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February 11, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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Plucky Willie Nelson, 91, ‘Sparks Doctors’ Fears His Relentless Touring Is
Going to Land Him in the Grave.’ The Red Headed Stranger singer has
announced a string of new concerts in April in Mississippi, Georgia,
Alabama and Texas – to follow his already slated gigs in Florida
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Mexican troops now inspecting vehicles before they enter U.S
https://www.newsbreak.com/kens-5-eyewitness-news-524530/3799700704996-mexican-troops-now-inspecting-vehicles-before-they-enter-u-s
ICE plans LA enforcement amid protests; city says 10% of residents undocumented
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_104017f8-e7f3-11ef-9bc6-fb0d77ef7612.html?a&seyid=50553
Memo warns border agents of escalating threats from Mexican cartels. Internal memos are reportedly warning U.S. Border Patrol agents that Mexican drug cartels have authorized the use of kamikaze drones and explosives to target agents. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection memos caution agents to remain vigilant and equipped for potential threats.
https://san.com/cc/internal-cbp-memo-warns-agents-of-new-threats-from-mexican-cartels-reports/
Homeland Security raids Liberty Mexican restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmAt9Q5dcXU
Elon Musk says FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants: ‘Violated the law.’ The payments were suspended by acting FEMA Director Cameron Hamilton after Musk’s announcement
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musks-says-fema-spent-60m-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-luxury-hotels-last-week
# Children / Youth
‘Children are suffering’: Human traffickers reportedly benefiting from Trump’s cuts
https://democracyforward.org/work/uncovering-details-on-abrupt-cancellation-of-grants-to-help-human-trafficking-victims/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Attorney General Tong Sues President Trump and Secretary of Treasury to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Records, Sensitive Data and Critical Payment Systems. ‘The largest data breach in American history’: Attorney General Tong sues Musk, Trump over DOGE data overreach.
https://portal.ct.gov/ag/press-releases/2025-press-releases/ag-tong-sues-to-block-doge-access-to-confidential-records
“Asking for feedback”- Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban questions the credibility of D.O.G.E
https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/news-asking-feedback-shark-tank-s-mark-cuban-questions-credibility-d-o-g-e
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Trump Admin Takes Aim at Consumer Protection Agency. “Effective immediately, unless expressly approved by the Acting Director or required by law, all employees, contractors and other personnel of the bureau shall … cease all supervision and examination activity,” the email read
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292123/the-trump-administration-has-stopped-work-at-the-cfpb-heres-what-the-agency-does
A Battle Over Access to the Treasury Payment System. The Trump administration is pushing back vigorously against a court order Saturday blocking members of Elon Musk’s DOGE Services team from accessing the Treasury Department’s payments and data systems.
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/10/trump-administration-pans-judges-order-limiting-treasury-system-access/
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE access to critical Treasury payment system. The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments and federal employees’ salaries.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html
‘Grandma’s going to stop getting checks’: CNN panel predicts backlash is coming for Musk
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-doge-2671132218/
Democrats rally against Musk: ‘Hands off our Social Security’: “They have accessed highly sensitive personal information on Americans at the Department of Treasury, including Social Security numbers, bank accounts and other very sensitive information,” he also said, accusing Musk of “conducting illegal raids on federal agencies with his DOGE crew.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5136974-democrats-rally-against-musk-hands-off-our-social-security/
Maryland lawmakers rally at Social Security Administration over Musk claims
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-lawmakers-doge-social-security-medicare-medicaid/
China’s retaliatory tariffs take effect, how will they impact your wallet?
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292017/china-tariffs-us-retaliation-trump
Will Trump’s tariffs amount to average tax increase of over $800 per US household in 2025? Check details
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-steel-aluminum-25-percent-amount-to-average-tax-increase-of-over-800-per-us-household-in-2025-check-details/articleshow/118143217.cms?from=mdr
Trump’s move to kill federal consumer watchdog will protect Big Business but cost consumers billions
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-all-supervision-companies-2025-02-09/
Trump’s Executive Orders Mean Real Damage to U.S. Economy, Communities, and Clean Energy Gains. Nobody voted for any of this—and it’s not what most of the country wants.
