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December 17, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Veterinarians frequently find massive amounts of accumulated plastic and other non-digestible waste in cows’ stomachs during autopsies or surgeries, animals ingest plastic bags and debris while grazing, leading to blockages, illness, and death, with vets often removing tens, even hundreds, of pounds of trash that causes severe internal damage
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/plastic-pollution-cow-india-garbage/
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs
ICE entered NYC shelters without warrants
https://gothamist.com/news/ice-enters-nyc-shelters-armed-and-without-judicial-warrants-reports-show
Tracking Trump and Latin America: Migration—Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela Applications Paused. The U.S. president has pursued a more aggressive reduction in immigration, pushing for record deportations while curtailing migrant protections.
https://www.as-coa.org/articles/tracking-trump-and-latin-america-migration-cuba-haiti-venezuela-applications-paused
U.S. detains, sends Cubans to Guantánamo Bay Naval Station: Nearly two dozen men were sent to the Navy base this week, where over 700 individuals are being held
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-transfers-22-cuban-migrants-to-guantanamo-bay-for-deportation-report/3773279
Anti-ICE protest explodes after agents reportedly detain pregnant woman
https://globalnews.ca/video/11580616/wild-scenes-as-anti-ice-demonstrators-clash-with-federal-agents-in-minneapolis
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump administration is scrambling to transfer tariff revenue into the U.S. Treasury in response to continuing legal actions from major companies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/14/trump-hardball-tariff-fees-trade-00689892
Warren Calls for Treasury and Department of Justice to Investigate How Illicit Actors Are Exploiting Decentralized Finance Services to Threaten National Security. “As Congress considers crypto market structure legislation—including rules to prevent terrorists, criminals, and rogue states from exploiting decentralized finance (DeFi) to fund their activities—it is critical to understand whether you are seriously investigating these risks.”
https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-calls-for-treasury-and-department-of-justice-to-investigate-how-illicit-actors-are-exploiting-decentralized-finance-services-to-threaten-national-security
New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain. Rising costs are crushing Americans — and they’re running out of room to adjust. Americans are struggling with affordability pressures that are squeezing everything from their everyday necessities to their biggest-ticket expenses.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/poll-affordability-cost-of-living-00678076
The Real Roots Of America’s Affordability Problem. Politicians insist they have the cure. Yet the debate suffers from a muddled understanding of what “affordability” even means, and the resulting policy conversation often chases the wrong targets.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesbroughel/2025/12/14/the-real-roots-of-americas-affordability-problem/
The solution to America’s affordability problem might be broken, too. The US job market has been stagnant in recent months, and paycheck growth has been falling steadily for more than three years.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/economy/affordability-jobs-inflation
More Americans say Trump has helped raise prices rather than lower them: Trump has done more to increase prices, while 24 percent say he’s done more to lower prices. Another 17 percent say he’s done “about the same,” and 10 percent say they’re not sure.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/more-americans-say-trump-has-helped-raise-prices-rather-than-lower-them-survey/ar-AA1Rv9Ui
James Talarico: “The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes. The biggest welfare queens are the CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSTZ0W7krLI/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Appellate judges mull challenge to Trump’s efforts to bust most federal labor unions. Much of the discussion in oral arguments for three separate lawsuits revolved around whether an administrative board could hear unions’ legal claims and whether President Trump used a faulty definition of ‘national security’ when he devised two executive orders banning unions at most federal agencies
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/12/appellate-judges-mull-challenge-trumps-efforts-bust-most-federal-labor-unions/410216/
DC Circuit grills DOJ over Trump move to gut federal workers’ bargaining rights. With a pair of executive orders, Trump has moved to exempt 21 agencies and 29 agency subdivisions from labor protections, claiming they had a “primary national security function.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-grills-doj-over-trump-move-to-gut-federal-workers-bargaining-rights/
Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years Amid Trump’s Assault on Workers
https://truthout.org/articles/unemployment-rate-hits-highest-level-in-4-years-amid-trumps-assault-on-workers/
House lawmakers preparing to vote on GOP plan allowing small businesses to join together to provide for employees
https://www.jobcreatorsnetwork.com/press_releases/small-businesses-back-house-republican-healthcare-plan/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
The Deadly Volcano That Erased a Town Is Now Active Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtXWuxbz5I
New report finds the Arctic continues to warm faster than the planet as a whole
https://theconversation.com/from-record-warming-to-rusting-rivers-2025-arctic-report-card-shows-a-region-transforming-faster-than-expected-271572
# FEMA / USAID
NGO Middlemen Being Cut Out From US Aid Programs. Nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) are about to lose a great deal of federal government money.
