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Voices, The Peoples News

May 11, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Grandmother in U.S. without documentation faces deportation after wrong turn in San Diego
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/grandmother-in-u-s-without-documentation-faces-deportation-after-wrong-turn-in-san-diego.5897518/

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-parole-supreme-court-6282e48ef9bf41bd5c77e8e2b0642e89

CBS News: Trump administration asks African countries to accept deportations from United States
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-deportation-deals-with-angola-equatorial-guinea/

‘This is un-American’: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on the arrest of Newark mayor at ICE facility
https://www.msnbc.com/the-weeknight/watch/-this-is-un-american-rep-bonnie-watson-coleman-on-newark-mayor-s-arrest-at-ice-facility-239289925517

Dem Mayor Ras Baraka Calls His ICE Arrest ‘Targeted’
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-they-obviously-targeted-me-newark-mayor-describes-chaotic-arrest-in-confrontation-at-ice-facility-239297605589

Trump administration threatens more arrests after showdown outside ICE detention center: DHS spokesperson threatens arrests of House Democrats who were at N.J. ICE facility. Tricia McLaughlin accused members of Congress of assaulting and even body-slamming ICE officers. A congresswoman who was present denied the allegation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dhs-spokesperson-threatens-arrests-house-democrats-nj-ice-facility-rcna206052

US military using high-tech radar amid drone threat on border. Aerial incursions are a concern at the Southern border. The US military is using high-tech radar to monitor skies. The Defense Department’s presence has increased at the border
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/us-military-using-high-tech-radar-amid-drone-threat-on-border/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
‘Impossible to make jobs in America’: Another small business owner who thought Donald Trump was his golden ticket to economic prosperity is now watching his livelihood go up in flames.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/impossible-to-make-jobs-in-america-seller-who-backed-trump-to-spite-liberals-gets-harsh-wake-up-call-after-tariffs-punishes-his-business/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk’s ever-alarming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now wants to consolidate the federal government’s vast data reserves. They’re currently siloed across government agencies, and DOGE wants to merge them into a sprawling centralized database.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/doge-elon-musk-data-hackers

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Federal Reserve is testing a Central Bank Digital Currency. that would give the government the power to: Track every dollar you spend. Freeze your account at will, and potentially erase your savings with the click of a button
https://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/news/blog/federal-reserve-explores-central-bank-digital-currency/

Investors pull money out of US equity funds for a fourth straight week
https://www.reuters.com/business/investors-pull-money-out-us-equity-funds-fourth-straight-week-2025-05-09/

‘Time is running out’: Ex-Trump official gives grim prediction of ‘unnecessary recession’
https://www.rawstory.com/scaramucci-prediction-recession-trade/

US, Chinese Officials Begin Tariff Talks in Geneva
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5394399/u-s-and-china-begin-talks-amid-tensions-over-trumps-tariff-war

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
https://democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-releases/morelles-statement-abrupt-firing-shira-perlmutter-register-copyrights

Want to Stop Trump’s Attacks on the NLRB? History Shows Strikes Are the Answer. Workers’ legal rights are inherently precarious in a capitalist economy. Only periodic mass upheaval has renewed them.
https://truthout.org/articles/want-to-stop-trumps-attacks-on-the-nlrb-history-shows-strikes-are-the-answer/
NLRB: National Labor Relations Board https://www.nlrb.gov/

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
‘I will run right over you’: New FEMA boss hurls aggressive greeting at staff. David Richardson replaced acting FEMA head Cameron Hamilton, who was fired for telling Congress the emergency response agency shouldn’t be dissolved.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/09/fema-head-run-right-over-staff/83533958007/

# General News
New pope predicts the biggest threat facing humanity. Pope Leo XIV showed that he is committed to the same causes as the late Pope Francis after he warned of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/171359/Pope-Leo-artificial-intelligence-warning

# Gov / Politics
Chief Justice Roberts affirms judiciary must ‘check the excesses’ of Trump and Congress. As Judges face attacks from President Trump, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. says government “doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/chief-justice-roberts-judicial-independence-buffalo/

‘We’re not playing’: DHS spokesperson reveals plans on CNN to arrest members of Congress. A spokesperson for the agency stated there are plans to arrest more lawmakers in the coming days.
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-arrest-members-of-congress/

Trump advisory board member pushes for Jan. 6 as national holiday to ‘honor American heroes.’ “That would be the biggest way to honor these American heroes who risked their lives, freedom and honor to protest what they perceived to be a stolen election.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/trump-advisory-board-member-wants-jan-6-to-be-a-national-holiday/

Opinion: The power to cut off funds is important for civil rights, but Trump is abusing it
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5290821-trump-funding-universities-civil-rights/

Aide reveals Trump considering scrapping cornerstone of US Constitution: ‘It’s an option.’ White House is “actively looking at” suspending the ability of migrants to challenge their detention in court, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-immigration/

Is Trump Out-of-Touch, Senile, Nuts or Something Worse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh7jTM7gyd4

If Dems Want to Stand Up to Trump, They Must Stand With Palestine Protesters. Michigan’s attorney general is posing as an anti-Trump champion. So why is she helping Trump’s FBI to target protesters?
https://truthout.org/articles/if-dems-want-to-stand-up-to-trump-they-must-stand-with-palestine-protesters/

Trump signs order TARGETING ActBlue! After consolidating total, unchecked power in Washington, Donald Trump is now trying to threaten grassroots Democratic fundraising ahead of the midterms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-to-target-actblue-in-presidential-memorandum-00307251

# Gov / Politics / Global
France and Poland’s reconciliation is a sign of Europe’s alarm over US disengagement. A new pact could be the first step towards extending France’s nuclear shield over central Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/france-and-polands-reconciliation-is-a-sign-of-europes-alarm-over-us-disengagement

Russia’s Putin proposes direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, ‘without preconditions’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/11/putin-proposes-direct-russia-ukraine-talks-in-istanbul-on-may-15

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Texas jail guard accused of helping and laughing as four inmates killed another prisoner over $40 debt. Bexar County jail detention officer is accused of allowing four inmates beat 46-year-old Francisco Bazan to death on April 28. He now faces a murder charge. The four inmates have been charged with first-degree murder and remain in custody
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/texas-jail-guard-arrest-murder-b2748011.html

National Guard deploys to NM city as youth crime rises.
https://www.aol.com/national-guard-deployed-blue-city-080017362.html

# Medicare / Medicaid
Congressional Republicans’ Proposals To Slash Medicaid Could Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/congressional-republicans-proposals-to-slash-medicaid-could-cost-tens-of-thousands-of-lives/

Medicaid Reform Proposals in Congress: Republican lawmakers are divided over a potential change in Medicaid funding that pits moderates against fiscal hawks and threatens to further delay the budget reconciliation process.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392357/republicans-medicaid-trump-reconciliation-bill

# Military / Militia / General News
Pentagon orders Military libraries to get rid of materials related to DEI, gives deadline to comply. Another memo told academies to ignore ‘race, ethnicity or sex’ in admissions but athleticism could be considered
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/pentagon-dei-gender-ideology-books

Iowa National Guard unit deploying to Middle East scheduled for late May: Iowa National Guard 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, or “Ironman Battalion,” will first train at Fort Johnson in Louisiana. From there, troops will be deployed to the Middle East for Operation Inherent Resolve. 1,800 Iowa National Guard soldiers will be part of the deployment.
https://www.messengernews.net/news/local-news/2025/03/guard-soldiers-gear-up-for-mission/

# NOAA / Weather
Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels. A small group of scientists are scrambling to preserve our ability to track atmostpheric carbon dioxide. The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and other gases, but these are at risk of being curtailed if the foreshadowed cuts to NOAA are realized.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/noaa-dismantling-threatens-keeling-curve-climate-research-trump-doge-cuts-national-oceanic-asmospheric-administration/

# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Social Security to Reinstate Overpayment Recovery Rate. The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced it will increase the default overpayment withholding rate for Social Security beneficiaries to 100 percent of a person’s monthly benefit.
https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-to-reinstate-overpayment-recovery-rate/

GOP lawmakers advance proposals to reduce federal benefits, gut civil service protections. One Republican who voted against the cuts to federal benefits cast doubt that the provisions would end up in the final version of the GOP reconciliation bill.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/05/gop-lawmakers-advance-proposals-to-reduce-federal-benefits-gut-civil-service-protections/

Senate advances bill that could unravel decades of protections for vulnerable communities: ‘This impacts our community first and worst’
https://economicsecurityproject.org/news/community-orgs-push-back-as-texas-senate-advances-legislation-that-undermines-families-economic-security/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
New driving law means any driver in the US could be sued for breaking it
https://www.tcf-fca.ca/new-driving-law-in-the-us-2025/#google_vignette

# Veterans / VA
Homeless Veteran On Trial Until Judge Heard His Name And Stood Up In Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRbHkWXKIeg

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Voices, The Peoples News

May 9, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
U.S. visitors are already being asked if they have applied for a ‘Trump Card Visa’ on immigration forms. Visa would allow wealthy people to buy residency in U.S., but how it would work remains unclear
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-card-visa-immigration-forms-b2747326.html

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Another PFAS-containing pesticide headed for US registration.  US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic chemicals. The new active ingredient is cyclobutrifluram.  The new pesticide product contains fluorinated chemicals, which, by definition, makes them per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can persist in the environment for decades or even centuries.
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/05/pfas-in-pesticide-epa/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Bill Gates Goes Nuclear on Elon Musk: ‘The World’s Richest Man Killing the World’s Poorest Children’
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/bill-gates-foundation-elon-musk-doge

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
‘Corruption is staggering’: Trump officials push tariffed nations to approve Musk business. “The glaring conflict of interest inherent in this pressure to preference a Musk-owned company is disgusting,” said Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-starlink

‘It’s made up’: Expert says Trump gave a ‘gross misrepresentation of the truth’ on taxes
https://www.rawstory.com/tariffs-2671917644/

Denmark to field unmanned vessels for monitoring busy shipping routes. U.S.-based Saildrone will deploy four large unmanned surface vessels in Danish waters next month
https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/05/08/denmark-to-field-unmanned-vessels-for-monitoring-busy-shipping-routes/

Trump hints tariff cuts as US, China set to resume trade talks
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392399/u-s-china-trade-negotiations

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
U.S. Senate Dems launch forums to spotlight ‘bulldozing’ of Department of Education
https://protectborrowers.org/senate-dems-spotlight-radical-effort-to-decimate-ed-condemn-chaos/

Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans. Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.
https://truthout.org/articles/voters-oust-several-book-banning-incumbents-in-school-districts-across-texas/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
DOGE Killed Dozens of Grants That Supported Women Workers. Advocates say the cancellations will lock women out of construction and manufacturing jobs—and may violate the law.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/doge-womens-grant-construction-manufacturing-cancelled/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Elon Musk’s Memphis AI hub operates gas turbines without air permits, raising health concerns. Despite claims from local officials that xAI was only operating 15 of the turbines, thermal imaging showed nearly all of the 35 turbines were running.
https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-images-reveal-elon-musks-xai-datacenter-has-nearly-doubled-its-number-of-polluting-unpermitted-gas-turbines/

Lithuania’s defense minister on reading Trump, the cruelty of mines. “We are going to have mines on our territory, but they will either be Russian … or our own, where we will know where they are,” said Dovilė Šakalienė
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/05/08/lithuanias-defense-minister-on-reading-trump-the-cruelty-of-mines/

GOP Advances Bill to Fast-Track Fracking, Logging and Mining on Public Lands. The legislation would make it harder to file legal challenges against controversial mines and pipelines.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-advances-bill-to-fast-track-fracking-logging-and-mining-on-public-lands/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump administration dismisses nearly 400 scientists working on congressionally mandated national climate report for the federal government.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-climate-assessment-report-scientists-fired/

The biggest US cities are sinking. A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America’s most populated metropolises. Groundwater extraction seems to be the most common culprit, and its impact on land movement has direct implications for the infrastructure in the country’s most populated neighborhoods.
https://gizmodo.com/all-28-of-the-u-s-s-largest-cities-are-sinking-study-finds-2000599621

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Trump’s acting FEMA chief fired a day after breaking from the administration. Cameron Hamilton, the acting disaster chief, appeared to contradict Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem by defending the agency
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/fema-chief-fired-cameron-hamilton-00335840

FEMA head, librarian of Congress ousted in latest federal firings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired

# Food General News
Moderates fight back as GOP crafts major food assistance changes
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5288637-moderates-snap-food-assistance-changes/

PFAS chemicals found in popular beers as water contamination seeps into brewing process.  Perfluorosulfonic acids, particularly PFOS, were detected, with PFOA or PFOS above U.S. EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Limits in some beers.
https://www.wral.com/lifestyle/food/beer-forever-chemicals-may-2025/

# General News
Why Elon Musk Is Now Threatening to Sue Canada; here’s the reason and why Mark Carney could be on the back foot. Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program blocked Tesla from receiving tax credits worth up to $30 million, as per a report.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-threatens-sue-canada-200249096.html

# Gov / Politics
‘No more woke handouts’: Trump vows to kill law that helps veterans and minorities
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-digital-equity-act/

‘National Embarrassment’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked for Suggesting the U.S. Owns the Gulf of Mexico
https://www.newsbreak.com/ok-magazine-561398/3997961255250-national-embarrassment-marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-for-suggesting-the-u-s-owns-the-gulf-of-mexico

The Segregationist Administration: How Trump’s Team Is Systematically Dismantling Civil Rights. Last week, the Justice Department announced that it would be lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana, calling its existence a “historical wrong.” DOJ officials also suggested that similar orders dating back to the Civil Rights Movement be reconsidered as well.
https://newsone.com/6138983/trump-team-systematically-dismantling-civil-rights/

The Administration That Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Is Trying to Jail a Guy Over a Protest Banner
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/08/ed-martin-jan-6-trump-pardon-protester-00334168

Why Washington is worried about Burkina Faso’s young revolutionary leader. Taking power in 2022, the young military leader expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ibrahim-traore-burkina-faso-west/289538/

“Fact-Checked In Real Time”: Trump Met With Canada’s New Prime Minister, And Things Went Downhill So Quickly
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-losing-trump-seemed-prove-234927698.html

Trump 2.0 at 100 days: A tale of enablers and resisters. In just over three months, the president’s second term has been defined by broken promises, sweeping executive actions and growing resistance across the country.
https://www.onceuponahill.com/p/trump-second-term-first-100-days-special-edition

Trump Two is a formula for hell on earth. Donald Trump is a modern-day Joe McCarthy with more destructive reach, set to supercharge climate chaos, social disintegration and global instability. With Elon Musk as his billionaire accomplice, “President Chaos” promises a sequel of authoritarianism and environmental ruin that could seal the planet’s fiery fate.
https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/trump-two-is-a-formula-for-hell-on-earth/

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S., insisting that there is “no scenario” in which the Maryland man will be in the country again
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-supreme-court-order-kilmar-abrego-garcia_n_681cd152e4b0a178bbffc98e

Trump’s Repressive Measures Show US Imperialism Has Come Home to Roost. Under Trump’s direction, the US government is going to war against its own population.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-repressive-measures-show-us-imperialism-has-come-home-to-roost/

# Gov / Politics / Global
China claims its hypersonic weapon with Mach 20 speed can strike global targets in 30 mins
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-hypersonic-missile-gets-mach-20-speed

Germany’s new chancellor urges US officials to stay out of his country’s politics. “That is our business,” said Friedrich Merz, speaking on his first full day in office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/friedrich-merz-germany-us-00333340

Kremlin elites are poised for Putin’s grip on power to falter. As the embattled Russian leader addressed his nation on TV, calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, he looked glassy-eyed, stilted and old. He is in his end phase and succession in Moscow is usually messy
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/kremlin-elites-are-poised-for-putins-grip-on-power-to-falter-xgkqc60cf?region=global

Russian Elites Are Breaking the Old Taboos of Putin’s Power Vertical. They’re seeking out new models of behavior for a world without the longtime president.
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/05/russia-elites-transit-anticipation?lang=en&utm_source=carnegieemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=autoemail&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGaSZ_D7Xk8gb2ykR7DjqzKP00PtQ0IiSUgxM7_4wK_rO3EfJD14nN3YgXZzwnAq4lLk6t_VnLRSxoCgnhYEwTgo-1hfaDDyBpRwYEKX7T_oham

Putin’s Proxy Diplomats Are Undermining the Coherence of Russian Foreign Policy. While informal diplomacy helps the Kremlin to be more nimble, in the long term it risks undermining Russia’s reliability as an international partner.
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/04/russia-proxy-diplomacy-dilemma?lang=en

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Judges strike down Alabama congressional map as racially discriminatory
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-judges-strike-down-alabama-congressional-map-as-racially-discriminatory/

‘The quantum of proof is nonexistent’: Judge tears into speechless DOJ lawyer over Trump’s attacks on law firms
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-quantum-of-proof-is-nonexistent-judge-tears-into-speechless-doj-lawyer-over-trumps-attacks-on-law-firms/

The Supreme Court made your rights harder to defend — Congress must now step up
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-4998861/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up. Texas is considering a sweeping set of legislative changes that would erode First Amendment protections, emboldening corporations and powerful individuals to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence their critics. A corporate-led attack on free speech in Texas is making odd bedfellows and tearing the state’s GOP apart.
https://www.levernews.com/the-texas-sized-plan-to-shut-you-up/

# Medicare / Medicaid
House Republicans Drop Plans for Largest Medicaid Cuts. Work requirements remain on the table but Congress will not cut the matching rate for the Affordable Care Act expansion or impose per capita limits on states.
https://www.governing.com/finance/house-republicans-drop-plans-for-largest-medicaid-cuts

# Medical / Health News
RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
https://firstwordpharma.com/story/5957558

Hiltzik: RFK Jr.’s plans for vaccine testing are highly unethical and a danger to your health. Here’s why
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-rfk-jr-plans-vaccine-100000685.html

Gates Pledges $200 Billion to Global Health, Criticizes Musk’s Policies
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/bill-gates-pledges-200-billion-amid-elon-musk-criticism-348882?srsltid=AfmBOor_9tX27zHgMR_FnFjhwHlO-eFaAMNbnjY-ENwQ26mgbonFJwpl

