Voices, The Peoples News
April 24, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations. Amid the fury over Trump’s deportations to El Salvador, the administration just deported someone to Rwanda. And no, he’s not from there.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194312/trump-deportation-rwanda
Dominican Republic deports dozens of Haitian pregnant women and children in hospital crackdown. Medical care and human rights should not depend on immigration documents.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2541976/dominican-republic-deports-pregnant-women-and-children-to-haiti-amid-border-clampdown
New York judge blocks ICE from setting up office inside Rikers Island
https://san.com/cc/new-york-judge-blocks-ice-from-setting-up-office-inside-rikers-island/
ICE Accused of Lying to School Staff as Part of Bid to Detain Elementary Students
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/826-boston-federal-funding-dei-trump-b2737616.html
‘Horrified’: Harvard scientist’s ICE arrest leaves cancer researchers scrambling
https://www.rawstory.com/harvard-ice-arrest/
U.S. Deportation Of Venezuelan Migrants Sparks Legal And Human Rights Concerns
https://theowp.org/u-s-deportation-of-venezuelan-migrants-sparks-legal-and-human-rights-concerns/
# Border / Immigration / General News
DOGE gets permission to access sensitive Justice Department immigration data
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2671830936/
Trump fires more immigration judges in what some suspect is a move to bend courts to his will
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-more-immigration-judges-100006091.html
You Don’t Have To Carry Proof Of U.S. Citizenship. But Amid ICE Detainments, You Might Want To.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/proof-of-citizenship-trump-deportations_l_680675f2e4b066a6887ab2f0#:~:text=Carrying%20copies%20of%20your%20IDs,your%20naturalization%20or%20birth%20certificate.
The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on Hyper-Targeted YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/03/15/dhs-launches-international-ad-campaign-warning-illegal-aliens-self-deport-and-stay
U.S. Citizen Detained for 10 Days Says DHS Lied About Everything. Immigration officials detained Jose Hermilloso for over a week. He says their version of what happened is completely inaccurate.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-wrongly-detained-ice-patrol-governments-account-false/
Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up. Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/abrego-garcia-wife-forced-hiding-150754945.html
Democrats Travel to Louisiana ICE Prisons to Demand Release of Khalil, Öztürk. “[Donald Trump] is a dictator, and the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said.
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/
Department of Homeland Security points to another agency when asked about court-barred deportations
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/national/department-of-homeland-security-points-to-another-agency-when-asked-about-court-barred-deportations/article_6ca3d7fd-0f66-5bcd-bccf-03355a2c8fe8.html
Judge orders return of 2nd migrant deported to El Salvador. A Trump-appointed judge ruled that the administration deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan man last month in violation of a legally binding, court-approved settlement agreement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-deportation-venezuelan-minor-judge-00307336
Private prison companies positioned to benefit from increased deportations
https://www.allsides.com/blog/private-prison-companies-positioned-benefit-increased-deportations
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Deadline looms for schools to eliminate DEI or risk losing funding
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/dei-schools-deadline-risk-losing-funding/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/04/doge-cuts-hit-thousands-americorps-volunteers
DOGE Unleashes Wrecking Ball That Rips Into DC’s Special Status
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/dcs-special-status-gets-ripped-up-by-doges-job-and-cost-cuts
Big DOGE Cuts Are Coming to Small Towns: BGOV Starting Line. If Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gets its way, the federal government will terminate 653 building leases. Jack Fitzpatrick reports that the shutdown hit list disproportionately targets small towns.
https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/big-cuts-are-coming-to-small-towns
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims, Justice Dept documents show
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-cancels-hundreds-grants-police-crime-victims-2025-04-23/
Elon Warns: Exec Order 14024 Targets Dollar
https://kit.prioritygold.com/56081ddm/?transaction_id=38a1eed45087476a977dd0395c5821ef&sub1=DDM&sub2=0206&sub3=BB&sub4=A&msid=56081
Congress’s Biggest Financial Priority Is “Stablecoin.” What the Hell Is That? Instead of tackling crashing markets, Congress is pushing a crypto sector that the Trump family is financially involved in.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/21/congress-crypto-stablecoin-trump/
China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5264774-china-us-tariff-negotations/
Boston nonprofit rejects federal funding so it doesn’t have to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI demands
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/826-boston-federal-funding-dei-trump-b2737616.html
# Education / Schools / Libraries
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish. The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/
Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks. The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.” Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration
Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/04/23/trump-administration-resumes-student-loan-collections-threatening-millions-with-garnished-wages-and-economic-hardship/
Trump signs flurry of seven executive orders targeting education
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-signs-flurry-seven-executive-orders-targeting-education
FBI raids homes of alleged anti-Israel protesters who demonstrated at University of Michigan
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-raids-homes-of-anti-israel-activists-who-protested-at-university-of-michigan/
Harvard University sues the U.S. Government after it cuts grants
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372214/harvard-sues-trump-administration-research
Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Is Shutting Down a School for Low Income Families
https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/primary-school-closure-zuckerberg-chan-funding/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Musk threatens federal employees still working from home with administrative leave. Forcing federal workers back to the office was one of many day one executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/musk-federal-employees-administrative-leave-022452
