Voices, The Peoples News
June 18, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Trump Orders ICE to Ravage Democratic Cities After Countrywide Protests. Trump says he’s ordering his entire administration to attack cities he calls “the Democrat Power Center.”
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-orders-ice-to-ravage-democratic-cities-after-countrywide-protests/
Trump’s Two-Track Immigration Crackdown: As we’ve noted here before, the Agriculture Department has estimated that 42% of hired crop farmworkers were not legally allowed to work in the U.S. That’s millions of laborers doing jobs that native-born workers have shown no interest in taking up.
https://www.usnews.com/news/u-s-news-decision-points/articles/2025-06-17/brace-for-trumps-two-track-immigration-enforcement
ICE says it deported more than 500 people in the Houston area in one week. The agency did not offer details about the types of crimes or immigration violations the majority of the people were accused of.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/13/texas-houston-ice-deportations/
Looking Latino Is Grounds for Deportation … in Blue States. Trump’s order to ICE to seize California’s undocumented, ignoring those in Texas or Florida, is profoundly partisan.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-06-17-looking-latino-grounds-for-deportation-blue-states/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at January 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to-heaven-flag-sba-government-agency-dc/
Gary residents demand cleaner air as Nippon Steel takes control of U.S. Steel plant
https://www.ehn.org/gary-residents-demand-cleaner-air-as-nippon-steel-takes-control-of-u-s-steel-plant
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump’s Big Bill Would Increase Deficits by $2.8 Trillion on a Dynamic Basis: CBO
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-trump-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-355a929637110adf1712df882360a995
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/
Officially, 59,000 federal jobs are gone under Trump. There’s more to the picture
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5421277/trump-federal-workers-layoffs-doge
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil. A provision inserted by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) would exempt many domestic oil and gas drillers from having to pay any corporate taxes.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/06/18/senate_bill_gives_giant_tax_break_to_big_oil_1117341.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump ends Columbia River salmon deal, halting dam removal and energy transition plans
https://www.ehn.org/trump-ends-columbia-river-salmon-deal-halting-dam-removal-and-energy-transition-plans
Locals oppose ‘insane’ plan to sell 500,000 acres of public lands for housing in Nevada and Utah. Nevada’s congressional delegation, environmental groups, tribes and local officials see the late-night amendment to House Republicans’ budget bill as a threat to the state’s water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15052025/nevada-utah-public-lands-housing-development/
Giant Volcano Eruption Triggers Emergency Evacuations and Grounds Flights. Lewotobi volcano has erupted in Indonesia, sending a cloud of fiery ash high into the sky.
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-volcano-huge-eruption-fiery-ash-cloud-explodes-33000-feet-high-2086578
# Food / SNAP [Food Stamps] / General News
Trump Chickens Out on Major Immigration Flip. Donald Trump has decided he’s OK with hurting farmers, actually.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-chickened-out-gobsmacking-flipflop/
# General News
The Minnesota Shootings Were Shocking. Then the Details Really Started Coming Out. A reporter on the killing of “the Nancy Pelosi of Minnesota”—and all that came after.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-shooting-lawmakers-timeline-boelter-08189f917904a9e5e79f5df948503a4f
# Gov / Politics
It Really Looks Like the U.S. Is Headed for War With Iran. There are several problems the president doesn’t seem to have thought all the way through.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/iran-trump-us-war-israel.html
‘The Project’ explores Project 2025’s origins and goals to reshape American culture. Many of the policies enacted by the Trump administration with lightning speed in these first 100 days were initially laid out two years ago in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Full Transcript.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-project-explores-project-2025s-origins-and-goals-to-reshape-american-culture
Trump’s Judicial Nominees Can’t Say Whether Jan. 6 Happened. Where Are the Democrats?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/trump-judge-nominee-jan-6-answer-smdh.html?pay=1750255745040&support_journalism=please
Trump Warns “We” Control Iran’s Airspace in Ominous Post. Donald Trump casually conflated the U.S. and Israel in the terrifying threat.