Hospital superbug eats medical plastic. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a strain of bacterium that often causes antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, can produce an enzyme that can break down medical-grade plastic.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-superbug-digest-medical-plastic-dangerous.html

# Medical Science / Research
‘Indefensible’: Merck Designed Gardasil Trials to Mask HPV Vaccine Harms. A newly unsealed expert report from Danish physician and world-renowned research methodologist Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, reveals that Merck intentionally misrepresented the safety profile of its Gardasil HPV vaccine.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-designed-gardasil-trials-mask-hpv-vaccine-harms/

# Military / Militia / General News
Up to 1,000 transgender troops being separated under new Pentagon memo. The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/05/08/up-to-1000-transgender-troops-being-separated-under-new-pentagon-memo/

# Military / General News / Global
Macron, Merz vow closer defense ties in reboot of French-German couple. The countries will establish a Franco-German defense and security council to tackle common threats. On his first official visit since he was elected chancellor on Tuesday, Friedrich Merz met with Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday. The two leaders committed to increasing security efforts in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/05/07/france-and-germany-vow-to-cooperate-more-closely-on-defense_6741017_143.html#

Lithuania to lay antitank mines along its borders with Belarus, Russia. The Ministry of Defense announced the decision on May 5, stressing the mines’ intended effect of restricting the movements of invading forces
https://radar.am/en/news/world-2693011466/

India-Pakistan: 125 Jets Clash in One of Largest Dogfights in Recent History
https://www.newsweek.com/india-pakistan-125-jets-clash-one-largest-dogfights-recent-history-2069570

# NASA
Elon Just Embarrassed NASA – but This Is So Much Worse: Elon Musk Drops BOMBSHELL about Astronaut Rescue, Calls ISS Commander a Liar and R*tard…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcqVd4Yd5Tc

# NOAA / Weather
Funding cuts for Arctic sea ice monitoring risk key climate data. Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other Arctic conditions are being discontinued
https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/07/trump-administration-stopping-noaa-data-service-used-to-monitor-sea-ice-off-alaska/

# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
SSA Will Suspend Automatic Payments from May If You Fail to Meet These New Requirements
https://unionrayo.com/en/goodbye-social-security-checks-suspended-may-2025/

Trump Admin Proposes Eliminating Section 8 Housing Vouchers, Slashing Federal Housing Assistance. The plan would also cap rental aid for able-bodied adults at two years
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5374077/trump-budget-housing-rental-aid-hud-homelessness-funding

The end of the global aid industry. USAID’s demise is an opportunity to prioritize industrialization over charity.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/end-global-aid-industry

Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the US. As legislative attacks on unhoused people ramp up, disabled people are on the front lines.
https://truthout.org/articles/escalating-anti-homeless-policies-fall-hardest-on-disabled-people-in-the-us/#:~:text=Experts%20warn%20that%20even%20more,to%20make%20medications%20more%20expensive

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Lawyers challenge customs officials’ constitutional authority to deport Brown Medicine kidney doctor. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor had a valid visa, was expelled in defiance of a court order.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html
Also: Documents shed light on why Rhode Island doctor was detained, deported
https://www.yahoo.com/news/documents-shed-light-why-rhode-144706246.html

Judge Says Trump Deportations to Libya, Saudi Arabia Violate Court Order. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that any deportation flights to Libya, or even “stopover” flights through Saudi Arabia, would “clearly violate this court’s order,” if the reports provided by migrants’ lawyers are accurate.
https://www.newsweek.com/judge-says-trump-deportations-libya-saudi-arabia-violate-court-order-2069326

Libya Rejects Receiving U.S. Deportees, Denies ‘Any Agreement Or Coordination’ And Points At ‘Parallel Parties Not Subject To Legitimacy’: President Trump has denied knowledge of Libya deportations, though his officials have sought to deport migrants abroad.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/7/libyan-authorities-reject-report-they-will-take-in-us-deportees

Irish green card holder detained by US immigration over 20-year-old driving offense released. Cliona Ward’s green card allows her to live and work permanently in the US. On her return following a trip to Ireland, she was detained in relation to a small number of 20-year-old convictions, including traffic-related cases, which she understood had been expunged following a guilty plea.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/irish-green-card-holder-detained-35188993

‘Tricked’: Trump voters ‘feel betrayed’ after son detained by ICE agents. Debora Rey told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “[Trump] didn’t say he was going to do this, that he was going to go after people who have been here for a long time. He said he was going to go after all the criminals who came illegally.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voting-parents-betrayed-son-detained-ice-2068435

Trump’s Border Czar Secretly Deported Two U.S. Citizen Children. Families and their kids are fair game these days, as Trump‘s ‘border czar’” Tom Homan has repeatedly made clear.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-secretly-deported-023806826.html

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is the Same Old Cruel Policy of Family Separation. Families with mixed immigration status are being torn apart as Trump advances his mass deportation agenda.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-the-same-old-cruel-policy-of-family-separation/

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case. “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/#:~:text=The%20agents%20did%20not%20identify,individuals%20had%20pending%20removal%20orders

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Michael Bloomberg gave Biden $19 million. A month later, his company won a major regulatory victory
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3399424/michael-bloomberg-biden-donation-19-million-2024/

High schoolers getting $70K-a-year job offers from companies desperate to hire skilled tradespeople. Companies with shortages of skilled workers look to shop class to recruit future hires; ‘like I’m an athlete getting all this attention from all these pro teams’
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/skilled-trades-high-school-recruitment-fd9f8257

# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
The corporations standing up against Trump to honor, expand DEI
https://time.com/7261857/us-companies-keep-dei-initiatives-list-trump-diversity-order-crackdown/

Demonized by Trump, DEI Professionals Go ‘Discreet’ to Find Jobs
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/demonized-by-trump-dei-professionals-go-discreet-to-get-work

Trump’s DEI Attacks Are Affecting Diverse Hiring Goals the Most. Companies cutting DEI hiring targets jumped since Jan. 20. Most companies cite changing regulatory rules for pullback
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-13/trump-s-dei-attacks-are-affecting-diverse-hiring-goals-the-most?embedded-checkout=true

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk’s team handing ‘master key’ to hackers by merging sensitive data: The U.S. DOGE Service is building a massive, centralized database using all the personal information scooped up by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s underlings.
https://www.rawstory.com/musk-doge-data-access-steal/

Humanities projects take hit from DOGE federal cuts: Lawsuit against Humanities Endowment offers details on DOGE. Three scholarly groups are challenging recent cancellation of grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-grants.html

Save our Humanities Councils: DOGE cuts to NEH will damage cultural organizations in every state. April 4th the Federation learned that 145 NEH staff members have been placed on administrative leave by a team from DOGE.
https://www.statehumanities.org/action-alert-neh-targeted-by-doge/

DOGE’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Local Culture Hard. The humanities budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html?pay=1746713705827&support_journalism=please

Deception and Destruction — Musk and DOGE’s Real Goal: Musk’s strategy; make sweeping, careless cuts that don’t minimize waste but decimate the government’s ability to preserve Americans’ safety, health and well-being.
https://dcjournal.com/point-deception-and-destruction-musk-and-doges-real-goal/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump’s Continued Assault On The Poor, Explained. The president’s latest budget proposal would gut Section 8 housing. [They made homelessness a crime. This does not make sense.]
https://newsone.com/6137147/trump-assault-on-the-poor/

US stocks sink again as more companies detail damage they’re taking because of Trump’s trade war
https://www.thedailytimes.com/ap/business/us-stocks-sink-again-as-more-companies-detail-damage-theyre-taking-because-of-trumps-trade/article_55f8a08c-4e5d-588c-b450-6b904eec4b1d.html

What’s in Trump’s big bill? Money for migrant clampdown but tax breaks and program cuts hit ‘bumps’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/whats-trumps-big-bill-money-040118028.html

U.S., Britain Strike First Major Trade Deal Of Trump Tariff Era
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/trump-britain-trade-deal-tariffs-keir-starmer

Crypto kickback: GOP bill boosts Trump family wealth as corruption claims mount. Trump’s $TRUMP coin dinner, Abu Dhabi deals, and a fast-tracked Senate crypto bill raise alarms over corruption and billionaire influence.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/05/07/crypto-kickback-gop-bill-boosts-trump-family-wealth-as-corruption-claims-mount/

Federal Reserve Rings Every Alarm Bell About Trump’s Economy. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has delivered an alarming warning about Trump’s tariffs causing stagflation.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194985/federal-reserve-powell-trump-economy-tariffs-stagflation

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Columbia Radicals Take Over Campus Library, Forcing Out Students Studying for Finals. Police were called in after several hours, resulting in roughly 80 arrests
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-radicals-take-over-campus-library-forcing-out-students-studying-for-finals/

‘Very low IQ cabinet’: Harvard purportedly returns Trump team’s threat letter with embarrassing corrections.  The letter threatened to withhold federal funding unless the prestigious institution bent to the administration’s demands. What followed was nothing short of linguistic carnage.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/very-low-iq-cabinet-harvard-purportedly-returns-trump-teams-threat-letter-with-embarrassing-corrections/

‘Until further order of the court’: Judge stops Trump admin from defunding schools of $1 billion in ‘education stabilization’ funds remaining from COVID relief law
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/until-further-order-of-the-court-judge-stops-trump-admin-from-defunding-schools-of-1-billion-in-education-stabilization-funds-remaining-from-covid-relief-law/

Education Department encourages states to use Unsafe School Choice Option under stricter standards. The Unsafe School Choice Option allows students the option to attend the school of their choice if their assigned school is defined as “persistently dangerous.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/07/this-long-neglected-law-can-help-parents-get-their-kids-out-of-violent-schools/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
United Steelworkers lead mobilization drive as American unions face growing vulnerability
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/05/07/united-steelworkers-lead-mobilization-drive-as-american-unions-face-growing-vulnerability/

How President Trump’s executive orders pose a threat to disabled workers. The disabled community is wondering how new anti-DEI policies could affect them and their livelihood.
https://www.benefitnews.com/news/trumps-executive-orders-on-dei-include-disabled-workers

Trump’s hardball moves leave fired federal workers few paths to fight for their jobs back
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-moves-ease-firing-recently-hired-federal-workers-2025-04-25/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Energy Department secretary clashes with Democrats over funding freezes, job cuts
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/05/07/energy-department-scretary-chris-wright-trump-budget-2025/4591746657853/

Companies use Trump’s executive order as a loophole to fast-track commercial seafloor mining
https://www.yahoo.com/news/companies-trumps-executive-order-loophole-202548196.html

Trump administration accelerates Alabama coal expansion mostly for foreign steel markets, all its rock is shipped overseas. A Trump effort to streamline the project would benefit the overseas steelmaking industry while putting Alabamians and the environment at risk.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91330248/trump-wants-to-fast-track-an-alabama-coal-mine-expansion-but-almost-all-of-it-is-shipped-overseas

Louisiana expands LNG exports as Trump fast-tracks new terminal permits
https://grist.org/energy/louisana-already-has-4-lng-terminals-it-just-added-another/

Trump administration kicks off rewrite of LNG safety rules. Current regulations date back to the Carter administration, and a planned overhaul could help fast-track gas export projects.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-administration-kicks-off-rewrite-of-lng-safety-rules/

Democratic attorneys general from 17 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court to attempt to block President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend permitting and leasing of new wind energy projects.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/states-sue-trump-halt-wind-energy-development-approvals/747224/

Trump’s War on Clean Energy Already Destroyed or Threatened 62,000 American Jobs, With Nearly 400,000 at Risk
In just 100 days in office, Trump’s chaotic tariff and energy agenda has begun reversing two years of a clean energy manufacturing boom
https://climatepower.us/news/trumps-war-on-clean-energy-already-destroyed-or-threatened-62000-american-jobs-with-nearly-400000-at-risk/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
House Republicans push to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West. House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah
https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/house-republicans-push-to-sell-hundreds-of-thousands-of-acres-of-public-lands-in-the-west/JJF764Y3JNE6ZMK4PTTGSY2QZ4/

House Republicans approve amendment authorizing the sale of federal lands [Are they selling to foreign entities?]
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64760/house-republicans-approve-amendment-authorizing-the-sale-of-federal-lands

While Pledging To Clean Up Toxic Chemicals, EPA Guts Hundreds of Environmental Grants
https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/epa-cuts-environmental-grants

World’s largest iceberg escapes Antarctic vortex and might end up in iceberg graveyard: It is known as A23a, one of the world’s oldest. It calved from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 but got stuck on the seafloor, then trapped in an ocean vortex. In December, it broke free and is now speeding into oblivion.
https://explorersweb.com/worlds-largest-iceberg-finally-escapes-antarctic-vortex-drifts-slowly-toward-doom/

White House sparks outrage after fast-tracking controversial ocean project: ‘Like lighting a match in a room full of dynamite’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/white-house-executive-order-deep-sea-mining-oceans/

# Food General News
Trump wants to replace grocery aid for seniors with ‘MAHA food boxes’: Under the plan, funding for the program, called the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) would be cut, and seniors instead would receive what the Trump administration is calling “MAHA food boxes” filled with products sourced directly from farmers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatTrumpHasDone/comments/1khg37z/trump_wants_to_replace_grocery_aid_for_seniors/?rdt=40230

# General News
This Is Just Wrong! Woman Born During Segregation And Never Issued A Birth Certificate Can’t Get Real ID: Born at home in Aiken County, South Carolina, in February 1949, during segregation, Gantt Palmer never received a birth certificate. It was a common reality for many African Americans at the time, who were often denied access to hospitals due to Jim Crow laws.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-woman-real-id-palmer/

Catholic Church Warns Of ‘Government Overreach’ With New State Law Forcing Priests To Violate Sacrament. The Archdiocese of Seattle is taking a stand against a recently passed Washington State law that would force priests to violate the seal of confession.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/07/catholic-church-warns-of-government-overreach-with-new-state-law-forcing-priests-to-violate-sacrament/

# Gov / Politics
All out war could ensue if ‘revenge-obsessed’ Trump can’t ‘rise to the occasion’: expert
https://www.rawstory.com/india-pakistan/

15 House Republicans – a group large enough to turn the tide in any vote – warn Trump about Social Security cuts. A new letter comes following confirmation of the new agency chief.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/06/congress/house-republicans-warn-trump-social-security-cuts-00331630

‘What an embarrassment’: House Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump isn’t ‘expected’ to uphold the Constitution he’d swear to defend. Johnson seems more interested in playing defense than holding anyone accountable.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/what-an-embarrassment-house-speaker-mike-johnson-says-trump-isnt-expected-to-uphold-the-constitution-hed-swear-to-defend/

‘GOP are you kidding me?’: Adam Kinzinger erupts after Trump’s secret intelligence operation targeting Greenland. President Trump has apparently ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to begin surveilling Greenland as part of his bizarre obsession with acquiring the ice-covered landmass.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/gop-are-you-kidding-me-adam-kinzinger-erupts-after-trumps-secret-intelligence-operation-targeting-greenland/

‘This is corruption’: Trump family reportedly puts key bipartisan legislation in jeopardy: “A $2 billion crypto deal involving President Donald Trump’s family and a foreign government is threatening to derail bipartisan stablecoin legislation that Congress has been working on for months,” according to an Axios report.
https://www.rawstory.com/crypto-2671906063/

‘Disregards the fundamental constitutional role’: Trump ignoring ‘unshakable principles’ of separation of powers by dismantling agencies sanctioned by Congress, judge says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/disregards-the-fundamental-constitutional-role-trump-ignoring-unshakable-principles-of-separation-of-powers-by-dismantling-agencies-sanctioned-by-congress-judge-says/

‘Funny way to treat your friends:’ Republicans miffed with Trump’s threats to ignore funding. A senior White House official said withholding federal cash is always on “the table” if Trump disagrees with Congress’ funding bills.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/republican-impoundment-trump-congress-00334962

‘You’re Accusing Me Of Committing Perjury!’ FBI Director Kash Patel Rages Over House Dem Suggesting He Lied at Confirmation Hearing
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/youre-accusing-me-of-committing-perjury-fbi-director-kash-patel-rages-over-house-dem-suggesting-he-lied-at-confirmation-hearing/

JD Vance Says Russia Is Asking For ‘Too Much’ To End Ukraine War At Security Conference. Vice President JD Vance said Russia is “asking for too much” in negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war at the Munich Leaders Meeting
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/vance-munich-meeting-russia-ukraine-00332623

Deep State Intel Staffers Are Once Again Leaking Classified Info To Stop Trump’s Agenda. U.S. intelligence chiefs ordered agencies to tighten surveillance on Greenland, sources leaked to The Wall Street Journal.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4315714/posts

# Gov / Politics / Global
India’s missile attack shows that managing an India-Pakistan crisis is easier said than done
https://thebulletin.org/2025/05/indias-missile-attack-shows-that-managing-an-india-pakistan-crisis-is-easier-said-than-done/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts lays down the law on judiciary power in veiled swipe at Trump
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/supreme-court-roberts-trump-warning-b2746904.html

‘Legal and factual bases for the invocation’: Judge demands Trump admin justify using state secrets privilege to keep info in Abrego Garcia deportation case under wraps
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/what-an-embarrassment-house-speaker-mike-johnson-says-trump-isnt-expected-to-uphold-the-constitution-hed-swear-to-defend/

Supreme Court Chief Justice Slams Trump’s Call to Impeach Judge. “Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” John Roberts wrote in a rare statement
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-roberts-rebukes-trump-call-impeach-judge-1235298616/

3 former officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. Nichols’ family left the courtroom without speaking to the media after the verdict. They spoke briefly with Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, who said they were “devastated” and “outraged.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5388488/three-memphis-police-officers-found-not-guilty-in-the-death-of-tyre-nichols

# LGBTQ / Gender
Boise, Idaho, Makes Pride Flag An ‘Official’ Flag, Circumventing State Law. The City Council in Boise, Idaho, passed a resolution to make the pride flag an official flag of the city, according to the Idaho Statesman.  It allowed both to be flown alongside Boise’s traditional blue flag featuring the Capitol building and the slogan “City of Trees.”
https://apnews.com/article/boise-salt-lake-city-pride-flags-law-13c8f9f7269d1b33daaa7ef041c6c497

