Voices, The Peoples News
January 8, 2025, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
11 migrants found locked in U-Haul in rural New Mexico: One person is facing human smuggling charges after 11 migrants were found padlocked in the back of a U-Haul box truck shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection said on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJb2wcwHvdc
48 Democrats Vote for a Racist Law to Detain More Immigrants and Empower the Right. The passage of the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act shows what the Right’s anti-immigrant agenda will look like, and how Democrats will aid these attacks.
https://www.leftvoice.org/48-democrats-vote-for-a-racist-law-to-detain-more-immigrants-and-empower-the-right/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Michael Barr Hands the Fed’s Financial Regulation Powers to Trump. The Fed’s vice chair of supervision is stepping down to avoid a fight with the incoming president. It is nearly impossible to pass normal legislation anymore, the federal agency structure is never rationalized or streamlined. New agencies are just piled up over time in an endlessly growing tangle of bureaucracy. That’s why the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is also tasked with some financial regulation responsibilities, along with the SEC, CFTC, OCC, and CFPB.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-08-michael-barr-hands-feds-financial-regulation-powers-to-trump/
# Education / Schools
Vivek Ramaswamy calls out American parents for celebrating ‘the jock over the valedictorian.’ The CEO-turned-politician’s assessment? “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-america-mediocrity-over-excellence-immigration_n_676daaafe4b0186e1db6cfb5
# Food General News / Recalls / Alerts
Eggs More Expensive Than Beef in Some Places as Prices Hit New High. prices increased by 2.7 percent in the U.S. compared to the year before — marking the second consecutive month of inflation creeping up in the nation. These increases weigh on Americans’ finances and savings, adding another burden on those still suffering from the post-pandemic inflation hangover.
https://www.newsweek.com/eggs-more-expensive-beef-some-places-prices-hit-new-high-2010875
# General News
‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles: “There is no ‘firefighting’ in these kinds of conditions,” said one meteorologist. “There is only saving as many lives as possible and getting the heck out of the fire’s way.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wildfires-los-angeles
Amid LA Inferno, Home Insurers Under Fire for Policy Cancellations: One observer said it “really feels like the climate crisis is putting the home insurance industry on a fast track to being almost as reviled as the health insurance industry.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-wildfire-insurance#:~:text=As%20deadly%20wildfire%20incinerated%20more,hardest%20by%20the%20current%20blazes
New tracker spotlights corporate criminals Trump could let off the hook. Out of nearly 200 companies currently facing federal investigations and cases, a third of them have connections to President-elect Donald Trump
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-corporate-criminals
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad. After Trump unleashes some wildly crazed ideas to reporters, an expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that are dangerously alarming and designed to normalize the abnormal.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189964/trumps-angry-unhinged-rants-presser-show-things-will-get-bad
Democrats Will Regret Not Stripping Trump’s Dangerous War Powers. Biden and Congress squandered a chance to end the legal underpinnings of the forever war. The president-elect will once again reap the powers afforded to him.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189446/trump-war-powers-congress-aumf
The Surprising Obstacle Standing in the Way of Trump’s Agenda, Something is rotten in MAGAland. Trump’s biggest congressional obstacle may be MAGA diehards.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189945/surprising-obstacle-standing-way-trumps-agenda
Merrick Garland Tells Trump to Screw Off on Jack Smith Report. Donald Trump was just dealt a (partial) blow on Jack Smith’s reports.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189986/merrick-garland-donald-trump-jack-smith-report
# Gov / Politics / Global
Mexican president hits back at ‘misinformed’ Trump: ‘Why don’t we call it Mexican America?’ ‘I think that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump,’ Claudia Sheinbaum stated after his Gulf of America suggestion
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-donald-trump-b2676131.html
# Law Enforcment / ATF / FBI / CIA
Video shows deadly fight on NYC subway after alleged thieves target sleeping 79 year old passenger. Footage reveals the chaos that erupted in the confined train car. Authorities are investigating the incident.
https://local.newsbreak.com/cbs-news-510078/3747721878170-video-shows-deadly-fight-on-nyc-subway-after-alleged-thieves-target-sleeping-passenger
# Media
Billionaire and top Donald Trump ally Elon Musk is renewing calls to defund NPR and PBS, now Republicans in both chambers of Congress are preparing bills to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s funding. Rep. Ed Markey; “The question is not, ‘Can we afford it?’ but rather, ‘Can we afford to lose it?’”
https://www.freepress.net/blog/elon-musks-plan-defund-public-media-and-defend-trump
# Medical / Health News
This one floored me folks. I am gobsmacked! Anti-natalists say they’re going child-free to protect the kids they won’t have. The anti-natalists say giving birth is immoral. Antinatalists thus argue that humans should abstain from having children. Some antinatalists consider coming into existence to always be a serious harm.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/selfish-selfless-anti-natalists-going-132221735.html
Also:Antinatalism or anti-natalism is a philosophical view that deems procreation to be unethical. Their views are not necessarily limited only to humans but may encompass all sentient creatures, arguing that coming into existence is a serious harm for sentient beings in general
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#:~:text=Antinatalism%20or%20anti%2Dnatalism%20is,always%20be%20a%20serious%20harm.
Biden Is About to Hand Over a Vast and Unconstitutional DNA Database to Trump. Every person’s privacy, security and civil rights are implicated by this program.
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-is-about-to-hand-over-a-vast-and-unconstitutional-dna-database-to-trump/
Biden Reduces Medical Debt ‘Burden’ For Millions of Americans. Joe Biden has blocked unpaid medical bills from appearing on credit reports according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. Unpaid medical bills showing on credit reports can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans.
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-blocks-medical-debt-credit-reports-2010916
GOP attack on Medicaid puts millions of Americans at risk of losing coverage
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/01/08/gop-attack-on-medicaid-puts-millions-of-americans-at-risk-of-losing-coverage/
# NASA / Space Force
NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
https://info3.com/space/205254/text/short/nasa-eyes-spacex-blue-origin-to-cut-mars-rock-retrieval-costs
# Social
Megalandlords sued by DOJ for scheming millions of renters
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/megalandlords-doj-scheme-renters/
# Space Exploration / Solar / Lunar / Atmosphere / Astronomy
US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for Moon next week
https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/firefly-moon-mission-launch-date/
Firefly Aerospace
https://fireflyspace.com/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Editors at Science Journal Resign En Masse Over Bad Use of AI, High Fees. Members of the Elsevier-published Journal of Human Evolution quit, citing AI production processes introducing errors, high author fees, and concerns over editorial independence.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/journal-editors-resign-to-protest-ai-use-high-fees-and-more/
President-elect Donald Trump revealed a major foreign investment into the United States economy Tuesday, Jan. 7, in an effort to keep up with the fast-moving advancements of artificial intelligence.
https://san.com/cc/trump-announces-emirati-businessmans-20-billion-investment-in-us-data-centers/
# Transportation / Travel
With CDL downgrade rule in full effect, number of ‘Prohibited’ CDL/CLP drivers rises to over 180K, 137,888 of those drivers had not yet begun the RTD process necessary to restore their commercial driving privileges.
https://www.ccjdigital.com/regulations/safety-compliance/video/15708156/how-cdl-downgrades-for-drug-alcohol-violations-could-affect-trucking
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight: Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and government oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country. The tunneling company is building Musk’s vision beneath the city’s urban core thanks to an unlikely partner: the tourism marketing organization best known for selling the image that “What Happens Here, Stays Here.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
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