Voices, The Peoples News
April 17, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
What Trump’s executive order on the Roosevelt Reservation means at the Arizona border
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2025/04/15/trump-shifts-border-land-to-military-control/83090945007/
Trump Administration To Install 17 Miles Of Buoys In River At US-Mexico Border
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3382151/trump-administration-install-miles-buoys-river-us-mexico-border/
Trump Clears Path to Send Non-Criminal Migrants to Guantanamo Bay. The agreement is in stark contrast to Trump’s vow to hold only “the worst” offenders at the naval base.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-45454/trump-says-u-s-will-send-worst-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-guantanamo-bay
Woman Speaks Out After ICE Agents Smashed Her Car Window in Video. After one agent used a large hammer to break the glass, the woman and her husband were dragged out of the vehicle.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ice-agents-smashed-car-window-in-seizing-guatemalan-man-whos-seeking-asylum-family-says
# Border / Immigration / General News
Point: A Defense of Birthright Citizenship: In the United States, birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Trump’s actions demonstrate, repeatedly, that he thinks people in America on visas and illegal immigrants are subject to the legal jurisdiction of the United States. If this is the case, these same immigrants and their children are covered by the 14th Amendment.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topics/birthright-citizenship
Counterpoint: Conventional wisdom behind birthright citizenship is wrong: United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a Supreme Court case from 1898 that supporters of automatic birthright citizenship say settled the matter. It didn’t, not even close.
https://themercury.com/counterpoint-conventional-wisdom-behind-birthright-citizenship-is-flat-error/article_db39a43c-ef5a-4980-bc40-845da2663d14.html
DHS official defends recent deportations under Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/06/nx-s1-5353462/dhs-official-defends-recent-deportations-under-trump-administration
Top Trump Official Claims Defending Due Process Is ‘Aiding’ Terrorists. A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/3966554926150-top-trump-official-claims-defending-due-process-is-aiding-terrorists
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Calls Returning Deported Man Back To U.S. ‘Preposterous’ Despite Supreme Court Order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/14/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations/
‘Impeachable’: JD Vance gets in hours-long spat as he opposes ‘due process’ for migrants
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-due-process/
‘Open Enemy of the Constitution’: JD Vance Ripped for Defending End of Due Process. “In Vance’s America, the police can knock on any immigrant’s door, deport him to a dictatorship without due process, and then wash their hands of his fate,” said Rep. Ro Khanna.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jd-vance-due-process
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Syngenta agrees to settle most paraquat lawsuits as Parkinson’s claims mount
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/syngenta-moving-to-settle-thousands-of-lawsuits-claiming-paraquat-causes-parkinsons-disease/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/doge-breach-sparks-cybersecurity-crisis-as-russian-ip-tries-to-access-federal-labor-systems-senate-receives-urgent-complain/articleshow/120350816.cms?from=mdr
NLRB Whistleblower Reveals Alleged Russian Access to DOGE
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nlrb-whistleblower-claims-musks-doge-potentially-caused-significant-security-breach
Scores of volunteers with AmeriCorps youth program let go after DOGE visit
https://apnews.com/article/americorps-volunteers-fema-doge-05b1d1cd53e0b5b9f64c17eaba7adf95
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The United States’ ruling class is considering eliminating funding for the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as part of a State Department budget proposal. This would cut about half of the State Department’s budget.
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/u-s-considers-eliminating-un-and-nato-funding
Federal Spending Is Only Going Up: Trump Pushes Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget
https://mises.org/mises-wire/federal-spending-only-going-trump-pushes-trillion-dollar-defense-budget
‘Jaw-dropping conflict of interest’: Trump accused of new scheme to benefit from trade war
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-media-and-technology-group/
White House quietly floats millionaire tax hike proposal in Congress as GOP leaders signal opposition
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millionaire-tax-hike-gains-steam-183214743.html
The Left’s Fragile Foundations. Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?
