Voices, The Peoples News
July 5, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Supreme Court OKs Trump ‘Third Country’ Deportation of Men Held in Desert Shipping Container. Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in a dissent to a previous ruling on the case that the decision exposes “thousands to the risk of torture or death.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-south-sudan-deportation
‘That’s… unusual’: Donald Trump orders Marines into Florida, says they’re now under ICE command. The release noted that the Marines are just the “first wave” of service members to help ICE in its deportation efforts, with other deployments expected in Louisiana and Texas.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/200-marines-deployed-florida-help-232101915.html
Battle over Alligator Alcatraz detention site intensifies as political, legal fights escalate in Sou. A controversial migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is drawing fierce political and legal scrutiny, with critics calling for its shutdown over environmental and human rights concerns, while supporters defend its operations ahead of a possible federal court ruling next week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6xuJUITg7E
A 6-year-old Honduran boy with leukemia has been in immigration detention with his mother and 9-year-old sister since May when federal agents arrested them as they left an immigration hearing. “To subject this family — with a 6-year-old who has a leukemia diagnosis, to arrest and detention is illegal, unconstitutional and unconscionable.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/03/boy-leukemia-immigration-detention-trump-administration/84433220007/
Canada increases border security with United States. The Bill will keep Canadians safe by ensuring law enforcement has the right tools to keep our borders secure, combat transnational organized crime, stop the flow of illegal fentanyl, and crack down on money laundering.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/06/government-of-canada-strengthens-border-security.html
Fact Check: Laura Loomer posts about feeding ‘illegals’ to alligators are real. [Rating: Correct Attribution]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-laura-loomer-posts-214800620.html
Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans ‘To Send Pregnant Women & Children’ to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-lawmakers-sound-alarm-over-plans-to-send-pregnant-women-children-to-alligator-alcatraz/ar-AA1HZyQZ
Florida state lawmaker claims Alligator Alcatraz would not be evacuated in the event of hurricanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgLSsQZaRo
One Third Of The Border Is Now Covered By Military Zones Allowing Troops To Detain Migrants
https://apnews.com/article/border-military-trump-national-defense-area-89f046e09809fe5b5071c6b9e1f48da9
Homeland Security official says ‘big beautiful bill’ will provide border wall funding, more agents. The bill includes components of Trump’s agenda, such as no taxes on tips, increased border security funding and extending his 2017 tax cuts.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/homeland-security-official-big-beautiful-bill-will-provide-border-wall-funding
Trump bill gives ICE $45 billion for detaining immigrants – more than it received in the last 15 years combined
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/45-billion-beautiful-bill-ice/
Joy Reid reveals how Melania could be deported under Trump’s system. Trump said he’s open to deporting citizens. “They’re not new to our country. They’re old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth,” he said. “So maybe that will be the next job.”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/joy-reid-warns-trump-that-denaturalizing-citizens-could-lead-to-melanias-deportation-shes-outta-here/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Trump-GOP budget bill would give top 1% over $1 trillion in tax breaks, analysis finds
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trillion-tax-cut-for-rich
U.S. Imposes More Sanctions on Iran, the First Round Since 12-Day War Ceasefire
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/3/us-issues-first-wave-of-iran-sanctions-after-ceasefire-in-12-day-war
# Education / Schools
French University compares US to Nazi Germany as it welcomes American refugees. Amid fears of funding cuts and political pressure under Trump’s presidency, US researchers have opted to flee America
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/first-batch-of-american–scientific-refugees–arrives-in-fra
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations: Truckers Petition Feds to Enforce HAZMAT Rules on Oil and Gas Waste.Truckers join environmentalists to demand safer conditions, proper training and fair pay for truckers hauling hazardous materials from oilfields
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/truckers-petition-feds-to-enforce-hazmat-rules-on-oil-and-gas-waste
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
At least 24 people dead from Texas flooding, 23 children missing from all-girls camp. ‘No one knew this kind of flood was coming.’ Heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, leaving 24 people dead and many more unaccounted for Friday, including more than 20 girls attending a summer camp, as search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in fast-moving floodwaters.
https://apnews.com/article/thunderstorms-texas-deaths-camp-mystic-trees-hail-e8a4c85c77f714c9a974e50f3cd1fca1
Alaska’s Wilderness At Risk As Trump Opens “Up To 82 Percent” Of National Reserve To Drilling. Oil and gas leases could soon hit the National Petroleum Reserve and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
https://www.iflscience.com/alaskas-wilderness-at-risk-as-trump-opens-up-to-82-percent-of-national-reserve-to-drilling-79868
More than 60 scientists issue dire warning that the Earth is careening toward catastrophe: ‘Things are all moving in the wrong direction.’ “We’re seeing some unprecedented changes.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/unprecedented-climate-change-warning-global-temperatures/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Trump set to ‘put farmers in charge’ of migrant workers, aiming to shield some of them from his administration’s deportation efforts. His administration is working on legislation that would permit some migrants without authorization to stay in the country and keep working on farms.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5385223-trump-farmers-immigration-undocumented-workers/
Lawmakers pass controversial new law banning sale of entire food category: Texas is now the seventh state to ban lab-grown meat sales. Many claims in support of such a ban have been debunked.
