Voices, The Peoples News
May 9, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
U.S. visitors are already being asked if they have applied for a ‘Trump Card Visa’ on immigration forms. Visa would allow wealthy people to buy residency in U.S., but how it would work remains unclear
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-card-visa-immigration-forms-b2747326.html
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
Another PFAS-containing pesticide headed for US registration. US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic chemicals. The new active ingredient is cyclobutrifluram. The new pesticide product contains fluorinated chemicals, which, by definition, makes them per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can persist in the environment for decades or even centuries.
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/05/pfas-in-pesticide-epa/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Bill Gates Goes Nuclear on Elon Musk: ‘The World’s Richest Man Killing the World’s Poorest Children’
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/bill-gates-foundation-elon-musk-doge
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
‘Corruption is staggering’: Trump officials push tariffed nations to approve Musk business. “The glaring conflict of interest inherent in this pressure to preference a Musk-owned company is disgusting,” said Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-starlink
‘It’s made up’: Expert says Trump gave a ‘gross misrepresentation of the truth’ on taxes
https://www.rawstory.com/tariffs-2671917644/
Denmark to field unmanned vessels for monitoring busy shipping routes. U.S.-based Saildrone will deploy four large unmanned surface vessels in Danish waters next month
https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/05/08/denmark-to-field-unmanned-vessels-for-monitoring-busy-shipping-routes/
Trump hints tariff cuts as US, China set to resume trade talks
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392399/u-s-china-trade-negotiations
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
U.S. Senate Dems launch forums to spotlight ‘bulldozing’ of Department of Education
https://protectborrowers.org/senate-dems-spotlight-radical-effort-to-decimate-ed-condemn-chaos/
Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans. Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.
https://truthout.org/articles/voters-oust-several-book-banning-incumbents-in-school-districts-across-texas/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
DOGE Killed Dozens of Grants That Supported Women Workers. Advocates say the cancellations will lock women out of construction and manufacturing jobs—and may violate the law.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/doge-womens-grant-construction-manufacturing-cancelled/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Elon Musk’s Memphis AI hub operates gas turbines without air permits, raising health concerns. Despite claims from local officials that xAI was only operating 15 of the turbines, thermal imaging showed nearly all of the 35 turbines were running.
https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-images-reveal-elon-musks-xai-datacenter-has-nearly-doubled-its-number-of-polluting-unpermitted-gas-turbines/
Lithuania’s defense minister on reading Trump, the cruelty of mines. “We are going to have mines on our territory, but they will either be Russian … or our own, where we will know where they are,” said Dovilė Šakalienė
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/05/08/lithuanias-defense-minister-on-reading-trump-the-cruelty-of-mines/
GOP Advances Bill to Fast-Track Fracking, Logging and Mining on Public Lands. The legislation would make it harder to file legal challenges against controversial mines and pipelines.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-advances-bill-to-fast-track-fracking-logging-and-mining-on-public-lands/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump administration dismisses nearly 400 scientists working on congressionally mandated national climate report for the federal government.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-climate-assessment-report-scientists-fired/
The biggest US cities are sinking. A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America’s most populated metropolises. Groundwater extraction seems to be the most common culprit, and its impact on land movement has direct implications for the infrastructure in the country’s most populated neighborhoods.
https://gizmodo.com/all-28-of-the-u-s-s-largest-cities-are-sinking-study-finds-2000599621
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
Trump’s acting FEMA chief fired a day after breaking from the administration. Cameron Hamilton, the acting disaster chief, appeared to contradict Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem by defending the agency
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/fema-chief-fired-cameron-hamilton-00335840
FEMA head, librarian of Congress ousted in latest federal firings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired
# Food General News
Moderates fight back as GOP crafts major food assistance changes
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5288637-moderates-snap-food-assistance-changes/
PFAS chemicals found in popular beers as water contamination seeps into brewing process. Perfluorosulfonic acids, particularly PFOS, were detected, with PFOA or PFOS above U.S. EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Limits in some beers.
