Voices, The Peoples News
July 8, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
2 officers shot in Texas near federal immigration facilities. Border Patrol agents and federal immigration officers continue to be targeted for violence, two targeted attacks occurred in Texas within a few days, resulting in local police officers being shot.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/issues/border/article_b9515cb7-9ee1-492b-bb4c-090caf7c2db8.html
DHS revokes Temporary Protected Status for two more Latin American countries. After decades of extensions, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will not renew Temporary Protected Status for Honduran and Nicaraguan citizens residing in the U.S., per new agency announcements.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_b3a1e1f4-ef40-41d2-a299-22f900313e6c.html
Trump Creates Dozens of New ICE Facilities as Immigration War Expands, And ICE just got its hands on an influx of cash, thanks to Trump’s budget. This will mean more intimidation, more masked ICE officers raiding places of work, more racial profiling, and more innocent people in ICE custody.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197635/trump-new-ice-detenion-centers
Trump Accidentally Reveals Core Problem With ICE Fiasco, Angering MAGA. As Trump triggers MAGA influencers by saying he might suspend the deportation of farmworkers, Garrett Graff explains how Trump exposed major political vulnerabilities that will now get worse.
https://newrepublic.substack.com/p/trump-accidentally-reveals-core-problem
The ICE Sweeps Are Classic Racial Profiling. Trump’s ‘post-racial’ war on DEI notwithstanding
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-07-07-ice-sweeps-classic-racial-profiling/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
WATCH: Trump announces tariffs, Aug. 1 deadline for 14 countries. President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 nations Monday announcing tariffs on imported goods from their countries will start Aug. 1.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_dbe44006-ea4b-49f2-aaa9-04d519fcf2db.html
Trump announces 25 percent tariffs coming for Japan, South Korea
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5387890-trump-announces-25-percent-tariff/
# Education / Schools
Here’s How Schools Are Catering To Illegal Immigrants While Avoiding Federal Scrutiny. Schools are trying to fly under the radar with programs meant to teach illegal immigrants despite the Trump administration cutting funding for such initiatives.
https://www.aol.com/news/schools-catering-illegal-immigrants-while-194425856.html
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? The new law includes $170 billion for immigration enforcement: about $50 billion to build a wall on the southern border, $30 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and $45 billion for detention camps.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/labor-camps-united-states-america-100000044.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
The Environmental Protection Agency reports Mexico still owes the United States $88 million toward the treatment of millions of gallons of raw sewage from Tijuana that continues to flow into San Diego
https://www.aol.com/mexico-owes-88m-tijuana-sewage-000000834.html
Trump EPA move could allow chemical plants to bypass pollution limits, increasing cancer risk
https://www.dailyclimate.org/trump-epa-move-could-allow-chemical-plants-to-bypass-pollution-limits-increasing-cancer-risk-2672942643.html
# General News / Texas Floods
‘Fake Weather, Fake Flooding’: Republicans Are Spreading A Bizarre Conspiracy Theory After The Deadly Texas Floods. The conspiracy comes as Texas works to recover from one of its deadliest floods.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/weather-manipulation-conspiracy-theory-texas-floods_n_686c0c45e4b0082b3c90c01c
MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) was deployed by the Texas Air National Guard to aid in the search for flood survivors in Texas. This drone is unarmed and equipped with powerful surveillance capabilities to gather detailed imagery of the flooded areas. It provides a valuable “eye in the sky” for search and rescue teams.
https://www.flyingmag.com/military-drones-support-lone-star-state-flood-recovery/#:~:text=(@TXMilitary)%20July%206%2C%202025,situational%20awareness%20for%20rescue%20units.
Texas Guardsmen Rescue Over 520 Flood Victims
https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/texas-guardsmen-rescue-over-520-flood-victims
The death tally in Kerr County alone has topped 106 as more bodies continue to be found and more rain on the way.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/ap-top-news/2025/07/08/texas-county-deflects-mounting-questions-over-actions-before-deadly-flood
Ted Cruz blasted for defending Trump and dodging questions on flood warning system failures
https://www.newsbreak.com/alternet-332687158/4093590757658-ted-cruz-blasted-for-defending-trump-and-dodging-questions-on-flood-warning-system-failures
White House pushes back on criticism of weather service around Texas flooding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-pushes-back-nws-194000532.html
After Hill Country Tragedy, Questions Mount Over Texas Lawmakers’ Failure to Fund Rural Flood Alerts
https://www.newsbreak.com/jane-myer-334418980/4092397273410-after-hill-country-tragedy-questions-mount-over-texas-lawmakers-failure-to-fund-rural-flood-alerts
Texas GOP representative rethinks vote after lawmakers failed to pass bill to improve local flood warning systems. As the death toll from flash flooding in Texas Hill Country continues to rise, questions are swirling about the role that government inaction and past policy decisions may have contributed to the severity of the disaster.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/texas-gop-rejected-a-bill-improving-disaster-warnings-ahead-of-floods/
Drones, search dogs, volunteers search for survivors and victims of Central Texas flooding
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/drones-search-dogs-volunteers-search-for-survivors-and-victims-of-central-texas-flooding/
Central Texas braces for more rain, death toll expected to rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHiBdlwUVs
Search teams facing more rain as they mourn dozens of dead at Texas girls’ camp
https://energynews.oedigital.com/environment/2025/07/07/search-teams-facing-more-rain-as-they-mourn-dozens-of-dead-at-texas-girls-camp
# Gov / Politics
‘Truly pathetic’: Trump official slammed for call to punish private citizen’s free speech
https://www.alternet.org/larry-summers-bessent/
President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have been underwater since February — but it’s not just within America that his image is struggling. Around the globe, his behavior has caused a rapid deterioration of the entire country’s global image
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/arrogant-trump-sinks-us-popularity-in-new-global-survey/ar-AA1Gx0cP?ocid=ML236B
Why Did Trump Rush To Pass The Tax Cut Bill? Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro explains what Republicans don’t want you to know about their legislation — and how it “screws over the people who voted for this president.”
