Voices, The Peoples News
January 24, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams
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# Indigenous
Indigenous Cultures Institute: We work to preserve the cultures of the Native Americans indigenous to Texas and northern Mexico while maintaining our covenant with sacred sites. There may be more than 11 million people in Texas who are labeled Hispanic and Latino and have ancestors who are Indigenous to the Americas.
https://indigenouscultures.org/
Fear of immigration raids prompts Navajo President to warn tribal members in urban areas
https://sourcenm.com/briefs/fear-of-immigration-raids-prompts-navajo-president-to-warn-tribal-members-in-urban-areas/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs
Trump Wants a War With Cartels—and May Just Get One. An executive order designating cartels as terrorist organizations will expand prosecutors’ jurisdictions, affect relations with Mexico, and risk blowback for which the US is unprepared.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-executive-order-mexico-drug-cartels-terrorist-organizations/
Border Security Becomes Top Priority as DoD Leadership Shifts Under New Administration
https://thedebrief.org/border-security-becomes-top-priority-as-dod-leadership-shifts-under-new-administration/
Keith Ellison among 22 state attorneys general suing Trump over birthright citizenship
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/keith-ellison-among-21-state-attorneys-general-suing-trump-over-birthright-citizenship/
Mayor accuses ICE of detaining vet, U.S. citizens in N.J. immigration raid
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-immigration-us-citizens
Reagan-Appointed Judge BLOCKS Trump’s Order to End Birthright Citizenship, Issues Scathing Statement
https://www.mediaite.com/news/reagan-appointed-judge-blocks-trumps-order-to-end-birthright-citizenship-issues-scathing-statement/
Bill Would Pay Bounty Hunters $1K to Capture Undocumented Migrants. A Republican lawmaker said it was part of an effort to support President Trump’s agenda. The program would offer a $1,000 reward to registered bounty hunters for each successful deportation they help facilitate.
https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/ms-bill-to-offer-bounty-hunters-1k-for-illegal-aliens/
Mississippi state lawmaker introduces Contraception Begins at Erection Act with fines for masturbation. The freshman Mississippi state senator proposed a bill that would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5103052-mississippi-contraception-abortion-masturbation/
Air Force to Conduct Deportation Flights
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-deportation-flights/
# Communications / Censorship
Department Of Health And Human Services Follow Trump’s Order To Pause Federal Communications
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270866/hhs-cdc-health-communications-trump
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
By the Numbers: 15 Years of Citizens United: During the 2008 election cycle, the last presidential campaign before the floodgates opened, outside spending totaled $574 million. Four years later, in 2012, that amount more than doubled — to nearly $1.3 billion. By 2020, outside spending reached $3.3 billion and came close to $4.5 billion in 2024. Most of that money was spent by super PACs.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/01/by-the-numbers-15-years-of-citizens-united/
Chinese companies could lose a tried and true method for skirting US tariffs, the head of the Council on Foreign Relations says
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-supply-chain-circumvent-tariffs-us-scrutiny-overcapacity-transshipment-trump-2025-1
Trump Just Took His Tariffs Threat to a Catastrophic Level. Donald Trump used his speech at Davos to threaten a global trade war.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190602/trump-threatens-global-trade-war-davos-tariffs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_ticker_rss&utm_term=tnr-newsletter-20240823
Trump tariffs will not tame China’s trade surplus. Correcting major imbalances in the global economy will require collaborative international action.
https://www.cfr.org/article/trump-tariffs-will-not-tame-chinas-trade-surplus
Bracing For A Tariff War: With a second Trump administration starting up, 2025 may bring escalating tariffs, retaliatory trade measures, and a rearranging of the international trade order.