Labor Department Employees Threatened With Criminal Charges for Speaking Out
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-department-labor-leak-criminal-charges-threat
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Hike Solar Tariffs for 4 Countries
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5263631-commerce-department-plans-hike-tariffs/
Can Trump bring back ‘clean, beautiful coal’? The fossil fuel-fetish once again trumps economics and common-sense.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/can-trump-bring-back-clean-beautiful-coal/
FactCheck: Trump’s Misleading Promotion of ‘Clean’ Coal. President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry’s decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred to coal as “clean.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-promotion-of-clean-coal/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
NASA Airborne Sensor’s Wildfire Data Helps Firefighters Take Action
https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/nasa-airborne-sensors-wildfire-data-helps-firefighters-take-action/
Bureau of Land Management accepting applications for fracking in Wayne National Forest
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/22/federal-officials-seek-applications-to-drill-at-wayne-national-forest/83193199007/
Satellite imagery exposes crimes occurring at massive scale: ‘A serious and longstanding problem.’ “We need to end the current logic.” An alarming new report revealed that Amazonian trees aren’t the only thing being cut; corners are being cut too with massive amounts of illegal deforestation being reported.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/illegal-deforestation-amazon-report-brazil/#:~:text=and%20longstanding%20problem’-,Satellite%20imagery%20exposes%20crimes%20occurring%20at%20massive%20scale%3A%20’A%20serious,to%20end%20the%20current%20logic.%22&text=An%20alarming%20new%20report%20revealed,of%20illegal%20deforestation%20being%20reported
Record ocean heat drives catastrophic coral bleaching across 84% of reefs worldwide
https://www.ehn.org/record-ocean-heat-drives-catastrophic-coral-bleaching-across-84-of-reefs-worldwide
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say. Instability, cuts, and a looming sense of dread have FEMA employees unsure the agency is ready for hurricanes, fires, and floods. “We are being set up for a really, really bad situation,” says one.
https://www.wired.com/story/fema-isnt-ready-for-disaster-season-workers-say-hurricanes-fires-floods/
Tornado victims blocked from federal recovery aid after Trump denied request
https://www.aol.com/news/tornado-victims-blocked-federal-recovery-192915543.html
FEMA losing roughly 20% of permanent staff, including longtime leaders, ahead of hurricane season
https://www.aol.com/fema-losing-roughly-20-permanent-223652930.html
# General News
Elon Musk was supposed to work in government as a special employee for 130 days. He just pledged to spend ‘a day or two’ per week for the remainder of Trump’s 4-year term
https://fortune.com/article/elon-musk-special-government-employee-doge-trump-countdown/
A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on U.S. soil. I think I know why no one objected
https://forward.com/opinion/714814/holocaust-collaborator-roman-shukhevych-ukrainian/
Trump Administration Urges Workers To Snitch On One Another For ‘Anti-Christian Bias’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
# Gov / Politics
The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America. By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is using a far-right ally for his own ends.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/22/trump-latin-america-bukele-el-salvador-prison/
‘More like ISIS than the mafia’: Waltz suggests cartels, gangs could face military action. Waltz said “all aspects of our national power” should be used to defeat threats from the cartels and transnational gangs.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/barr-cartels-are-more-like-isis-than-american-mafia/
We Shouldn’t Use the Military to Fight Mexico’s Drug Cartels: Trump and Republicans want to bomb Mexico to fight the “invasion” of fentanyl. Apparently, no lessons have been learned from the failed war on drugs.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/we-shouldnt-use-military-fight-mexicos-drug-cartels
As Iran talks proceed, a debate over preemptive bombing rages inside and outside the administration. Recent news reports have suggested that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are leading the hawkish camp as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance lead the realists.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/thuto-bomb-or-not-bomb-internal-admin-divides-go-public-iran-negotiations-progress
Unredacted Hunter Biden search warrants detail payments linked to Ukraine and China
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/04/23/unredacted-warrants-show-hunter-bidens-payments-tied-to-ukraine-china/
Trump’s retribution campaign is criminal, but the Supreme Court gave him immunity
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5261567-trumps-retribution-campaign-is-criminal-but-the-supreme-court-gave-him-immunity/
Danielle Moodie Believes Trump Is Deliberately Plunging The U.S. Into Chaos: ‘This Is Not Accidental—It’s Oligarchy by Design’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hvspsv5ic
The Guardian view on US-Russian talks: Trump wants a deal, whatever it means for Ukraine. Washington, like Moscow, prefers bilateral talks to a wider diplomatic process. Kyiv and other European governments are rightly alarmed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/the-guardian-view-on-us-russian-talks-trump-wants-a-deal-whatever-it-means-for-ukraine
Richard Branson accuses Trump of ‘doing so much damage’ to the world. Virgin Atlantic founder says ‘erratic’ decisions from US president have been ‘awful for everyone’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/23/richard-branson-accuses-trump-of-doing-so-much-damage-to-the-world
‘Never forget road to Holocaust began in a democracy’ – Home Secretary
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/yvette-cooper-jewish-ephraim-mirvis-nazis-home-secretary-b2738313.html
‘Can’t do everything’: Trump’s ‘defiance’ of court order is ‘grounds for impeachment’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2671830936/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Top Russian official says Moscow has right to use nuclear weapons if attacked by West, TASS reports
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-reserves-right-to-use-nuclear-weapons-in-response-to-western-aggression-security-chief-says/3547135
Dictators and Civil Wars: The Cold War in Latin America
https://retroreport.org/video/dictators-and-civil-wars-the-cold-war-in-latin-america/
Latin America’s Foreign Policies at a Crossroads. The foreign policy actions of many Latin American governments often contradict their principles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-wSBgKGe2g
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary. As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague.
