Voices, The Peoples News
February 6, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Second Federal Judge Blocks Unlawful Trump Order to End Birthright Citizenship by Fiat. Judge rules Trump’s order unconstitutional, keeping birthright citizenship intact — for now
https://www.boundless.com/blog/second-federal-judge-blocks-trumps-attempt-to-end-birthright-citizenship/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE cancels millions in government payments to left-leaning media outlet
https://san.com/cc/doge-cancels-millions-in-government-payments-to-left-leaning-media-outlet/
Concern over DOGE stopping Social Security, Medicare payments
https://www.yahoo.com/news/concern-over-doge-stopping-social-190209960.html
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration
Elon Musk’s DOGE Reportedly Accesses Federal Workforce’s Personal Data: Here’s What To Know About DOGE
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/02/06/elon-musks-doge-reportedly-accesses-federal-workforces-personal-data-heres-what-to-know-about-doge/
DOGE will keep limited access to Treasury payments system with 2 associates having ‘read-only’ view
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-says-elon-musk-doge-has-read-only-access-to-payment-systems/
Retirees sue to block Musk, DOGE access to personal information of millions of Americans. The Alliance for Retired Americans says the Treasury Department broke the law by allowing billionaire Elon Musk access to Medicare and Social Security systems.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/legal/retirees-sue-to-block-elon-musk-doge-access-to-medicare-social-security-systems-treasury-trump-scott-bessent-omb-usaid-privacy/65-83b17760-d1a9-4454-8f4d-5084eaf3fc3a
Personal Information Of Mostly Black Federal Health Workers Added To ‘DEI Watch List’ Over Perceived Offenses. According to NBC News, the website displays photos, names, and public information of several employees from health agencies, mostly Black workers from the Department of Health and Human Services
https://afrotech.com/personal-information-mostly-black-federal-health-workers-dei-watch-list
Musk’s team is rewriting code in the U.S. Treasury system
https://newrepublic.com/post/191176/elon-musk-treasury-takeover-dangerous
USAID was dismantled so fast one fired employee had to be REHIRED to process time sheets
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/usaid-state-department-elon-musk-firings-b2693107.html
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers. Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Panama Canal Authority said there had been no changes made to the fees on vessels sailing through the canal, despite a statement by the US State Department, which said a deal struck with Panama would save it millions of dollars a year.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-05/panama-canal-authority-denies-changes-to-charge-fees-after-us-claim
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls for Trump tax cuts to be made permanent
https://atr.org/secretary-bessent-rejects-wimpy-5-year-tax-extension-calls-for-permanent-tax-cuts-current-policy-scoring/
Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn. As the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this “reeks of a cover-up.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/191191/trump-musk-purge-scandal-treasury
# Education / Schools
Elon Musk’s war on Head Start childhood education exposes how “pro-natalists” are really anti-woman. “You do not want to give money to women,” declared one leader of the movement to make more babies
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/06/elon-musks-on-head-start-childhood-education-exposes-how-pro-natalists-are-really-anti-woman/
Trump’s Funding Freeze Hits Its First Targets: Young Kids
https://newrepublic.com/post/191138/trump-funding-freeze-first-targets-young-kids-head-start
Still locked out of federal funding, several Head Start preschools may need to close temporarily
https://www.wgal.com/article/head-start-funding-crisis-trump-freeze/63678868
Ohio GOP bill to cancel DEI programs and ban university faculty strikes, first Ohio Senate Committee hearing held Jan. 29. Senate Bill 1 would ban diversity, equity and inclusion courses in addition to the trainings. It also bans strikes by faculty and staff and reduces trustees’ terms
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/ohio-senate-bill-1-introduced-jerry-cirino-kirtland-ban-diversity-inclusion-labor-strikes-higher-education/95-e87bbdc2-980b-4803-a2f7-a0aeb1a15200
# Employment / Labor / Unions
House Dem proposes bill named after Musk ending federal contracts for special government employees
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2025/02/05/pocan–musk–legislation–special-government-employees
‘Directly violates the law’: Trump defying ’90 years of Supreme Court precedent’ in firing labor board member after ‘unlawful’ termination, lawsuit says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/directly-violates-the-law-trump-defying-90-years-of-supreme-court-precedent-in-firing-labor-board-member-after-unlawful-termination-lawsuit-says/
‘People Who Work for a Living’ Rally at Labor Dept as DOGE Readies Latest Attack. “The people who keep our food and medicine safe know more about how to make government efficient than an outsider whose companies benefit from the very agencies he is infiltrating.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-federal-workers
Trump administration expected to put EPA environmental justice and civil rights workers on administrative leave
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/06/environmental-justice-offices-trump-turmoil/
Walmart axing hundreds of jobs, closing office as more white-collar workers asked to relocate
https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/business/walmart-axing-jobs-closing-offices-as-more-white-collar-workers-asked-to-relocate/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
‘Immediately terminate you’: Trump’s EPA chief sends job threat to around 1K employees