The Supreme Court just let Trump ban trans people from the military. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/411782/the-supreme-court-just-let-trump-ban-trans-people-from-the-military

‘I’m Just Trying To Be Good At My Job’: Transgender Troops Say They’ve Served Honorably. West Point graduate Alivia Stehlik is one of thousands whose military careers are in jeopardy.
https://19thnews.org/2025/01/transgender-troops-decision-military-ban/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
C-SPAN Asks Chief Justice John Roberts To Do Them A Favor For Major Birthright Citizenship Case. CSPAN asked Chief Justice John Roberts to allow video cameras for oral arguments at the Supreme Court on a case centering around birthright citizenship.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/supreme-court-cameras-cspan-00333293

Jon Ossoff pushes USPS to find Postmaster General replacement
https://www.newsbreak.com/11alive-524572/3994118402265-jon-ossoff-pushes-usps-to-find-postmaster-general-replacement

Trump accused of forcing ‘hostile takeover’ of USPS by pressuring them to appoint FedEx board member as postmaster general. Steiner, the former CEO of Waste Management, serves as a board member for FedEx, a major competitor to the Postal Service in the package delivery sector. The board of governors is scheduled to meet May 9, but there is no mention of a vote for a new postmaster general on the official agenda.
https://www.linns.com/news/postal-updates/fedex-board-member-steiner-likely-to-become-postal-service-s-next-postmaster-general

# Medicare / Medicaid
‘The Fix Is In’: GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy. “Poor people will pay more for healthcare so rich people can get tax cuts. Sometimes the stakes are pretty simple.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-republicans-cut-medicaid

GOP Rep. Malliotakis on breaking with her party and taking a stand against Medicaid cuts A dozen House Republicans wrote a letter to House leadership last month voicing opposition to potential Medicaid cuts.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/gop-rep-malliotakis-on-breaking-with-her-party-and-taking-a-stand-against-medicaid-cuts

# Medical / Health News
Suffering Mom Was Forced To Carry a Dead Baby for Weeks Because of Unhinged State Law
https://cafemom.com/parenting/mom-forced-to-carry-a-dead-baby

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss or move a lawsuit that seeks to roll back access to the common abortion drug mifepristone. What? It may seem a victory to some, but experts worry a win will allow the government to be coy about future attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/abortion-pill-trump-administration

The case that could gut disabled people’s right to equal health care
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/hickson-fifth-circuit-disability-health-case/

# Medical Science / Research
Trump cut funding to develop heart pump for babies born with heart defects: report
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/trump-cut-funding-to-develop-heart-pump-for-babies-born-with-heart-defects.5896549/

Trump Team Dismantles Efforts to Find a Cure for Cancer and Other Deadly Disorders and Diseases
https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/trump-team-dismantles-efforts-find-cure-cancer-and-other-deadly-disorders-and

Trump’s diversity purge freezes hundreds of millions in medical research at universities across the country
https://www.crossroadstoday.com/news/politics/national-politics/trump-s-diversity-purge-freezes-hundreds-of-millions-in-medical-research-at-universities-across-the/article_bb161e9c-b677-54b3-b7bf-fee2a1795714.html

Trump Administration shuts down CDC’s Infection Control Committee. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee issued guidance on the prevention and control of health care-associated infections.
https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20250507/cdc-terminates-infection-control-advisory-committee

# Medical Technology
Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies
https://futurism.com/nonverbal-neuralink-patient-grok-answers

# Military / Militia / General News
Why the US Navy wants to build a fully autonomous satellite. The system, called Autosat, can task, calibrate its signals and send and receive information on its own without the need for a human operator.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2025/01/24/why_the_us_navy_wants_to_build_a_fully_autonomous_satellite_1086924.html

Preventing China’s DeepSeek in Space. The government should ensure that U.S. tech firms eying national security contracts can keep American technology secrets from China and Russia
https://www.allsides.com/news/2025-01-31-1500/science-nasa-blocks-chinas-deepseek-ai

# NOAA / Weather
Deep Sea Controversy as NOAA Mission is Sabotaged. In a move that goes against its own mission, NOAA is to begin permitting for deep sea mining operations.
https://www.surfer.com/news/deep-sea-controversy-as-noaa-mission-is-sabotaged

# Space Force
China demonstrated ‘satellite dogfighting,’ Space Force general says. A Space Force spokesperson said the demonstration occurred in 2024 and involved five Chinese satellites. A Space Force spokesperson said the demonstration occurred in 2024 and involved five Chinese satellites.
https://www.defensenews.com/space/2025/03/18/china-demonstrated-satellite-dogfighting-space-force-general-says/

# Space Technology / Global
Cold War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus to FINALLY crash back to Earth at 17,000mph and could hit UK
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14126916/soviet-venus-spaceship-crash/

# Water
Millions risk losing clean water as Great Lakes lab faces severe budget cuts. President Trump’s administration has slashed funding and staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, leaving scientists struggling to monitor toxic algal blooms that threaten drinking water for millions.
https://www.ehn.org/millions-risk-losing-clean-water-as-great-lakes-lab-faces-severe-budget-cuts

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# Indigenous
How federal neglect fuels wildfire crises on tribal lands. Tribal firefighting programs receive less than half the per-acre funding of the U.S. Forest Service, forcing them to operate with outdated equipment, shrinking staff, and limited preparedness budgets
https://www.dailyclimate.org/how-federal-neglect-fuels-wildfire-crises-on-tribal-lands-2671892314.html

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Saving the Asian unicorn, if it still exists. fewer than 100 saola individuals (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) remain, but it could also be extinct by now. The last confirmed sighting in the wild was in 2013.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/is-the-elusive-asian-unicorn-extinct-new-evidence-gives-hope-to-finding-it

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘Wrongfully detained’: Air Force veteran, Navy SEAL are among group of Americans being held in Venezuelan prisons
https://theiceman.substack.com/p/former-seal-still-being-held-in-venezuela

A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired. The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-immigration-lawyer-deportation-ice-b2744026.html

‘Downright frightening’: Judge scorches Trump administration for saying that detainees can’t argue due process violations if they would have been detained anyway
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/downright-frightening-judge-scorches-trump-administration-for-saying-that-detainees-cant-argue-due-process-violations-if-they-would-have-been-detained-anyway/

‘If that is not irreparable harm, what is?’: Irate judge finds Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act ‘unlawful’ and blasts admin for sending immigrants to ‘notoriously evil jail’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/if-that-is-not-irreparable-harm-what-is-irate-judge-finds-trumps-invocation-of-alien-enemies-act-unlawful-and-blasts-admin-for-sending-immigrants-to-notoriously-evil-jail/

Critics say deportation efforts skirt due process rights all people in U.S. deserve
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5369337/critics-say-deportation-efforts-skirt-due-process-rights-all-people-in-u-s-deserve

ICE Agents Storm D.C. Restaurants and Demand To Interrogate Employees: ‘Pretty Unnerving’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ice-agents-storm-d-c-restaurants-and-demand-to-interrogate-employees-pretty-unnerving/

ICE targets multiple DC restaurants, demands employee’s I-9 forms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56VZa4zoynU

‘We don’t skip to the end’: Trump-appointed judge doubles down on order demanding government ‘facilitate’ return of 2nd man ‘wrongfully’ deported to El Salvador
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-dont-skip-to-the-end-trump-appointed-judge-doubles-down-on-order-demanding-government-facilitate-return-of-2nd-man-wrongfully-deported-to-el-salvador/

Kristi Noem Gets Brutal Fact-Check on Deporting U.S. Citizens. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was brutally called out Tuesday after she claimed the United States was not deporting its own citizens.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194931/kristi-noem-brutal-fact-check-deportations-us-citizens

‘Twisting and manipulating intelligence’: Trump admin fumes after spy memo contradicts Venezuela gang claims. The release of the memo further undercuts the Trump administration’s rationale for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/trump-venezuela-gang-ties-spy-memo.html

‘Whoa’: Legal expert floored as report could reveal if Trump’s ICE ‘telling the truth’: A prominent immigration attorney was shocked over a report that could reveal if Immigration and Customs Enforcement was “telling the truth” about the last of three flights to El Salvador carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportations-2671894517/

US May Soon Deport Migrants to Libya on Military Flight, Sources Say
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/I045b3a702b2411f08ce0e523d2d1dbaf/View/FullText.html?transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Weedkiller Maker Asks US Supreme Court to Block Lawsuits Claiming It Failed to Warn About Cancer. Global chemical manufacturer Bayer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn a popular weedkiller could case cancer
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri/articles/2025-04-07/weedkiller-maker-asks-us-supreme-court-to-block-lawsuits-claiming-it-failed-to-warn-about-cancer

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE slashes disability and aging services: Warnings over cuts by DOGE and RFK Jr to organization that keeps elderly people in their homes. A budget proposal obtained shows a different kind of rollback underway, one that could impact the lives of millions of older Americans and people with disabilities.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/04/25/doge-slashes-disability-and-aging-services-00311303

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Treasury Secretary Mocked for Proposing to Raise the Debt Ceiling Without Using ‘Any Gimmicks’: ‘Printing Money IS the Gimmick.’ Experts warned the U.S. may run out of funding by July
https://www.latintimes.com/treasury-secretary-mocked-proposing-raise-debt-ceiling-without-using-any-gimmicks-printing-582442

Democrats call for investigation into Trump family crypto deal over potential foreign influence: Merkley said in a “dear colleague” letter to lawmakers on Monday that his bill would “address and curb the corruption that the Trump Administration is potentially engaging in.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/06/trump-coin-democrats-crypto-stablecoin

“One flashing red economic warning sign arriving on American soil.” At the top of her show, Hunt described the first shipping container vessel containing Chinese goods that floated into the Port of Los Angeles as only “half full.” Because those ships are so empty, Hunt said, “In just a matter of weeks, Americans are set to be faced with higher prices, shortages on store shelves, the prospect of fewer jobs.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trade-war-2671900765/

US, China to hold first major trade talks in Switzerland. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington does not wish to decouple from China but wants ‘fair trade.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/5/7/us-china-to-hold-talks-in-switzerland-amid-trumps-trade-war

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Alabama House OKs bill allowing high school juniors, seniors to enroll full-time in college
https://1819news.com/news/item/bill-to-allow-high-school-juniors-and-seniors-to-early-enroll-full-time-in-college-advances-in-alabama-senate

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Puerto Rico Pulls Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies As Legal Climate Shifts
https://delawarevalleyjournal.com/puerto-rico-pulls-lawsuit-targeting-energy-companies-as-legal-climate-shifts/

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
https://www.sej.org/headlines/many-houston-oil-and-gas-pollution-violators-are-seeking-permit-renewals

Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon, sources say
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/trump-administration-plans-to-shutter-money-saving-energy-star-program/

Trump funding cuts force layoffs at US renewable energy research lab
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-funding-cuts-force-layoffs-215326563.html

Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Insiders report 114 job cuts on Monday, done in a “haphazard and unorganized” way.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trump-doge-layoffs-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-nrel/

Corporate welfare: Ransacking community services to line the pockets of fossil fuel companies. These “corporate welfare” programs burden taxpayers and undermine economic growth.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/corporate-welfare-federal-budget-0

Trump Aims to Fast Track Alabama Coal Build-Out, Citing US Need. Nearly All the Coal Is Bound for Export
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06052025/trump-aims-to-fast-track-alabama-coal-expansion/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Scientists move forward with climate assessment work despite federal dismissals
https://www.ehn.org/scientists-move-forward-with-climate-assessment-work-despite-federal-dismissals

Climate disaster survivors form nationwide movement to push for climate action and disaster reform
https://www.dailyclimate.org/climate-disaster-survivors-form-nationwide-movement-to-push-for-climate-action-and-disaster-reform-2671897541.html

EPA plans to dismantle key offices overseeing climate and air pollution regulation. EPA is getting rid of the two offices that are primarily responsible for regulating climate and air pollution.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-head-announces-sweeping-plan-to-revoke-dozens-of-environmental-regulations

Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature last month, a team of researchers discovered a “volatile-rich cap” a mere 2.36 miles below the surface, trapping pressure and heat below it.
https://www.realclearscience.com/2025/05/05/something_is_corking_the_yellowstone_supervolcano_1108077.html

# Food General News
Josh Hawley calls for federal investigation after whistleblower alleges child labor at Tyson Foods plant
https://www.agriculture.com/u-s-senator-investigates-claims-of-child-labor-at-tyson-foods-plant-11729752

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo hit with government lawsuit for allegedly misleading consumers: ‘Falsely promoting and distributing.’ The lawsuit is asking for more accountability.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/coca-cola-pepsi-virgin-islands-lawsuit-plastic/

# General News
Catholic Church vows to excommunicate priests who follow new Washington state law requiring them report confessions to cops. The new law adds members of the clergy to the list of mandatory reporters for child abuse.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263887/trump-s-doj-investigates-washington-law-threatening-catholic-seal-of-confession

Trump to announce the US will call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf — ahead of massive Middle East trip
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york-post-509648/3994993735193-trump-to-announce-the-us-will-call-the-persian-gulf-the-arabian-gulf-ahead-of-massive-middle-east-trip

# Gov / Politics
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More. By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

Trump isn’t making America great —he’s making it unrecognizable
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5280302-trump-not-great/

‘Words of war’: Analyst warns Trump is bending the law to make America a battlefield
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-war-2671898774/

Washington Should Seek Stable Coexistence With Pyongyang: China has crucial role in issue, according to US analyst who says Beijing involvement could allow for US–China cooperation on other matters
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3309294/trump-urged-take-slow-and-steady-approach-north-korea-end-nuclear-stalemate

Texas lawmakers want to defund cities over ‘left-leaning’ laws. Texas is at the center of a fight over whether state leaders or local communities get to decide budget priorities and solve problems.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/texas-defund-cities-left-laws/

Office Hours: Musk’s most dangerous power grab. The richest man in the world keeps moving toward authoritarianism. The dangers he poses to democracy are growing, and he must be restrained.
https://www.alternet.org/inside-the-richest-man-in-the-world-s-most-dangerous-power-grab/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says. Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/hamas-israel-hunger-war-in-gaza

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
A New Trump Executive Order Will Turbocharge Police Violence. It reads like a declaration of war, but with no named enemy and no battlefield.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-executive-order-big-law-police-violence.html

The DEA Once Touted Body Cameras for Their “Enhanced Transparency.” Now the Agency Is Abandoning Them. An internal email said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order. At least two other federal law enforcement agencies are still requiring body cameras.
https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump

A Black Man Posted Body Cam Footage Online After Being Stopped Several Times by Police. Now Officers Are Accusing Him of Harassment
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/05/06/black-man-arrested-for-stalking-and-harassing-cops-after-obtaining-body-camera-footage-of-those-same-cops-stalking-and-harassing-him-for-almost-two-years/

Second body cam video of police preventing a reporter from interviewing a public official
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThisIsButter/comments/1kfyk53/an_armed_ohio_police_officer_physically_prevented/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Even Trump-appointed judges are ruling against him. Instead of upholding Trump administration policies, federal judges, including those appointed by Trump, are blocking the implementation of much of the president’s second-term agenda.
https://theconversation.com/even-judges-appointed-by-trump-are-ruling-against-him-255835

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
’60 Minutes’ segment paints Trump as threat to the country’s legal system amid lawsuit. The broadcaster has said it will be running a segment on Sunday titled ‘The Rule of the Law’, which scrutinizes Trump’s executive orders against law firms.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14676967/cbs-60-minutes-interview-kamala-harris-donald-trump-report.html

As Trump Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over. A new CEO statement from Amazon suggests it could be angling to take over the US Postal Service.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-pushes-privatization-of-usps-amazon-may-be-preparing-to-take-over/

# Medicare / Medicaid
House Democrats Launch Effort to Shield Medicaid and SNAP From GOP Cuts. To succeed, the petition needs the support of every member of the House Democratic caucus and at least five Republicans.
https://truthout.org/articles/house-democrats-launch-effort-to-shield-medicaid-and-snap-from-gop-cuts/

Medicaid Cuts in Republican Bill Would Charge Poor People More for Coverage. The cost-sharing requirements on beneficiaries above the federal poverty line is the most notable item in a menu of Medicaid cuts
https://prospect.org/health/2025-05-07-medicaid-cuts-in-republican-bill-would-charge-poor-people/

# Medical / Health News
Donald Trump cut TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars from Planned Parenthood clinics that provide contraceptives, STI tests, reproductive health care and other health services to low-income Americans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-admin-cuts-tens-of-millions-from-planned-parenthood-00261763

Pfizer Vaccine Linked to Higher All-Cause Mortality Rate than Moderna Shot. People who received two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to die within a year from cardiac arrest, COVID-19 and all other causes than those who received two doses of Moderna’s vaccine, according to the authors of a study published April 29 on the preprint server medRxiv.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-higher-all-cause-mortality-than-moderna-shot-study/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250505

# Military / Militia / General News
Extent of Pete Hegseth Signal usage revealed as he used app to ask aides to relay military plans to other countries. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used Signal to liaise with aides about daily Pentagon business and was participating in at least a dozen chats
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-signal-app-b2745736.html

Despite short-term stability, the risk of a U.S.-China military crisis is rising. The perception that China likely does not face an existential threat from the United States has had a stabilizing effect on policy in Beijing, which has responded to Trump’s escalation of trade tensions in April with patience
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/will-china-escalate?mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGaRTO0cL3229U7znzI4UEKqW1NEmBXqZkhVY4OkkM77tYIltqBUWNu162o9-VeQfZ95qAozJgfAaOPozBTpIl65mvTOZ6fb2eptSyUnN81zzE

# Military / General News / Global
US Leaves Europe Hanging With No Road Map for Defense Withdrawal. “You can’t make an assumption that America’s presence will last forever,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said to Europe earlier this year.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-roadmap-withdrawal-europe-2066614

Tensions escalate after India fires missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory: India fires missiles into Pakistani territory in what Islamabad calls ‘act of war.’ Pakistan said at least 19 people were killed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/india-fires-missiles-into-pakistani-controlled-territory-00332460

