Voices, The Peoples News
April 8, 2025, AM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump Has a New Target for His Mass Deportations: U.S. Citizens. Donald Trump loves the idea of deporting American citizens to El Salvador—no, seriously he said that.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-target-mass-deportations-u-142214066.html
Trump Administration Has Detained Citizens as Part of Mass Deportation Actions. A new report doesn’t include a definitive list, meaning there are likely many more examples of citizens being detained.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-has-detained-citizens-as-part-of-mass-deportation-actions/
Turns Out Trump Lied About Those Deportations to El Salvador. 60 Minutes looked into the records of the immigrants deported to El Salvador’s megaprison. They’re not who Trump claims. Less than a quarter have an arrest record in the U.S., mostly for nonviolent offenses. This proves the Trump administration is carrying out its cruelty campaign indiscriminately, if you’re a South American immigrant with tattoos, you could find yourself in El Salvador’s megaprison
https://newrepublic.com/post/193673/60-minutes-trump-deportations-el-salvador
Trump’s Border Czar Faces Backlash in His Hometown for Locking Up a Local Family. Tom Homan is taking heat in Sackets Harbor, New York, after ICE agents detained a mom and her three children in a raid.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/04/tom-homan-ice-immigrant-raid-new-york/
Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border. Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/firing-squad-execution-humane-lethal-injection/
# Covid / Biologicals / Pandemics
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/dia-analysis-covid-may-have-come-from-wuhan-lab/?mc_cid=a6ada547ae&mc_eid=485b9951ab
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back. As states legislate against products containing PFAS, the chemical and consumer products industries are deploying lawyers and lobbyists to protect their investments.
https://www.wired.com/story/states-banning-pfas-forever-chemicals-industry-fighting-back/
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Lawmakers to debate on bill that would make DEI illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9p1Hz-o94
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Now Using AI to Spy on Federal Workers. Elon Musk’s Secretive DOGE Team Using AI And Disappearing Messages To Monitor Federal Workers For Anti-Trump Sentiment, Bypassing Records Laws And Locking Out Agencies
https://www.benzinga.com/politics/25/04/44683851/elon-musks-secretive-doge-team-using-ai-and-disappearing-messages-to-monitor-federal-workers-for-anti-trump-sentiment-bypassing-records-laws-and-locking-out-agencies-report
As Elon Musk’s empire implodes, the world’s richest victim blames the rules he once loved. You know that old saying: lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas?
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/as-elon-musks-empire-implodes-the-worlds-richest-victim-blames-the-rules-he-once-loved/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump tariffs sow fears of trade wars, recession and a $2,300 iPhone. JP Morgan sees 60% chance of global recession by year end. The penalties announced by Trump on Wednesday triggered a plunge in world financial markets and drew condemnation from other leaders reckoning with the end of a decades-long era of trade liberalization.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-stokes-trade-war-world-reels-tariff-shock-2025-04-03/
Trump Celebrates His Tariffs as Global Markets Collapse. Donald Trump is living in an alternate reality.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-tells-americans-to-be-patient-as-global-markets-keep-dropping-over-tariffs
Donald Trump is living in an alternate reality. Undeterred by a panicked stock market, President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on China on Monday, raising fresh concerns that his drive to rebalance the global economy could intensify a financially destructive trade war.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-stock-market-52a00ea2bb92a067ee72343941b02cd4
Elon Musk Suddenly Distances Himself From Trump Over Tariffs. The world’s richest man seems pissed over Trump’s economic policies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-trump-tariff-lutnick-penguins-b2728530.html
Trump Exposes Own Kindergarten-Level Understanding of Economics. Donald Trump has an absolutely ridiculous goal for his extreme tariffs. A trade deficit isn’t a “loss,” regardless of what Trump thinks. A trade deficit simply means that one country spends more on goods from another country than that country spends on goods from them.