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-icc-netanyahu-court-orban-413aa32cd85f2aaec65fdb6a4551ad33
‘We will not confess wrongdoing’: DOJ prosecutors quit in scathing resignation letter
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-department-eric-adams-resignations/
We sat with 350 lawyers as they strategized against Trump. Big Law was absent — but Smaller Law is itching to fight.
https://www.aol.com/sat-350-lawyers-strategized-fighting-213237708.html
Democratic lawmakers question Justice Department over warning to fired official
https://www.aol.com/news/democratic-lawmakers-justice-department-over-090442300.html
# LGBTQ / Gender
LGBTQ Suicide Hotline at Risk Under Trump’s HHS Budget Proposal. The 988 LGBTQ crisis line is still active. Proposed cuts wouldn’t take effect until October, if approved by Congress.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/lgbtq/federal-government-plans-to-cut-funding-for-crisis-lifelines-lgbtq-youth-services
Attorney general directs Justice Department employees to enforce policies targeting care for transgender minors
https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-directs-justice-department-024323033.html
See also: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/
# Medical / Health News
The federal government’s purported plan to track Americans who have autism, which social media users have referred to as an “autism registry,” is facing heavy criticism.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-04-23/is-rfk-jr-creating-an-autism-registry-what-to-know
Republicans walk out after WA House committee votes to close center for people with disabilities
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/04/23/republicans-walk-out-after-wa-house-committee-votes-to-close-center-for-people-with-disabilities/
The National Institutes of Health has begun slashing funds for various research initiatives. Scientists expect climate-related grants to be on the chopping block, raising fears about preparedness to avoid preventable deaths.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/federal-funding-nih-climate-related-health-research/
# Military / DOD / General News
Dismantling the government while pumping up the Pentagon.
https://countercurrents.org/2025/04/the-ever-expanding-war-machine-dismantling-the-government-while-pumping-up-the-pentagon/
‘Don’t know who to trust’: Ex-general warns US commanders wary of sharing info with boss
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-signal-pentagon-2671823414/
# NATO
NATO on ‘highest state of readiness’ after Russia launches new attack
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-fighter-jets-scrambled-russia-ukraine-poland-2063408
# NOAA / Weather
When scientists and weather forecasters are targeted, everyone loses. The Trump regime has taken aim at the weather and climate messengers, writes an atmospheric and environmental scientist. “Everyone will suffer as a result.”
https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/when-scientists-and-weather-forecasters-are-targeted-everyone-loses/
# Nuclear
Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently
https://www.wired.com/story/finland-is-developing-a-permanent-way-to-deal-with-spent-nuclear-fuel/
# Security / Surveillance / Cybersecurity
From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance
https://theconversation.com/from-help-to-harm-how-the-government-is-quietly-repurposing-everyones-data-for-surveillance-254690
# Social / Social Programs
Democrats call on Social Security watchdog to investigate DOGE cuts’ impact
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5262768-democrats-social-security-watchdog-doge-cuts/
# Space Force
Governors ‘Alarmed’ by Looming Transfer of Air National Guard Units to Space Force
https://www.yahoo.com/news/governors-alarmed-looming-transfer-air-213312861.html
# Veterans / VA
VA secretary launches task force targeting anti-Christian bias at the agency
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/23/officials-launch-task-force-to-root-out-anti-christian-bias-in-va/
Special committee would give disabled veterans a voice on accessibility challenges at VA facilities
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/04/23/officials-launch-task-force-to-root-out-anti-christian-bias-in-va/
House adopts 7 bills for improving veterans care and services
https://veterans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6686
# Water
This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem
https://www.wired.com/story/this-artificial-wetland-is-reusing-wastewater-to-revive-a-lost-ecosystem/
Scientific dispute over using sewage to restore Louisiana’s wetlands turns political. LSU researcher opposes projects that divert wastewater sediment into marsh
https://lailluminator.com/2025/04/13/dispute-louisianas-wetlands/
Colorado River Basin states have just weeks left to agree on plan
https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/wednesday-top-scroll-colorado-river-basin-states-have-just-weeks-left-agree-plan
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