https://gfmag.com/economics-policy-regulation/trump-tariff-war-canada-mexico-china-europe-protectionism/
Fact Check: Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Considering Sweeping Tax Changes: House Republican budget and tax options list, reported in Politico, confirms their agenda: massive cuts that take away or cut health coverage, food assistance, income assistance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for millions of people in service to their profligate tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/people-across-us-would-face-more-hardship-under-leaked-republican-budget-tax
Trump Doubles Down on Tariff Threats in Speech to Global Leaders
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20250123-Trump-Doubles-Down-Tariff-Threats-Speech-Global-Leaders
Trump imposes 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which could lead to an impacting effect coming on Feb. 1
https://www.wdsu.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-energy-plans/63487606
# Education / Schools / Global
School choice, vouchers and the future of Texas education. What they are and how they might change the state’s educational landscape.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/23/texas-vouchers/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&utm_campaign=c3ff77fcc5-TTE_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_23&utm_term=0_-4071a8ac8c-102737553
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump nominates lawyer with industry ties for a top EPA role. Fotouhi’s nomination reflects a broader trend of Trump-era appointees with strong ties to polluting industries.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/trump-nominates-lawyer-with-industry-ties-for-top-epa-role-2670987722.html
Firefighters battled Southern California’s deadliest wildfires. Trump’s firestorm of misinformation hasn’t helped
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/firefighters-have-battled-southern-california-s-deadliest-wildfires-trump-s-firestorm-of-misinformation-hasn-t-helped/ar-AA1xKDjv
Heartland Institute teams up with far-right European politicians to fight climate policies
https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/22/usa-climate-denial-group-heartland-institute-using-far-right-to-attack-eu-green-policies/
Satellite Images Chronicle the Total Collapse of a New York-Sized Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scientists were left scratching their heads when the Conger-Glenzer ice shelf collapsed within a matter of days in 2022.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/satellite-images-chronicle-the-total-collapse-of-a-new-york-sized-ice-shelf-in-antarctica
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
President Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the formidable task of rebuilding after storm damage in the southeast and devastating wildfires in California
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/what-to-know-about-fema-disasters-trump/9399b750-d9f5-11ef-85a9-331436ec61e9_story.html
Senators introduce bill to ban Chinese from buying US land: China owns 347,000 acres of US farmland in more than 25 states. Some lawmakers argue this is a security risk because the land purchases are near U.S. military installations. Now, lawmakers are moving to crack down on such instances using the farm bill.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/us-farmland-threat-china-usda/
# Food General News
Trump USDA Pick Backs Mass Deportations and ‘Ready to Bow to Corporate Interests.’ “As usual, President Trump appears more concerned with buoying business interests than reforming our broken system to deliver safe, affordable food,” one advocate said.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/usda-trump
Senators introduce bill to ban Chinese from buying US land: China owns 347,000 acres of US farmland in more than 25 states. Some lawmakers argue this is a security risk because the land purchases are near U.S. military installations. Now, lawmakers are moving to crack down on such instances using the farm bill.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/us-farmland-threat-china-usda/
Purging web pages at the FDA: FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban. The scrubbing could affect the ways researchers and companies test drugs and medical devices
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/fda-purges-pages-clinical-trial-diversity-after-trump-dei-ban/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PSPKMrJnD0JQp1CqW5Aa1M8Gb5rRdA0_eg4Ssfd5mvIXwhVDq-f_2I87kyWOCsD8D9L6knBhdKsxwFEAug93Cr9191l5XImY5q243S6LcC0cBDLk&_hsmi=343931331&utm_content=343931331&utm_source=hs_email
# Foreign Affairs
Putin Is Not Yet Desperate, Economic Pain Won’t Turn the Tide in Ukraine. Faced with the unattractive alternative of continuing to fight without the assurance of further U.S. backing, Kyiv and its Western partners are now considering how to secure an acceptable deal with Moscow.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putin-not-yet-desperate?mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGYNHpod67FWJiurvlECVAei7oHnbpYL9BgdVodJrPQNIrG46Dsf1ucbw3LWXsDLa6kRflRwUkhijNGViDPHGvfzAl08frREOGWX5ZmunMPpcw
# General News
Assassination Files Released: The remaining classified files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be made public in the near future, following an executive order from President Trump . Government documents pertaining to the 1968 assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will also be reviewed for eventual release.
