Voices, The Peoples News
March 31, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Inside The Billion-Dollar Business Of Deportation Flights. The recent GOP spending bill will mean more money for ICE — and less transparency for the private airlines making billions on deportation flights.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-billion-dollar-business-of-deportation-flights/
How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic. Trump’s “Operation Aurora” swept up only one suspected gang member — but set the stage for a radical expansion of government power.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/trump-deport-venezuela-gang-tren-de-aragua/
ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted Over Gaza Protests. The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/ice-warrants-columbia-students-gaza-protests/
ICE Is Canceling Students’ Legal Status Without Informing Them or Their Schools: The Trump administration has targeted for deportation foreign students who have espoused pro-Palestinian views
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-canceling-students-legal-status-1235306630/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections. More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.
https://www.levernews.com/a-dark-money-deluge-to-kill-consumer-protections/
Meta Drags Delaware To The Bottom. Delaware just passed a bill to let executives off the hook across the country — and Meta helped write it.
https://www.levernews.com/meta-drags-delaware-to-the-bottom/
# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial, vaccines do no stop covid
https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/43-46-Stilgoe-Viral-Suppression-Spring-2023.pdf
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
The Cover Up: Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns a company that profited off a cancer-linked makeup ingredient. Now the firm aims to deny victims remuneration
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/makeup-asbestos-lawsuit-berkshire-hathaway
Glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide altered key breast cancer-related genes, including BRCA1 and BRCA2, even at low doses and had varying toxic and proliferative effects on different breast cell types
https://usrtk.org/pesticides/glyphosate-health-concerns/#:~:text=A%20March%202025%20study%20in,on%20different%20breast%20cell%20types
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Analysis of CBO’s March 2025 Long-Term Budget Outlook. The federal budget is on an unsustainable path.
https://www.crfb.org/papers/analysis-cbos-march-2025-long-term-budget-outlook
Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system
DOGE staffer who shared Treasury data now has more access to government systems
https://thepublicsradio.org/npr/doge-staffer-who-shared-treasury-data-now-has-more-access-to-government-systems-2/
Brace for impact, America. Trump’s tariffs will soon hit your bank accounts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/03/31/trump-tariffs-inflation-tax-increase/82688283007/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Trump Stomps Workers. Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court. After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-seeking-to-ban-natural-gas-in-new-buildings-just-got-a-big-win-in-court/
Trump’s EPA Is Giving Power Companies Free Reign to Leave Behind Toxic Coal Ash
https://grist.org/health/coal-ash-epa-lee-zeldin-trump/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Mark Pestrella says “we started this fire” during LA wildfire Eaton press conference. Freudian slip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0azx-3UKGA
# Food General News
‘Going to be a lot of hungry people’: Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/
How Gutting USAID Will Hurt American Farmers and Businesses. The effects of defunding it could be devastating to farmers
https://www.ohiosap.org/aws/OSAP/pt/sd/news_article/584540/_blank/layout_details/false
Breathing Injustice: How a New Scientific Tool Could Help Communities Oppose Industrial Animal Farming Pollution. Pig-2-Bac, from fecal bacteria in dust that has settled in and around locals’ homes, enabling them to show that pollution from pig operations has reached their residences.
https://usrtk.org/factory-farming/new-tool-measure-industrial-animal-farming-pollution/#:~:text=A%20tool%20to%20trace%20pollution&text=The%20tool%20can%20identify%20the,operations%20has%20reached%20their%20residences
# General News
Who is USIP? The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American independent, nonprofit, national institute funded by the U.S. Congress and tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide.[3] It provides research, analysis, and training to individuals in diplomacy, mediation, and other peace-building measures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace#Budget
# Gov / Politics
VP and Second Lady Visit Greenland, Pushing US Takeover Against Local Backlash. The visit came a day after Donald Trump said his administration will “go as far as we have to go” to acquire the island.
https://truthout.org/articles/vice-president-and-second-lady-plan-visit-to-us-military-base-in-greenland/
US senator to force votes next week to block nearly $9B in new arms for Israel. ‘Netanyahu has clearly violated U.S. and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in the carnage,’ says Bernie Sanders
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-senator-to-force-votes-next-week-to-block-nearly-9b-in-new-arms-for-israel/3521978
What the past week reveals about the Trump team’s utter incompetence. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “own it and fix it.”