# NOAA / Weather
Trump Shuts Down 25 USGS Centers That Monitor Drought and Flooding Throughout the Country
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-usgs-cancellations.html

Militia Group Threatens NWS Radars, Calling Them ‘Weather Weapons’—How Did NOAA Respond? NOAA emails show that this organization believes Doppler weather radars, namely those in the NEXRAD network, are really “weather weapons,” and they are demanding their destruction. Protecting science-based infrastructure like NEXRAD is no longer just a technical issue.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/310218/20250506/militia-group-threatens-nws-radars-calling-them-weather-weaponshow-did-noaa-respond.htm

# Pharmaceuticals
Experts raise red flag after researching pharmaceutical industry: ‘We need government intervention’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pharmaceutical-industry-carbon-emissions-growth/

Trump announces tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs are in the works
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-pharma-tariffs-eli-lilly-pfizer-18c67056

Trump signs order in bid to boost pharma manufacturing in the U.S: The order asks the FDA to reduce the time it takes to approve domestic manufacturing plants
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/05/05/trump-tariffs-fda-pharma-biotech-medicines-manufacturing-ingredients/

# Science /  Science Engineers
Europe steps up funding to attract U.S. scientists facing cuts under Trump
https://www.easternprogress.com/lifestyles/health/europe-launches-565-million-campaign-to-attract-u-s-scientists/article_9301182d-8d7f-503c-adee-2d95a1570282.html

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
DHS Secretary Noem tells Congress cybersecurity agency is no longer focused on misinformation. Last year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency partnered with local agencies ahead of the 2024 presidential election to ensure security and combat false information.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/dhs-secretary-noem-tells-congress-cybersecurity-agency-is-no-longer-focused-on-misinformation

# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
House GOP members warn new Social Security head against further cuts to staff, service. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has pushed for cutting down SSA’s workforce, an idea that has received strong pushback from Democrats in Congress.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5286333-republicans-press-newly-confirmed-social-security-chief-staff-cutbacks/

Senate confirms Bisignano to head Social Security Administration. Wyden said Bisignano has “close ties to DOGE and its ongoing operations at the Social Security administration.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5285650-senate-confirms-bisignano-to-head-social-security-administration/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
This Real-Life Speeder Bike Looks Like a Terrifyingly Fun Death Trap
https://futurism.com/the-byte/volonaut-airbike-video

# Veterans / VA
Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials.”  Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests of treatments for cancer, opioid addiction and more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-veterans-affairs-budget-staff-cuts-jeopardize-cancer-research

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May 6, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Key reports addressing violence against Indigenous women are gone from federal sites. The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/indigenous-women-key-reports-removed-federal-sites/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car. Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-photo-everyone-in-vehicle-us-border/

Undocumented Irish rounded up and deported from US as panic surges over immigration crackdown
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/dozens-undocumented-irish-rounded-up-35174677

New ICE Tech Seeks To Track Millions Of Migrants; Critics Warn ‘You Might Not Be Safe for Long’: President Donald Trump has set a goal of deporting 1 million people annually, and the new system aims to help prioritize who gets targeted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/ice-deportation-tracking-palantir-thiel/83375538007/

Anonymous hackers breach airline tied to ICE deportations and leak flight records
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-05-05/website-for-us-deportation-airline-globalx-defaced-by-hackers

Deported from Florida to Cuba, this mom saw her 17-month-old US daughter, and her American dream, ripped away. Heidy Sánchez says she was told her 17-month-old, who has health problems and is breastfeeding, couldn’t go with her
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-florida-mom-cuba-deported

Pam Bondi Declares Housing Detained Migrants in Alcatraz Would Be ‘Cost Saving’ Despite Prison Being Shut Down Over Pricey Upkeep
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trumps-ag-says-reopening-alcatraz-which-closed-because-it-was-so-expensive-will-lead-to-cost-savings/

Guatemalan mom detained by ICE moments after giving birth is reunited with her U.S. citizen newborn. Erika was detained by ICE after giving birth while agents stood near. After community pressure, she is no longer in custody and is awaiting an immigration court hearing, her attorney tells The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucson-ice-hospital-pregnant-reunited-b2745137.html

Judge rules U of M student detained by ICE cannot be deported. ICE coerced his co-workers to stage a fake meeting so they could make a surprise arrest, then backdated the cancellation of his visa so they could charge him with overstaying that visa.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia

Democrats say attacks on migrants preview risks to civil rights for citizens
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5283892-trump-authoritarianism-immigration/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Scientists make alarming discovery about toxic chemicals lurking in everyday products. Traces can be found in human and animal blood, in the food we eat, and in our waterways.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pfas-susceptibility-genetic-differences/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Is Obliterating American Industry. The Loan Programs Office is one of the most successful government agencies in history—or it was until Elon Musk arrived.
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-05-05-doge-obliterating-american-industry/

DOGE access to personal data is legal. DOJ attorney Jack Starcher argued that DOGE should have access to data of the Education and Treasury departments, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, according to the report.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/doj-doge-access/2025/05/05/id/1209693/

Kansas Democrat sees ‘awakening’ in suppressed public comments that criticize DOGE and Instead of looking for waste, she said on the Kansas Reflector podcast, Republicans at both the federal and state level have hurt people by eliminating critical services and jobs.
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/05/kansas-democrat-sees-awakening-in-suppressed-public-comments-that-criticize-doge-and-coge/
Commission on Government Efficiency, known by its catchier acronym, COGE, is beginning its work to investigate better ways to structure state departments.
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/02/27/im-not-elon-musk-nhs-coge-members-say-they-wont-upend-state-government/#:~:text=New%20Hampshire%20Bulletin)-,Gov.,t%20compare%20us%20to%20DOGE.

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
IRS has lost 31% of its auditors after DOGE cuts, report says
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-lost-31-tax-auditors-171938050.html

Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies. Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
https://newrepublic.com/post/194830/where-trump-got-idea-tariff-foreign-movies

How China Is Dodging US Tariffs. Chinese social media platforms are increasingly being courted by freight brokers offering the service since the Trump administration hiked duties on Chinese imports to as high as 245 percent.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-tariff-dodging-transshipment-trump-2068086

‘Unmistakable vibe of corruption’: MSNBC panelist accuses Trump of ‘market manipulation.’ Wall Street has been whipsawed for more than a week by President Trump’s every word about tariffs. Now he’s facing accusations of using his power to deliberately manipulate the markets.
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-04-10/why-some-are-accusing-trump-of-manipulating-stock-markets

Trump’s sons promote real estate and crypto deals across world that will benefit the president
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-sons-promote-real-estate-214046830.html

NY Times exposes Trump family deal-making blitz involving billions of dollars. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-children-2671892402/

Trump’s crypto dinner, where plates cost $1.5m, draws ethics concerns as president could make millions from meme coin
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-crypto-dinner-where-plates-194703229.html

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Colorado House passes immigration bill to limit ICE access to schools, hospitals
https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2025/04/09/colorado-immigration-bill-would-limit-ice-cooperation-at-school-and-colleges/

Stephen Miller Rolls Out MAGA’s Indoctrination Plan for Kids: “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding. So as we close the Department of Education and provide funding to states, we’re going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-rolls-out-magas-indoctrination-plan-for-kids/

McMahon says Harvard is no longer eligible for new federal research grants
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5284054-mcmahon-harvard-federal-research-grants-trump-funding/

Morrisey signs bills into law to suppress voting. Governor Patrick Morrisey signed the state’s new voter ID bill into law,  requiring voters to have a valid photo ID to cast a ballot in person. Opponents say it’s an attempt at voter suppression.
https://woay.com/governor-morrisey-signs-new-voter-id-bill-into-law/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Move to Bust Federal Employee Unions
https://www.afge.org/publication/unions-sue-trump-administration-over-move-to-bust-federal-employee-unions/

Donald Trump’s Catastrophic and Devastating Anti-Labor Track Record. Donald Trump told us in 2016 he would stand with workers. He lied. The difference now is that he has a record he can’t hide from.
https://aflcio.org/press/releases/donald-trumps-catastrophic-and-devastating-anti-labor-track-record

AFGE Will Challenge Trump’s Illegal Directive Outlawing Federal Unions. AFGE will challenge the Trump administration for illegally attempting to strip over one million federal workers of collective bargaining rights and rip up union contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/afge-will-challenge-trumps-illegal-directive-outlawing-federal-unions/

NIOSH Upheld Workplace Safety for Millions in the US. Trump Is Dismembering It. Trump is destroying the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, sacrificing workers on industry’s altar.
https://truthout.org/articles/niosh-upheld-workplace-safety-for-millions-in-the-us-trump-is-dismembering-it/
NIOSH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Occupational_Safety_and_Health

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump wants states to control National Park system as he proposes $1 billion cut to its budget: “This is the most extreme, unrealistic and destructive National Park Service budget a President has ever proposed in the agency’s 109-year history. It’s nothing less than an all-out assault on America’s national parks.” Theresa Pierno, NPCA’s President and CEO
https://www.npca.org/articles/8429-president-trump-s-proposed-budget-takes-axe-to-national-park-service

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320742/-Well-This-is-just-Terrible-FEMA-Is-Ending-Door-to-Door-Canvassing-in-Disaster-Areas

Humanitarian aid restrictions may violate US law, US Democrats say
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/humanitarian-aid-restrictions-may-violate-us-law-us-democrats-say-2025-05-06/

# General News
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too. He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194769/elon-musk-evil-garbage-fraud

Keep demonstrating against Trump, but also for a better future. Trump’s regressive populism — cruel, tyrannical, bigoted, authoritarian, must be met by a bold progressive populism that strengthens democracy and shares the wealth.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-clear-what-were-demonstrating

Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump. Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/01/may-day-protests-trump-musk-billionaires/83362729007/

Democrats Find Crypto Too Corrupt to Collaborate on for the Moment. Today on TAP: A stablecoin bill is stopped in its tracks after Trump’s organization starts a stablecoin.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-05-05-democrats-find-crypto-too-corrupt-to-collaborate/

Bill to criminalize homelessness awaits senate vote: Senate Bill 196 creates the Homeless Court Program, connecting people to resources for mental health treatment and drug addiction. However, to get these people into the program, the bill creates the crime of unauthorized camping, punishable with up to two years’ hard labor for repeat offenders.
https://www.newsbreak.com/wafb-1982267/3993161346802-bill-to-criminalize-homelessness-awaits-senate-vote

ChatGPT Was Asked To List Everyone Trump Has Called ‘A Low-IQ Individual’ — And It’s Pretty Racist
https://www.aol.com/chatgpt-asked-list-everyone-trump-235231564.html

Trump opening $500,000-per-person golf club called the Executive Branch with dubious list of founders
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/trump-opening-500000-per-person-1133085

# Gov / Politics
Fact Check: Yes, FDR warned of ‘selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.’ Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his “Four Freedoms” speech in 1941, days before beginning his third term.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/quotes-american-men-eagle-fdr/

Donald Trump Wants to Reopen Alcatraz — After Watching ‘Escape From Alcatraz’ on TV. The president is apparently making decisions about America’s penitentiary system based on a 46-year-old Clint Eastwood movie. United States is making major decisions now?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/trump-reopen-alcatraz-escape-from-alcatraz-pbs-1236207822/

MTG Warns Republicans Will Suffer Crushing Election Loss at This Rate. “It’s the Republicans that are the problem,” said GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-midterms-warning-republicans-2065438

Stephen Miller Unveils Totally Made-Up Definition of “Due Process.” The Trump adviser is trying to redefine the Constitution in order to carry out his extreme immigration agenda.
https://lemmy.world/post/29191572

Declassified Memo Shows Trump’s Own Intel Agencies Reject His Claim About Notorious Gang: A declassified U.S. intelligence memo obtained by The New York Times contradicts a claim by President Donald Trump that the government of Venezuela controls the Tren de Aragua gang.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/declassified-memo-shows-trumps-own-intel-agencies-reject-his-claim-about-notorious-gang/

Dershowitz Says Trump Won’t Be a Convicted Felon for Long – Courts ARE ‘Going to Reverse’ It
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/dershowitz-says-trump-wont-be-a-convicted-felon-for-long-courts-are-going-to-reverse-it/?cfp

Trump uttered ‘most important words ever spoken’ by a president: conservative ex-judge: He, the president of the United States, doesn’t necessarily believe that he is obligated to uphold the Constitution of the United States, as it is interpreted by the Supreme Court.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/conservative-legal-icon-calls-trump-104210453.html

Trump just admitted it: The Constitution only counts if it’s convenient
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/06/trump_admits_constitution_only_counts_if_its_convenient_646080.html

Trump Vows Aide to Palestinians As Axios Reports Israel Ready to ‘Flatten’ Gaza: ‘We Are Going to Help’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-vows-aide-to-palestinians-as-axios-reports-israel-ready-to-flatten-gaza-we-are-going-to-help/

‘Dark places’: Expert sounds alarm on little-known theory weaponized by Trump. The powers of President Donald Trump are being placed into question because of his use of unitary executive theory, according to a new analysis
https://www.rawstory.com/executive-power/

The problems are piling up for the GOP megabill. The House’s early stumbles paint a clear picture: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is nowhere near ready for prime time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/03/trump-republicans-megabill-reconciliation-problems-00324861

Warnock: Fight back against the dangerous actions of this administration. At a South Atlanta town hall that lasted more than two hours, U.S. senator condemns Trump administration, calling its first 100 days ‘unabashed corruption’
https://www.ajc.com/politics/sen-warnock-says-democrats-must-flip-house-and-seize-trumps-power/5VSYTSRSHJGMVLZIAJR5FSN2GI/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Monday briefing: How Australia became the second nation in a week to reject the Trumpist right. In today’s newsletter: The Australian election saw a remarkable comeback for Anthony Albanese’s Labor party – and a crushing defeat for Peter Dutton and the Liberal-led Coalition
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/05/monday-briefing-how-australia-became-the-second-nation-in-a-week-to-reject-the-trumpist-right

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump’s trip
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal

Israel approves plan to capture all of Gaza, calls up tens of thousands of reserve troops: The new plan, which was approved in an early morning vote by Israeli Cabinet ministers, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza’s south. That would likely amount to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-05-05-2025-d22caabfd2cf89e83fe06e649e6438ba

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘You Don’t Belong Here’: White Man Follows Black Woman To Work, Hits Her
https://www.binnews.com/content/2025-05-05-you-dont-belong-here-white-man-follows-black-woman-to-work-hits-her/

‘Unconstitutional retaliation’: Judge blocks Trump order targeting law firm. A federal court has declared Trump’s attacks on law firms an ‘overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/judge-strikes-down-trumps-executive-order-targeting-law-firm-perkins-coie

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that judges who ruled against President Donald Trump were guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death.
https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/3993038352496-mtg-says-judges-who-rule-against-trump-are-guilty-of-treason-as-they-face-death-threats

A legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller sued Chief Justice John Roberts in a brazen but unlikely attempt to seize control of the federal court system.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-ally-stephen-miller-sues-john-roberts-control-courts/

Department of Justice opens racial discrimination investigation against the Hennepin County Attorney. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-announces-civil-rights-investigation-consideration-race-prosecutorial

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
’60 Minutes’ airs segment on ‘First felon in the Oval office’ despite pressure to avoid sensitive stories about Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/news/60-minutes-airs-scathing-segment-on-first-felon-in-the-oval-office-despite-pressure-to-avoid-sensitive-stories-about-trump/

Trump is trying to chill the investigative journalism that holds him to account
https://www.aol.com/analysis-trump-trying-chill-investigative-140050161.html

‘It’s Not a Threat, That’s a Penalty’: Pro-Trump FCC Chair Raises Prospect of Pulling CBS’s Broadcast License. “And over the years, the FCC has stepped back from enforcing that public interest obligation. I think the FCC should do what Congress wants us to do and enforce those laws. We’re going to see where this investigation goes,” Carr told Eisen.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-not-a-threat-thats-a-penalty-pro-trump-fcc-chair-raises-prospect-of-pulling-cbss-broadcast-license/

FCC Chair on Blocking $20 Billion Merger Over DEI, “Yeah, Of Course”: Verizon (NYSE: VK) announced in September that it would acquire the internet service provider Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FYBR) in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion. Today on CNBC, President Trump’s FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked if he would potentially block the merger because of DEI policy.
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/05/fcc-chair-on-blocking-20-billion-merger-over-dei-yeah-of-course/

# Medicare / Medicaid
Republican Senators Push Back Against Own Party Over Proposed Medicaid Cuts: ‘It Actually Infuriates Me’
https://www.governing.com/policy/republicans-face-pushback-on-potential-medicaid-overhaul

Congressional Republicans Can’t Cut Medicaid by Hundreds of Billions Without Hurting People
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-cant-cut-medicaid-by-hundreds-of-billions-without-hurting

California, other states sue to preserve Health and Human Services
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_9f126856-6a75-408d-9215-0976c662e5de.html

Coalition of 20 states ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/05/coalition-of-19-states-ask-federal-judge-to-reverse-deep-cuts-to-us-health-and-human-services/

# Medical / Health News
‘Abolitionists’ Push Legislation to Criminalize All Abortions as Homicide. Measures introduced in 13 states this year would impose criminal penalties on people who obtain an abortion
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/05/01/abolitionists-push-legislation-to-criminalize-all-abortions-as-homicide/

Medical researchers baffled by Trump administration’s stop work order for clinical trial system: ‘A giant step backwards.’ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-life-changing-scientific-study-ended-by-the-trump-administration

NIH lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/national-institutes-of-health/2025/05/05/id/1209661/

Protesters gather outside Tucson Medical Center asking hospitals to keep immigration officials out
https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/eastside-news/protesters-gather-outside-tucson-medical-center-asking-hospitals-to-keep-immigration-officials-out

# Medical Science
‘Slippery slope to eugenics’: Alarm sounded as government plans $50M research project: Researchers and parents are sounding the alarm over an autism database the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is building for a major research study.
https://www.rawstory.com/autism-database/

Donald Trump bans ‘dangerous’ virus research funding to China that supporters claim led to Covid-19 leak from Wuhan lab
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5267612/trump-gain-of-function-research-funding

