Voices, The Peoples News
May 23, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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“Until man learns to respect nature and understand the language
of animals, he will never realize his rightful place on Earth.”
Legendary Italian diver Enzo Mallorca
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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net
# Indigenous
Native Tribes to Sue U.S. Over Abuse and Deaths at Boarding Schools
https://pechanga.net/native-tribes-sue-us-over-abuse-and-deaths-at-boarding-schools-p61202-257.htm
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump supporter snatched, shackled and imprisoned by ICE after forgetting to fill out form 10 years ago. Back in 2015 Eriksen failed to complete Form I-751, “Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence,” just one of the countless steps on his legal path to getting full U.S. citizenship.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/trump-supporter-snatched-shackled-and-imprisoned-by-ice-after-forgetting-to-fill-out-form-10-years-ago/
More than 1,100 troops have been approved to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Northern Command announced May 22. Some of the duties for the approximately 1,115 service members with Joint Task Force-Southern Border will include coordinating logistics, providing food and water to personnel in the field and constructing mobility routes and force protection infrastructure.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-05-22/more-us-troops-deploy-border-17880015.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
GOP Budget Prioritises the Wealthy Over Working Families: Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds. The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is already fueling Democratic accusations that the legislation is a giveaway to the rich.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/cbo-wealthy-gain-low-income-people-lose-from-gop-megabill-00361987
Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn
https://newrepublic.com/post/195520/donald-trump-tariffs-killing-us-economy-experts-warn
The Wall Street Journal Nails Trump Over Crypto Scheme Designed to ‘Enrich’ His Family
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/the-wall-street-journal-nails-trump-over-crypto-scheme-designed-to-enrich-his-family/
Japan Bonds Surge Sparks Wall Street Bear’s Warning Of ‘Global Armageddon,’ Calls JGB Long End ‘Most Important Thing’ For Investors To Track
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/bonds/25/05/45583866/japan-bonds-surge-sparks-wall-street-bears-warning-of-global-armageddon-calls-jgb-long-end-most-important-thing-for-investors-to-track
Trump recommends 50% tariff on EU starting June 1. Trump, who last month imposed sweeping tariffs on countries around the world, also argued in recommending the EU tariffs that the group was formed “primarily” to take collective economic advantage of the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/trump-tariffs-european-union
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Dismantle Education Department; “The White House is not above the law.”
https://rollcall.com/2025/05/22/judge-blocks-trumps-efforts-to-shutter-education-department/
DHS Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says move is response to university’s refusal to comply with Trump’s demands.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/22/trump-blocks-harvards-ability-to-enroll-international-students-nyt-report
Kristi Noem Tells Fox News Her Ban On All of Harvard’s Foreign Students is a ‘Warning to Every Other University’
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5315551-kristi-noem-harvard-university-ban-international-enrollment-warning/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Global
U.S. backs plan to explore deep-sea mining near American Samoa amid legal and environmental concerns. The move comes after an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at quickening access to critical seabed resources in the interest of national security and economic development.
https://www.benzinga.com/25/05/45583320/trump-administration-opens-door-to-seabed-mining-in-american-samoa-despite-experts-estimating-only-11-of-required-scientific-knowledge-is-available
As glaciers vanish, salmon gain new habitat and mining companies race for gold. At the foot of the glacier sits a silty, gray lake, a reservoir of glacial runoff. The lake is vast, deeper than Seattle’s Space Needle is tall. But it didn’t exist a few decades ago, before 2 miles of ice had melted.
https://alaskapublic.org/news/environment/2025-05-21/as-glaciers-melt-salmon-and-mining-companies-are-vying-for-the-new-territory
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Tornadoes tear through Black neighborhoods in St. Louis as FEMA delays and warning systems fail. Just weeks before, Trump slashed nearly $1B in disaster aid meant for Black and low-income neighborhoods.
