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Voices, The Peoples News

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

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Venezuelan man released by ICE reunites with brother in need of kidney transplant.  He came to Chicago to donate a kidney to his brother, Jose Alfredo Pacheco, who is in end-stage renal failure. Gonzalez was granted humanitarian parole and is now eligible to apply for a work permit.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-man-released-ice-reunites-224740575.html

Florida is home to about 341,000 immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti who may soon lose residency, work permits
https://theconversation.com/florida-is-home-to-about-341-000-immigrants-from-venezuela-and-haiti-who-may-soon-lose-residency-work-permits-251791#:~:text=The%20expiration%20of%20TPS%20potentially,Others%20will%20go%20underground

Ukrainian refugees in US received erroneous deportation threats. The Trump administration falsely ordered Ukrainian refugees residing under humanitarian parole to leave the US within seven days, causing significant distress among vulnerable immigrants who fled the war.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/05/ukrainian-refugees-in-us-received-erroneous-deportation-threats/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
MAGA activists are asking why no ‘arrests’ have been made over fraud sniffed out by DOGE
https://www.rawstory.com/why-no-arrests-doge-maga/

DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/05/doge-reportedly-planning-a-hackathon-to-build-mega-api-for-irs-data/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
U.S. Senate passed a major budget resolution after a rare overnight session. The budget framework supporting President Donald Trump’s agenda passed 51-48. It’s an important step for Congressional Republicans seeking to pass President Trump’s ambitious agenda on taxes, energy and the border. But the hard part is still to come.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/senate-republicans-vote-budget-resolution-trump-border-tax-cuts

Trump tariffs are weakening the dollar instead of boosting it, further adding to the price Americans will pay for costlier imports. That goes against what markets had anticipated before he launched his trade war. The weaker greenback makes imports more expensive, adding to the costs from Trump’s aggressive import taxes.
https://fortune.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-us-dollar-import-prices-exchange-rates-economy-recession/

Mark Cuban warns that Trump’s tariff plan plus DOGE cuts could lead the country to ‘a far worse situation than 2008’
https://www.aol.com/mark-cuban-warns-trumps-tariff-034040151.html

Trump’s tariffs are not ‘common sense’—and they’re putting America’s credibility and ‘exorbitant privilege’ at risk
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariffs-not-common-sense-165210672.html

The S&P 500 fell almost 5 percent on Thursday, its worst drop since June 2020, as allies and adversaries alike criticized President Trump’s action and weighed their responses.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/03/business/trump-tariffs

Trump is a drunk driver taking the economy off the cliff into a needless recession—as we warned
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-drunk-driver-taking-economy-144530081.html

US International Trade Deficit Narrows in February. America’s trade deficit for February narrowed down month-over-month, with exports rising and imports registering a slight decline, according to latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-trade-deficit-narrows-february-2025-04-03/

# Education
Director Of The National Museum Of African American History And Culture Is Placed On ‘Indefinite Leave’ Amid Pressure Campaign. The Smithsonian declined to comment on personnel matters.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/director-national-african-american-museum-on-leave-2627356

New York Says It Won’t Comply With Order to Dismantle DEI in Schools. New York state officials have formally rejected the Trump administration’s order that public schools certify they have ended diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, potentially putting federal education funding on the line.
https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-schools-federal-funding-ae605932fa7fa6605f89574906a346f7

# Food General News
New Jersey congressman proposes law after death of 21-year-old blamed on Panera Bread’s highly caffeinated ‘Charged Lemonade; drinks. It would require energy drink manufacturers to disclose the amount of caffeine on labels and push federal agencies to better study the effects of caffeine on certain communities, including adolescents and pregnant people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/04/03/death-panera-charged-lemonade-caffeine-law/82795801007/

USDA cuts hit small farms as Trump showers billions on big farms. USDA’s local food programs specifically aided some of the nation’s most disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, including newcomers, small farmers and those who have faced racial discrimination.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/usda-cuts-hit-small-farms-090003692.html

# General News
Trump admin fired USAID workers in Myanmar earthquake zone: They were in Myanmar to assess damage from the earthquake and to report back on ways the U.S. could help
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5234643-trump-admin-fired-usaid-workers-myanmar-earthquake/

# Gov / Politics
‘Turbulence far away’: As everyday folks were checking in on their 401ks and worrying about losing their Social Security payments, Trump’s family was pushing numerous separate money-making schemes, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-turbulence-market-meltdown-money/

Forget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the “Bigger Picture” of Trump’s Misrule. Cost-of-living issues are important, but there’s an even more critical story that’s crying out for Democrats’ attention.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193458/trump-immigration-backlash-legal-residents

Amid State Abductions, Trump’s Fascism Is No Longer Creeping — It’s Here. Masked plainclothes police abducted a graduate student without filing charges. Her apparent “crime”? Writing an op-ed.
https://truthout.org/articles/amid-state-abductions-trumps-fascism-is-no-longer-creeping-its-here/

# Gov / Politics / Global
Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ Leaders Convicted For Protesting COVID Lockdowns. The leaders of the anti-COVID lockdown “Freedom Convoy” in Canada were convicted on “mischief” charges Friday, according to multiple sources.
https://www.aol.com/canadian-freedom-convoy-leaders-convicted-154922418.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Justice Department suspends lawyer who criticized Trump over deporting Maryland man to a prison in El Salvador
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5234514-doj-lawyer-who-criticized-admin-over-maryland-mans-deportation-placed-on-leave/

# Medical / Health News
NHS hospitals plagued by rats, cockroaches and silverfish, staff say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-unison-rats-england-hospitals-b2727159.html

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs. Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/maternal-child-health-cuts

Republicans pass budget bill amendment aimed at protecting Medicaid, Medicare
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5233608-republicans-amendment-medicaid-medicare/

Judge Issues Permanent Block on Trump Admin’s Change to NIH Indirect Cost Rate.  The order, supported by both sides, sets up next legal battle over NIH contracts
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/nih-indirect-costs-federal-permanent-injunction/

# Military / DOD / General News
‘Inexplicable’: Lawmakers condemn sudden firing of Cyber Command general
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-04/haugh-cyber-command-national-security-fired-trump-17367643.html

Hegseth is to travel to Panama for meetings following Trump’s demands for the canal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Panama next week to meet its leaders following recent U.S. allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the critical Panama Canal shipping lane
https://www.dnronline.com/associated_press/national/hegseth-is-to-travel-to-panama-for-meetings-following-trumps-demands-for-the-canal/article_140eced4-b4ea-57cb-8d35-865066c635a2.html

# Military / General News / Global
Putin deploys nuclear-capable bombers and missiles in terrifying attack on Ukraine
https://www.aol.com/mark-cuban-warns-trumps-tariff-034040151.html

# NASA / Space
Musk’s SpaceX receives multibillion-dollar US government contract. Musk’s company SpaceX is to use its rockets to launch military satellites into space. The contract is worth around $5.9 billion, the US military’s Space Force announced on Saturday.
https://www.tag24.com/entertainment/celebrities/elon-musk/elon-musks-spacex-receives-multibillion-dollar-us-government-contract-3374773

# Social / Social Programs
Protesters Across the Country Tell Trump and Musk: ‘Hands Off’ Our Country
https://time.com/7275249/protesters-across-us-global-rally-against-trump-musk/

Trump takes aim at black history in executive order. He says some exhibits and stories that are told are “anti-American.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHCDZGmjfU

Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says: Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse. “They have these ‘concepts of plans’ that they’re hoping are sticking but in reality, are really hurting American people,” said a longtime SSA employee and military veteran who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “No one knows what’s going on. They’re just coming up with ideas at the top of their head.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220212644

# Veterans / VA
Defense officials considering cuts to military treatment facilities. “There will be some changes in services across the system,” he said. The process of evaluating the military treatment facilities started “many, many moons ago,” he added.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/04/03/defense-officials-considering-cuts-to-military-treatment-facilities/

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Voices, The Peoples News

April 5, 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
Maryland man deported to El Salvador must be returned to US. The judge issued the order requiring the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia following an extraordinary hearing during which the government admitted that he’d been deported in violation of federal law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/el-salvador-deportation-ruling-trump-administration-00272872

Florida is home to about 341,000 immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti who may soon lose residency, work permits
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-home-341-000-immigrants-121719862.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US. As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/04/01/cheap-subcompact-car-may-soon-be-gone/

Republicans Are Trying to Pull a Fast One to Extend Trump’s Tax Cuts. They’re trying to use a clever accounting trick to pretend that their new tax legislation is costless.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/republicans-tax-cuts-current-policy-baseline-deficit-budget-economy.html?pay=1743859624011&support_journalism=please

Republicans Advance Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts As Trump Threatens To Blow Up Economy. Tariffs? What tariffs? Senate Republicans are rushing to pass tax cuts while odds of an economic recession spike.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tariffs-tax-cus_n_67f00f60e4b0bb67eb7add13

“He’s Not Listening to Anyone or Anything”: Why Wall Street Bent the Knee to Trump on Tariffs
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-wall-street-tariffs-silence?srsltid=AfmBOorOUMYpRNpm5KQCkzCXXjUJCS5Qx5XyM-D4dl2ARlN2zI151KIc

Trump Defends His Tariffs as They Tank Stocks Again. As markets around the world continued their violent reaction to the new U.S. tariffs unveiled this week, with the S&P 500 falling nearly 6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 5.5%
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20250404-Trump-Defends-His-Tariffs-Markets-Plunge-Again

Senate Moves Ahead on GOP Budget Plan as Fiscal Experts Cry Foul. Senate Republicans are on track to pass their revised budget blueprint after voting last night to kick off debate on the plan — a key step toward their goal of enacting trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/04/congress/budget-experts-of-all-stripes-howl-about-senate-republicans-price-tag-abuse-00271999

‘How do you negotiate with this?’ Rage as Trump suggests he’s crashing market on purpose
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-shares-video-claiming-hes-crashing-stock-market-purpose-2055675

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
Beijing responds to Trump’s aggressive new tariffs with 34% duties on all U.S. goods, rare-earth export controls, and sanctions on U.S. firms, signaling a major escalation in the global trade war
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58250/trade-war-escalates-as-china-hits-back-with-34-tariffs-on-all-u-s-goods

IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/irs-plans-to-cut-up-to-25-of-staff-starting-with-closing-its-civil-rights-office-ap-sources-say/articleshow/119997505.cms?from=mdr

Trump declares national emergency giving him power to regulate imports, announces new tariffs
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3946663926055-trump-declares-national-emergency-giving-him-power-to-regulate-imports-announces-new-tariffs?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDM4NTc3MDY5MzU%3D

‘Everyone Is Terrified’: Business Leaders and Republicans Mum on Tariffs as Markets Crater
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/everyone-is-terrified-business-leaders-and-republicans-mum-on-tariffs-as-markets-crater/

Amid Trump Tariff Chaos, DOGE ‘Minions’ Infiltrate Federal Trade Commission. “Corporations get let off the hook, Musk gets insider information, and the American people get hosed.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doge-infiltrates-ftc

New Projected Cost of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts for the Rich: ‘Staggering’ $7 Trillion. “What Republicans are trying to jam through Congress right now is a level of economic recklessness we’ve never seen before,” said a group of Democratic lawmakers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cost-of-trump-tax-cuts

# Education / Schools
Head Start at risk of elimination after 58 years serving toddlers and children in low-income families
https://hechingerreport.org/head-start-is-turning-60-will-the-federal-child-care-program-make-it-to-61/

Trump is cracking down on universities just like Hitler targeted academics who didn’t bow to his will. Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann fled Nazi oppression; American intellectuals are feeling a sense of deja vu
https://forward.com/opinion/709612/trump-hitler-target-universities-columbia-tufts-einstein-brecht/

Trump sends list of demands to Harvard University — and if school doesn’t comply they’ll lose $9B
https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/usa/trump-threatens-9-bn-harvard-funding-over-anti-semitism-1105976