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5123348-epa-employees-facing-immediate-firing/
Trump targets EPA scientists on climate change with threat of immediate firings
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trump-targets-epa-scientists-climate-956239
# General News
‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities. Late last week, a national museum literally papered over history.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286299/nsa-museum-dei-exhibit-women-people-of-color-trump
“He’s Talking About Ethnic Cleansing, Right?” People Are Absolutely Slamming Trump’s Plan For The US To “Take Over” Gaza
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-flat-calling-trumps-plans-224018107.html
World reaction to Trump’s ‘take over’ and ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza. Hamas calls Trump’s idea a ‘recipe for generating chaos’ and says the people of Gaza will not allow their displacement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/world-reaction-to-trumps-comments-on-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza
‘We Will Not Leave’: Palestinians Respond With Defiance to Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan. “This is our homeland,” said one Gaza City resident. “Neither I, my children, nor my grandchildren will ever leave it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/palestinians-react-to-trump-plan-for-gaza
Trump announces withdrawal from UN human rights body and halt to funding for Palestinian refugees
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-united-nations-human-rights-council-unrwa-withdrawl/507-1288931a-cb2a-4197-ae60-52e1f9499820
A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet. The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html
# Gov / Politics
Trump Has No Right to Move Us to Oligarchy, Authoritarianism, and Kleptocracy. Instead of moving toward an economy which is designed to benefit the very richest people in our society, we have got to fight hard to create a government that works for all of us.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-oligarchy
How Trump 2.0 could herald a new age of authoritarian capitalism. Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet. It must be strongly resisted
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-second-term-new-age-authoritarian-capitalism-china-musk/
‘They’ve done their homework’: The unexpected power of Musk’s digital assault on Washington. Almost overnight, banal-seeming federal IT systems have become an ideologically driven bulldozer
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/musk-digital-assault-washington-00202516
‘You’re out of order!’ House hearing descends into chaos after GOP blocks Dems from subpoenaing Elon Musk
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/musk-digital-assault-washington-00202516
“What’s the point of having Congress?”: Even some conservatives now say it’s a constitutional crisis
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/05/whats-the-point-of-having-congress-even-conservatives-worry-about-musks-illegal/
All the times Project 2025 has appeared in Trump’s executive orders
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-executive-orders-project-2025/
Donald Trump Faces First Articles Of Impeachment In Second Term
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-democrat-bring-first-articles-impeachment-trump-second-term-2026701
Fox’s Chad Pergram Asks Speaker Johnson Why Congress Is Letting Elon Musk Control Federal Agencies: ‘Aren’t You Ceding Back That Power?’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/foxs-chad-pergram-asks-speaker-johnson-why-congress-is-letting-elon-musk-control-federal-agencies-arent-you-ceding-back-that-power/
Law Professor Says Trump Administration’s Purges Are ‘Highly Illegal’ and ‘They Even Know It’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/law-professor-says-trump-administration-s-purges-are-highly-illegal-and-they-even-know-it/ar-AA1yuIJ6?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Top Official Who Fought “Illegal” Trump Purge Now Being Pushed Out
https://newrepublic.com/post/190995/usaid-official-fought-trump-firings-purge-pushed-out
Rand Paul recoils at Trump’s Gaza takeover plans: ‘I thought we voted for America First.’ Trump indicated the US will ‘take over’ the region.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5128041-rand-paul-trump-gaza/
Trump ‘does not have the authority to abolish’ USAID: Congressional Research Service
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-does-not-authority-abolish-191020919.html
Trump Is Pushing the World Right Into China’s Arms. The new administration is actively inviting its allies to turn their backs on America.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-paris-climate-agreement-world-health-organization.html
Trump Is Undermining U.S. Soft Power at a Delicate Time. Experts warn that Trump’s recent foreign policy decisions could signal to allies that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191174/trump-undermining-soft-power-consequences
Mass Protests Against Trump Break out Across the Country, Protesters gathered at state capitols nationwide to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab
House Republicans just blocked Democrats from trying to force Elon Musk to testify about how he’s destroying the government.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191182/house-oversight-republicans-block-democrats-subpoena-elon-musk
# Gov / Politics / Global
Amid Trump Threat, Greenland Bans Foreign Political Donations Before March Elections
https://san.com/cc/greenland-bans-foreign-political-donations-amid-renewed-us-interest/
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
New AG Pam Bondi uses her first day in office to ban federal funds from heading to ‘Sanctuary Cities‘: Among several directives issued Wednesday, Bondi charged the DOJ with identifying and evaluating funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations that provide support to undocumented immigrants
