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August 29, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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

# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump’s SBA wants to reclassify billion-dollar corporations as ‘small businesses,’ opening door to federal contracts. Under this new regulation, small business employee-based and revenue-based thresholds would significantly increase as part of how the agency says it’s trying to address long-standing complaints about how the government determines size standards.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-policy/2026/08/sba-wants-to-give-114000-more-companies-access-to-small-business-contracts/

# Drugs / Trafficking / DEA / Gangs / Cartels / ATF
A laser system was used to shoot down three drug cartel drones in southern Texas, close to the Mexican border, the U.S. military said.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6056680-us-military-laser-takedown-mexican-cartels-drones/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
The Treasury Department proposed a rule to revoke an Egyptian bank’s branches’ access to U.S. financial institutions as the Trump administration targets Iran’s economic lifelines.
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-targets-egyptian-bank-s-uae-branches-in-fresh-push-to-isolate-iran/amp-11787945467762.html

Trump’s Trade War with Canada Sparks Economic Tensions and International Concerns
https://killbait.com/en/trumps-trade-war-with-canada-sparks-economic-tensions-and-international-concerns/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
House Republicans advance bill to block federal heat rule on water, shade, and breaks
Blocking a federal standard could slow progress on workplace safety as hotter summers raise the risks.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/washington-republicans-advance-heat-workforce-standards-act/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Your late night AI chats might be quietly draining rivers.  A new report from the nonprofit Ceres found that electricity powering data centers across seven major states now uses more water every year than every city in California combined. That is twelve times the combined annual water use of Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Washington DC.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ai-prompts-aren-t-drinking-190345806.html

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela realigns global energy and puts OPEC, Canada on notice. US president says deal secures majority US control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/trump-announces-biggest-oil-deal-in-world-history-with-venezuela

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA / FEMA / USAID
More nations rethink funding for UN relief agency after feds refer 100-plus staff for Hamas ties. U.S. taxpayers and their allies have spent decades funding a U.N. agency credibly accused of employing the people who carried out Oct. 7.
https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8114

USDA Recalls 30,000 Pounds of Argentine Beef Sold in Texas and Florida. No illness has been reported in connection with the shipment. However, federal regulators designated the event a Class I recall, the highest health-risk category, because uninspected meat entered commercial channels without verified safety compliance.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/usda-recalls-30-000-pounds-142809910.html

# Gov / Politics / US
‘She Can’t Even Say His Name’: Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett Faces Backlash After Refusing to Campaign With Primary Winner James Talarico
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6058356-crockett-down-ballot-texas-senate/

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to have perjured himself during his Senate confirmation hearing, a newly revealed letter shows. Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/rfk-jr-senate-confirmation-hearing-testimony-vaccines

# Global News
Germany In Talks To Help Fund Britain’s Nuclear Deterrent Trident And Deepen Nuclear Ties With France To Cut Reliance On The U.S. Amid Fears Trump Will Withdraw From Europe. Berlin could bolster Britain’s nuclear programme under plans to end Europe’s reliance on America for defence
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/26/germany-talks-help-fund-britains-trident-nuclear-deterrent/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
CIA obtained germs used by Fauci’s institute, which provided cover for its involvement in biodefense. The CIA reportedly used funds to leverage pre-existing civilian research efforts in a way that would benefit both the CIA and NIH, and the unclassified research would be “used to augment and complement” CIA research and development.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/cia-obtained-germs-used-faucis-institute-which-provided-cover-its-involvement
Review congressional testimony regarding intelligence community assessments via the Senate Committee Letter and Testimony.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/letter-and-testimomy.pdf

Judge: Fla. prison system’s seizure of inmate settlement violated federal law: Corrections officers beat Baez so severely at Santa Rosa Correctional Institution that he lost sight in his right eye. Baez sued the prison system and reached a $60,000 civil rights settlement.  the prison system hit him with a $547,850 “cost of incarceration” lien and pulled the funds directly from his prison account without giving him notice
https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/judge-rules-florida-department-of-corrections-seizure-of-prisoners-civil-rights-settlement-violated-federal-law

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Jury Finds DeSantis Admin Wrongly Gave $10M In Taxpayer Money To His Wife’s Charity. The grand jury report, which was made public, detailed how public funds were rerouted into political activities.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6056407-grand-jury-desantis-hope-florida-scandal/

Andrew Tate offered secret ‘espionage’ classes to exploit the dirty secrets of the wealthy: Yes, leaked data from Andrew Tate’s online empire revealed that his “War Room” program taught secret “espionage” classes to exploit the dirty secrets of wealthy individuals.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Furious Trump threatens ‘stalker’ Maggie Haberman and demands she fork over her money. President Donald Trump erupted at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on social media Friday, calling her a “stalker” and demanding that she surrender money earned from reporting about him.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maggie-haberman-2677792878/

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
Are doctor’s offices the new Costco? Patients now forced to pay astronomical ‘membership fees’ to stay with practice. While those who can afford the extra cost praise the enhanced access and personalized attention, lower- and middle-income patients face an agonizing choice: pay out-of-pocket membership fees or abandon the doctor who knows their complete medical history
https://www.the-sun.com/money/16914063/doctors-offices-patients-monthly-payment-appointment/

Thyroid Drug Recalled Across US: The pills are potentially “superpotent,” meaning they could cause an overactive thyroid. Some levothyroxine tablets may contain less active ingredient than the label states
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/evothyroxine-thyroid-medication-recall-july-2026/

North Carolina teen critically ill from brain-eating amoeba that recently killed Louisiana child. While the department confirmed the teen is in critical condition and receiving medical care, it said it is not releasing further information to protect the family’s privacy. The source of the case is under investigation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/08/28/north-carolina-teen-brain-eating-amoeba/91504487007/

A $1,205 MRI was preapproved by insurance. The patient was still on the hook for almost all of it. But as one Washington woman discovered, an insurer can approve a procedure and still leave the patient responsible for nearly the entire bill.
https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/1-205-mri-preapproved-insurance-103000457.html

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
‘I Had to Set a Precedent’: Navy Sexual Assault Survivor Says a Workers’ Comp Claim Just Ended Her Fight for Justice. Elsie Dominguez was allegedly raped by her captain while asleep on a ship. She told Military.com she’s out of legal options after a multi-year battle.
https://www.military.com/exclusive-navy-sexual-assault-survivor-says-a-workers-comp-claim-just-ended-her-fight-for-justice

The U.S. military said it has “meticulously and quietly” cleared Iranian sea mines from internationally recognized shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, declaring the vital waterway open for commercial traffic.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/08/28/us-military-says-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-cleared-of-mines-as-war-negotiations-stall/

Judge Rules that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Illegally Retaliated Against Anthropic. Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply-chain risk’ could cost billions ‌in lost business ‌and reputational harm
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/28/us-court-rules-pentagon-anthropic-ban-illegal-trump-claude-ai

US Navy in ‘financial strain’, ‘shortfalls in payroll’: ‘They shot all their weapons, they trashed all their ships, they ran out of their money”
https://www.military.com/iran-war-causing-shortfalls-in-navy-payroll-six-months-into-conflict

# Military / Global
China has removed two top generals from its highest military command body and expelled two other senior commanders from a Communist Party-controlled legislature, as turbulence continues within the upper echelon of the country’s armed forces.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/china-removes-two-top-generals-from-supreme-military-command-body/articleshow/133607609.cms?from=mdr

Ukraine drone strike destroys Tu-95MS bomber at Engels-2 airbase — the second irreplaceable Soviet-era aircraft lost there in six weeks.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325950/20260828/ukraine-kills-second-irreplaceable-tu-95ms-bomber-six-weeks-48000-drone.htm

# NASA / Space
President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching the U.S. Space Academy on Friday during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where he awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to four astronauts who crewed the Artemis II mission.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/its-going-to-be-beautiful-president-trump-signs-order-to-create-us-space-academy

# Technology / Robotics / AI / Flock Cameras
Local Governments Are Cutting Ties With Flock Safety After Discovering That Their Own Security Policies Are Powerless Against a Massive Data Leak
https://www.themarysue.com/local-governments-are-cutting-ties-with-flock-safety-after-discovering-that-their-own-security-policies-are-powerless-against-a-massive-data-leak/

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August 28, 2026, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Greg Abbott gloats after release of ICE agent who ‘shot into a house with children’: “Governor Abbott claims to be ‘tough on crime.’ How is he ‘tough on crime’ by manipulating an extradition process that is not supposed to be discretionary to protect a man who shot into a house with children inside?” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.
https://www.rawstory.com/abbott-ice-shooter-release/

ICE Deports Former Venezuelan Guard Commander Rafael Quero Silva After Judge Finds Torture Allegations and other Human Rights Violations
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-venezuelan-colonel-and-human-rights-violator

End of Protected Status Puts Thousands of Somali Immigrants at Immediate Risk. The move puts thousands of Somalis in the U.S. at risk of immediate detention, deportation, loss of work authorization, and family separation. “I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said.
https://truthout.org/articles/end-of-protected-status-puts-thousands-of-somali-immigrants-at-immediate-risk/

Dilley ICE Jail Is “Commodification of Child Imprisonment,” says Rep. Joaquin Castro
https://www.commondreams.org/news/shut-down-dilley

# Business / Industry / Corporations
100-year-old Connecticut manufacturer shuts down, owner says Trump economic policies pushed them over the edge. Specialized in architectural and industrial aluminum extrusion, machining, and finishing under one roof
https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-tariffs-closed-factories/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
‘America Is For Sale’: Trump Reportedly Trying to Hand Private Developer Part of Yosemite.
“Government of the people, by the people, but for friends and donors of the president above everyone else.”
https://people.com/trump-administration-looking-to-give-yosemite-land-to-private-developer-reports-12072161

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-oil-reserves-eb0ed5a1e99602c21a7f690c3368020e

‘Yet Another Trump Grift’: Congress Called to Stop US Takeover of Venezuelan Oil Fields
“Handing over Venezuela’s oil wealth to the US contravenes the Constitution and is not in the interest of the Venezuelan people—much more when it is done at gunpoint,” said one analyst.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-control-of-venezuela-oil

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
How much US farm land is owned or farmed by China? How much US land do other countries own?
https://globalaffairs.org/commentary/blogs/china-foreign-land-ownership-explainer

# Gov / Politics / US
The ‘chaos’ is the point of Trump’s anti-voting order: States can’t implement anti-mail voting order before midterms, experts warn
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-ultimately-wants-the-chaos-states-cant-implement-anti-mail-voting-order-before-midterms-experts-warn/

The ‘ripe’ reasons Trump’s anti-mail order was blocked: Federal judge blocks Trump’s anti-mail voting order again, citing risk to states and voters
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-anti-mail-voting-order-again-citing-risk-to-states-and-voters/

The Tucker Carlson–Kremlin bond just got stronger. Carlson used a recent appearance on RT to push Putin talking points. So it’s important to pay attention to Carlson’s peregrinations and associations. And he made a major move a few weeks ago, appearing for an hour on RT, the Russian state-controlled media outfit.
RT is more than just Vladimir Putin’s propaganda mill.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/tucker-carlson-russia-vladmir-putin-rt-appearance-rick-sanchez-kremlin-ukraine/

Iran War Trump Said Would Be Quick Has Now Lasted 6 Months With ‘No End In Sight’: Trump has “lost the Iran War in every way possible in less than six months,” said one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-failed-iran-war

‘America Is For Sale’: Trump Reportedly Trying to Hand Private Developer Part of Yosemite. “Government of the people, by the people, but for friends and donors of the president above everyone else.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/yosemite-national-park-private-developer

Deported model threatened by Melania’s lawyers lobs bombshell claim at Trump-allied ex
https://www.rawstory.com/amanda-ungaro-melania-trump/

Jury Finds DeSantis Admin Diverted $10 Million Marked for Poor Children to GOP Coffers. The funds were given to Florida from a settlement with a company that was overcharging Medicaid for prescription drugs.
https://fortune.com/2026/08/28/florida-desantis-10-million-hope-florida-grand-jury/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras. Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement. Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/police-opioid-funding-flock-alpr-camera-surveillance-tech/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Mystery deepens as special Pirro grand jury puts ‘even more unusual’ target in crosshairs. Acting U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is leading a special grand jury that could investigate President Trump’s political enemies, potentially drafting damaging reports about current and former Democratic officials. The special grand jury, overseen by Steven Vandervelden, could release a damaging report even without enough evidence to bring a case to trial, potentially giving Trump political ammunition before elections.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jeanine-pirro-takes-steps-call-174730718.html?action=scout

DOJ Weaponization Working Group releases report on 2023 FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/weaponization-working-group-releases-report-2023-fbi-richmond-field-office-memo-targeted-non

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
AI and cancer research: An AI system built by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) found evidence that a common breast cancer subtype may respond to immunotherapy, contrary to longstanding assumptions that it wouldn’t.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ai-turns-up-a-promising-finding-in-cancer-data-that-researchers-hadnt-noticed-for-years/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Judge rules alleged rape of US Navy civilian engineer by ship’s captain was ‘within her duties’, should be treated as a ‘work injury.’ A federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by civilian engineer Elsie Dominguez, ruling that because she was on official government travel, her alleged rape by a ship’s captain must be handled as a workplace injury under federal workers’ compensation
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-08-25/lawsuit-workers-comp-sexual-assault-navy-ship-22658787.html

Bradley Fighting Vehicle Lugging Load Of Swarming Ground Drones Is A Sign Of What’s To Come.
Bradleys deploying swarms of uncrewed ground vehicles would give the US Army a horde of new options for scouting and attacking.
https://thedefensepost.com/2026/08/28/us-ground-drone-bradley/

