Voices, The Peoples News
February 9, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
A father of five was detained by ICE on his way to work. Now his family is losing their home
https://www.aol.com/father-five-detained-ice-way-200140967.html
Civil rights attorney sounds alarm after video shows ICE agents covering cameras during immigration raids. Residents said agents went door-to-door asking if neighbors were undocumented
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raid-migrants-civil-rights-video-b2694712.html
The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and teens, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-preparing-restart-immigrant-003616718.html
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Billionaire Elon Musk outlined a list of “super obvious” changes that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to make at the U.S. Treasury Department this weekend.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-outlines-super-obvious-changes-doge-and-treasury-have-agreed-to-make/ar-AA1yGYIv
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continuing to receive legal pushback
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/nation-world/doge-elon-musk-federal-agency-lawsuit-buyout-offer-legal-usaid-administrative-leave-wasteful-spending-education-trump-administration
Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to close US government agencies? Legal experts doubt that DOGE has power to cut spending already approved by Congress.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/8/do-elon-musk-and-doge-have-power-to-close-us-government-agencies
House Dem Says Elon Musk, DOGE Have Access To Much More Than Government Data: ‘They Know When You Have a Colonoscopy!’ A hearing is set for Feb. 14 to determine the legality of Musk’s access to such information.
https://www.newsbreak.com/mediaite-520570/3797455439283-house-dem-says-elon-musk-doge-have-access-to-much-more-than-government-data-they-know-when-you-have-a-colonoscopy
Musk says Treasury, DOGE instituting reporting changes to all government payments. The payments will include a new categorization code and a “rationale” for the money spent
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/08/elon-musk-doge-government-payments-014920
Musk’s DOGE gains access to Medicare, eyes FAA. The billionaire said his Department of Government Efficiency will make ‘rapid safety upgrades’ to our air traffic control systems
https://theweek.com/politics/musk-doge-medicare-faa
US judges block some of Musk’s efforts to shrink federal agencies
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW984208022025RP1/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
The Real Secret Behind Trump’s Insane Tariff Obsession. The president won’t clarify what his price for ending his idiotic trade war is. Maybe that’s because it’s something he dare not say out loud.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191044/trump-trade-war-income-tax
Trump tariffs will only lead to inflation, retaliation and loss of trust
https://thehill.com/opinion/5130452-trump-tariffs-economic-consequences/
A new report just revealed a plan to GUT programs for low-income seniors, children and veterans
https://www.cbpp.org/research/income-security/2025-budget-stakes-vulnerable-people-could-be-targeted-for-painful-cuts
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) X Account Goes Dark As Russell Vought Takes Over, Elon Musk Posts ‘CFPB RIP’: A dismal sign for the bureau that has been targeted by Trump and tech billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, with Musk advocating for “deleting” the agency in his efforts to cut government spending.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/09/cfpbs-funding-gets-cut-off-after-russell-vought-takes-over-consumer-protection-agency/
Consumer financial watchdog is ordered by acting director to stop fighting financial abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/business/cfpb-vought-stop-activity/index.html
Hong Kong to file complaint with WTO over US tariffs
https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/news/nation/hong-kong-to-file-complaint-with-wto-over-us-tariffs/article_81d2cbb1-b40c-5398-9fbf-428c820ed370.html
Musk’s team takes control of key systems at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g-s1-47322/musks-team-takes-control-of-key-systems-at-consumer-financial-protection-bureau
Why Trump blinked before imposing his ‘beautiful’ tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Trump has teased two of the US’s biggest trading partners with levies but has moved the goalpost at least three times in two weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Inside the Trump administration hiring process where hundreds of applicants are rejected for lack of loyalty. Trump’s Loyalty Test Presses Jobseekers on Ties to Disfavored Republicans. Vetting team has rejected hundreds of applicants deemed to hold dissenting views
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-loyalty-test-administration-applications-ba3674b1
Trump administration will consider redrawing boundaries of national monuments as part of energy push
https://apnews.com/article/trump-interior-burgum-national-monuments-review-feec95054f630916a8b4d76bbc4839b7
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump administration reopens hundreds of millions of acres for oil drilling
https://san.com/cc/trump-administration-reopens-hundreds-of-millions-of-acres-for-oil-drilling/
Trump vows to tap America’s ‘liquid gold’ oil reserves and ‘drill baby, drill,’ the problem is, it’s not up to him
https://fortune.com/2025/02/09/trump-vows-to-tap-americas-liquid-gold-oil-reserves-and-drill-baby-drill-the-only-problem-is-its-not-up-to-him/
GOP Rep Wants To Gut Biden’s Green Energy Law In Next Budget. House Republicans could be leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings on the table.
https://thetowernews.com/congressman-wants-to-gut-bidens-green-energy-law-in-budget/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
DOGE Ransacks NOAA, Raising Fears About Privatization of Climate Data: Right-wing climate denialists accuse the National Weather Service of promoting alarmism over the climate crisis.