https://tcf.org/content/report/the-foreign-aid-wipeout-a-shadow-revolution-in-americas-middle-east-policy/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USDA
Judge Issues Ruling Over Trump Admin’s SNAP Eligibility Restrictions: ‘Ill-considered and illegal federal agency action’: States win injunction blocking Trump admin’s efforts to cut SNAP benefits for legal permanent residents
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ill-considered-and-illegal-federal-agency-action-states-win-injunction-blocking-trump-admins-efforts-to-cut-snap-benefits-for-legal-permanent-residents/
# General News / Boat Strikes
Pentagon Will Not Release ‘Top Secret’ Boat Strike Video to Public, Claims He’s ‘Proud of What We’re Doing’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/pentagon-wont-release-full-video-caribbean-attack
Rights Groups Demand Stronger Congressional Action Over Trump ‘Murder’ on High Seas. “This ramping up of the bombing campaign despite increased pressure from Congress signals the administration’s total disregard for the law.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/boat-bombing-amnesty-hrw
GOP Sen. Rand Paul Says Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth Is ‘Either Lying’ Or ‘He’s Incompetent’ In Response To Boat Strikes. ‘As a country, are we just going to let people lie to us, to our face? Are we going to let them kill people who they call enemies anytime in the world?’ the Kentucky Republican asked
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-venzeula-strike-rand-paul-b2877241.html
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Another Epstein victim details her time with Trump. Epstein survivor breaks her silence on ‘the list,’ Mar-a-Lago and the fight for justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoi4aUZ0EDM
Epstein emailed Maxwell that Trump spent ‘hours’ with one of his victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nsRofKp3s
# General News / Floods
Survivors Slam Kristi Noem Over FEMA’s Response to Deadly Disasters. FEMA workers say the agency is being gutted under Trump, putting disaster victims at risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdyAQqSkI4
# Gov / Politics
In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump also declared the government of President Nicolás Maduro a foreign terrorist organization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/16/trump-venezuela-oil-tanker-blockade/
Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and ‘any’ prescription meds history
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/pulitzer-prize-board-members-fight-back-with-wide-ranging-discovery-demands-including-about-trump-finances/
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security. The president often invokes national security as a core motivator and justification for his sweeping policy changes, from immigration to trade policy to his overhaul of the federal workforce.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/trump-ballroom-construction-security-concerns
Court filing offers more details about Trump’s White House ballroom
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/court-filing-offers-details-trumps-white-house-ballroom-128432797
How Trump’s China Pivot Turned Taiwan Into a US Strategic Priority: Miles Yu
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/how-trumps-china-pivot-turned-taiwan-into-a-us-strategic-priority-miles-yu-5959085
Yale Historian Warns Trump Is Putting US on Path to World War III: Historian Greg Grandin argued that Trump’s foreign policy will likely result in “more confrontation, more brinkmanship, more war.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-world-war-iii
Fifty members of Congress have announced they will not seek re-election in 2026—the most at this point since 2018, there are more Republicans signaling their desire to exit Washington (27) than Democrats (10).
https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/09/15/record-number-of-congressional-lawmakers-arent-running-for-reelection-in-2026-heres
Trump’s Posts Spur Threats Against Lawmakers on Both Sides of Aisle
President Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric has very real, terrifying consequences.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204387/trump-violent-threats-lawmakers-republican-democrat
‘Might lead to violence’: Republican senator goes to war against Trump’s plot win midterms. The Kentucky senator torched Trump’s push for GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional districts.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senator-warns-trumps-midterm-plot-might-lead-to-violence/
MAGA slams Trump for ‘humiliating’ and ‘entirely unenforceable’ assault on states’ rights
https://www.alternet.org/trump-bannon-ai/
‘Height of asinine stupidity’: Trump advisor rages at GOP Senator wanting to make abortion an issue ahead of midterms
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/height-asinine-stupidity-trump-advisor-185249757.html
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits
The Trump Administration’s War on Disability. Executive actions, budget cuts, layoffs, and legislation—all enacted in the Trump administration’s first six months—have curtailed disability rights and services, including access to Medicaid and the right to free, appropriate public education.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-war-on-disability/
Trump Budget Cuts Threaten Access to Disability Rights Lawyers
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-palm-beach-post/20251217/281663966347135?srsltid=AfmBOorDI0joPrI-Fx9mZtfygP12lRuz5KW97n1l049y2e9gEDr-RjdQ
‘Gambling With Lives of Their Constituents,’ House GOP Leaders Refuse Vote on ACA Tax Credits. “They are actively choosing to go into the holiday break, knowing healthcare premiums are doubling and tripling for millions of Americans in 2026, and doing nothing about it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mike-johnson-aca-tax-credits
