Voices, The Peoples News
March 26, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Foreign governments warn travelers as US detains and deports tourists under strict immigration policies. Foreign nationals, including tourists and activists, face detentions and deportations under Trump’s immigration policies, prompting Canada and European countries to warn citizens about travel to the U.S. Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Canada have revised their guidelines at a time when some travelers from these countries have been detained by immigration officials. Here is what to know about the advisories.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336792/european-countries-canada-travel-warnings-us
Why is a UW lab tech, permanent U.S. resident in ICE custody?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uw-lab-technician-detained-ice-045639747.html
After living in the US for 35 years and raising 3 citizens, these parents got deported to Colombia. Their kids want them back. “We didn’t expect that they would be apprehended and held in custody. And again, it’s not really unique to them anymore. It’s happening across the country,”
https://www.aol.com/living-us-35-years-raising-013913100.html
Activists and families stand up to Trump’s lies about immigrants: ‘We pay taxes, we all work and pay rent’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/pastor-church-sanctuary-immigrants
# Business / Industry / Corporations
A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections. If the groups are successful, the ruling on a little-known regulation could further constrain federal agencies’ power and give corporations free rein to pollute the environment and swindle the average consumer.
https://www.levernews.com/a-dark-money-deluge-to-kill-consumer-protections/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson says it’s clear to Wall Street that President Trump ‘doesn’t care’ about the stock market
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-mike-wilson-says-112010432.html
Senator Joni Ernst wants IRS workers, contractors to pay back up to $46M in taxes they owe
https://www.aol.com/senator-joni-ernst-wants-irs-120000860.html
# Education / Schools
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation. Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump plan would close dozens of mine safety offices, leaving coal towns exposed. Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE’s cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.
https://grist.org/accountability/trump-administration-moves-to-shutter-mine-safety-offices-in-coal-country/
Trump wants to ramp up US mineral production. Could the iconic Grand Canyon be a target? Environmental groups and Tribes are concerned that this shift could come with major consequences for ecosystems and communities, including one of the country’s most iconic features: Arizona’s 277-mile-long Grand Canyon.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-ramp-us-mineral-155555774.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Experts issue warning about imminent threat to public health following rule rollbacks: ‘This is a disaster for everyone.’ These changes are happening despite widespread support for stronger protections. Experts are sounding the alarm after a controversial move by the Trump administration to gut key protections at the Environmental Protection Agency — a shift they say could leave the U.S. with more pollution, fewer public safeguards, and greater health risks.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/epa-rollback-trump-administration-policy-disaster/
# Food General News
Formula, Fries and Froot Loops: Washington Bends to Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ Agenda. Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-robert-kennedy-vaccines-measles-steak-shake-9c970a1f6bdfd6ac4b4160480e996ac0
# General News
Spy agencies warn Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are teaming up against US like never before
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/americas-strategic-nightmare-how-china-russia-iran-north-korea-are-closing-ranks-posing-a-significant-security-risk/articleshow/119540387.cms?from=mdr
‘Witch hunt’: Attorneys alarmed as Trump administration now seeks protesters’ info
https://www.rawstory.com/campus-antisemitism/
# Gov / Politics
Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it. What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/trump-us-constitution
‘Dangerous and wholly unwarranted’: Trump admin invokes privilege in denying judge info on deportation flights, calling inquiry ‘dubious’ and ‘trivial’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dangerous-and-wholly-unwarranted-trump-admin-invokes-privilege-in-denying-judge-info-on-deportation-flights-calling-inquiry-dubious-and-trivial/
‘Chilling and unprecedented’: Trump memo threatens law firms that cross his administration
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-law-firms-directive
Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/
Leaked texts show Trump administration’s dislike of Europe, bashing it as ‘pathetic’ and ‘freeloading’
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/03/25/leaked-texts-the-atlantic-trump-administrations-military-europe-bashing/
Trump’s claiming the right to deport literally anyone, judge says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/could-throw-plane-trumps-claiming-140005112.html
Trump Floats Idea Judges Who Go Against Him Are Guilty of ‘Sedition and Treason’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/24/president-trump-judges-sedition-treason/82633394007/
‘What Have We Come to as a Country?’ Former White House Ethics Lawyer Excoriates Trump Over Deportations Without Due Process
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5212462-trump-deportations-court-orders/
Trump signs executive order that will upend US voter registration processes. This directive represents a significant overreach of executive power and poses a direct threat to the fundamental right to vote.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-responds-to-trumps-anti-voter-executive-order
Trump administration is working to rename District of Columbia to the ‘District of America.’ ‘Next up, you know it may end up being the ‘District of America’ that we’re working on’, Boebert scolded at opposition lawmakers
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-district-of-america-b2721705.html
Now Trump Is Talking About Handing Cash to Jan. 6 Rioters. “A lot of the people that are in the government now talk about it,” the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/trump-floats-possibility-of-compensation-for-jan-6-rioters-00250063
President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to tighten rules for U.S. elections and threatened funding cuts to states that do not comply. The order will be challenged in court by voting rights groups.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration
# Gov / Politics / Global
Russia agrees to stop attacks on Ukraine in Black Sea if sanctions are lifted, report says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-black-sea-cease-fire.html
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Tragedy rocks Harris County Texas sheriff’s office after four deputies die by suicide in six weeks: ‘It caught a lot of us by surprise.’ The death of Deputy Christina Kohler was announced by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office last week