# Military / Militia / General News
Hegseth Reportedly Used At Least 12 Signal Chats For Pentagon Business—Here Are The Other Security Allegations Against Him
https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-had-least-12-signal-chats-pentagon-business-report-2068301

Army to create space specialist career field, offering new avenue of electronic warfare
https://spacenews.com/army-creates-space-career-field-for-enlisted-soldiers/

Trump’s $36 Billion Army Reform: What ‘Generational Change’ Looks Like
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-billion-army-reform-generational-change-look-2067862

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders 20% reduction in four-star generals: ‘Less Generals More GIs’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/6/us-defence-secretary-hegseth-orders-20-percent-cut-in-ranks-of-top-officers

Air Force, Space Force brace for wave of civilian staff reductions. The personnel chiefs for the Air Force and Space Force told lawmakers that plans to lay off thousands of civilian employees could present challenges to recruitment efforts and perhaps even operations, particularly for the Space Force.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-space-force-civilian-reduction/

# Military / General News / Global
Myanmar militia leader sanctioned by US over cyber scam connections. The designation targets the Karen National Army (KNA) and Saw Chit Thu, a longtime power broker in the Myawaddy area of Karen State along the border with Thailand.
https://therecord.media/myanmar-militia-leader-us-sanctions-cyber-scam-industry

A Brit who fought in Ukraine says Russia’s army is so barbaric his unit vowed never to be taken alive. Macer Gifford told BI that Putin sees this as a “war of annihilation,” with tactics taken from ISIS.
https://www.aol.com/brit-fought-ukraine-says-russias-093310987.html

UK ‘secretly’ prepares for direct attack by Russia & updates decades-old emergency plans as World War 3 fears spiral
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14172932/uk-secretly-prepares-for-direct-attack-by-russia/

# NASA
Physicists create ‘black hole bomb’ for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory. If there’s one thing black holes are known for, it’s their insatiable, inescapable gravity. Stuff goes into a black hole. You’re not really going to get much out.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-build-first-ever-black-hole-bomb-analog

# Social Media / Internet
Gmail users warned over ‘extremely sophisticated’ new scam that takes advantage of Google: The scam involves cybercriminals creating emails that appear to be official messages coming from Google. They use those emails to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials and take over their accounts.
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/gmail-users-warned-of-extremely-sophisticated-scam

# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Trump and Musk Are Trying to Dismantle Social Security From the Inside. Elon Musk’s DOGE is inflicting crashes, hang-ups and hours-long waits on Social Security recipients, eroding trust.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-space-force-civilian-reduction/

US Senator Warns of ‘Backdoor’ Way Trump and Musk Could Destroy Social Security — Is She Right?  “This is Donald Trump and Elon Musk working together as co-presidents to keep people from getting the Social Security benefits that they earned and they were promised by law.”
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/news-coverage/warren-warns-of-backdoor-way-trump-and-musk-want-to-gut-social-security

# Space Technology / Global
China’s New Space Laser Can Find A Satellite 130,000 Kilometers Away – Even During The Day. Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The approach was able to find the Tiandu-1 satellite at a distance of about 130,000 kilometers (81,000 miles) from Earth, well beyond where most satellites are located.
https://www.iflscience.com/chinas-new-space-laser-can-find-a-satellite-130000-kilometers-away-even-during-the-day-79072#:~:text=In%20a%20world%20first%2C%20Chinese,where%20most%20satellites%20are%20located

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Ends Profit Cap in Restructure, Microsoft Yet to Sign Off. OpenAI lifts its profit cap and restructures as a public benefit company, but Microsoft approval remains uncertain.
https://decrypt.co/318026/openai-ends-profit-cap-restructure-microsoft-yet-to-sign-off

OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback. The startup behind ChatGPT is going to remain in nonprofit control, but it still needs regulatory approval.
https://followin.io/en/feed/17870613

Microsoft Shuts Down Skype After 22 Years. The company finally pulled the plug on the pioneering video-messaging service after announcing it would be retired in February. The company’s decision to discontinue Skype is apparently part of a broader effort to prioritize artificial intelligence features within Teams. Employees who worked on Skype will be reassigned to other projects rather than being laid off.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/06/skype-shuts-down/

# Veterans / VA
White House says Trump’s proposal to rename Veterans Day has been scrapped
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/05/white-house-retreat-trumps-short-lived-proposal-rename-veterans-day.html

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Mexico should rethink Trump offer for US troops, official says. Trump confirmed the offer and Sheinbaum’s refusal as he spoke with reporters Sunday, saying, “The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/mexico-trump-offer-for-us-troops/

USPS Delivering More Than Mail In Support Of ICE
https://www.newsbreak.com/9news-524542/3990123247816-usps-delivering-more-than-mail-in-support-of-ice

Judge Temporarily Blocks Border Patrol’s Stop-and-Arrest Tactics in California. Border Patrol agents carried out sweeps in California’s Central Valley. Lawyers argued that people were stopped and arrested based on their skin color. ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’
https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/04/border-patrol-injunction/

‘We will vigorously defend our laws’: State AG refuses to back down against federal judge who blocked immigration arrests, cites ‘inherent sovereign authority’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-will-vigorously-defend-our-laws-state-ag-refuses-to-back-down-against-federal-judge-who-blocked-immigration-arrests-cites-inherent-sovereign-authority/

Trump administration will pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to leave U.S: “This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-mass-deportation-payment-border-illegal-c459325c4a73dba0d5a89fa19dbee334

3 People die in ICE custody in April as conditions worsen in immigration jails. Seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began
https://truthout.org/articles/3-people-die-in-ice-custody-in-april-as-conditions-worsen-in-immigration-jails/

Groups Blast Border Czar’s Arrest Threat Against Governor as ‘Gross Overreach.’ Advocacy groups called Tom Homan’s threat against Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers a “chilling attempt to normalize fascism.”
https://truthout.org/articles/groups-blast-border-czars-arrest-threat-against-governor-as-gross-overreach/

‘Disgusted’ But ‘Not Afraid’: Wisconsin Governor Rips Arrest Threat From Trump Border Czar. “We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official—or even everyday American citizens—who have broken no laws, committed no crimes, and done nothing wrong.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tony-evers-arrest-threat

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Amazon CEO says the $2 trillion retailer is ‘pretty maniacally focused’ on keeping prices down amid tariff pressure
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-says-2-trillion-224914480.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Everyday Items That Will Most Likely Be Hit Hardest By Donald Trump’s Tariffs. Several supply chain experts weighed in on what items to expect fewer of and what will likely cost more.
https://www.newsweek.com/ten-everyday-items-impacted-us-tariffs-2067420

Small foreign retailers giving up on America as Trump ends practice that exempted cheaper goods from tariffs.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/de-minimis-exemption-trump-tariffs-b2743954.html

‘Economic warning signs are flashing’: The call is coming from inside the house as former VP Pence slams Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-calls-donald-trump-reversal-2067089

Trump Says He’s Instituting a “100% Tariff” on Films Produced Outside of the U.S. Because the “Movie Industry in America Is Dying.” The president posted that Hollywood and other areas are “being devastated” due to “a concerted effort by other Nations,” which constitutes a “National Security threat.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/trump-tariff-movies-produced-outside-america-1236206949/

Trump Downplays Economic Concerns as He Looks to Cut Trade Deals
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-downplays-economic-concerns-as-he-looks-to-cut-trade-deals-e6a24bc2

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Mass resignations at labor department threaten workers in US and overseas, warn staff – as more cuts loom.
Insiders sound alarm over ‘catastrophic’ impact of widespread departures and cuts under Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/03/mass-resignations-at-labor-department-threaten-workers-in-us-and-overseas-warn-staff-as-more-cuts-loom

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Coal miners address federal institute protecting them from black lung being gutted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUkwu1CEI8

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump administration moves to eliminate $2.4 billion in environmental justice grants
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-moves-to-eliminate-2-4-billion-in-environmental-justice-grants

# Gov / Politics
Trump, asked if he has to ‘uphold the Constitution,’ says, ‘I don’t know.’ “I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said,” the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/04/i-dont-know-trump-constitution-00326040

President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-due-process-canada-greenland-military-action-8da3e853b6cec944ec373fae4d317ac4

Top Senate Republican Rips Trump’s Budget Proposal: ‘Will Shred to the Bone Our Military Capabilities’
https://www.mediaite.com/news/top-senate-republican-rips-trumps-budget-proposal-will-shred-to-the-bone-our-military-capabilities/

The Left and the Right agree: America’s greatness stems from the power of the individual. We stand at the edge of a new movement — a political identity rooted not in fear but in freedom.
https://www.aol.com/opinion-left-agree-america-greatness-120000543.html

The Effect Of Trump’s Policies On Women Everywhere Is In — And It’s Not Good. . Trump’s policies will severely impact sexual and reproductive rights across the globe — that is undeniable.
https://www.msichoices.org/latest/trumps-policies-threaten-women-everywhere-we-wont-back-down/

Is Trump seriously considering military force to annex Greenland? US President’s big remark
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-is-trump-seriously-considering-military-force-to-annex-greenland-us-presidents-big-remark/articleshow/120895034.cms?from=mdr

‘Doesn’t work in any way’: Finance expert exposes ‘fantastical math’ at heart of GOP plan
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fantastical-math-msnbc/

Trump wants $1 trillion for defense while slashing child care and health programs.
https://edsource.org/updates/trump-budget-proposes-1-trillion-for-defense-slashes-education-health

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
President Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. The closure of the federal prison in 1963 was attributed to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat. “Looks like it’s distraction day again in Washington, D.C.,” a Newsom spokesperson wrote in a statement to KRON4.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/president-trump-says-he-will-reopen-alcatraz-prison/

# Medicare / Medicaid
Koch-Funded Group Authored House GOP Letter Demanding Medicaid Cuts. PDF metadata revealed a letter circulated in the House was written by Paragon Health Institute President Brian Blase.
https://truthout.org/articles/koch-funded-group-authored-house-gop-letter-demanding-medicaid-cuts/

# Medical / Health News
Trump’s latest budget proposal cuts medical funding while he looks to host military parade
https://www.kcentv.com/video/news/national/trumps-latest-budget-proposal-cuts-medical-funding-while-he-looks-to-host-military-parade/500-e634f9ef-82f8-431c-8d1c-fad8bee0f06c

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen U.S. government health-tracking programs
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-disease-tracking-health-surveillance-554eb9aa20b758714eba8b835dcde856

Common weedkiller glyphosate may be linked to liver disease epidemic, study warns. Even small increases in exposure may have significant health impacts over time, especially for people with other risk factors for liver disease
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/glyphosate-linked-to-liver-disease-epidemic/

# Military / General News
Trump’s military parade for Army’s 250th may cost millions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIYp3_5YRhs

Army confirms military parade for Trump’s 79th birthday celebration in June
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/02/trump-birthday-army-military-parade/

Top commanders warn US unprepared for war with China as Trump weighs troop reductions in the Indo-Pacific
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-washington-briefing/3397021/us-unprepared-war-with-china-trump-weighs-troop-reductions-indo-pacific/

# Military / General News / Global
Iran threatens to strike US and Israel ‘wherever and whenever’ after missile launch. Iran’s Defence Minister has issued a chilling warning that Tehran will not hesitate to retaliate if it comes under fire from the US or Israel
https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/iran-threatens-strike-israel-wherever-1131491

Iran Unveils New Missile Capable of Striking US Targets
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-unveils-new-missile-capable-striking-us-targets-2067936

# Nuclear
Four years later, member countries are still divided about what the nuclear ban treaty means
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/four-years-later-member-countries-are-still-divided-about-what-the-nuclear-ban-treaty-means/
Also: Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Timeline
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-testing-and-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-ctbt-timeline

# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Rep. Davis warns Social Security is under attack by Trump, Musk. “We must fight back and resist these cuts that the Trump administration and Elon Musk are making,” Davis said. “They want to privatize Social Security, and that is not good because what if something goes wrong with your investment if it goes bad? It could put you in serious jeopardy.
https://chicagocrusader.com/rep-davis-warns-social-security-is-under-attack-by-trump-musk/

Republicans Set to Give Self-Described ‘DOGE Person’ Keys to Social Security Agency. “A vote for Trump’s Social Security Commissioner is a vote to destroy Social Security,” warned one advocacy group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/frank-bisignano-social-security

Trump Pushes Supreme Court to Let Musk’s Cronies Seize Social Security Data. “Why do Elon ‘Social Security’s a Ponzi scheme’ Musk and his DOGE cronies need to stick their fingers in your personal data—your work history, income, benefits, and health records?” asked Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-social-security-supreme-court-doge_n_68152b3fe4b0c553a15ccba0

# Space Force
Terran Orbital joins elite group for 237 million US Space Force tech program: Terran Orbital Corporation, a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Space Force as one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract.
https://terranorbital.com/terran-orbital-selected-by-u-s-space-force-for-237-million-step-2-0-contract-to-support-next-generation-space-technology-development/

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE detains U.S. citizen in Duluth. One of the men is a U.S. citizen, the other was a legal resident. Both were working on a roofing project. The men were released after about 30 minutes and went back to the job site.
https://www.kaaltv.com/news/ice-temporarily-detains-u-s-citizen-in-duluth/

‘If you don’t comply, you’re going to get arrested’: New ICE chief warns in first TV interview
https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-comply-going-arrested-022600677.html

House Republicans Kill Amendment To Stop ICE From Deporting U.S. Citizens. GOP Stays Silent On Deporting Americans In Unusual Immigration Markup
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/05/02/gop-stays-silent-on-deporting-americans-in-unusual-immigration-markup/

Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing “homegrowns” to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t “deportation.” It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193940/trump-exile-banishment-law-unconstitutional

Shame: Bukele Cares More About Abrego Garcia’s Rights Than Trump Does. The president’s words and actions on this case have been atrocious. But as of Wednesday, the clock on his antics is now ticking fast.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shame-bukele-cares-more-abrego-163820928.html

A pregnant woman wandered the desert for days before Border Patrol detained her. Now with a newborn, she faces deportation. Erika initially faced expedited removal, a process allowing federal agents to quickly deport individuals, before eventually being issued a Notice to Appear on Friday, allowing her to appear before an immigration judge
https://www.aol.com/news/pregnant-woman-wandered-desert-days-004130300.html

‘We put safety over money’: Some cities are canceling cultural events due to fears of ICE raids and deportations
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143452461

Moldy food, used underwear: inside the US prisons where Trump is jailing immigrants. As Trump dramatically expands detention, immigrants are moved to notorious penitentiaries where they report horrific conditions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/trump-immigrants-federal-prisons

Hegseth’s Defense Department Chartered New England Patriots Plane to ‘Move Military Personnel’ for Flights to Guantanamo. The Trump administration is currently using the notorious U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay to detain migrants who are awaiting deportation, raising questions about whether the Patriots’ plane is being used for deportation flights during the off-season.
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/05/01/why-the-new-england-patriots-plane-flew-to-guantanamo-bay/83389971007/

By the #s: NM’s new military-controlled border zone is not a ‘60-foot buffer.’ It’s 400 square miles
https://sourcenm.com/briefs/by-the-s-nms-new-military-controlled-border-zone-is-not-a-60-foot-buffer-its-400-square-miles/

Harvard researcher detained in February for failing to declare frog embryo samples says she didn’t lie to government. A Harvard Medical School researcher currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement says she should have reviewed customs protocols before attempting to enter the US with “non-hazardous” frog embryo samples but insists what she told immigration agents was misunderstood.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/kseniia-petrova-harvard-frog-embryos

# Business / Industry / Corporations
As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount. A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy for sale,” critics claim.
https://www.wired.com/story/as-trumps-family-crypto-business-gains-steam-ethical-concerns-mount/
See also: Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront for video games, software, and hardware, managed by Valve.
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/steam-for-pc

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Small Packages From China Are Now Subject to US Tariffs. Shipments from China and Hong Kong regardless of size will now be subject to Trump’s new tariffs of 145% plus any prior duties, except for products such as smartphones which were excluded last month.
https://www.wired.com/story/tariffs-temu-shein-trump-de-minimis/

Trump’s Recession Has Begun, It’s already in Seattle. The recession will make its way east from Seattle and Los Angeles as trucks and freight trains carry less cargo overland.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194655/trump-recession-begun-shipping-tariffs

Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’ Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before Trump’s tariffs cause prices to skyrocket
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-officials-now-hoarding-supplies-155218803.html

Trump asks Congress to cut $163B in non-defense spending, ax dozens of programs
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-2026-budget-proposal-calls-121652270.html

Trumps budget proposal: Here are the cuts and spending increases
https://san.com/cc/trumps-budget-proposal-here-are-the-cuts-and-spending-increases/

Here’s what Trump’s budget proposal cuts by agency, the programs to cut or add funding to in his 2026 budget request.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/trump-budget-proposal-cuts/

West Coast Senators sound the alarm on Tariffs impacting Ports
https://gcaptain.com/west-coast-senators-port-leaders-sound-alarm-on-trumps-tariffs/

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
A ban on book bans: Oregon bill would protect access to library materials. Oregon lawmakers are taking steps to ensure that books by diverse authors remain accessible to readers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ban-book-bans-oregon-bill-130047167.html

Seven students, some as young as 5, hit with battery charges for alleged school bus beatdown on 7-year-old classmate.  Students between the ages of 5 and 14 participated in the attack on a 7-year-old student. The students have been suspended and charged with battery, and the driver has been charged with cruelty to children in the 2nd degree and failure to report child abuse.
https://www.griceconnect.com/local-news/seven-students-charged-with-battery-after-school-bus-attack-on-7-year-old-10596086

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Workers Overheated And Died Under Trump’s Workplace Safety Nominee. As David Keeling led companies’ safety operations, workers fell ill and died amid extreme temperatures. Now he could dismantle federal heat protections.
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/trump-keeling-osha-heat-safety

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump’s ‘Skinny Budget’ Seeks To Cut Billions Of Dollars In Federal Funding From Renewable Energy Projects. It also proposed ending taxpayer handouts to electric vehicle and battery makers and canceling the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.
https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/trump-budget-seeks-to-cut-billions-in-funding-from-renewable-energy-projects/chLUVijRbKR

