Voices, The Peoples News
February 8, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators. The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water landscape.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022025/wyoming-tribes-fight-for-water-sovereignty/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump administration is also going after immigrants who live here legally. It has them terrified. They entered the country legally to flee desperate conditions. Now, they could be deported. As the Trump administration takes aim at legal immigration, some who were promised safety fear deportation
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/08/tps-humanitarian-parole-trump-legal-immigrants-executive-order/
Trump Is Embracing a Shameful Stain on American History: Amid the blitzkrieg of executive actions President Donald Trump has taken over the past two weeks, it should be no surprise that the administration aims to exploit and expand what is perhaps the 21st century’s greatest symbol of lawlessness: Guantánamo. In so doing, he is carrying forward the shameful history paved by his predecessors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-embracing-shameful-stain-american-163000066.html
Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants. The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/trump-deport-immigrants-alien-enemies-act-japanese/
Senate Budget Committee unveils reconciliation agenda, includes plan to increase border security
https://thehill.com/business/5133363-senate-bill-border-defense-energy/
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
I’ve Spent a Decade Reporting on NASA—and I Know Why Trump’s War on DEI Can’t Possibly Work. Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA’s websites get it all wrong.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/nasa-dei-trump-webb-telescope-carl-sagan.html?pay=1739027127419&support_journalism=please
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
WTF Is DOGE Doing in Department in Charge of Nuclear Weapons? The Department of Energy tried to clarify why DOGE staffers suddenly got some I.T. access to a department that oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile. “He’s not cleared to be in DOE, on our systems. None of those things have been done,” said the unnamed source.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wtf-doge-doing-department-charge-204633919.html
Energy secretary tries to cool worries about DOGE access to nuclear secrets. “Nothing to be worried about here,” said the Energy secretary.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/wright-doge-officials-nothing-to-be-worried-about-00203096
Why Elon Musk’s Buyout Offer “Reads Like a Scam”: An employment expert explains: There’s even more wrong with the “fork” email than you might have thought.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-federal-workforce-hits-record-as-musk-buyout-offer-looms/ar-AA1yBNKx
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’: An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff’s access to federal payments systems “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/7/2302256/-A-US-Treasury-Threat-Intelligence-Analysis-Designates-DOGE-Staff-as-Insider-Threat
ACLU warns DOGE’s ‘unchecked’ access to government records could violate federal law
https://www.wired.com/story/aclu-doge-congress-musk-data/
ACLU Seeks Records on DOGE’s Unrestricted Access to Americans’ Data, Urges Congress to Step Up
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-seeks-records-on-doges-unrestricted-access-to-americans-data-urges-congress-to-step-up
DOGE Is Now Inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://www.wusf.org/2025-02-07/musks-team-takes-control-of-key-systems-at-consumer-financial-protection-bureau
DOGE Builds ‘Firewall’ Between Musk’s Team and Legacy USDS Workers. “As far as I can tell, they’re hiding,” one employee at the United States Digital Service said about the DOGE team.
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-doge-firewall-usds-workers/
I Work in the office carrying out the Government Purge, I’m a career civil servant at the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management, and I’m sorry. We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else. Russ Vought said that he wants to drive civil servants into trauma and make us feel like villains for doing our jobs. He’s been very effective at the first half of his goal, but the villains here aren’t the civil servants working to serve the American people.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html?pay=1739026568905&support_journalism=please
How AI could replace government workers to reduce spending
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
President Trump Launches Government Modernization Effort Through DOGE
https://budget.house.gov/press-release/president-trump-launches-government-modernization-effort-through-doge
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
‘I am now stuck’: Trump tariffs shock consumers with ‘up to $50’ shipping fees from China. His tariffs aren’t hurting the Chinese economy, they’re hurting everyday Americans.
https://politicalhotwire.com/t/i-am-now-stuck-trump-tariffs-shock-consumers-with-up-to-50-shipping-fees-from-china.292191/
Musk staffer takes top role at Treasury Department with control over federal payment system. With the appointment, Krause will take control of the massive federal payment system at the heart of the dispute amid what some Democrats have called an illegal data breach by Musk and his associates.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/07/musk-staffer-takes-top-role-at-treasury-department-with-control-over-payment-system/
Musk’s ally given power to halt tax refunds and Social Security checks: The Musk ally now has control over the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which disburses more than $5 trillion in annual payments for Social Security, Medicare, tax refunds and thousands of other programs and agencies – all of which Musk demanded on social media should be unilaterally halted as illegal.”