The Healthcare System Medicare Advantage Could Be Dropping Soon
https://cepr.net/publications/medicare-advantage-companies-focus-on-profits-over-care/
Critics erupt as judge overturns Medicaid verdict
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-tosses-72m-medicaid-fraud-conviction/ar-AA1SfkAd?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
Dem-appointed judge under fire for tossing $7M Medicaid fraud conviction tied to Minnesota couple’s ‘lavish lifestyle’
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/us-news/judge-under-fire-for-tossing-7m-medicaid-fraud-conviction-tied-to-minnesota-couples-lavish-lifestyle/
# Medical / Biologicals / Science / Research / Technology
Pam Bondi dismissed charges against a surgeon who falsified vaccine cards, emboldening others with similar cases
https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-kirk-moore
# Military / War Department
‘Unquestionably an Act of War’: Trump Declares Naval Blockade Against Venezuela. US President Donald Trump declared a blockade on “all sanctioned oil tankers” approaching and leaving Venezuela, a major escalation in what’s widely seen as an accelerating march to war with the South American country.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/unquestionably-an-act-of-war-trump-declares-naval-blockade-against-venezuela
Republican-led congressional committees ‘perturbed’ by lack of details from Trump’s Pentagon
https://www.alternet.org/hegseth-pentagon/?comments=disqus
Pentagon considers major overhaul to merge military commands, cut generals: The move supports the pivot to the Western Hemisphere and the push to reduce the number of four-star generals
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-considers-major-overhaul-merge-191812188.html
Pentagon officials sound alarm over Hegseth’s shift. Detractors argue the approach could weaken U.S. deterrence, disrupt coordination with allies, and introduce new risks for both national and global stability.
https://www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-llc-333211895/4399649741178-pentagon-officials-sound-alarm-over-hegseth-s-shift
If tried by court-martial, senator accused of ‘seditious behavior’ would be deprived of several constitutional rights. President Donald Trump accused the lawmakers of “seditious behavior” that could be “punishable by death.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tried-court-martial-senator-accused-140428853.html
# NASA / Space
Something in space is sending us bright blue flashes – and now scientists might know what they are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otM-kF9wvfk
# NOAA / Weather
Meteorologist warns there’s a big incoming weather pattern change that will change winter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_hYOq5SMKA
# Social Services / Programs
Social Security rescue plan intensifies as Americans may be forced to take $2,600 tax hit. If those currently receiving benefits and those who will in the future don’t know that benefits are taxed, they may be surprised to find the IRS is taking a cut of their benefits. This could result in recipients bringing home thousands of dollars less than expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKmxr7c6p8
New Bill Would End Taxes on Social Security Benefits in 2026: What Retirees Should Know
Congress could look to high earners to help offset lost revenue and possibly shore up the Social Security program.
https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/new-bill-would-end-taxes-on-social-security-benefits-next-year
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Robotics
The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying. New research is pulling back the curtain on how large numbers of kids are using AI companion apps — and what it found is troubling.
“We have a pretty big issue on our hands that I think we don’t fully understand the scope of.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/young-kids-using-ai
‘Make This Delay Permanent,’ Say Child Advocates After Mattel Halts Release of First AI-Powered Toy. The group Fairplay is warning parents not to buy the plushies, dolls, action figures, and robots that were coming embedded with “the very same AI systems that have produced unsafe, confusing, or harmful experiences for older kids and teens, including urging them to self harm or take their own lives.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mattel-ai-toy-delayed
US student makes stunning breakthrough that could solve major problem with AI: ‘Brain-inspired.’ An MIT doctoral candidate is working on technology that copies how the human brain operates to make artificial intelligence less power-hungry, MIT News reported.
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/us-student-makes-stunning-breakthrough-060000334.html
# Travel / Tourism / TSA
TSA confirms $17k fines for passengers who ‘make mistake’ with officers & issue warning on 3 airport behaviors to avoid, include threatening or assaulting officers, using fake IDs/passes, and refusing to comply, with recent warnings highlighting stricter enforcement for the busy holiday travel season.
https://www.the-sun.com/travel/15649286/tsa-confirms-fines-passengers-officers-stern-warning-airport/
Transportation Security Administration (TSA): https://www.tsa.gov/
# Water / Lakes / Oceans / Rivers
Experts sound alarm about mysterious clouds appearing in rivers, oceans: ‘The molecules released … are very different.’ “They … create an invisible chemical plume that changes as they weather.” For this study, the authors sought information about how these particles, which move through air, water, and soil, break down and what they release as they decompose over decades.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/microplastics-chemicals-water-pollution-2025-study/
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