Supreme Court greenlights Trump administration’s controversial cuts to teacher-training funds amid legal battle. Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/supreme-court-lets-trump-administration-cut-teacher-training-money-for-now

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The Energy Department identifies thousands of nonessential positions at risk of DOGE cuts
https://apnews.com/article/energy-federal-employees-layoffs-rif-doge-db7b6446928095c26bfe79c608e1e8e7

HHS fires entire LIHEAP staff and the program’s future is uncertain. Here’s what to know
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hhs-fires-entire-liheap-staff-141029029.html

Next Question: Why has the Department of Energy awarded a billion-dollar contract to a Colorado storage company?
https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-awards-183-million-contract-for-new-energy-conservation-measures-at-the-dfc-01132025

The Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a $1.4 billion management and operating contract for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to “lesser-known entity” Strategic Storage Partners, LLC. Thoughts?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/comments/1jr3zo2/the_department_of_energy_doe_has_awarded_a_14/?rdt=62523

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
U.S. to allow logging in national forest to spur timber production amid trade war. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a new policy Friday that will allow logging in national forests. In a memo, Rollins said the move follows an executive order Trump signed last month to immediately expand U.S. timber production.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/environment/2025/04/04/usda-brooke-roling-national-forest-logging

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Judge orders Trump administration to resume FEMA grants — for real this time
https://san.com/cc/federal-judge-rules-for-trump-administration-to-release-fema-funds/

# General News
U.S. Peace Corps says Musk’s DOGE has arrived at its HQ
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-arrives-peace-corps-hq-070759979.html

# Gov / Politics
The legal profession is not resisting authoritarianism. It is formatting it. Coaching it. Polishing it for public consumption.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/paul-weiss-skadden-big-law-trump-fail.html

Where DOGE Is Taking Us, It just DOGEn’t make sense.
https://deepcast.fm/episode/where-doge-is-taking-us

Dem AGs sue Trump admin over order eliminating several federal agencies
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5232807-dem-ags-trump-executive-order-federal-agencies/

Mark Cuban Calls Out Government Trap for American Seniors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcCSGwqPLfw

‘Things will get bad’: Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump’s ‘mental illness’ is profound threat
https://www.rawstory.com/2671675971/

With 42% of Project 2025 Enacted in the United States, Heritage Foundation Puts Europe in Its Crosshairs as Next Conquest. Here’s a look at how Heritage and its partners say they want to make Europe “great again” by returning to “traditional family values.”
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/with-42-of-project-2025-enacted-in-the-united-states-heritage-foundation-puts-europe-in-its-crosshairs-as-next-conquest/

Congress considering limiting president’s power
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/04/congress/don-bacon-tariff-powers-bill-00273307

Schumer on Trump’s new tariffs: A ‘huge tax on American families’ to ‘help billionaires get a tax cut’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5229140-schumer-trump-new-tariffs/

# Media
Facebook Announces Official End Date For Fact-Checking Program. Meta will close its fact-checking program across Facebook, Instagram and Threads on Monday, marking a major shift in the company’s content moderation strategy.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/meta-announces-officially-end-fact-checking-across-its-us-platforms

# Medical / Health News
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/layoffs-begin-at-hhs-agencies-responsible-for-research-tracking-disease-and-regulating-food

DOGE Cuts Shutter 50 Measles Clinics Amid Texas Outbreak. On Monday, the Trump Administration directed federal agencies to pause the disbursement of loans and grants.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-cuts-shutter-50-measles-clinics-amid-texas-outbreak/

Trump Admin Guts Entire Teams Studying IVF, Maternal Health. Trump is dismantling the little-known Division of Reproductive Health. It was critical in helping pregnant people and pushing for better systems for IVF.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/hhs-ivf-trump-elon-cuts-reproductive-health-mass-firings-division-of-reproductive-health/

Reproductive health clinics are losing federal funding
https://newrepublic.com/post/193447/trump-cuts-planned-parenthood

# Military / DOD / General News
Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf. The president is hiding on the green as markets react to his tariff regime, and four fallen soldiers are returned to the United States
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-skips-transfer-soldiers-killed-lithuania-liv-golf-1235310901/

Vets and Spouses Outraged Over Trump Blowing Off Dignified Transfer of Slain Soldiers for Golf Event
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/vets-and-spouses-outraged-over-trump-blowing-off-dignified-transfer-of-slain-soldiers-for-golf-event/

Army Mulling a Dramatic Reduction of Tens of Thousands of Troops
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

Air Force Academy superintendent proposes cutting civilian staff
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/air-force-academy-civilian-cuts/

Naval Academy removes close to 400 books linked to DEI following DoD order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/naval-academy-dei-books

# Military / General News / Global
Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery Object Into Orbit After Acting Strangely. The classified Kosmos satellite trio has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/secretive-russian-military-satellites-release-mystery-object-into-orbit

# Other Stuff
‘Major disruption’ has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say. A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/polar-vortex/early-interesting-end-2024-25-polar-vortex-season

Winter isn’t over just yet. A major shift in the weather pattern could have millions across the United States once again reaching for their winter coats later this month before milder springlike air arrives for good.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chain-reaction-could-unleash-polar-145333241.html

Shifting Winds: How a wavier polar jet stream causes extreme weather. The once relatively stable waves of the polar jet stream are now more often plunging deeper and climbing higher, leading to severe consequences for billions of people.
https://arctic-council.org/news/shifting-winds-how-a-wavier-polar-jet-stream-causes-extreme-weather-events/

# Security / Surveillance
NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree. US President Donald Trump acknowledged he has taken advice from a far-right media personality about who to fire.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/pentagon-confirms-four-star-generals-firing-amid-trump-security-purge

Trump fires NSC officials after far-right activist raises concerns to him about staff loyalty
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-nsc-officials-day-040815827.html

# Social / Social Programs
Social Security Faces Thousands More Job Cuts Even With Service in Tailspin
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/social-security-tech-team-layoffs/index.html

HUD moves to kill public housing assistance for ‘sanctuary’ cities and states. HUD Secretary Scott Turner Doubles Down on Ensuring HUD Resources Do Not Benefit Illegal Aliens
https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-051

# Veterans / VA
VA to shutter home loan bailout program for veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs will end a controversial mortgage bailout program that provides “last resort” assistance to veterans facing foreclosure and holding VA-backed loans, the agency announced.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-04/veterans-home-loans-bailout-17366974.html

# Water
‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers. Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31032025/water-is-the-new-oil-as-texas-cities-square-off-over-aquifers/

# Weather
Map Shows Millions At Risk Of 115 mph ‘Jet Streak’ Tornadoes This Weekend
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-millions-risk-jet-streak-tornadoes-2055241

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# Indigenous
Native tribe in Minnesota says cyber incident knocked out healthcare, casino systems
https://therecord.media/native-minnesota-tribe-says-cyber-incident-disrupted-healthcare-casino

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Marriage green card changes: The Trump administration has introduced some changes to the green card application process for married couples, including updated forms, marriage interviews, and increased financial disclosures
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-marriages-changes-trump-administration-explained-2054852

Texas Pastor Detained by ICE While Dropping Daughter to School, Family Says. The sudden detention has left his wife and children in shock and scrambling for answers, as they lean on their faith and community for support.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-pastor-detained-ice-daughter-school-2054650

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Water Fluoridation Linked to Autism, Other Developmental Delays in New Study
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/water-fluoridation-autism-adhd-study-bmc-pediatrics/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump: Asked about the economic collapse that resulted from his massive tariffs, Trump said “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on, and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is.”  Right now, this ‘medical operation’ is crippling Americans.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193592/trump-economy-crashing-good-actually

Trump Delusionally Brags About Tariffs as Stock Market Crashes. Donald Trump’s expectations are not playing out so well against reality.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-delusionally-brags-tariffs-stock-160135833.html

Senate advances groundwork for passing Trump’s tax agenda. The resolution includes framework instructions for how both chambers can eventually pass a bill through budget reconciliation, which would bypass a filibuster.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5230926-senate-advances-trump-budget-resolution/

The Economist Slams ‘The Madness of King Donald’ With Scathing Takedown of Tariffs. Trump’s tariffs have been branded “utterly deluded” and “flat-out nonsense” by the publication.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-economist-slams-the-madness-of-king-donald-with-scathing-takedown-of-tariffs/

They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions. Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/

Retailers like Shein and Temu can no longer avoid tariffs on low-cost items, your online shopping packages coming directly from China are about to get much more expensive.
https://www.theverge.com/news/642601/donald-trump-tariffs-de-minimis-shein-temu

‘Dangerously naive’: Lawmaker flags Trump’s ulterior motive for ‘new super dangerous tool.’ The tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief,” Senator Chris Murphy wrote on his social media.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ulterior-motive-tariff-murphy/

Gap, Nike and Levi’s took years to diversify from China. Now sky high tariffs on nations like Vietnam are ruining plans and tanking their stocks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gap-nike-levi-took-years-160843472.html

Corruption hunters say Trump’s USAID cuts just made organized crime groups “much more dangerous”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/corruption-hunters-trumps-usaid-cuts-160006460.html

# Education / Schools
Librarians Across America Are Calling Out The Trump Administration And Their Reasons Will Make Your Blood Boil
https://www.buzzfeed.com/brittanywong/librarians-trump-administration-cuts

Homeschool Police Turn Team-Minded Parents Into Criminals. parents can go to jail if families team up for homeschooling in Wisconsin. The state flatly prohibits homeschool collaboration. Joining an after-school soccer team or Girl Scout troop is fine
https://amac.us/newsline/education/homeschool-police-turn-team-minded-parents-into-criminals/#:~:text=They%20check%20in%20during%20tough,Girl%20Scout%20troop%20is%20fine

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Explainer: The surprising boom in geothermal energy
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/has-geothermal-energy-gone-cold/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Geologists have confirmed the emergence of a new thermal vent in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thermal-steam-vent-grabbing-attention-022754500.html

Mexico to dump millions of gallons of sewage into Tijuana River, which will mostly likely flow into the United States, a decades-old problem that has posed environmental repercussions for beaches and communities, officials said. US continues to be a dumping ground
https://www.aol.com/mexico-dump-millions-gallons-sewage-230826234.html

# Food General News
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say: “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say

Gerber, Beech-Nut, Others Will Face Lawsuit Over Baby Food Contamination
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/gerber-beech-nut-others-will-face-lawsuit-over-baby-food-contamination/

# General News
Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees. The administration’s cuts to resettlement aid and services are sowing uncertainty and fear among recent arrivals from Afghanistan
https://newrepublic.com/article/193577/afghan-refugees-trump-cut-resettlement

Tucker Carlson says he ‘immediately’ sold his new Chevy truck after noticing a shocking feature. ‘All of a sudden at a gas station, it says, “Stop, we’re downloading information from the internet,”‘ he claimed in during an interview with gearhead Casey Putsch.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/3948473093292-tucker-carlson-immediately-sells-his-new-chevy-truck-after-startling-message-appeared-on-the-dash

# Gov / Politics
Democratic attorneys general join legal fight over Trump’s election order, A group of 19 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its sweeping executive order targeting election rules and administration across the country, “Neither the Constitution nor Congress has authorized the President to impose documentary proof of citizenship requirements or to modify state mail-ballot procedures.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/ags-sue-trump-over-his-order-overhauling-us-elections-00270102

Forget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the “Bigger Picture” of Trump’s Misrule.  The party does not have a unified response to Trump’s worst abuses, and that’s in part because it willingly enabled some of them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193458/trump-immigration-backlash-legal-residents

Senate overwhelmingly rejects Bernie Sanders’ bid to block billions in Israeli military aid. The resolutions intended to block the Trump administration’s planned sale of bombs and other weaponry to Israel that was estimated to be worth $8.8 billion.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-overwhelmingly-rejects-bernie-sanders-bid-block-billions-israeli

Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k. The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”
https://truthout.org/articles/only-15-senators-back-sanders-bid-to-block-arms-to-israel-as-gaza-deaths-top-50k/

