Voices, The Peoples News
March 28, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants. Experts say tattoos are not central to Tren de Aragua. They also note that tattoos, hugely popular all over the world, are often nothing more than body art.
https://truthout.org/articles/report-trump-admin-deported-venezuelan-men-just-because-they-had-tattoos/
ICE Deported Someone to El Salvador Megaprison Over Paperwork Error. Trump claims everyone deported to El Salvador was a member of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The reports keep proving otherwise. He had a pending asylum case before he was disappeared to El Salvador without a day in court.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-deported-someone-el-salvador-203816995.html
Trump’s ICE Removals Take Darker Turn after Unnerving New Rubio Threat. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio makes a shocking claim about Trump’s efforts to deport foreign students, an expert in immigration law explains why these escalating removals should deeply unsettle us all.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193293/trump-ice-removals-take-darker-turn-unnerving-rubio-admission
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/trumps-secret-police-are-now-disappearing-students-for-their-op-eds/
Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal
Marco Rubio says he’s revoked at least 300 student visas from campus agitators: ‘Looking every day for these lunatics’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/us-news/marco-rubio-says-hes-revoked-least-300-student-visas-from-campus-agitators-looking-every-day-for-these-lunatics/
ICE agents accused of ‘kidnappings’ after snatching Tufts PhD student and farmworker organizer. Arrests of international student and labor organizer spark accusations of political repression and unconstitutional ICE tactics.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/27/ice-agents-accused-of-kidnappings-after-snatching-tufts-phd-student-and-farmworker-organizer/
US lost track of thousands of unaccompanied minors: The report revealed that from fiscal years 2019 to 2023 more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors were transferred to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ custody, with the majority then released to sponsors.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/feds-lost-track-tens-thousands-unaccompanied-alien-children-after-release
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE says it needs to know the government’s most sensitive data, but can’t say why
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339842/doge-data-access-privacy-act-social-security-treasury-opm-lawsuit
DOGE caucus leader demands IRS crackdown as nearly 6K staff owe up to $46M in back taxes. ‘In the era of DOGE, I hope the IRS can get its own house in order, before going after private citizens,’ says Sen Joni Ernst
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/doge-caucus-leader-demands-irs-crackdown-nearly-6000-staff-owe-up-46m-back-taxes
Several Federal Agencies That Were Investigating Elon Musk’s Companies Have Become The Early Targets Of The Trump Administration And Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, two commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission, have filed suit in federal court against Donald Trump’s attempt to fire them. The Trump administration has explicitly fired other Democratic members of bipartisan commissions throughout the government in a bid to centralize power in the president.
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-03-27-ftc-commissioners-file-suit-trumps-alleged-firing/
Republicans Vote to Let Banks Screw Over Working Americans. The Senate voted 52-48 to repeal a Biden-era rule capping bank and credit union overdraft fees at $5
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-vote-repeal-cap-bank-overdraft-fees-1235304880/
# Education / Schools
Marco Rubio Fails to Answer Simple Question on Tufts Student’s Arrest. After Tufts University international student Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested on the street by masked agents, people have a lot of questions. And Marco Rubio can’t answer the easiest one.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5217879-rubio-defends-turkish-student-arrest/
It’s Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be. It shows, clearly, the explicit and proud policy of the Trump administration. The video is haunting. You can see Ozturk’s panic set in, and the clear impunity the agents feel in taking her and vanishing her with no explanation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hard-believe-video-filmed-united-005044657.html
Federal immigration officials have abducted another international student.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193253/ice-iranian-international-student-alireza-doroudi-alabama
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump administration moves to end union rights for many federal workers
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5218975-trump-administration-moves-to-end-union-rights-for-many-federal-workers/
‘Fall in Line or Else’: Latest Trump Order Seen as Message to Workers. Executive order issued under cover of darkness, said one labor leader, is “a clear threat not just to federal employees and their unions, but to every American who values democracy and the freedoms of speech and association.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-collective-bargaining-federal-workers
# General News
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections. If Elon Musk is America’s CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch. There’s barely a place on Earth that doesn’t feel the gravitational pull of the broligarch whose grand gestures are erasing the line between private enterprise and political power.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mapped-elon-musks-entire-business-170000763.html
# Gov / Politics
The going national security debacle: We now have confirmation that Donald’s advisors did in fact share classified military details about the Yemen strikes, which we knew to be true despite days of denials from every level of the regime.
