Voices, The Peoples News
April 4, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Native tribe in Minnesota says cyber incident knocked out healthcare, casino systems
https://therecord.media/native-minnesota-tribe-says-cyber-incident-disrupted-healthcare-casino
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Marriage green card changes: The Trump administration has introduced some changes to the green card application process for married couples, including updated forms, marriage interviews, and increased financial disclosures
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-marriages-changes-trump-administration-explained-2054852
Texas Pastor Detained by ICE While Dropping Daughter to School, Family Says. The sudden detention has left his wife and children in shock and scrambling for answers, as they lean on their faith and community for support.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-pastor-detained-ice-daughter-school-2054650
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Water Fluoridation Linked to Autism, Other Developmental Delays in New Study
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/water-fluoridation-autism-adhd-study-bmc-pediatrics/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump: Asked about the economic collapse that resulted from his massive tariffs, Trump said “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on, and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is.” Right now, this ‘medical operation’ is crippling Americans.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193592/trump-economy-crashing-good-actually
Trump Delusionally Brags About Tariffs as Stock Market Crashes. Donald Trump’s expectations are not playing out so well against reality.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-delusionally-brags-tariffs-stock-160135833.html
Senate advances groundwork for passing Trump’s tax agenda. The resolution includes framework instructions for how both chambers can eventually pass a bill through budget reconciliation, which would bypass a filibuster.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5230926-senate-advances-trump-budget-resolution/
The Economist Slams ‘The Madness of King Donald’ With Scathing Takedown of Tariffs. Trump’s tariffs have been branded “utterly deluded” and “flat-out nonsense” by the publication.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-economist-slams-the-madness-of-king-donald-with-scathing-takedown-of-tariffs/
They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions. Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
Retailers like Shein and Temu can no longer avoid tariffs on low-cost items, your online shopping packages coming directly from China are about to get much more expensive.
https://www.theverge.com/news/642601/donald-trump-tariffs-de-minimis-shein-temu
‘Dangerously naive’: Lawmaker flags Trump’s ulterior motive for ‘new super dangerous tool.’ The tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief,” Senator Chris Murphy wrote on his social media.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ulterior-motive-tariff-murphy/
Gap, Nike and Levi’s took years to diversify from China. Now sky high tariffs on nations like Vietnam are ruining plans and tanking their stocks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gap-nike-levi-took-years-160843472.html
Corruption hunters say Trump’s USAID cuts just made organized crime groups “much more dangerous”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/corruption-hunters-trumps-usaid-cuts-160006460.html
# Education / Schools
Librarians Across America Are Calling Out The Trump Administration And Their Reasons Will Make Your Blood Boil
https://www.buzzfeed.com/brittanywong/librarians-trump-administration-cuts
Homeschool Police Turn Team-Minded Parents Into Criminals. parents can go to jail if families team up for homeschooling in Wisconsin. The state flatly prohibits homeschool collaboration. Joining an after-school soccer team or Girl Scout troop is fine
https://amac.us/newsline/education/homeschool-police-turn-team-minded-parents-into-criminals/#:~:text=They%20check%20in%20during%20tough,Girl%20Scout%20troop%20is%20fine
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Explainer: The surprising boom in geothermal energy
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/has-geothermal-energy-gone-cold/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Geologists have confirmed the emergence of a new thermal vent in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thermal-steam-vent-grabbing-attention-022754500.html
Mexico to dump millions of gallons of sewage into Tijuana River, which will mostly likely flow into the United States, a decades-old problem that has posed environmental repercussions for beaches and communities, officials said. US continues to be a dumping ground
https://www.aol.com/mexico-dump-millions-gallons-sewage-230826234.html
# Food General News
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say: “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say
Gerber, Beech-Nut, Others Will Face Lawsuit Over Baby Food Contamination
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/gerber-beech-nut-others-will-face-lawsuit-over-baby-food-contamination/
# General News
Trump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees. The administration’s cuts to resettlement aid and services are sowing uncertainty and fear among recent arrivals from Afghanistan
https://newrepublic.com/article/193577/afghan-refugees-trump-cut-resettlement
Tucker Carlson says he ‘immediately’ sold his new Chevy truck after noticing a shocking feature. ‘All of a sudden at a gas station, it says, “Stop, we’re downloading information from the internet,”‘ he claimed in during an interview with gearhead Casey Putsch.