https://www.nrdc.org/media/trumps-executive-orders-mean-real-damage-us-economy-communities-and-clean-energy-gains
Donald Trump has found a new way to threaten the economy: The secret to Trump’s financial success and also his many financial failures, is Trump’s propensity not to make deals, but to break them. Sunday, Trump hinted that the United States might renege on some of the $36.22 trillion that it owes on the national debt
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-found-way-threaten-110000980.html
# Education / Schools
Bipartisan bill aims to fund free school lunches for all public and private students
https://www.newsbreak.com/kfyr-1982231/3801274206858-bipartisan-bill-aims-to-fund-free-school-lunches-for-all-public-and-private-students
Democratic lawmaker says kids will be in teacherless classrooms, won’t have lunch if DOGE, Trump get their way
https://www.newsquantified.com/stock-report-iframe/tesla-inc-democratic-lawmaker-says-kids-will-0di0o6?afmc=28
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292444/trump-musk-education-department-schools-students-research-cuts
# General News
As Musk cuts federal spending, his own firms have received billions in contracts. Elon Musk has been leading an unprecedented effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last several years, received an increasing amount of funding through government contracts, according to federal spending data.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/musk-works-slash-federal-spending-firms-received-billions/story?id=118589121#:~:text=Over%20the%20last%20decade%2C%20Musk’s,worth%20of%20contracts%20since%202015.
Elon Musk’s influence over the federal government is extraordinary, and extraordinarily lucrative.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/elon-musk-federal-agencies-contracts.html
Lawmakers push legislation to abolish USAID entirely
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f797f506-e7e1-11ef-8a4b-cfa2d94a2ba4.html
Nazi flag-waving white supremacists confronted by cops & members of historically black community. CNN reports there were about a dozen individuals dressed in all black with red face masks as they pinned swastika banners on the overpass for all driving by to see, as well as a flag that read ‘America for the White Man.’
https://www.newsbreak.com/cassius-525209/3800816697270-nazi-flag-waving-white-supremacists-confronted-by-cops-members-of-historically-black-community
# Gov / Politics
The Trump Administration Just Handed Foreign Agents a Big Gift. The administration is basically telling foreign agents to go nuts.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-news-doj-foreign-agents-russia-china-iran.html
US officials bound for Europe for top-level talks on Ukraine. President Trump’s national security adviser said that top administration officials will meet with European officials this week on how to end the war in Ukraine
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/02/10/us-officials-bound-for-europe-for-top-level-talks-on-ukraine/
‘All kinds of dumb outcomes’: Trump slammed for firing workers over training he ordered
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-is-firing-ed-dept-workers-he-once-required-to-study-diversity/
‘Most Americans recognize it is wrong’: Lawyers and judges condemn Trump administration
https://www.rawstory.com/american-bar-association/
‘This Is Code Red!’ Elizabeth Warren Goes Off About Elon Musk ‘Trying to Gut’ Government Agency
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-is-code-red-elizabeth-warren-goes-off-about-elon-musk-trying-to-gut-government-agency/
Another Republican senator goes against Trump’s ‘poorly conceived’ NIH funding cuts
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/top-gop-appropriator-opposes-trumps-move-to-cut-nih-funding
Elon Musk Hollows Government So Trump Can Refill It. Looking back, it all makes sense. He wants the federal government hollowed out of nonpartisan employees so that he can refill it with political cronies and loyalists. Musk may be a happy hatchet man thinking he is reshaping the government. But for Trump he is a useful tool to help allow Trump to restaff it.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon-musk-hollows-government-so-trump-can-refill-it/
GOP Rep. Buddy Carter unveils bill empowering Trump to acquire Greenland — and rename it ‘Red, White, and Blueland’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/gop-rep-unveils-bill-empowering-trump-to-acquire-greenland-rename-it-red-white-and-blueland/
House Dem warns the guardrails to protect judicial rulings from Trump have to come from inside the GOP
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/house-dem-warns-the-guardrails-to-protect-judicial-rulings-from-trump-have-to-come-from-inside-the-gop/
Johnson: Courts should ‘allow the executive and the legislative branches to work’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5137001-johnson-courts-trump-administration-congress/
More Than 100 Groups Slam Trump Over Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza. “Palestine is not just an idea—it is a place. It is a homeland to the Palestinian people,” the coalition wrote.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-gaza
# Gov / Politics / Global
China expands influence near wealthy Florida enclave as migrants from communist country flood into US. China’s growing presence in America’s backyard could grant the communist country access to Florida’s coast, coinciding with a dramatic rise in Chinese national border encounters.