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/02/07/tom-krause-elon-musk-doge-war-on-social-security/
# Education / Schools
DODEA adds lessons to ‘do not use’ list sent to schools worldwide. Elementary school reading assignments on immigration to America, Black History Month social studies material and chapters on sexuality and gender for high schoolers have been marked for now as “do not use” resources by the Pentagon’s school system.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-02-06/dodea-makes-dei-changes-16741634.html
Democratic members of Congress were blocked from entering the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, according to footage shared by the lawmakers.
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/democratic-lawmakers-denied-entry-to-department-of-education-we-arent-dangerous-maxwell-frost-maxine-waters-gwen-moore-trump-elon-musk-crisis-in-the-classroom
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Directive From New Interior Secretary Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels
https://www.dailyclimate.org/new-order-weakens-protections-for-public-lands-and-wildlife-2671107799.html
‘It’s Worse Every Day’: Environmental Justice Staffers at EPA Face Uncertain Future as Potential Layoffs Loom. Former EPA regional administrators worry the actions will unravel decades of work protecting public health from pollution.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04022025/humanitarian-climate-aid-flashpoint-in-battle-for-government-control/
How the Money Stopped at One Environmental Nonprofit, Causing Hardship and Alarm. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League always worked hard to be a good steward of public funds. But that didn’t seem to matter when its grant “disappeared.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06022025/federal-money-stops-at-southeast-environmental-nonprofit/
North Pole Temperature Reaches 20°C Above Average: Temperatures in the North Pole on Sunday reached 20 degrees Celsius above the average set between 1991 and 2020, after reaching 18 degrees higher than the average on Saturday.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/temperatures-at-north-pole-20c-above-average-and-beyond-ice-melting-point
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Mid-Atlantic States Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Disasters as Trump Considers Cutting Emergency Funding. Experts in the region met in Philadelphia to strategize about how to prepare for severe weather worsened by climate change. Pennsylvania experienced as many major weather disasters in 2024 as it did in all of the 1980s.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/u-s-mid-atlantic-leaders-plan-for-climate-disasters-as-federal-funding-faces-cuts-2671113910.html
# Food General News
30K tons of food stranded at Houston port amid pause of international aid. The food is allegedly a part of a project under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) which is in the middle of a paused federal buyout deal.
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3796401148549-report-30k-tons-of-food-stranded-at-houston-port-amid-pause-of-international-aid?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3Mzg5ODAwMzY1MDI%3D
# General News
‘Not just trolling’: Security analyst warns Trump no longer joking about taking Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t joking – he believes Trump’s threat to make Canada the 51st state is a “real thing,” in part due to his desire to gain access to Canada’s critical minerals, according to a source who heard the behind-closed-doors comment at a summit in Toronto
https://www.cp24.com/politics/2025/02/07/its-a-real-thing-trudeau-warns-trump-isnt-joking-about-annexing-canada-source-says/?taid=67a64a275d75430001291247&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
https://theconversation.com/efficiency-or-empire-how-elon-musks-hostile-takeover-could-end-government-as-we-know-it-249262
Outrage as ‘racist’ Trump grants refugee status to group behind South African apartheid. President Donald Trump has largely hobbled the U.S. refugee resettlement program since retaking office last month — but he gave one group of people special consideration for resettlement.
