Voices, The Peoples News
April 11, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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– Leonardo da Vinci
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Illegal Immigrants Must Register Friday, Court Rules in Trump Admin Victory
https://www.newsweek.com/illegal-immigrants-must-register-friday-court-rules-trump-admin-victory-2058362
AG Pam Bondi says mistakenly deported Maryland man ‘should stay where he is’
https://apnews.com/video/attorney-general-pam-bondi-says-mistakenly-deported-maryland-man-should-stay-where-he-is-8ed24214f89a43c4b4630c730c1d1ae7
President Trump “working on papers” to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/04/10/trump-working-on-removing-sanctuary-cities-federal-funding/
‘Had access … for at least 2 months’: Judge shoots down Trump admin request for more time in birthright citizenship case, says DOJ is dragging its feet
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/had-access-for-at-least-2-months-judge-shoots-down-trump-admin-request-for-more-time-in-birthright-citizenship-case-says-doj-is-dragging-its-feet/
Video shows immigration authorities break glass, forcibly remove woman from car
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/video-shows-immigration-authorities-break-glass-forcibly-remove-woman-from-car
They fled Putin’s Russia for the US. After Ice detention, they’re choosing to leave again
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/us-immigration-putin-russia-ice
Immigrants Aren’t Dead, But Social Security Adds Them To Death Database. Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave
https://apnews.com/article/living-immigrants-dead-social-security-numbers-trump-c10737cbe36e3108fb244a555777d880
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Car graveyard with lines & lines of vehicles grows as auto brands refuse to make deliveries – it’s bad news for buyers
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/13999674/car-graveyard-grows-auto-brands-refuse-deliveries/
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois And Other States Refuse To Comply With The Trump Administration’s Anti-DEI Directives. Minnesota’s Department of Education officially rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to make U.S. education white nationalism-friendly again via an order by the U.S. Department of Education
https://newsone.com/6069964/states-that-refused-to-comply-with-trumps-anti-dei-directives/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk’s DOGE Under Audit Amid ‘Alarming’ Data Access Reports
https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musks-doge-under-audit-amid-alarming-data-access-reports/
Elon Musk responds with ‘laughing emojis’ to stories of workers’ lives he’s ruined: The story contained another alarming revelation: the depth of Musk’s antipathy toward the people’s whose lives he’s been turning upside down.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-lives-destroyed-respond-laugh-cry-emojis
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
House Republicans adopt new property tax proposal over Democrat concerns
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-adopt-property-tax-174753435.html
“Just the first set of cuts”: Expert warns GOP budget is designed to collapse the social safety net. “Wealthy Americans, on the other hand, would have a larger share of the economic pie”
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/10/just-the-first-set-of-cuts-expert-warns-budget-is-designed-to-collapse-the-social-safety-net/
Ron Wyden says the U.S. economy ‘has gone from the envy of the world to a laughingstock in less time than it took to finish March Madness’
https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/ron-wyden-us-economy-envy-laughingstock/
WATCH: Sen. Schiff Warns of Trump and Musk Plan to Gut Essential Government Programs in Floor Speech. “First, they cut the staff. Then, they cut the services. And finally, they say it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work. Privatize it. Let the billionaires run it. Put it in the market. What could possibly go wrong? Have you seen the market lately?”