https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=They%20Are%20Not%20Going%20to%20Stop%20at%20Harvard&utm_campaign=04162025%20Fundraising%20Spring%20Campaign%204
Fed Chief Warns Trump’s Tariffs ‘Highly Likely’ to Spark Inflation
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/trump-tariffs-inflation-powell-interest-rates
# Education / Schools / Library’s
Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-administration-federal-cuts-037c3f5b259a7577358c5979e701c7c7
Trump’s administration freezes Harvard grants over campus activism
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/16/trumps-administration-freezes-harvard-grants-over-campus-activism/
Why Harvard is standing its ground against Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brawl-harvard-sets-unprecedented-211759499.html
Trump’s War on Universities Is More Dangerous Than You Think. What his attack on Columbia means for America’s entire democratic system.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/18/trump-columbia-universities-attack-education-global-leader/
President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday made the drastic moves of placing the entire AmeriCorps staff on leave, more than 200,000 members, and directed the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-escalates-harvard-attacks-telling-031914084.html
Noem Announces Cancelation Of $2.7 Million In Grants To Harvard
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5253052-noem-announces-cancelation-grants-harvard/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate 16,000 probationary federal workers
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5351799/scotus-probationary-workers
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration backs coal expansion despite safety risks and methane threats in Alabama mines
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-backs-coal-expansion-despite-safety-risks-and-methane-threats-in-alabama-mines
Texas bill would require drillers to notify landowners before burying toxic waste
https://www.ehn.org/texas-bill-would-require-drillers-to-notify-landowners-before-burying-toxic-waste#:~:text=Texas%20lawmakers%20are%20weighing%20new,over%20health%20and%20environmental%20risks
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Proper forest management to return to U.S., including logging and controlled burn operations
https://teamrubiconusa.org/news-and-stories/wildfire-mitigation-strategies-return-to-their-roots/
# Food General News
Shoppers will be banned from buying soda and candy under rule change – and it even applies to certain fruity treats: 4 states aim to prevent food stamps recipients from using program to buy candy, soda
https://www.aol.com/least-4-states-attempting-ban-220543284.html
# General News
Stephen Colbert Says America Isn’t on Its Way to a Dictatorship: ‘We’re on the Ship!’ Late-night hosts lamented Trump’s latest ‘insane dictatorial demands’ and showed support for his latest target: Harvard
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/16/colbert-kimmel-trump-harvard-late-night-roundup
Fraud alert: Thieves just stole big money from a dozen politicians and political committees
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/04/fraud-alert-thieves-just-stole-big-money-from-a-dozen-politicians-and-political-committees/
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All. President Donald Trump’s use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-expanded-domestic-military-use-should-worry-us-all
Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists
https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1339&context=vjtl
Why Trump Doesn’t Want You to Notice His Most Dangerous Move. Trump’s record-breaking pace seems dependent upon a penchant for inventing ways to use these orders to further personal grievances which are untethered to the law.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-why-trump-doesn-t-162131925.html
Trump’s Government of Billionaires No Good for the Working Class. With a cabinet full of billionaires, the new administration is poised to carry out a program of continuing to enrich themselves while dividing, repressing and bankrupting the working class. Our country is fast moving towards a more blatant and transparent form of oligarchy — rule by the super-rich.
https://www.ueunion.org/political-action/2025/trump-government-of-billionaires-no-good-for-the-working-class
Democrats Ignore Black Hole Threatening To Suck Them In. Democrats are increasingly becoming apathetic to the rise in political violence in America, even against their own.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/16/rooke-democrats-violence-shapiro-trump/
Why not tyranny? JD Vance says he’s fine with the “inevitable errors” of abandoning due process. The vice president argues it would too difficult to provide due process to those he wants to imprison or deport
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/16/why-not-tyranny-jd-vance-says-hes-fine-with-the-inevitable-errors-of-abandoning-due-process/
‘Soviet’-style oversight: Musk’s DOGE eyes embedding monitors in federally funded orgs
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2671776619/
Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags. His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193969/donald-trump-asked-attorney-general-deport-us-citizens
Trump Axed Elon Musk’s Secret Pentagon Meeting in Pure Outrage. Elon Musk is finally facing (some) consequences for trying to play president.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-china-war-pentagon-meeting-elon-musk
MAGA’s New Meltdown Shows How Little They Actually Know About the Law. Stephen Miller and other MAGA stooges are adamant that Donald Trump can deport whomever he wants.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/3965465559676-maga-s-new-meltdown-shows-how-little-they-actually-know-about-the-law
# Gov / Politics / Global
WARNING: Greenland Signals Closer Co-Operation With Chinese Communist Party.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/04/15/warning-greenland-signals-closer-co-operation-with-chinese-communist-party/
Israeli Defense Minister Says No Humanitarian Aid Will Enter Gaza, Vows Indefinite Occupation. Israel Katz says blocking aid is ‘one of the main pressure levers’ on Hamas while military announces it has turned 30% of Gaza into buffer zone
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he was neither “overly optimistic or overly pessimistic” regarding the Oman talks with the United States in his first remarks since Saturday’s meeting. President Donald Trump has said he is determined to seek a new binding agreement for Iran’s nuclear expansion through negotiations but does not rule out the possibility of a military attack.