https://www.rawstory.com/apartheid/
‘America at War With Itself’: Humanitarian, Climate Aid Becomes Flashpoint in a Battle for Control of U.S. Government. As critics decry efforts to dismantle the humanitarian aid agency as a constitutional crisis and self-inflicted wound, a former USAID official warned it would cause potential allies to turn toward China or Russia.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04022025/humanitarian-climate-aid-flashpoint-in-battle-for-government-control/
# Gov / Politics
Key Democrat Tells Trump to Screw Off After He Tries to Fire Her. A key Democrat on the Federal Elections Commission has hit back after President Donald Trump made a pathetic attempt to illegally remove her. The FEC Democratic chair is not having Donald Trump’s nonsense.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191276/donald-trump-fire-democrat-fec
Trump names himself as new chairman of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, after ousting current board. Trump highlighted the center’s recent progressive displays, accusing it of hosting drag shows last year that specifically targeted Washington, D.C. youth, which he vowed to end.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-board-chairman-firings-21cd0018c6e9f591d59becea8573d8c0
Trump goes for the jugular with NGO funding review, imperiling Dem-Journo-Activist cabal. In what critics have described as “money laundering” of taxpayer dollars to left-wing advocates, USAID often distributes taxpayer money to NGOs that support liberal causes, some of which the government would not be able to advance directly.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-board-chairman-firings-21cd0018c6e9f591d59becea8573d8c0
House Democrat leaves congressional DOGE caucus, saying Musk is ‘blowing things up’: It’s the latest sign of rising Democratic frustration with Musk even from the centrist lawmakers who were most eager to work with him.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-caucus-house-democrat-leaves
Oregon congresswoman introduces ‘Stop Musk Act’ as state responds to federal chaos. Rep. Maxine Dexter’s bill would ban retaliation against federal employees who stand up to Elon Musk
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/07/oregon-congresswoman-introduces-stop-musk-act-as-state-responds-to-federal-chaos/
The MAGA Coalition Provisional Authority Has Plunged The Country Into A Constitutional Crisis
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-donald-trump-constitutional-crisis_n_67a3c1d9e4b05654e26a7918
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Trump Administration Not Complying With Court Order to Unfreeze Federal Funding, Attorney General Tong Seeks to Enforce Temporary Restraining Order
https://portal.ct.gov/ag/press-releases/2025-press-releases/attorney-general-tong-seeks-to-enforce-temporary-restraining-order
AG Tong says Trump admin has until Sunday to comply with temporary restraining order on funding freeze
https://ctmirror.org/2025/02/08/democratic-ags-trump-funding-freeze/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Now Trump Goes After the World’s Only International War Crimes Court. Sanctions against the ICC: Trump’s present to Netanyahu. On Thursday, the US president issued an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court, imposing ‘tangible and significant consequences’ on those responsible for ICC ‘transgressions.’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/02/08/sanctions-against-the-icc-trump-s-present-to-netanyahu_6737929_4.html
Justice Department opens inquiry into people who threatened DOGE employees. Acting US Attorney for DC Ed Martin announced the pending inquiry, but did not name any individuals who would be targeted.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/justice-department-opens-inquiry-people-who-threatened-doge-employees
# Media
Morning Joe Pundit Calls For ‘Radical’ Democrat Protests Until Elon Musk Is ‘Subject To Questioning’: Calls for Democrats to adopt a “radical” playbook to push back until there is accountability for the changes being implemented by Trump’s cost-cutting bulldog Elon Musk.
https://savetrees.co/products/toilet-paper-paper-towel-bundle?absrc=Google&abid=&abcampid=16926601573&abgroupid=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyJSQ9OO0iwMV5oSmBB1tQiosEAEYASABEgK7ofD_BwE&abkwdid=&gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyJSQ9OO0iwMV5oSmBB1tQiosEAEYASABEgK7ofD_BwE
# Medical / General News
USAID was fighting bird flu, providing AIDS medicines, fighting polio. Charities reeling from USAid freeze warn of ‘life or death’ effects. Abrupt order has done ‘serious damage’, say experts, with supply chains halted, HIV clinics struggling to source drugs and refugee camps facing loss of vital services. Elon & Trump now killed it.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/28/charities-reeling-from-usaid-freeze-warn-of-life-or-death-effects
# Medical Bio-Engineering / Bio-Science
Galveston biolabs disclose mishaps that potentially exposed workers to infectious diseases. Accidents with anthrax bacteria and a deadly virus are among the safety mishaps reported during 2024 by UTMB and the Galveston National Laboratory.