https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-sen-schiff-warns-of-trump-and-musk-plan-to-gut-essential-government-programs-in-floor-speech/
Trump’s trade war has taken a $700 billion bite out of Apple as people wake up to the reality of how expensive an iPhone will be under the new tariffs
https://fortune.com/2025/04/09/trumps-trade-war-iphone-apple-stock-rout/
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warns Americans cheap prices of everyday goods could be a thing of the past
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/this-is-just-the-beginning-amazon-boss-andy-jassy-warns-trumps-tariffs-could-hit-every-american-wallet-harder-than-ever-expected/articleshow/120171458.cms?UTM_Source=Google_Newsstand&UTM_Campaign=RSS_Feed&UTM_Medium=Referral&from=mdr
Lawmakers speak out against ‘tax breaks for billionaires’
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/disney-rockefeller-congress-tax-breaks
‘An enormous scam:’ Senator accuses Trump of massive ‘insider trading scandal’
https://san.com/cc/adam-schiff-demands-insider-trading-probe-over-trump-tariff-pause/
Democrats in Congress take aim at Trump’s ‘market manipulation’: ‘This could be an enormous scandal’
https://www.aol.com/democrats-congress-aim-trump-market-210915030.html
House passes $5.8 trillion budget resolution to make Trump tax cuts permanent. (The Center Square) – President Donald Trump’s tax cuts are set for permanent extension after the House narrowly passed a $5.8 trillion over ten years concurrent budget resolution that seemed poised to fail.
https://highlandcountypress.com/news/house-passes-58-trillion-budget-resolution-make-trump-tax-cuts-permanent#gsc.tab=0
Trump Brags About How Tariff Pause Made His Friends Even Richer. Donald Trump’s decision to pause his tariffs sent the stock market soaring.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193860/donald-trump-brags-tariff-pause-made-billionaires-richer
Trump Gives us All Whiplash With Threat of New Tariffs—Now on Mexico. Very stable genius Donald Trump continues to go back and forth on tariffs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/trump-threatens-additional-tariffs-on-mexico-over-water-rights
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
China’s trade war weapons: Rare earth ban and US debt dump could cripple American economy and defense
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/10/china-has-a-weapon-that-could-hurt-america-rare-earth-exports
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump Treasury Appointee Says Fired Alabama Federal Workers Can Work in Factories
https://newrepublic.com/post/193695/treasury-secretary-says-fired-federal-workers-can-work-factory
Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise. On the heels of the hottest year on record, the Trump administration eviscerated programs and staff vital to keeping American workers safe from extreme heat and other workplace hazards.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042025/trump-dismantles-worker-safety-agency-as-temperatures-rise/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
President Donald Trump instructed federal agencies and their assigned DOGE teams to repeal any existing regulations inconsistent with his priorities without providing advance notice or going through the traditional public input process.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/federal-agencies-public-notice-comment-trump-administration-00284499
Keystone oil pipeline ‘bang’ sparks chaos as huge oil spill rocks Fort Ransom
https://apnews.com/article/what-caused-keystone-oil-pipeline-spill-gas-dd75ff6d8d2bf652e9967814f8e10ece
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump aims to shut down state climate policies. Climate-focused state leaders say his administration has no legal basis to unravel their efforts.
https://stateline.org/2025/04/09/trump-aims-to-shut-down-state-climate-policies/
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
https://www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/us-trumps-epa-plans-to-stop-collecting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data-from-most-polluters/
Trump Administration Ends Funding for Leading U.S. Climate Program
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf
Trump executive order targets state climate laws, shields fossil fuel industry from accountability
https://san.com/cc/trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-state-climate-laws/
# Environment / Climate / Global
A new study led by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) revealed what glacier melt could bring about on our planet by the end of the century. Glaciers hold almost 70% of the world’s freshwater.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/glacier-melt-study-switzerland-epfl-bacteria/
# General News
Read the Russia collusion memos President Trump declassified and Kash Patel gave to Congress. FBI Director Kash Patel turned the hundreds of pages of documents over turned to Congress following President Trump’s order declassifying the materials.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/read-declassified-russia-collusion-documents-turned-over
Newly declassified FBI memos detail concerns, payments to Russia collusion informant. Newly declassified documents show informant Stefan Halper was motivated in part by “monetary compensation” and was paid nearly $1.2 million from FBI over three decades.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-kept-defending-crossfire-hurricanes-stefan-halper-after-his-mike