# Military / Global
Russia threatens UK military targets as Putin rages at Britain for supplying weapon tech to Ukraine. Moscow threatens retaliation after Andy Burnham says UK will help Ukraine start producing long-range missiles
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/britain-ukraine-war-russia

Trump Pentagon secretly amassing ‘troll army’ as report exposes ‘scandal of the century.’ “DataRepublican” has, over the last two months, waded deeper and deeper into hot-button political issues.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegseth-is-building-a-pentagon-troll-army-influencers-maga

Massive Expansion At China’s ‘Area 51: The buildout of the remote flight-test base has accelerated sharply, and large new hangars suggest a specific type of aircraft may be arriving in the near future.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/chinas-area-51-is-undergoing-a-massive-expansion

# Nuclear
“The Most Reckless Nuclear Deal In U.S. History.” Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-chair of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, today released the following statement after the Trump administration sent to Congress a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that would open the door to providing the Kingdom with the means to produce nuclear weapons. Congress holds the power to block this dangerous deal.
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-urges-congress-to-reject-trump-saudi-nuclear-deal

# Technology / Robotics / AI
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warns that AI is far more dangerous than Big Tech will admit. Describing AI as ‘a thousand times bigger’ than nuclear technology, Gates sounded the alarm on impending mass unemployment as machines outmatch human cognition across major job sectors. In a new interview, the billionaire philanthropist sounds an alarm on the urgency of getting our AI policies in order.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1142946/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold/

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Voices, The Peoples News

August 28, 2026, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.” Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”

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

# Indigenous
[Video] Tribe says armed CBP agents entered tribal land: Here’s what happened. “The contractors, who are on the Nation illegally, were accompanied by agents as they worked on three separate locations near the border with drill trucks to conduct soil sampling and other activities,” tribal officials said. The Nation called the contractors’ presence a violation of tribal trespassing law.
https://www.ktsm.com/news/masked-cbp-agents-enter-tribal-land-as-contractors-prep-for-border-wall/

# Animals / Pets
Texas tightens cattle import rules from Mexico to help stop screwworm spread. Texas now requires additional permits, inspections and identification for Mexican-origin cattle entering the state to combat screwworm.
https://thetexasdispatch.com/tahc-screwworm-movement-requirements-mexican-cattle/

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
‘MAGA ruins everything’ progressives lament as White House celebrates ‘massive’ D.C.-area ICE operation with ‘The Magic School Bus’ post mocking deportations. The White House is facing backlash after sharing a “Magic Deportation Bus” image modeled on the children’s educational series The Magic School Bus to promote recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests.
https://www.wonderwall.com/politics/white-house-massive-dc-area-ice-operation-magic-school-bus-post-mocking-deportations/

Here are the Texas cities, counties, and constable offices with ICE 287(g) agreements:  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has continued to grow, now reaching not only more than 200 county sheriff’s offices but also about 177 city police departments, marshal’s offices and constable offices.
https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/here-are-the-texas-cities-counties-and-constable-offices-with-ice-287g-agreements

List of Current Section 287(g) Agreements Between ICE and Local Authorities
https://myattorneyusa.com/immigration-blog/deportation-and-removal/criminal-aliens/list-of-current-section-287g-agreements-between-ice-and-local-authorities/

Reporters Melissa Sanchez and Sebastian Rotella set out to track down the people arrested, and, along with a team of ProPublica reporters, they uncovered a very different story behind the raid.. Reporters Melissa Sanchez and Sebastian Rotella set out to track down the people arrested, and, along with a team of ProPublica reporters, they uncovered a very different story behind the raid.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-raid-apartment-building-venezuelans-stories

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital.” I’ve been reporting on Camp East Montana for months. It sits on barren military land and was supposed to be a model for how the Trump administration would carry out mass deportations. Instead, it became an example of what could go wrong.
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-calls-camp-east-montana-texas-detention

ICE arrests prompt fear, economic concerns in New Brunswick. Residents and business owners in one New Brunswick neighborhood tell News 12 recent ICE arrests are keeping people off the streets and hurting local businesses. Some said the recent arrests have also heightened concerns for their own friends and family members.
https://longisland.news12.com/2026/08/27/ice-arrests-prompt-fear-economic-concerns-in-new-brunswick/1YFdkvGwHktyhwGSRS9XAr

U.S. Army Sergeant speaks after wife deported. Military Families Are Losing Immigration Protections. Cristy Villafranca-Trejo is at least the seventh military spouse deported since protections for troops’ families were rolled back, leaving her husband, a Fort Bliss Army sergeant, to raise their daughter alone.
https://www.latintimes.com/us-army-sergeant-speaks-out-after-wife-deported-military-families-are-losing-immigration-598815

“But it’s more sinister”: Connecticut senator claims ICE agents are arresting parents at school bus stops. An outraged Democratic senator announced Wednesday that he was heading directly to Danbury, Connecticut, after accusing federal immigration agents of targeting parents at school bus stops and deliberately waiting until their children were gone to make arrests.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2677781903/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
In Trump’s Second Term, Average US Family Forced to Spend $3,800 More on Essentials. “Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have made life more expensive for everyday Americans in virtually every area—all so they could give billionaires another massive tax break.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-economy-essentials-prices

# Employment / Labor / Unions
EEOC votes to propose new rule stripping feds of hearing rights, class action . Members of the public have just 30 days to digest and submit comments on a 130-page plan upending the process for alleging workplace discrimination at federal agencies.
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-proposes-major-rule-changes-improve-workplace-discrimination-complaint-process

Former federal worker pleads guilty to attempting to transmit classified intel to foreign government. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 29, of Alexandria, Virginia, a former IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), pleaded guilty yesterday to transmission of national defense information to a foreign government.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-government-employee-pleads-guilty-attempting-provide-classified-information

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
Houston to begin water shutoffs for thousands of delinquent customers. Beginning September 8, the City of Houston says it will begin disconnecting water service for customers who are 90 days or more behind on their bills and owe more than $500.
https://www.creditandcollectionnews.com/houston-to-begin-water-shutoffs-for-thousands-of-delinquent-customers/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
$900M paid out by Trump to end wind farm project is going to firm run by a Mar-a-Lago neighbor. The White House has insisted there is no conflict of interest in the settlement deal, which ends offshore projects in New York, California and Louisiana
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.html

Trump Declares National Emergency to Lock Foreign Equipment Out of the U.S. Power Grid: Grid equipment manufacturers say more clarity will be needed, particularly around rules for software and digital products where the country of origin may be difficult to determine.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-declares-emergency-moves-to-block-some-foreign-made-equipment-from-g/828959/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Scientists Analyzed Earth’s Hidden Seed Vaults And Made a Disturbing Realization
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-analyzed-earths-hidden-seed-vaults-and-made-a-disturbing-realization

# General News
Ukraine and Our Wildly Reckless Flirtation With a Nuclear War. Despite the danger of provoking a world-ending nuclear war, Ukraine’s CIA/NATO-supported strikes continue to target Russia’s nuclear weapons systems. For the first time in the lifetime of most of us, there are no remaining US-Russian arms control agreements.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-nuclear-war-risk/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
7 Doctors Connected to Jeffrey Epstein Under Investigation, New York Department of Health Says
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/119858

‘Distressing discussion’ on withheld Epstein files reveals ‘problems’ for Trump: Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh says he and a “well-informed international source” had a “distressing discussion” about a trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related files currently being withheld by the Justice Department whose release “could cause problems for the past and present members of some in the Trump administration.”
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2677789659/

Ghislaine Maxwell pointed finger at ’25 unindicted’ Epstein ‘co-conspirators’ to get out of prison, but a judge saw right through it
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ghislaine-maxwell-pointed-finger-25-171217398.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Trump Gains $15.5 Million From Oil & Gas Stocks After His Iran War Gives Big Oil Sky-High Profits
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2026/8/new-trump-gains-15-5-million-from-oil-gas-stocks-after-his-iran-war-gives-big-oil-sky-high-profits

‘Democracy Is Under Attack’: Civil Rights Lawsuit Aims to Block Trump Assault on Mail-In Voting. “These mail-in ballot restrictions threaten to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters who rely on mail voting to participate in our democracy,” said one advocate.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/voting-rights-groups-move-to-block-newly-finalized-mail-ballot-rule

Trump’s Plans to Steal the Elections Are Underway. Donald Trump is already taking steps to prepare to reverse any overall Democratic victory in November’s congressional races.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-plans-to-steal-the-elections-underway/

Stephen Miller Rushed to Hospital After Accidentally Stunning Himself with ICE Shock Gloves
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/stephen-miller-rushed-to-hospital

Former Trump die-hard blowtorches MAGA after violent ‘breaking point’ that pushed her out
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/maga-defection/

Swears and slurs hurled as roaring ‘whisper’ campaign mounts to ruin VP: The Bulwark details a raging internal “civil war” within the Republican Party where an aggressive, behind-the-scenes “whisper” campaign is targeting Vice President JD Vance.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-plot-to-sabotage-jd-vance-2028-prospects

A spine-chilling logic hides behind Trump’s rushed underground Mar-a-Lago fortress. .
https://newrepublic.com/post/214628/trump-white-house-ballroom-defense-unravels-secret-bunker

Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites  to check ‘integrity’
https://ladd.law.wisc.edu/2026/08/21/exclusive-trump-doj-appears-to-have-hired-lawyer-convicted-of-hacking-election-sites-to-check-integrity/

Watchdog group files bar complaint against Pirro over effort to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers
https://apnews.com/article/jeanine-pirro-bar-complaint-lawmakers-cf286e4fbb2679f8a7ee1f9f1f96cb7c

The Jeffries-Kushner Meeting Reveals More Than Either Party Will Admit. Private meetings in Washington often speak more loudly than public speeches. The recent meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and influential outside adviser, is one of those moments.
https://www.creators.com/read/armstrong-williams/08/26/the-jeffries-kushner-meeting-reveals-more-than-either-party-will-admit

Jelly Roll defended his choice to roast Donald Trump while guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, stating that any U.S. president should be able to take a joke. [Must watch. Your smile for the day.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeYSye9tRU

# Global News
Finland  is permanently ending its multi-year funding agreement with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, following earlier allegations that some of its employees were tied to the October 7 attacks. The level of funding does not decrease, it will be provided through other channels, such as the World Food Program.
https://justthenews.com/world/europe/finland-official-says-support-un-agency-will-end-following-allegations-employees-tied

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Small-town Texas police departments shutting down as new state rules take effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXWtf7ktDE

COPS have issued drivers with a warning ahead of the weekend to be extra careful when coming home from any Labor Day celebrations. Three states in particular are expected to see a larger patrol presence on roads over the following days.
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/16905985/cops-warn-drivers-be-careful-or-be-cuffed/

I’ve Seen Prison Conditions Kill. That’s What’s Happening at Delaney Hall. As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.
https://truthout.org/articles/ive-seen-prison-conditions-kill-thats-whats-happening-at-delaney-hall/

Local jails were supposed to detain immigrants for only 72 hours. One woman was held for a total of 26 days
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-rebooking-ice-jails-florida

Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
https://www.forensicmag.com/3594-All-News/626612-The-Syracuse-Rape-Crisis-that-was-Ignored/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Trumpworld walloped by judge who rules major act ‘to punish and retaliate’ was illegal. illegally by blacklisting the artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk. The judge declared that the government’s actions were driven by a desire to punish the company for its public criticisms rather than protect national security
https://www.alternet.org/trump-doj-letitia-james-2677755498/

Justice Department and FBI Seize Platforms Operated and Used by China State-Sponsored Hackers to Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-fbi-seize-platforms-operated-and-used-china-state-sponsored-hackers

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
The Pentagon’s War Against Stars and Stripes. The firing of its editor and a reporter continues a crackdown on the independence of the military community’s paper of record
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagons-war-against-the-stars-and-stripes/

Fired journalists slap Hegseth with damning lawsuit over report he tried to bury. “These actions were undertaken to limit speech on disfavored topics and punish speech critical of DoD and the Trump Administration,” the journalists say in their Aug. 27 complaint.
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2677788099/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
UnitedHealthcare is weighing dropping Medicare Advantage plans in 34 counties across 12 states for 2027. UnitedHealthcare is reviewing a preliminary list to drop Medicare Advantage plans in 34 counties across 12 states for the 2027 plan year.
https://www.goodsurance.com/news/2026-08-17-unitedhealth-ma-2027-county-exits-preliminary

Medicaid’s new 80-hour-a-month work requirement is coming, and the paperwork alone could end coverage for many. H.R. 1 mandates that Medicaid members aged 19-64 who are covered through the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion or an 1115 demonstration waiver that provides minimum essential coverage must engage in employment, education, a work program, or community service to maintain their Medicaid eligibility.
https://www.chcs.org/resource/a-summary-of-national-medicaid-work-requirements/

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
Mehmet Oz Dismisses Measles Concerns as “Inappropriate” After Baby Dies in Pennsylvania. “I don’t want anyone in America concerned inappropriately” about the surging disease, the health official said.
https://truthout.org/articles/oz-dismisses-inappropriate-measles-concerns-after-baby-dies-in-pennsylvania/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
“The Consequences Of Having The Greatest Military In The World In The Hands Of The Most Incompetent SecDef In American History.”  Rep. Levin Blasts Hegseth For Gutting Civilian Protection Program Despite Unanimous Commander Warnings, Linking Cuts To Strikes That Killed Hundreds
https://share.newsbreak.com/jfg9ruur