Trump rages as China strikes back with trade war retaliation. Wall Street faces another brutal beating as stocks plunged after China unveiled retaliatory taxes in response to Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, threatening global trade war.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-tariffs-china-vietnam-retaliatory-news-9ad8bc44

Donald Trump Accused of ‘Destroying the Country’ and ‘Ruining Lives’ for ‘His Own Ego’ as He Boasts About ‘Liberation Day’ in America. As Trump was called the “laughing stock of the world,” a fifth individual accused the president of “destroying the country for your own ego,” while another alleged he was “ruining so many lives.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/donald-trump-accused-of-destroying-the-country-and-ruining-lives-for-his-own-ego-as-he-boasts-about-liberation-day-in-america/ar-AA1Cfuez?ocid=MD12O1

We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/we-have-a-government-of-billionaires-by-billionaires-and-for-billionaires/

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘When empires fall’: British columnist aghast at ‘single stupidest thing’ Trump has done
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-recession-2671669265/

Hamas says it will release all Israeli hostages at once to end the war: report
https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/world-news/hamas-says-it-will-release-all-israeli-hostages-at-once-to-end-the-war-report/

# Media
USPS changes begin: How could your mail be affected
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/usps-mail-post-office-changes-begin/

# Medical / Health News
Deadly Dengue Fever Rises as the US Cuts All Climate-Health Funding. Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
https://grist.org/politics/dengue-climate-change-trump-cuts-nih-funding-mosquito-borne-disease/

Lawmaker issues warning over Georgia woman arrested after miscarriage. A Georgia woman was found unconscious after having a miscarriage, then arrested when police accused her of illegally disposing of the fetal remains.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/georgia-woman-arrested-miscarriage-fetus-remains_n_67eec439e4b0d734a36dce89

US Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-supreme-court-medicaid-south-carolina-d1c2b4d954ac2764d407dcdff76267ff

Trump Administration Fires Thousands of U.S. Health Workers, Putting Wellbeing of Americans at ‘Serious Risk’
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-health-workers-firings-cdc-hhs.html

Ex-CDC Director Pushes Extra MMR Shot for Babies, as Arizona Reports Suspected Measles Case Was ‘Rare’ Vaccine Reaction
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/former-cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-extra-mmr-shot-babies-measles/

# Other Stuff
Scientists Drilled The Bottom Of Great Blue Hole And Uncovered 5,700 Years Of History. “A total of 694 event layers were identified. They display a distinct regional trend of increasing storminess in the southwestern Caribbean, which follows an orbitally driven shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-truly-scary-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-belizes-great-blue-hole

# Pharmaceuticals
Big Pharma gravy train hits the skids under Trump, panicking revolving-door regulators, investors. Ex-vaccine regulator Peter Marks promoted “ineffective therapy that gave patients false hope, eroded trust in the regulatory process and provided nothing but risk and cost to Americans,” Stanford pediatrics professor says.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/big-pharma-gravy-train-hits-skids-under-trump-panicking-revolving-door

# Social / Social Programs
Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data. The Administration, Musk, and DOGE have engaged in four types of activities that each present a clear danger to Social Security
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-administration-doge-activities-risk-ssa-operations-and-security-of

DOGE’s plans for Social Security are a ‘backdoor’ way to cut payments. ‘This is the most serious threat I’ve seen to it’
https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/doge-plans-social-security-back-door-cut-payments-mark-cuban-former-official/

Musk’s ‘illegal’ meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671661960/

The Social Security Fairness Act May Change How You Pay Medicare Premiums
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/the-social-security-fairness-act-may-change-how-you-pay-medicare-premiums#:~:text=If%20your%20Social%20Security%20check,small%20to%20cover%20the%20costs

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
New Test Spots Super-Resistant Honey Bees as Colony Losses Mount. The international research team, which included scientists from Vermont, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Australia, found that the UBeeO test identifies colonies resistant to several key threats: Varroa mites, multiple viruses, Vairimorpha (previously known as Nosema), and chalkbrood fungus.
https://scienceblog.com/564950/htmlcopybuzz-worthy-discovery-new-test-spots-super-resistant-honey-bees-as-colony-losses-mount#:~:text=The%20international%20research%20team%2C%20which,Nosema)%2C%20and%20chalkbrood%20fungus

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Not Just El Salvador: Trump Looking for Other Places to Deport People. Donald Trump is looking for other countries to help him defy a judge’s order.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193491/donald-trump-el-salvador-other-countries-deportations

A man came to the US to donate a kidney to his brother. ICE showing up as his doorstep interrupted that plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-man-wants-donate-kidney-070035098.html

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades. President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing.
https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits. A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health complications caused by their products.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2025-04-02/iowa-bill-shields-pesticide-companies-bayer-roundup-cancer-lawsuits

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins. The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands

Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base. Donald Trump imposed tariffs on an island inhabited only by American soldiers.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193523/donald-trump-tariffs-us-military-base

Trump has done it, imposing 10 percent tariff on all trading partners and double-digits tariffs on dozens of other countries
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/trump-tariff-trade-partners-liberation-day-00267350

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the wealthy. Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/gop-plans-to-sidestep-senate-rules-to-force-4-6-trillion-tax-giveaway-for-the-wealthy/

# Education / Schools
Bill to close two schools for developmentally disabled clears House committee
https://www.news-journal.com/bill-to-close-two-schools-for-developmentally-disabled-clears-house-committee/article_2996c85c-244f-51af-90cf-6ab00a5dfcdd.html

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say: A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
https://www.wired.com/story/xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-research-probe-china/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/2025/04/03/cities_wanting_to_ban_gas_just_got_a_big_victory_1101252.html

Texas lawmakers move to restrict growth of wind and solar power
https://www.ehn.org/texas-lawmakers-move-to-restrict-growth-of-wind-and-solar-power-2671662717.html

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
The Ring of Fire Is Heating Up—Here’s What That Means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLNaRJXHvw

# Food General News
Latest NewsUSDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.’ More than $1 billion in assistance has been cut; millions of families could be affected.
https://capitalandmain.com/usda-cuts-hit-food-banks-across-the-country-this-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-3

Common Cooking Oil Fuels Aggressive Breast Cancer Growth. A dietary fat found in everyday foods from french fries to salad dressings may specifically drive the growth of the most difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer, according to groundbreaking research published last week in Science.
https://scienceblog.com/564914/common-cooking-oil-fuels-aggressive-breast-cancer-growth

Federal government cancels almost $1M in food shipments to Second Harvest Food Bank
https://www.yahoo.com/news/second-harvest-food-bank-hit-211414361.html

# General News
Trump official gives clearest indication yet that there are plans to put Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/burgum-trump-face-mount-rushmore-b2724363.html

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars. Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of the order on “saving” the institution from “divisive, race-centered ideology.”
https://theconversation.com/with-its-executive-order-targeting-the-smithsonian-the-trump-administration-opens-up-a-new-front-in-the-history-wars-253397

Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-federal-buildings-them-historic-110100707.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump is about to bomb Iran:  US & Israel planning to unleash HUGE Iran blitz to destroy Ayatollah’s chilling nuke strength in ‘long overdue’ attack. An IDF source told The Sun Israeli forces have been working for months to clear the path for a major strike on Iran
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13923139/america-israel-iran-blitz-nuke-attack/

Take Trump’s Third-Term Threats Seriously. The president’s vaulting ambition may run afoul of the Constitution, but you can’t rule out the Supreme Court providing him with an assist.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-trumps-flirtation-third-term-might-really-about-2053853

Trump’s Latest Power Grab Aims at the Ballot Box: Trump’s 96th executive order of 2025 finally addressed the bugaboo of phantom election fraud and arrogated to the president powers held jointly by the states (which operate federal elections) and by Congress (which has explicit constitutional powers to regulate federal elections).
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-latest-power-grab-aims-at-the-ballot-box.html

Trump’s illegitimate power grab brings US closer to dictatorship. Experts warn president’s blatant violations of law could upend US government’s system of checks and balances
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis

This Is Not About Antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump Dismantling the American Dream. I accompanied one of the students who fled Trump’s crackdown. It gave me clarity on what’s at stake.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/01/trump-ice-deport-students-immigrants-american-dream/

Trump officials are analyzing how much it will cost the federal government to take control of Greenland
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-greenland-denmark-jd-vance-b2726308.html

Trump Imposes Trillions Of Dollars In New Taxes On Americans. After weeks of hype, Trump announced new 10% across-the-board tariffs, giving the nation its biggest tax increase in decades.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariff-tax-increase_n_67ed8bf6e4b085e8ccf43e9a

‘Bit of a mess’: NY Times finds many of Trump’s executive orders make no sense
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-muddle-of-exec-orders-are-more-for-show-than-offering-any-real-substance/

Ray Dalio says tariffs have an important consequence: They can prepare the US for a great conflict or war
https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalio-tariffs-prepare-us-great-clash-peer-war-consequence-2025-4

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
A Lawyer’s Crusade Against “Copaganda.” How police and the media manufacture surges in crime
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-crusade-against-copaganda-100000363.html

‘Patently frivolous’: Lawyer slams appeal of cops seen on bodycam shooting man in head while he called 911
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/patently-frivolous-lawyer-slams-appeal-of-cops-seen-on-bodycam-shooting-man-in-head-while-he-called-911/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Arson Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up. Florida Is About to Convict Her for Murder Anyway.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/florida-michelle-taylor-arson-fire-murder-trial/

# LGBTQ / Gender
Transgender veterans warn their VA benefits and services ‘are under attack.’  Trans people are twice as likely as US adults overall to serve in the armed forces. But we’re regularly told our careers and lives aren’t worth saving
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/transgender-military-ban-trump

# Medical / Health News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s entire Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office was fired
https://www.ntd.com/entire-cdc-foia-office-fired-as-health-agency-moves-to-centralize-structure_1058114.html

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the price.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday#:~:text=Robert%20F.%20Kennedy%20Jr.%20and,an%20April%20Fools’%20Day%20massacre

Why some doctors are pushing to end routine drug testing during childbirth. “The hurt that we do to people is overwhelming.” Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/hospital-connecticut-colorado-pregnancy-drug-testing

# Military / DOD / General News
New photos show Pentagon continuing mysterious buildup in the wake of Trump’s latest threats against Iran. Almost a third of the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of B-2 Spirit bombers have been sighted at a strategic Chagos Islands outpost as tensions rise in the Middle East
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-b2-stealth-bombers-diego-garcia-b2726153.html

# Military / General News / Global
Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave. Footage circulating in the aftermath of the attack showed a newborn who was decapitated by the bombing.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-un-clinic-killing-22-days-after-gaza-medics-found-in-mass-grave/

Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war.  “We are threatened by Russia. We are threatened by Putin. We have to do whatever is needed to deter that,” Gen Carsten Breuer says.
https://www.pressreader.com/fiji/fiji-sun/20250403/281745570201761?srsltid=AfmBOoqQvd0di6WOV0Idoojm-Hm1WPOWz60gARO_hwGmVHgP3ezCBppx

# NASA / Space
CesiumAstro joins Taiwan’s initiative to build LEO ( Low Earth Orbit) satellite network
https://mobile-magazine.com/articles/behind-taiwans-first-leo-satellite-network-with-cesiumastro

# Pharmaceuticals
Study finds tariffs of medications could add $750 million in costs and cause supply shortages
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/trump-signs-orders-imposing-10-minimum-tariff-plus-broader-reciprocal-tariffs-and-de

# Security / Surveillance
Trump Reportedly Fires Several Members Of National Security Council
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13935562/trump-fires-three-national-security-officials/

# Social / Social Programs
Appeals court blocks DOGE effort to access Social Security data. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit dismissed the government’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and the case will proceed in the district court.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-blocks-doge-effort-193355395.html

67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns. “Instead of focusing on delivering benefits to seniors and people with disabilities, President Trump and unelected Elon Musk are systematically dismantling SSA.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/67000-could-die-waiting-for-benefits-under-musks-social-security-cuts-sanders-report-warns/