Oil and gas supplier says Tesla is ‘refusing to pay’ $2 million in past-due bills – and that chaotic staffing has only made it worse. Myriad excuses, dubious justifications and ‘constant personnel turnover’ has stymied Sun Coast Resources from being made whole, according to a civil complaint obtained by The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tesla-factory-elon-musk-texas-contract-b2743994.html

The Trump admin is suing four states to stop them from holding fossil fuel giants accountable for climate damage
https://apnews.com/article/trump-doj-climate-states-policy-lawsuits-a5228e1dd6348f09d2a70f460142531a

International coalition quietly delivers billion-dollar results after US bows out: ‘The … initiative has been successful’: The Clean Energy Transition Partnership has helped many countries stem the flow of money to polluting oil and gas projects, according to Oil Change International.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/clean-energy-transition-partnership-cetp-trump-era-oil/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
US Geological Survey reports 5.3 magnitude earthquake in West Texas among three to shake remote West Texas. “Little or no population” was exposed to the strong temblor, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/earthquakes-53-magnitude-shake-remote-west-texas-rcna204670

Scientists warn about underwater volcano causing hundreds of earthquakes per day. The Axial Seamount is the most active underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest, and it’s found hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/underwater-volcano-scientists-warning-eruption-axial-seamount

Officials issue warning as devastating conditions spark string of fires early into wildfire season: ‘The fear is always there’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/wildfires-in-british-columbia-early-season/#:~:text=As%20more%20people%20live%20near,%22It%20is%20always%20there.%22

Officials unveil jaw-dropping plan to build entirely new forest: ‘We will plant 20 million trees’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/western-forest-england-planting-new-trees/

Climate disaster survivors organize across America, turning common bonds of loss into action. A growing number of survivors are organizing across the United States to call for climate action and advocate for proactive mitigation efforts.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052025/climate-disaster-survivors-organize-across-america/#:~:text=As%20climate%20change%20turbocharges%20more,advocate%20for%20proactive%20mitigation%20efforts

# General News
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power sounds like what Donald Trump is doing, writes Steven L. Katz, who worked for the late state Rep. Sidney R. Yates. Also: Give readers more from academics. Some Illinois Republicans have argued that Pritzker’s comparison of Trump to Hitler is extreme. However, Trump’s visibly extreme behavior, actions, and illegal abuse of authority as president must, as Pritzker courageously stated, be stopped now.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/02/25/pritzker-trump-comparison-nazi-hitler-academic-commentary

# Gov / Politics
MAGA supporters slam Trump as ‘disrespectful and insulting’ after he shares image of himself as pope. Take
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-sparks-outrage-posting-173045356.html
Donald Trump’s AI-Generated Image: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1918502592335724809

Catholic Bishops Issue Direct Response to Trump’s Polarizing Pope Photo. U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a firestorm of criticism from leaders of the Roman Catholic Church after posting on social media a computer-generated image of himself as pope in full papal regalia as Catholics worldwide continue to mourn Pope Francis.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-outrage-grows-over-pope-trump-image-official-white-house-media

Hitler’s first 100 days. Here’s how Trump’s compare. Crucially, Trump hasn’t matched Hitler’s efficacy
https://forward.com/opinion/715816/trump-100-days-hitler-roosevelt/

OK, so Amazon backed down on posting the cost of Trump’s tariffs. But the wildly disproportionate attack on the company from the White House press secretary actually exposed Trump’s deep vulnerabilities.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194561/trump-angry-attack-amazon-tariffs

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts. The conservative legal movement’s latest broadside against the judiciary is likely to fail, but it illuminates how far they’re willing to go to dismantle the rule of law.
https://afj.org/article/donald-trump-and-the-plot-to-take-over-the-courts/

What is PREXIT? Puerto Rico’s hotly contested debate about U.S. statehood versus achieving sovereignty. The economic impact of the U.S. relationship with Puerto Rico.
https://mammothnation.com/news-updates?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=daily-news&utm_term=video-with-drew-berquist

What is Prexit? Priti Patel RESIGNS after meeting Theresa May at No 10. PRITI PATEL has resigned following revelations that she had secret meetings with Israeli politicians. But what is Prexit?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/877209/Prexit-what-is-Priti-Patel-resigns-MP-International-Development-secretary-Conservatives

With fact-checks like these, how does truth stand a chance? Judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, we have officially entered the post-truth political era.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4879842-false-claims-harris-trump-debate/

‘Let’s kill the lawyers I don’t like’: Judge forcefully rejects Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie as ‘null and void’ — issues permanent injunction in swift end to case. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a clean sweep for the plaintiffs. The court found the executive order “unlawful because it violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution” and “therefore null and void.”
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/lets-kill-the-lawyers-i-dont-like-judge-forcefully-rejects-trumps-executive-order-targeting-perkins-coie-as-null-and-void-issues-permanent-injunction-in-swift-en/

“Just Rip The Constitution To Shreds While You’re At It” – People Cannot Believe Donald Trump’s Latest Statement On Religion In The Government
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/trump-comments-on-separation-church-state-reactions

White House ‘in a bind’ as it seeks GOP help with mess Elon Musk’s DOGE created: The White House is in “a bind of its own creation” because it can’t “legally” cancel funding, it can only delay it. That’s where Congress comes in.
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-white-house-republicans/

‘Sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority’: Trump admin again complains about district courts while imploring SCOTUS to let DOGE access private Social Security data
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/sweeping-injunctive-relief-without-legal-authority-trump-admin-again-complains-about-district-courts-while-imploring-scotus-to-let-doge-access-private-social-security-data/

Massive military parade on Trump’s birthday will be ‘biggest’ in US history — may include thousands of soldiers, helicopters and tanks. Trump is dead set on throwing a gigantic military parade to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary—which just happens to be on the same day as his birthday.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194764/trump-birthday-parade-thousands-soldiers-tanks

Trump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/04/trump-100-days-civil-rights-protections-setback/83331594007/

Trump: GOP should start thinking about expelling Democrats pushing impeachment
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-calls-democrats-removed-impeachment-2067104

US will ‘no longer act as mediator’ between Ukraine & Russia after Putin refused to sign up to full ceasefire
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14151944/us-mediator-ukraine-russia/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Chinese community leader-businessman in New York convicted as illegal agent of the CCP in ‘Fox Hunt’ scheme. Queens real estate mogul and community leader convicted of acting as an unregistered agent of China
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinese-community-leader-businessman-new-york-convicted-illegal-agent-ccp-fox-hunt-scheme

Planes falling out sky, GPS jamming & landing disasters – Putin’s plot to target air travel in twisted sabotage attack. Jeff Wise warned an aviation attack by Putin could be deadlier than MH17
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14161944/putin-plane-attacks-sabotage/

Putin’s meat grinder war machines arrive in Moscow for massive show of military strength. Images show Russian war equipment rolling through the streets of Moscow as Vladimir Putin prepares for a vast military parade to mark Victory Day
https://local.newsbreak.com/express-u-s–316349130/3991405661745-putin-s-meat-grinder-war-machines-arrive-in-moscow-for-massive-show-of-military-strength

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Supreme Court Is Declaring War on Secularism. The high court’s recent run at rewriting the Constitution has come for the establishment clause.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194751/supreme-court-declaring-war-secularism

‘Very Different Crime Filled LIFE!!!’ Trump Slams Judges Hours After SCOTUS Justice Rebukes His ‘Threats and Harassment’
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/very-different-crime-filled-life-trump-slams-judges-hours-after-scotus-justice-rebukes-his-threats-and-harassment/

Judges who rule against Trump face ominous threats: ‘Somebody is going to get killed’: The families of at least 11 judges who have ruled against Donald Trump’s administration have been targeted with threats and harassment, including sinister pizza deliveries, continuing an alarming trend related to the president and his legal troubles.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-threat-judge-pizza/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
President Trump issued an executive order instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt all funding for PBS and NPR.  It would impact those two networks, the roughly 1,500 public media stations nationwide and national programs
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-trumps-executive-order-targeting-public-media-funding

Brendan Carr Is Turning the FCC Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine. Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-fcc-brendan-carr-donald-trump/

“Just say yes”: Trump demands media abandon reality for his version. Moran explained the letters “MS-13” were digitally added to the images Trump was referencing, the president lost his cool. Trump literally demanded that Moran abandon journalistic integrity and just lie: “Why don’t you just say, ‘Yes, he does,’ and, you know, go on to something else.”
https://www.readtpa.com/p/just-say-yes-trump-demands-media

# Medical / Health News
Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women. More than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth in the first 90 days of the president’s aid freeze
https://www.the-independent.com/news/health/trump-aid-cuts-maternal-mortality-contraception-b2743279.html

The United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Three National Health Insurance Companies and Three Brokers Alleging Unlawful Kickbacks and Discrimination Against Disabled Americans
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-false-claims-act-complaint-against-three-national-health-insurance

5.5 million patients’ information exposed by major healthcare data breach. Criminals breached the healthcare system’s network, causing several connectivity issues. Fortunately, the security incident didn’t impact the organization’s ability to care for patients.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/yale-new-haven-health-warns-5-5-million-patients-of-possible-data-theft

‘Awkward’ Bill Gates Has ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ After Years of Suspecting He Was on the Spectrum, Daughter Reveals
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/phoebe-gates-call-her-daddy-bill-aspergers-b2742505.html
Asperger’s Syndrome: https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/mental-health-aspergers-syndrome

# Military / General News
He Served His Country. In Return, His Country Sent Him Into Exile. The military relies on noncitizens to fill its ranks. No one is sure how many are later banished from the country they fought for
https://thewarhorse.org/us-military-fills-ranks-with-noncitizens-then-deports-them/

Army answers Hegseth with plan to revamp air and ground forces, merge commands. The Army will cut 1,000 jobs from its main headquarters, shrink attack helicopter formations and lighten the load for infantry brigades, the service’s top leaders said in a message to the force this week.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/02/hegseth-orders-army-cut-costs-merging-some-commands-and-slashing-jobs.html

Trump’s proposed defense budget short changes military, Republican lawmakers contend: ‘Gimmicks’: GOP lawmakers slam Trump’s ‘trillion-dollar’ defense-spending proposal. White House claims of a 13% increase rest on unusual budgetary maneuvers, not a higher DOD topline.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/05/gimmicks-gop-lawmakers-slam-trumps-trillion-dollar-defense-spending-proposal/405043/

Our enemies are targeting our communications networks, Marine general says, and we need a quantum fix
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/our-enemies-are-targeting-our-comms-networks-marine-general-says-and-we-need-a-quantum-fix/ar-AA1E0HOy?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a?utm_source/

# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
The US Military Vowed to Safeguard its Arsenal. Why Do its Weapons Keep Going Missing? Disappearing military firearms and tactical gear is a national security concern, experts say.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/06/us-military-vowed-safeguard-its-arsenal-why-do-its-weapons-keep-going-missing.html

# NASA / Space
Rocket due to hit Earth next week after 50 years in orbit leaves people terrified. Cosmos 482 was launched from the USSR’s spaceport in 1972 in what is now Kazakhstan – intended for Venus it broke into several pieces, one of which has orbited Earth ever since
https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/rocket-due-hit-earth-next-1127447

# NOAA / Weather
How Massive Cuts to NOAA Could Impact Everything From Weather Apps to Agriculture to National Security. A leaked memo shows the NOAA’s primary science division staring down 74 percent in budget cuts and some foresee dire impacts across society.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03052025/noaa-cuts-could-impact-weather-apps-agriculture-national-security/

# Pharmaceuticals
For This Insurer, Breathing Now Comes With A Catch. Blue Cross Blue Shield just made it harder for many patients to get vital asthma and allergy medications, all while channeling more profits toward a PBM-affiliated pharmacy.
https://www.levernews.com/for-this-insurer-breathing-now-comes-with-a-catch/

# Planetary
Three ‘Red Monsters’ discovered as Webb Telescope team declares “beginning of a new era”
https://www.earth.com/news/three-red-monsters-discovered-very-early-universe-webb-telescope-new-era/

A strange object 65 billion miles from sun could be the elusive Planet Nine. Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart. If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/solar-system/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart

# Social Media / Internet
Consumer Alert: Widespread scam targets Facebook users. Meta warns against fake message phishing scam
Scammers are sending fake text messages that falsely alert Facebook users of violating trademark rules. The scam message continues, reading that if users believe the message is an error, they should click a link to submit a complaint. If users receive a fraudulent message, do not click on the link. Instead, block and report the account that sent the message.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/meta-warns-phishing-scam/3803795/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
‘Something that humanity will regret…’: Mark Zuckerberg targets our biggest woe because supporting Trump wasn’t enough. In a world with Grok, DeepSeek, and Chat GPT, Zuckerberg knows he must pretend to offer something different. His pitch? He wants to give the “average American” 12 AI friends.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/tech/something-that-humanity-will-regret-mark-zuckerberg-has-a-solution-for-our-biggest-woe-because-supporting-donald-trump-wasnt-enough/

# Water
There Goes Your Neighborhood Babbling Brook. In a bid to gut environmental law protecting the nation’s wetlands, Trump’s EPA is relying on a new definition of water.
https://apnews.com/article/epa-trump-clean-water-act-wetlands-protection-021ff0aacd77b91c4b0e70bc5caedd06

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# Indigenous
At U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous people. Mining Companies Must Obtain Free, Prior, Informed Consent, Partner with Indigenous Peoples to Ensure Responsible, Ethical Land Use, Speakers Tell Permanent Forum
https://press.un.org/en/2025/hr5491.doc.htm

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump Admin Laying Groundwork For Unilateral U.S. Military Action Against Cartels In Mexico: According to several sources, officials have discussed bombing cartels with or without Mexico’s consent.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-white-house-is-considering-using-drones-to-bomb-cartels-in-mexico-report/

Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing “homegrowns” to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t “deportation.” It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-exile-americans-repeat-232214207.html

Georgetown Peace Scholar Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail. A federal immigration judge will rule on Badar Khan Suri’s case in the coming days.
https://truthout.org/video/georgetown-peace-scholar-being-held-as-a-high-risk-threat-in-ice-jail/

International Tribunal Condemns U.S. Border Officials for Torturing, Killing Immigrant. Case calls for sweeping reforms to police use-of-force, could set precedent for reexamining high-profile deaths.
https://capitalandmain.com/international-tribunal-condemns-u-s-border-officials-for-torturing-killing-migrant

Mom  said 20 agents forced her and her daughters outside in their underwear, into the rain before they had a chance to get dressed in Wrongful ICE Raid
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-force-family-underwear-oklahoma-2065984

The Trump administration has a tough new message for foreigners in the United States: One strike, and you’re out. Foreign nationals visiting or living in the country legally could lose their visa status if they run afoul of the law under the new and unforgiving so-called “catch and revoke” policy, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/foreign-visitors-one-strike-policy-rubio-trump/83413717007/

Trump Pulls the U.S. Post Office Into His Cruel Deportation Efforts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHX5lx2ws1Q

‘Madness!’ Experts aghast as Trump agency suggests deporting people over dismissed tickets
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-2671883719/

Trump Is Quietly Using The U.S. Military In A Whole New Way. Since last month, Trump has authorized soldiers to detain “trespassers” on U.S. soil.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-roosevelt-reservation-national-defense-area_n_6815262ae4b0c553a15ccad7

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Is in Its AI Era. In its push for “efficiency,” DOGE has leaned increasingly on AI—regardless of whether it makes any sense. And it’s using it as an imperfect means to destructive ends.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-in-its-ai-era/

A DOGE recruiter is staffing a project to deploy AI agents across the US government. Anthony Jancso, cofounder of AccelerateX, a government tech startup, is looking for technologists to work on a project that aims to have artificial intelligence perform tasks that are currently the responsibility of tens of thousands of federal workers
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiter-ai-agents-palantir-clown-emoji/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump’s budget proposal aims for sharp spending cuts. Trump’s plan aims to cut child care, disease research, renewable energy and peacekeeping abroad.
https://www.mcall.com/2025/05/02/white-house-trump-budget/

Despite Trump’s promised cuts, U.S. spent more than $200 billion more in first 100 days than last year
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-promised-cuts-spent-200-billion-more/

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class. A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-cuts-congress-republicans-plan-slash-benefits

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are working to finance their plans to cut taxes for the ultrawealthy—and they are cutting environmental protection and clean energy programs, endangering American lives and livelihoods, as part of this effort.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-and-congressional-republicans-plan-to-make-billionaires-richer-may-make-americans-sicker/

Republican Agenda’s “Triple Threat” to Low- and Moderate-Income Family Well-Being. The centerpiece of that agenda is far-reaching tax and budget legislation intended to be passed through the fast-track budget “reconciliation” process.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/republican-agendas-triple-threat-to-low-and-moderate-income-family-well-being

Tax Giveaways for Gouging: How the Trump Tax Law Fueled Corporate Profiteering. We review the failure of President Trump’s initial tax cuts to deliver on its grand promises and expose the large corporations Trump plans to reward for fleecing consumers.
https://groundworkcollaborative.org/work/corporate-profits-taxes/

The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor. As the country’s economic outlook bleakens, Trump officials are trying to convince us that actually, being poor is a good thing.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-poverty-trade-war-economy_n_6814ee26e4b08575d39c9a8a

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Five million Americans forced to repay loans by May 5 as two new changes get the green light – or face huge penalties. This ends a years-long pause that has protected defaulted borrowers from some of the harshest financial consequences.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14156217/five-million-americans-repay-student-loans-penalties/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump Just Cut the Minimum Wage for Hundreds of Thousands of Private Sector Workers. By tearing up a Biden-era executive order that set a minimum wage for workers on federal contracts, the Trump administration has made some private sector workers vulnerable to pay cuts of up to 25 percent.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-just-cut-the-minimum-wage-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-private-sector-workers/

Trump Is Trying to Axe Collective Bargaining for 1 Million Federal Employees. If Trump’s order withstands the legal challenges against it, two-thirds of the federal workforce will lose union rights.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-axe-collective-bargaining-for-1-million-federal-employees/