https://time.com/7209648/trump-orders-declassification-documents-jfk-rfk-mlk-kennedy-king-assassinations/
Elon Musk posts multiple Nazi-related ‘jokes’ after salute backlash: “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! I bet you did nazi that coming.” Elon Musk, on Twitter, referring to Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, Rudolf Hess.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10975722/elon-musk-nazi-jokes-salute-backlash/
Jewish leaders horrified as Elon Musk tweets barrage of holocaust jokes. Even those who defended his Nazi salute are aghast.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/jewish-leaders-elon-musk-holocaust-jokes
Elon Musk – World’s Richest African-American Pro Israel Nazi
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/bauer-and-rose-podcast/elon-musk-worlds-richest-african-american-pro-israel-nazi?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
# Gov / Politics
Shocking, Trump says he “doesn’t care” about the economy, retribution against Joe Biden is more important
https://www.newsbreak.com/hiphopwired-525093/3774855944459-shocking-donald-trump-says-he-doesn-t-care-about-the-economy-retribution-against-joe-biden-is-more-important
Ballots from Helene-damaged areas are among the 65,000 that Republicans want to throw out in North Carolina
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/north-carolina-supreme-court-griffin-riggs/
‘Complete failure’: Government shutdown crisis threatens Capitol Hill as Trump plans policy overhaul
https://www.aol.com/complete-failure-government-shutdown-crisis-214536168.html
Davos day three: Donald Trump demands increase in Nato defence spending, and sends oil price sliding
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/jan/23/davos-day-three-ukraine-nato-trump-milei-the-pope-business-live-news
What is Davos? https://finance.yahoo.com/video/davos-know-120041152.html
DeSantis warns Florida lawmakers not to defy him on immigration: ‘It would be very, very hazardous’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/desantis-florida-legislature-special-session-00200382
House GOP Floats Medicaid Cuts and More to Finance Trump’s Huge Agenda. House and Senate Republicans float ideas to pay for Trump’s immigration crackdown and to fund tax cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/republicans-medicaid-funding-trump
House Republican Introduces Amendment Allowing Trump To Run for Third Term – But Not Obama
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/republicans-medicaid-funding-trump
Conservatives clinch longtime goal of booting Democrats from leadership ranks in Texas House. Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/23/texas-house-republican-committee-chairs/
The Global Forces Trump Can’t Ignore. The new administration would be wise to reconsider some of its operating assumptions, so that it can go with rather than against these powerful currents. Safely navigating the shoals ahead—and exercising true sovereignty over America’s destiny—will require the forty-seventh president make commons cause with other countries and pursue U.S. interests within international institutions.
https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/01/trump-population-climate-ai-megatrends?lang=en&utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=titlelink&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGYNHpod_aNEBdGU1phQDyiFPrLZ3barVhteT24hBzqsRTgdUSfcitoGgAc3uQnz2suqTMDVMwUwdqfjfd8RX-mud5oXTpcI2Hiu6OxB9o-j3Q
Our Enemies Could Be Plotting To Use Trump’s Ambitious Agenda Against Us. President Donald Trump is ushering in a new age of technological advancements with his push to increase America’s AI development.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/23/our-enemies-could-be-plotting-to-use-trumps-ambitious-agenda-against-us-trump-ai-altman/
Marco Rubio To Visit Panama On First Trip As Secretary Of State. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama on his first trip abroad in his new post after President Donald Trump’s calls to seize the country’s canal.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/23/marco-rubio-donald-trump-panama-canal/77905262007/
Huge Image of Musk’s Nazi Salute Projected Onto German Gigafactory. They’re looking to “fight the commercial arm of fascism.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/musk-nazi-salute-german-gigafactory?utm_term=Futurism%20//%2001.23.25&utm_campaign=Futurism_Actives_Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
Conservatives clinch longtime goal of booting Democrats from leadership ranks in Texas House
https://www.aol.com/texas-democrats-lose-leadership-roles-214333207.html
Republicans are already looking for ways to hand Trump a third term.
http://socket.newrepublic.com/post/190644/republicans-bill-trump-third-term
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Hunter Biden’s name, signature, and shared bank account in $60M fraud investigation. Members of Congress have expressed interest in continuing to probe the Biden family even after sweeping pardons to finally get to the truth.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/bank-records-show-hunter-biden-had-deeper-ties-60-million-fraud
Trump pardons two former D.C. police officers convicted in death of a moped rider
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/trump-pardons-two-dc-police-officers-convicted-in-death-of-20-year-old-man-during-pursuit-00200162
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
DOJ Halts All Civil Rights Cases Following Trump’s Directives. Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.