https://capitalbnews.org/st-louis-tornado-black-communities/
# Food / General News
Federal funding cuts are starving food banks
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/
# Gov / Politics
‘This Dinner Is Corruption Embodied’: Protest Planned as Trump Dines With Crypto Investors. “Offering special access to the president in exchange for a scheme that enriches the president borders on bribery.” Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun and other moguls, spent nearly $400 million combined to obtain access to the president, who has openly solicited purchases of the crypto token $TRUMP.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-crypto-dinner
Senate Republicans Bypass Filibuster to Advance ‘Brazenly Corrupt Handout to Big Polluters’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-republicans-filibuster-2672188259
The Curious Case of the Republican Medicaid Turncoats. Six House Republicans opposed Medicaid cuts, then voted for them. It turns out that will grant them a big tax break
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-22-republican-medicaid-turncoats-congress-reconciliation-bill/
Trump administration violated ‘impoundment’ law by freezing electric vehicle funding, GAO finds
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/trump-administration-violated-impoundment-law-gao-finds-00365728
“This Is A Sad Day For America” — MAGA Supporters Have A LOT To Say About Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Tax Bill, And It’s Not What I Was Expecting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sad-day-america-maga-supporters-212731345.html
Trump’s White House Goes From Hiding 80% Of His Transcribed Remarks To Hiding 99.5%
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-transcript-purge_n_682f797de4b0e1fe96d64b10?origin=top-ad-recirc
George Latimer: We must stand up for America and its pillars of democracy, now. Rep. George Latimer argues that recent political actions in the U.S. mirror authoritarian tactics seen in other countries. He criticizes the undermining of the free press, cuts to public education and arts funding, and the targeting of judges. Latimer calls for courage and action to protect democratic principles and institutions.
https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2025/05/20/george-latimer-american-democrays-pillars-are-under-threat-opinion/83670179007/
Trump claims autism is ‘artificially induced’ in unhinged rant on childhood diseases
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-claims-autism-is-artificially-induced-in-unhinged-rant-on-childhood-diseases/ar-AA1Fj5XU
‘They don’t serve the people’: Jasmine Crockett exposes the ugly reality of Republicans’ ‘beautiful’ bill — and she’s not holding back
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/they-dont-serve-the-people-jasmine-crockett-exposes-the-ugly-reality-of-republicans-beautiful-bill-and-shes-not-holding-back/
Trump officials could face criminal contempt over South Sudan deportations, judge says. It’s the latest rebuke in an escalating clash over Trump’s deportation agenda. Several judges have now accused the administration of defying the courts.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/21/trump-deportations-south-sudan-00362919
New law would stop foreign adversaries from ‘buying up our country’ while Americans can’t afford homes
https://harrigan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-pat-harrigan-introduces-real-estate-reciprocity-act-block-foreign
Trump photo of dead ‘White farmers’ is from Congo, not South Africa, Reuter’s video shows: Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo. Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/trumps-evidence-of-south-africa-white-genocide-contains-images-from-democratic-republic-of-congo
# Gov / Politics / Global
Haiti calls for urgent regional gang-fighting support as US shies off funding. The plea came as the United States signaled it would not continue funding a U.N.-backed security mission aimed at stabilizing the country.
https://anewz.tv/world/world-news/7603/haiti-urges-regional-action-against-gangs-as-us-signals-wi/news
Systematic Starvation: Genocide and the Engineered Collapse of Gazan Society. The deliberate destruction of food systems, water infrastructure, medical systems, and communal cohesion is not incidental, it is an intentional form of warfare aimed at inducing despair, division, and eventual displacement.
https://qoshe.com/common-dreams-us/yoav-litvin/systematic-starvation-genocide-and-the-engineered-collapse-of-gazan-society/182730262
Trump’s military parade includes a dog and pony show. And the dog is named Doc Holliday
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-military-parade-dog-pony-show-dog-named/story?id=122078998
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Four Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Read the First Amendment
https://newrepublic.com/post/195621/supreme-court-justices-first-amendment-religious-charter-schools-ruling
First Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Judge holds Trump DHS ‘in contempt’ after ‘deeply disturbing’ move: legal expert
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-contempt-deeply-disturbing-vance/
Bragg: New discovery law removes judges’ handcuffs — so my prosecutors will try more cases
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/opinion/bragg-with-new-discovery-law-my-office-will-try-more-cases/
# Medicare / Medicaid
‘Call This What It Is—Theft’: Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History. “The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it’s people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost.