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s (DOGE) could make “backdoor” cuts to Social Security.
https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-doge-social-security-warning-2052170

# Veterans / VA
‘There’s a war on vets’: Dems launch plans to counter Trump’s VA moves
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/02/theres-a-war-on-vets-dems-launch-plans-to-counter-trumps-va-moves/

Veterans could get service dogs for free under proposed legislation. The SAVES Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to award grants to nonprofits to provide service dogs at no cost to veterans with disabilities.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-02/veterans-ptsd-service-dogs-legislation-17346139.html

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Maryland man deported to El Salvador must be returned to US. The judge issued the order requiring the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia following an extraordinary hearing during which the government admitted that he’d been deported in violation of federal law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/el-salvador-deportation-ruling-trump-administration-00272872

Florida is home to about 341,000 immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti who may soon lose residency, work permits
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-home-341-000-immigrants-121719862.html

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US. As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/04/01/cheap-subcompact-car-may-soon-be-gone/

Republicans Are Trying to Pull a Fast One to Extend Trump’s Tax Cuts. They’re trying to use a clever accounting trick to pretend that their new tax legislation is costless.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/republicans-tax-cuts-current-policy-baseline-deficit-budget-economy.html?pay=1743859624011&support_journalism=please

Republicans Advance Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts As Trump Threatens To Blow Up Economy. Tariffs? What tariffs? Senate Republicans are rushing to pass tax cuts while odds of an economic recession spike.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tariffs-tax-cus_n_67f00f60e4b0bb67eb7add13

“He’s Not Listening to Anyone or Anything”: Why Wall Street Bent the Knee to Trump on Tariffs
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-wall-street-tariffs-silence?srsltid=AfmBOorOUMYpRNpm5KQCkzCXXjUJCS5Qx5XyM-D4dl2ARlN2zI151KIc

Trump Defends His Tariffs as They Tank Stocks Again. As markets around the world continued their violent reaction to the new U.S. tariffs unveiled this week, with the S&P 500 falling nearly 6% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 5.5%
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20250404-Trump-Defends-His-Tariffs-Markets-Plunge-Again

Senate Moves Ahead on GOP Budget Plan as Fiscal Experts Cry Foul. Senate Republicans are on track to pass their revised budget blueprint after voting last night to kick off debate on the plan — a key step toward their goal of enacting trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/04/congress/budget-experts-of-all-stripes-howl-about-senate-republicans-price-tag-abuse-00271999

‘How do you negotiate with this?’ Rage as Trump suggests he’s crashing market on purpose
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-shares-video-claiming-hes-crashing-stock-market-purpose-2055675

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Global
Beijing responds to Trump’s aggressive new tariffs with 34% duties on all U.S. goods, rare-earth export controls, and sanctions on U.S. firms, signaling a major escalation in the global trade war
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58250/trade-war-escalates-as-china-hits-back-with-34-tariffs-on-all-u-s-goods

IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/irs-plans-to-cut-up-to-25-of-staff-starting-with-closing-its-civil-rights-office-ap-sources-say/articleshow/119997505.cms?from=mdr

Trump declares national emergency giving him power to regulate imports, announces new tariffs
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3946663926055-trump-declares-national-emergency-giving-him-power-to-regulate-imports-announces-new-tariffs?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDM4NTc3MDY5MzU%3D

‘Everyone Is Terrified’: Business Leaders and Republicans Mum on Tariffs as Markets Crater
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/everyone-is-terrified-business-leaders-and-republicans-mum-on-tariffs-as-markets-crater/

Amid Trump Tariff Chaos, DOGE ‘Minions’ Infiltrate Federal Trade Commission. “Corporations get let off the hook, Musk gets insider information, and the American people get hosed.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doge-infiltrates-ftc

New Projected Cost of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts for the Rich: ‘Staggering’ $7 Trillion. “What Republicans are trying to jam through Congress right now is a level of economic recklessness we’ve never seen before,” said a group of Democratic lawmakers.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cost-of-trump-tax-cuts

# Education / Schools
Head Start at risk of elimination after 58 years serving toddlers and children in low-income families
https://hechingerreport.org/head-start-is-turning-60-will-the-federal-child-care-program-make-it-to-61/

Trump is cracking down on universities just like Hitler targeted academics who didn’t bow to his will. Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann fled Nazi oppression; American intellectuals are feeling a sense of deja vu
https://forward.com/opinion/709612/trump-hitler-target-universities-columbia-tufts-einstein-brecht/

Trump sends list of demands to Harvard University — and if school doesn’t comply they’ll lose $9B
https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/usa/trump-threatens-9-bn-harvard-funding-over-anti-semitism-1105976

Supreme Court greenlights Trump administration’s controversial cuts to teacher-training funds amid legal battle. Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/supreme-court-lets-trump-administration-cut-teacher-training-money-for-now

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The Energy Department identifies thousands of nonessential positions at risk of DOGE cuts
https://apnews.com/article/energy-federal-employees-layoffs-rif-doge-db7b6446928095c26bfe79c608e1e8e7

HHS fires entire LIHEAP staff and the program’s future is uncertain. Here’s what to know
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hhs-fires-entire-liheap-staff-141029029.html

Next Question: Why has the Department of Energy awarded a billion-dollar contract to a Colorado storage company?
https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-awards-183-million-contract-for-new-energy-conservation-measures-at-the-dfc-01132025

The Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a $1.4 billion management and operating contract for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to “lesser-known entity” Strategic Storage Partners, LLC. Thoughts?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/comments/1jr3zo2/the_department_of_energy_doe_has_awarded_a_14/?rdt=62523

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
U.S. to allow logging in national forest to spur timber production amid trade war. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a new policy Friday that will allow logging in national forests. In a memo, Rollins said the move follows an executive order Trump signed last month to immediately expand U.S. timber production.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/environment/2025/04/04/usda-brooke-roling-national-forest-logging

# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Judge orders Trump administration to resume FEMA grants — for real this time
https://san.com/cc/federal-judge-rules-for-trump-administration-to-release-fema-funds/

# General News
U.S. Peace Corps says Musk’s DOGE has arrived at its HQ
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-arrives-peace-corps-hq-070759979.html

# Gov / Politics
The legal profession is not resisting authoritarianism. It is formatting it. Coaching it. Polishing it for public consumption.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/paul-weiss-skadden-big-law-trump-fail.html

Where DOGE Is Taking Us, It just DOGEn’t make sense.
https://deepcast.fm/episode/where-doge-is-taking-us

Dem AGs sue Trump admin over order eliminating several federal agencies
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5232807-dem-ags-trump-executive-order-federal-agencies/

Mark Cuban Calls Out Government Trap for American Seniors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcCSGwqPLfw

‘Things will get bad’: Ex-GOP insider predicts Trump’s ‘mental illness’ is profound threat
https://www.rawstory.com/2671675971/

With 42% of Project 2025 Enacted in the United States, Heritage Foundation Puts Europe in Its Crosshairs as Next Conquest. Here’s a look at how Heritage and its partners say they want to make Europe “great again” by returning to “traditional family values.”
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/with-42-of-project-2025-enacted-in-the-united-states-heritage-foundation-puts-europe-in-its-crosshairs-as-next-conquest/

Congress considering limiting president’s power
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/04/congress/don-bacon-tariff-powers-bill-00273307

Schumer on Trump’s new tariffs: A ‘huge tax on American families’ to ‘help billionaires get a tax cut’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5229140-schumer-trump-new-tariffs/

# Media
Facebook Announces Official End Date For Fact-Checking Program. Meta will close its fact-checking program across Facebook, Instagram and Threads on Monday, marking a major shift in the company’s content moderation strategy.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/meta-announces-officially-end-fact-checking-across-its-us-platforms

# Medical / Health News
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/layoffs-begin-at-hhs-agencies-responsible-for-research-tracking-disease-and-regulating-food

DOGE Cuts Shutter 50 Measles Clinics Amid Texas Outbreak. On Monday, the Trump Administration directed federal agencies to pause the disbursement of loans and grants.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-cuts-shutter-50-measles-clinics-amid-texas-outbreak/

Trump Admin Guts Entire Teams Studying IVF, Maternal Health. Trump is dismantling the little-known Division of Reproductive Health. It was critical in helping pregnant people and pushing for better systems for IVF.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/hhs-ivf-trump-elon-cuts-reproductive-health-mass-firings-division-of-reproductive-health/

Reproductive health clinics are losing federal funding
https://newrepublic.com/post/193447/trump-cuts-planned-parenthood

# Military / DOD / General News
Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf. The president is hiding on the green as markets react to his tariff regime, and four fallen soldiers are returned to the United States
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-skips-transfer-soldiers-killed-lithuania-liv-golf-1235310901/

Vets and Spouses Outraged Over Trump Blowing Off Dignified Transfer of Slain Soldiers for Golf Event
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/vets-and-spouses-outraged-over-trump-blowing-off-dignified-transfer-of-slain-soldiers-for-golf-event/

Army Mulling a Dramatic Reduction of Tens of Thousands of Troops
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

Air Force Academy superintendent proposes cutting civilian staff
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/military/air-force-academy-civilian-cuts/

Naval Academy removes close to 400 books linked to DEI following DoD order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/naval-academy-dei-books

# Military / General News / Global
Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery Object Into Orbit After Acting Strangely. The classified Kosmos satellite trio has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/secretive-russian-military-satellites-release-mystery-object-into-orbit

# Other Stuff
‘Major disruption’ has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists say. A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/polar-vortex/early-interesting-end-2024-25-polar-vortex-season

Winter isn’t over just yet. A major shift in the weather pattern could have millions across the United States once again reaching for their winter coats later this month before milder springlike air arrives for good.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chain-reaction-could-unleash-polar-145333241.html

Shifting Winds: How a wavier polar jet stream causes extreme weather. The once relatively stable waves of the polar jet stream are now more often plunging deeper and climbing higher, leading to severe consequences for billions of people.
https://arctic-council.org/news/shifting-winds-how-a-wavier-polar-jet-stream-causes-extreme-weather-events/

# Security / Surveillance
NSA Chief Ousted Amid Trump Loyalty Firing Spree. US President Donald Trump acknowledged he has taken advice from a far-right media personality about who to fire.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/pentagon-confirms-four-star-generals-firing-amid-trump-security-purge

Trump fires NSC officials after far-right activist raises concerns to him about staff loyalty
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-nsc-officials-day-040815827.html

# Social / Social Programs
Social Security Faces Thousands More Job Cuts Even With Service in Tailspin
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/social-security-tech-team-layoffs/index.html

HUD moves to kill public housing assistance for ‘sanctuary’ cities and states. HUD Secretary Scott Turner Doubles Down on Ensuring HUD Resources Do Not Benefit Illegal Aliens
https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-051

# Veterans / VA
VA to shutter home loan bailout program for veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs will end a controversial mortgage bailout program that provides “last resort” assistance to veterans facing foreclosure and holding VA-backed loans, the agency announced.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-04/veterans-home-loans-bailout-17366974.html

# Water
‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers. Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31032025/water-is-the-new-oil-as-texas-cities-square-off-over-aquifers/

# Weather
Map Shows Millions At Risk Of 115 mph ‘Jet Streak’ Tornadoes This Weekend
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-millions-risk-jet-streak-tornadoes-2055241

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# Indigenous
Native tribe in Minnesota says cyber incident knocked out healthcare, casino systems
https://therecord.media/native-minnesota-tribe-says-cyber-incident-disrupted-healthcare-casino

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Marriage green card changes: The Trump administration has introduced some changes to the green card application process for married couples, including updated forms, marriage interviews, and increased financial disclosures
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-marriages-changes-trump-administration-explained-2054852

Texas Pastor Detained by ICE While Dropping Daughter to School, Family Says. The sudden detention has left his wife and children in shock and scrambling for answers, as they lean on their faith and community for support.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-pastor-detained-ice-daughter-school-2054650