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-ongoing-national-security-debacle
Fox News star eviscerates Trump officials’ Signalgate excuses: ‘FAR MORE sensitive’ than ‘war plans.’ This kind of real time operational information is more sensitive than ‘war plans,’ which makes this lapse more egregious, according to two former senior US defense officials,’ Jennifer Griffin reported on Wednesday
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-signal-text-response-hegseth-b2722747.html
Republican accused of making $1M selling guns to federal prisons while sitting in Congress. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) is facing an investigation from the House Ethics Committee
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-republican-under-investigation-for-holding-weapons-contracts-while-in-congress/
Trump is abusing his power. Is this a ‘constitutional crisis’ or something more? The president is a public servant, not a king. His powers are limited by design. The three branches of government are co-equal
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-abusing-power-constitutional-crisis-100123011.html
The Trump-Musk Doctrine: Death Is Okay! From climate change to nuclear weapons to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass death isn’t really government’s business anymore.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193290/trump-musk-cancer-nuclear-bird-flu
House Speaker Mike Johnson floats threat to shut down courts giving Trump trouble. Republicans are considering what actions to take when judges declare Donald Trump’s actions illegal
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-mike-johnson-shut-down-court-trump-b2722358.html
It Was One of the Most Shameful Episodes in U.S. History. Federal Workers Are Watching Trump Try It Again Before Their Eyes. History is repeating itself in a terrifying new way.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-most-shameful-episodes-u-093500401.html
Trump Accidentally Reveals Just How Clueless He Is on Basic Intel. Looks like the war plans group chat isn’t the only intelligence being kept from Donald Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193235/donald-trump-intelligence-group-chat-lithuania?utm_source=Threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR
Trump’s Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is. For now, the winner of this dubious title, and serial betrayer of his old principles, is the guy in Foggy Bottom.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193064/trump-dangerous-enabler-marco-rubio
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin threatens US over Greenland ambition: ‘We will not allow encroachments.’ As the nautical gateway to the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America, Greenland has broader strategic value as both China and Russia seek access to its waterways and natural resources.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-arctic-trump-greenland-2dbd00625c2c0c3bd94a2c96c7015b69
Russia’s Putin eyes Arctic cooperation despite geopolitical tensions. Vladimir Putin says US President Donald Trump’s stated intention to acquire Greenland was ‘serious.’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/27/russias-putin-eyes-arctic-cooperation-despite-geopolitical-tensions
Ukraine’s spy agency says Russia believes it must end the war by 2026 or risk falling far behind the US and China
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-map-trump-putin-ceasefire-minerals-deal-b2723113.html
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Basic Reforms to New York’s Legal Code Are At Risk as Democrats Lurch Rightward. In 2019, New York made it easier for defendants to learn about information used against them. That could now be revoked.
https://truthout.org/articles/basic-reforms-to-new-yorks-legal-code-are-at-risk-as-democrats-lurch-rightward/
# Media
Republicans move to defund, dismantle Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts has called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcast system
https://deadline.com/2025/03/pbs-npr-house-hearing-marjorie-taylor-greene-1236351046/
# Medicare / Medicaid
Trump must restore Medicare Advantage. One bad decision that has gotten virtually no attention adversely affects seniors. On his way out the door, Biden initiated a de facto third round of cuts to Medicare Advantage, which is how a majority of U.S. seniors get their Medicare.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3358681/trump-must-restore-medicare-advantage/
# Medical / Health News
The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone. Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/mar/27/us-disability-rights-trump
‘There will be slowdowns’: Federal agencies that influence or fund how Americans get health care face widespread changes under plans by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eliminate 10,000 jobs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-hhs-cuts-food-safety-cdc-fda/82688365007/
Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342368/addiction-trump-mental-health-funding
‘Free Kill’ law repeal passes Florida House, moves ahead in Senate. Right now, the law prohibits any lawsuits for medical malpractice deaths involving anyone over the age of 25 who isn’t married and doesn’t have young children. Today in Tallahassee, the House voted 104-6 to repeal the law.
https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2025-03-27/florida-house-passes-medical-malpractice-lawsuit-proposal
Trump plans to eliminate U.S. funding for malaria and worldwide child vaccination:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5216013-trump-administration-gavi-vaccine-fund-elon-musk-doge/
# Military / DOD / General News
The Seeds of Signalgate Were Sown Years Ago. The White House continues to downplay the incident even after the Atlantic publishes the full text conversation.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-03-27/the-seeds-of-signalgate-were-sown-years-ago
The group chat heard ’round the world. The story that has dominated the news cycle, how Jeffrey Goldberg wound up on a group chat with more than a dozen top-level intelligence officials discussing explicit war plans—has it all
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892103/here-now-anytime-03-26-2025
The Trump Administration Blames Signal for the Leak. It’s Not the App’s Fault. Not only is the narrative false, but it undermines privacy in America.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/28/signal-atlantic-trump-stories/82676942007/
# Security / Surveillance
Trump’s newest executive order moves to end collective bargaining at agencies safeguarding national security. “President Trump is taking action to ensure that agencies vital to national security can execute their missions without delay and protect the American people,” the fact sheet states.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5218975-trump-administration-moves-to-end-union-rights-for-many-federal-workers/
# Social / Social Programs
Social Security benefits abruptly yanked from man as he’s wrongly declared dead. An ELDERLY man has been forced to fight to prove he is alive after the government wrongly declared him dead. The massive mistake wiped out his Social Security benefits and caused chaos in his life.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13877827/seattle-man-wrongly-declared-dead-social-security/
Musk tells grandmothers not to worry about Social Security and insists only DOGE can save America
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-interview-fox-b2723065.html
USDA cuts funding for food programs
https://stateline.org/2025/03/26/federal-cuts-squeeze-already-struggling-food-banks-school-lunch-programs/
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