Voices, The Peoples News
June 4, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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When we were young, the monsters lived under the bed.
Now, they write policy. [Nation of Change . org]
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Think Trump’s deportations have been bad? Wait until his civilian army gets started: Research on this type of group suggests three patterns: 1:These groups are tasked with committing human rights violations in pursuit of government’s political goals. 2: The current domestic political environment in the U.S. is conducive to their formation. 3: Groups like this allow federal government officials, and the president to evade accountability for illegal or inhumane tactics.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5325548-erik-prince-paramilitary-proposal-immigration/
Trump Disappeared Them to El Salvador. Now, They’re Being Erased by Immigration Courts. At least 14 cases of Venezuelans sent to a Salvadoran mega prison have been dismissed by US immigration judges.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/el-salvador-cecot-venezulean-frizgeralth-cornejo-immigration-courts-erasing-cases-trump/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-06-02-2025
# Chemicals / Herbicides / Pesticides / Bugs
White House proposal would shut down the nation’s top chemical safety agency. The Trump administration is attempting to once again eliminate the small agency charged with investigating dangerous chemical accidents and releases.
https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/26901-the-chemical-safety-board-faces-elimination-in-white-house-fy-2026-budget-proposal
The Government’s Chemical Disaster Tracking Tool Just Went Dark. The Environmental Protection Agency just hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities.
https://www.levernews.com/the-governments-chemical-disaster-tracking-tool-just-went-dark/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on two American companies. Trump said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies, Apple and Mattel, with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/business/trump-tariffs-apple-iphone-mattel-barbie
New U.S. Budget Proposal Slashes Billions in Funds for Science. Among the proposed cuts: A 9.4% cut, or $4.7 billion, to the Department of Energy. A 54% cut, or $5 billion, to the Environmental Protection Agency. A 30.5% cut, or $5.1 billion, to the Interior Department, including $198 billion from the Bureau of Land Management, $900 million from the National Park Service, and $564 million from the U.S. Geological Survey. And so much more.
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/new-u-s-budget-proposal-slashes-billions-in-funds-for-science
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Trump administration threatens to pull funding from New York schools over Native American mascot ban
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-threatens-to-pull-funding-from-new-york-schools-over-native-american-mascot-ban/ar-AA1FQtzm?cvid=addd25dd27f540088893b347779e5f85&ocid=ansmsnweather
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Militant Grad Workers Build Union Power to Fight Attacks on Education and Labor. In this moment, organized labor can both intervene to defend people and articulate a different vision for higher ed.
https://truthout.org/articles/militant-grad-workers-build-union-power-to-fight-attacks-on-education-and-labor/
Judge Blocks Trump’s Union-Busting Plan At TSA. The judge determined that Trump’s effort to throw out collective bargaining rights for TSA screeners was probably illegal.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tsa-union-injunction_n_683e2836e4b02a49cce697de
Republican Mega-Bill Charges Federal Workers for Basic Rights on the Job. If the spending bill is passed, an estimated three-quarters of eligible federal workers may be coerced into at-will employment
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-03-republican-mega-bill-charges-federal-workers-for-basic-rights/
At-will employment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump budget proposes closing Northeast heating oil reserve
https://energynews.oedigital.com/refined-products/2025/06/02/trump-budget-proposes-closing-northeast-heating-oil-reserve
Gassed Up: Trump Aims to Quickly Approve 14 Climate-Destroying Methane Gas Export Terminals. The supply agreements executed so far by the 14 terminals represent more than 510 million metric tons of climate pollution–equivalent to the annual emissions of 135 new coal plants.
https://www.citizen.org/article/gassed-up-trump-aims-to-quickly-approve-14-climate-destroying-methane-gas-export-terminals/
The Massive Pipeline Buildout in the U.S. Is Mostly for Gas Going Overseas. Plans for U.S. gas pipelines could lock in a dramatic increase in fossil fuel exports and their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report finds.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062025/us-gas-pipeline-buildout-mostly-for-export/
A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill. A last-minute provision to the Republican budget bill will allow a Chilean magnate with ties to the Trump family to mine protected lands.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/chile-mining-trump-luksic-environment
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Small eruption captured on camera in Yellowstone National Park. “It is likely that these small eruptions are a result of the hydrothermal plumbing system for the pool adjusting after the major disruption of the larger explosion last summer,” USGS Scientist-in-Charge Michael Poland told USA TODAY.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/03/pool-eruption-explosion-yellowstone-biscuit-basin/84016399007/
A baffling, dangerous explosion in Yellowstone: What is a hydrothermal explosion?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/24/what-is-a-hydrothermal-explosion/74524082007/
A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans. New research indicates that more than a fifth of the global ocean has darkened over the past two decades, with the depths that sunlight can penetrate significantly retreating.