# Military / Global
Missiles, drones and the US defense squeeze in Asia. South Korea and Taiwan are adding missile and drone capability as the U.S. presses Asian allies to carry more defense burden. The United States is strengthening defenses against missiles and drones in the Pacific as recent attacks on American bases in the Middle East highlight the potential risks to installations facing increasingly sophisticated Chinese and North Korean weapons.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2026-08-25/pacific-bases-missile-drone-threats-22653269.html

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania brace for Russia invasion threat as CIA steps in. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania say they remain vigilant about a possible Russian invasion despite CIA director’s recent visit to Moscow.
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/214799/estonia-latvia-lithuania-russia-invasion

# Other Interestimg Stuff
They DNA Tested the Dead Sea Scrolls — The Results Changed Biblical History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fvUgjgq2rE

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Secret Service Communications Director Anthony Guglielmi Among Three Put on Leave Amid Misconduct Probe. The three individuals were put on leave following the launch of an internal inquiry by the Secret Service’s professional standards office. The grounds for and circumstances surrounding the investigation and subsequent action remain unclear.
https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-guglielmi-secret-service-leave-12371281

# Technology / Robotics / AI
The bookseller using AI to battle back against Big Tech’s digitize-and-destroy campaign. Companies are buying books, ripping them apart, scanning them to train AI and destroying them. Local bookshops are catching on. One is taking steps to keep from unknowingly sending a last known copy, regardless of its cultural importance, to its destruction
https://www.thederrick.com/sports/national_sports/ai-companies-are-destroying-more-books-than-you-think-says-bookseller/article_23e546cd-5102-5a71-82f8-19f92b0521ad.html

The UN and Red Cross Are Calling for Restrictions on AI Drones and Killer Robots. In a world where autonomous weapons can choose targets on their own, data can put us all at risk, a US veteran warns.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-un-and-red-cross-are-calling-for-restrictions-on-ai-drones-and-killer-robots/

FBI, Department of Justice Announce Disruption of Global Botnet. In this video, FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Brett Leatherman speaks to the significance of the disruption and discusses an associated Joint Cybersecurity Advisory that the Bureau and our partners issued to help defenders protect their networks from the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cexm2GBJksQ

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August 27, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Tohono O’odham Nation says federal agents trespassed. What rights does it have to stop them? A tribe says federal agents and contractors trespassed on their land while conducting border wall work this week. But could they be there?
Tribal Code: The Tohono O’odham Nation has a civil trespass code (Title 4, Chapter 2) that allows the tribe to remove and exclude non-members from its land.
Federal Blockades: When tribal police tried to issue citations to border wall contractors, CBP deployed armed tactical units (BORTAC) and set up vehicle blockades to stop the tribal police
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/26/tribe-accuses-us-federal-agents-of-trespassing-on-indigenous-border-land

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
District judge rules Trump Administration cannot ‘conscript local officials’ to cooperate with ICE in Michigan. She wrote that the federal government cannot compel states or local governments to enact or administer a federal program, and cannot “conscript state or local officers directly.”
https://michiganadvance.com/2026/08/26/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-against-washtenaw-countys-sanctuary-policies/

A Trump-era strategy is quietly routing deportees, including longtime South Florida residents, into two overwhelmed cities more than a thousand miles from the U.S. border. A Miami Mechanic Spent 46 Years Building a Life. ICE Flew Him 1,100 Miles Past the Border to Get Rid of Him. Borrell was transferred to Arizona and expelled to a region in Mexico he had never visited.
https://www.latintimes.com/miami-mechanic-spent-46-years-building-life-ice-flew-him-1100-miles-past-border-get-rid-him-598805

Federal judge sides with Texas instead of Minnesota in extradition of ICE agent. A lawsuit seeks to force Gov. Greg Abbott to speed the extradition of Christian Castro, who faces release from jail this week with charges still pending in Minnesota.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/25/texas-minnesota-ice-officer-extradition-judge/

Texas House Democrats urge Abbott to call for closing of Dilley ICE. The request follows a federal oversight order citing concerns about children’s detention time and medical care.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-house-democrats-urge-abbott-call-closing-dilley-ice-facility

State Department preparing to cancel tens of thousands of visas held by asylum seekers: The State Department announced that it is preparing to revoke tourist and business visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to foreign nationals who have sought or are actively seeking asylum in the United States
https://www.dw.com/en/us-trump-administration-plans-to-revoke-up-to-200000-visas-from-asylum-seekers/a-78491300

‘Living like Vampires’: ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas. “It’s gotten that bad: People don’t want to register their children to school. They don’t want to do groceries. They don’t even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-surge-daily-life-deep-south-texas/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
What a U.S.-Canada Spat Could Mean for American Security and Wallets. When neighbors go to (trade) war, it gets ugly for people on both sides of the border.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2026-08-26/what-a-u-s-canada-spat-could-mean-for-american-security-and-wallets

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
Millions across the US brace for bans coming into effect this month. K-12 students across the United States are saying goodbye to cell phones during the school day as strict “bell-to-bell” bans take effect for the start of the 2026–2027 school year. More students are advocating for their own digital wellbeing and developing programs to thrive in tech-free learning environments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-school-phone-bans

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Starbucks Workers United and Its 12,000 Members Call for Boycott. “It is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said.
https://truthout.org/articles/in-first-starbucks-workers-united-and-its-12000-members-call-for-boycott/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
All public parks shut down by the government in drastic money-saving measure as city locals cry it’s ‘devastating.’ Every park in the city of Independence, Oregon, has now been blocked off after being closed by city officials
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16900948/public-parks-shut-down-city-government-independence-oregon/

Over 30 Minnesota Water Systems Hit With ‘Coordinated Cyberattack,’ Forced to Go Offline
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/coordinated-cyberattack-targets-30.html

Companies Are Draining the West Dry – A Study Just Named Them. A first-of-its-kind study found that carbon-major emissions have drained trillions of gallons of water from the West. As this crisis reaches a boiling point, new research shows that just 122 companies are responsible for about half of the West’s climate change-driven water losses over the past decade.
https://gizmodo.com/122-companies-are-quietly-sucking-the-west-dry-study-finds-2000802785\

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump declares national emergency over ‘extraordinary’ threat in America’s power grid
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-emergency/

Coal’s Rockefeller Moment Just Arrived: Rockefeller didn’t get rich pumping crude. He got rich refining it into gasoline and kerosene. That same potential exists in coal, untapped. Until Frontieras. Their process splits coal into diesel, hydrogen, fertilizer, and more, without burning it. And with nine patents, they’re the only company that can do it.
https://theflashreport.ghost.io/this-innovator-is-creating-its-rockefeller-moment-for-coal/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
U.S. Cattlemen’s Association blasts Trump’s proposal to increase beef imports to bring down costs. Trump has laid out a plan to import 300,000 metric tons of tariff-free foreign ground beef over 90 days.
https://thehill.com/business/agriculture/6052290-ranchers-protest-foreign-imported-beef/

‘State of chaos’: Red state seethes as Trump’s marquee bill throws 50K kids off food aid
https://www.rawstory.com/big-beautiful-bill-2677784572/

Local woman faces fines, legal action for serving free breakfast at home. A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit. “Citizens should not be required to get the government’s permission before offering passers-by some coffee and a bite to eat while they socialize,” Dave Roland, the Institute’s Director of Allied Litigation, told The Center Square in a statement.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/missouri/article_9dc1c835-b108-401e-8147-e6e2524d9854.html

[Video] Trump Imports Recalled Beef; Importing beef from Argentina—30,000 pounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le4gW_CxK3E

Emergency Recall Declared for Beef Imported by Trump Administration: As reported, the recall was announced on Aug. 7. The affected products were imported from Argentina, without  reinspection. FSIS shared that the issue was discovered during routine inspection activities.
https://www.wideopencountry.com/emergency-recall-declared-for-beef-imported-by-trump-administration/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
House Oversight Committee releases transcript of interview with Jes Staley over ties to Epstein. The committee conducted its interview with Jes Staley last month. His name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files. He has denied any wrongdoing.
https://www.ms.now/news/jes-staley-epstein-transcript-house-oversight-barclays

# Gov / Politics / US
What’s next in the fight against Trump’s mail voting order? Explainer: The battle over Trump’s bid to restrict mail voting hits a pivotal point. Where things stand and what comes next
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/explainer-the-battle-over-trumps-bid-to-restrict-mail-voting-hits-a-pivotal-point-where-things-stand-and-what-comes-next/

Trump aide’s devotion story falls apart after lakeside video unearthed: A resurfaced video shows White House aide Natalie Harp professing an intense, almost mystical devotion to President Trump years before she ever entered his orbit, deepening questions about one of Washington’s strangest relationships.
https://www.rawstory.com/natalie-harp-2677782044/

Trump’s Reflecting Pool disaster devolves as sealant ‘chunks’ begin to break loose: Efforts to repair President Donald Trump’s botched renovation project have exposed just how shoddy the work truly was.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-reflection-pool-repairs-reveal-203546782.html

The Department of Homeland Security is mandating random paper ballot audits for upcoming elections, citing significant security risks posed by Chinese-manufactured components in widely-used voting machines.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/emb6am-homeland-security-warns-chinese-parts-election-machines-require?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Trump Admin Removes Obama Portrait Artist’s Painting For Being ‘Woke’: Erin Scavino, the Trump-appointed head of Art in Embassies, called Wiley’s embassy painting “very woke” and “aesthetically terrifying.
https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/kehinde-wiley-obama-artist-painting-us-embassy-art/

Trump lawyers quietly conceded admin has ‘irrevocably damaged’ Kennedy Center. Lawyers for President Donald Trump didn’t dispute that adding his name to the Kennedy Center may have “irrevocably damaged” its historic marble facade.
https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-center-2677783494/

Embittered ‘Stop the Steal’ truthers train their fire on MAGA’s saboteur: Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/alex-jones-2677782928/

‘Chilling’: Ex-Trump aide ‘disturbed’ as admin hunts down dissenters
https://www.rawstory.com/h-2677784686/

Sen. Bernie Sanders Warns Country Is Heading Toward “Totalitarianism,” Says “We Cannot Allow America to Become a Surveillance State Where a Handful of AI Oligarchs Profit”
https://share.newsbreak.com/jf5h5w1t

Governor Greg Abbott today announced that since signing Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed over one million people from the state’s voter rolls, including people who moved out-of-state, are deceased, and are noncitizens. That removal process has been, and will continue to be, ongoing.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-over-1-million-ineligible-voters-removed-from-voter-rolls

Rep. Brown Accuses Trump of “Blatant Corruption” After His Investment Accounts Bought Up to $500K in Boeing Stock the Same Day It Won an $880 Million Navy Contract
https://share.newsbreak.com/jf5ef919

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Postal Employees Charged Over Alleged $24 Million Scheme. In court documents, federal prosecutors allege three Houston-area mail carriers were recruited to find and steal checks they handled in their United States Postal Service duties and sell them for profit. In total, five were indicted
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2026/08/24/560203/houston-area-postal-workers-accused-of-stealing-nearly-24-million-dollars-in-checks/

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
COVID-19 is back in Texas schools. One district just shut down. San Perlita Independent School District announced Monday that all campuses and school operations would be suspended Tuesday and Wednesday as a precaution. Classes are scheduled to resume Thursday, Aug. 27.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/covid-19-back-texas-schools-194138603.html

The Win for Abortion Rights in Indiana Has Reshaped the National Legal Landscape. The ruling sets the stage for further free speech protections for those who help abortion seekers who cross state lines.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-win-for-abortion-rights-in-indiana-has-reshaped-the-national-legal-landscape/

‘We Can’t Control the Cuts, but We Can Control How We React’: Atlanta Nurse Raises Alarm Over Reported Pay Reductions. Local nurses, including public and private sector employees at major systems like Wellstar Health System and Grady Health, have raised alarms over shrinking shift differentials, variable block-pay adjustments, and budget cuts
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/nurses-rally-outside-atlanta-va-against-proposed-federal-funding-cuts/85-eb3bf0fc-e2ff-46b7-afda-ee6c60412cdc

Thyroid medication recalled nationwide after tablets found to be ‘superpotent’
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/thyroid-tablets-potency-recall-22404385.php

Vaccine Researcher to Plead Guilty to Fraud, sentenced to prison: The researcher, Dong-Pyou Han, pleaded guilty to the charges earlier this year. At the time of the fraud Han was a research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Services at Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames, Iowa.
https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3651

FDA approves pancreatic cancer drug that nearly doubles survival time over chemotherapy. For decades, successfully targeting the central mechanism that causes the vast majority of pancreatic cancers was considered impossible.
https://theconversation.com/fda-approves-breakthrough-pancreatic-cancer-drug-an-oncologist-explains-how-daraxonrasib-nearly-doubles-survival-290596

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
“Pete Hegseth Has Repeatedly Violated the Constitution and Continues to Pose a National Security Risk” — Rep. Ansari Demands Hegseth “Must Be Impeached” After Series of Firings Leave Army Without Confirmed Chief of Staff for Four Months
https://share.newsbreak.com/jf028yxx

Pentagon says ‘highly relevant’ classified documents concerning Afghanistan withdrawal were hidden
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/26/pentagon-afghanistan-withdrawal-documents-01050485

Sen. Warren Says Troops “Could Be Using UNSAFE or INEFFECTIVE Weapons” Because Hegseth “Gutted” the Pentagon’s Testing Office. Warren: “We Shouldn’t Unnecessarily Risk Troops’ Lives”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4850875022469-sen-warren-says-troops-could-be-using-unsafe-or-ineffective-weapons-because-hegseth-gutted-the-pentagon-s-testing-office