https://www.levernews.com/why-is-trump-rushing-to-pass-the-tax-cut-bill/
Watch Live: Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has already met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/7/donald-trump-live-us-president-to-host-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu
Can Trump Deport U.S. Citizens Like Elon Musk and Zohran Mamdani? “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.”
https://time.com/7300082/trump-denaturalization-deportation-musk-mamdani-us-citizenship-history-legal-explainer/
Elon Musk Is Back in Politics With the New America Party. “This will be super fun!”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/elon-musk-is-back-in-politics-with-the-new-america-party/
Could Musk Really Create a Viable Third Party? Building a new political party to rival the Democrats and Republicans is enormously difficult and expensive. Small wonder it hasn’t been done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/elon-musk-third-party.html
Kristi Noem ‘Bragging’ About Using FEMA Funds for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Resurfaces After Deadly Texas Flood
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/a-dedicated-fema-fund-will-pay-for-alligator-alcatraz/
Transcript: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn: Trump’s bill gives him vast new law enforcement resources. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on what the coming wave of militarized arrests will do to America—and how Democrats should fight it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197622/transcript-trump-use-secret-police-takes-shocking-darker-turn
Trump Just Went Absolutely Nuclear in Screwing Over MAGA Voters: He has persuaded the media and many voters that he’s different from earlier Republicans on economics—but he’s now doubled-down on the GOP’s plutocratic agenda. Now that Congress has passed President Trump’s big budget bill, all three cons are alive and well—and have even been supercharged into something more venal and deceptive.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197600/trump-republican-budget-bill-screwing-maga-voters
People Are Saying We Might Not Even Make It To The Midterm Election After Elizabeth Warren Tried To Give Hope About Republicans Having To “Face The Voters” In 2026
https://www.yahoo.com/news/warren-senate-passing-gop-megabill-173104492.html
Trump demands Republicans be ‘absorbed into the Borg’ or face purge from the GOP: conservative
https://www.alternet.org/destroying-the-gop-to-get-a-pack-of-nodding-bobble-heads-conservative-blasts-trump-purge/
‘Trump’s most lawless excesses’ are only getting worse — thanks to the Supreme Court: expert
https://www.alternet.org/scotus-stern-trump-slate/
Ten Bizarre Things Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: Incentivizing SNAP Fraud, The Mass Shooter Subsidy, The Spaceport Sweetener, No Tax on Oil Drillers, and more.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-07-ten-bizarre-things-hidden-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/
# Gov / Politics / Global
‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/07/iran-rushes-deportation-4-million-afghans-deadline-women-repression
Ukraine says Russia took 20,000 children during war. Will some be returned? Moscow says it has received a list from Kyiv, demanding the release of hundreds of children as ceasefire talks stumble.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/russia-ukraine-children-war
Russian deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children could amount to genocide
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/3464454/russian-abductions-ukrainian-children-genocide/
Trump admin ‘exposed as liars’ after El Salvador makes major admission to United Nations
https://www.alternet.org/trump-el-salvador-un/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power. A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since Citizens United.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-new-supreme-court-case-could-give-the-wealthy-even-more-political-power/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
States Scramble to Protect Hospitals Ahead of Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts. Hospitals stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars under the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
https://stateline.org/2025/07/07/states-scramble-to-shield-hospitals-from-gop-medicaid-cuts/
Families Steel for Fight After GOP Health Care Cuts. The parents of medically complex children said that despair is not an option after Republicans passed deep cuts to home care.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-07-families-steel-fight-gop-health-care-cuts-medicaid/
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Federal judge blocks Planned Parenthood defunding in Big, Beautiful Bill
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5388912-judge-temporarily-blocks-planned-parenthood-defunding-megabill/
# Military / Militia / National Guard
Trump says U.S. will resume sending weapons to Ukraine after pausing last week
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/08/nx-s1-5460768/trump-ukraine-weapons-zelenskyy-putin-war
# Military / Global
Israeli Defense Minister Orders Plan To Build Concentration Camp for Gaza’s Civilian Population: Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity.’ Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah
Dutch, Norwegian F-35s to guard Ukraine supply lines in Poland. The jets will operate under direct NATO command following a transfer of authority for the duration of the deployment
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/07/07/dutch-norwegian-f-35s-to-guard-ukraine-supply-lines-in-poland/
# Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer Pushes Deadline for Study of Myocarditis in Kids and Adults Under 21. Recent updates indicate that the FDA has required Pfizer and Moderna to expand warnings on their COVID-19 vaccine labels regarding the rare risk of heart inflammation, specifically myocarditis and pericarditis, in adolescents and young adults
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9538893/
# Space Technology
The MethaneSAT satellite, worth $88 million, designed for revolutionary monitoring of methane emissions from human activities, has suddenly disappeared.
https://universemagazine.com/en/fighter-against-evil-important-satellite-disappears-in-space-for-unknown-reasons/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
After 9,000 Layoffs, Microsoft Boss Has Brutal Advice for Sacked Workers. “l’d be remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances.”
https://futurism.com/microsoft-boss-ai-advice
# Veterans / VA
VA expects 30K voluntary job cuts by October, erasing need for layoffs
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/07/07/va-expects-30k-voluntary-job-cuts-by-october-erasing-need-for-layoffs/
Veterans disaster relief group rushes to Texas after floods: Team Rubicon, a veterans-led disaster response organization, has sent reconnaissance teams to central Texas and established a quick reaction force there to help people dealing with the aftermath of recent devastating floods
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veterans-texas-flooding/
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