https://futurism.com/darkness-spreading-oceans
Toxic sludge from Louisiana’s only alumina refinery flowed into public waters for months
https://www.rawstory.com/red-alert-a-louisiana-refinery-spilled-toxic-waste-into-the-community-and-knew/
Long-thwarted efforts to sell public lands see new life under Trump. Some Western states have long pushed to reduce federal ownership.
https://stateline.org/2025/06/04/long-thwarted-efforts-to-sell-public-lands-see-new-life-under-trump/
# Food / General News
Chinese-owned US farmland raises concerns of foreign drone attacks. There are currently nearly 370,000 acres of farmland the Chinese own. Several of those sites have been linked to the mysterious drone sightings that took place across the United States last fall.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-owned-us-farmland-raises-181829649.html
# General News
“Disgusting Abomination”: Cold War Between Musk and Trump Explodes Into Public. In a scorching tweet today, billionaire Elon Musk took aim at president Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill,” excorciating it as a “disgusting abomination” that will massively increase the federal budget deficit.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-war
# Gov / Politics
Transcript: Trump Rages at GOP Bill Fiasco as Elon Admits It’s a Scam. As Trump erupts at foes of the GOP budget bill and Elon Musk reveals it’s all a sham, the author of a new piece on Musk explains how all this fits into the 50-year GOP project of redistributing wealth upwards.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196100/transcript-trump-rages-gop-bill-fiasco-elon-admits-it-scam
Andrew Cuomo Wants To Spearhead His Party’s Campaign Against Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2025/06/03/cuomos-national-strategy-00381792
White House Sends Congress $9.4B Rescissions Package. The White House sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package partly aimed at codifying work done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to Congress.
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5330575-white-house-congress-doge-cuts-usaid-npr-pbs/
Trump Admin ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Legal Challenges as Justice Department Left Short-Staffed by Cuts, California AG Says. California has already filed or joined 22 lawsuits against Trump’s second-term administration
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-admin-cant-keep-legal-challenges-justice-department-left-short-staffed-cuts-584148
Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/
Controversial Tarrant County redistricting approved amid public protests and partisan debates
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/tarrant-county-redistricting-approved-amid-public-protests-and-partisan-debates/
We Will Not Be Drawn Out: The Fight for Fair Maps in Tarrant County, Texas
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-will-not-be-drawn-out-the-fight-for-fair-maps-in-tarrant-county-texas/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Potential ‘agroterrorism weapon’ fungus smuggled into US by Chinese scientists, FBI alleges. Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu charged after allegedly smuggling a fungus to US that can cause serious illness and billions of dollars in crop losses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/potential-agroterrorism-weapon-fungus-smuggled-into-us-by-chinese-scientists-fbi-alleges
# LGBTQ / Gender
Transgender Troops Face Tough Decision As Deadline to Self-ID Looms. Active-duty transgender troops have until June 6 to self-identify and begin the voluntary separation process or wait and risk possible involuntary separation later
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/default/?year&signoff=true
Another Major LGBT Pride Event Bleeds Corporate Sponsors During Trump’s Second Term
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/03/iowa-pride-event-loses-sponsors-trump/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts — to finance a big tax cut mostly for the wealthy
https://www.alternet.org/trump-medicaid-lies/
Republicans Are Flat-Out Lying About Their Medicaid Cuts. Lawmakers are claiming they’re actually ‘protecting’ Medicaid by kicking millions off of the program and decreasing spending. Republicans’ current reconciliation bill will kick an estimated 15 million Americans off of their health care coverage by 2034.
https://dccc.org/new-republicans-are-flat-out-lying-about-their-medicaid-cuts-rolling-stone/
Seniors Miss Social Security Tax Breaks As Medicare Faces Massive Cuts
https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/4034356767123-seniors-miss-social-security-tax-breaks-as-medicare-faces-massive-cuts?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDg5MTY1Mjc4MDI%3D
Social Security chief makes defiant pledge as fears rise benefits will be exhausted in just 8 years
https://www.the-sun.com/money/14383370/social-security-chief-pledge-funds-gone-soon/
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Continues Assault on Obamacare
https://www.mmm-online.com/news/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-continues-assault-on-obamacare/
Republicans Are Mocking Americans They Want to Take Medicaid Away From. Mike Johnson said that people raising alarm about Medicaid cuts are “complaining.”