https://truthout.org/articles/doge-ransacks-noaa-raising-fears-about-privatization-of-climate-data/
# General News
‘‘Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act’’: Dems float legislation to make Musk liable for DOGE’s actions. New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury wants the world’s richest man to be “on the hook” for DOGE’s legal damages
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/08/nobody-elected-elon-musk-act-dems-float-legislation-to-make-musk-liable-for-doges-actions/
Elon Musk finally ‘takes it too far’ even for his own followers with latest decision. Elon Musk’s latest policy decision has seemingly not gone down too well with his own followers, as he faces questioning and scrutiny from those who normally support him
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-cfpb-decision-backlash-34640302
The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that’s not happening
https://www.aol.com/us-state-department-says-humanitarian-191906746.html
# Gov / Politics
Government shutdown could be coming March 14. The government runs out of funding on March 14, and lawmakers are having a hard time making a deal. DOGE’s actions are contributing to that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-usaid-funding-government-shutdown-2025-2
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are throwing the country into TOTAL disarray — they’re defunding critical services and shutting down federal agencies. Trump and Musk’s dismantling of government is shaking the foundations of US democracy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-congress-4e0c025629e8a0c758d13dc916ab4f43
‘Gasps of disbelief’: GOP lawmakers reportedly surprised by Trump — and fearing ‘revenge’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-surprised-republicans-disbelief/
‘This is a grenade’: MAGA melts down as judge ‘forbids’ Musk from accessing Treasury data. The case, filed in federal court in New York City, alleges the Trump administration allowed Musk’s team access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system in violation of federal law.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-blocks-musks-doge-from-accessing-sensitive-treasury-material
‘We are in disbelief’: Report reveals catastrophe threatened by Trump’s first acts. Two weeks ago, there were tens of thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers in Africa. Soon, there will be only 12
https://www.rawstory.com/usaid-trump-musk/
Vengeful and reckless, Donald Trump must not go unchallenged. By his destructive, vindictive, illegal and irrational actions, the US president sets himself beyond the pale
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/08/the-observer-view-vengeful-and-reckless-donald-trump-must-not-go-unchallenged
Trump fires National Archives chief. Trump fires head of National Archives, a North Huntingdon native
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/trump-fires-national-archivist-a-north-huntingdon-native/
Trump orders ban foreign aid, rescind federal funds guidance for abortion
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-orders-ban-foreign-aid-092058004.html
Trump removes Antony Blinken, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg’s security clearances among others
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-antony-blinken-security-clearances-b2694787.html
Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager. The gift was an allusion to a deadly September operation carried out by Israel in Lebanon, which targeted pagers used by members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-golden-pager-intl/index.html
# Gov / Politics / Global
Panama accuses US of peddling ‘intolerable falsehood’ about canal. President José Raúl Mulino denies making a deal that US ships can transit the canal free of charge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/panama-canal-trump-marco-rubio
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
FBI director nominee Kash Patel paid by Russian filmmaker close to Kremlin: Report. Patel took part in a documentary portraying the FBI director nominee and other former Trump officials as victims of a conspiracy
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-russia-kremlin-fbi-b2694479.html
Kash Patel had a roster of foreign clients. Their interests could clash with FBI he hopes to lead. The scope of Patel’s business dealings with foreign entities is hard to fully discern because he in some instances disclosed only minimal information about the nature of his work.
https://apnews.com/article/kash-patel-shein-vance-trump-fbi-aa1e678c283017fb3a9dd3b9de613939
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Former State Senator Dean A. Tran was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for scheming to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and collecting income that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-massachusetts-state-senator-sentenced-18-months-prison-covid-and-tax-fraud
# LGBTQ / Gender
How a Trans Lawmaker Fired Back After Being Misgendered by a Trump Ally on House Floor. McBride called out the president’s administration for its “cycle of chaos, corruption and cynicism” as she declined to respond to her Republican colleague.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-lawmaker-sarah-mcbride-mary-miller-misgendering_n_67a84515e4b03ba5c011cd3f
Trump Admin Twists Civil Rights Law to Enforce Anti-Trans Crackdown. “This is just a transphobic witch hunt using taxpayer dollars,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-twists-civil-rights-law-to-enforce-anti-trans-crackdown/
Trump’s Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield. If parents, students and educators together refuse these policies, the policies will become unenforceable.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-anti-trans-education-order-relies-on-intimidation-we-must-not-yield/
School Systems Across US Refuse to Comply With Anti-Trans Executive Order. Multiple school systems released advisories stating that Trump’s order mandating discrimination will not be followed.
https://truthout.org/articles/school-systems-across-us-refuse-to-comply-with-anti-trans-executive-order/
# Media
Pentagon pushes out CNN, Washington Post, The Hill in further favoring of pro-Trump media. The move is part of Defense head Pete Hegseth’s “media rotation program”
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/pentagon-reveals-media-rotation-shifting-out-certain-news-outlets-to-make-room-for-others-11738429642853.html
Politico forced to smack down Trump’s ‘flat-out false’ conspiracy theory about them: “POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight,” said the statement. “POLITICO is a privately owned company. We have never received any government funding — no subsidies, no grants, no handouts. Not one dime, ever, in 18 years.”