# Gov / Politics
Video captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April)
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-charles-schwab-stock-market-tariffs-nascar-b2731568.html
Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet. Trump implies that because he was the one rewriting the rule, the public would not be given the opportunity to comment, essentially fast-tracking any deregulation effort he pitches in the future. Legal experts were quick to challenge Trump’s rulemaking rule change.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-dumbest-order-hiding-most-144237762.html
Congressional Republicans pushed through a bill on Thursday that could hinder voting rights across the nation
https://www.rawstory.com/voting/
The U.S. is now gearing up for a confrontation with China, which some say was the plan all along
https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/the-u-s-is-now-gearing-up-for-a-confrontation-with-china-which-some-say-was-the-plan-all-along/
‘Quite big and quite bad’: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested that a sudden wave of resignations inside the IRS is an obvious sign that massive turmoil is brewing within the agency.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2671731415/
‘A slap in the face to hardworking federal employees’: Federal judge tears into Trump admin over ‘baseless claims’ about government workers
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a-slap-in-the-face-to-hardworking-federal-employees-federal-judge-tears-into-trump-admin-over-baseless-claims-about-government-workers/
Trump signs executive orders aimed at federal officials who criticized him during first term
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/donald-trump-retribution-miles-taylor-00007512
‘The Party Has Been Taken Over’: Doug Schoen Tells Harris Faulkner ‘Far Left’ Made Democratic Party ‘Unrecognizable’
https://rumble.com/embed/v6pq61j/?pub=3rtroj
Blue State Town Threatens Legal Action Against Residents Making ‘Statements’ That ‘Harm’ Government
https://www.aol.com/blue-state-town-threatens-legal-162609761.html
House passes “the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history”
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-most-extraordinary-attack-on-voting-rights-in-american-history-how-the-save-act-upends-over-a-century-and-a-half-of-protecting-voting/
Why Trump’s War with China is Much Bigger Than Trade
https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-trade-tariffs-war-nuclear-trump-2058433
Four Democrats Pass Bill Making It Harder for Married Women to Vote. The House of Representatives—with the help of four Democrats—just passed a bill that could disenfranchise millions.
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/save-act-house-voting/
# Gov / Politics / Global
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has become one of the biggest outside spenders in all of U.S. politics, pouring money into a stunning 389 congressional races last year alone, according to a comprehensive analysis by The Intercept. Now we’re seeing what AIPAC bought with that money.
https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail?cmte=American+Israel+Public+Affairs+Cmte&cycle=2024
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
House approves act that limits judges’ checks-and-balances rights to slow the Trump agenda
https://apnews.com/article/what-caused-keystone-oil-pipeline-spill-gas-dd75ff6d8d2bf652e9967814f8e10ece
‘None of them were charged with killing anyone’: Trump must face defamation suit from Central Park 5, judge rules
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/none-of-them-were-charged-with-killing-anyone-trump-must-face-defamation-suit-from-central-park-5-judge-rules/
# Medicare / Medicaid
Republicans pass Trump-backed tax plan that could drastically cut Medicaid: Mike Johnson Reveals His Disastrous Plans for Medicaid. The House speaker has a cruel plan now that he’s passed the budget.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193865/mike-johnson-donald-trump-budget-cuts-medicaid
House-passed budget includes Medicaid trigger that would end Medicaid expansion if federal funds are cut
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-passed-budget-includes-medicaid-230626247.html
Also: Which states have trigger laws to automatically end Medicaid expansion if federal funding drops?
https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/which-states-have-trigger-laws-to-automatically-end-medicaid-expansion-if-federal-funding-drops/
A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid. Some of them have no idea. Programs with consumer-friendly names and private insurance company involvement add to the confusion. Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/04/11/a-fifth-of-americans-are-on-medicaid-some-of-them-have-no-idea/
House Democrats and Republicans face off over Medicare cuts
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/house-budget-resolution-tax-cuts-senate-compromise-medicaid-cuts/
# Medical / Health News
‘Resign or be fired’: Public health trade group head calls for axing RFK Jr.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/115048
Doctors concerned after WV lawmakers change newborn care standard that prevents blindness in babies. Newborns in West Virginia automatically receive eye ointment after birth to prevent medical pink eye, which can cause blindness. A bill approved by the Senate and House of Delegates repeals that medical mandate.