https://houstonlanding.org/galveston-biolabs-disclose-mishaps-that-potentially-exposed-workers-to-infectious-diseases/
Cancer breakthrough as scientists discover ‘switch’ that reverses disease. The new research could lead to therapies that are less toxic and more effective
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/33263894/scientists-reverse-cancer-switch/
# Military / General News
Unprecedented New View Of BLU-109 Bunker Buster Strike That Killed Hezbollah’s Leadership. The video shows the moment the bunker busters struck, burrowing deep below the road and detonating with such force that the ground is lifted all around.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unprecedented-view-blu-109-bunker-211205308.html
A Closer Look at Israel’s Use of 80 Bunker-Buster JDAMs in Beirut
A U.S. Navy aviator and TOPGUN graduate looks at the 27 September Israeli Air Force strike that took out Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassrallah.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/october/closer-look-israels-use-80-bunker-buster-jdams-beirut
Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bunker Buster Grows More Potent. A new “smart fuze” for the GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator has been tested and an issue tied to the B-2 stealth bomber has been fixed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-ordnance-penetrator-bunker-buster-181110884.html
Navy Develops Highly Persistent Undersea Hydrophone System Powered By Ocean Temperatures. The Persistent Smart Acoustic Profiler Voyager could make underwater listening cheaper, more flexible, and more persistent for the sea service.
https://nosi.org/2025/02/07/navy-develops-highly-persistent-undersea-hydrophone-system-powered-by-ocean-temperatures/
NPS, Industry Research Leads to First in Persistent, Ocean Acoustic Data Collection Technology: A research partnership between the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Seatrec has led to a milestone in the persistent monitoring of oceanographic and underwater acoustic data in real-time, and near indefinitely.
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/4054386/nps-industry-research-leads-to-first-in-persistent-ocean-acoustic-data-collecti/
The stealthy F-117 Nighthawk could have executed nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union. The F-117 was built with the ability to deliver nuclear bombs and the Air Force didn’t forget that during the last years of the Cold War.
https://www.twz.com/33733/the-stealthy-f-117-nighthawk-could-have-executed-nuclear-strikes-against-the-soviet-union#:~:text=If%20there%20was%20a%20crisis,execute%20it%20if%20need%20be.
# Military / General News / Global
Ukraine intercepts glide bomb in Zaporizhzhya region. Russia’s air force relies heavily on glide bombs, which are dropped from a great height, out of reach of Ukrainian air defences. Equipped with wings, they glide to the area of their targets.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-intercepts-glide-bomb-zaporizhzhya-155427376.html
Iran’s Wacky Aircraft Carrier Has Entered Service. Questions about the Shahid Bagheri’s capabilities remain, especially with the reappearance of the infamous Qaher 313 in a new drone form.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/irans-wacky-aircraft-carrier-has-entered-service
# Nuclear
Halted Nuclear Plant Project Could Restart in South Carolina. To meet the growing demand from data centers, the state is looking to give nuclear energy another try. Will it be cost-effective?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022025/south-carolina-halted-nuclear-plant-could-restart/
# Science / Science Engineers
The butterfly effect: This obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong? In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
https://theconversation.com/the-butterfly-effect-this-obscure-mathematical-concept-has-become-an-everyday-idea-but-do-we-have-it-all-wrong-246577
# Social
Executive Order Confusion Causes NYC Housing Officials To Delay Section 8 Landlord Payments. The payments have not gone out to landlords who lease apartments to Section 8 housing tenants, causing issues across the city.
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-housing-officials-blame-late-section-8-rent-payments-on-federal-disarray
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Millions of phone location records feared leaked as one of the biggest data leaks ever may be a whole lot worse. Another DPRK recruiting scam is targeting jobseekers
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/north-korean-hackers-targeting-linkedin-jobseekers-with-new-malware
Trump continues federal purge, gutting cyber workers who combat disinformation. Roughly half a dozen employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who previously worked to counter election-related disinformation have been put on administrative leave
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/trump-guts-cyber-workers-00203087
# Water
Trump and GOP-Led Congress Attempting to Undo Lead Pipe Protections. Congressional Republicans, along with the Trump administration, are trying to repeal Biden-era rules that require all lead pipes in the United States to be replaced, while lowering the lead limit in drinking water.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/01/28/congressional-republicans-seeking-to-cancel-key-lead-water-safety-rule-that-will-replace-all-toxic-lead-pipes-in-10-years-and-protect-tens-of-millions/
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