Voices, The Peoples News
March 27, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Student While Hiding Their Faces. A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892
The Trump administration is building a case in court for its ability to send people in the United States to an overseas detention camp, and then refuse to bring them home even if they’re innocent.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-terrorists-el-salvador_n_67e43a17e4b03483d8f9a801
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Monsanto to pay $2.1 billion in Roundup herbicide lawsuit filed in Georgia. This is the latest court battle Monsanto has faced over its herbicide.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/03/26/817321.htm
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
300 of America’s wealthiest citizens ask Congress not to carry out tax breaks for them. Here’s why
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/disney-rockefeller-congress-tax-breaks
Bank of America cuts ties with customers over mystery requirement in shocking crackdown move
https://www.thestreet.com/employment/bank-of-america-cracks-down-on-a-disturbing-workplace-trend
At $5 million each, 1000 ‘Gold Card’ Visas have been sold. Could this pay the US debt? President Trump introduced these Gold Cards in February 2025, as an opportunity for wealthy foreign citizens to work and live in the United States, granting them permanent U.S. residency and effectively replacing the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2025/03/26/at-5-million-each-1000-gold-card-visas-have-been-sold-could-this-pay-off-the-us-debt/
# Education / Schools
“How Fascism Works” Author Jason Stanley Plans to Leave the U.S. | Amanpour and Company. Trump’s America has started to challenge and redefine academic freedom, and Yale Professor Jason Stanley is sounding the alarm. He is the author of “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAdujuHvuQ
New Trump Plan Could Ban Foreign Students From Some Colleges. “Everyone is fair game,” referring to the 1.5 million people with student visas in the U.S.
https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-international-student-enrollment-trump-fd8b6b8f298629bbcc7339568b1c76f3
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Exclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He’s Speaking Out. The former inspector general for the US Labor Department on losing his job and the dangers of DOGE.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-inspectors-general-mass-firings-labor-department-larry-turner/
Florida May Replace Immigrant Workers With Child Labor. Florida Republicans are pushing to change labor laws and allow teens as young as 14 to work overnight shifts, in an effort to make up for shortfalls caused by deportations.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-immigrant-workers-child-labor-2050237
Federal workers show up to Musk-ordered office and discover it’s just a dusty storage room
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/federal-workers-face-small-indignities-1053469
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Big Oil pushes for tax breaks as Republicans seek corporate handouts. Big Oil has spent decades influencing U.S. tax policy, ensuring that it continues to receive billions in government handouts while avoiding taxes.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/26/big-oil-pushes-for-tax-breaks-as-republicans-seek-corporate-handouts/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
4.6 magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Yamanashi, fuelling concerns over Mount Fuji. a 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck the eastern region of Yamanashi Prefecture, with its epicentre located near the Fuji Five Lakes at a depth of around 20 kilometres.
https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/4-6-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-eastern-yamanashi-fuelling-concerns-over-mount-fuji/
Scientists sound alarm over phenomenon taking place in iconic lake: ‘Danger is likely to increase.’ Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, is facing a growing threat that’s turning its waters green. This green color is derived from toxic bacteria that poses serious risks to the people and wildlife that depend on these waters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sound-alarm-over-phenomenon-053000227.html
# Food General News
Rand Paul introduces Nutritious SNAP Act program aimed at making assistance program more healthy
https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-introduces-nutritious-snap-act-to-restore-personal-responsibility-and-state-flexibility-to-federal-food-assistance-program/
Trump administration cancels order for $1 million worth of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank. The 20 truckloads, or roughly 553,000 pounds of food, is valued at $1 million and was to include milk, eggs, chicken, pork and turkey.
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/greater-cleveland-food-bank-president-donald-trump-cancel-usda-order-pounds-agriculture-ohio-foodbank/95-d351067b-3fca-40bb-93cf-6d58ddb67223
U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High: Honeybee deaths in the United States have surged to record highs, with commercial beekeepers reporting having lost an average of 62 percent of their colonies over the winter, according to an ongoing survey by nonprofit Project Apis m.
