Voices, The Peoples News
May 28, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump’s Deportation Efforts Are About to Kill a 4-Year-Old. Doctors for the child, who has a life-threatening medical condition, say that stopping her treatment could prove fatal “within a matter of days.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/195741/donald-trump-deportation-kill-four-year-old
Trump Border Czar’s Cash-In With Key ICE Contractor Unmasked: President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan was cashing checks from one of the private prison giants now poised to profit from the immigration crackdown he’s overseeing.
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4026330904253-trump-border-czar-s-cash-in-with-key-ice-contractor-unmasked
‘Quintessential contempt of court’: Immigration advocates want to throw book at Florida AG for defying federal judge’s order halting immigration arrests
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/quintessential-contempt-of-court-immigration-advocates-want-to-throw-book-at-florida-ag-for-defying-federal-judges-order-halting-immigration-arrests/
‘Sick and very dangerous for our country’: Judge accuses Trump administration of ‘evasion’ in deportation case. Judge pleads with Trump administration for reason over rhetoric in deportation case. A Biden appointee issued a withering order Monday night rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay a ruling granting deportees bound for South Sudan certain protections.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/judge-trump-south-sudan-deportation-case-00369946
The Laws Propping Up Trump’s Masked Deportation Army. Across the country, unidentifiable law enforcement agents are snatching unsuspecting people off the streets where they live. But just because it’s beyond the pale doesn’t make it illegal.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195378/trump-masked-ice-deportation-immigration
A Danish father who came into the United States legally and was in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen has now spent well over a month in immigration detention after he was taken into custody at his citizenship interview in April.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dad-4-detained-final-citizenship-182717527.html
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE can access sensitive Treasury payment systems, judge rules. The ruling found that the Trump administration had shown it set up a process to appropriately vet and train the employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/judge-treasury-doge-access-data-payment-systems-00371969
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump’s Trade War is a Major Economic and Strategic Blunder. Despite proclaiming it “liberation day,” the Trump administration’s tariffs are hurting the U.S. economy, increasing inflation, and leaving America isolated on the world stage.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-trade-war-is-a-major-economic-and-strategic-blunder/
‘Higher than any other sustained stretch in U.S. history’: GOP bill threatens to make America two-thirds of global deficit problem. The market disturbance has caught the attention of economists and financial experts who previously dismissed debt concerns but are now sounding alarm bells.
https://www.newsbreak.com/we-got-this-covered-313382434/4025530978706-higher-than-any-other-sustained-stretch-in-u-s-history-gop-bill-threatens-to-make-america-two-thirds-of-global-deficit-problem
Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo quietly planning new ‘digital dollar’ after US penny set to disappear
https://cryptobriefing.com/joint-stablecoin-project-us-banks/
Walmart price hikes exposed as staff leak photos showing shocking increases. In a string of posts across Reddit, self-identified staffers say they’ve seen prices jump as much as 80 percent on popular items.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/walmart-price-hikes-exposed-as-staff-leak-photos-showing-shocking-increases/ar-AA1FBAVk
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ major step in dismantling the regulatory state with REINS Act. The regulatory state hamstrings everything from cosmetology to bridge placement. Reeling it in with the REINS Act may unleash billions in prosperity and remove the regulatory yokes from American manufacturers, business owners and consumers.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/poll-48-likely-us-voters-say-country-right-track-how-republicans-can-screw
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam. Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fury-harvard-gets-more-100000595.html
Trump administration moves to cut federal contracts with Harvard. In another blow to Harvard University, the Trump administration has moved to cancel federal contracts with the Ivy League school. A letter from the U.S. General Services Administration, which is dated Tuesday, tells agencies to submit a list of contracts they have terminated with the university by June 6.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413188/trump-harvard-federal-funds
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Federal Budget Proposal Calls for Elimination of Job Corps Program, Threatening Excelsior Springs Center and Hundreds of Local Jobs
https://excelsiorcitizen.com/federal-budget-proposal-calls-for-elimination-of-job-corps-program-threatening-excelsior-springs-center-and-hundreds-of-local-jobs/
Former Chick-fil-A employee says he faced monstrous racial abuse from coworkers and was fired after he complained. ‘Shut Up, Ape, Before I Put You In a Cage!’: Black Chick-fil-A Worker In Idaho Filed 30 Complaints But Was Forced to Endure the Racist Abuse Because Harassers ‘Couldn’t Be Fired,’ Lawsuit Claims
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ape-monkey-worse-former-chick-135416077.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Erupts Again, Spewing Lava 1,000 Feet High
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/hawaiis-kilauea-erupts-again-lava-soars-over-1-000-feet-in-fiery-spectacle-watch-11748290902452.html
A Seabird Chick With 778 Pieces of Plastic in Its Body Shows How Bad Marine Pollution Has Gotten. A new analysis found that ingesting plastic can disrupt proteins that facilitate key functions in seabirds—the latest in a series of unsettling discoveries about marine plastic pollution.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27052025/todays-climate-plastic-pollution-seabird-health-ocean/
Whales Are Dying With Stomachs Full of Plastic. Once ingested, the plastic piles up in the whale’s stomach. It can then obstruct bowels, preventing whales from digesting food and leading them to starve to death.