https://truthout.org/articles/doj-halts-all-civil-rights-cases-following-trumps-directives/
# Media
CNN expected to cut 200 jobs, restructure the company
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/cnn-layoffs-digital-investment
# Medicare / Medicaid
NEW REPORT: House Republicans Float Medicaid Cuts to Finance Trump’s Tax Handouts to Billionaire Backers
https://democrats.org/news/new-report-house-republicans-float-medicaid-cuts-to-finance-trumps-tax-handouts-to-billionaire-backers/
# Medical / General News
Trump Pardons Pro-Lifers Ahead Of March For Life: President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists who were prosecuted by the Biden Administration for peacefully protesting outside of abortion clinics. “They should not have been prosecuted,” said the president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-pardons-abortion-clinic-protesters-00200292
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring
Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern. Researchers worry that NIH funding and scientific updates to the public could be affected
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administrations-cancels-scientific-meetings-abruptly/
Health and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/health-and-human-services-secretary-influences-every-aspect-of-america-s-health/article_7eec4313-c05d-5845-b7ed-7785e3b97d0b.html
# Military / General News
Donald Trump Pulling US Troops From Europe in Blow to NATO Allies. A European diplomatic source told ANSA that Trump wants to reduce the American contingent in Europe by about 20 percent and plans to ask for a “financial contribution” for the maintenance of the remaining troops.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-us-troops-europe-nato-2019728
Republican senators introduce bill to protect military installations
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0f5a4c54-d9df-11ef-b672-9fe855e6edcf.html
# Nuclear
Is a Global Deal to Reduce Nuclear Weapons Possible? Need to know: President Donald Trump said he wants to hold “denuclearization” talks with Russia and China now he is back in office – stressing that China would have to join in as well.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-china-russia-2020120?utm_source=STMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Geoscape&emh=1602501a99a5758652052c0857f4beec9307dbfdcb75c1cebcb48b174fbab7bf&lctg=62d7754d3dd0961e82066a82&utm_term=%5BAudience%5D%20-%20Geoscape
Is a World Without Nuclear Weapons Really Possible? Can mankind uninvent the nuclear bomb, and rid the world of the greatest military threat to the human species and the survival of the planet ever created?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-a-world-without-nuclear-weapons-really-possible/
Trump Proves He’s Totally Clueless With Dangerous Nuclear Comments. Donald Trump doesn’t appear to fully understand how disarmament works.
https://newrepublic.com/post/190605/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons
# Other Interesting Things
Scientists Listening to Signals From Huge, Mysterious Objects Inside the Earth. “Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/underground-supercontinent-earth-older
# Planetary
Mysterious Mars Mounds: Clues to Water & Life Discovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-mystery-mounds-reveal-history-mars.html
# Space
Scientists detect chirping cosmic waves in an unexpected part of space
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/scientists-detect-chirping-cosmic-waves-160451002.html
# Transportation / Travel
Betrayed by US Again, Afghan Evacuees Stranded After Refugee Program Suspension. About 1,600 Afghans approved to come to the US are now in limbo as the State Department cancels travel plans.
https://truthout.org/articles/betrayed-by-us-again-afghan-evacuees-stranded-after-refugee-program-suspension/
# Veterans / VA
Veterans Affairs officials issued guidance Thursday exempting more than 300,000 department health care posts from the White House’s federal hiring freeze, labeling them as essential to public health and department operations
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/23/roughly-300000-va-jobs-exempted-federal-hiring-freeze-bid-protect-veteran-services.html
# Water
Water supplies strained for 30 million Americans, report finds. Nearly 30 million Americans live in regions with stressed water supplies, with socially vulnerable groups and certain ecosystems at higher risk, according to a new USGS report.
https://www.ehn.org/water-supplies-strained-for-30-million-americans-report-finds-2670980880.html
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