https://www.ecowatch.com/honeybees-deaths-us-2025.html
# General News
‘Not the time to go it alone’: Rutte warns there is no alternative to Nato for keeping Europe and North America safe. Mark Rutte says US wants reassurance European allies will ‘step up’ while Europe needs to know ‘Uncle Sam has our back’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/26/now-is-not-the-time-for-the-us-or-europe-to-go-it-alone-warns-nato-chief
# Gov / Politics
‘Something stinks’: Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats’ main fundraising machine
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/elon-musk-republicans-target-actblue/index.html
‘Illegal at many levels’: Trump’s new move restricts voting rights without proper approval. President Trump signed an executive order that sidesteps congressional approval process, to attempt to restrict voting rights, according to a report.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voting-rights-executive-order/
Trump’s voting rights order targets anybody who’s ‘not white,’ advocates say. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/26/trump-citizenship-order-voting-groups-alarm/82670839007/
Donald Trump’s New World Order Is the Old World Order. The president has shattered America’s commitment to promoting democracy and international norms, replacing it with an erratic transactionalism that favors dominance over stability—and loyalty over law.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/trump-new-world-order-russia-china-europe
Trump’s new world order is taking shape. Donald Trump wants to reckon with a world shaped only by great powers and their supplicants, and to behave like the greatest power of them all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/26/donald-trump-new-world-order-strongman/
Signalgate is not as complicated as team Trump wants us to think. We don’t need the “best technical minds” to figure this one out. The truth is that Signalgate is really not that complicated.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/mike-waltz-pete-hegseth-signal-trump-ingraham-2025?srsltid=AfmBOopKsdMD8nrz4qaE52bih1mvx-24KLo2_WRDHB6k3FgwQRC5lDTK
Judge Napolitano: Hegseth Reveals US War Plans
https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/judge-napolitano-hegseth-reveals
Melania Trump Could Face Deportation, Maxine Waters Suggests. Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters sparked controversy, suggesting US President Donald Trump should deport his wife, Melania. Melania Trump is the first U.S. first lady to be a naturalized citizen and the second to be born outside the United States, following Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams, who was born in London in 1775.
https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-deportation-maxine-waters-immigration-doge-cuts-2050557
Where Are the Firebreaks? Today on TAP: As Trump continues trying to rule by decree, wreck public institutions, and intimidate his opposition, we need to be strategic in restraining him.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-26-where-are-the-firebreaks-trump/
US stands on the brink of a constitutional crisis as Donald Trump takes on America’s legal system. More than 130 lawsuits are now pending. As a result, federal courts have put on hold key policies of the Trump administration and Trump lawyers have lodged emergency petitions invoking Supreme Court intervention.
https://theconversation.com/us-stands-on-the-brink-of-a-constitutional-crisis-as-donald-trump-takes-on-americas-legal-system-249320
Call It the ‘Dismantling Government Act’: House GOP Advances Bill Backing Musk-Led Destruction. “This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further,” said the leader of one government watchdog group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/the-open-plot-to-dismantle-the-government
Trump Executive Order on Voting Denounced as ‘Authoritarian Power Grab.’ Pro-democracy critics warn the presidential directive “represents a significant overreach of executive power and poses a direct threat to the fundamental right to vote.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-election-executive-order-citizenship-proof-vote-rcna198229
# Gov / Politics / Global
After Elon Musk Supports Far Right-Wing Party In German Elections, 94% Of Germans Say They Won’t Buy A Tesla
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/german-survey-of-more-than-100000-participants-says-94-of-them-wouldnt-consider-buying-a-tesla/
Macron says ‘too early’ to consider lifting Russia sanctions. French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out lifting sanctions on Russia. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia “may take time.”
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-macron-says-too-early-to-consider-lifting-russia-sanctions/live-72042398
EU says ‘unconditional withdrawal’ of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-121445409.html
# Media
The Atlantic Editor Who Broke “Signalgate” Did Nothing Wrong. He Could Be Prosecuted Anyway. The Trump administration has been at war with journalists, and a Biden-era DOJ prosecution has opened up a path for them to go after Jeffrey Goldberg.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/signalgate-group-chat-atlantic-editor-jeffrey-goldberg-trump-bondi.html?pay=1743087300046&support_journalism=please
Trump Team’s Defense Explodes as Journalist Reveals Full Group Chat. Jeffrey Goldberg has released the complete war plans group chat, which Donald Trump’s administration has rushed to deny.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-defense-explodes-journalist-133744297.html
Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism. Good morning. It’s a well-known fact among historians that once a country begins descending into authoritarianism, it’s very hard for it to climb out.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism
# Medicare / Medicaid
“Fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, what will they do?” Neighbor on potential Medicaid cuts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fathers-mothers-husbands-wives-neighbor-220358473.html
# Medical / Health News
How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe. DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339695/how-delete-23andme-data-bankruptcy
How the Trump administration is reshaping health care without Congress. While Congress tussles over Obamacare, the Trump administration is quietly pressing ahead with plans to gut major Obama-era rules and relax federal oversight of swaths of the health care industry.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/13/trump-obama-health-care-legacy-242683
Trump administration revokes state and local health funding
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5216704-trump-administration-revokes-state-local-health-funding/
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Trying To Gut A Health Insurance Rule
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-quietly-trying-gut-200947815.html
Scientists alarmed as US picks David Geier to lead controversial New vaccine and autism study. The apparent choice of David Geier, who does not have a medical degree and was disciplined by the State of Maryland’s Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license, to conduct a study looking for the link that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long asserted exists, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, struck many as a surreal choice.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/rfk-jr-vaccine-study-of-autism-links-led-by-vaccine-critic-scientists-shocked/
Texas GOP Lawmakers Propose Amending Abortion Ban Linked to Deaths and a Rise in Sepsis Cases. Texas Republicans have proposed changes to the state’s strict abortion ban they say would make clear that doctors can terminate pregnancies for serious medical risks without having to wait until a patient’s condition becomes life-threatening
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-gop-lawmakers-propose-amending-abortion-ban#:~:text=It%20no%20longer%20requires%20a,%E2%80%9Cimminent%E2%80%9D%20to%20terminate%20pregnancies
Republican Abortion Laws Are ‘Torturing Women.’ Can the GOP Fix Its Own Crisis? Too late for many pregnant Texans, lawmakers might finally clarify exceptions to the state’s deadly bans—but advocates fear the current bills could also pose a new threat.
