Voices, The Peoples News
April 8, 2025, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
DHS Notifies 531,000 Immigrants Paroled By Biden Admin to Self-deport
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3370430/dhs-notifies-immigrants-paroled-under-biden-self-deport/
Concerns raised at increasingly invasive searches and questioning at the US border, even for citizens. Experts have said people should expect their ‘rights to be diminished’ as the Trump administration’s crackdown on national security continues.
https://www.newsweek.com/visas-green-cards-travel-cair-phones-cbp-2054385
A gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/
Trump Escalates ‘Illegal’ and ‘Immoral’ Push for IRS Data to Fuel Mass Deportations
https://www.commondreams.org/news/irs-data-mass-deportation
# Business / Industry / Corporations
‘Trump and Musk are setting the example’: how companies are becoming emboldened to be more anti-union. As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-union-workers-rights
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Chemical industry seeks exemptions from US pollution rules as part of Trump administration offer
https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-toxic-chemicals-exemption-mercury-97feb73daa61df0cfbe537bf580ef99a
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals.’ EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump Praises Impact of Tariffs After Dow, Nasdaq Futures Dive: ‘A Beautiful Thing to Behold’
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-praises-impact-of-tariffs-after-dow-nasdaq-futures-dive-a-beautiful-thing-to-behold/
Tariff tensions escalate as White House hits China with 104% hike
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/tariff-tensions-escalate-as-white-house-hits-china-with-104-hike
American Living Standards Are A Sacrifice Trump Is Willing To Make
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-cheap-chinese-goods_n_67f0444ce4b0edcaff0aa331
Trump admin shutting down IRS civil rights office as part of widespread cuts
https://apnews.com/article/irs-layoffs-civil-rights-compliance-trump-musk-d2c5708973cddf91c1a72b392118628c
DOGE planning “hackathon” to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS and taxpayer data
https://www.theverge.com/news/644327/musk-doge-irs-hackathon-taxpayer-data-transfer-cloud
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump official admits US workers won’t get jobs in new factories spurred by tariff strategy
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-official-admits-us-workers-203958774.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration prepares for broad layoffs at Department of Energy, deems 40% of staff nonessential
https://www.dailyclimate.org/trump-administration-prepares-for-broad-layoffs-at-department-of-energy-deems-40-of-staff-nonessential-2671691605.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Southern Ocean is cooling when all else is warming up. Scientists have observed an unusual cooling trend in the surface waters of the Southern Ocean, contrary to predictions and modelling.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/southern-ocean-is-cooling/
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Judge finds FEMA withholding grants in violation of court order
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5232494-judge-fema-grants-trump-blue-states/
# Food General News
Farmers sound the alarm as grocery prices skyrocket: ‘I can’t save anymore’
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/rising-food-prices-japan-groceries-tokyo/
# Gov / Politics
In his first two and a half months in office, President Donald Trump has embraced sweeping arbitrary executive power in a manner not previously seen in American history. He is circumventing Congress, ignoring the courts and using the power of the state to crush any opposition to his agenda. This is a turn away from liberal democracy and toward autocracy,
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-autocracy_n_67eee131e4b006990d0e27a6?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2025-04-07&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=a0fc9b12cacd32ea6c05c417239d9ca02ed55e16
‘I’m all for it’: Trump would ‘love’ to send American citizens to El Salvador prison. “I love that … I would be honored to give them. … I have suggested that, you know, why shouldn’t it stop just to people that cross the border illegally? … I think if we could get El Salvador or somebody to take them I’d be very happy with it.”
