Voices, The Peoples News
June 22, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
San Diego clergy visit federal immigration court to bear witness during crackdown on migrants
https://apnews.com/article/clergy-migrants-federal-crackdown-san-diego-35fe2ce4f2ab8befa1f2c1e9f71f1b04
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Wall Street Gets A Trump Tax Break To Fire Workers. Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.
https://www.levernews.com/wall-street-gets-a-trump-tax-break-to-fire-workers/
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Obama-Appointed Judge Allows Harvard To Continue Enrolling Foreign Students. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s effort to ban Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/20/obama-appointed-judge-allows-harvard-to-continue-enrolling-foreign-students/
The Push to Abolish Education Department Goes Back Decades: The idea of eliminating the Department of Education—and any federal control over education—is even older than that. The history goes back all the way to the Civil War and to America’s foundational struggle over slavery, citizenship, and federalism
https://time.com/7225339/history-efforts-end-department-of-education/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Major EPA change threatens ‘every single American’: analysis
https://www.rawstory.com/forever-chemicals-2672405862/
Idaho senators push back on federal land sale. The Senate is split 53 to 47 with Republicans in the majority. They are attempting to pass the bill that extends and expands President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and includes provisions of his domestic agenda by July 4.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/21/idaho-senators-push-back-on-federal-land-sale/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA /General News
Crawford on Agroterrorism Attempt by Two Chinese Nationals. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) issued the following statement after two Chinese nationals were charged with allegedly smuggling a dangerous pathogen, a fungus called “Fusarium graminearum,” into the United States.
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1550
‘They quit after a few hours’: Farmers admit they can’t find American workers. Farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised helpis uncertain.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farmers-2672410822/
# General News
We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President. It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196860/trump-unexpected-crisis-national-security
# Gov / Politics
Keisean Raines is warning Americans of a quiet but potentially seismic shift in U.S. governance. She is warning about the possibility of a Constitutional Convention that could rewrite the very foundation of American democracy.
https://shinemycrown.com/this-is-history-being-rewritten-keisean-raines-sounds-alarm-over-push-for-u-s-constitutional-convention/
Trump announces US attack on Iran: US defence secretary says strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities an ‘incredible and overwhelming success’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/22/israel-iran-war-live-trump-says-us-has-attacked-nuclear-sites-in-iran-including-fordow
The Dogs of War What’s really going on: The United States is now at war with Iran. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dogs-of-war
US Has Begun Evacuating Citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents From Israel
https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-evacuation-americans-0415a2510ae58257042f0e05d2dedc93
‘Misled the country’; Hakeem jeffries has ‘zero patience’ and lays blame for Trumps broken promises where it belongs.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/misled-the-country-hakeem-jeffries-has-zero-patience-and-lays-blame-for-trumps-broken-promise-squarely-where-it-belongs/
‘Patently illegal’: Critics dispute legality of Trump’s Iran strikes. Democrats stress that only US Congress – not the president – has the authority to take the country to war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/22/patently-illegal-critics-dispute-legality-of-trumps-iran-strikes
No matter what Trump says, the U.S. has gone to war, and there will be consequences
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/donald-trump-usa-iran-israel-war-bombing
News & Current EventsWho Could Be Drafted? Inside the U.S. Military Draft Rules In Case Of Global War
https://dailypositiveinfo.com/who-could-be-drafted-inside-the-u-s-military-draft-rules/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLFDy1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkck1CTWJaaXZjWXE1Z0FTAR73hiy3fFC1WWoGN7Ba8Y8TMuPCHAbil2Ihgb6Zx86Gui9r1K7l5UZgGS4VnQ_aem_tHq4Ge8XK8UYH7Fuh3kKKA
This time, it’s Trump’s war: Donald Trump brings America into Israel’s war on Iran.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/417460/iran-attack-trump-war