# Military / Global
‘Putin could use nuclear weapon in Ukraine, growing number of Russians believe as Vlad prepares to escalate Ukraine war.’ Negotiation frameworks have effectively collapsed, leaving the two warring sides back at square one.
https://www.military.com/putin-moves-to-escalate-war-in-ukraine-as-talks-at-dead-end

# Nuclear
Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress for approval
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-civil-nuclear-congress-2be6c822995be2a9f2a39b2c05e8f9b0

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Mississippi family says Musk’s data-center build-out is forcing them off land farmed for generations. The plant, which is powering Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI data centers in the Memphis area, has sparked backlash from Southaven residents concerned about noise and air pollution. A petition by the resident-run Safe and Sound Coalition calling to shut down the power plant has over 1,400 signatures.
https://www.aol.com/articles/musks-data-centers-push-family-143701000.html

GOP Senator Hawley opens investigation into Flock cameras’ surveillance program. The probe represents the highest level of backlash to date towards Flock cameras, which have rapidly evolved from the target of local governments and activists to a major national political issue.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/flock-cameras-senate-investigation-josh-hawley

# Social Services / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
Social Security added 14 severe conditions that can win a disability approval in days, not months
https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2026-08-11.html

# Technology / Robotics / AI
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence will permanently eliminate many white- and blue-collar jobs and called for taxes on AI and robots along with protections reserving certain jobs for humans.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

# Transportation / Trucking / Travel / Tourism / TSA / FAA
U.S. government suspends operations in Mexico border city, warns Americans against traveling to Mexicali due to ‘potential threat.’ The advisory, issued by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, noted the U.S. government was suspending its consular activities in the border city on Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6051803-us-suspends-mexicali-consular-services/

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August 26, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Indigenous
Thousands of Native Americans go missing each year. The FBI hopes increased rewards will help solve cases. As of the end of 2025, there were just under 1,500 active cases involving missing indigenous people, according to the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation set a baseline reward of $25,000 for publicly advertised cases involving kidnappings, homicides, and missing persons in Indian Country.
https://apnews.com/article/missing-murdered-indigenous-native-american-fbi-reward-9d4011000c3d812497322431d0256e69

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Trump’s ICE Has Detained More People Than the Population of Atlanta. Unlike prior administrations, in Trump’s second term, ICE is aggressively arresting people far from the border and detaining them longer.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/25/immigrant-detention-trump-ice-thousands-length

Military’s arrest power at southern border grows. What’s behind the change? The military, pushing the bounds of its legally limited domestic role, detains suspected trespassers in these patrolled military zones created by the Trump administration. Now, the administration is arguing that the armed forces can stop such people “just outside” those zones as well.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0822/national-defense-areas-military-arrests

Trump Targets U.S Soldier’s Wife With Heartbreaking Deportation. The wife of an active-duty US soldier was deported on Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/soldier-wife-deported-honduras

AP exclusive shows Trump’s immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents. One way the U.S. military recruits service members is by promoting enlistment as a means of protecting family members from immigration enforcement.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/second-winner/2026/ap-exclusive-shows-trumps-immigration-crackdown-has-detained-more-than-50-military-spouses-and-parents/

A young immigrant’s deportation nightmare. ICE is going to war against kids who have a special legal status. The plane was stuck on the tarmac of a Louisiana airport, but Yurin Quiroa Ralda, 21, was not particularly eager to take off. He was being deported, based in part on misinterpreted records. And not to his birthplace, Guatemala, but to Ecuador, where he’d never even been.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-deferred-action-special-immigrant-juvenile-status-deportations-ice-detention/

# Chemicals / Minerals
Agency’s $140B uranium plan not fully reported to Congress. A federal agency estimated it will cost about $140 billion to enrich uranium for national security through 2105, but hasn’t reported that figure to Congress as required, a watchdog found.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_48477599-aecf-4f97-8746-323343753491.html

# Drugs / Trafficking / DEA / Gangs / Cartels / ATF
Cartels Use New Tactics to Get Drugs Into US: A 1,254-mile line, the length of the Texas-Mexico border, has been drawn and along it, illicit fentanyl is seeping into Texas and claiming lives on an unprecedented scale.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/archive/2023/jan/fentanyl.php

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
Canada said it’s countering Washington’s levies by imposing dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on hundreds of American goods amounting to nearly $20 billion.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/25/canada-hits-us-with-counter-tariffs-targeting-hundreds-of-products

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Agencies backfilled 20,600 employees who left government under the deferred resignation programs, analysis finds. The Office of Personnel Management disputed the findings and countered that the analysis also shows around 85% of the DRP separations were not replaced.
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/agencies-rehired-for-over-20k-roles-after-deferred-resignations-analysis-finds/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
They’re dousing national forests in Roundup, and the government helped Monsanto rig the science that says it’s safe. A major investigation has confirmed that the U.S. Forest Service and timber companies are spraying record amounts of glyphosate (Roundup) in national forests, while using safety science that was secretly manipulated by Monsanto
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/roundup-glyphosate-spraying-forests-monsanto-science-retraction-cancer-health-concerns-maha-trump-executive-order-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuits/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Big Oil Is Seeing Windfall Profits as Trump’s War on Iran Drives Up Prices. Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions.
https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-seeing-windfall-profits-as-trumps-war-on-iran-drives-up-prices/

Canada could turn off the lights. Ontario powers 1.5 million American homes and businesses.
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/08/25/ontario-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-1-5-million-american-homes-and-businesses-as-trumps-trade-war-intensifies/

‘Moving the Goalposts Again’: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Sparks Backlash After Deflecting on $2 Gas Promise
https://thenerdstash.com/moving-the-goalposts-again-texas-gov-greg-abbott-sparks-backlash-after-deflecting-on-2-gas-promise/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Outrage as Trump official refuses to name source of U.S. beef: ‘Why not?’ “About the beef imports, what specific countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up those beef imports, aside from Mexico?” a reporter asked Rollins on Tuesday.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214735/trump-team-imported-beef-origin-backlash

Trump’s beef import plan fuels online theories about horse meat: Two recent reports — one regarding President Donald Trump’s plan to import beef to reduce skyrocketing prices and another exposing the federal government’s role in allowing wild horses to be sold for slaughter — are fueling internet theories that horse meat is being sold to the United States for consumption. [Is this why they’re rounding up the wild mustangs?]
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-beef-imports-horse-meat-food-inspection/

Trump’s gray-market beef imports threaten Nevada’s ranches — and your health. If someone tried to sell you discounted meat but refused to tell you where they got it from, would you buy it? Me neither. Anonymously selling a product below market price is rarely a recipe for quality or safety, especially where food is concerned — and food safety has been in the news alarmingly frequently as of late.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-trumps-gray-market-beef-imports-threaten-nevadas-ranches-and-your-health

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Missing Epstein Files Found On Popular File-Sharing Site. Reports indicate that dozens of missing FBI witness interviews and records related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including files concerning uncorroborated allegations against Donald Trump, were circulated or discussed online following gaps in the Department of Justice’s public releases
https://hiphopwired.com/3063591/missing-epstein-files-found-on-popular-file-sharing-site/

Bad news for Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday cited “overwhelming” evidence of Maxwell’s guilt in rejecting her pro se request to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and free her from federal prison. The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution strictly opposing any presidential pardon, commutation, or executive clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsosCQ9D7kY

Trump DOJ Takes Epstein Files Fight to Appeals Court — as Lawyers Discuss Nearly 100 Examples of Handwritten FBI Interview Notes
https://www.aol.com/articles/exclusive-trump-doj-takes-epstein-235500000.html

# Gov / Politics / US
‘The writing on the wall’: Trump’s staff departs ahead of possible turmoil. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt and his top liaison to Congress James Braid are both leaving. But the forces that made their jobs tough aren’t changing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/23/the-writing-on-the-wall-trumps-staff-departs-ahead-of-possible-turmoil-01046424

Coming soon to a desert near you: Election denial festival. Election denialism remains a potent force in American politics, frequently concentrated in rural and desert battlegrounds like parts of Arizona
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-election-deniers-influencing-trumps-anti-voting-policy-from-outside-the-white-house/

The election deniers influencing Trump’s anti-voting policy from the outside
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-election-deniers-influencing-trumps-anti-voting-policy-from-outside-the-white-house/

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms

Trump’s all-out assault on free and fair elections undermines trust in democracy | Editorial
The president is working feverishly to tilt the playing field to ensure Republicans win.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/elections-interference-trump-voting-rights-save-act-20260710.html

Election Denialism Becoming Institutionalized in US Politics
The article, titled “The Election Deniers Are Winning,” examines how individuals who promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election have gained influence in local governments, election oversight efforts and federal politics.
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/05/election-denial-movement-gaining-influence/

SAVE America Act supporters clamoring for U.S. Senate to pass bill. When Congress returns in September, it faces a backlog of legislative priorities including major bills funding U.S. farms, road and water infrastructure, and the entire federal government. SAVE America Act supporters, are reiterating demands that Senate Republican leadership take extraordinary measures to force the House-passed bill through the upper chamber.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_07067d54-8552-4c4d-8a77-830c3dfd4c01.html

Trump’s schedule raises major question about who’s running the country: “Today, we can’t even identify five hours of work, three closed-door events, a prerecorded interview, and signing time,” Pakman said. He argued that it leaves a glaring gap at the center of the presidency.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-schedule/

Justice Department Releases Opinion on Military Arrests Near Borders. The Office of Legal Counsel asserted that arrests by military personnel near national defense areas do not violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/justice-department-releases-opinion-on-military-arrests-near-borders

The Trump administration offers a dangerous and wrong new opinion of the Posse Comitatus Act. The Office of Legal Counsel’s Aug. 14 memo “purports to be a straightforward application of statute and long-standing executive and judicial practices to authorize an incremental increase in military authority. It is not.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/olc-s-dangerous–and-wrong–opinion-about-the-posse-comitatus-act

Court Finds Trump’s Use of Soldiers in Los Angeles Is Illegal. The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-finds-trumps-use-soldiers-los-angeles-illegal

Sen. Padilla Calls for No Federal Troops, Federal Law Enforcement, No ICE at Polling Sites as Trump Says He’d Do “Anything Necessary” for “Honest Elections”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4849117700094-sen-padilla-calls-for-no-federal-troops-federal-law-enforcement-no-ice-at-polling-sites-as-trump-says-he-d-do-anything-necessary-for-honest-elections

First-Ever Republican Midterm Convention Turning Into “Shit Show”: The National Republican Campaign Committee is having a tough time organizing its convention, which is just days away. The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style grift.
https://newrepublic.com/post/214712/first-ever-republican-midterm-convention-turning-shit-show

‘It’s Coming’: Trump’s supporters brace for possible ‘national emergency’ to oversee US midterm elections
https://www.newsbreak.com/knewz-1594593/4848947980819-it-s-coming-trump-s-supporters-brace-for-possible-national-emergency-to-oversee-us-midterm-elections

# Global News
Putin ‘clears schedule’ as CIA chief makes secret trip to Moscow on US military jet as Ukraine ‘warned to halt strikes.’ The spy boss was reportedly on board the US military jet that mysteriously landed in Russia today.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16893413/us-military-plane-lands-moscow-kremlin-no-info/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
A Texas Constable Unplugged the Surveillance State From His County – One Camera at a Time. In mid-August 2026, Hood County Constable John D. Shirley posted photos to Facebook that looked like crime scene evidence—except the cameras were the suspects. Bagged, unplugged, neutralized.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/texas-constable-unplugged-surveillance-state-163903265.html

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Judge notices Trump admin ‘creating’ a mail-in ballot ’emergency’ after ‘courts were closed,’ demands immediate answers
https://ladd.law.wisc.edu/2026/08/24/judge-notices-trump-admin-creating-a-mail-in-ballot-emergency-after-courts-were-closed-demands-immediate-answers/

Judge demands answers from Trump admin over its apparent violation of court order while surveilling church. The case boils down to religious freedoms protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the First Amendment that groups have argued DHS and its subagency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have broken in their apparent attempts at immigration enforcement in the U.S.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/judge-demands-answers-dhs-over-160847663.html

Judge busts Trump admin violating her order — as it told Supreme Court the opposite. A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration violated her court order blocking new mail-in ballot restrictions, catching officials making contradictory claims to different courts within weeks of each other.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-court-2677777856/

DOJ warns Kennedy Center will be torn down and replaced with amphitheater if renovation canceled: Without Trump’s name, Kennedy Center may need to be demolished, DOJ says. Justice Department attorneys argued that if President Donald Trump’s name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, then the money from donors for renovations would shrivel up and the “decrepit, dilapidated” cultural center may be “required to be taken down.”
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/politics/2026/08/26/kennedy-center-faces-being-demolished-without-trump-name-department-of-justice

Lawsuit claims disgraced Houston cop’s lies landed another man in prison for 7 years. Byron Prophet has filed a federal civil rights lawsuits against the Houston Police Department and convicted murderer Gerald Goines
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/byron-prophet-goines-harding-civil-right-lawsuit-22400127.php

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
‘This shouldn’t be happening’: Kids dying of treatable illness as red state does nothing: Republicans’ $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, alongside ripping away health care tax credits, mean 3 million children are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, with another 500,000 expected to go uninsured after losing tax credits, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
https://www.protectourcare.org/sick-of-it-spotlight-republicans-health-care-cuts-are-making-kids-sicker/