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Water Fluoridation Linked to Autism, Other Developmental Delays in New Study
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/water-fluoridation-autism-adhd-study-bmc-pediatrics/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump: Asked about the economic collapse that resulted from his massive tariffs, Trump said “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on, and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is.”  Right now, this ‘medical operation’ is crippling Americans.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193592/trump-economy-crashing-good-actually

Trump Delusionally Brags About Tariffs as Stock Market Crashes. Donald Trump’s expectations are not playing out so well against reality.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-delusionally-brags-tariffs-stock-160135833.html

Senate advances groundwork for passing Trump’s tax agenda. The resolution includes framework instructions for how both chambers can eventually pass a bill through budget reconciliation, which would bypass a filibuster.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5230926-senate-advances-trump-budget-resolution/

The Economist Slams ‘The Madness of King Donald’ With Scathing Takedown of Tariffs. Trump’s tariffs have been branded “utterly deluded” and “flat-out nonsense” by the publication.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-economist-slams-the-madness-of-king-donald-with-scathing-takedown-of-tariffs/

They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions. Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/

Retailers like Shein and Temu can no longer avoid tariffs on low-cost items, your online shopping packages coming directly from China are about to get much more expensive.
https://www.theverge.com/news/642601/donald-trump-tariffs-de-minimis-shein-temu

‘Dangerously naive’: Lawmaker flags Trump’s ulterior motive for ‘new super dangerous tool.’ The tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief,” Senator Chris Murphy wrote on his social media.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ulterior-motive-tariff-murphy/

Gap, Nike and Levi’s took years to diversify from China. Now sky high tariffs on nations like Vietnam are ruining plans and tanking their stocks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gap-nike-levi-took-years-160843472.html

Corruption hunters say Trump’s USAID cuts just made organized crime groups “much more dangerous”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/corruption-hunters-trumps-usaid-cuts-160006460.html

# Education / Schools
Librarians Across America Are Calling Out The Trump Administration And Their Reasons Will Make Your Blood Boil
https://www.buzzfeed.com/brittanywong/librarians-trump-administration-cuts

Homeschool Police Turn Team-Minded Parents Into Criminals. parents can go to jail if families team up for homeschooling in Wisconsin. The state flatly prohibits homeschool collaboration. Joining an after-school soccer team or Girl Scout troop is fine
https://amac.us/newsline/education/homeschool-police-turn-team-minded-parents-into-criminals/#:~:text=They%20check%20in%20during%20tough,Girl%20Scout%20troop%20is%20fine

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Explainer: The surprising boom in geothermal energy
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/has-geothermal-energy-gone-cold/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Geologists have confirmed the emergence of a new thermal vent in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thermal-steam-vent-grabbing-attention-022754500.html

Mexico to dump millions of gallons of sewage into Tijuana River, which will mostly likely flow into the United States, a decades-old problem that has posed environmental repercussions for beaches and communities, officials said. US continues to be a dumping ground
https://www.aol.com/mexico-dump-millions-gallons-sewage-230826234.html

# Food General News
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say: “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say

Gerber, Beech-Nut, Others Will Face Lawsuit Over Baby Food Contamination
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/gerber-beech-nut-others-will-face-lawsuit-over-baby-food-contamination/

# General News
Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees. The administration’s cuts to resettlement aid and services are sowing uncertainty and fear among recent arrivals from Afghanistan
https://newrepublic.com/article/193577/afghan-refugees-trump-cut-resettlement

Tucker Carlson says he ‘immediately’ sold his new Chevy truck after noticing a shocking feature. ‘All of a sudden at a gas station, it says, “Stop, we’re downloading information from the internet,”‘ he claimed in during an interview with gearhead Casey Putsch.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/3948473093292-tucker-carlson-immediately-sells-his-new-chevy-truck-after-startling-message-appeared-on-the-dash

# Gov / Politics
Democratic attorneys general join legal fight over Trump’s election order, A group of 19 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its sweeping executive order targeting election rules and administration across the country, “Neither the Constitution nor Congress has authorized the President to impose documentary proof of citizenship requirements or to modify state mail-ballot procedures.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/ags-sue-trump-over-his-order-overhauling-us-elections-00270102

Forget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the “Bigger Picture” of Trump’s Misrule.  The party does not have a unified response to Trump’s worst abuses, and that’s in part because it willingly enabled some of them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193458/trump-immigration-backlash-legal-residents

Senate overwhelmingly rejects Bernie Sanders’ bid to block billions in Israeli military aid. The resolutions intended to block the Trump administration’s planned sale of bombs and other weaponry to Israel that was estimated to be worth $8.8 billion.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-overwhelmingly-rejects-bernie-sanders-bid-block-billions-israeli

Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k. The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”
https://truthout.org/articles/only-15-senators-back-sanders-bid-to-block-arms-to-israel-as-gaza-deaths-top-50k/

Trump rages as China strikes back with trade war retaliation. Wall Street faces another brutal beating as stocks plunged after China unveiled retaliatory taxes in response to Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, threatening global trade war.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-tariffs-china-vietnam-retaliatory-news-9ad8bc44

Donald Trump Accused of ‘Destroying the Country’ and ‘Ruining Lives’ for ‘His Own Ego’ as He Boasts About ‘Liberation Day’ in America. As Trump was called the “laughing stock of the world,” a fifth individual accused the president of “destroying the country for your own ego,” while another alleged he was “ruining so many lives.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/donald-trump-accused-of-destroying-the-country-and-ruining-lives-for-his-own-ego-as-he-boasts-about-liberation-day-in-america/ar-AA1Cfuez?ocid=MD12O1

We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/we-have-a-government-of-billionaires-by-billionaires-and-for-billionaires/

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘When empires fall’: British columnist aghast at ‘single stupidest thing’ Trump has done
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-recession-2671669265/

Hamas says it will release all Israeli hostages at once to end the war: report
https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/world-news/hamas-says-it-will-release-all-israeli-hostages-at-once-to-end-the-war-report/

# Media
USPS changes begin: How could your mail be affected
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/usps-mail-post-office-changes-begin/

# Medical / Health News
Deadly Dengue Fever Rises as the US Cuts All Climate-Health Funding. Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
https://grist.org/politics/dengue-climate-change-trump-cuts-nih-funding-mosquito-borne-disease/

Lawmaker issues warning over Georgia woman arrested after miscarriage. A Georgia woman was found unconscious after having a miscarriage, then arrested when police accused her of illegally disposing of the fetal remains.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/georgia-woman-arrested-miscarriage-fetus-remains_n_67eec439e4b0d734a36dce89

US Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-supreme-court-medicaid-south-carolina-d1c2b4d954ac2764d407dcdff76267ff

Trump Administration Fires Thousands of U.S. Health Workers, Putting Wellbeing of Americans at ‘Serious Risk’
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-health-workers-firings-cdc-hhs.html

Ex-CDC Director Pushes Extra MMR Shot for Babies, as Arizona Reports Suspected Measles Case Was ‘Rare’ Vaccine Reaction
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/former-cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-extra-mmr-shot-babies-measles/

# Other Stuff
Scientists Drilled The Bottom Of Great Blue Hole And Uncovered 5,700 Years Of History. “A total of 694 event layers were identified. They display a distinct regional trend of increasing storminess in the southwestern Caribbean, which follows an orbitally driven shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-truly-scary-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-belizes-great-blue-hole

# Pharmaceuticals
Big Pharma gravy train hits the skids under Trump, panicking revolving-door regulators, investors. Ex-vaccine regulator Peter Marks promoted “ineffective therapy that gave patients false hope, eroded trust in the regulatory process and provided nothing but risk and cost to Americans,” Stanford pediatrics professor says.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/big-pharma-gravy-train-hits-skids-under-trump-panicking-revolving-door

# Social / Social Programs
Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data. The Administration, Musk, and DOGE have engaged in four types of activities that each present a clear danger to Social Security
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-administration-doge-activities-risk-ssa-operations-and-security-of

DOGE’s plans for Social Security are a ‘backdoor’ way to cut payments. ‘This is the most serious threat I’ve seen to it’
https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/doge-plans-social-security-back-door-cut-payments-mark-cuban-former-official/

Musk’s ‘illegal’ meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671661960/

The Social Security Fairness Act May Change How You Pay Medicare Premiums
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/the-social-security-fairness-act-may-change-how-you-pay-medicare-premiums#:~:text=If%20your%20Social%20Security%20check,small%20to%20cover%20the%20costs

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
New Test Spots Super-Resistant Honey Bees as Colony Losses Mount. The international research team, which included scientists from Vermont, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Australia, found that the UBeeO test identifies colonies resistant to several key threats: Varroa mites, multiple viruses, Vairimorpha (previously known as Nosema), and chalkbrood fungus.
https://scienceblog.com/564950/htmlcopybuzz-worthy-discovery-new-test-spots-super-resistant-honey-bees-as-colony-losses-mount#:~:text=The%20international%20research%20team%2C%20which,Nosema)%2C%20and%20chalkbrood%20fungus

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Not Just El Salvador: Trump Looking for Other Places to Deport People. Donald Trump is looking for other countries to help him defy a judge’s order.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193491/donald-trump-el-salvador-other-countries-deportations

A man came to the US to donate a kidney to his brother. ICE showing up as his doorstep interrupted that plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-man-wants-donate-kidney-070035098.html

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades. President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing.
https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Iowa Republicans Want to Shield Pesticide Firms From Cancer Lawsuits. A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health complications caused by their products.
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/state-government-news/2025-04-02/iowa-bill-shields-pesticide-companies-bayer-roundup-cancer-lawsuits

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins. The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands

Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base. Donald Trump imposed tariffs on an island inhabited only by American soldiers.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193523/donald-trump-tariffs-us-military-base

Trump has done it, imposing 10 percent tariff on all trading partners and double-digits tariffs on dozens of other countries
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/trump-tariff-trade-partners-liberation-day-00267350

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the wealthy. Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/gop-plans-to-sidestep-senate-rules-to-force-4-6-trillion-tax-giveaway-for-the-wealthy/

# Education / Schools
Bill to close two schools for developmentally disabled clears House committee
https://www.news-journal.com/bill-to-close-two-schools-for-developmentally-disabled-clears-house-committee/article_2996c85c-244f-51af-90cf-6ab00a5dfcdd.html

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say: A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are “safe” after FBI searches of their homes and Wang’s sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.
https://www.wired.com/story/xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-research-probe-china/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/2025/04/03/cities_wanting_to_ban_gas_just_got_a_big_victory_1101252.html

Texas lawmakers move to restrict growth of wind and solar power
https://www.ehn.org/texas-lawmakers-move-to-restrict-growth-of-wind-and-solar-power-2671662717.html

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
The Ring of Fire Is Heating Up—Here’s What That Means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLNaRJXHvw

# Food General News
Latest NewsUSDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.’ More than $1 billion in assistance has been cut; millions of families could be affected.
https://capitalandmain.com/usda-cuts-hit-food-banks-across-the-country-this-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-3

Common Cooking Oil Fuels Aggressive Breast Cancer Growth. A dietary fat found in everyday foods from french fries to salad dressings may specifically drive the growth of the most difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer, according to groundbreaking research published last week in Science.
https://scienceblog.com/564914/common-cooking-oil-fuels-aggressive-breast-cancer-growth

Federal government cancels almost $1M in food shipments to Second Harvest Food Bank
https://www.yahoo.com/news/second-harvest-food-bank-hit-211414361.html

# General News
Trump official gives clearest indication yet that there are plans to put Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/burgum-trump-face-mount-rushmore-b2724363.html

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars. Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of the order on “saving” the institution from “divisive, race-centered ideology.”
https://theconversation.com/with-its-executive-order-targeting-the-smithsonian-the-trump-administration-opens-up-a-new-front-in-the-history-wars-253397

Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-federal-buildings-them-historic-110100707.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump is about to bomb Iran:  US & Israel planning to unleash HUGE Iran blitz to destroy Ayatollah’s chilling nuke strength in ‘long overdue’ attack. An IDF source told The Sun Israeli forces have been working for months to clear the path for a major strike on Iran
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13923139/america-israel-iran-blitz-nuke-attack/

Take Trump’s Third-Term Threats Seriously. The president’s vaulting ambition may run afoul of the Constitution, but you can’t rule out the Supreme Court providing him with an assist.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-trumps-flirtation-third-term-might-really-about-2053853

Trump’s Latest Power Grab Aims at the Ballot Box: Trump’s 96th executive order of 2025 finally addressed the bugaboo of phantom election fraud and arrogated to the president powers held jointly by the states (which operate federal elections) and by Congress (which has explicit constitutional powers to regulate federal elections).
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-latest-power-grab-aims-at-the-ballot-box.html

Trump’s illegitimate power grab brings US closer to dictatorship. Experts warn president’s blatant violations of law could upend US government’s system of checks and balances
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/trump-vance-constitutional-crisis

This Is Not About Antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump Dismantling the American Dream. I accompanied one of the students who fled Trump’s crackdown. It gave me clarity on what’s at stake.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/01/trump-ice-deport-students-immigrants-american-dream/

Trump officials are analyzing how much it will cost the federal government to take control of Greenland
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-greenland-denmark-jd-vance-b2726308.html

Trump Imposes Trillions Of Dollars In New Taxes On Americans. After weeks of hype, Trump announced new 10% across-the-board tariffs, giving the nation its biggest tax increase in decades.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariff-tax-increase_n_67ed8bf6e4b085e8ccf43e9a

‘Bit of a mess’: NY Times finds many of Trump’s executive orders make no sense
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-muddle-of-exec-orders-are-more-for-show-than-offering-any-real-substance/

Ray Dalio says tariffs have an important consequence: They can prepare the US for a great conflict or war
https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalio-tariffs-prepare-us-great-clash-peer-war-consequence-2025-4

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
A Lawyer’s Crusade Against “Copaganda.” How police and the media manufacture surges in crime
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-crusade-against-copaganda-100000363.html

‘Patently frivolous’: Lawyer slams appeal of cops seen on bodycam shooting man in head while he called 911
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/patently-frivolous-lawyer-slams-appeal-of-cops-seen-on-bodycam-shooting-man-in-head-while-he-called-911/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Arson Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up. Florida Is About to Convict Her for Murder Anyway.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/florida-michelle-taylor-arson-fire-murder-trial/

# LGBTQ / Gender
Transgender veterans warn their VA benefits and services ‘are under attack.’  Trans people are twice as likely as US adults overall to serve in the armed forces. But we’re regularly told our careers and lives aren’t worth saving
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/transgender-military-ban-trump

# Medical / Health News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s entire Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office was fired
https://www.ntd.com/entire-cdc-foia-office-fired-as-health-agency-moves-to-centralize-structure_1058114.html

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the price.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday#:~:text=Robert%20F.%20Kennedy%20Jr.%20and,an%20April%20Fools’%20Day%20massacre

Why some doctors are pushing to end routine drug testing during childbirth. “The hurt that we do to people is overwhelming.” Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/hospital-connecticut-colorado-pregnancy-drug-testing

# Military / DOD / General News
New photos show Pentagon continuing mysterious buildup in the wake of Trump’s latest threats against Iran. Almost a third of the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of B-2 Spirit bombers have been sighted at a strategic Chagos Islands outpost as tensions rise in the Middle East
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-b2-stealth-bombers-diego-garcia-b2726153.html

# Military / General News / Global
Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave. Footage circulating in the aftermath of the attack showed a newborn who was decapitated by the bombing.
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-un-clinic-killing-22-days-after-gaza-medics-found-in-mass-grave/

Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war.  “We are threatened by Russia. We are threatened by Putin. We have to do whatever is needed to deter that,” Gen Carsten Breuer says.
https://www.pressreader.com/fiji/fiji-sun/20250403/281745570201761?srsltid=AfmBOoqQvd0di6WOV0Idoojm-Hm1WPOWz60gARO_hwGmVHgP3ezCBppx

# NASA / Space
CesiumAstro joins Taiwan’s initiative to build LEO ( Low Earth Orbit) satellite network
https://mobile-magazine.com/articles/behind-taiwans-first-leo-satellite-network-with-cesiumastro

# Pharmaceuticals
Study finds tariffs of medications could add $750 million in costs and cause supply shortages
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/trump-signs-orders-imposing-10-minimum-tariff-plus-broader-reciprocal-tariffs-and-de

# Security / Surveillance
Trump Reportedly Fires Several Members Of National Security Council
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13935562/trump-fires-three-national-security-officials/

# Social / Social Programs
Appeals court blocks DOGE effort to access Social Security data. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit dismissed the government’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and the case will proceed in the district court.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appeals-court-blocks-doge-effort-193355395.html

67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns. “Instead of focusing on delivering benefits to seniors and people with disabilities, President Trump and unelected Elon Musk are systematically dismantling SSA.”
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/02/67000-could-die-waiting-for-benefits-under-musks-social-security-cuts-sanders-report-warns/

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s (DOGE) could make “backdoor” cuts to Social Security.
https://www.newsweek.com/elizabeth-warren-doge-social-security-warning-2052170

# Veterans / VA
‘There’s a war on vets’: Dems launch plans to counter Trump’s VA moves
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/02/theres-a-war-on-vets-dems-launch-plans-to-counter-trumps-va-moves/

Veterans could get service dogs for free under proposed legislation. The SAVES Act would authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to award grants to nonprofits to provide service dogs at no cost to veterans with disabilities.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-02/veterans-ptsd-service-dogs-legislation-17346139.html

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# Indigenous
Trump grants clemency to man who stole millions of dollars from Oglala Sioux Nation. Jason Galanis was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for a scheme that defrauded a Native American tribe
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-jason-galanis-fraud-00262087

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘No ability to bring him back’: Trump lawyers forced to admit they permanently sent an innocent man to a nightmare prison. It’s a stunning admission by the Trump administration, but outside of court its key figures are refusing to admit any wrongdoing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-admits-wrongfully-deported-151733434.html

Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over. As JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily defend the removal of a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error,” a shrewd immigration observer says we’re now in alarmingly lawless territory. Here’s the real story: They’re all fine with “accidental” deportations because they want immigrants to fear they’re going to be next.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193460/trump-arrests-take-dark-unnerving-turn-maga-rage-boils

With Detention of Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement. “We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-detention-of-beloved-farmworker-organizer-ice-comes-for-the-labor-movement/

Pentagon has spent about $376M on new border ops that NORTHCOM general expects to last ‘years not months.’ New military deployments have surged to the southern border since Jan. 20
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-01/border-security-troops-pentagon-17332934.html

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/

How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies: Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-02-how-corporate-pardons-create-monopolies-rocket-mortgage/

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE’s access to the payroll system of 276,000 federal employees puts government on path to have ‘unprecedented power and control’ over Americans’ information, experts say.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free. It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-wins-control-500-million-building-washington-dc-2054209

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Donald Trump is considering tariffs so high it would be a shock to the entire global economy. The president will announce his full tariff plan at 4 p.m. Wednesday, while 20 percent tariffs are under consideration, there is still no final decision about how big or extensive the tariffs will be, and what else they will specifically target.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193440/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-draft-plan

Untraceable $4.7 Trillion Treasury Payments: Implications and Proposed Solutions. The report has prompted Republican senators to propose legislation aimed at holding the agency accountable.
https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/doge-reports-140-billion-savings-amid-unaccounted-treasury-funds-elon-musk-republicans-legislation-next-steps-trump

Former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Kim Darroch, has expressed concern over the potential US-UK trade deal in light of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs that have ignited global trade wars.
https://thehill.com/business/trade/5222652-ex-british-ambassador-to-us-who-criticized-trump-urges-starmer-not-to-concede-on-retaliatory-tariffs/

Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming, but at a Cost to U.S. Alliances. President Trump is already showing signs of concern that his targets may team up against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-tariffs-nato-allies.html

The European Union is warning President Donald Trump as tensions continue to heighten ahead of the April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement. For weeks, Trump has been promoting April 2 as “Liberation Day” in America, when various hefty tariffs will be unveiled to implement his administration’s radical economic agenda.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eu-issues-two-word-threat-to-donald-trump-as-tensions-high-ahead-of-liberation-day-announcement/ar-AA1C5fwS

Texas will be among states hardest hit in trade war, EU ambassador warns. $100B a year in EU investments in Texas in jeopardy, EU ambassador to US says
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/texas-among-states-hardest-hit-trade-war-eu-looming-car-tariffs

Trump tariffs live updates: Bessent says Trump will impose high tariffs as cap for countries to bring down
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-bessent-says-trump-will-impose-high-tariffs-as-cap-for-countries-to-bring-down-191201577.html

GOP tax proposals could add $9 trillion to nation’s deficits: Analysis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5226077-republican-tax-cut-proposals-debt/

# Education / Schools
Republicans advance bills to create book removal process in public schools. Texas Bill Threatens Jail Time for Teaching Books Like “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a pretty “crummy” situation, as Holden Caulfield might say.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/texas-bill-prison-teachers-librarians-books-sexual-profane-content-ban/

Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_l_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2

NC GOP bill would allow school librarians to be charged over books ‘harmful to minors’: Wide-ranging legislation filed Monday by North Carolina Republican lawmakers would make it easier to prosecute librarians on obscenity charges, restrict what books can be in school libraries and change how sex education is taught.
https://www.aol.com/nc-gop-bill-allow-school-154809576.html

Texas Senate approves bill changing how schools select library books. Senate Bill 13 would create school library advisory councils largely made up of parents. It would give school boards, rather than librarians, the final say over new books.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/05/texas-school-library-book-bans-senate-bill/

A new bill could ban Huck Finn and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” from Texas public schools.
https://www.txftrp.org/first_look_at_sb13

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say. The Trump administration on Tuesday eliminated the entire staff of a federal program that helps low-income households pay utility bills, sources said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-staff-responsible-utility-assistance-224807665.html

# Food General News
Trump administration cancels program that paid Wisconsin farmers to grow for food pantries
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/

# Gov / Politics
U.S. Senate Session: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered the longest-ever Senate floor speech, speaking for over 25 hours in protest of the Republican budget and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts being implemented by the Trump administration. The New Jersey senator concluded by quoting civil rights leader and former Representative John Lewis (D-GA): “He said for us to go out and cause some ‘good trouble, necessary trouble,’ to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/cory-booker-senate-speech-record-thurmond

Trump has largely followed Project 2025 playbook — but its key goal still to come: The Heritage Foundation’s sweeping guidebook laid out four goals for preserving its version of freedom: dismantling the federal bureaucracy, defending U.S. sovereignty, securing “our God-given individual rights to live freely,” and placing the family “as the centerpiece of American life” – and it contains detailed descriptions for how the government can decide how families should operate, wrote The Atlantic’s David Graham.
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-family-life/

Trump Lawyer Seriously Explored Options for Third Term. It’s not just talk: Trump’s team is really thinking about how to make a third term possible.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193465/trump-lawyer-explored-options-third-term

# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Suddenly Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Ukraine Peace Talks. Russia has poured cold water on Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-suddenly-gives-trump-middle-180815175.html

# Medical / Health News
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr: Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/the-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159

RFK Jr.’s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling. The cuts sent shockwaves through the department’s sprawling workforce, prompting a scramble among senior agency officials to figure out which employees and policy priorities were affected.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/very-few-people-know-whats-happening-rfk-jr-cuts-surprise-and-alarm-00254822

RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA’s public records teams, despite “transparency” promises. Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-purges-cdc-fda-records-transparency-teams/

US is on track to have the worst measles outbreak of this century, former Covid response coordinator warns. “We should not be at this point in our country,” he noted, “And yet, here we are because of bad information being spread by Secretary [Robert] Kennedy and others.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-track-worst-measles-outbreak-163227468.html