https://www.wral.com/lifestyle/food/beer-forever-chemicals-may-2025/
# General News
Why Elon Musk Is Now Threatening to Sue Canada; here’s the reason and why Mark Carney could be on the back foot. Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program blocked Tesla from receiving tax credits worth up to $30 million, as per a report.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-threatens-sue-canada-200249096.html
# Gov / Politics
‘No more woke handouts’: Trump vows to kill law that helps veterans and minorities
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-digital-equity-act/
‘National Embarrassment’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked for Suggesting the U.S. Owns the Gulf of Mexico
https://www.newsbreak.com/ok-magazine-561398/3997961255250-national-embarrassment-marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-for-suggesting-the-u-s-owns-the-gulf-of-mexico
The Segregationist Administration: How Trump’s Team Is Systematically Dismantling Civil Rights. Last week, the Justice Department announced that it would be lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana, calling its existence a “historical wrong.” DOJ officials also suggested that similar orders dating back to the Civil Rights Movement be reconsidered as well.
https://newsone.com/6138983/trump-team-systematically-dismantling-civil-rights/
The Administration That Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Is Trying to Jail a Guy Over a Protest Banner
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/08/ed-martin-jan-6-trump-pardon-protester-00334168
Why Washington is worried about Burkina Faso’s young revolutionary leader. Taking power in 2022, the young military leader expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ibrahim-traore-burkina-faso-west/289538/
“Fact-Checked In Real Time”: Trump Met With Canada’s New Prime Minister, And Things Went Downhill So Quickly
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-losing-trump-seemed-prove-234927698.html
Trump 2.0 at 100 days: A tale of enablers and resisters. In just over three months, the president’s second term has been defined by broken promises, sweeping executive actions and growing resistance across the country.
https://www.onceuponahill.com/p/trump-second-term-first-100-days-special-edition
Trump Two is a formula for hell on earth. Donald Trump is a modern-day Joe McCarthy with more destructive reach, set to supercharge climate chaos, social disintegration and global instability. With Elon Musk as his billionaire accomplice, “President Chaos” promises a sequel of authoritarianism and environmental ruin that could seal the planet’s fiery fate.
https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/trump-two-is-a-formula-for-hell-on-earth/
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S., insisting that there is “no scenario” in which the Maryland man will be in the country again
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-supreme-court-order-kilmar-abrego-garcia_n_681cd152e4b0a178bbffc98e
Trump’s Repressive Measures Show US Imperialism Has Come Home to Roost. Under Trump’s direction, the US government is going to war against its own population.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-repressive-measures-show-us-imperialism-has-come-home-to-roost/
# Gov / Politics / Global
China claims its hypersonic weapon with Mach 20 speed can strike global targets in 30 mins
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-hypersonic-missile-gets-mach-20-speed
Germany’s new chancellor urges US officials to stay out of his country’s politics. “That is our business,” said Friedrich Merz, speaking on his first full day in office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/friedrich-merz-germany-us-00333340
Kremlin elites are poised for Putin’s grip on power to falter. As the embattled Russian leader addressed his nation on TV, calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, he looked glassy-eyed, stilted and old. He is in his end phase and succession in Moscow is usually messy
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/kremlin-elites-are-poised-for-putins-grip-on-power-to-falter-xgkqc60cf?region=global
Russian Elites Are Breaking the Old Taboos of Putin’s Power Vertical. They’re seeking out new models of behavior for a world without the longtime president.
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/05/russia-elites-transit-anticipation?lang=en&utm_source=carnegieemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=autoemail&mkt_tok=ODEzLVhZVS00MjIAAAGaSZ_D7Xk8gb2ykR7DjqzKP00PtQ0IiSUgxM7_4wK_rO3EfJD14nN3YgXZzwnAq4lLk6t_VnLRSxoCgnhYEwTgo-1hfaDDyBpRwYEKX7T_oham
Putin’s Proxy Diplomats Are Undermining the Coherence of Russian Foreign Policy. While informal diplomacy helps the Kremlin to be more nimble, in the long term it risks undermining Russia’s reliability as an international partner.