California Parents Of Baby Delivered By Surrogate McKenna West Says He’s In Critical Condition After Heart Surgery Upon Delivery In Texas. Baby Gabriel was diagnosed before birth with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital heart defect.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/texas/2026/08/25/mckenna-west-surrogacy-baby-gabriel-rumi-texas-abortion/91458846007/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Six Months On, 1,300 U.S. Navy Family Members Are Paying the Price for the Pentagon’s Refusal To Admit the Bahrain Base Is Permanently Compromised
https://www.themarysue.com/six-months-on-1300-u-s-navy-family-members-are-paying-the-price-for-the-pentagons-refusal-to-admit-the-bahrain-base-is-permanently-compromised/

‘Bombs away!’ Hegseth axed program that kept troops from killing civilians: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gutted a key Pentagon program he viewed as “woke” after every top military commander rebuffed his push to dismantle it, according to a new ProPublica investigation.
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2677775271/

Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless. The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/hegseth-purge-army-generals.html

Navy Issues Unusual Warning to Personnel. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao has advised Navy sailors, Marines, and civilian employees to remove any content on social media linking them with the Navy and to report suspicious activity.
https://www.military.com/navy-notice-officially-warns-sailors-faimilies-to-scrub-social-media-of-military-ties

Fleet of ‘doomsday planes’ spotted over US hours after CIA boss visits Moscow: Flight trackers spotted five Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft, also known as the doomsday plane because they can survive a nuclear attack, hours after an American plane landed in Moscow. This triggered speculation about the purpose of the mystery landing.
https://www.wionews.com/world/5-doomsday-planes-spotted-in-us-skies-hours-after-cia-director-s-secret-trip-to-russia-1787717232847

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategic Readiness Ron Moeller announced his resignationn, stating that he had always planned to serve a one-year term under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
https://www.wonderwall.com/politics/ron-moeller-resigns-under-pete-hegseth/#google_vignette

# Military / Global
Germany investigates arms cache found in woods near Berlin. Handguns and ammunition were found in a forest near Berlin last year. Reports say German authorities suspect they were to be used for assassinations on behalf of Russian intelligence.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-weapons-berlin-russia-arms/a-78371750

# NASA / Space
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot
News. “The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them.”
https://www.space.com/astronomy/the-roman-space-telescope-will-reveal-the-universe-in-a-way-the-jwst-and-hubble-cannot

# NOAA
Heat dome triggers extreme warnings as more than 50 million Americans face dangerous temperatures. A powerful heat dome is trapping a massive ridge of high pressure over the South and Southwest, placing tens of millions of Americans under extreme heat warnings with temperatures soaring near or above 115°F to 118°F
https://voz.us/en/society/260826/38599/dangerous-heat-dome-threatens-to-bring-record-breaking-temperatures-to-the-southwestern-part-of-the-country.html

# Science / Research
3 teens win global prize for tamarind seed powder that pulls microplastics from water. They wanted something that could work in places without access to advanced water-treatment technology.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/3-teens-win-global-earth-prize-for-inventing-tamarind-powder-that-easily-removes-microplastics/

This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water. Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-school-student-invented-a-filter-that-eliminates-96-percent-of-microplastics-from-drinking-water-180988363/

2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water
https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-fifty-thousand-for-ultrasound-microplastic-filtration-device-2024-5

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Flock cameras let New York police collude with ICE, report shows. A new investigative report reveals that local police departments across New York have been using Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to search and share vehicle data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
https://statescoop.com/new-york-police-flock-data-search-ice/

# Veterans / VA
VA just changed the rules for veterans whose records burned in a fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/va-just-changed-rules-veterans-162224473.html

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August 25, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
MONSTERS! Trump’s ICE goons just dragged a mom and her daughter out of their hospital room, with the mom in a neck brace, after being injured in a dangerous car accident!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFYDUChyKh0

The privatization of immigrant detention. A GEO Group subsidiary donated $1.4 million to a super PAC benefiting the White House’s political campaign after the Trump administration awarded contracts worth about $165 million a year to the private prison company
https://time.com/article/2026/08/04/ice-detention-strategy-private-prisons-immigration-deportation/

Profiting Off Pain: Privatized Detention, Mass Surveillance and the Drive for Immigrant Prosecutions
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/profiting-pain-privatized-detention-mass-surveillance-and-drive-immigrant

ICE wants a weapon that will leave no marks. The shock gloves the feds have just ordered do the trick. “Whatever the case, these gloves continue ICE’s dehumanization of migrants, critics, and brown people generally.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-wants-a-weapon-that-leaves-no-mark-electric-shock-gloves-compliant-technologies

Trump planning largest mass visa revocation in history, targeting up to 200,000 foreigners
Donald Trump’s administration is set to revoke over 200,000 visas held by foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum in the U.S.
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trump-planning-largest-mass-visa-1995907

# Children / Youth / Childcare / Interstate Child-Trafficking
Children in a faith-healing sect keep dying. Children in sects like the Followers of Christ frequently die from treatable conditions. The state lets it happen.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
A proposed IRS rule would make families sign a citizenship declaration under penalty of perjury to collect refundable tax credits.
Child Tax Credit (CTC)
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Adoption Tax Credit
American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC)
https://share.newsbreak.com/jedpm47t

Trump’s three-front offensive hits cartels, Canada and economic blackout on Iran. A busy 48 hours: A sweeping economic campaign against Iran, imposing 50% tariffs on Canadian goods after trade talks failed, and ordering a U.S. military strike that destroyed a suspected cartel drug boat.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumps-three-front-offensive-economic-siege-iran-tariffs-hit-canada-strike

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Trump’s plan to allow drilling near New Mexico heritage site sets off global alarms. A UNESCO spokesperson said the world heritage committee has consistently considered mining and drilling near sites to be “incompatible with world heritage status.”
https://www.planetizen.com/news/2026/08/138259-trump-allow-drilling-mining-near-world-heritage-site

Trump Raked In Up to $15.5 Million From Fossil Fuel Stocks as His War Pushed Up Gas Prices.
“President Trump continues to get richer from an illegal war that he started and refuses to resolve, while Americans pay the price for his actions,” said US Sen. Maggie Hassan.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-gas-prices-iran-war-oil-industry-house-democrats

Shell puts longtime U.S. headquarters on the market for $325 million as it shrinks Houston footprint. Attorneys general across the United States are using a range of strategies to withhold 2024 emails discussing a longstanding plan to file lawsuits against the second Trump administration over potential policies that had not yet been implemented.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_853a92ef-991e-4b41-b10e-0b11cbd40d8e.html

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
They’ve Finally Done It: Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies. In the immortal words of an inveterate addict suffering in the throes of a lifelong addiction: C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me. Even if cookie plastic.
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2026/august/this-cookie-started-its-life-as-a-plastic-bottle.html

# General News
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent, but it still requires Senate approval and a presidential signature before taking effect.
In much of the U.S., the sun wouldn’t rise until after 8 a.m. for at least part of the winter. For some, the sun wouldn’t come up until after 9 a.m.
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/6033849-no-more-sunsets-before-5-p-m-how-permanent-daylight-saving-would-change-winter/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Trump sanctioned ICC officials to shield Israeli leaders. Rights groups sued. Supporters of Trump-sanctioned individuals or entities face maximums of $1 million in fines and 20 years imprisonment. Executive Order 14203: Signed by President Trump, the order authorizes asset freezes and travel restrictions against ICC judges, prosecutors, and associated human rights defenders
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-sanctioned-icc-officials-to-shield-israeli-leaders-rights-groups-sued/

# Gov / Politics / US
President Trump eyes ‘crushing’ economic blockade to bring Iran to its knees. The Trump administration plans to escalate its strategy to economically isolate the Islamic Republic by targeting its international enablers and financial networks, and sends a warning shot to Beijing.
https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/president-trump-eyes-crushing-economic-blockade-bring-iran-its-knees

Bessent unveils ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ sanctions targeting Iranian regime. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says US sanctions will intensify to choke off Iran’s revenues and isolate the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/24/trump-administration-announces-global-economic-war-on-iran

Al Green Files Impeachment Articles Over Trump Using CBP, ICE as ‘Unaccountable Paramilitary Police Forces.’ “The framers anticipated this kind of abuse of executive power,” said one legal expert. “They gave Congress the remedy: impeachment.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-impeachment

Judge lays out Trump’s ‘high noon’ plot to seize power if Republicans lose the midterms. Conservative judge Michael Luttig warned Monday that President Donald Trump seems likely to push Congress into a “high noon” scenario if the midterms don’t go well for Republicans.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-midterms-2677772166/

‘Must be stopped, NOW’: Trump hints at swift intervention over ‘epic humanitarian crisis.’ “The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677772954/

Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ threats become warnings for countries to sever financial ties with Iran
https://apnews.com/article/iran-rial-currency-bessent-trade-august-24-2026-e367634d8853c8fa4a341132cd577f31

“His Endless War Of Choice In Iran Isn’t Enough” — Kaptur Accuses Trump Of Launching A Fresh Trade War On Canada As 50% Tariffs Take Effect, “The GOP Must Rein In This Destructive Reckless Administration”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4845203742649-his-endless-war-of-choice-in-iran-isn-t-enough-kaptur-accuses-trump-of-launching-a-fresh-trade-war-on-canada-as-50-tariffs-take-effect-the-gop-must-rein-in-this-destructive-reckless-administration

More than 1.2 million Texans’ voter registrations are suspended. To check their status, voters should visit the state’s portal. In case they are on the suspense list, they have until October 5 to be removed from it, which can be done through another state website. A driver’s license or a Social Security number may be necessary to change the address.
https://thenerdstash.com/texas-angry-after-voter-suspense-list-hits-1-2-million-this-seems-seriously-off/

# Global News
Iran says it’s prepared for new US sanctions, predicting them to be ‘another defeat.’ Iran says it’s long prepared for new sanctions from the U.S. Meanwhile, China says it will safeguard its rights amid new financial threats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-us-trump-sanctions-strait-of-hormuz/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
The Georgia Supreme Court will no longer hear appeals in murder cases because those cases take up too much of the court’s time. The state’s Court of Appeals will instead be the appellate court of last resort in all murder cases except those that include the possibility of a death sentence
https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/08/17/georgia-supreme-court-to-stop-hearing-most-murder-cases-by-2028/

AGs conceal records tied to longstanding plans to sue Trump
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_853a92ef-991e-4b41-b10e-0b11cbd40d8e.html

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Journalist Benn Jordan was banned from Flock Safety’s police surveillance conference for being press, so he flew a drone over it and filmed every cop, politician, and former senator inside.
https://cybernews.com/entertainment/ben-jordan-banned-flock-event/

How Trump Plans to Silence CNN, Jon Stewart and John Oliver (the Same Way He Silenced CBS News). The president is pushing for a media monopoly that would cover his authoritarian moves.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-ellison-media-monopoly

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
UnitedHealthcare says it is no longer negotiating, The deal secured in-network access at UHealth for people covered through employer plans, Affordable Care Act marketplace plans and Florida Medicaid. A different contract governs the insurer’s Medicare Advantage Preferred Care Network plan, and that one is ending on a fixed date.
https://share.newsbreak.com/jedukemg

# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp / CBD
Texas Marijuana Laws and Penalties
https://norml.org/laws/texas-penalties-2/

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
‘Lawless Killing Spree at Sea Resumes’ as US Announces Fresh Boat Bombings. With the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-gas-prices-iran-war-oil-industry-house-democrats

Insider Trading on Polymarket Is Revealing Military Secrets. “It would be ⁠naive to think foreign-intelligence agencies aren’t monitoring these markets.” More than 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on military secrets, research finds
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/more-than-150-polymarket-wallets-may-have-traded-military-secrets-research-finds-2026-08-20/

# NASA / Space
In the ’60s, US military satellites were hunting secret nuclear tests. What they found came from deep space
https://www.sciencing.com/2242410/1960s-us-military-satellites-nuclear-tests-gamma-ray-bursts/

The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth: In 1963, the United States launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. It was called Project West Ford, and it’s a perfect, if odd, example of the Cold War paranoia and military mentality at work in America’s early space program.
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/project-west-ford/

# NOAA
Ocean temperatures just hit new levels as Trump’s climate denial machine defunds the agency tracking it. In line with Project 2025’s recommendations, over 900 advanced deep-sea sensors are being removed from the ocean floor, cutting off critical real-time data used by global researchers to track climate change.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-administration-dismantles-critical-ocean-floor-observation-network/
Project 2025: https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Project 2025 Explained: https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Trump regulators issue key permit for proposed $100 million underwater data center off Maine coast. “No one really wants it here,” said one local resident who helped gather signatures in support of blocking the data center.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/maine-data-center

# Social / Communities / Housing
This Palantir billionaire’s passion project is criminalizing homelessness. Joe Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute lobbies to make sleeping outdoors a crime. Under Trump, the federal government is listening.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/joe-londsdale-cicero-institute-homelessness/

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret. The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-affordable-housing-cost-secrecy

# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
The Social Security payment for the month a person dies must be returned, even after it reaches the bank
https://www.usa.gov/social-security-report-a-death

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Voices, The Peoples News

August 24, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

American author Mark Twain famously stated: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

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

# Indigenous
Gila River Health Care will invest in a University of Arizona medical school branch, creating a physician training pipeline aimed at addressing persistent recruitment and retention challenges across tribal and rural health systems.
https://tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/health-care/15733-gila-river-invests-25m-in-tribal-land-medical-school-to-build-physician-workforce

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Outrage after US deports dad who helped prosecute cartels: ‘Target for a hideous death’
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2677760743/