‘Gut punch’: Approximately 10,000 people were fired or laid off from the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday and, if those affected had any discrimination complaints, they were told to contact a woman who died last year.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-human-services/

Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies. Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/

‘An attack on the well-being of millions’: Trump admin sued by 23 states over ‘illegal and irresponsible’ decision to ‘claw back life-saving health funding’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/an-attack-on-the-well-being-of-millions-trump-admin-sued-by-23-states-over-illegal-and-irresponsible-decision-to-claw-back-life-saving-health-funding/

‘It makes me kind of rage’: Special ed parents furious as RFK Jr. seizes control. Another fast-growing controversy concerns his influence over how neurodivergent kids are treated in special education
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2671650197/

HHS layoffs put Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors, disabled at risk
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl

‘People Are Going to Die’—Doctors Condemn Mass Firings at CDC Amid Measles Outbreak
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/3945751778875-people-are-going-to-die-doctors-condemn-mass-firings-at-cdc-amid-measles-outbreak

The CDC Has Been Gutted. DOGE Moves to Gut CDC Work on Gun Injuries, Sexual Assault, Opioid Overdose Data
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-cdc-layoffs-doge-musk/

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://lemmy.world/post/27678964

# Military / DOD / General News
Leaked Pentagon file reveals US will not step in to help Europe if Russia attacks. Leading UK defence voices have warned that the memo will “embolden” and “encourage” Putin to launch a new assault on Europe.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2035101/us-not-help-europe-russia-attacks-memo

Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office
https://apnews.com/article/military-academies-dei-hegseth-trump-ba9731f24b4eb4bd9c02b568209f97af

# Science /  Science Engineers
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research. “A climate of fear has descended on the research community,” the letter says. Researchers fearing for their jobs are “removing their names from publications, abandoning studies, and rewriting grant proposals and papers to remove scientifically accurate terms (such as ‘climate change’) that agencies are flagging as objectionable.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347411/scientists-trump-research-national-academies-open-letter#:~:text=Nearly%202%2C000%20leading%20American%20scientists,fear%22%20that%20jeopardizes%20independent%20research

Top US Scientists Write Open Letter To The American People: “We See Real Danger In This Moment”: Almost 2,000 US scientists and engineers warn the public that the Trump administration is decimating science.
https://www.iflscience.com/top-us-scientists-write-open-letter-to-the-american-people-we-see-real-danger-in-this-moment-78642

# Social / Social Programs
Trump’s Social Security sleight of hand: MAGA’s magic trick will make your benefits disappear. The president’s promise to make Social Security great again is a charade
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/02/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-magas-magic-trick-will-make-your-benefits-disappear/

Trump’s Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don’t Fall for It. Trump has a long record of unfurling legally laughable nonsense orders when the political heat is on. This is that.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-is-another-scam-dont-fall-for-it/

Social Security Administration At ‘Risk Of Collapse’ After DOGE Cuts, Former Head Martin O’Malley Warns.  “The Musk/Trump co-presidency has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to drive Social Security into a total system collapse.”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-total-system-collapse-martin-omalley-2050747

# Veterans / VA
2 Democratic senators pledge to block VA nominees over plans to fire 83,000 workers. A Senate confirmation hearing for three nominees to assume leadership posts at the Department of Veterans Affairs was derailed Tuesday
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-01/veterans-nominees-workforce-firings-senators-17333829.html

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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Recalls
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm. The nonprofit estimate nearly 1.25 million colonies have been lost since June of 2024.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/23/beekeepers-say-catastrophic-honeybee-losses-are-cause-for-alarm

Hundreds of millions of bees mysteriously dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsBZbnt_4A

# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes. Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school’s website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/indiana_cybersecurity_professor_fbi/

Stunning ICE List Reveals Flimsy Way People Are Labeled Gang Members. Here’s the cruel way people are being deported from Trump’s America.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193373/ice-list-people-deported-gang-members

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”: Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

Immigration officials silent after another graduate student detained at the University of Minnesota. The issue that appears to have put the student on the radar of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is more mundane: a 2023 drunk-driving case in which he pleaded guilty, not participating in campus activism or been outspoken about political issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/minnesota-student-immigration-arrest.html

Trump admin accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian mega-prison and says it can’t get him back. The father and union worker had been living in the US for about 14 years after fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. ICE accused him of gang affiliation, a claim his lawyers dispute.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-deportation-el-salvador-cecot-b2725052.html

The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating. ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193391/juarez-zeferino-ice-detention-activists

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump’s Mass Purge Finally Hits Museums and Libraries. Donald Trump’s overhaul of the federal government has reached the agency that helps museums and libraries across the country.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193405/trump-museums-libraries-imls-administrative-leave

# Children / Youth
Toddler accused of being transphobic or homophobic was suspended from nursery: Data from the Department for Education showed a child aged three or four, suspended from a state school in the academic year 2022/23 for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity,” according to a freedom of information request (FOI) by The Telegraph.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/toddler-suspended-nursery-transphobic-b2724495.html

# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show. A DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/

Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems. DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court’s paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
The ‘Dirty 15’ countries braced for harder hit from Trump’s tariffs as world prepares for ‘Liberation Day’ Trump is set to unleash his largest batch of trade tariffs on so-called ‘Liberation Day’ this Wednesday
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-dirty-15-liberation-day-countries-b2725113.html

Taxpayers covering California rents over $7,000 near Mexican border. According to federal data, taxpayers may now be helping cover California rents of up to $7,030 near the Mexican border. Under the federal Section 8 housing voucher program, families are expected to dedicate 30% of their incomes to housing costs, while a federal voucher covers the rest.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_de7361eb-aa9c-4988-bc49-61706618b79e.html

Trump Yawns at Tariff Price Hikes: After years of wrongly insisting that other countries pay the tariffs he imposes, thereby enriching America, President Donald Trump now seemingly accepts that those duties are ultimately paid by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-03-31/trump-yawns-at-tariff-price-hikes

The Zelle app is shutting down for good tomorrow. Here’s what it means for people who rely on Zelle, along with some other options for cashless digital transactions.
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/the-zelle-app-disappears-tuesday-heres-how-you-can-send-money-instead/

Trump Insists Economy Not About to Explode as Banks Warn Differently. Donald Trump appears to be driving the U.S. right into a recession.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-insists-economy-not-about-to-explode-as-banks-warn-differently/ar-AA1C0S4l?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

Trump has just made his most extreme tariffs threat yet.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193384/trump-tariffs-threat-all-countries

‘They’re Laying the Groundwork for Things to Get Worse’: Why Trump’s Economic Messaging Isn’t Calming Wall Street
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/31/wall-street-insider-explains-market-spooked-00258083

# Education / Schools
The Fascism Expert at Yale Who’s Fleeing America. Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america

So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans? The Trump administration’s efforts to dissolve the Department of Education have left a wave of chaos in its wake.
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html?pay=1743514554171&support_journalism=please

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration considers major cuts to clean energy programs, drawing bipartisan pushback
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-considers-major-cuts-to-clean-energy-programs-drawing-bipartisan-pushback-2671643909.html

Lawmakers and industry groups blast away at DOE project kill list. Draft lists of potential cuts have been rocketing around Capitol Hill this week, and lawmakers from both parties are working to save their projects.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/energy-departments-project-hit-list-draws-bipartisan-pushback-from-lawmakers-00254729

EPA Offers Industrial Polluters a Way to Avoid Rules on Mercury, Arsenic and Other Toxic Chemicals. Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-03-27/epa-offers-industrial-polluters-a-way-to-avoid-rules-on-mercury-arsenic-and-other-toxic-chemicals

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Scientists Detect Magma Movement Below Yellowstone Caldera
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-yellowstone-volcanic-shifting-northeast-geologists.html

# Food General News
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say. The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/agriculture-department-no-longer-safe-165348567.html

# Gov / Politics
Trump Threatens Iran With Bombing ‘They Have Never Seen’ If Nuclear Deal Isn’t Reached. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a bombing “the likes of which they have never seen before” if they did not agree to a nuclear deal. Iran is refusing to negotiate with the US
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-threatens-bomb-iran-agree-nuclear-deal/

Today is April 2! Did you miss last night’s executive order? Today is actually April 2. Your calendar may show April 1 but late last night President Trump issued an executive order making all months 30 days long. Henceforth, what had been known as January 31, March 31, July 31, August 31, October 31, and December 31 will be known as “Trump Days,” in which “the nation can show its gratitude to the 45th and 47th president.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-executive-orders

Democratic Senators Call for Privacy Act Reform in Response to DOGE Takeover.
https://fedscoop.com/lori-trahan-modernize-privacy-act-doge-data-access/

The mundane cruelty of the new Trump years. Mahmoud Khalil still hasn’t been charged with a crime. His detention is based solely on a broad and rare assertion made by the newly minted secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that his presence poses a threat to U.S. security.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/courtroom-friday-saw-firsthand-just-214121241.html

Why is Donald Trump referring to April 2 as ‘Liberation Day’? Here’s what we know.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-liberation-day-april-2-86639b7b6358af65e2cbad31f8c8ae2b

Trump ‘might not stop at Greenland’ as Congressman suggests ‘next three targets.’ The president’s quest could spiral into a plot to “take over” three more countries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-might-not-stop-at-greenland-as-congressman-suggests-next-three-targets/ar-AA1BVEPd

Signalgate exposed more than war plans: It pulled back the curtain on the administration
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5223588-signal-chat-leak-strategic-blunder/

Trump DOJ Caves to Elon Musk With Wild Punishment for Tesla Protester. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have described acts of vandalism on Teslas as “domestic terrorism.”
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-20-year-sentences-for-tesla-saboteurs/

# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Every Atrocity Imaginable’: Litany of Israeli War Crimes Continues. “Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare and it should haunt us forever.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/more-israel-war-crimes

# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
New York to release prisoners in droves after prison strike: Those guilty of class B-E violent felonies, sex offenses, and an array of other crimes will not be eligible, though Martuscello warned he expected a “large number” of inmates to qualify.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/new-york-release-prisoners-droves-after-prison-strike-memo

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Justice Sotomayor speaks out as Trump and Musk escalate attacks on the free press! The Trump administration is facing more than 130 lawsuits over the president’s flurry of executive actions, including four that are currently pending at the Supreme Court. Justice Sotomayor did not name President Trump directly on Friday. However, she alluded to ongoing developments.
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-trump-attacks-2052468

Will Elon Musk Buy Another Election? The race has become something of a proxy war over Elon Musk. Not satisfied with controlling the federal government, the shadow president’s political action committee is suddenly spending big on a crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/

House lawmaker moves to oust judge in deportation case with move that skips impeachment. Rep. Andy Biggs invoked the “good behavior” clause of the Constitution to argue Congress has the authority to remove judges short of impeachment.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-republican-proposes-alternative-method-remove-bad-judges-bypass-senate

# Media
Mere hours until USPS changes in effect as customers brace for slower deliveries – certain type of mail will be affected
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13899036/usps-changes-delivery-slowdown/

The Trump White House’s Latest Blow to the Press Is About Way More Than Seating Charts. As the White House reportedly considers taking over a function long managed by the White House Correspondents’ Association, Trump is tightening his grip on press access—again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/media/trump-briefing-room-seating-chart.html

# Marijuana / Hemp
PoliticsTrump’s New White House Drug Czar Called Medical Marijuana A ‘Fantastic’ Treatment For Cancer Patients
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trumps-new-white-house-drug-czar-called-medical-marijuana-a-fantastic-treatment-for-cancer-patients/?

A study involving nurses who have trouble sleeping found that using CBD-coated pillowcases led to “improvements in sleep quality, mood and anxiety, highlighting its potential as a non-invasive intervention for shift workers.”
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/using-cbd-infused-pillowcases-leads-to-improved-sleep-quality-for-nurses-new-study-finds/?