https://democrats.org/news/trump-threatens-to-illegally-send-u-s-citizens-to-salvadoran-prisons/
Trump’s New Fight With Fed Exposes Just How Clueless He Is
https://newrepublic.com/post/193637/donald-trump-fight-fed-chair-clueless-tariffs
Senate passes blueprint to build President Donald Trump’s agenda in Congress
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/05/senate-trump-agenda-congress/82877368007/
Alabama Senate committee approves bill restricting picketing, protests
https://alabamareflector.com/2025/04/07/senate-committee-approves-legislation-setting-restrictions-on-picketing-protests/
Trump, Unbowed, Is Enacting Change on Scale Rarely Seen Before. Financial markets, universities, law firms and world leaders reel from president’s agenda, but White House says this was always the plan
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-unbowed-is-enacting-change-on-scale-rarely-seen-before-a582db3a
# Gov / Politics / Global
China’s Threat to Trump Over Trade War Escalation: We ‘Will Fight to the End’
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/trump-tariffs-china-fight-trade-war
‘Well Done, Old Man!’ Russian State TV Revels in Trump Having ‘Destroyed Trust’ in the Economy — Calls for a Monument to Be Built in His Honor
https://www.mediaite.com/news/well-done-old-man-russian-state-tv-revels-in-trump-having-destroyed-trust-in-the-economy-calls-for-a-monument-to-be-built-in-his-honor/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Stephen Miller Wants Congress to ‘Step Up’ and Abolish Courts
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-wants-congress-to-step-up-and-abolish-courts/
Senate Republicans join push to limit power of judges
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-republicans-join-push-limit-213806727.html
# Medical / Health News
‘The record is voluminous … with allegations’: Trump-appointed judge slams brakes on president cutting billions in ‘critical public health funding’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-record-is-voluminous-with-allegations-trump-appointed-judge-slams-brakes-on-president-cutting-billions-in-critical-public-health-funding/
Democratic states sue NIH, RFK Jr. over canceled medical research grants
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/04/states-sue-national-institutes-health-trump-research-grants/82855850007/
The Trump Administration Has Launched A War On Kids. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump created to slash government spending, wants to cut about $4 billion in funding that goes toward cancer research, including research for childhood cancers.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-war-on-kids_n_67e4271ee4b05205243a591d?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2025-04-07&utm_term=us-morning-email&email_hash=a0fc9b12cacd32ea6c05c417239d9ca02ed55e16
# Military / DOD / General News
Top US admiral at NATO removed amid Trump’s growing military firings. Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield represented the U.S. in NATO’s Military Commission, the alliance’s leading military board.
https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/04/07/top-us-admiral-at-nato-removed-amid-trumps-growing-military-firings/
# NASA / Space
DARPA just unintentionally created a ‘rocket radar.’ A routine test turned into a surprise discovery when DARPA’s atmospheric sensors picked up something unexpected—courtesy of a falling SpaceX Falcon 9.
https://gizmodo.com/darpa-unintentionally-invents-new-rocket-radar-thanks-to-spacex-2000584008
# Other Stuff
Scientists Intrigued by Strange Tunnels Under Africa and the Middle East. “Is it a known form of life or a completely unknown organism?”
https://futurism.com/tunnels-tubes-africa-middle-east
# Science / Science Engineers
Scientists sound alarm after uncovering unexplained substances in the human body: ‘We just don’t know’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/human-body-microplastics-health-effects/
# Social / Social Programs
DOGE Goons Cause Major Crash to Social Security Site. Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says. Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Can you believe this? North Korean hackers pose as U.S developers in Fortune 500 firms, funnel millions to Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons programs
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/can-you-believe-this-north-korean-hackers-pose-as-u-s-developers-in-fortune-500-firms-funnel-millions-to-kim-jong-uns-nuclear-weapons-programs/articleshow/120101644.cms?from=mdr
# Water
State health officials sound alarm after troubling contamination patterns identified across 22 water systems: ‘It is a huge deal.’ “I do think this is a state of emergency.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/pfas-regulation-pennsylvania-drinking-water/
# Weather
Florida Senate passes bill to prohibit geoengineering, weather modification. The measure (SB 56), would prohibit the injection, release, or dispersion of any means of a chemical, chemical compound, substance, or apparatus into the atmosphere for the purpose of affecting the climate.
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/03/florida-senate-approves-ban-on-geoengineering-and-weather-modification/
Severe staffing shortages at U.S. weather offices raise storm warning risks
https://apnews.com/article/doge-weather-cuts-tornado-dangerous-staff-warnings-aa7db3e0d0009d99c143742ab722c40a
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