These 13 Nationalities No Longer Have Deportation Protection. Following a series of federal court and Supreme Court rulings clearing the way for the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs for 13 countries. This decision strips deportation protections and work authorizations from more than one million foreign nationals living previously in the U.S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViEh46RjxI8

Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled. “This is the worst time that we have ever seen with regards to how our government is treating children. ” Trump administration officials deny that they are targeting immigrant children, but there is growing evidence that this is not the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez

He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
https://www.therepublic.com/2026/08/23/he-was-waiting-for-his-son-to-return-from-the-uss-lincoln-then-border-patrol-arrested-him/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
A fifth American bank failed on Friday, and all $67 million of its deposits moved to a buyer overnight. Five failures this year mark a modest uptick from the two failures recorded in both 2024 and 2025.
https://www.creditandcollectionnews.com/fifth-bank-fails-in-2026-as-drip-of-small-bank-closures-continues/

Closing in on $10 trillion. Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, the cost to taxpayers for the U.S. War on Terror is approaching $10 trillion.
https://www.newsbug.info/news/nation/the-cost-of-america-s-25-year-war-on-terror-closing-in-on-10-trillion/article_ed96476c-b108-523e-b8d1-44b87dcc79ca.html?utm_source=newsbug.info&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fcoronavirus%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
‘Actual apartheid’: Trump Education boss enrages with new plan for elementary-school kids. “Sometimes we ignore what the actual skillsets of those children are.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2677760539/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
On Land and Sea, the Trump Administration prioritizes plunder over environmental protection. The latest victim: marine sanctuaries. “They’re totally missing any sense of stewardship toward the ocean that supports all of us.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-administration-noaa-commercial-fisheries-profits-marine-conservation/

With new Colorado River plan, Lower Basin states to see cuts amid record low water levels. Under the new Colorado River plan, Arizona, California and Nevada will see water cuts. Officials say that a longer-term solution is needed.
https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/08/21/feds-announce-water-cuts-under-new-colorado-river-plan/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Alfalfa sprout recall underway as federal and state authorities investigate E. coli and salmonella infections involving 55 people in 15 states. Four patients hospitalized, and no deaths reported.
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks/alfalfa-sprouts-08-26/index.html

# Gov / Politics / US
Wisconsin still allows child marriage — but efforts to end it have stalled. Nearly 300 16- and 17-year-olds were married in Wisconsin over the past decade. Republicans have blocked Democratic efforts to change that.
https://19thnews.org/2026/06/wisconsin-child-marriage/

Democrats Prepare Multifront Investigations Of Trump Administration Ahead Of Possible House Majority
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/rfk-jr-surgeons-general-vaccines-warning

Elizabeth Warren Blasts Trump, GOP Over Billionaire-Friendly Policies: ‘Kicking 15 Million Americans Off Their Health Care’
https://www.benzinga.com/news/politics/26/08/61372412/elizabeth-warren-blasts-trump-gop-over-billionaire-friendly-policies-kicking-15-million-americans-off-their-health-care

People Must Reject Donald Trump’s Standing Army: President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC is designed to normalize something that should never be normal in this country: the use of the military as a domestic police force.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-trump-standing-army

The U.S. Department of Justice once worked closely with states to assist with elections. That was before Donald Trump’s presidency. “The reality now is that our biggest adversary to running smooth elections is the president,” Brown said.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/midterm-elections-2026-2677727728/

Trump is still haunted by a 20-year nemesis — who just came back armed with a blowtorch: “Hey, can’t you see? I’m terrific at everything! No star shines so bright as me—Rosie! Trump can’t stand it any when women reject him or call him out on his behavior, even when it’s a woman he doesn’t find attractive.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/rosie-odonnell/

Why Young People Keep Falling for Communist Ideology. Every generation searches for answers. Young people have always challenged the status quo, questioned authority and sought a better future than the one they inherited. The answer deserves more than slogans or political attacks. It deserves honesty, humility, and historical perspective
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/23/why-are-so-many-young-people-drawn-to-communism/

# Global News
Iran signals openness to diplomacy as war remains stalled. President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the agreement signed by President Donald Trump in June should be used to move the conflict beyond what he described as a state of “neither war nor peace.”
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/iran-signals-openness-diplomacy-war-remains-stalled

A Pakistani army official will meet with Iranian officials on the same day the U.S. is planning to announce new sanctions on Iran.
https://san.com/cc/pakistan-army-official-going-to-iran-reportedly-plans-to-discuss-us-sanctions/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons — But Prisons Were Never Humane. The historical record shows that the glossy language of “reform” contributes to the normalization of prisons and jails.
https://truthout.org/articles/states-claim-to-invest-in-humane-new-prisons-but-prisons-were-never-humane/

Nowhere else to go: One man’s perilous journey in jail to understand charges against him: “I don’t want anything to happen to them, but the longer they’re here, I feel like the odds go against them.” Missouri does a particularly poor job of providing people awaiting trial with the mental health care many of them desperately need to understand the charges against them
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/24/missouri-jail-competency-stand-trial-mental-health-treatment

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Illegal order meant to protect Trump caught on live TV: A Fox 5 camera operator was seen on video Sunday being issued what one journalist described as an “unlawful order,” one designed to shield President Donald Trump from being filmed at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2677765423/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
The vast majority of Americans want hospitals and healthcare providers to publicly disclose prices before patients receive care, according to a new poll.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_836b2d2d-89e9-4147-b9dc-4fc4790a3b1e.html

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
Outbreaks rising, response capacity dropping, former surgeon general says RFK Jr. ‘has the wrong priorities’
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/rfk-jr-surgeons-general-vaccines-warning

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Defeating the Donroe Doctrine: Latin America Can Resist Trump’s Gunboat Racketeering: Performative violence—aka executions without trial at sea—overshadows how the administration is building a new US policy towards the hemisphere: acts of murder as a tool to create permanent structures of dominance and extraction.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-trump-s-donroe-doctrine
Donroe Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donroe_Doctrine

Trump’s new approach to Latin America is a lot like America’s old one.
https://www.vox.com/politics/474168/donroe-doctrine-trump-latin-america-venezuela-colombia-mexico-cuba

Pentagon Papers 1969: Classified, 47-volume study commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Formally titled United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967. They traced American involvement in Vietnam from World War II through 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
“If cities are building the surveillance infrastructure, the risks that our data will end up in the hands of the federal government or state government in our case are really high.” – organizer Edith Romero, from First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/11/first-came-the-flock-cameras-now-local-cops-want-autonomous-drones/

‘Have Your Friend Elon Build One at Mar-a-Lago,’ Says Sanders After Trump Comments on Data Centers
“Trump thinks that every community in America should welcome a data center.” If so, said Sanders, “Lead by example.” Poll after poll has shown people in the US are not comfortable with the rapid expansion of data centers, built by large tech companies to manage the computing power and energy needed for artificial intelligence and an increasingly digitized world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/data-center-trump-mar-a-lago

# Technology / Robotics / AI
An Apple AirTag just tracked a shipment of rare books to a secret Amazon AI facility in Las Vegas, where texts are cut apart, scanned, and destroyed to train AI models.
https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

# Veterans / VA
Apps Marketed to US Veterans Are Coming Equipped With Chinese and Russian Code. A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/apps-marketed-to-u-s-troops-are-running-chinese-and-russian-code

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Voices, The Peoples News

August 23, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Federal judge strikes down Trump policy suspending processing of immigration visas from 75 countries. A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against the State Department’s suspension of immigrant visas.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/22/us-judge-strikes-down-trump-immigrant-visa-ban-affecting-75-countries

How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children. Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/texas-ice-child-trump-immigrant

# Employment / Labor / Unions
San Antonio airport fuel workers oust union from workplace. Support to remove the union was so great that union officials left rather than face election defeat.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_bb9e018e-092b-4302-8d67-b6526b56a5ca.html

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
State, feds take big step toward starting massive Coastal Texas Project. General Land Office, Army Corps reach agreement on South Padre project, the epic storm-surge mitigation plan that includes the Ike Dike.
https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/texas-coastal-flooding-project-milestone-22398015.php

Trump Administration Moves to Rescind 25-Year-Old Ban on Building Roads Across 45 Million Acres of National Forest: A new USDA proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, opening close to 45 million acres of national forest — including New Mexico’s Gila — to road-building and development.
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-administration-moves-rescind-25-year-old-ban-building-roads-across-45-million-acres-598690

Fired Federal Employees Are Bringing Climate Change Info Back to the People. Scientists are preserving vital climate-related information amid the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science.
https://truthout.org/articles/fired-federal-employees-are-bringing-climate-change-info-back-to-the-people/

Trump repeated his deeply unpopular and unlawful decision from his first term to gut protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, shrinking their boundaries by more than 90%.
https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/bears-ears-grand-staircase-executive-order/

The federal administration is moving to reverse Public Land Order 7923, which protects roughly 336,400 acres around New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The proposal seeks to scrap a 10-mile, drilling-free buffer zone to open the Greater Chaco Region to oil, gas, and mineral extraction
https://www.npca.org/articles/11465-trump-administration-moves-closer-to-revoking-chaco-canyon-protections

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA President Donald Trump confused and angered onlookers Friday after announcing a plan to combat surging beef prices, but by Saturday, one Republican lawmaker believes they may have discovered the real motive behind the unorthodox arrangement.
https://www.rawstory.com/beef-import/

# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
‘Missing’ Epstein files containing major allegations against Trump discovered: The Department of Justice released a batch of previously unreleased documents from the Epstein files that include notes from FBI interviews with a woman who says she was assaulted by President Trump when she was a minor, also a victim of Epstein.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/doj-releases-epstein-files-containing-sexual-assault-allegations-against-trump

As DOJ Continues to Withhold Epstein Files About Accusations Against Trump, Whitehouse Demands that DOJ Follow the Law and Preserve All Related Documents. MAGA DOJ’s apparent illegal withholding of documents points to a dark cover-up for the President
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/as-doj-continues-to-withhold-epstein-files-about-accusations-against-trump-whitehouse-demands-that-doj-follow-the-law-and-preserve-all-related-documents/

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews. An evidence log provided to attorneys for Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell includes serial numbers for about 325 FBI witness interview records – but more than 90 of those records, over a quarter of the list, don’t appear to be present on the DOJ website, according to CNN’s review.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-records-missing-epstein-files-trump-accuser-interviews/70485920

New Epstein Revelations: NPR’s Report on Trump and the “Missing” Files. The U.S. is still reacting to the release of the Epstein files, which have ensnared CEOs, a former prince and even President Trump. Despite legal orders to release the files unredacted, an NPR investigation reveals that the Department of Justice has withheld or removed a number of pages related to allegations involving the President.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2iGYInTzq0

# Gov / Politics / US
Donald Trump threatens to bomb U.S. ally as he floats taking over world’s most crucial oil route
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/why-has-trump-threatened-to-bomb-oman-for-a-second-time

This MAGA icon quit — and cracked open a hall of White House horrors
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/karoline-leavitt-quit/

Trumpworld plots secret meetings with foe in anticipation of possible impeachment. Publicly, Trump and Jeffries maintain a hostile relationship.
https://www.rawstory.com/trumpworld-plots-secret-meetings-in-anticipation-of-midterm-defeat-report/

Trump warned MAGA ‘hellsite hothouse’ foretells his doom: ‘The right will pay a price’: examining how Donald Trump’s online ecosystem and far-right base—fostered by platforms like Truth Social—have evolved into an uncontainable, radicalized environment that risks backfiring on the broader conservative movement.
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-hellsite-addiction-foretells-doom-for-trump/

Top Doctor Sounds the Alarm on Trump’s Health Mysteries. A prominent physician has raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the laundry list of health issues that Donald Trump suffers from. “He’s had large bruises on both hands, swelling in his legs and episodes when it appears that he is struggling to stay awake. He’s also had advanced imaging performed for unclear reasons. The public is again left to wonder whether the nation’s leader is OK.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-doctor-sounds-the-alarm-on-trumps-health-mysteries/

# Global News
Sheinbaum Calls for Investigations Into 17 Mexican Migrant Deaths: ‘There Are Simply Too Many Cases.’ Mexico has filed 20 complaints with U.S. authorities but has received substantive information in only a fraction of them, according to the country’s Foreign Affairs Undersecretary
https://www.latintimes.com/sheinbaum-calls-investigations-17-mexican-migrant-deaths-there-are-simply-too-many-cases-598724

Mexican government launches investigation into deaths of 17 citizens during U.S. ICE enforcement operations or detainment
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-turns-to-unusual-tactic-in-growing-fight-over-ice-deaths-12344984

Putin says Ukraine opened ‘Pandora’s box’ with strikes on Russia’s ‘Amazon’ and vows to hit back
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16881800/putin-ukraine-strikes-russia/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Maggie Haberman Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s ‘Much Nastier’ and ‘More Aggressive’ Attacks on Female Journalists
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6037866-maggie-haberman-blasts-donald-trump-rhetoric-female-reporters/

Goodbye to USPS post offices? Bombshell new plan to axe delivery hubs and use empty buildings for something else. Bombshell new plan to axe delivery hubs and use empty buildings for something else
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16859483/usps-post-offices-housing-change/

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Original Medicare has no annual limit on what a patient pays out of pocket, so one serious illness can leave a retiree owing 20% of very large bills.
https://www.aol.com/articles/original-medicare-no-pocket-maximum-210105000.html

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
US airman who was arrested for Trump impeachment protest is ‘ordered into pretrial confinement’ again after reportedly refusing to wear uniform. During that demonstration, he publicly called for the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.Federal prosecutors in D.C. ultimately did not file a criminal case regarding that specific Capitol protest, but the military launched its own internal review
https://www.military.com/air-force-major-jason-watson-placed-pretrial-confinement-after-calling-for-trump-removal