# Medical / Health News
Baby dies after receiving 6 shots for 12 vaccines. Doctors say ‘catching up’ kids on vaccines is common, and dangerous
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/baby-sa-niya-death-received-6-shots-12-vaccines/

# Medical Recalls
# Military / DOD / General News
Books On Jackie Robinson, MLK, Einstein To Be Removed From U.S. Naval Academy In DEI Ban
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/books-on-jackie-robinson-mlk-einstein-to-be-removed-from-u-s-naval-academy-in-dei-ban/ar-AA1C1gHl

# NASA / Space
Elon’s Secretly Working to Take Over NASA. Is NASA really getting ready to cancel the Artemis program?
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-working-nasa

Private Fram2 astronauts launch over Earth’s poles: SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles. The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
https://gizmodo.com/humans-could-orbit-earths-poles-for-the-first-time-today-what-took-so-long-2000582235

NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk’s Starship, Even Though It’s Never Launched Without Exploding “I’m sure whenever NASA needs a payload spread across 1000 km of ocean they’ll pick Starship.”
https://futurism.com/nasa-contract-elon-musk-spacex-starship

# Other Stuff
Giant, mysterious organisms discovered are impossible to categorize. For over 165 years, scientists have puzzled over a strange fossil called Prototaxites. Even its appearance was unusual. It stood up to 8 meters tall, and resembled a towering tree with no leaves.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life

# Pharmaceuticals
‘Largest Tax-dodging Scheme in the History of Big Pharma’: Pfizer Sold $20 Billion of Drugs to Americans in 2019, Paid No Taxes. Pfizer used an “egregious tax gimmick” to avoid paying taxes, joining a growing list of Pharma giants who have shifted their U.S.-based profit reporting offshore, according to a new Senate Finance Committee report.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-tax-dodging-scheme-offshore-profit-reporting-big-pharma/

# Social / Social Programs
DOGE Is Rushing to Rewrite the Social Security Codebase Using AI. A system responsible for over 65 million payments is poised for disaster. While it’s not yet clear what Musk’s band of dipshits plans to do exactly, Wired reports they aim to do it within “a few months,” a laughably audacious timeline for such a task.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-plans-to-rewrite-entire-social-security-codebase-in-just-a-few-months-report-2000582062

Congress weighs food stamp cuts: Millions of Low-Income Households Would Lose Food Aid Under Proposed House Republican SNAP Cuts. Cuts Would Take Assistance Away From People in Every State
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house

# Water
Harmful Contaminants Detected in “Almost All Water Systems” in the U.S: Perchlorate has been detected in almost all water systems including tap water, bottled water etc., which means it has entered our food chain with the potential to adversely affect human health (Dasgupta et al., 2006; Calderón et al., 2017).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653523018295#:~:text=Consequently%2C%20perchlorate%20has%20been%20detected,et%20al.%2C%202017

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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Inside The Billion-Dollar Business Of Deportation Flights. The recent GOP spending bill will mean more money for ICE — and less transparency for the private airlines making billions on deportation flights.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-billion-dollar-business-of-deportation-flights/

How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic. Trump’s “Operation Aurora” swept up only one suspected gang member — but set the stage for a radical expansion of government power.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/trump-deport-venezuela-gang-tren-de-aragua/

ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted Over Gaza Protests. The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/

ICE Is Canceling Students’ Legal Status Without Informing Them or Their Schools: The Trump administration has targeted for deportation foreign students who have espoused pro-Palestinian views
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-canceling-students-legal-status-1235306630/

# Business / Industry / Corporations
A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections. More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.
https://www.levernews.com/a-dark-money-deluge-to-kill-consumer-protections/

Meta Drags Delaware To The Bottom. Delaware just passed a bill to let executives off the hook across the country — and Meta helped write it.
https://www.levernews.com/meta-drags-delaware-to-the-bottom/

# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial, vaccines do no stop covid
https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/43-46-Stilgoe-Viral-Suppression-Spring-2023.pdf

# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
The Cover Up: Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the firm aims to deny victims remuneration
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/makeup-asbestos-lawsuit-berkshire-hathaway

Glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide altered key breast cancer-related genes, including BRCA1 and BRCA2, even at low doses and had varying toxic and proliferative effects on different breast cell types
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/glyphosate-health-concerns/#:~:text=A%20March%202025%20study%20in,on%20different%20breast%20cell%20types

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Analysis of CBO’s March 2025 Long-Term Budget Outlook. The federal budget is on an unsustainable path.
https://www.crfb.org/papers/analysis-cbos-march-2025-long-term-budget-outlook

Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

DOGE staffer who shared Treasury data now has more access to government systems
https://thepublicsradio.org/npr/doge-staffer-who-shared-treasury-data-now-has-more-access-to-government-systems-2/

Brace for impact, America. Trump’s tariffs will soon hit your bank accounts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/03/31/trump-tariffs-inflation-tax-increase/82688283007/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump Stomps Workers. Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-seeking-to-ban-natural-gas-in-new-buildings-just-got-a-big-win-in-court/

Trump’s EPA Is Giving Power Companies Free Reign to Leave Behind Toxic Coal Ash
https://grist.org/health/coal-ash-epa-lee-zeldin-trump/

# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Mark Pestrella says “we started this fire” during LA wildfire Eaton press conference. Freudian slip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0azx-3UKGA

# Food General News
‘Going to be a lot of hungry people’: Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/

How Gutting USAID Will Hurt American Farmers and Businesses. The effects of defunding it could be devastating to farmers
https://www.ohiosap.org/aws/OSAP/pt/sd/news_article/584540/_blank/layout_details/false

Breathing Injustice: How a New Scientific Tool Could Help Communities Oppose Industrial Animal Farming Pollution. Pig-2-Bac, from fecal bacteria in dust that has settled in and around locals’ homes, enabling them to show that pollution from pig operations has reached their residences.
https://usrtk.org/factory-farming/new-tool-measure-industrial-animal-farming-pollution/#:~:text=A%20tool%20to%20trace%20pollution&text=The%20tool%20can%20identify%20the,operations%20has%20reached%20their%20residences

# General News
Who is USIP? The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American independent, nonprofit, national institute funded by the U.S. Congress and tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide.[3] It provides research, analysis, and training to individuals in diplomacy, mediation, and other peace-building measures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace#Budget

# Gov / Politics
VP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash. The visit came a day after Donald Trump said his administration will “go as far as we have to go” to acquire the island.
https://truthout.org/articles/vice-president-and-second-lady-plan-visit-to-us-military-base-in-greenland/

US senator to force votes next week to block nearly $9B in new arms for Israel. ‘Netanyahu has clearly violated U.S. and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in the carnage,’ says Bernie Sanders
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-senator-to-force-votes-next-week-to-block-nearly-9b-in-new-arms-for-israel/3521978

What the past week reveals about the Trump team’s utter incompetence. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
https://www.alternet.org/what-the-past-week-also-reveals-about-the-trump-team-s-utter-incompetence/

The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”: The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal

Trump Goes Full Dictator With Delusional Threat About Term Limits. Donald Trump revealed he hasn’t been joking all this time. [power drunk maybe?]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-goes-full-dictator-delusional-131608127.html

Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president. Yes, a constitutional amendment explicitly prohibits it. Yes, such an attempt would trigger a legal showdown and a potential constitutional crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-voting-executive-order-2026-midterms-bd477e5ac8a7182f5aa01498ad79baaa

Biden-Era ‘Lawfare’ Target Says He’s Now Running ‘Most Important Agency’ You’ve ‘Never Heard Of’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/28/biden-era-lawfare-target-says-hes-now-running-most-important-agency-youve-never-heard-of/

Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/31/make-america-worse-the-corrosive-blueprint-driving-muskrat-trumps-high-risk-demolition-derby/

Donald Trump faces backlash after being accused of spending $85M on golf excursions
https://www.irishstar.com/sport/other-sports/donald-trump-backlash-golf-excursions-34964019

# Gov / Politics / Global
Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Reflect Desperation as Israel Escalates Genocide. As some Palestinians took to the streets this week calling for Hamas to step down, others condemned the demonstrations.
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-hamas-protests-in-gaza-reflect-desperation-as-israel-escalates-genocide/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Wisconsin AG sues to stop Musk’s check handout. Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, immediately labeled Musk’s plan as a violation of state law.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/wisconsin-ag-sues-to-stop-musks-check-handout/

The Supreme Court must rescue itself from its own madness. To stand up to Trump’s lawless power grabs, the Roberts court must disavow its own mirror-image corruptions. It may yet feel obliged to do just that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192540/supreme-court-trump-power-grabs

# Media
Gaza Journalist Fadi al-Wahidi Avoided Israel’s “Red” Zone. Israel Shot Him Anyway. Investigative journalists working as part of the Gaza Project used reporting, geolocation, and forensic analysis to reconstruct the shooting of Fadi al-Wahidi.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/israel-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/

Journalists Under Fire in Gaza, Israel’s Deadly War on Reporters. How reporters with the Gaza Project investigate the killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/briefing-podcast-gaza-palestine-journalists/

USPS customers warned of ‘downgraded services’ under April 1 changes as they’re forced to take extra step sending mail. The Postal Service will adjust its services for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services, meaning some customers will have to do more to ensure their mail gets delivered on time.
https://www.newsbreak.com/healthy-family-projects-316320343/3939305320248-usps-customers-warned-of-downgraded-services-under-april-1-changes-as-they-re-forced-to-take-extra-step-sending-mail

Postal Workers Defend USPS Against DOGE Attack. DOGE is helping the postmaster general hack away at workers’ retirement and a regulatory commission he doesn’t like.
https://truthout.org/articles/postal-workers-defend-usps-against-doge-attack/

# Medical / Health News
The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants
https://www.aol.com/lives-individuals-us-stake-researchers-192441141.html

Trump Wants to “Defund” Planned Parenthood — This SCOTUS Case May Help Him Do It. The court will consider a South Carolina policy preventing people from using Medicaid at clinics that provide abortions.
https://19thnews.org/2025/03/supreme-court-medicaid-planned-parenthood-abortion-trump/

Top official at FDA resigns citing RFK Jr. ‘misinformation’ and apparent lack of desire for “truth and transparency.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5221540-fda-official-resigns-kennedy-vaccines/

Health insurance CEO admits to hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on patients, doctors and politicians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-insurance-ceo-admits-hiring-164253164.html

# Military / DOD / General News
US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions. The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5221577-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-admissions/

DOD reopens deferred resignation program, offers early retirements in effort to cut civilian workforce. The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the size of the civilian workforce, the agency said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-03-30/dod-early-retirement-deferred-resignations-17306265.html

US ‘won’t bother defending Europe from Russia’, leaked Pentagon memo says. The leaked memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instead focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense
https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/wont-bother-defending-europe-russia-1060386

# NASA / Space
Scientists Track a Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Earth. A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/powerful-x-class-solar-flare-caught-on-camera-erupting-from-suns-surface

Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The Sun
https://www.iflscience.com/astonishing-video-shows-2-million-kilometer-helical-structure-emerge-from-the-sun-78624

# Other Stuff
Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-Per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth. The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married
https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/

# Social / Social Programs
Social Security boss confirms 2 changes coming – and it will make it harder for 70 million retirees to get their checks. The top boss of the Social Security Administration has confirmed that two big changes are coming to the federal government agency this spring.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13903635/social-security-boss-confirms-changes-harder-retirees-checks/

Trump and Musk are targeting Social Security, and you should worry. The Social Security trust fund is in trouble without the traps being laid by the Trump team. Their goal is to end Social Security. Open your ears to their increasingly loud attacks.
https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/5220003-social-security-attacks/

# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course. Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/29/elon-musk-says-xai-acquired-x/

Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley. U.S. companies paid $86 billion to Canadian workers in 2022—if they flee, workers will take the hit
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/trumps-tariff-war-could-compel-u-s-companies-to-flee-canada-that-could-hurt-one-in-10-workers/

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