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/trump-exposes-own-kindergarten-level-understanding-of-economics.383996/
Trump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries. Top White House economist Stephen Miran apparently wants free handouts from other nations.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193700/donald-trump-economic-adviser-demands-tariffs
Fake News Story on Tariffs Pause Causes Mayhem in Stock Market. Here’s how a fake news story on Trump’s tariffs created mass volatility in the stock market.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/stock-market-dow-nasdaq-nikkei-bitcoin-trump-tariffs
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Ploy to Further Consolidate Power, Says Sen. Chris Murphy. Trump is using tariffs “to try to compel pledges of loyalty” from companies and industries in the US, Murphy says.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-tariffs-are-a-ploy-to-further-consolidate-power-says-sen-chris-murphy/
# Education
Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college students. College officials worry the new approach will keep foreigners from wanting to study in the U.S.
https://www.boston.com/news/education/2025/04/06/federal-officials-are-quietly-terminating-the-legal-residency-of-some-international-college-students/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Khanna Sounds Alarm as 4,100+ Factory Workers Laid Off Amid Trump Tariff Chaos. “Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate recently. “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tariffs-mass-layoffs
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Jury verdict against oil industry worries critics, could drive up energy costs. A $744 million jury verdict in Louisiana is at the center of a coordinated legal effort to force oil companies to pay billions of dollars to ameliorate the erosion of land
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e3764496-9bf3-49ac-a954-bdaea0459a45.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump’s EPA Cuts Are Going to Poison His Own Voters. “It’s practically inevitable” that people will get sick, a current EPA employee said.
https://truthout.org/articles/former-epa-employees-warn-of-polluted-skies-ahead-under-trump/
# Gov / Politics
Cognitive Decline? Trump Calls for Open Borders in Rant on Tariffs. Trump went on a truly wild rant about his own tariffs. Trump’s tariff policy is so erratic and ill thought out that it’s nearly impossible to know what he actually means by ‘open borders.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cognitive-decline-trump-calls-open-202617475.html
Trump plans $92 million military parade honoring himself, pulling straight from the dictator’s playbook.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193674/trump-military-parade-birthday
Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of Elections. His order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions, but multiple lawsuits have already sprung up to challenge it.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-assumes-unheard-of-powers-in-ordering-federal-overhaul-of-elections/
Trump Administration Debuts Legal Blueprint for Disappearing Anyone It Wants. And it asserts that once that person has been locked away abroad, the U.S. government has no power or responsibility to bring them home, even if they were indisputably deported in error.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/supreme-court-analysis-trump-black-sites.html
The Fight for the Post-Trump Future Has Already Begun. How Democrats choose to confront DOGE’s corrupt destruction today will determine whether America recovers—and who will lead that recovery.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193596/fight-post-trump-future-walz-booker
“Disaster”: Trump Voters Suddenly Realize How Badly He Screwed Them. As Trump’s core voters prepare to get slammed by his trade wars, the author of a book about MAGA country explains what all this says about the dark nature of his rural support—and how Democrats can capitalize.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193656/disaster-trump-voters-suddenly-realize-badly-screwed
Trump threatens bombing if Iran does not make nuclear deal. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-there-will-be-bombing-if-iran-does-not-make-nuclear-deal-2025-03-30/
Trump White House holds Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/07/trump-white-house-hamas-execution-palestinian-medics/
The US is still backing Israel over the executions even after a shocking video showed the Israeli were lying about the massacre of rescue workers. A cellphone shows clearly marked rescue vehicles with headlights on and red emergency lights flashing. The video was filmed inside one of the vehicles in the convoy.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5353346/israel-gaza-emergency-workers-killed-video
House Republicans Divided Over Senate Budget Plan. While the world watches markets melt down and trillions of dollars in value evaporate because of President Trump’s trade war, congressional Republicans are pushing ahead with the rest of Trump’s agenda.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5231341-senate-republican-budget-plan-house/
Trump Rages Wildly at Tariff Blowback as GOPers Start Turning on Him. As Trump vents at China and at the handful of Republicans now moving to rein in his tariffs, an economist digs into the deeper, almost pathological incoherence underlying his broader aims and vision.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193708/unwell-trump-rages-many-targets-gop-starts-turning-tariffs
Democrats launching ‘war room’ to push back against Trump. While Donald Trump continues to push an agenda that raises costs, destroys jobs, and ruins lives, he also continues to lie, spin, and cheat his way out of accountability.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5235630-dnc-launches-war-room/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Hamas Slams White House Over Aid Worker Killings
https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-trump-gaza-nazis-israel-2056249
Rafah ambulance massacre survivor exposes Israeli lies, cover up. Despite Israeli claims that the bodies were not harmed, videos documenting the digging of the mass grave showed the bodies in a deteriorated state.
