Voices, The Peoples News
March 17, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
Ecuador ordered to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil drilling. An international human rights court has ruled that Ecuador must halt oil operations on lands inhabited by uncontacted Indigenous peoples, reinforcing a national referendum that called for keeping oil in the ground.
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs The first border wall contract of President Donald Trump’s second term, valued at approximately $70 million, was announced Saturday.
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Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants even as judge orders that removals be stopped
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# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Meta’s Assault on DEI Plays Right Into the Project 2025 Handbook. Mark Zuckerberg’s decision may have potentially devastating consequences for the safety of marginalized communities.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Will Dems Draw a Line? Budget Capitulation Raises Questions Over Fights to Come. It’s not hard to imagine Democrats who didn’t hold the line for Medicaid won’t hold it for trans health care, either.
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Trump Issues Ethics Waiver For His AI/Crypto Czar. The waiver clears Sacks to work on regulatory issues directly related to his financial holdings.
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# Education / Schools
Texas schools have leaned on uncertified teachers to fill vacancies. Lawmakers want to put a stop to it.
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Texas school districts hopeful lawmakers will help plug $1.7 billion gap in special education funding. Proponents say the changes would better serve special education students with widely varying needs — and help schools pay for it.
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DEI on Campus: More colleges removing DEI programs and requirements
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# Employment / Labor / Unions
Lawmakers propose banning all federal labor unions. (The Center Square) – Labor unions representing federal workers are facing another challenge to collective bargaining rights – and even their very existence
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# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM Trump administration halts Columbia River Treaty talks, raising tensions with Canada: Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the Columbia Basin Project, irrigating more than 600,000 acres.
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Government agency considers shutting down key research command center: ‘It looks like our monitoring program will soon be dead.’ “It has already become very difficult to continue our global greenhouse gas-monitoring network.”
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# Food General News
FDA, CDC Criticized Over Transparency
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USDA slow to update food safety standards for meat and poultry, watchdog finds
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Chicken Industry Resists Food Safety Reforms. Why are chicken executives stonewalling consumers on food safety?
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# Food Recalls
365 Whole Foods Mac & Cheese Bites recalled after complaint reveals undeclared meat and egg
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Over 75,000 bottles of International Delight Coffee Creamer recalled because of spoilage and illness complaints
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# General News
If Protesting Tesla Is Domestic Terrorism, Then What Demonstration Against Musk Isn’t. In a bid to boost Elon Musk’s car company, Trump did a live White House ad and threatened Tesla protesters would “go through hell.”
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Antarctica scientists ‘fear for their lives’ as terrifying email emerges from remote base. In a chilling drama straight out of the movies, a team of scientists who are completely cut off from the rest of civilization are now living in fear in the most inhospitable environment on Earth.
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# Gov / Politics
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power. Article V of the Constitution requires Congress to call a convention to propose and pass amendments if two-thirds of states, or 34, request one. A decadeslong effort to advance a so-called balanced budget amendment, which would prohibit the government from running a deficit, has stalled at 28.
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“Trump’s aggressive posture toward Panama, and BlackRock’s takeover of key canal ports, signal continuity with a long tradition of U.S. empire in Latin America.”
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Senate Dems Look to Give Trump Everything He Wants After a “Fake Fight” on Spending Bill. If Senate Democrats oppose Trump’s budget, why are they considering providing Republicans with the needed votes to invoke cloture?
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Cloture: The Senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question.
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Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
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Minnesota Republicans to introduce bill defining ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ as mental illness, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). The bill, if enacted, would amend Minnesota Statutes 2024 to formally recognise TDS as a mental health disorder.
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Perkins Coie executive order ‘one of the most sinister’ Trump has entered. Speaking on MSNBC, Luttig said Trump had “declared war on the rule of law” even before he returned to the White House.
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Trump Goes Full Dictator With Announcement on Biden Pardons. Joe Biden preemptively pardoned several who had not committed crimes but had stood up to Donald Trump.
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Trump’s Rage at Canada Takes Dark Turn—and GOPers Openly Grow Unnerved. As Trump’s threats to annex Canada grow more serious, a shrewd observer of our politics explains how Democrats can seize on them to illustrate how degenerate Trump and MAGA have truly become.
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# Gov / Politics / Global
French Politician Demands U.S. Return the Statue of Liberty. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it,” Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his party. The statue, which was given to the U.S. on the 100th anniversary of its independence, has long been a defining feature of the New York City skyline and an emblem of the free world
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American Flags Being Removed From Stadiums Over Donald Trump’s Decision (Breaking). As the U.S.-Canada tariff war escalates, one Ontario mayor is removing American flags from sports arenas and harbor sites.
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# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
The Legal Argument That Could Set Mahmoud Khalil Free. Lawyers trying to free the Columbia University activist point to a legal exception undermining the Trump administration’s argument.
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# Media
Donald Trump, In DOJ Speech, Calls CNN And MSNBC “Illegal” For Reporting Negatively On Him
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# Medical / Health News
Trump Kicks Off Constitutional Crisis With Doctor’s Deportation. Ivy League doctor and legal visa holder Rasha Alawieh was deported—despite a court order.
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# Military / DOD / General News
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has removed a webpage honoring Charles Calvin Rogers, a Black U.S. Army general and Medal of Honor recipient, leading to backlash and concerns about the erasure of Black military history.
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The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to deter the rebels from attacking military and commercial vessels on one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
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# NOAA / Weather
Forecast for weaker weather service: Americans will die, businesses will lose billions. The critical infrastructure provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service cannot and will never be duplicated by the private sector
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U.S. Rocked by Deadly Tornadoes After Trump Gutted Key Agency. Donald Trump has kneecapped the country’s ability to forecast extreme weather.
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# Social / Social Programs
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is… “At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one’s shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
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As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In. Three private equity veterans are weaseling their way in, reportedly on the orders of the presumptive Social Security Administration commissioner.
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As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs. “Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stealing seniors’ hard-earned benefits. It’s already happening, and it’ll get worse if they go through with closing branch offices and cutting staff.”
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# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity Software giant Oracle is said to be in talks with the White House to run the U.S. operations of Chinese-based TikTok, as President Trump seeks U.S. ownership of the platform.
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