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-mocking-americans-they-want-to-take-medicaid-away-from/
# Medical / Health News / Covid / Biologicals
RFK Jr.’s health report relies on fake studies and AI-generated fabrications
https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-s-answer-to-us-health-crisis-is-citations-made-up-by-ai/
Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990–2019 and review of the medical literature
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750021001268
Trump ends program in severe blow to development of critical HIV vaccines. Public health experts have claimed that Trump’s move to dissolve the department will reportedly derail hard-won progress against HIV over the past few decades
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/trump-ends-program-severe-blow-1185068
Hospitals Aren’t Required to Perform Emergency Abortions, Feds Now Say: Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-emtala-biden-trump-emergency-hospital-3640bff165dac1d28b91e8adee7e47dd
# Military / Militia / General News
What will DOD civilians do at the border? The Pentagon won’t say. The Pentagon will send some civilian employees to support the Homeland Security Department with the southern border mission and “internal immigration enforcement,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/06/what-will-dod-civilians-do-border-pentagon-wont-say/405779/
Pentagon to Redraw Command Map to More Closely Align Greenland with the US. The Pentagon’s move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/pentagon-greenland-northern-command-00381223
US Firm BCG Pulls Out of US’s Gaza “Humanitarian” Scheme as Casualties Rack Up. Over 600 Palestinians have been killed or injured near the US-backed sites in just a week.
https://www.aol.com/news/us-consulting-group-terminates-contract-162310859.html
# Military / General News / Global
Israeli Forces Gun Down Dozens More Palestinians at Another Gaza Food Site
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/more-than-2-dozen-killed-as-gazans-again-face-gunfire-outside-humanitarian-aid-site
# NOAA / Weather
Trump cuts leave National Weather Service scrambling to cover vital shifts. The National Weather Service is offering transfers to meteorologists to fill staffing vacancies after Trump administration budget and staff cuts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/15/noaa-national-weather-service-will-move-people-to-fill-vacancies/83640852007/
Weather Service rehiring at offices left ‘critically understaffed’ by layoffs
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5329625-nws-seeks-hire-126-people/
# Pharmaceuticals
FDA Approves New Moderna COVID Vaccine, Clinical Trials Show It Causes Serious Adverse Events in 2.7% of Recipients
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-approves-new-moderna-covid-vaccine-mnexspike-john-campbell/
# Science / Science Engineers
Scientists Create Biodegradable Plastic Alternative That’s Literally Alive. Swiss scientists have created a new plastic-like material that’s flexible, biodegradable, and even edible. The secret? It’s still alive. The researchers processed fibers from the mycelium (the root-like part) of the split-gill mushroom (Schizophyllum commune) into a liquid mixture, without actually killing them off or destroying their natural biological functions.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-biodegradable-plastic-alternative-thats-literally-alive
# Security / DHS / Surveillance / Cybersecurity / Spyware
Rep. Jerry Nadler demands investigation after DHS entered his office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/jerry-nadler-ice-investigation-trump-jim-jordan
# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Republicans threaten to cut 300 billion from SNAP in ‘big bill.’ More Than 2 Million Children Live in Households That Would Lose at Least Some SNAP Benefits; SNAP Could End in Some States Entirely
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-reconciliation-bill-proposes-deepest-snap-cut-in-history-would-take
# Solar Activity
Can anyone explain why I saw two suns over northern Wisconsin today? I did see this with my own eyes before I took the picture. It was very hazy out from the Canadian wildfires.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/149p5pq/can_anyone_explain_why_i_saw_two_suns_over/
‘Two suns’ spotted in China defy explanation. The double sun image is an effect of optical refraction, Kaler said, but it’s a “pretty darn rare” one, and one not fully explained by science.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna41927089
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
The Mar-a-Lago Project: Big Tech and President Trump are joining forces in a desperate race with China to build the world’s first AI Superweapon…And a small handful of virtually unknown stocks could skyrocket as a result
https://secure.brownstoneresearch.com/?cid=MKT835809&eid=MKT836382&tid=8684629e22a94796992d398e2505de3c&oid=12&affid=45&uid=0&aff_click_id=j.selman.1234@livingston.net&assetId=AST367688&page=1
# Veterans / VA
US marine veteran takes a stand against Trump: ‘He’s tearing the country apart’: Morgan Akin, 84, has taken down his American flag – and taken to the streets in his conservative California community. It was Akin’s way of taking a stand in response to a country that had become increasingly unrecognizable to him.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/us-marine-veteran-trump-california
Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance. With the Republican president determined to continue slashing the federal government, the burden will only grow on veterans, who make up roughly 30% of the federal workforce and often tap government benefits they earned with their military service.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance
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