Tuban Voices, The Peoples News
August 9, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Bishop Scott Bullock of South Dakota torches MAGA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for celebrating the “grave evils” of the murderous soldiers who massacred Native women and children at Wounded Knee. The Catholic Church isn’t pulling any punches now…
https://www.osvnews.com/bishop-jesuits-reject-hegseth-decision-to-honor-soldiers-who-massacred-lakota-at-wounded-knee/
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
ICE arrests surge at Philly airport, including those of a babysitter and a senior citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said President Trump is reversing policies that let undocumented immigrants “jet around our country.”
https://www.inquirer.com/news/airport-arrests-ice-trump-philadelphia-international-airport-20260807.html
ICE says it expects to equip every field officer with body cameras by the end of August
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-says-expects-equip-every-field-officer-with-body-cameras-end-august_n_6a779435e4b01ec886906d9b
During Operation Metro Surge, ICE arrested dozens of immigrant crime victims. Years ago, Rosa watched from inside the car as men robbed her husband at gunpoint, shortly after they’d arrived in Minnesota from Guatemala.
https://patch.com/minnesota/minneapolis/during-operation-metro-surge-ice-arrested-dozens-immigrant-crime-victims
New Jersey investigating Delaney Hall ICE facility after detainee deaths: New Jersey is investigating an ICE facility in Newark after detainee deaths and reports of “alarming conditions.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/new-jersey-launches-investigation-into-delaney-hall-ice-facility-01029595
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
With broad bipartisan support, Congress is about to give Trump ‘unchecked authority’ to impose new tariffs of up to 100% on top trading partners
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/tariffs-congress-russia-trump
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scientists say. “This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental breakup.”
https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/a-newly-forming-ocean-may-split-africa-apart-scientists-say
The Afar Triangle: Where a New Ocean Could Be Born: Deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, the Nubian, Somali, and Arabian plates are pulling apart at the Afar Triple Junction. Earth isn’t just changing its surface—it’s creating entirely new geological environments
https://www.volcanocafe.org/the-afar-triangle/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Greenland Has Never Produced a Barrel of Oil. Now a Texas Company Is Betting Billions on What Lies Beneath the Ice
https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/greenland-never-produced-barrel-oil-134751477.html
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill. The equipment belongs to Greenland Energy, a Texas-based oil company whose chairman, Larry Swets, is part of Trump’s inner-circle.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/08/08/greenland-trump-oil-drilling/2831786218141/
‘Has Trump’s Invasion of Greenland Already Begun?’: Experts Fearful as MAGA-Linked Oil Company Prepares Unauthorized Drilling. “Let nobody think Trump has given up on taking Greenland,” warned one professor of European politics.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-greenland-oil
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Fast Fact: RFK Jr. is revealing how a state senator in North Carolina – passed laws to protect a giant food company – then partnered up with the company to take over 28,000 farms and sell them to China, here’s the story:
https://substack.com/@toniwilliams1/note/c-309728619
Over 4 Million People Have Already Lost Food Aid Under Trump’s New Mandates, but the Most Devastating Cuts Are Still Hiding in the Fine Print
https://www.themarysue.com/over-4-million-people-have-already-lost-food-aid-under-trumps-new-mandates-but-the-most-devastating-cuts-are-still-hiding-in-the-fine-print/
# Food / Forageing
Common Backyard Weed May Target Cancer Cells. It began with two roommates on a Leukemia ward whose cancer blood markers plummeted after drinking tea made from a common backyard weed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/helenalbert/2020/10/30/common-weed-related-to-cabbages-can-stop-cancer-in-its-tracks/
# General News
Mark Zuckerberg hammered after ignoring distress call from stranded vessel: report
https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/expedition-ship-tows-stranded-skiff-while-zuckerbergs-superyacht-fails-to-respond/
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
House Oversight Committee Releases Jeffrey Epstein Email Correspondence, Raising Questions About White House Coverup of Epstein Files
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-oversight-committee-releases-jeffrey-epstein-email-correspondence-raising
Emails: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2025/11/3-Emails.pdf
# Gov / Politics / US
‘The decline is real’: Ex-Trump official spills on president’s ‘frontal lobe illness’: Cobb continued, arguing that the president’s increasingly erratic behavior was a clear sign of what he described as a “frontal lobe illness.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2677676238/
‘We’re screwed’: Legal expert sounds alarm over major new midterm threa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbwZFz1TA8
‘It Hits A Nerve’: This Number Reveals How Much Americans Are Paying For Trump’s War With Iran
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-war-energy-cost-tracker_n_6a74a9f9e4b0a79b03a72ad6
Trump’s remarkable private admission leaked by US officials: U.S. officials told the Journal that the president had been “floating the idea privately to senior aides that he’s willing to walk away without a nuclear deal.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677676947/
Blanche’s fellow spineless co-conspirators in the biggest political cover-up in American history are celebrating a hollow victory at the moment. Trumpublicans haven’t learned that their loyalty is never going to be returned, but I guess worrying about a mean tweet is more important than the lives of roughly 349 million Americans.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/todd-blanche-cassidy/
Trump’s ‘Corrupt and Bullying and Destabilizing’ Second Term : “[I]n Donald Trump’s second term populism has displayed most of the vices that its critics anticipated,” Douthat wrote. “It has been corrupt and bullying and destabilizing. It has rewarded hacks and cronies. And it stumbled into a Middle Eastern war with even less preparation than its establishment predecessors.”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trumpism-has-failed-ross-douthat-rips-trumps-corrupt-and-bullying-and-destabilizing-second-term-in-ny-times-farewell/
A major win for voting rights you didn’t hear about this week. The path to voting rights was paved with the blood, sweat and tears of generations of people who endured injustice from a system that did not recognize their equality or, at times, their humanity.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what-we-lost-when-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act-and-why-we-need-a-new-one/
Democrats Quietly Build a Financial Case Against Trump, Targeting the Money Trail Through Companies, Contractors and Financial Firms in His Orbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bplB5tuwgWI
Trump hands ally $150M in ‘corrupt’ courtroom contract ensnarling kids: A small Houston-based law firm with ties to the Trump administration is reportedly set to receive a $150 million no-bid federal contract to provide legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children — a move that has one Democratic lawmaker crying “corruption.”