https://www.alternet.org/big-beautiful-bill-passes-house/
‘We’re talking about nearly 14M people’: Hakeem Jeffries exposes the truth of the Medicaid cuts
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/were-talking-about-nearly-14m-people-hakeem-jeffries-exposes-twisted-logic-behind-gops-new-medicaid-gutting-scheme/
# Medical / Health News / Covid / Biologicals
WHO is finalizing a new treaty that prepares for the next pandemic − but the US isn’t signing
https://theconversation.com/who-is-finalizing-a-new-treaty-that-prepares-for-the-next-pandemic-but-the-us-isnt-signing-256191
The orchestrated autism cover-up from 25 years ago continues today. It’s time the truth is revealed. CHD will expose what happened behind closed doors at the secret Simpsonwood meeting in June of 2000, where CDC, FDA, WHO and pharma officials reviewed explosive data linking vaccines with autism and neurological damage… and then buried it. [Definate must see!]
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/simpsonwood-2025/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_id=20250523
# Military / Militia / General News
A Single Server Holds All Navy Pay and Promotion Data. DOGE Canceled a Contract to Upload It to the Cloud.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/22/single-server-holds-all-navy-pay-and-promotion-data-doge-canceled-contract-upload-it-cloud.html
The Pentagon’s IT agency will lose nearly 10 percent of its total staff as part of the Trump administration’s push to slash the federal workforce, the agency’s director told senators May 21.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/05/dods-tech-agency-braces-10-workforce-cut/405512/
Army air defense systems deploy to the Arctic, Africa for first time. The Sgt. STOUT and Avenger, both mobile air defense systems, deployed for major European and African exercises
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-army/2025/05/21/army-air-defense-systems-deploy-to-the-arctic-africa-for-first-time/
# NASA
NASA shutters iconic New York climate lab as Trump slashes Earth science budget
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/17/trump-nasa-goddard-office
# NOAA / Weather
NOAA is predicting up to 19 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes affecting the US this year. Graham urged people to begin stocking up on emergency supplies, including gas and other essentials, before long lines form during an actual emergency.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/millions-of-americans-told-to-stock-up-on-supplies-now-as-killer-hurricanes-set-to-start-in-days/ar-AA1Fi1Ws?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds
# Pharmaceuticals
Trump Wants Pharmaceutical Tariffs Soon — Here’s Which Drugs Could Disappear From Hospitals First. From epidurals to life-saving cancer treatments, the results could be disastrous.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pharmaceutical-drug-tariff-disappearance_l_682ccc5de4b0bf653cd67449
Pfizer, Moderna Must Add Stronger Warnings About Possible Heart Damage From COVID Vaccines, FDA Says
https://www.biospace.com/fda/fda-asks-pfizer-biontech-moderna-to-add-myocarditis-risk-to-covid-19-vaccines
‘This Is Going to Be a Slog’: Senate Hearing on Cover-Up of COVID Vaccine Risks Just the ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Johnson Tells Committee
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ron-johnson-senate-hearing-covid-vaccine-risks-cover-up/
FDA Vaccine Advisers Vote on New COVID Vaccine Formula Amid Calls to Pull Shots From the Market
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-vaccine-advisers-vote-new-covid-vaccine-formula-amid-calls-pull-shots/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250522
# Planetary
Researchers think the Earth may be spinning slower because of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam.
https://www.uniladtech.com/science/news/nasa-huge-man-made-structure-slowing-earths-rotation-139079-20250430
# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
‘No Taxes on Social Security’ Modified for 2 Reasons. ‘The President and House Republicans are providing much needed tax relief to middle and low-income seniors,’ says Jim Martin, 60 Plus Association chairman.
https://www.thestreet.com/retirement/social-security-income-tax-deduction-clears-critical-hurdle
Seniors Choosing Between Food and Rent As Social Security Reclaims Funds
https://www.newsbreak.com/money-talks-news-2283881/4018858048696-seniors-choosing-between-food-and-rent-as-social-security-reclaims-funds
Some Social Security Benefit Recipients Told They’re Not Getting Payments. The disruption came amid sweeping job cuts and downsizing efforts at SSA under directives from the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which recently cut 50,000 jobs from the agency.
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-benefit-recipients-suddenly-told-theyre-not-getting-payments-2056926
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
CIA Says Winning Tech War With China Top Priority, Citing ‘Existential Threat’ to US
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/deputy-cia-director-ellis-china-spying
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