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/04/russia-proxy-diplomacy-dilemma?lang=en
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Judges strike down Alabama congressional map as racially discriminatory
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-judges-strike-down-alabama-congressional-map-as-racially-discriminatory/
‘The quantum of proof is nonexistent’: Judge tears into speechless DOJ lawyer over Trump’s attacks on law firms
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-quantum-of-proof-is-nonexistent-judge-tears-into-speechless-doj-lawyer-over-trumps-attacks-on-law-firms/
The Supreme Court made your rights harder to defend — Congress must now step up
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-4998861/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
The Texas-Sized Plan To Shut You Up. Texas is considering a sweeping set of legislative changes that would erode First Amendment protections, emboldening corporations and powerful individuals to use retaliatory lawsuits to silence their critics. A corporate-led attack on free speech in Texas is making odd bedfellows and tearing the state’s GOP apart.
https://www.levernews.com/the-texas-sized-plan-to-shut-you-up/
# Medicare / Medicaid
House Republicans Drop Plans for Largest Medicaid Cuts. Work requirements remain on the table but Congress will not cut the matching rate for the Affordable Care Act expansion or impose per capita limits on states.
https://www.governing.com/finance/house-republicans-drop-plans-for-largest-medicaid-cuts
# Medical / Health News
RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
https://firstwordpharma.com/story/5957558
Hiltzik: RFK Jr.’s plans for vaccine testing are highly unethical and a danger to your health. Here’s why
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-rfk-jr-plans-vaccine-100000685.html
Gates Pledges $200 Billion to Global Health, Criticizes Musk’s Policies
https://evrimagaci.org/tpg/bill-gates-pledges-200-billion-amid-elon-musk-criticism-348882?srsltid=AfmBOor_9tX27zHgMR_FnFjhwHlO-eFaAMNbnjY-ENwQ26mgbonFJwpl
Hospital superbug eats medical plastic. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a strain of bacterium that often causes antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, can produce an enzyme that can break down medical-grade plastic.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-superbug-digest-medical-plastic-dangerous.html
# Medical Science / Research
‘Indefensible’: Merck Designed Gardasil Trials to Mask HPV Vaccine Harms. A newly unsealed expert report from Danish physician and world-renowned research methodologist Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, reveals that Merck intentionally misrepresented the safety profile of its Gardasil HPV vaccine.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-designed-gardasil-trials-mask-hpv-vaccine-harms/
# Military / Militia / General News
Up to 1,000 transgender troops being separated under new Pentagon memo. The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/05/08/up-to-1000-transgender-troops-being-separated-under-new-pentagon-memo/
# Military / General News / Global
Macron, Merz vow closer defense ties in reboot of French-German couple. The countries will establish a Franco-German defense and security council to tackle common threats. On his first official visit since he was elected chancellor on Tuesday, Friedrich Merz met with Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday. The two leaders committed to increasing security efforts in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/05/07/france-and-germany-vow-to-cooperate-more-closely-on-defense_6741017_143.html#
Lithuania to lay antitank mines along its borders with Belarus, Russia. The Ministry of Defense announced the decision on May 5, stressing the mines’ intended effect of restricting the movements of invading forces
https://radar.am/en/news/world-2693011466/
India-Pakistan: 125 Jets Clash in One of Largest Dogfights in Recent History
https://www.newsweek.com/india-pakistan-125-jets-clash-one-largest-dogfights-recent-history-2069570
# NASA
Elon Just Embarrassed NASA – but This Is So Much Worse: Elon Musk Drops BOMBSHELL about Astronaut Rescue, Calls ISS Commander a Liar and R*tard…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcqVd4Yd5Tc
# NOAA / Weather
Funding cuts for Arctic sea ice monitoring risk key climate data. Scientists worry as services that provided detailed and historic information about sea ice, snowpack, glaciers and other Arctic conditions are being discontinued
https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/07/trump-administration-stopping-noaa-data-service-used-to-monitor-sea-ice-off-alaska/
# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
SSA Will Suspend Automatic Payments from May If You Fail to Meet These New Requirements
https://unionrayo.com/en/goodbye-social-security-checks-suspended-may-2025/
Trump Admin Proposes Eliminating Section 8 Housing Vouchers, Slashing Federal Housing Assistance. The plan would also cap rental aid for able-bodied adults at two years
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5374077/trump-budget-housing-rental-aid-hud-homelessness-funding
The end of the global aid industry. USAID’s demise is an opportunity to prioritize industrialization over charity.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/end-global-aid-industry
Escalating Anti-Homeless Policies Fall Hardest on Disabled People in the US. As legislative attacks on unhoused people ramp up, disabled people are on the front lines.
https://truthout.org/articles/escalating-anti-homeless-policies-fall-hardest-on-disabled-people-in-the-us/#:~:text=Experts%20warn%20that%20even%20more,to%20make%20medications%20more%20expensive
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