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pam-bondi-ban-sanctuary-cities-funding-b2693020.html
State attorneys general look to prosecute Fauci despite Biden pardon. Fauci welcomes Biden pardon but says he has ‘committed no crime.’ The former public health official was expected to be targeted with legal action.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis/fauci-biden-pardon-00199293
CIA Sets Off Security Crisis With One Email to Trump’s White House. In an effort to comply with Trump’s orders, the CIA just opened itself up to foreign attacks.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191201/cia-national-security-crisis-email-list-trump-white-house?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_ticker_rss&utm_term=tnr-newsletter-20240823
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Groups Warn Trump Appointee Against Turning US Attorney’s Office Into ‘DOGE Defense Squad.’ “Does Ed Martin follow the Constitution or Elon Musk?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-attorney-elon-musk
‘Retribution is inevitable’: Proud Boys leader plans to defy judge who stripped group of trademark in fight with vandalized Black church
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/retribution-is-inevitable-proud-boys-leader-plans-to-defy-judge-who-stripped-group-of-trademark-in-fight-with-vandalized-black-church/
New lawsuit seeks to cut off Elon Musk’s access to Treasury networks. The concern is that Musk and his associates may have already gained access to sensitive information about Americans — everything from addresses and Social Security numbers to debt-to-income ratios.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/president-trumps-first-100-days/new-lawsuit-seeks-to-cut-off-elon-musks-access-to-treasury-networks
US supreme court may revive doctrine that would curb federal agencies’ power
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/nondelegation-doctrine-supreme-court
# Medicare / Medicaid
‘Big money fraud’: Musk team reportedly gains access to Medicaid and Medicare computers
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-health-data-cms
Elon Musk’s DOGE agency gains access to Medicare, Medicaid payments
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3793320291037-elon-musks-doge-agency-gains-access-to-medicare-medicaid-payments?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3Mzg4NDk0NzQzNzQ%3D
DOGE targets Medicare agency, looking for fraud. Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-doge-medicare-medicaid-fraud-e697b162
# Medical / General News
Rep. Brent Money files bill criminalizing women who terminate their pregnancies
https://www.newsbreak.com/kltv-1982238/3793172488747-webxtra-rep-brent-money-files-bill-criminalizing-women-who-terminate-their-pregnancies
The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done. Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only temporary.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/research-funding-freeze-cancer-grants-what-now/
# Military / General News
West Point shuts down clubs for women and students of color in response to Trump’s DEI policies
https://apnews.com/article/west-point-student-clubs-diversity-trump-dei-a8e992f1bbceda4bf217db6dfebd6b92
# NASA / Space
‘Bent the knee’: Outrage as NASA scrubs women and Indigenous people off website. The order garnered fierce backlash on social media, including from many women irate that women in leadership roles were to be removed.
https://www.rawstory.com/nasa/
# Planetary
Found: A Giant Crack in the Arizona Desert. Fissures appear when groundwater is sucked away.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-a-giant-crack-in-the-arizona-desert
Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent. Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/new-continent-davis-strait-2670858090
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
‘Corporate War Machine’: With Trump in Office, Google Drops Pledge Not to Use AI to Develop Weapons
https://truthout.org/articles/google-drops-pledge-to-not-use-ai-to-develop-weapons-surveillance-technologies/
Chris Anderson, who transformed TED from a small conference into a global platform for sharing ideas, announced today he’s stepping down after 25 years at the helm. The nonprofit’s leader is seeking new ownership through an unusual open call for proposals. Anderson wants potential buyers, whether universities, philanthropic organizations, media companies or tech firms, to demonstrate both vision and financial capacity.
https://blog.ted.com/an-exciting-new-chapter-for-ted/
The Real Reason Tech Bros Are Following Elon Musk’s Lead to Leave Delaware. Mark Zuckerberg and other execs might follow Elon Musk out the door.
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/elon-musk-delaware-judge-meta-mark-zuckerberg-bill-ackman-pershing-texas-nevada.html?pay=1738862051576&support_journalism=please
Musk ‘Fealty’ Drives Delaware Exits as His Grip on Power Grows
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/before-the-bar/musk-fealty-drives-delaware-exits-as-his-grip-on-power-grows
# Transportation / Travel
Elon Musk, Famous for Self-Crashing Cars, Takes Over Country’s Planes. Trump’s transportation secretary has just invited Elon Musk and DOGE to wreck the country’s aviation system next.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-famous-self-crashing-213102077.html
# Veterans / VA
Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/04/infinite-nightmares-once-veterans-data-swept-musks-takeover-of-treasury-system.html
# Weather
Life-saving weather warnings are on the line as Trump and DOGE target America’s forecasting agency. Even before federal employees at the National Weather Service received so-called buyout offers this week, America’s public forecasting agency was suffering its lowest staffing in decades
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/weather/national-weather-service-job-cuts-hurricane-season/index.html
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