AIM-424 “Malice” Very Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile Emerges From The Shadows: The U.S. Navy has publicly revealed a previously little-known next-generation air-to-air missile: the AIM-424 LRAAM (Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile), officially named “Malice.”
https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/23/us-navy-reveals-aim-424-malice-lraam/

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Calls Pentagon Firings at Military Newspaper “Yet Another Blatant Crackdown on Free Speech and a Free Press” — “We Must Defend Our Freedoms at Every Turn”
https://share.newsbreak.com/jdp2noau

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Analysis Shows All Those Data Centers Under Construction Will Output As Much CO2 As 24 Million Cars. The biggest 60 data centers under construction by America’s leading tech companies will produce an extra estimated 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide, pumping it into the atmosphere at that level every year.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2241059/analysis-data-centers-under-construction-same-co2-24-million-cars/

‘Roadmap’ shows the environmental impact of AI data center boom. the current rate of AI growth would annually put 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the emissions equivalent of adding 5 to 10 million cars to U.S. roadways. It would also drain 731 to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year – equal to the annual household water usage of 6 to 10 million Americans. The cumulative effect would put the AI industry’s net-zero emissions targets out of reach.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/roadmap-shows-environmental-impact-ai-data-center-boom

Amazon’s Secretive $10 Billion Texas Data Center Is Testing How Much a Small Town Gets to Know. Wharton County signed a nondisclosure agreement before Amazon’s “Project Eagle” broke ground near Boling, and a statewide grid audit is now adding delay on top of the secrecy
https://www.realtytoday.com/articles/114523/20260822/amazons-secretive-10-billion-texas-data-center-testing-how-much-small-town-gets-know.htm

# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
Millions of US seniors could lose full Social Security COLAs. New proposal may preserve program, but here’s who loses
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/no-more-full-social-security-120000988.html

# Transportation / Trucking / Travel / Tourism / TSA / FAA
Trump’s FAA picked an unlikely contractor to lead its air traffic overhaul. The agency is having second thoughts. One person knowledgeable about the situation said that Virginia-based Peraton was “not meeting the moment.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/19/faa-contractor-peraton-01040521

# UFO / UAP Disclosure
Texas UFO Sightings Are Back in the Spotlight as Old Government Files Resurface. Long before UFO podcasts, Pentagon hearings and viral TikTok conspiracy theories, Texans were already reporting glowing objects over highways, military bases and oil fields, and the federal government was quietly documenting it all.
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/texas-fbi-ufo-files-22249510.php

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August 22, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

You are allowed to stop choosing people who only choose you when they need comfort. You are more than a familiar place to land. You are more than a person who makes the hard days easier. You deserve to be loved on the days you have nothing to give. Robert M. Drake | From the book, Detoxify.

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# Indigenous
Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests. “It’s kind of like killing our tribe again.”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/maidu-native-groups-denounce-record-glyphosate-spraying-national-forests-california-bayer-forest-service/

# Animals / Pets
Trump administration quietly sends thousands of wild horses to slaughter; sanctuary director says ‘slaughter in plain sight.’ Tragically, this isn’t the first time that the Bureau of Land Management has fallen down on the job. The BLM is the primary agency tasked with the responsibility to manage these majestic animals, who live on public lands, and to ensure that the wild horses and burros who are rounded up go to reputable homes. Instead, the agency has set the stage for their betrayal and deaths.
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/americas-wild-horses-sent-slaughter-under-trump-administration

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Casar Demands Shutdown of Texas Detention Center After ICE Abducts 5-Year-Old on Way to Soccer Match. “Liam should be starting kindergarten this week,” said Rep. Greg Casar. “Instead, he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.” In additional remarks, Casar called for the child’s release and criticized the facility.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rep-greg-casar-says-ice-detained-5-year-old-boy-in-austin

In LA immigration courts, Indigenous migrants face deportation because they don’t have interpreters. Attorneys and advocates for Indigenous migrants say little to no court-provided translation means some people don’t understand what immigration judges are asking of them.
https://lapublicpress.org/2026/08/immigration-courts-indigenous-speakers-migrants-deportation-interpreters/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
The National debt just hit $40 trillion, and three hidden costs are about to gut Americans’ monthly budgets
https://share.newsbreak.com/jdgyew2x

Trump Delays 50% Canada Tariffs as the Two Countries Race to Finalize a Deal. The President’s announcement came hours before a series of tariffs set to cover about $20 billion worth of imports into the U.S. from Canada were set to take effect
https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/trump-delays-50-canada-tariffs-as-the-two-countries-race-to-finalize-a-deal/

‘It’s War’: Trump’s 50% Tariffs Take Hold After US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse. “Trump is going to be hitting American consumers with a new round of tax hikes just over two months before the election,” said one economist.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/us-canada-trade-talks-collapse-as-new-50-tariffs-go-into-effect-160526827.html

‘Massive redistribution of wealth in favor of convicted criminals’: Democrat report says Trump’s pardons robbed crime victims of $1.7 billion
https://share.newsbreak.com/jdgxvpj8

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
Trump administration recommends stripping American Bar Association of law school oversight authority. The ABA, which accredits roughly 200 law schools, has come under GOP criticism over promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion standards.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/21/trump-administration-recommends-stripping-american-bar-association-of-law-school-oversight-authority-01045391
ABA: American Bar Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
Trump’s destruction of national parks is just getting started: Trump Is Destroying Pristine Public Lands to Build His Border Wall — Again. Contractors damaged federally protected habitats in Big Bend National Park and areas near sacred springs in Arizona. Last summer, Congress gave the Trump admin $46 billion to construct a wall from the Pacific Ocean to Mexico
https://www.salon.com/2026/08/18/trumps-destruction-of-national-parks-is-just-getting-started/

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
A new SNAP rule changes how utility costs are counted. It changes the accounting behind how much help a family receives, by altering how utility costs are factored into a SNAP calculation. The result, by one analysis, is smaller benefits for about 600,000 households.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-financial-wire-382710013/4840578795029-a-new-snap-rule-changes-how-utility-costs-are-counted-and-about-600-000-households-will-see-smaller-food-benefits

Cattle groups react to Trump’s beef import post. Trump says U.S. will allow up to 300K metric tons of beef to be imported tariff free for 90 days.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6044555-trump-suspends-ground-beef-tariffs/

# Gov / Politics / US
Another high-profile Trump appointee hits the exits. A key voice for the White House in Congress is leaving as turnover in the Trump administration continues. Here’s a running list of high-profile officials to leave during the president’s second term.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/a-key-voice-for-the-white-house-in-congress-is-leaving-as-turnover-in-the-trump-administration-continues-230238293.html

Meet the election deniers influencing Trump’s anti-voting policy
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/the-election-deniers-influencing-trumps-anti-voting-policy-from-outside-the-white-house/

‘Resign’: Jarring break inside Trump world as his own envoy defies him. McGurk stated that the pullout was a total policy reversal that threatened regional stability and left him unable to maintain his integrity
https://www.rawstory.com/tom-barrack-2677758914/

Florida Republican could face death penalty after allegedly molesting grandson under new law he voted for
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article316963811.html

Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claims the US is discussing the potential use of nuclear weapons against Iran, but she has provided no evidence or identified officials. Her comments come amid escalating US-Iran tensions, disputes over the Strait of Hormuz and claims surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme. The report also examines the unverified allegations and Iran’s response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHjyE93c6I

‘A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich’: Nearly 60 Top Trump Officials Worth $100 Million or More. The Trump administration has over 10 times as many of these super-rich appointees as the Biden, Obama, and George W. Bush administrations.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-admin-superrich

Forget ‘No Kings’ Placards, Given What Trump Is Plotting Impeach Him This Minute: Trump’s plans to steal the 2026 midterm elections are already underway. It’s not alarmism to say this. He is saying it out loud and the Republican Party has shown just how far they will go for this fascist.
https://freespeechforpeople.org/1-million-americans-demand-impeachment-as-free-speech-for-people-launches-full-page-new-york-times-ad-ahead-of-no-kings-protests/

Time to Raise Hell: Trump Taking GOP Voter Suppression Efforts to Heights Never Seen: Back in the old days, Nixon and Reagan at least had the decency to commit their treasonous election thefts in secret. Not Trump. He is telling us exactly what he’s prepared to do. If we don’t stop him, who will?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-election-stealing-plot

Donald Trump Can’t Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran. Most people do not know that the term “checkmate” in chess is a loan from Persian. “Shah-mat” means the king is confused and helpless. Trump may learn this hard way—but not without bringing much pain and suffering on people at home and worldwide.
https://qoshe.com/common-dreams-us/juan-cole/spoiled-rotten-donald-trump-can-t-buy-his-way-out-of-the-mess-he-made-when-he-started-war-with-iran/189032150/amp

By calling out Natalie Harp, Jon Ossoff did what no Democrat has been able to do — put Trump on his heels. Trumpworld has gone nuclear on the freshman senator from Georgia. That was the point
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jon-ossoff-trump-natalie-harp-b3037292.html

# Global News
Iran’s president calls for end of war after Trump’s ‘economic terrorism’ threats
https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/iran-war-trump-president-end-conflict-b3037100.html

After Bessent Comments, China Warns US That It Cannot Sanction Iran Out of Existence. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry of China, which receives 80% of Iran’s oil exports, said that going along with Trump’s “economic warfare” will “only lead to escalation that serves no one’s interests.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7NRByzxAo

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Cop Used Electrocution Gloves to Subdue High School Student in Special Education Program. “We are constantly seeking ways to keep the public and police officers safe through innovations like G.L.O.V.E.” And though the gloves might be new to most of the American public, they’re certainly not new to local cops, who it turns out are just as likely to use them on vulnerable high school students as they are on violent adult suspects.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/cop-used-electrocution-gloves-subdue-160335177.html

Woman, 47, arrested at KFC told cops ‘I can’t breathe’ as she was booked into jail and died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiHKHEoCII

Texas Police Are Using Cell Trackers, License-Plate Readers and Sound Sensors to Monitor Suspects and Bystanders Across the State, Raising Privacy Questions
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article316955347.html

Ms Rachel speaks out on Black hanging cases as Raleigh death is declared suicide: Black people “don’t hang themselves from trees” after Raleigh police ruled a death a suicide.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ms-rachel-speaks-out-black-hanging-cases-raleigh-death-declared-suicide

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-appears-to-have-hired-lawyer-convicted-of-hacking-election-sites/

# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
A Stars & Stripes reporter DEFIES Pete Hegseth by announcing that she works for her newspaper, not him or Trump — and pays for it with her job. This is what true journalistic courage looks like.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/stars-and-stripes-editor-reporter-fired-for-insubordination-after-doing-cbs-interview

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Starting in 2027, Medicaid’s expansion enrollees must reprove eligibility every six months, and missed paperwork can end coverage
https://www.hfma.org/payment-reimbursement-and-managed-care/medicaid-six-month-eligibility-redeterminations-cms-guidance/

75% of US Hospital Finance Leaders Are Reconsidering Medicare Advantage Contracts; 41% Have Acted or Expect a Pullback Within 12 Months. Black Book Research flash poll of 112 hospital and health system finance leaders finds Medicare Advantage contract economics are moving onto the CFO agenda
https://www.newswire.com/news/75-of-us-hospital-finance-leaders-are-reconsidering-medicare-advantage

Roughly three million older Americans may be forced to change Medicare plans for 2027 as insurers keep retreating from a market they call underpaid.
https://share.newsbreak.com/jdh00rhk

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Hundreds of US military family members trapped at camp facing closure, group says
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/20/hundreds-of-us-military-family-members-trapped-at-camp-facing-closure-group-says/

Department of Defense Reveals Number of Americans Wounded in Iran since the conflict began on February 28, 2026. The vast majority of these reported injuries are traumatic brain injuries.
https://www.military.com/department-of-defense-reveals-number-of-americans-wounded-in-iran-war

Blackwater founder Erik Prince launched Vectus Air Defense Systems, a private startup offering subscription-based “air defense as a service”. The company provides tools like jammers, cannons, and interceptors to protect critical infrastructure, data centers, and military bases from drone threats
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/erik-prince-vectus-air-defense-service

Shock Report Says Army Secretary to Step Down Amid ‘Tension’ With Pete Hegseth: Army Secretary Driscoll to Step Down This Year Amid Hegseth Friction: Driscoll’s exit would leave Army without a Senate-confirmed civilian leader at a time when the service is stretched by ongoing operations overseas.
https://www.military.com/army-secretary-driscoll-step-down-this-year-amid-hegseth-friction-report

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Wife Emerges As His ‘Most Influential Adviser,’ Pentagon Leaders Express Alarm At Her Oversized Role: Former Pentagon spokesperson describes Jennifer Hegseth’s expansive role as ‘bonkers.’ “It’s bonkers that a defense secretary would involve his wife in his sensitive official duties,” John Ullyot said in reference to Pete Hegseth’s spouse.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jennifer-pete-hegseth-defense-department-pentagon

Hegseth rages as Army makes U-turn on standards to screen out ‘stupid’ cadets: report: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly upset that the U.S. Army has decided to backtrack on a set of new academic standards for college students enrolling in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps training program meant to block “stupid people” from joining.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-army-standards-stupid-cadets-b3036702.html