https://environmental-action.org/articles/whales-are-dying-with-stomachs-full-of-plastic/
# Gov / Politics
Trump threatens new ‘Dark Age’ with policy of ‘deliberate destruction’: Adam Serwer: “The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking, a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall.”
https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/27/the-new-dark-age/
‘Traitor!’ Onlookers appalled at Trump’s latest admission. The Bulwark’s Sam Stein expressed his incredulity on X, posting, “Trump just casually telling everyone he’s been helping out Putin?” while anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project declared, “There it is. Trump confirms what we’ve said all along – he’s been protecting Putin this entire time.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2672214883/
JD Vance has warned of a ‘real conflict’ if the courts are not ‘extremely deferential’ to the president, as the Trump administration grows frustrated over legal setbacks to their immigration agenda
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jd-vance-message-courts-trump-35291981
Trump terrified House Republicans ‘jumping ship’ will cause impeachment: report
https://www.rawstory.com/how-trump-plans-to-keep-the-house-red-in-2026-over-fears-of-a-third-impeachment/
‘No court may enforce contempt’: GOP slips Trump protection clause into spending bill that would let him ignore judges
https://www.newsweek.com/hidden-provision-trump-bill-court-2075769
Trump Administration Tightens Immigration Rules for Cubans, Signaling End of Decades-Long Exception. As federal authorities target former Cuban officials for deportation, long-standing protections for the country’s migrants face rollback
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-administration-tightens-immigration-rules-cubans-signaling-end-decades-long-exception-583809
Trump’s intelligence director peddles new conspiracy theory that stokes MAGA extremism — and even violence
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978463364/u-s-intelligence-agencies-warn-of-heightened-domestic-extremism-threat
American soft power is evaporating in the Age of Trump. Even for our billionaire president, it’s never enough. It’s much easier to exercise world leadership with willing followers won over by the form of diplomacy scholars have dubbed “soft power.” As the progenitor of the concept, Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, put it: “Seduction is always more effective than coercion. And many of our values, such as democracy, human rights, and individual opportunity, are deeply seductive.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/28/american-soft-power-is-evaporating-in-the-age-of/
This One SCOTUS Ruling Unleashed the Trump Chaos We’re Living in Now. The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision granting Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution looked disastrous from the moment it was released in July 2024.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-second-term-shows-john-094000610.html
Trump Reverts Back to Vision of U.S. as Hermit Country of People Who Make Screws for Each Other in Sweatshops. It was nice to be part of the global economy for a few weeks, wasn’t it?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-economy-tariffs-harvard-big-beautiful-bill-deficit.html
President Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on free speech and freedom of expression — this time demanding that the Federal Election Commission investigate musicians Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Bono.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen
35 Richest Republicans Set to ‘Line Their Own Pockets’ While Taking Food, Healthcare From Millions. “The Trump tax scam is a grift for the ultrarich, including those who are in charge of passing this legislation themselves, and a betrayal to hardworking Americans everywhere,” said the head of Accountable.US.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-beautiful-bill
# Gov / Politics / Global
Why Putin Ignores (and Insults) Trump. The Kremlin has brushed aside Trump’s recent criticism. It has little incentive not to.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-05-27/why-putin-ignores-and-insults-trump
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Report: State and local cops doing license plate lookups for ICE. “If ICE can use a nationwide network of license plate readers for its purposes, what’s stopping the government from using it?” asked one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-license-plate-reader
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
‘Hidden’ Provision in Trump’s Big Bill Could Disarm US Supreme Court
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-hidden-provision-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-might-undermine-us-supreme-court-authority/articleshow/121344844.cms?from=mdr
The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation—but Not the Fed. The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195765/supreme-court-trump-federal-reserve
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve. Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company to Truth Social, has announced plans to buy up billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trumps-media-conglomerate-is-becoming-a-bitcoin-reserve/
# Medicare / Medicaid
Fact Check: Yes, 13.7M in US may lose health insurance as Democrats claim — but GOP bill isn’t only culprit. According to a Congressional Budget Office preliminary estimate, about 13.7 million people would lose health insurance by 2034 due to what it described as the “combined effects of certain actions.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-13-7m-220400809.html
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail. Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.