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/harris-county-sheriff-texas-suicide-b2721535.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Mike Johnson Has Terrifying Threat for Courts That Rule Against Trump. The House speaker has a plan to make sure Donald Trump always wins.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193164/mike-johnson-donald-trump-threat-courts-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_ticker_rss
How a North Carolina judge is using the GOP playbook to steal an election
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/judge-trump-stop-the-steal-playbook-north-carolina-update.html
House Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘We do have authority over the federal courts’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/25/mike-johnson-federal-courts-trump/82655089007/
Mike Johnson Suggests ‘Eliminating’ Entire District Courts to Help Trump. House speaker says Congress has ‘authority over federal courts’ as Republicans grow frustrated by judicial blocks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/mike-johnson-congress-courts-trump
# Media
Rachel Maddow Says Trump’s Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Has Gone From Insane to ‘Surreal.’ The MSNBC anchor calls the president’s comments about the proclamation “super weird”
https://www.thewrap.com/rachel-maddow-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportation-msnbc-video/
The Trump administration’s abrupt federal grant cuts have made their way to ‘Sesame Street’—and they risk ‘pulling the rug out from under children’
https://fortune.com/2025/03/24/the-trump-administrations-abrupt-federal-grant-cuts-have-made-their-way-to-sesame-street-and-they-risk-pulling-the-rug-out-from-under-children/
The US Postal Service has been struggling for years. Now Trump’s talking about privatizing it
https://apnews.com/article/us-postal-service-privatization-trump-musk-dejoy-692d56e701f3853af4ce914832a33124
# Medicare / Medicaid
The Republican plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The ACA is under attack again, and proposed Medicaid cuts are the next step. This time, there are no repeal and replace efforts in Congress
https://thehill.com/opinion/5209757-gop-medicaid-cuts-aca/
‘I don’t personally think they’re disabled’: House Republican and doctor questions his patients’ Medicaid eligibility. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), a physician, said he believes some of the Medicaid patients he sees do not qualify for the program.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/i-dont-personally-think-theyre-disabled-house-republican-and-doctor-questions-his-patients-medicaid-eligibility/
DOGE’s Changes To Medicare And Social Security Will Hurt The Elderly And Those Who Care For Them. Musk hasn’t been shy about his plans to slash Social Security, and DOGE is already making changes that put millions at risk.
https://www.commoncause.org/articles/musks-doge-is-coming-for-social-security/
# Medical / Health News
Invisible Illness: Unmasking the health condition women are told is ‘all in their heads.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QtXGh-FVGY
Nurse advocates for better support and treatments for POTS illness. Post-COVID, cases of the debilitating syndrome have surged five-fold—here’s what experts and patients want you to know.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/invisible-illness-unmasking-the-health-condition-women-are-told-is-all-in-their-heads-pots-syndrome/289-24585d2f-856d-4efd-8e64-6c9f42614ec6
Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack and 17 percent likely to die in a car crash.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/17/18308466/invisible-women-pain-gender-data-gap-caroline-criado-perez
# Military / DOD / General News
‘Unlawful destruction of federal records’: Hegseth, Rubio and others broke multiple laws by using ‘disappearing’ messaging app to discuss military strikes, watchdog says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unlawful-destruction-of-federal-records-hegseth-rubio-and-others-broke-multiple-laws-by-using-disappearing-messaging-app-to-discuss-military-strikes-watchdog-says/
# NASA / Space
Scientists Intrigued by “Star Grinder” Pulverizing Entire Star Systems in Our Galaxy
https://futurism.com/the-byte/star-grinder
# NOAA / Weather
DOGE cuts deflate NOAA’s balloon network, putting accurate weather forecasts in jeopardy. Weather balloon operations will stop or be reduced at 11 locations across the country due to staffing shortages caused by recent NOAA layoffs.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-cuts-deflate-noaas-balloon-network-putting-accurate-weather-forecasts-in-jeopardy-2000580887
# Science / Science Engineers
European universities court American scientists amid research crackdowns. American scientists are weighing moves to Europe as universities abroad offer refuge from Trump administration policies that have restricted research funding and academic freedom.
https://www.ehn.org/european-universities-court-american-scientists-amid-research-crackdowns-2671425477.html
# Social / Social Programs
The future of Social Security | How it could affect those already getting a paycheck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lPASlUgybg
Fact Check: What we know about claim DOGE stopped payments to children whose parents died. DOGE/Elon claim they found hundreds of millions in SS loans going to kids — but it’s an annuity to kids whose parents passed away.
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0zwNqfJe?s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDI5ODg0MzgzNTc=&pd=0H1Na41Y&hl=en_US
DOGE Targets SSA for Cuts, Despite Leanness of Agency
https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2025/03/13/trump-administration-and-elon-musks-doge-closing-social-security-offices-harming-access-to-services
‘Creating a fire’: Insiders suspect Musk of deliberate sabotage to fuel long-term plan
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671413376/
Bush’s Head of Social Security Trashes Musk’s Fraud Claims
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bush-head-social-security-trashes-223453929.html
Social Security administration looking to slash another 5 million recipients – see the full criteria it’s checking
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13868240/social-security-administration-checking-bad-criteria/
As the Social Security Administration prepared to cut phone services for beneficiaries, the acting administrator admitted: “The reason that we’re on this timeline is because we received a request from the White House.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/is-trump-cutting-social-security
Social Security change coming this week: Agency begins taking back 100% of overpayments. What’s the change coming this week? For any Social Security overpayments that occur after March 27, 2025, Social Security will resume withholding 100% of benefits to recover overpayments starting at the end of March.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2025/03/21/massive-social-security-changes-begin-in-march–what-you-need-to-know/
Elon Musk wants to make CUTS to Social Security! And he’s pushing a false and outrageous conspiracy theory to justify it. Why are they telling so many lies about this program?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-musk-doge-disinformation-campaign-social-security/
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security
https://newrepublic.com/post/193134/social-security-falling-apart-elon-musk-doge-cuts
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit? Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193127/trump-rural-broadband-rules-musk
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