Wildfire Is General Atomics’ Successor To The MQ-9 Reaper: General Atomics unveils Wildfire drone with 11,500-mile range, can carry anti-ship missiles. Wildfire drone could carry four LRASMs as General Atomics eyes post-Reaper future. Wildfire, a new long-range unmanned aircraft concept that could represent the company’s answer to the changing demands of modern drone warfare and the eventual need for a successor to the MQ-9 Reaper.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/general-atomics-unveils-mq-9-successor

New Beach Landing Vessel For The Marine Corps Breaks Cover (Updated): The Ancillary Surface Craft is part of a growing fleet of new amphibious vessels that is helping lay the groundwork for future Marine island-hopping operations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/beach-landing-vessel-being-bought-173227135.html

This Is The New Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Weapon: Castelion aims at building more affordable and usable hypersonic weapons that can be churned out at high production rates.
https://www.orrick.com/en/News/2026/08/Castelion-Raises-1B-Series-C-to-Scale-Production-of-Low-Cost-Hypersonic-Weapons

New USS John F. Kennedy Brings Back Key Feature From The Nimitz Class. Major radar changes mean ‘illuminators’ are needed to help Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles protect the carrier.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2026/08/20/new_uss_john_f_kennedy_brings_back_key_feature_from_the_nimitz_class_1201515.html

# Military / Global
Israel Bombs Syrian Airbase to Block Turkish Military Expansion. Israel’s strike on Abu al-Duhur airbase exposes an escalating struggle with Turkey over Ankara’s future military presence in Syria
https://apnews.com/article/syria-israel-turkey-airstrikes-idlib-3a0e758c87ded0f26ed71b4a92db6816

Saab Unveils Stealthy Supersonic ‘Fighter Drone’ Concept. The advanced drone could become a high-end collaborative companion to the Gripen E, and may also shape Saab’s next crewed combat aircraft.
https://www.twz.com/air/saab-unveils-stealthy-supersonic-fighter-drone-concept

China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization: What was a submerged reef a year ago is now a 1,500 acre artificial island with a large runway under construction, as China’s militarization of the South China Sea accelerates.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/china-rushes-to-complete-paracel-island-militarization

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Are Terrified of the Backlash Against AI Data Centers. “[Data centers have] become a sleeper issue for the entire election cycle.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election

# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
President Donald Trump sees big shift with middle-aged Americans as Social Security and Medicare concerns throw retirement security into question
https://www.newsbreak.com/wonderwall-316270490/4843356206462-president-donald-trump-sees-big-shift-with-middle-aged-americans-as-social-security-and-medicare-concerns-throw-retirement-security-into-question

# Technology / Robotics / AI
An Emergence AI experiment placed groups of 10 autonomous AI agents into five identical virtual towns for 15 days to test self-governance. The different AI models produced wildly contrasting meltdowns: Isolated towns powered independently by models from Claude, Gemini, Grok, and GPT, plus a mixed-model town. The Goal: To observe how autonomous agents manage laws, resources, and social norms without human intervention
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/05/researchers-left-ai-agents-alone-in-a-virtual-town-and-watched-it-all-unravel

# Weather
‘Perfect Storm’ of Trump’s War and Super El Niño: Experts are warning that a combination of a super El Niño climate pattern and two separate wars are threatening to put further upward pressure on food prices over the next several months.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-nino-war-food

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August 21, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate

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

# Animals / Pets
Premium dog food recalled as dozens of pets develop serious eye issues. The recall affects all Years fresh meals except those in its Chef’s Collection, the brand’s limited-edition, premium line.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/recalls/

Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: ‘Slaughter in plain sight’
https://globalnews.ca/video/3828581/thousands-of-wild-horses-face-slaughter-as-u-s-government-struggles-to-control-population

# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
U.S. begins deporting people to Liberia even when it isn’t their home country. Liberia agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country nationals from the U.S. without financial compensation, describing the pact as a humanitarian gesture.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/us-carries-first-deportations-pact-liberia-accept-1200-non-liberians-rcna593682

A Venezuelan family of three, including a pregnant mother and her 7-year-old child, have been held at the notorious Dilley Immigration Processing Center for more than one month after trying to self-deport.
https://www.al.com/news/2026/08/family-held-at-ice-detention-center-begs-katie-britt-for-help-our-child-wants-to-die.html

Trump-appointed judge denies state’s attempt to rein in ICE, rules federal government must be able to ‘carry out its duties’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-appointed-judge-denies-states-162455887.html

ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Internal emails indicate immigration agents complied with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and accidentally sent the wrong person to Iran.
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-trump-deportation-flights-ice/

Federal Spies Hunt Unions for Conspiracy, Find Solidarity. After federal agents killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti, DHS launched a mass surveillance and infiltration campaign against community and labor organizing against ICE.
https://labornotes.org/2026/08/federal-spies-hunt-minnesota-unions-search-conspiracy-find-solidarity

Trump admin should be held in contempt for ‘blatant’ violations of court order barring ICE from conducting surveillance inside churches, court filing says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ice-held-contempt-blatant-violations-205524368.html

Dozens of military families swept up in ICE crackdown under Trump, Senators warn of impact on deployment and military readiness
https://apnews.com/article/military-families-ice-immigration-detention-takeaways-9216f7c807273778ac3a40a3d8a5b588

How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity. An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/how-trumps-deportation-machine-deprives-deaf-people-of-their-humanity/

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Tariffs \ Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies / Imports
Mark Kelly Says Trump Promised To “Pay Off The Debt” — Instead “He And His Family Made Billions” As National Debt Tops $40 Trillion
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4838920047357-mark-kelly-says-trump-promised-to-pay-off-the-debt-instead-he-and-his-family-made-billions-as-national-debt-tops-40-trillion

# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
A Houston high school teacher said students couldn’t read or write. Then the school got an ‘A’ rating
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2026/08/14/559581/wheatley-high-school-houston-accountability-raiting-reading-writing-darius-williams/

# Employment / Labor / Unions
Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry Workers. California’s wine industry runs on immigrant exploitation. Now migrant workers are unionizing.
https://truthout.org/articles/union-busters-are-using-ice-to-intimidate-california-wine-industry-workers/

# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / FEMA / USAID
Trump Moves Forward with Plan to Allow Logging in Untouched National Forests-but There’s Still Time for You to Weigh In: Experts are alarmed that 44 million acres of public wilderness, the source of drinking water for 25 million Americans, will be subject to logging, industry, and fire risk if the “roadless rule” goes away.
https://www.frommers.com/trip-ideas/outdoor-adventure/trump-administration-moves-forward-with-plan-to-allow-logging-in-untouched-national-forests-but-theres-still-time-for-you-to-weigh-in/

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
Historic federal land in Louisiana eyed for natural gas expansion: The U.S. Department of the Interior has transferred jurisdiction of a historic 3-acre parcel located at the mouth of the Calcasieu River to accommodate expansion of the Venture Global LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/article_381fb05d-bd2c-4ecb-8402-a4043721fb89.html

# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
Your M&Ms are changing colors. But are the new natural dyes safe? M&M’s, Skittles, Starburst and EXTRA gum are set to undergo an “au naturel” makeover this month. Mars is rolling out new versions of its best-known confections that no longer include synthetic food dyes, “the colors that have a number behind them,” said Thomas Galligan, principal scientist for food additives
https://san.com/cc/your-mms-are-changing-colors-but-are-the-new-natural-dyes-safe/

Virginia just expanded its Styrofoam ban — and it’s not alone. Food vendors are no longer allowed to use or sell single-use expanded polystyrene, commonly referred to by the brand name Styrofoam. That includes plates, cups, bowls, trays and hinged containers.
https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-07-06/virginia-styrofoam-container-ban-restaurant-takeout-polystyrene-deq/

# Gov / Politics / US
In this state, Republicans are trying to repeal abortion rights by leaning into anti-trans sentiment. Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3

Natalie Harp letters surface as questions grow over her access to Trump. Harp now has a security clearance, but MS NOW reported this week she repeatedly declined to complete the process for unknown reasons.
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/21/natalie-harp-letters-to-donald-trump/

Missouri judge sides with GOP, blocks voters from challenging gerrymander. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), who earlier this month refused to certify a citizen-led referendum seeking to repeal House Bill 1, the congressional map Republicans enacted last year.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-judge-sides-with-gop-blocks-voters-from-challenging-gerrymander/

Trump tries to use Census Bureau to revive 2020 election lies, advance attack on voting. Six years later, Trump still won’t accept that he lost the 2020 election. This week, he found a new prop to enable his denial: the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-census-bureau-revive-2020-election-lies-advance-attack-voting/

Hypocrisy alert: Trump, mortal foe of mail voting, again votes by mail
https://newrepublic.com/post/214469/trump-mail-voting-cheating

Even after 23 straight losses, Trump DOJ keeps appealing its voter roll cases
https://www.alternet.org/colorado-voter-rolls/

White nationalist takeover plot for rural America exposed after secret Rome meeting
https://www.rawstory.com/white-nationalists-2677739312/

# Global News
Iran warns of ‘further defeat’ after Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ announcement
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6040680-iran-minister-slams-trump-economic-dday/

# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
‘I didn’t do nothing. I’m a kid’: A Black 14-year-old knelt with his hands raised as Ohio police handcuffed him, but he wasn’t even a suspect. Ring camera video posted on Facebook shows the interaction between two armed Canton officers approaching the boy.
https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2026/08/18/canton-police-handcuff-wrong-juvenile-suspect/91350674007/

FBI raids Eric Swalwell’s home amid sexual assault claims inquiry – report: Federal agents also ‘seized electronic devices’ from former Democratic representative at San Francisco airport.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/fbi-raid-eric-swalwell-home

The concept of “suicide by cop” is often just a way to excuse excessive force by officers: ‘Suicide by Cop’: How a Poorly Defined Term Shifts Accountability for Lost Lives. Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed “suicide by police.” Some call the concept a type of “junk science.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/suicide-by-cop-austin-accountability-police-shooting/

Police killed a man on his knees. His dad wants answers: “It Was An Execution”: Nicolas Chavez Was On His Knees When Police Killed Him. His Father Wants Answers. The Houston shooting has sparked more questions about use of force and what many experts call the failed promise of police body cameras.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/19/nicolas-chavez-houston-police/

# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera. The grand jury’s decision not to charge Cody Morelock comes amid a growing backlash against Flock and its cameras.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/smashing-surveillance-grid-grand-jury-153953623.html

Top Fauci adviser’s plea deal provides possible roadmap for further conspiracy prosecutions. The plea agreement from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former senior adviser details a scheme to evade public records laws, suggesting potential legal jeopardy for the others involved.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/top-fauci-advisors-plea-deal-provides-possible-roadmap-further-conspiracy

# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
After a Medicaid recipient dies, the state can place a claim on the family home to recover what it paid for their care. Federal law requires states to try to recoup what Medicaid spent on a person’s care after that person dies, and the family home is often the largest asset in the estate.
https://www.ncoa.org/article/what-is-medicaid-estate-recovery-and-how-does-it-work/

At least four major insurers are trimming plans, exiting counties, or dropping large blocks of members for next year, and they are pointing to the same culprit: medical costs that are rising faster than the government payments meant to cover them. For retirees, the result is a landscape where the plan they have today may not be on the shelf in 2027.
https://share.newsbreak.com/jcxhvw40

Costco is launching its own medicare health plans: Costco’s latest deal: Get Medicare with that $1.50 hot dog and soda. Costco plans to sell Medicare plans with SCAN Group
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/08/19/costco-medicare-plans-scan-group/91378331007/

# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
In 2024, Emily Waldorf’s daughter found her curled up on the bathroom floor, bleeding during a dangerous miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5u0-MAbBI1A

How “fetal personhood” puts pregnant women at risk: “Fetal personhood” is the legal concept that a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus has the same rights as a born person. This puts pregnant women at risk by subordinating their health, bodily autonomy, and legal rights to the pregnancy, leading to criminal investigations for pregnancy loss, denied emergency medical care, and the prosecution of patients for routine or struggling health behaviors
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/17/john-oliver-abortion-fetal-personhood

# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
“Completely Shameful” — Sen. Mark Warner Accuses Trump of Insulting and Lying to USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors as Extended Deployment Crisis Deepens — “Our Servicemembers Have Been Pushed to the Brink by This Administration’s War of Choice”
https://share.newsbreak.com/jcylg23e

USS Lincoln finally heads home; Navy may replace Black war hero’s name with Trump on carrier. No US aircraft carrier has ever been named after a sitting president
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ship-name-black-hero-navy-trump-b3036767.html

Pete Hegseth Given Deadline to Explain Pentagon’s Alleged ‘Troubling’ Stars and Stripes Takeover Amid Fears of Military Interference, According to Court Docs
https://radaronline.com/p/pete-hegseth-deadline-explain-pentagon-troubling-stars-stripes-takeover-military-interference/

# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / Data Centers / Secret Service
Flock, a video surveillance company, is working to build privacy legislation in the United States based on the company’s policies.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_dc61ae01-71df-454e-8b1c-593a64fda109.html

Flock Is Testing A New AI Tool That Tracks And Identifies People Based On Their Driving Habits: Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates. A Wired investigation found that cops can search for vehicles and their drivers using prompts describing location, time, and patterns of movement.
https://gizmodo.com/flocks-new-ai-tool-does-much-more-than-track-license-plates-2000800372

More data centers complying with Abbott’s directive as up to 1,800 projects halted. After Gov. Greg Abbott issued two data center directives and a temporary pause on data center development in Texas, dozens of companies have said they will comply. Abbott’s Democratic challenger wants data centers built solely with union jobs
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_e8c8326e-8457-4041-b491-4c9e38b22590.html

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