https://www.rawstory.com/burke-law-texas/
# Global News
U.S. Intelligence Warns Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Strikes as Munitions Stockpiles Run Low
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-intel-finds-putin-could-test-natos-resolve-with-limited-incursion-e3b02e2c
Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan, Netanyahu say
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-trump-15-point-plan-hamas-peace-gaza.html
Iran official gives conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz. The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council gave several conditions for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/8/9/iran-war-live-tehran-demands-end-to-us-blockade-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz
It’s not just Canadian tourists snubbing U.S. cities. Business leaders are cancelling more trips to America as geopolitical tensions continue
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/canadians-boycotting-u-travel-over-130000574.html
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Black Woman Found Hanging From Tree Behind Vacant House Identified As 29-Year-Old Tasia Fortune. Mississippi authorities have investigated other high-profile cases involving tree-hanging deaths in the past year.
https://capitalbnews.org/black-woman-found-hanging-tasia-fortune/
In February, Todd Sidesinger left the hospital after doctors placed two stents in his heart to address heart failure. Three days later, police arrested him on warrants related to roughly $1,500 in unpaid court debt dating back more than a decade. Less than 48 hours after arriving at the county prison in York, Pennsylvania, Sidesinger was dead. Sidesinger wore a prescribed defibrillator vest that delivers an electrical shock when it detects a life-threatening heart rhythm, and has to be charged approximately once every 24 hours. York County Prison’s medical staff never charged his vest.
https://www.thecarceralreport.com/p/new-in-the-appeal-he-was-arrested
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
White House fraud tracker exposes nearly $300 billion tab as health programs take center stage. According to administration officials, the website called “Fraud Ledger” is intended to give taxpayers a public view of fraud investigations, enforcement actions and fraud prevention efforts
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/white-house-fraud-tracker-highlights-billions-savings-hhs-programs-face
Moffitt says Humana ended its Medicare Advantage contract, leaving the cancer center out of network
https://www.moffitt.org/patient-family/insurance-financial-information/insurance-coverage/humana-announcement/
UnitedHealth is serving 965,000 fewer Medicare Advantage members, pushing some seniors to find new coverage. The move crystallizes how rising medical costs, tighter government payments, and strategic business choices are converging on the people least able to absorb sudden changes in their health insurance.
https://hc4us.org/unitedhealth-drops-1-million-seniors-in-biggest-cut-in-decades-the-daily-overview/
Some Doctors Have Opted Out of Medicare Entirely. Sign Their Form, and the Whole Bill Is Legally Yours.
https://www.aol.com/articles/doctors-opted-medicare-entirely-sign-120200000.html
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Paratroopers report that the U.S. Army’s new primary service rifle is already more reliable than the M4
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-03-19/army-to-test-new-carbine-rifle-21117744.html
Top U.S. Army General in Europe Abruptly Removed From Command as Questions Surround Sudden Leadership Change
https://thehill.com/homenews/6018081-army-general-costanza-removed-v-corps/
# Military / Global
Yemen’s Houthis strike Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/09/yemens-houthis-claim-attack-on-saudi-arabia-refinery
# Nuclear
The US has a nuclear waste problem. Five states want to help with the cleanup. Several states have now agreed to take a large part of America’s nuclear waste at the same time a government office says the country could be doing much better.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/nuclear-waste-delivers-a-political-haymaker-five-states-say-it-can-be-done/
# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / AI / Data Centers / Secret Service
What is ‘Social Engineering?’ AI bots create fake profiles to make their hacking seem more real. Some AI bots, instructed to complete “cyber challenges” online, created fake profiles and emails to convince real humans to let them edit real code.
https://www.communityamerica.com/blog/2026/social-engineering-and-ai-how-scammers-are-using-new-technology-to-trick-people
# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
A bill in Congress would bar Social Security clawing back overpayments it discovers more than 10 years late
https://financebuzz.com/new-bill-limits-social-security-clawbacks
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