Voices, The Peoples News
March 18, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Military slices out web pages about WWII Native American code talkers to comply with Trump order to eradicate DEI. Military has long credited Indigenous code units for serving key roles in WWI and WWII
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/military-trump-dei-code-talkers-b2716915.html
# Archaeology
Archaeologists confirmed that the fossil of a partial face found in Spain is the oldest human fossil in western Europe, dating between 1.1 to 1.4 million years old. The fossilised remains make up the left cheek and upper jaw of an adult member of an extinct human species who lived and died on the Iberian peninsula between 1.1m and 1.4m years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/bone-fragments-of-oldest-known-human-face-in-western-europe-found-in-spain#:~:text=Bone%20fragments%20unearthed%20at%20an,and%201.4m%20years%20ago
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump border czar openly brags about defying courts on deportations, says he’ll ignore judges as much as he wants.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/tom-homan-deportation-flights-trump-court-order
Trump Border Czar Tells Fox & Friends He ‘Doesn’t Care’ if Judges Rule His Actions Are Illegal. “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming,” Homan told “Fox & Friends” host Lawrence B. Jones on Monday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-does-not-care-what-the-judges-think_n_67d84601e4b0dade360cdf26
‘Closing Time’ Singer Slams Trump for Border Patrol Video. ‘Closing Time’: Semisonic Respond to Their Song Being Used as Anti-Immigrant Propaganda. “They have missed the point entirely,” alt-rock act says, noting that the Trump administration used the song without permission
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/closing-time-semisonic-trump-not-authorized-1235297935/
Navy destroyer deploys to southern border mission to deter illegal crossings, drug trafficking. The USS Gravely deployed to the Gulf of America on a mission usually reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard to help deter illegal crossings and drug trafficking as part the military’s efforts to bolster security along the southern border.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4122731/dod-deploys-destroyer-to-join-border-security-mission/
German national arrested at Boston airport and his family has no clue why he is being held by ICE. The family of a German national who has been in the U.S. on a green card for 17 years and was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport has no idea why he is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/fabian-schmidt-ice-deportation-immigration-arrest-b2716817.html
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Mall Staple Forever 21 will close all U.S. stores. The fashion company couldn’t keep up with online shopping.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/forever-21-closing-stores-bankruptcy-2025
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Civil War Nurses, USS Constitution Commander Among Female Veterans Removed in Pentagon DEI Sweep
https://www.military.com/history/civil-war-nurses-uss-constitution-commander-among-female-veterans-removed-pentagon-dei-sweep.html
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
‘DOGE has broken into our building’: Nonprofit sounds alarm as Musk’s team forces way in
https://www.newsweek.com/us-nonprofit-says-doge-has-broken-our-building-2046198
‘That’s a break-in’: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sounds alarm as DOGE resorts to guns in dispute. The cost-cutting agency is slowing morphing into an Army.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doge-2671345017/
25-year-old DOGE staffer violated policy by emailing unencrypted personal data to Trump administration officials
https://www.theverge.com/news/630894/doge-treasury-lawsuit-marko-elez-unencrypted-emails
# Education / Schools
Pro-Palestine Campus Organizers: Demilitarization & Democratization Go Together. Campus-based Palestine solidarity organizing is global. It’s not backing down.