https://www.aol.com/china-expands-influence-near-wealthy-090037455.html
Canada will respond to ‘unacceptable’ US tariffs strongly and firmly if needed, Trudeau says
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/canada-justin-trudeau-tariffs/2025/02/11/id/1198612/
2023 Chinese spy balloon contained US tech: The balloon contained technology that allowed it to conduct surveys, take photographs, and to collect intelligence data, including a satellite communications module, sensors, and other technology from at least five different U.S.-based companies.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-balloon-newsweek/2025/02/10/id/1198554/
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
FBI discovers slew of over 2,000 previously undisclosed JFK assassination records: The existence of the new documents was disclosed when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-discovers-slew-over-2000-previously-undisclosed-jfk-assassination
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Judge set to rule on Justice Department’s demands that Musk resume access to Treasury records
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/judge-set-to-rule-on-justice-dept-s-demand-for-musk-s-access-to-treasury-125021100096_1.html
American Bar Association Rips Trump And Musk In Scathing Statement For Acting ‘Contrary to the Rule of Law’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/american-bar-association-rips-trump-and-musk-for-acting-contrary-to-the-rule-of-law/
A federal judge said that the Trump administration violated his order temporarily blocking a White House freeze on federal grants and loans.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-ordered-fully-comply-with-order-lifting-funding-freeze-2025-02-10/
Federal judge orders Trump administration to ‘immediately’ unfreeze funding after finding it disobeyed previous order
https://fortune.com/2025/02/11/federal-judge-trump-administration-unfreeze-funding-disobeyed-previous-order/
Federal prosecutors moved to drop their case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams Monday, which would clear him of all corruption charges as he seeks reelection in June
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/10/trumps-justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-eric-adams-00203483
Elon Musk is about to get ‘checked’ by the very courts he wants to ignore: legal expert
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2671128027/
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury records, prompting outrage by Tesla CEO
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/federal-judge-blocks-elon-musks-doge-from-accessing-treasury-records-after-democratic-ags-file-lawsuit
# Medical / Health News
Federal judge halts NIH payment cuts in 22 states. Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide. The agency wants to impose a 15% cap on NIH support for indirect costs
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/judge-orders-nationwide-halt-trump-nih-research-indirect-costs/
Health insurance for millions could vanish as states put Medicaid expansion on chopping block
https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/health-insurance-for-millions-could-vanish-as-states-put-medicaid-expansion-on-chopping-block-3
# Military / General News
Fort Bragg back on world’s largest military installation
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_ac8254c6-e86d-11ef-9e26-e7bb85e4670b.html
US, South Korea test combat coordination, just 16 miles from the border with North Korea, drawing North’s ire
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/north-korea-warns-of-retaliation-after-us-nuclear-submarine-docks-in-busan
‘What a ripoff!’: Trump sparks backlash after cutting billions in overhead costs from NIH research grants
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-is-code-red-elizabeth-warren-goes-off-about-elon-musk-trying-to-gut-government-agency/
# Military / General News / Global
North Korea issues warning after U.S. sub docks in South Korea. Pyongyang warns of ‘acute military confrontation’ after USS Alexandria submarine docks in South Korean port.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/11/north-korea-warns-of-retaliation-after-us-nuclear-submarine-docks-in-busan
# Science / Science Engineers
Elon Musk built his wealth from taxpayer-funded research — now he’s trying to destroy future science
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-built-wealth-taxpayer-110006010.html
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers
https://fortune.com/2025/02/08/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-death-police-investigation-san-francisco-family-questions/
Fact Check: Breaking down how much money Musk’s Starlink received from USAID: A senator from Vermont claimed Elon Musk’s Starlink received “millions” from the humanitarian aid agency.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/11/musk-usaid-starlink/
# Transportation / Travel
Elon Musk’s Cybertruck found to be more dangerous than infamous Ford Pinto: report
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/
# Water
‘Ridiculous blunder’: Trump wades into California’s water wars and strikes some of his strongest supporters. Billions of gallons of irrigation water wasted under Trump’s orders in what now appears to be a political stunt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/california-water-trump
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