https://newrepublic.com/post/196916/donald-trump-threat-israel-iran-airspace
Trump Completely Brushes Off Tulsi Gabbard in Iran Comments. Donald Trump’s decisions regarding Israel’s war in Iran fly in the face of his own intelligence community.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5356672-jd-vance-tulsi-gabbard-donald-trump-iran-israel-conflict/
Russian-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/russian-iranian-cooperation-and-threats-us-interests
Republican Spending Bill Throws $156 Billion at Defense Contractors. Experts say its military spending isn’t grounded in strategy, would line the pockets of defense corporations, and would redirect the military to domestic deportations.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-17-republican-spending-bill-throws-156-billion-at-defense-contractors/
As Trump Weighs Attack Plans, Iran Says US Intervention Would Be ‘Recipe for All-Out War’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-us-war
# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran Used Secret U.N. Records to Evade Nuclear Probes. Internal IAEA documents, obtained by Iranian intelligence, were sent to top officials amid an investigation into a suspected past nuclear-weapons program
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-used-secret-u-n-records-to-evade-nuclear-probes-11653473247?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAjOKpIL3jQUc3QGJXCzPVdAFjox8EKcuRgrA9BcH1j750OUg_fjhxQA-aQdn4M%3D&gaa_ts=6852dd32&gaa_sig=X5v8rgjRDExiRALbTfKetD3eHNajXBmcXZgLlbBydImhoNU0qyoqGG3mFeI-XP9HQyBO9spxeITqMrCZGyAWzQ%3D%3D
# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Chinese Police Stations in North America? Crack down on illegal Chinese police stations in the US
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4008817-crack-down-on-illegal-chinese-police-stations-in-the-u-s/
Former aide who refuted Trump’s false 2020 election claims is under federal investigation. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Chris Krebs is “under active investigation by law enforcement agencies” but declined to say why.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-aide-refuted-trumps-false-223422752.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump reaches deals with 5 law firms, allowing them to avoid prospect of punishing executive orders
https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-executive-order-fe8f38a61cf77c5bb6add1315f5f96f1
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Donald Trump has declared war on the free press for one reason: Because he knows that killing independent journalism is a key step towards dismantling democracy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-abc-settlement/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Trump’s Plan Is Pushing Health Insurers to Hike Premiums
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/tariffs-health-insurance-premium-hikes
Republican factions gawk at Senate’s tax, Medicaid changes to ‘big, beautiful bill.’ The Senate Finance Committee’s tax and health care additions to Republicans’ multitrillion-dollar policy megabill include deal-breaking changes that have thrown congressional Republicans in disarray.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_193cd7a1-9773-44a0-9a7c-a75ee754f0e5.html
# Medical / Health News / Covid / Biologicals
Brain-dead mom forced to be kept alive because of Georgia’s anti-abortion laws gives birth via C-section. Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old brain-dead Atlanta woman, gave birth on June 13 and will be removed from life support on Tuesday under Georgia abortion laws, her family says.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/georgia-brain-dead-mom-gives-birth-b2771564.html
Why Are Medical Students, or Anyone for Matter, Still Required to Get COVID Vaccines? COVID-19 vaccines aren’t harmless. Myocarditis hits young men at a rate of 1-10 per 100,000 mRNA doses, according to a 2022 Journal of the American Medical Association study. Medical schools, in particular, should know better. They should move away from anachronistic, lockstep, doctrinaire mandates.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/why-medical-students-anyone-still-required-covid-vaccines/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250617
# Military / Militia / National Guard / General News
Army Bringing in Tech Executives as Lieutenant Colonels. The Army is swearing in top tech executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir as senior officers to be part-time advisors.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-army-tech-executives/
U.S. Air Force Fighters Deploy To Reinforce Middle East. The Pentagon is expanding its tactical options by using the tankers it just deployed to flow additional fighters into the region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzKYvIoDgU
U.S. Air Force Mobilizes F-22s and F-35s as Situation in Middle East Escalates
https://theaviationist.com/2025/06/17/usaf-mobilizes-f-22s-f-35s-middle-east/
Pentagon Shifts Greenland to US Northern Command in Shakeup. “Aligning Greenland with NORTHCOM will mean that it is treated not as an outpost, but as a cornerstone of U.S. security,” a former Pentagon official said.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_32b2c023-0921-4199-b766-cf850dbbd8fc.html
Army Eliminates Office for Minimizing Civilian Deaths on Battlefields. The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which once housed roughly 30 staff, has been folded into the Army’s dense web of unrelated bureaucratic policy shops.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/13/army-eliminates-office-minimizing-civilian-deaths-battlefields.html
# Military / General News / Global
Iran Must Be Stripped of All Nuclear Capabilities. Iran Already Has Enough Highly-Enriched Uranium to Produce Multiple Nuclear Weapons Within Weeks—and Can Deliver Them
https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/iran-must-be-stripped-of-all-nuclear-capabilities
Israeli Airstrikes Blunt Iranian Long-Range Ballistic Missile Threat (Updated). As Israel claims to have destroyed a large portion of Iran’s long-range missile launchers, the number of weapons fired in each barrage has also plummeted.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/israeli-airstrikes-blunt-iranian-long-range-ballistic-missile-launch-capabilities?utm_term=The%20War%20Zone_Wire_06.17.25&utm_campaign=The%20War%20Zone_Dedicated/Sales&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
Inspired By Ukraine War, Europe Is Developing Shahed-Style One-Way Attack Drones. European missile-maker MBDA is enlisting an automotive manufacturer to ensure the kamikaze drones can be rapidly built in mass.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inspired-ukraine-war-europe-developing-192703911.html
Israeli strikes have not knocked out Iran’s nuclear programme – or its nuclear ambitions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/israels-gamble-on-force-could-push-iran-to-accelerate-nuclear-plans
# Nuclear
Trump removes nuclear safety commissioner in unusual shake-up. President Trump removed a Democratic member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission late Friday, a move the commissioner says violates federal law.
https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-regulatory-commission-trump-hanson-fired-cd6208b400acf1a9f22862179331a2a4
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/nuclear/npt/
Iran’s Nuclear Agreements: A History of Compliance and Evasion
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00396330902749764
# Science / Science Engineers
Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda. Scientists turned out at rallies from coast to coast and in Europe to “Stand Up for Science,” revitalizing a movement to defend scientific integrity that started during Trump’s first term.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07032025/stand-up-for-science-rallies-against-trump-anti-science-agenda/
# Social Services / Programs
The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security. The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT Causes Mental Health Breakdowns, So Mattel Is Planning on Incorporating It Into Children’s Toys. “Leveraging this incredible technology is going to allow us to really reimagine the future of play.”
https://futurism.com/mattel-announces-openai
Tensions Mount As South Korea Plans On Targeting US Tech, Letting China Slide
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/17/south-korea-lee-jae-myung-eu-regulations-american-tech-trump-china-platform-competition-protection-act/
# Transportation / Travel Advisories
Disturbing test shows what happens when Tesla Robotaxi sees a child mannequin pop out from behind a school bus
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/06/teslas-fsd-botches-another-test-but-its-not-to-blame/
# Veterans / VA
Thousands of medically retired veterans qualify for retroactive combat disability pay after Supreme Court ruling
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-06-17/supreme-court-veterans-disability-pay-18154333.html
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