https://truthout.org/articles/pro-palestine-campus-organizers-demilitarization-democratization-go-together/
Las Vegas university targeted in probe into DEI policies. University of Nevada, Las Vegas is among the 45 universities being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for race-based programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/nevada/article_99b1c536-0382-11f0-b605-6b2c6adf3e23.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump announces plan to reopen ‘hundreds of coal fire plants’ despite climate disaster warnings
https://www.sxcoal.com/en/news/detail/1901807105351442434
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
White House celebrates the dismantling of multimillion-dollar BLM Plaza: ‘Eyesore of a virtue signal’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/us-news/white-house-celebrates-the-dismantling-of-multimillion-dollar-blm-plaza-eyesore-of-a-virtue-signal/
‘I don’t want us to get there’: Representative Pat Curry files House bill to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. HB 4938, if passed, would abolish the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission and transfer its functions to the Texas General Land Office, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Public Safety.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/03/16/texas-house-representative-files-bill-to-abolish-texas-parks-and-wildlife-department/
Trump administration moves to dismantle EPA’s science office
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/trump-administration-plans-to-fire-more-than-1000-epa-scientists
# General News
Satanic group to hold Black Mass outside Kansas statehouse March 28th.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/religion/satanic-group-black-mass-kansas-statehouse/
Trump to release JFK files on Tuesday
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5199289-trump-releases-80k-pages-jf-kennedy/
The 199 Things You Can’t Say in the Trump Administration. It’s no surprise that the president deleted “climate change” from government websites. But why forbid “advocate” and “institutional”?
https://newrepublic.com/article/192631/trump-speech-code-deleted-words
These are the words disappearing in the new Trump administration
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1j70dmo/these_words_are_disappearing_in_the_new_trump/?rdt=51910
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-halted-agent-orange-cleanup-dioxin-vietnam-poison-risk
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption. Leading figures urge Pam Bondi to examine ‘Mr Musk’s activities at the FAA’ amid conflict-of-interest concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation
# Gov / Politics
Trump Rages Against ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ Reporter Who Doesn’t Know He ‘Won The Presidency THREE Times’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ashley-parker-won-presidency-three-times_n_67d94b84e4b0682946107121
Trump’s press secretary says he never violated court orders with his deportations—because only certain judges’ orders count. The Trump administration continues to move the goalposts as backlash mounts against its recent deportation actions.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192834/trump-press-secretary-leavitt-redefines-judge-order-deportation
Trump’s Plan to Control Elections Is Coming Into Focus. The moves threaten to undermine the single most important plank in our democratic system: free and fair elections.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-control-elections-plan/
Tom Emmer Taunts ‘Completely Lost’ House Democrats — ‘We Don’t Need Their Votes.’ Democrats are divided with bitter infighting among the party’s leadership ranks spilling out into the open.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/17/exclusive-tom-emmer-taunts-completely-lost-house-democrats-we-dont-need-their-votes/
‘A lot of headaches for Trump’: Ex-GOP lawmaker says Republicans are fed up with Elon Musk
https://www.rawstory.com/curbelo-musk-trump-headaches/
Trump’s plan to take control of the Panama Canal meets resistance. Investors are spooked
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-plan-control-panama-canal-105409127.html
How Trump’s ‘America First’ MAGA movement turned the Republican Party into an ‘arm of the Kremlin’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-russia-maga-republicans-b2716558.html
Trump Goes on Crazed Rant Over Journalists Saying He’s Not a King. Donald Trump also insisted he had won the presidential election “THREE” times.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192852/donald-trump-rant-journalists-not-king
Trump’s further descent into dictatorship. This morning, he issued a bellicose post against a federal judge who’s trying to constrain him. It’s part of an increasing attempt by Trump and Musk to threaten judges with violence.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-further-descent-into-dictatorship
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin decree authorises US hedge fund to buy foreign-owned Russian securities
https://san.com/media-miss/putin-decree-authorizes-us-hedge-fund-to-buy-foreign-owned-russian-securities/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
South Carolina attorney general says 14th Amendment ‘misinterpreted.’ Trump signed executive order to end birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment says ‘all persons born in US’ are citizens
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/south-carolina-attorney-general-14th-amendment-misinterpreted/
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868). Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
Judge who ordered deportation flights of Venezuelan gang members be returned faces calls for impeachment
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-ordered-deportation-flights-venezuelan-180845957.html
GOP Rep. Gill files articles of impeachment against judge in deportations case. The allegations include abuse of power, and assert that he “did knowingly and willfully use his judicial position to advance political gain while interfering with the President’s constitutional prerogatives and enforcement of the rule of law.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5198905-gill-impeach-judge-deportations/
# Medicare / Medicaid
The Republican Medicaid cuts will hurt everyone, not just those in need. When hospitals lose funding, costs go up for everyone, so even if you are not on Medicaid, this will hurt you. Hospital and insurance rates will soar. And it gets worse.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-republican-medicaid-cuts-hurt-130000696.html
Sen. Patty Murray says it’s time to ‘sound the alarm’ over proposed cuts to Medicaid. “Cuts to Medicaid at the scale Republicans are directing will mean hospitals and clinics—especially in our rural areas—will close their doors. Moms and babies will lose health coverage. Seniors will be cut from home care services and forced out of long-term care facilities.