https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/10/doctors-concerned-after-wv-lawmakers-change-newborn-care-standard-that-prevents-blindness-in-babies/
‘We are failing’: doctors and students in the US look to Mexico for basic abortion training
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/doctors-mexico-abortion-training
WA Legislature passes bill allowing pregnant women to die on their own terms
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_3304fabf-6bc0-47b4-a719-6d2b53915f4e.html
RFK tells family of child measles victim ‘you don’t know what’s in the vaccine’: “The vaccine was not effective.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/father-measles-stricken-child-reveals-225029901.html
The TV Show Host Who’s Now In Charge Of Medicare Wants To Replace Doctors With AI
https://futurism.com/dr-oz-medicare-ai
# Military / DOD / General News
With Trump’s executive order, thousands of military voters could see their rights curtailed
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-executive-order-thousands-military-212319539.html
US commander warns that China and North Korea’s military aid to Russia creates risks in the Pacific. The top U.S. commander in the Pacific is warning senators that the military support that China and North Korea are providing to Russia in its war on Ukraine risks security in his region as Moscow provides critical military assistance to both in return
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/10/china-north-koreas-military-aid-russia-creates-risks-pacific-us/
Trump Makes Startling Confession About Takeover of Panama Canal. Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are openly talking about U.S. troops in Panama.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-makes-startling-confession-takeover-183633988.html
# Military / General News / Global
Map Shows China and Russian Military Aircraft Buzzing US Allies
https://www.newsweek.com/japan-news-air-force-scrambles-china-russia-aircraft-2024-2058367
Moscow’s Space Warfare Capabilities
https://www.csis.org/analysis/there-path-counter-russias-space-weapons
China Makes Surprising Leaps with space weapons. Along with maneuverable space vehicles, China has worked to develop anti-satellite missiles and other non-kinetic weapons that can attack U.S. platforms on-orbit.
https://defensescoop.com/2025/03/18/china-dogfighting-space-satellites-gen-guetlein/#:~:text=Along%20with%20maneuverable%20space%20vehicles,that%20destroyed%20another%20Russian%20satellite
# NASA / Space
Trump’s Space Force Fires Colonel After Email Ripping JD Vance
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/3958185031283-space-force-commander-is-suddenly-fired-after-sending-email-to-staff-about-jd-vance-s-greenland-visit
U.S. Officials Warn of Arms Race in Orbit as Adversaries Test Space Weapons
https://thedebrief.org/u-s-officials-warn-of-arms-race-in-orbit-as-adversaries-test-space-weapons/
US Tests SECRET Space Weapon To Deter Russia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hbCz88sWTg
U.S. officials are expressing concern about aggressive efforts by adversary nations to develop offensive capabilities in space, with a potential arms race in orbit looming that could present new challenges for U.S. satellites and military assets.
https://aerospace.csis.org/the-future-of-military-power-is-space-power/
# Pharmaceuticals
Sen. Ron Johnson Demands COVID Vaccine Makers Hand Over Documents by April 16
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sen-ron-johnson-covid-vaccine-makers-documents-adverse-events-safety/
# Social Media / Internet
Zuckerberg on the Stand: The Trial to Break Up Facebook Starts Monday. The Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited trial to break up Meta begins next week. Mark Zuckerberg will testify, and Big Tech on Trial will be covering it all.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/zuckerberg-on-the-stand-the-trial
# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
New travel changes rolled out for all Americans – your passport is no longer only requirement to get on a plane. On May 7, 2025, U.S. travelers must be REAL ID compliant to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities. Not only are passports required for US citizens to travel abroad, but they will also need a newly required travel authorization to enter specific countries.
https://www.the-sun.com/travel/13989585/electronic-travel-authorization-untied-kingdom-us-real-id/
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