https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/house-republicans-touched-the-third
# Medical / Health News / Covid / Biologicals
The top health authorities of the U.S. and Argentina are launching what they call an “alternative international health system” separate from the World Health Organization (WHO).
https://thehill.com/homenews/5320168-us-argentina-launch-alt-health-system/
‘Lie-laden rhetoric’ is hiding MAGA plot to make America’s poor sicker: “Looking away from Kennedy’s empty, lie-laden rhetoric to his actions, however, and another narrative emerges: He’s taking away health care, with a special emphasis on limiting access for women, minorities, children, and working people.”
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-health/
# Medical Science / Research
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349
‘Corrupt’ medical journals have to change, RFK Jr. says, or the NIH will publish in-house. The health secretary said The Lancet, NEJM, and JAMA have been influenced by the pharmaceutical industry
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-says-medical-journals-corrupt-so-nih-may-publish-in-house/
# Military / Militia / General News
Bombers, Fighters Unite in Rare 7-Plane Flyover
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-22-b-52-memorial-day-flyover/
About Time: Former Black Navy SEAL To Be Reinstated, Racist Team Members Will Be Disciplined
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/05/20/navy-seals-face-disciplinary-action-after-racist-memes-investigation/
World’s Most Secretive 737 Just Made A Very Rare Appearance. RAT55, a highly modified Air Force NT-43A, bounces around between secretive test bases and is used to collect radar data on stealthy aircraft in-flight.
https://www.twz.com/air/worlds-most-secretive-737-rat55-just-made-a-rare-public-appearance
Pentagon gets first hypersonic missile defense radar in bid to keep pace with adversaries’ arsenals
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-05-27/hypersonic-missile-radar-17925049.html
# Military / General News / Global
China’s New KJ-3000 Airborne Early Warning Radar Jet Seen In Detail In New Image. The KJ-3000 will be the crown jewel in China’s rapidly expanding armada of airborne early warning and control aircraft.
https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-new-kj-3000-airborne-early-warning-radar-jet-seen-in-detail-in-new-image
# NOAA / Weather
Expert sounds alarm over concerning weather phenomenon brewing in Atlantic waters: ‘Be prepared for the hazards.’ “This information is important for early preparation and awareness.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/2025-hurricane-season-activity-forecast/
# Pharmaceuticals
What the Walgreens buyout could mean for the future of pharmacy care
https://theconversation.com/public-health-and-private-equity-what-the-walgreens-buyout-could-mean-for-the-future-of-pharmacy-care-253598
# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
House Republicans Push to Drop SNAP Dependent ‘Exemption’ Age From 18 To 7: Under current SNAP regulations, adults classified as ABAWD (able-bodied adult without dependents) are exempt from having to meet SNAP work requirements—80 hours a month—if they have someone under 18 years of age in their household. But under the new definition touted in the legislation, this would be lowered to 7 years old.
https://www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit-rules-change-children-aged-7-above-2072111
# Veterans / VA
VA employees are ‘fearful, paranoid, demoralized’ as officials share few specifics to axe 83,000 employees
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/veterans-affairs-job-cuts-trump-musk-collins-b2758505.html
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