https://www.newsweek.com/khamenei-iran-supreme-leader-trump-us-2059895
Mexico’s Sheinbaum says country will not renew diplomatic relations with Ecuador
https://www.aol.com/news/mexicos-sheinbaum-says-country-not-152945722.html
Iran and Russia Deepen Alliance Amid US Tensions
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-russia-deepen-alliance-amid-us-tensions-2060511
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Federal judge finds ‘probable cause’ to hold Trump administration in contempt – a legal scholar explains what this means
https://theconversation.com/federal-judge-finds-probable-cause-to-hold-trump-administration-in-contempt-a-legal-scholar-explains-what-this-means-254767
# Medical / Health News
‘Genes Do Not Cause Epidemics’: Kennedy Lambastes Media for Denying Autism Epidemic, Vows to Research Environmental Triggers
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366676/autism-cdc-rates-rfk-research
Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-health-budget-cuts-hhs
# Military / DOD / General News
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
https://www.armytimes.com/education-transition/2025/04/16/students-sue-defense-department-over-book-bans-in-military-schools/
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touts ‘historic’ deals to deter ‘Chinese influence’ in Panama Canal
https://www.yahoo.com/news/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-touts-234924569.html
U.S. Cutting Forces In Syria By Half, Possible Ripple Effects In Region.The U.S. withdrawing a significant portion of its troops from Syria could see notable shifts in the ongoing power struggle in the war-torn country.
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-cutting-forces-in-syria-by-half-possible-ripple-effects-in-region
US cutting forces in Syria by half, possible ripple effects in region. The move comes even as the Pentagon is surging resources to the Middle East and could have wide regional ramifications
https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-cutting-forces-in-syria-by-half-possible-ripple-effects-in-region
Trump unleashes massive 27,000lb ‘Bunker Buster’ bombs on Houthis from B-2 stealth bombers in chilling warning to Iran. The bomb is designed specifically to neutralise deeply buried and fortified targets
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14038446/trump-unleashes-bunker-buster-bombs-houthis/
Third Pentagon official implicated in DOD leak probe. A third Pentagon official on Wednesday has been placed on administrative leave as part of an ongoing investigation into leaks at the Defense Department, a defense official confirmed.
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/security/2025/april/third-pentagon-official-implicated-in-dod-leak-probe
# Military / General News / Global
Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen border areas hours after intense US airstrikes. UAE-backed militias in southern Yemen are reportedly preparing a ‘ground offensive’ against Ansarallah with the support of the US
https://thecradle.co/articles/saudi-arabia-bombs-yemen-border-areas-hours-after-intense-us-airstrikes
Turkey hosts Black Sea security talks with Ukraine, France, UK. Turkish officials have clarified that no Russian representatives are participating, and that this is not a direct negotiation between Russia and Ukraine
https://balkaneu.com/turkey-leads-strategic-talks-on-black-sea-security-with-ukraine-france-and-uk/
# Nuclear
DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/doges-staff-firing-fiasco-at-the-nuclear-weapon-agency-means-everything-but-efficiency/
# Other Stuff
Strange ‘sea pigs,’ sea spiders and a spawning ‘butterfly’ discovered on Antarctic ocean floor by scientists. Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica’s ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/strange-sea-pigs-sea-spiders-and-a-spawning-butterfly-discovered-on-antarctic-ocean-floor-by-scientists
# Recycle / Repurpose / Reuse
Plastic recycling stalls as fossil fuel-based plastics keep flowing into the global market. The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-global-plastic-recycling-stagnant.html
# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
CISA extends CVE program contract with MITRE for 11 months amid alarm over potential lapse. The MITRE Corporation will continue operating the CVE program for at least another 11 months after federal cybersecurity officials confirmed that they temporarily extended their contract with the organization to keep the platform running.
https://therecord.media/cisa-extends-cve-program-contract-with-mitre
# Social / Social Programs
How privatizing Social Security could impact retirees. With average monthly retirement payout of $1,980.86 as of February 2025, according to the Social Security Administration, the idea of privatizing Social Security reared its head once again.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-privatizing-social-security-could-impact-retirees
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
NVIDIA to Build AI Supercomputers in U.S. Amid Chinese Rare Earth Export Ban
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/amid-trump-tariff-chaos-nvidia-launches-ai-chip-production-on-us-soil/
# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Once The Deadline On May 7th Arrives, They Will Ask You To Show A National ID Card If You Want To Travel By Plane
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/04/09/tsa-highlight-real-id-enforcement-deadline-may-7-2025
Tesla Accused of Hacking Odometers to Rip Off Customers. Tesla has been accused of manipulating the odometers in its cars. Why? Well, to avoid repair responsibilities and warranty agreements, of course.
https://futurism.com/tesla-accused-odometers
# Water
Profanity-ridden Emails, Misuse of CDC Funds: How Big Fluoride Tries to Prevent Towns From Cleaning Up Their Water
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/north-dakota-towns-effort-end-water-fluoridation-exposes-cdc/
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