Trump is waging war with Iran for Isreal: US attacks Iran: How Trump rejoined ‘team’ Netanyahu. Just four years ago, Trump used a swear word for Netanyahu. On Sunday, he said they worked as a team.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/22/us-attacks-iran-how-trump-rejoined-team-netanyahu
Report: Last Night’s Attack on Iran Was Planned under the Biden Administration. Last March, the Israeli Air Force held a joint exercise with the US Air Force, in what was seen at the time as a message to Tehran
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-militaries-jointly-drilled-iran-strike-during-biden-administration-report/
The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule: Authoritarianism is putting everything we value in danger
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2022/global-expansion-authoritarian-rule
# Gov / Politics / Global
Iran orders closure of stait of Hormuz, putting worlds oil supplies at risk, and Russia Says Countries May Give Nukes to Iran
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/22/2329467/-Iran-Votes-to-Close-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-and-Russia-Says-Countries-May-Give-Nukes-to-Iran
Iran Delivers Furious Warning, Speaks of ‘Unprecedented Level of Danger and Chaos’ After ‘Heinous’ U.S. Strikes
https://time.com/7296512/iran-responds-united-states-strikes-trump-nuclear-sites-warning/
Iran’s supreme leader named three senior Islamic clerics as his potential successors in case he is killed in ongoing hostilities with Israel
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/21/irans-leader-reportedly-picks-successors-case-hes-assassinated/
Exposure of Forced Organ Harvesting Could Trigger CCP’s Fall: Chinese Prison Survivor. Mr. Cheng Pei Ming is the first known survivor of the ongoing state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting campaign carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against prisoners of conscience
https://www.freedomunited.org/news/china-organ-harvesting-survivor/
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Antifa [anti-fascist] Attacking Journalists at Protests. While we have not recently seen anything on the current scale, this is a reality that existed prior to Trump’s election.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/seattle-journalists-attacked-agitators-call-out-far-left-media-covering-up-violence-protests
Corporate media remains unwilling to report honestly on authoritarianism. Trust in media is at an all-time low, in part because of corporate outlets’ failure to cover what’s really going on.
https://truthout.org/articles/these-are-the-essential-stories-corporate-media-refused-to-cover-in-2023/
# Military / Militia / National Guard / General News
The state of cyber defense — C4ISR Conference highlights: Experts from across the defense sector weigh in on the evolving nature of command and control software and technology in highlights from 2025 C4ISR Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9ll0Bh9vU
Oregon Dems vote to prevent Trump from deploying state’s National Guard, as he did in California
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/06/oregon-dems-vote-to-prevent-trump-from-deploying-oregon-national-guard-as-he-did-in-california.html
US inserts itself into Israel’s war with Iran, striking 3 Iranian nuclear sites
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/war-in-israel/ap-diplomatic-breakthrough-elusive-as-israel-iran-war-stretches-into-second-week/
Hegseth vows to act ‘swiftly and decisively’ if Iran retaliates as major cities go on high alert. Hegseth says Iran’s ‘nuclear ambitions have been obliterated’ after US attack and he urges the regime to take the path of peace
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/hegseth-says-irans-nuclear-ambitions-have-been-obliterated?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
US Military Scrambles for Ways to Protect Bases From Drone Warfare. One unit created its own virtual trainer with software used by Ukrainian troops.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/05/army-scrambles-improve-drone-training/405706/
# Military / General News / Global
Israel says it’s preparing for the possibility of a lengthy war against Iran
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/israeli-military-planning-possibility-lengthy-war-iran/
# Pharmaceuticals
Big drugmakers are abusing the drug patent process to generate extra revenue at the cost of patients.
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/patent-abuses-keep-prescription-drugs-unaffordable
# Water / Lakes / Oceans
Mysterious Multiple Water Sinkholes Emerge in Lake Superior, Trigger Global Scientific Alarm Between USA And Canada. Divers exploring the lake stumbled across perfectly round pits that look like something out of a sci-fi movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QVvGj5DtE
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