https://www.alternet.org/what-the-past-week-also-reveals-about-the-trump-team-s-utter-incompetence/
The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”: The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the 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
Trump Goes Full Dictator With Delusional Threat About Term Limits. Donald Trump revealed he hasn’t been joking all this time. [power drunk maybe?]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-goes-full-dictator-delusional-131608127.html
Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president. Yes, a constitutional amendment explicitly prohibits it. Yes, such an attempt would trigger a legal showdown and a potential constitutional crisis.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-third-term-constitution-22nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to change how U.S. elections are run is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-voting-executive-order-2026-midterms-bd477e5ac8a7182f5aa01498ad79baaa
Biden-Era ‘Lawfare’ Target Says He’s Now Running ‘Most Important Agency’ You’ve ‘Never Heard Of’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/28/biden-era-lawfare-target-says-hes-now-running-most-important-agency-youve-never-heard-of/
Make America Worse – the corrosive blueprint driving Muskrat-Trump’s high-risk demolition derby
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/03/31/make-america-worse-the-corrosive-blueprint-driving-muskrat-trumps-high-risk-demolition-derby/
Donald Trump faces backlash after being accused of spending $85M on golf excursions
https://www.irishstar.com/sport/other-sports/donald-trump-backlash-golf-excursions-34964019
# Gov / Politics / Global
Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Reflect Desperation as Israel Escalates Genocide. As some Palestinians took to the streets this week calling for Hamas to step down, others condemned the demonstrations.
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-hamas-protests-in-gaza-reflect-desperation-as-israel-escalates-genocide/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Wisconsin AG sues to stop Musk’s check handout. Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, immediately labeled Musk’s plan as a violation of state law.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/wisconsin-ag-sues-to-stop-musks-check-handout/
The Supreme Court must rescue itself from its own madness. To stand up to Trump’s lawless power grabs, the Roberts court must disavow its own mirror-image corruptions. It may yet feel obliged to do just that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192540/supreme-court-trump-power-grabs
# Media
Gaza Journalist Fadi al-Wahidi Avoided Israel’s “Red” Zone. Israel Shot Him Anyway. Investigative journalists working as part of the Gaza Project used reporting, geolocation, and forensic analysis to reconstruct the shooting of Fadi al-Wahidi.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/israel-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/
Journalists Under Fire in Gaza, Israel’s Deadly War on Reporters. How reporters with the Gaza Project investigate the killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists.
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/28/briefing-podcast-gaza-palestine-journalists/
USPS customers warned of ‘downgraded services’ under April 1 changes as they’re forced to take extra step sending mail. The Postal Service will adjust its services for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail, and package services, meaning some customers will have to do more to ensure their mail gets delivered on time.
https://www.newsbreak.com/healthy-family-projects-316320343/3939305320248-usps-customers-warned-of-downgraded-services-under-april-1-changes-as-they-re-forced-to-take-extra-step-sending-mail
Postal Workers Defend USPS Against DOGE Attack. DOGE is helping the postmaster general hack away at workers’ retirement and a regulatory commission he doesn’t like.
https://truthout.org/articles/postal-workers-defend-usps-against-doge-attack/
# Medical / Health News
The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants
https://www.aol.com/lives-individuals-us-stake-researchers-192441141.html
Trump Wants to “Defund” Planned Parenthood — This SCOTUS Case May Help Him Do It. The court will consider a South Carolina policy preventing people from using Medicaid at clinics that provide abortions.
https://19thnews.org/2025/03/supreme-court-medicaid-planned-parenthood-abortion-trump/
Top official at FDA resigns citing RFK Jr. ‘misinformation’ and apparent lack of desire for “truth and transparency.”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5221540-fda-official-resigns-kennedy-vaccines/
Health insurance CEO admits to hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on patients, doctors and politicians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-insurance-ceo-admits-hiring-164253164.html
# Military / DOD / General News
US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions. The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service academy.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5221577-naval-academy-ends-affirmative-action-admissions/
DOD reopens deferred resignation program, offers early retirements in effort to cut civilian workforce. The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the size of the civilian workforce, the agency said.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-03-30/dod-early-retirement-deferred-resignations-17306265.html
US ‘won’t bother defending Europe from Russia’, leaked Pentagon memo says. The leaked memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instead focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense
https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/wont-bother-defending-europe-russia-1060386
# NASA / Space
Scientists Track a Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Earth. A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/powerful-x-class-solar-flare-caught-on-camera-erupting-from-suns-surface
Astonishing Video Shows 2 Million Kilometer Helical Structure Emerge From The Sun
https://www.iflscience.com/astonishing-video-shows-2-million-kilometer-helical-structure-emerge-from-the-sun-78624
# Other Stuff
Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-Per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth. The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married
https://www.wired.com/story/natal-conference-matchmaking/
# Social / Social Programs
Social Security boss confirms 2 changes coming – and it will make it harder for 70 million retirees to get their checks. The top boss of the Social Security Administration has confirmed that two big changes are coming to the federal government agency this spring.
https://www.the-sun.com/money/13903635/social-security-boss-confirms-changes-harder-retirees-checks/
Trump and Musk are targeting Social Security, and you should worry. The Social Security trust fund is in trouble without the traps being laid by the Trump team. Their goal is to end Social Security. Open your ears to their increasingly loud attacks.
https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/5220003-social-security-attacks/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course. Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/29/elon-musk-says-xai-acquired-x/
Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley. U.S. companies paid $86 billion to Canadian workers in 2022—if they flee, workers will take the hit
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/trumps-tariff-war-could-compel-u-s-companies-to-flee-canada-that-could-hurt-one-in-10-workers/
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