Trump Quietly Took Away a Living Wage From Thousands of Federal Workers. Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-quietly-took-away-a-living-wage-from-thousands-of-federal-workers/?utm_source=Truthout&utm_campaign=328624d432-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_01_04_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbb541a1db-328624d432-650963661

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
NASA issues warning after sudden change in the ocean surprises scientists: ‘Getting faster and faster’ “Every year is a little bit different.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/effects-of-rising-sea-levels-nasa-analysis/

Panthers, Owls, and More at Risk Under Trump Administration’s Proposed Changes for Endangered Species. The Trump administration proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to allow developers to alter the habitats of endangered species like panthers, sea turtles and owls
https://people.com/panthers-owls-turtles-at-risk-under-trump-administration-proposed-changes-endangered-species-act-11717386

# Gov / Politics
Trump says he’s attracted $7 trillion in private investments into the US: ‘Never seen anything like it.’ White House data shows companies like Apple, Stargate, TSMC and NVIDIA have committed hundreds of billions of dollars
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-attracted-7-trillion-private-investments-never-seen-anything-like-it

Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save It. Donald Trump’s executive orders are attacking everything from the Smithsonian to Black sports history
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump

Trump Threatens to Take Over Congress’s Powers in Budget War. Donald Trump just released a radical budget proposal. And he’s threatening Congress if they don’t fall in line.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194802/trump-threatens-congress-impoundment-budget-plan

John Fetterman Seems Like a Risk to Himself and Everyone Around Him. A damning new report reveals how the Democratic senator appears to be endangering his own life, and those around him.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194783/john-fetterman-health-danger

‘A perfect mix of racism and dementia’: Donald Trumps hears ‘Harlem’ instead of ‘Harvard’ and leaves silence in his wake. Just days ago, he was bragging about acing his cognitive tests
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/a-perfect-mix-of-racism-and-dementia-donald-trumps-hears-harlem-instead-of-harvard-and-leaves-silence-in-his-wake/

‘The attacks are not random’: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says ‘affronts’ by Trump and his allies are ‘designed to intimidate’ judges who rule against the government
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/supreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-trump.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
From impeachments to exports, Communist China pressures a key American ally in South Korea. China last week threatened to punish South Korean companies that export products containing critical rare-earth metals to the U.S.
https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/south-korea

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Leaders of 764 Arrested and Charged for Operating Global Child Exploitation Enterprise. Arrests Mark Significant Takedown Within Violent Online Network
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
A Supreme Court Justice Finally Just Stood up to Trump. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the president’s unsettling attacks on the judiciary.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194781/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-finally-just-stood-trump

Judge rules Trump order pulling security clearances from law firm unconstitutional
https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/national/judge-blocks-trump-executive-order-targeting-elite-law-firm-a-blow-to-his-retribution-campaign/article_d09a1e9d-3142-5643-87fa-2920f87c712d.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
60 Minutes Isn’t Backing Down From Trump’s Threats. The news magazine is under fire from the president, but it’s still airing critical segments about his regime. Donald Trump also dragged The New York Times into his tirade.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194614/donald-trump-threatens-new-york-times-60-minutes-lawsuits

Reporters Without Borders Sounds Alarm on US Press Freedom Under Trump
https://www.courthousenews.com/alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-reporters-without-borders/

‘Blatantly unlawful’: Furious PBS President tears into Trump, warns his funding cuts are a step toward authoritarianism. Public broadcasting costs taxpayers a whopping… $1.60 per person per year.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/blatantly-unlawful-furious-pbs-president-tears-into-trump-warns-his-funding-cuts-are-a-step-toward-authoritarianism/

# Medicare / Medicaid
Medicare Advantage Bribery Scheme Highlights ‘Bad Behavior’ Trump Wants to Reward. “The Trump administration recently announced it would substantially increase payments to private Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, rewarding their bad behavior.” “Privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year,” said one advocacy group. “Donald Trump is giving them even more taxpayer money.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicare-advantage-payments

# Military / General News
Marine AH-1Z Attack Helicopter’s Mystery Missiles Identified. The modular Red Wolf launched effects weapon could give Marine AH-1Zs a key new standoff strike tool and open the door to other capabilities.
https://www.twz.com/air/marine-ah-1z-attack-helicopters-mystery-missiles-identified

DOD building $400 million fuel storage facility in Papua New Guinea
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-01/papua-new-guinea-dod-fuel-storage-17640349.html

# NASA / Space
White House 2026 budget plan includes proposal to phase out funding for NASA rocket
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/03/proposed-24-percent-cut-to-nasa-budget-eliminates-key-artemis-architecture-climate-research/

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Trump plans to cut 1,200 jobs from CIA, other US spy agencies: Cuts will reportedly take place over several years and be accomplished through reduced hiring as opposed to layoffs.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/trump-plans-to-cut-1200-jobs-from-cia-other-us-spy-agencies-report

# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
What Trump has done with Social Security so far. In Trump has proposed or initiated changes to how Social Security functions, including closing offices and offering buyouts. Here’s an updated roundup.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/what-trump-has-done-with-social-security

Social Security under Trump live updates: DOJ Sues Three Medicare Advantage Plan Insurers and the May Payment Schedule. Social Security is undergoing big changes in 2025 under President Trump.
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/live/medicare-trump-updates

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years.
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

Email Mistake Exposes Trump’s Dark Agenda on Child Welfare Programs. The Trump administration plans to terminate research on child welfare programs. The termination was revealed by a publicly released spreadsheet from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Over 150 research projects, including studies on Head Start and child care policy, are under consideration for termination.
https://san.com/media-miss/email-mistake-reveals-secret-plans-to-end-research-on-head-start-and-other-child-safety-net-programs/

Trump asks SCOTUS to grant DOGE access to social security data: SSA data includes Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates and home and work addresses
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-grant-doge-access-to-social-security-systems

Trump Social Security Cuts Will Result in New Burden for Millions. “When people can’t get their benefits for any reason, that is a benefit cut,” said one advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-direct-deposit-2-million

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
TerraStealerV2 and TerraLogger: Golden Chickens’ New Malware Families Discovered. The financially motivated cybercrime group, Golden Chickens-operating under the alias Venom Spider-has rolled out two new malicious tools, TerraStealerV2 and TerraLogger, marking a sharp escalation in credential and sensitive data theft operations in early 2025.
https://cyberpress.org/terrastealer-strikes-browser/

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
How to Get a Real ID License for Traveling on Airplanes. For Americans without a passport, a new type of driver’s license is required to board flights in the United States. Here’s how to update your license to the new Real ID standard.
https://www.usa.gov/real-id

Travelers horrified as TSA uses mystery device to access phones at airport checkpoints
https://www.themirror.com/travel/travelers-horrified-tsa-uses-mystery-1128486

# Veterans / VA
Trump to rename Veterans Day to ‘Victory Day for World War I,’ add ‘Victory Day for World War II’: In a late-night social media post, President Trump suggested the date was not sufficiently recognized in the U.S.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/holidays-and-celebrations/trump-says-he-will-rename-veterans-day-to-victory-day-for-world-war-i-commemorating-the-end-of-world-war-i

Veterans react to president’s desire to change name of Veterans Day. “Those days are set aside as a reminder of freedom and sacrifice. It is not about victory over an opponent or in war,” veteran advocate and retired Lt. Colonel John Paradise told us. “If this president thinks this is the right decision to be made on behalf of all our veterans, I will strongly question that.”
https://www.westernmassnews.com/2025/05/02/veterans-react-presidents-desire-change-name-veterans-day/

House VA Committee chairman urges investigation over ‘fake’ budget shortfall. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether former Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough and other agency leaders violated federal law when they made an urgent request for $3 billion to close a budget shortfall that did not exist.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-05-01/veterans-budget-shortfall-house-lawmakers-investigation-17646349.html

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
DeSantis asks Trump administration to allow Florida National Guardsmen to be immigration judges
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/733677-desantis-nat-guard-judges/

Judge says 18th-century wartime law can’t be used for deportations in first-of-its-kind ruling, and is likely to be swiftly appealed. The Alien Enemies Act, after all, had been invoked only three times before, most recently during World War II.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/1/court-rules-against-trumps-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-venezuelans#:~:text=In%20a%20first%2Dof%2Dits,law’s%20use%20in%20south%20Texas.&text=A%20United%20States%20judge%20has,deport%20Venezuelans%20from%20South%20Texas

Republican budget plan proposes $45 billion for ICE, $1,000 fee on asylum seekers. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal is still a work in progress, but the first markup already reveals potentially major changes to the immigration system and regulatory law.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_fdcf8690-01f5-45a5-989d-38213b6ad590.html

Judge rules Alien Enemies Act does not allow Trump to deport alleged gang members. Ruling is strongest pushback yet on use of 18th-century law. Plus, Black Sabbath give their first interview in two decades
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/first-thing-judge-rules-alien-enemies-act-does-not-allow-trump-to-deport-alleged-gang-members

# Business / Industry / Corporations
As Trump moves to tax small parcels, some retailers give up on US: The removal of “de minimis” – duty-free treatment of ecommerce packages worth less than $800 originating from China and Hong Kong exposes those goods to tariffs of 145% on most Chinese goods following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last month
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/as-trump-moves-to-tax-small-parcels-some-retailers-give-up-on-us/articleshow/120812814.cms

Temu blocks US shoppers from seeing products shipped from China. American version of Temu abruptly began to show only ‘local’ products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.
https://www.wired.com/story/temu-local-warehouses-tariffs/

# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
‘Rattled’ China knows world is on brink of truth about Covid lab leak – they are desperate to shift blame, say experts
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14146344/rattled-china-world-truth-covid-lab-leak/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Elon Musk says DOGE ‘should definitely’ investigate Federal Reserve after reports of $2.5B ‘Palace of Versailles’ HQ
https://www.aol.com/news/elon-musk-says-doge-definitely-162412523.html

‘We’re not afraid of Trump’: Toy store sues government over ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’ tariffs, lawsuit seeks refund
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/were-not-afraid-of-trump-toy-store-sues-government-over-unlawful-and-unconstitutional-tariffs-lawsuit-seeks-refund/

Another American ally just issued an economic warning because of the trade war. Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/another-american-ally-just-issued-110752493.html

The Slowdown at Ports Is a Warning of Rough Economic Seas Ahead. The maritime shipping industry is seeing a rise in “blank sailings,” a shift that one expert calls a “canary in the coal mine.”
https://www.wired.com/story/maritime-shipping-tariffs-blank-sailings/

Permanent halt to penny production gains bipartisan support. Two U.S. senators from opposing sides of the political aisle are pushing together to permanently do away with the U.S. Mint producing the penny, which the legislators argue will help to eliminate wasteful government spending.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/permanent-penny-production-bipartisan/

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
What the dismantling of the Education Department means for its data. Former data staff from the agency say they’re especially concerned about large transfers of data and the future of grants administration, after already seeing mismanagement and delays.
https://fedscoop.com/what-the-dismantling-of-the-education-department-means-for-its-data/

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall. Officials have expressed desire to withdraw from other orders they see as an unnecessary burden on schools
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/washington/the-justice-department-ended-a-decades-old-school-desegregation-order-others-are-expected-to-fall/article_88e5ee8f-671f-56a3-aa23-d1c7d41d2fd6.html

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from dismantling library services agency
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-administration-002306363.html

Thousands of children could lose access to child care if White House proposal to cut Head Start is approved
https://www.audacy.com/wccoradio/news/local/thousands-of-children-could-be-at-risk-if-head-start-is-cut

Email mistake reveals secret plans to end research on Head Start and other child safety programs. The document listed 150 research projects under consideration for termination by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
https://apnews.com/article/children-head-start-research-cuts-trump-hhs-ecfa2b140990057eb412e476dc875ffa

Visas reinstated for all University of Arkansas’ international students who had status revoked
https://arkansasadvocate.com/briefs/visas-reinstated-for-all-university-of-arkansas-international-students-who-had-status-revoked/

A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students. The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination

Trump says he’ll strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status. The president said revoking the university’s tax-exempt status is “what they deserve!”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-status-00323192

# Employment / Labor / Unions
House Republicans propose wage freeze for tens of thousands of CT employees: ‘Time to trim’
https://www.ctpost.com/politics/article/ct-republicans-democrats-budget-cuts-wage-freeze-20304747.php

Hiltzik: Thanks to the Trump slump, Florida and other states are moving to eviscerate child labor protections
https://newrepublic.com/post/194687/trump-officials-hoarding-supplies-tariffs

Fired Federal Worker Reveals Chilling Trump-Era Condition To Get Job Back. People are “afraid to talk,” she told MSNBC’s town hall, with other former government employees pushed out amid Donald Trump’s slashing of public spending.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-condition-job-back-federal-worker_n_681462afe4b0f2e8a510e72b

Trump admin asks laid-off firefighter and coal mining safety research staff back temporarily
https://internationalfireandsafetyjournal.com/niosh-firefighter-health-researchers-temporarily-reinstated-amid-federal-layoffs/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The Trump admin is suing four states to stop them from holding fossil fuel giants accountable for climate damage. “These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/climate/trump-climate-lawsuits-hawaii-michigan-new-york-vermont

Trump threatens sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil after US-Iran nuclear talks are postponed. Trump’s social media threat came after Oman announced planned nuclear negotiations for this coming weekend had been postponed
https://www.tbsnews.net/world/trump-threatens-sanctions-against-buyers-iranian-oil-after-us-iran-nuclear-talks-are-postponed

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
An invasive venomous ant is spreading in the US — here’s where people should watch out because a sting can be fatal. People may suffer from an allergic reaction after a sting that can send them to the hospital without treatment. Symptoms can include difficulty breathing, a weak or rapid heart rate, vomiting, hives, fainting and tongue swelling.
https://www.aol.com/invasive-venomous-ant-spreading-us-175057440.html

# Food General News
Republicans Consider Shifting Cost Of Food Benefits To States, With Cuts Likely
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/snap-cuts-budget-reconciliation-beautiful_n_6813a6ffe4b0964363620874

FDA suspends milk quality testing amid health and human services cuts, adding that efforts are underway to resume testing. FDA remains committed to working with states to protect the safety of the pasteurized milk supply.”
https://www.food-safety.com/articles/10355-fda-suspends-milk-quality-testing-amid-health-and-human-services-cuts

Farmers raise urgent warnings as catastrophic floods wipe out more than 100,000 livestock: ‘The worst is yet to come’ “We don’t know what cattle we will have to sell or what the financial impacts are going to be.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/queensland-livestock-extreme-weather-flooding/

# General News
The Trump administration is systematically dismantling important federal agencies, jeopardizing access to crucial programs, and undermining civil rights protections for millions of Americans in favor of benefiting Trump and his allies. American Oversight is investigating these threats to Americans’ rights and access to federal benefits, which have disproportionate impacts on the most vulnerable populations.
https://americanoversight.org/investigation/the-trump-administrations-dismantling-of-federal-agencies-and-threats-to-important-social-services/

Agency by Agency, Federal Data Collection Is Being Dismantled. By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
https://undark.org/2025/04/29/trump-war-on-measurement/

The US government data purge is a loss for policymaking and research. Beyond the data loss, it’s about the loss of qualified technical staff, coding expertise, data visualization, mapping, methodologies, and the ability of the public and journalists to use the data.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-government-data-purge-is-a-loss-for-policymaking-and-research/

The Dismantling of US Statistical and Data Infrastructures by the Trump Administration. The Trump administration’s swift and systematic dismantling of statistical and data infrastructures has largely gone unnoticed.
https://revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/25/dismantling-data/amp/

Regional boards for federal agency coordination officially disbanded. A recent Trump executive order mandated the end of federal executive boards, which have been around since 1961.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/regional-boards-federal-agency-coordination-officially-disbanded/403963/

# Gov / Politics
Trump officials: start ‘stashing cash’ and stockpiling supplies immediately – ‘it would be stupid not to!’
https://newrepublic.com/post/194687/trump-officials-hoarding-supplies-tariffs

Trump making a list of cities and states to target
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/sanctuary-cities-trump-executive-order

Trump Signs Order Requiring Nationwide List of Sanctuary Cities and States. Action comes after legal setbacks in president’s bid to target Democratic jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-sign-order-requiring-nationwide-list-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-dbcc5ada

Republicans Have A ‘Catastrophic’ Plan Buried In Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ For the first time, a Republican leader in Congress has publicly pledged to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-says-trumps-agenda-bill-will-defund-big-abortion_n_6813b695e4b0964363620ffa

“This Man’s Brain Is Cooked”: People Are Reacting To Donald Trump’s Latest Bizarre Rant And It’s Really…Something
https://www.buzzfeed.com/leemoran/donald-trump-town-hall-tangent

Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction
https://www.aol.com/trump-turns-civil-rights-upside-100051804.html

Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks Since 2017
https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/

‘There’s no deal here,’ Dem rep. says of Ukraine mineral compact
https://www.tbsnews.net/world/trump-threatens-sanctions-against-buyers-iranian-oil-after-us-iran-nuclear-talks-are-postponed

Trump Is Plotting Shock-and-Awe ‘Purge’ of White House Staff
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-plotting-shock-and-awe-purge-of-white-house-staff/

Trump Plans to Celebrate 79th Birthday With Tanks and Troops. President has desired lavish Armed Forces spectacular in Washington ever since being impressed by France’s Bastille Day parade in Paris in July 2017
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-military-parade-birthday-plans-b2743593.html

# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran Wants to Avoid Both Peace and War With the United States. Trump Isn’t Having It. The U.S. president’s push to “do a deal” or face military action challenges Tehran’s desire to have it both ways.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/04/iran-trump-nuclear-deal-regional-influence?lang=en

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
‘Had to f—ing throw myself on the floor’: Inmate’s organs shut down after jail blamed ‘extreme’ stomach pain on ‘Hot Cheetos, Takis, and pickles,’ family says in lawsuit. According to the complaint, jail staff did not provide sufficient care for de la Cruz as there was only a medical doctor on hand to see inmates for just “six hours each week.”
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/had-to-f-ing-throw-myself-on-the-floor-inmates-organs-shut-down-after-jail-blamed-extreme-stomach-pain-on-hot-cheetos-takis-and-pickles-family-says-in-lawsuit/