https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-mail-560402/3948473093292-tucker-carlson-immediately-sells-his-new-chevy-truck-after-startling-message-appeared-on-the-dash
# Gov / Politics
Democratic attorneys general join legal fight over Trump’s election order, A group of 19 Democratic attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over its sweeping executive order targeting election rules and administration across the country, “Neither the Constitution nor Congress has authorized the President to impose documentary proof of citizenship requirements or to modify state mail-ballot procedures.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/ags-sue-trump-over-his-order-overhauling-us-elections-00270102
Forget Expensive Eggs. Here’s the “Bigger Picture” of Trump’s Misrule. The party does not have a unified response to Trump’s worst abuses, and that’s in part because it willingly enabled some of them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193458/trump-immigration-backlash-legal-residents
Senate overwhelmingly rejects Bernie Sanders’ bid to block billions in Israeli military aid. The resolutions intended to block the Trump administration’s planned sale of bombs and other weaponry to Israel that was estimated to be worth $8.8 billion.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-overwhelmingly-rejects-bernie-sanders-bid-block-billions-israeli
Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k. The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”
https://truthout.org/articles/only-15-senators-back-sanders-bid-to-block-arms-to-israel-as-gaza-deaths-top-50k/
Trump rages as China strikes back with trade war retaliation. Wall Street faces another brutal beating as stocks plunged after China unveiled retaliatory taxes in response to Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, threatening global trade war.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-tariffs-china-vietnam-retaliatory-news-9ad8bc44
Donald Trump Accused of ‘Destroying the Country’ and ‘Ruining Lives’ for ‘His Own Ego’ as He Boasts About ‘Liberation Day’ in America. As Trump was called the “laughing stock of the world,” a fifth individual accused the president of “destroying the country for your own ego,” while another alleged he was “ruining so many lives.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/donald-trump-accused-of-destroying-the-country-and-ruining-lives-for-his-own-ego-as-he-boasts-about-liberation-day-in-america/ar-AA1Cfuez?ocid=MD12O1
We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/we-have-a-government-of-billionaires-by-billionaires-and-for-billionaires/
# Gov / Politics / Global
‘When empires fall’: British columnist aghast at ‘single stupidest thing’ Trump has done
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-recession-2671669265/
Hamas says it will release all Israeli hostages at once to end the war: report
https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/world-news/hamas-says-it-will-release-all-israeli-hostages-at-once-to-end-the-war-report/
# Media
USPS changes begin: How could your mail be affected
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/usps-mail-post-office-changes-begin/
# Medical / Health News
Deadly Dengue Fever Rises as the US Cuts All Climate-Health Funding. Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
https://grist.org/politics/dengue-climate-change-trump-cuts-nih-funding-mosquito-borne-disease/
Lawmaker issues warning over Georgia woman arrested after miscarriage. A Georgia woman was found unconscious after having a miscarriage, then arrested when police accused her of illegally disposing of the fetal remains.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/georgia-woman-arrested-miscarriage-fetus-remains_n_67eec439e4b0d734a36dce89
US Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-supreme-court-medicaid-south-carolina-d1c2b4d954ac2764d407dcdff76267ff
Trump Administration Fires Thousands of U.S. Health Workers, Putting Wellbeing of Americans at ‘Serious Risk’
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-health-workers-firings-cdc-hhs.html
Ex-CDC Director Pushes Extra MMR Shot for Babies, as Arizona Reports Suspected Measles Case Was ‘Rare’ Vaccine Reaction
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/former-cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-extra-mmr-shot-babies-measles/
# Other Stuff
Scientists Drilled The Bottom Of Great Blue Hole And Uncovered 5,700 Years Of History. “A total of 694 event layers were identified. They display a distinct regional trend of increasing storminess in the southwestern Caribbean, which follows an orbitally driven shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/something-truly-scary-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-belizes-great-blue-hole
# Pharmaceuticals
Big Pharma gravy train hits the skids under Trump, panicking revolving-door regulators, investors. Ex-vaccine regulator Peter Marks promoted “ineffective therapy that gave patients false hope, eroded trust in the regulatory process and provided nothing but risk and cost to Americans,” Stanford pediatrics professor says.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/big-pharma-gravy-train-hits-skids-under-trump-panicking-revolving-door
# Social / Social Programs
Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data. The Administration, Musk, and DOGE have engaged in four types of activities that each present a clear danger to Social Security
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-administration-doge-activities-risk-ssa-operations-and-security-of
DOGE’s plans for Social Security are a ‘backdoor’ way to cut payments. ‘This is the most serious threat I’ve seen to it’
https://fortune.com/2025/03/21/doge-plans-social-security-back-door-cut-payments-mark-cuban-former-official/
Musk’s ‘illegal’ meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671661960/
The Social Security Fairness Act May Change How You Pay Medicare Premiums
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/the-social-security-fairness-act-may-change-how-you-pay-medicare-premiums#:~:text=If%20your%20Social%20Security%20check,small%20to%20cover%20the%20costs
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