https://trt.global/world/article/02f8ed7948e3
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, or Firing Squad? An Inhumane Decision for Death Row Prisoners. South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/firing-squad-execution-humane-lethal-injection/
# Media
The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now. The president isn’t governing as if he wants to be popular, but he’s getting help sweeping his wreckage under the rug.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193659/right-wing-media-trump-tariff
# Medicare / Medicaid
Resistance Grows as Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care for Over 79 Million in US. Planned cuts to Medicaid and CHIP will put more than 79 million people at medical risk. But resistance is mounting.
https://truthout.org/articles/resistance-grows-as-proposed-cuts-threaten-health-care-for-over-79-million-in-us/
More Than 5 Million Americans Could Lose Medicaid Coverage if Feds Impose Work Requirements. Congressional Republicans hope those rules would save more than $109 billion over a decade.
https://stateline.org/2025/04/01/more-than-5m-could-lose-medicaid-coverage-if-feds-impose-work-requirements/
# Medical / Health News
Cuts to Biomedical Research Will Cost Lives, Scientific Breakthroughs & Careers. Biomedical research funding is under threat as the National Institutes of Health faces an indirect cost cap.
https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/medical-research-cuts
Trump cuts Title X funding to reproductive groups
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-admin-cuts-tens-of-millions-from-planned-parenthood-00261763
The House Speaker’s Eyeing Big Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline.
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/the-house-speakers-eyeing-big-cuts-to-medicaid-in-his-louisiana-district-its-a-lifeline/
# Military / DOD / General News
Firing of top cyber general ‘sets back’ US military and intel operations, makes America ‘less safe,’ lawmakers say
https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/04/trump-firing-top-cyber-general-sets-back-military-intel-lawmakers/
Hegseth to visit Panama as Trump says US is ‘reclaiming’ its canal
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3372001/pete-hegseth-travel-panama-pressure-over-canal-control/
Trump’s election order would add barriers for military voters
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/52670462/trumps-election-order-would-add-barriers-for-military-voters
# Other Stuff
Scientists Discover Massive Ocean Beneath Earth’s Crust And It Contains More Water Than All Surface Oceans Combined
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core/
# Science / Science Engineers
Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf. Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf? While the young wolves – Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi – represent an impressive technological breakthrough, independent experts say they are not actually dire wolves.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ejy3gdvo
# Social / Social Programs
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Sending Social Security Into ‘Death Spiral.’ People are warning that the crucial agency is collapsing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down. “Long Waits, Waves of Calls, Web Crashes”: Trump and Musk Are “Breaking Down” Social Security, Blocking Seniors From Accessing Their Benefits
https://democrats.org/news/long-waits-waves-of-calls-web-crashes-trump-and-musk-are-breaking-down-social-security-blocking-seniors-from-accessing-their-benefits/
DOGE’s Social Security Breaches Send Staffers Into ‘Death Spiral.’ Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
DOGE is Cutting the Social Security Administration to the Bone
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/doge-is-cutting-the-social-security-administration-to-the-bone
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
The AI race has gotten crowded—and China is closing in on the US, churning out new innovations from smaller AI companies. China is looking at enhancing self-sufficiency and reducing over-reliance on US AI products, at a time the geopolitical tensions are intensifying.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/china-closes-in-on-us-in-a-crowded-ai-field/
# Veterans / VA
VA employees offered a second chance for ‘deferred resignation.’ VA Secretary Doug Collins wrote in an email sent to employees Friday evening that the agency was extending an offer of deferred resignation or retirement prior to a reduction in the workforce that will take place later in the fiscal year.
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4146334/the-department-of-defense-announces-deferred-resignation-program/
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