Outrage Over John Scott, Jr.’s Arrest and Death Intensifies As Leaked Security Video Shows Officers Dragging His Body. The arrest of John Daniel “LJ” Scott Jr., a 39-year-old from Decatur, Alabama has sparked intense outrage after a disturbing leaked video shows the troubling treatment he received while in police custody, ultimately leading to his death.
https://hollywoodunlocked.com/outrage-over-john-scott-jr-s-arrest-and-death-intensifies-as-leaked-security-video-shows-officers-dragging-his-body/

# LGBTQ / Gender
Guantanamo Bay Guards Forced Trans Woman to Expose Herself to Male Detainees, Migrant Claims
https://www.latintimes.com/guantanamo-bay-guards-forced-trans-woman-expose-herself-male-detainees-migrant-claims-582127

LGBT+ community outraged after gay makeup artist with no criminal history is deported to mega-prison in El Salvador
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/gay-venezuelan-makeup-artist-deported-b2743321.html

Trump voters will have blood on their hands due to the administration’s lethal assault on queer kids. They knew instinctively, even then, what some adults refused to admit, and that is Trump’s reemergence would unleash an all-out assault on their rights, their dignity, and their very existence.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-voters-blood-hands-due-120003135.html

New 400-Page HHS Report Condemns Gender-Affirming Care For Youths. It’s unclear who wrote the report, which snubs the advice and recommendations of top medical groups. It was immediately criticized by pediatric groups and transgender rights advocates.
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/new-400-page-hhs-report-condemns-gender-affirming-care-for-youths/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to slash taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR, two media outlets the White House accused of being biased.
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/05/02/trump-signs-executive-order-directing-federal-funding-cuts-to-pbs-and-npr/

# Medical / Health News
‘Health concerns are real’: Trump nixed program stopping human waste from going into homes
https://www.rawstory.com/dei-climate-change-alabama/

Aetna Is Leaving ACA Marketplace. Aetna will exit the individual markets in 2026, less than five years after making a return to this space.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/aetna-exit-aca-exchanges-2026#:~:text=Editor’s%20note%3A%20This%20story%20was,a%20return%20to%20this%20space

CVS confirms 1m patients across 17 states will lose coverage as CEO warns of ‘pharmacy deserts’
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14146485/cvs-lose-coverage-aetna-obamacare-ceo-pharmacy-deserts/

‘Last of Us’-style plant fungus infects a human in first-ever known case. Research previously revealed that back in 2023, a man contracted a serious case of silver leaf disease – a fungal infection which usually only affects plants.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/fungus-infection-humans-2671877271

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies. At the direction of the Trump administration, the federal Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies are purging its websites of information and data on a broad array of topics — from adolescent health to LGBTQ+ rights to HIV.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites

Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban. The bill, which must still go through the House, received unanimous approval from the upper chamber.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-senate-abortion-ban-clarification-bill/

New York makes it easier to commit people with severe mental illnesses. The change, which Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed, points to broadening Democratic support for coercive approaches to mental health crises.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/new-york-makes-it-easier-to-commit-people-with-severe-mental-illnesses-00322145

# Medical Science
Study: Newly Discovered Cannabinoids From Cannabis Flowers Show Antitumor Potential Against Neuroblastoma. Researchers have announced that they’ve successfully identified a new cannabinoid—cannabielsoxa—produced by the marijuana plant as well as a number of other compounds “reported for the first time from the flowers of C. sativa.”
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/researchers-announce-theyve-discovered-a-new-cannabinoid-in-marijuana/

# Military / General News
The secretary of defense has ordered the Army secretary to cut programs, reduce the number of general officers in the ranks and consolidate offices, commands and headquarters, including a four-star command formed in the previous Trump administration designed to reform its acquisition process.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/05/01/secdef-wields-axe-to-brass-hqs-formations-to-fashion-leaner-army/

Air Force exercises in the Indo-Pacific may soon get even bigger and more robust, as lawmakers move to invest more than $620 million in such efforts.
https://subicbaynavalstation.com/air-force-exercises-in-pacific-could-expand-with-622-million-extra-from-congress/

# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
CCA Fighter Drones Start Ground Testing Ahead of First Flights; New Organization Unveiled. The two prototypes for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program have started ground testing, Air Force Chief Staff Gen. David W. Allvin announced, ahead of a planned first flight this summer.
https://defensescoop.com/2025/05/01/air-force-cca-drones-ground-testing-general-atomics-anduril/

# Recycle / Repurpose / Reuse
Anyone who drinks coffee told not to throw away used granules because they have loads of uses
https://www.themirror.com/lifestyle/food-drink/anyone-who-drinks-coffee-told-1118392

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
Sophisticated new ICE tracking system raises privacy concerns for public. President Donald Trump has set a goal of deporting 1 million people annually, and the new system aims to help prioritize who gets targeted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/ice-deportation-tracking-palantir-thiel/83375538007/

Dystopian eye-scanning tech rolls out in five US states to track your money, identity and every move. At a buzzy event in San Francisco, World announced a series of Apple-like stores, a partnership with dating giant Match Group, and a new mini gadget to scan your eyeballs.
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb-eyeball-scan-launch-us/

Apple notifies victims in 100 countries of spyware targeting. Apple this week sent threat notifications advising users in 100 countries that their phones had been targeted by advanced commercial spyware, according to a victim of the attacks.
https://therecord.media/apple-spyware-victims-notified-countries

# Social Media / Internet
‘Huge’: Reporters in awe at potential impact of Trump’s latest social media threat
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2671879122/

# Space Force
Space Force Special Operations Command is on its way. Space Force already has at least one ‘Space Ranger’ and several “Space Cowboys” who’ve completed an infamous “spur ride” with 1st Infantry Division cavalry scouts. But now the newest military service will have its own special operations component.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/space-force-special-operations-command/

Data Is Fundamental to the Space Force. But Sharing It Is a Challenge. The Space Force relies entirely on data—but it lacks the systems and tools to analyze and share that data properly even within the service, let alone with international partners, officials said
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/data-sharing-space-force/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft wants users to ditch Windows 10 before its imminent death — Using Copilot+ PCs with Recall to upsell Windows 11. A new blog post extols the virtues of AI-ready Copilot+ PCs and paints them as the way forward for users who have unupgradable Windows 10 PCs.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769726/microsoft-really-really-wants-windows-10-users-to-buy-copilot-pcs.html

Inside the Battle Over OpenAI’s Corporate Restructuring. A group of activists is turning to an old playbook to influence the future of one of the world’s most powerful AI companies.
https://www.wired.com/story/open-ai-nonprofit-transition-activism/

The Climate Crisis Threatens Supply Chains. Manufacturers Hope AI Can Help. The Covid-19 pandemic showed just how vulnerable global supply chains are. Climate shocks could pose an even greater risk.
https://aitopics.org/doc/news:60BE95CB

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Drivers risk $50k fines and up to 30 years behind bars under new ‘Bobby’s Law’ – and it’s already being enforced. Montana lawmakers who have been advocating for stricter DUI consequences have passed a House bill that would address this issue, as reported by NBC affiliate KTVH.
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/14148195/bobbys-law-dui-penalty-montana-drunk-driving/

New ‘mobile’ bill could see drivers risk $100 fines – even if they’re not holding cell phone. Under House Bill 1357, fines would rise to $100 to $200 for a first offense and $200 to $300 after that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-house-bill-could-increase-224751301.html

How Insurance Companies Are Quietly Penalizing Drivers With Older Cars. While you’re patting yourself on the back for being financially savvy, your insurance bill may be creeping up, often without explanation. Understanding how and why this happens could save you hundreds each year.
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/insurance-companies-quietly-penalizing-drivers-223010233.html

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# Indigenous
A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System. Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/daughter-reckoning-indian-boarding-school-100000571.html

# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
The Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in university research funding and laid off thousands of employees at federal health agencies, these cuts have profound consequences for the lab animals that serve as the basis for biomedical research. “There are going to be a lot of animals that are going to end up being sacrificed — killed,” said Paul Locke
https://www.rawstory.com/animal-research/

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Military zone along border means new — potentially harsher — penalties for newly detained migrants
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/30/migrants-face-novel-criminal-charge-new-border-zone-new-mexico.html

US begins prosecuting migrants for breaching ‘military zone’ near border. The court filings follow a decision to designate a strip of border land in New Mexico as a ‘national defence area.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/30/us-begins-prosecuting-migrants-for-breaching-military-zone-near-border

UN Experts: Trump Admin’s Deportations to El Salvador Violate International Law. The group of 20 human rights experts signed the statement demanding an end to the “unlawful” deportations.
https://truthout.org/articles/un-experts-trump-admins-deportations-to-el-salvador-violate-international-law/

Justice Department asks Supreme Court to end protected status for 300K Venezuelan migrants. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama, ordered the challengers to respond to the administration’s request by May 8.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/01/trump-supreme-court-venezuelan-migrants-protected-status/83394942007/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
The Government’s Chemical Disaster Tracking Tool Just Went Dark. The Environmental Protection Agency just hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities, after chemical industry lobbyists demanded that the Trump administration take down the public records.
https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Trusted College Kid to Dismantle Regulations With AI: DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations. A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
11 Ways Americans Are Already Seeing The Real-Life Impact Of Trump’s Tariffs So Far. “$89 tariff charges on $64 worth of merchandise. It has begun.” Temu shared a statement, saying, “Due to recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs, our operating expenses have gone up. To keep offering the products you love without compromising on quality, we will be making price adjustment starting April 25, 2025.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscomb/trump-tariff-affects-april-2025

Trump’s economic suicide mission is driving America off a fiscal cliff
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5275242-trump-economic-cliff/

Trump’s Recession Has Begun. It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194655/trump-recession-begun-shipping-tariffs

# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
The US government has a new policy for terminating international students’ legal status: The Trump administration updated its immigration policy to allow visa revocations to trigger immediate termination of international students’ legal status in the U.S. A newly released internal memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Student and Exchange Visitor Program personnel may now terminate Student and Exchange Visitor Information System records if the State Department revokes a student’s visa.
https://san.com/cc/new-government-policy-for-revoking-international-students-legal-status/

Scholarship For Black Med Students Scrapped From University of Alabama at Birmingham As Trump Administration Cries Discrimination
https://www.blackenterprise.com/uabs-scholarship-for-black-med-students-canceled-over-lawsuit/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Too many workers die on the job every year. Trump’s attacks on OSHA will kill more.
https://www.epi.org/blog/too-many-workers-die-on-the-job-every-year-trumps-attacks-on-osha-will-kill-more/

Workers Overheated and Died Under Trump’s Workplace Safety Nominee. As David Keeling led companies’ safety operations, workers fell ill and died amid extreme temperatures. Now he could dismantle federal heat protections.
https://www.levernews.com/workers-overheated-and-died-under-trumps-workplace-safety-nominee/

Trump Quietly Took Away a Living Wage From Thousands of Federal Workers. Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-quietly-took-away-a-living-wage-from-thousands-of-federal-workers/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Offshore oil platforms release toxic pollution into oceans and the air, new global study finds. A groundbreaking investigation led by SkyTruth has plotted and ranked the world’s most polluting offshore oil and gas facilities using advanced satellite technology to highlight the worst persistent oil slicks and greenhouse gas emissions around the world.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/offshore-oil-platform-pollution-exposed-in-world-first-for-ocean/

Trump greenlights deep-sea mining as U.S. companies clash with global law and environmental warnings. Trump’s deep-sea mining order targets China’s mineral advantage, sparking backlash over unethical environmental practices.
https://www.tovima.com/climate/trump-greenlights-executive-order-to-boost-deep-sea-mining/

Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Executive Order: The Race for Critical Minerals Enters Uncharted Waters
https://www.csis.org/analysis/trumps-deep-sea-mining-executive-order-race-critical-minerals-enters-uncharted-waters

Trump Administration, Ukraine Reach Landmark Minerals Deal. US and Ukraine signed a new economic partnership agreement on Wednesday to establish the U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/trump-admin-ukraine-mineral-deal/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump’s first 100 days bring sweeping rollbacks to climate protections and environmental oversight
https://www.dailyclimate.org/trumps-first-100-days-bring-sweeping-rollbacks-to-climate-protections-and-environmental-oversight-2671877102.html

EPA moves to cancel nearly 781 climate justice grants issued under Biden
https://www.ecowatch.com/environmental-justice-grants-cancellations-trump-biden.html

Federal employee cuts igniting fears for fire risks at national parks. The Trump administration has slashed more than 10 percent of the agency’s workforce, with more layoffs expected.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/crazy-forest-service-cuts-ignite-fear-fury-over-wildfire-risks-00301499

Outrage grows over new law that opens door to widespread destruction of country’s natural lands: ‘This is gravely concerning’
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3985200898107-outrage-grows-over-new-law-that-opens-door-to-widespread-destruction-of-countrys-natural-lands-this-is-gravely-concerning?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDYxMDU5NDg3NDI%3D

# Food General News
GOP proposal could slash food aid for millions, new analysis warns. As House Republicans push for deep SNAP cuts and expanded work requirements, experts warn the proposal would strip food assistance from millions of low-income people—including families, older adults, and veterans—without improving employment.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/05/01/gop-proposal-could-slash-food-aid-for-millions-new-analysis-warns/

# Gov / Politics
Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing “homegrowns” to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t “deportation.” It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-jail-u-s-citizens-homegrowns-el-salvador

Trump Dismisses Doug Emhoff. President Donald Trump has dismissed some members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, the White House confirmed on April 30.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fires-biden-appointees-holocaust-museum-board-198c359268f4d12eba95933d18914063

Trump says ‘I know what I’m doing’ before stepping back from global tariffs. President says at National Republican Congressional Committee dinner that world leaders are ‘kissing my ass’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-address-republicans-china-tariffs?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-politics_2025-04-30&utm_term=us-politics&email_hash=3dd0206c24c775c2eb150b32a14844e789cd9d26

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Jail staff laughed at dying veteran left strapped to chair in Texas, suit says: The family of Glenn Earl Smallwood Jr., a 33-year-old U.S. Army veteran needed immediate medical attention but was instead taken to jail and strapped to a restraint chair until he was no longer responsive, is suing over his death, according to their legal counsel.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article305304016.html#storylink=cpy

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump’s DOJ to focus on voter fraud, not voting rights: The Justice Department (DOJ) is quietly dismantling its voting section and redirecting it to target voter fraud, marking an alarming departure from the unit’s longstanding purpose of protecting ballot access.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trumps-doj-to-focus-on-voter-fraud-not-voting-rights/

# LGBTQ / Gender
Democrats push bill to ban discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. “It’s about time here in America,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference. The “Equality Act” aims to add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to law when it comes to employment, housing, public spaces and more.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3985025137533-democrats-push-bill-to-ban-discrimination-against-the-lgbtq-community?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDYxMDYwMzQyNDg%3D

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
FCC commissioner: Trump on a mission to ‘censor and control’ media
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/fcc-democrat-slams-chairman-for-aiding-trumps-campaign-of-censorship/

# Medicare / Medicaid
Those Medicaid Cuts We’ve Been Hearing About Are Starting to Come Into View
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/medicaid-cuts-republicans-trump-budget-bill.html

# Medical / Health News
‘Parkinson’s is a man-made disease.’ A condition shaped less by genetics and more by prolonged exposure to toxicants like air pollution, industrial solvents and, above all, pesticides.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research. NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by RFK Jr.’s department.
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/

# Medical Recalls
# Military / General News
Marine Reserve planning largest mobilization drills in decades
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/04/29/marine-reserve-planning-largest-mobilization-drills-in-decades/

‘This is going to be a challenge’: Military services steeling for impact from civilian resignations. Tens of thousands of civilian employees who work for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force are voluntarily resigning as part of the Defense Department’s effort to trim its workforce, forcing the services to restructure to minimize operational gaps
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-30/military-civilians-resignations-17637481.html

Trump has issued a number of orders affecting the military. Here’s what they do
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277155/trump-military-transgender-dei-iron-dome-orders

# Military Weaponry / Biological Weapons
This unit will be the next to field the Corps’ ship-killing missile
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/04/29/this-unit-will-be-the-next-to-field-the-corps-ship-killing-missile/

# Military / General News / Global
INTERPOL Used by CCP for Global Repression. Inside China’s machinery of repression — and how it crushes dissent around the world. Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/china-transnational-repression-dissent-around-world/

# Nuclear
Exposing Iran’s Leverage in Nuclear Talks With the US: Can the US Strike a Deal?
https://www.ntd.com/exposing-irans-leverage-in-nuclear-talks-with-the-us-can-the-us-strike-a-deal_1061550.html

# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home. After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/30/israel-palestine-us-ai-surveillance-state/

# Social / Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Walmart reinstates minimum basket fee for SNAP orders. The move to reinstate the fee, which was waived during the COVID-19 pandemic, comes as the largest U.S. retailer is bracing for a tough year ahead as its customers, who typically skew low income, temper spending.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-04-30/walmart-reinstates-minimum-basket-fee-for-snap-orders

Worsening SNAP’s Harsh Work Requirement Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income People. Families With Children, Older Adults, Veterans Among Those Who Would Be Harmed
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/worsening-snaps-harsh-work-requirement-would-take-food-assistance-away

# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
GOP megabill would hit vehicle owners with new annual charge: ‘Are you out of your fricking mind?’ Republicans balk at new passenger car fee proposal. It doesn’t bode well for a proposal championed by the chair of the House Transportation Committee.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/29/congress/republicans-balk-at-new-car-fee-proposal-00317701

Why federal lawmakers charge you $20 for driving your car. Proposed fee part of effort to get rid of federal gas tax
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/fee-car-hybrid-electric-vehicles-b2741794.html

# Veterans / VA
After recent years of reform, vets fear Trump cuts to VA will undo lifeline health care, research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uToE5nBg_8U

# Water
Trump administration weighs rollback of PFAS drinking water rules amid court challenge
https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/04/the-pfas-drinking-water-rule-under-the-second-trump

Thousands of Water Systems Across US Have Dangerous Cancer-Causing Chemicals. Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants.
https://truthout.org/articles/thousands-of-water-systems-across-us-have-dangerous-cancer-causing-chemicals/

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