https://www.texasobserver.org/republican-abortion-laws-texas-legislature-exceptions/
House passes Affordable Care Act protections
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_78d9a3e2-5dfd-4f18-8d2b-f70144b3399b.html
The Trump administration is cutting billions in health funding for states. States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html
Kids Are Getting Sick From RFK Jr.’s False Measles Remedy, Doctors Say. Nearly 380 cases of measles have been identified in the US this year, the highest number since 2019.
https://truthout.org/articles/kids-are-getting-sick-from-rfk-jr-s-false-measles-remedy-doctors-say/
Parents Followed RFK Jr’s Crackpot Advice and Had to Send Their Kids to the Hospital With Yellowed Skin
“I did not hear anything about Vitamin A until he said it on television.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/parents-followed-rfk-jr-crackpot-190423019.html
‘Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.’ Trump Cutting Vaccine Alliance Funds Could Kill 1.2 Million Children Worldwide. “This isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s a political decision to let preventable diseases spread—to ignore science, lend legitimacy to anti-vaccine extremism, and dismantle the infrastructure that protects us all.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vaccine
# Military / DOD / General News
U.S. appears to be significantly increasing its military presence in the Middle East. In recent days, at least five B-2 stealth bombers have deployed to Diego Garcia, a British military base used by the US in the Indian Ocean. More are reportedly en route. Seven C17 aircraft have also been tracked landing on the remote atoll, suggesting transportation of equipment, personnel and supplies, and refuelling aircraft have been repositioned to strategic locations.
https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/world-news/us-appears-to-be-significantly-increasing-its-military-presence-in-the-middle-east/
Here Are the Texted War Plans That Hegseth Said ‘Nobody Was Texting’ on Signal. “A reminder that various administration officials lied under oath in the Senate yesterday,” said one former Democratic congressman, “which is a crime punishable by imprisonment.”
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e
# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
By the end of the 50’s the Fort Detrick labs were set up to breed 130 million yellow fever mosquitoes a month, infect them with yellow fever, and deliver them to the enemy via cluster bombs or from the warheads in a Sergeant Missile. Also, the facilities could accommodate the breeding of 50 million fleas per week. The information is from several published primary and secondary sources listed at the end of this article.
https://www.montana.edu/historybug/insects-as-bioweapons.html#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%20the,50%20million%20fleas%20per%20week.
The US has a history of testing biological weapons on the public – were infected ticks used too? The US biological weapons programe started during World War II. But the first real public test didn’t happen until 1949
https://theconversation.com/the-us-has-a-history-of-testing-biological-weapons-on-the-public-were-infected-ticks-used-too-120638
# NASA / Space
Invisible electric field discovered surrounding Earth, NASA says it’s ‘as crucial as gravity.’ This ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as gravity and magnetism
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-discovers-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth/
Space Development Agency launches study on Trump’s Iron Dome order. In a notice Wednesday, the agency said it is conducting a study that looks at how its architecture could be expanded as part of the Iron Dome order.
https://defensescoop.com/2025/02/13/trump-iron-dome-sda-pwsa-mda-industry-missile-defense-capabilities/
# Social / Social Programs
White House orders Social Security shutdowns and service cuts as Trump nominee faces Senate confirmation. Millions of beneficiaries face office closures and phone service cuts as Trump’s Social Security pick, Frank Bisignano, refuses to commit to reversing policies.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/26/white-house-orders-social-security-shutdowns-and-service-cuts-as-trump-nominee-faces-senate-confirmation/
Over Half of Americans Would Pay More in Taxes To Sustain Social Security as Musk Considers Massive Cuts
https://www.aol.com/over-half-americans-pay-more-100341143.html
The Quiet Way They’re Taking Your Retirement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK3OySGcog
Trump’s Fox in the Social Security Henhouse. His nominee to head the SSA backs technology over people, and DOGE over seniors’ needs
https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-26-trumps-fox-in-the-social-security-henhouse/
# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Mom ‘humiliated’ after United Airlines crew demand she remove 2-year-old special needs son’s ventilator. The flight crew demanded she stow away the ventilator, despite repeatedly telling them that he needed the device to keep him “alive”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entertainment/woman-says-united-crew-tried-021025753.html
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