https://www.rawstory.com/politico-trump/
Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/trump-politico-subscriptions-doge-elon-musk
# Medicare / Medicaid
Pro-Democrat outside group targets Republican lawmakers with ‘Hands off Medicaid’ blitz. Trump has repeatedly pledged not to cut Medicaid except for cases of fraud and abuse, but some House Republicans are mulling changes to the program
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-pro-democrat-outside-group-targets-republican-lawmakers-hands-off-medicaid-blitz
# Medical Marijuana / Hemp
New Medical Pain Study Finds Medical Cannabis Is ‘More Effective Than Prescription Medications’
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/medical-marijuana-is-more-effective-than-prescription-medications-for-treating-chronic-pain-study-finds/
# Medical News
Health groups sound alarm on missing CDC, FDA data. More than 1,000 pages of national, regional and state health data was removed from the CDC and FDA websites on Jan. 31 as part of a federal government data purge.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/02/08/cdc-fda-data/7471739052046/
Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/usaid-clinical-trials-funding-trump.html
Blue Cross Blue Shield will begin sending $2.6B worth of checks to subscribers. Who is eligible? Settlement notices will be sent on a ‘rolling basis,’ the company claims
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/blue-cross-blue-shield-lawsuit-claims-payment-b2694331.html
CDC Abruptly Yanks Report Linking Cats to Bird Flu Spread. The missing data detailed several cases of H5N1 that may have circulated between cats and people. The CDC webpage now features a statement up top: “CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.”
https://gizmodo.com/cdc-pulls-back-report-linking-cats-to-bird-flu-spread-2000560876
Major cancer research group calls on Trump administration to restore data access
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cancer-research-group-calls-trump-administration-restore-data/story?id=118571837
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) meetings and travel. In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring
Scientists, researchers work to archive federal health data purged by Trump administration
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5133812-federal-public-health-data-preservation/
Veterans Affairs carves out potentially hundreds of thousands of staffers from ‘buyout’ offer. The exemption list includes more than 140 occupations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/veterans-affairs-buyout-deferred-resignation-exemption-00203216
The Hidden Cost Behind Your “$0 Copay” Drug Assistance Program. Copay assistance programs are supposed to reduce drug costs and cover patients’ deductibles — so why are so many people getting stuck with a bill?
https://www.levernews.com/the-hidden-cost-behind-your-0-copay-drug-assistance-program/
# Military / General News
Around 200-300 enemy fighters were reported killed after American coalition forces clashed with private Russian military contractors near Khasham
https://www.newsbreak.com/war-history-online-1745274/3795987088558-around-200-300-enemy-fighters-were-reported-killed-after-american-coalition-forces-clashed-with-private-russian-military-contractors-near-khasham
They helped US order airstrikes against Taliban. Now Trump’s moves have left those Afghans in limbo
https://apnews.com/article/refugees-trump-immigration-executive-orders-resettlement-afghans-2a673e3a01ff6fa5006ef47f50dba158
# Pharmaceuticals
China makes some of Americans’ most common medicines. They won’t be spared from Trump’s tariffs
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5133762-us-china-pharmaceutical-drugs-prescriptions-trump-tariffs/
‘Public health crisis’ warning sparked for 15.8m Americans after CVS and Walgreens gut 1,000s of locations, expert says. The U.S. Sun spoke to a leading health expert who warned the closure of pharmacies is having devastating impacts on communities
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13469052/walgreens-cvs-pharmacy-closure-drug-access/
30 Prescription Hacks Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know
https://www.newsbreak.com/greg-wilson-cfa-1601099/3774019214411-30-prescription-hacks-big-pharma-doesn-t-want-you-to-know
US Department of Health cutting prices on over 50 medications
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/health/us-department-of-health-cutting-prices-on-over-50-medications/vi-AA1yxIu2?ocid=winp1taskbar
Clearing up confusion on drug price rules and revisions
https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01/clearing-up-confusion-on-drug-price-rules-and-revisions/
Medicare Announces First 10 Negotiated Drug Prices
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hhs-announces-15-additional-drugs-selected-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-continued-effort-lower
# Science / Science Engineers
Trump Administration Orders ‘Catastrophic’ Funding Cuts For Science Research
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5468112/
# Social Media / Internet
How a French lawmaker’s report led to a cybercrime investigation of X: The office said its J3 cybercrime unit is currently looking into the report, filed on Jan. 12, by French lawmaker Eric Bothorel, who is a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party in Parliament. Neither Musk nor his company has responded to the probe.
https://san.com/cc/how-a-french-lawmakers-report-led-to-a-cybercrime-investigation-of-x/
# Space
“Someone is lying” – User questions why space is dark despite the sun, internet roasts: “Bro, you need to stay in school”
https://www.newsbreak.com/soap-central-302262230/3795803187188-someone-is-lying-user-questions-why-space-is-dark-despite-the-sun-internet-roasts-bro-you-need-to-stay-in-school
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Page after page is disappearing from government and military websites. Here’s what Trump’s already purged.
https://www.businessinsider.com/whats-purged-from-government-military-sites-after-trump-order-2025-2
UK Secret Order Demands Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/07/uk-demands-apple-cloud-data/78340329007/
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