroys privacy’: Experts panic as Trump eyes letting Feds raid homes without warrants
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2671372736/
Trump Admin Arrests FBI Agent Who Went After Rudy Giuliani
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-arrests-fbi-agent-235539594.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
President Donald Trump on Thursday baselessly argued that rulings and decisions from judges that he disagrees with would be bad news for the country, seemingly issuing a warning to the nation’s highest court
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-roberts-judges_n_67dc9e95e4b0f519c38c7501
Alarm as federal judges face threats of violence after ruling against Trump. Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/trump-judges-threats.html
# Media
‘Murder the Truth’ examines growing effort to silence journalists and curtail free speech
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/murder-the-truth-examines-growing-effort-to-silence-journalists-and-curtail-free-speech
Voice of America channels fall silent as Trump administration guts agency. Trump directed his administration to reduce the functions of several agencies to the minimum required by law. That included the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which houses Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Asia and Radio Marti, which beams Spanish-language news into Cuba..
https://hayspost.com/posts/2b65be5b-0a4d-40a6-a088-155177d6800a
# Medical / Health News
Citing the deaths of three Japanese children within 24 hours of receiving routine childhood immunizations, the authors of a peer-reviewed study called for a reevaluation of the “risks and benefits of currently approved vaccines” and a review of the childhood vaccination schedule.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/3-children-died-24-hours-routine-vaccines-japanese-researchers/
# Military / DOD / General News
Military was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites
https://www.aol.com/military-instructed-search-keywords-including-224241592.html
‘Screamingly demented’: Shock — and mockery — as Musk poised to get top secret war plans. A new report drew considerable alarm and some mockery from social media observers as the Pentagon plans to brief tech Elon Musk on military plans in the event of a possible war with China.
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2671373784/
US and Israel Have Laid the Groundwork for War With Iran. Will Trump Set It Off? For decades, the US political establishment has treated war with Iran as an inevitability. We must reverse course.
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/donald-trump-war-iran-democrats-qassem-soleimani-drone-strike
# Military / General News / Global
Huge mushroom cloud as Zelensky hits Russian nuclear bomber base while Putin strikes Ukrainian city
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-launches-major-drone-attack-190246830.html
# NATO
Congressional Republicans threaten revolt over Trump-led defence shake-up. Senate and House committee chairs warn against plan for US to relinquish command of Nato forces in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/defense-senate-house-republicans-nato
Republicans Mount Big Pushback Against Trump Over Changes to NATO Command. The notable pushback from Trump’s supporters comes as the president seeks to slash costs across the entire federal government.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-armed-services-chairs-slam-reports-of-drastic-pentagon-changes_n_67dc1c34e4b0cc14ca429967
# Social / Social Programs
‘Havoc and destruction’: Social Security quietly kills work program — and threatens chaos
https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-2671371520/
US District Judge blocks DOGE access to Social Security systems, orders them to delete collected personal data
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-blocks-doge-from-accessing-americans-personal-social-security-data-for-now
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