https://www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-food/texas-lab-grown-meat-ban-law/
# General News
George Takei is 88 years old and will never stop fighting for equality. He talked about being held as a five-year-old child with his family in an internment camp for Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II.
https://keyt.com/news/2025/07/03/george-takei-is-88-years-old-and-will-never-stop-fighting-for-equality/
# Gov / Politics
Trump signs One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, cementing his agenda in a July 4 celebration. A triumphant Trump cements his second term agenda into law as the nation celebrates its independence.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/president-trump-signs-republican-megabill-cementing-legislative-agenda/
Trump’s troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear. Trump has cited a provision of U.S. law that allows the president to use the National Guard to suppress the “danger
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/09/trump-national-guard-deployment-legal-00394387of a rebellion.”
As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey. The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt.
https://socialistaction.org/2025/06/11/as-trump-sets-military-against-civilians-service-members-have-duty-to-disobey-2/
Trump’s Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All. President Donald Trump’s use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-expanded-domestic-military-use-should-worry-us-all
Suggesting More Troops in More Cities, Trump Bends Military’s Role. President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the border.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/trump-domestic-military-expansion.html
By Ruling Against Nationwide Injunctions, SCOTUS Affirms the Imperial Presidency. SCOTUS stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the US when the president breaks the law.
https://truthout.org/articles/by-ruling-against-nationwide-injunctions-scotus-affirms-the-imperial-presidency/
Inside The New Group Remaking The Trump-Rubio State Department. Benjamin Franklin Fellowship fellows hold leadership posts in the State Department, including half of the leading posts in the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/04/benjamin-franklin-fellowship-state-department-bureau-consular-affairs-trump/
‘Flatly inconsistent with our democratic system’: Trump DOJ eyes anti-Nazi law to expel Americans
https://www.alternet.org/trump-targets-students-immigration/
‘Flatly inconsistent with our democratic system’: U.S. Department of Justice is looking to repurpose an old anti-Nazi law to ensnare targets of the Trump administration.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-targets-students-immigration/
‘This ruling is condoning lawlessness’: Supreme Court hands Trump disturbing new authority – the precedent this creates is chilling
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/this-ruling-is-condoning-lawlessness-supreme-court-hands-trump-disturbing-new-authority-the-precedent-this-creates-is-chilling/
It’s Trump’s America now: Republicans’ new definition of Christianity says ‘starve babies’ for a signed hat
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/its-trumps-america-now-republicans-new-definition-of-christianity-says-starve-babies-for-a-signed-hat/
RNC Sues Arizona To Block Voting Access for Overseas U.S. Citizens
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/rnc-sues-arizona-to-block-voting-access-for-overseas-u-s-citizens/
DOJ Sides With Wyoming in Proof of Citizenship Voting Lawsuit
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-statement-interest-wyoming-case-defend-documentary-proof
GOP Lawmakers in Swing States Are Still Working To Suppress Voting
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/alec-sets-sights-on-new-anti-voting-bills-in-states/
Republicans slammed online for celebrating children going hungry and millions losing Medicaid from Trump’s bill
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-celebrate-trump-spending-bill-b2782865.html
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
House Republican revels in people losing Medicaid: ‘Just some Americans that aren’t Americans’
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/house-republican-revels-in-people-losing-medicaid-thanks-to-trumps-bill-just-some-americans-that-arent-americans/
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
# Medical Science / Research
NIH cancels sickle cell research grant to study Sickle Cell Disease, which mostly impacts Black people.
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-condemns-nih-funding-cut-for-sickle-cell-disease-research-citing-dei-and-divisiveness/
# Military / Militia / National Guard / General News
Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders. Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”
https://truthout.org/articles/calls-to-gi-hotlines-rise-as-service-members-consider-defying-trumps-orders/
Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses. On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197545/soldiers-military-right-refuse-trump-unlawful-orders
Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses. On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197545/soldiers-military-right-refuse-trump-unlawful-orders
# Social Services / Programs
Social Security Chief Celebrates Budget Bill That Could Slash Program’s Finances. The bill will accelerate depletion of Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds by a year, according to an analysis.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/experts-warn-senate-tax-bill-accelerates-medicare-social-security-insolvency-dates
The claim that 90% of Social Security recipients will be affected by the “Megabill” is misleading. While the Republican tax and spending bill aims to eliminate or reduce taxes on Social Security benefits for many seniors, it doesn’t impact all recipients equally.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/social-security-tax-break-impact-solvency/
# Veterans / VA
Trump Celebrates Fourth of July by Deporting Veterans and Their Families. Trump’s second administration has included veterans and their families in his cruel immigration crackdown
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-veterans-immigration-deportations-fourth-of-july-1235378979/
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