https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-rep-randall-sen-riccelli-wa-health-care-providers-sound-alarm-over-looming-republican-cuts-to-medicaid-that-would-kick-washingtonians-off-their-health-care-blow-a-hole-in-state-bu/
# 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.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192816/trump-constitutional-crisis-doctor-deportation-alawieh
National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/
# Military / DOD / General News
Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637
Hegseth declares ‘peace through strength is back’ while vowing ‘unrelenting’ campaign against Houthi targets
https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/hegseth-declares-peace-through-strength-is-back-while-vowing-unrelenting-campaign-against-houthi-targets/
# NOAA / Weather
As Trump attacks US science agencies, ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred ushers in a fresh wave of climate denial in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/ex-tropical-cyclone-alfred-climate-denial-australia-trump-attacks-us-science-agencies
# Nuclear
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts. Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-nuclear-2671340330/
Elon Musk’s DOGE Guts U.S. Nuclear Agency. DOGE cuts have hit some of the country’s top nuclear scientists. Donald Trump has made America’s nuclear industry less safe and more expensive.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-guts-the-people-who-build-and-oversee-u-s-nuclear-weapons-2000576822
# Social Media / Internet
Trump administration poised to ‘strand rural America with worse internet’ to help Musk, official warns
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-plan-to-fund-musks-starlink-over-fiber-called-betrayal-of-rural-us/
Commerce Department Director Leaves Job With a Scathing Musk Warning. A top director at the Commerce Department in charge of expanding internet access to rural areas claimed in a scathing email to colleagues that rural broadband funding may soon be funneled to Elon Musk’s Starlink, despite its comparatively lower quality service.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/commerce-department-director-leaves-job-215527390.html
# Social / Social Programs
Trump’s Economic Agenda Could Push the Housing Crisis Over the Edge. Organizers say desperate tenants are being pushed to the brink of revolt as Trump slashes assistance.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-economic-agenda-could-push-the-housing-crisis-over-the-edge/
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 SSA commissioner.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-doge-mauls-social-security-profit-hungry-private-equity-is-swooping-in/
Memo Reveals Plans to Sabotage Social Security. The Trump administration plans to upend and cripple the Social Security claims process, according to a memo obtained by Popular Information.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-memo-reveals-plan-throw-213051817.html
What to know about claims the FBI is trying to ‘criminalize’ Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity was among organizations whose Citibank accounts the FBI froze while investigating the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/17/habitat-for-humanity-fbi/
‘Drunk operating a wrecking ball’: Insiders warn cuts already dismantling Social Security. Musk appears to be using the same playbook on the Social Security Administration that he used when he acquired Twitter, engage in mass firings and then try to rebuild the system from the ground up. “It’s extremely destructive,” he warned.
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671340603/
# Transportation / Travel / Advisories
Blue State Democrats Take Another Crack At Putting Gov’t In Driver Seat Of Americans’ Cars. Democratic Illinois State Rep. Ram Villivalam introduced a piece of legislation this month, called the Road Usage Charge Act.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/17/illinois-drivers-unpopular-mileage-road-tax/
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