Voices, The Peoples News
July 12, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Farm worker dies in California ICE raid, US citizens missing, Union says. ICE raids targeted two Glass House Farms in Camarillo and Carpinteria, that resulted in “at least 10 migrant children” rescued from “potential exploitation, forced labor, and human trafficking” and the arrest of approximately “200 illegal aliens.”
https://www.newsweek.com/camarillo-immigration-ice-farm-raid-missing-people-2098034
How a Bush-Appointed Judge Got Around SCOTUS to Protect Birthright Citizenship for All. U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante blocked Donald Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship in a ruling that applies nationwide.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/bush-judge-birthright-citizenship-scotus-lawsuit.html
Federal judge orders Trump admin to stop arresting people in California without probable cause merely because they looked Latino. Judge Maame E. Frimpong also issued a separate order barring the federal government from restricting attorney access at a Los Angeles immigration detention facility.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/judge-trump-california-immigration-stops-order/
Trump’s Border Czar Sparks Firestorm of Anger By Telling Fox News ICE Can Detain Based on ‘Physical Appearance’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5396985-trump-homan-immigration-detainments/
ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/ice-agents-handcuff-and-detain-71-year-old-u-s-citizen-243022405810
Farmworker in Critical Condition After 30 foot Fall From Greenhouse During California ICE Raid. “ICE is out of control,” said one Democratic congresswoman. “This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/farmworker-dies-after-ice-raid?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=e29e522d82-Week+in+Review%3A+Sat.+7%2F12%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-92d116fef0-600473715
Trump Mass Deportations Will Cause ‘Immense Pain’ for Workers and Destroy Millions of Jobs: “The Trump administration’s deportation goals will cause a major blow to the U.S. labor market,” according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy
https://www.epi.org/publication/trumps-deportation-agenda-will-destroy-millions-of-jobs-both-immigrants-and-u-s-born-workers-would-suffer-job-losses-particularly-in-construction-and-child-care/
# Consumer Product Safety
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is on life support, and consumer scam complaints are surging as a result. The Trump administration wants to pull the plug.
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-07-11-hardly-workin-cfpb-doge-trump/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
US sanctions Cuban leader for human rights violations on anniversary of country’s uprising, which were also levied against Cuban Defense Minister Álvaro López Miera, and Interior Minister Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article310412200.html
Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico starting August 1. “Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal,” Trump told the EU
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-eu-mexico-66bf84d97dcd69bbd1f1108e42283afd
# Employment / Labor / Unions
State Department Begins Sending Bureaucrats To The Unemployment Line. Deputy Secretary of Management and Resources Michael Rigas notified officials the “Reduction in Force” would soon be underway
https://www.aol.com/state-department-begins-sending-bureaucrats-221017889.html
State Department is firing over 1,300 employees under Trump administration plan
https://apnews.com/article/layoffs-diplomats-state-department-trump-rubio-bfdb86767b7bd5b6570819d404a7782e
UAW President Denounces Trump-GOP Budget Law as ‘Total Betrayal’ of American Working Class. “This bill isn’t governance,” said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. “This is a class war waged from Capitol Hill.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/shawn-fain-republican-budget
Days after giving big tax cuts to billionaires, Trump to hit workers with $2 trillion tax increase. Trump insists other countries will pay the tariff, Who knows what Trump actually believes, but in reality-land we pay the tariffs.
https://cepr.net/publications/trump-to-hit-workers-with-2-trillion-tax-increase/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
California Farmers Reject USDA Secretary’s Claim That Immigrant Workers Can Be Replaced: ‘Uninformed and Out of Touch.’ “I can confidently say that most farmers in the country either laughed out loud or were just deflated by those comments,” said a citrus and avocado grower in Ventura County
https://www.latintimes.com/california-farmers-reject-usda-secretarys-claim-that-immigrant-workers-can-replaced-uninformed-586409
# General News
How state law could force priests to choose between jail or excommunication
https://www.aol.com/bishop-robert-barron-state-law-090006191.html
# General News / Floods
Trump speaks from Texas after deadly floods: ‘Filled with grief and devastation’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AV6rryFNtw
How Republicans Rejected A Texas Flood Warning System. Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding. Kerr County failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-alarm-system.html
FEMA removed Camp Mystic structures from 100-year flood map years before deadly flooding. That designation means an area is likely to be inundated during a 100-year flood, one severe enough that it only has a 1% chance of happening in any given year
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats. Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers leading to real-world consequences.
https://www.wired.com/story/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories-geoengineering-weather-weapon/
Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods. Some social media users falsely claimed that the extreme weather was being controlled by the US government, blurring the lines of what’s true and untrue.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories
Texas cloud seeding operation triggers conspiratorial outrage after deadly floods.
Claim: Cloud seeding operation is responsible for Texas floods
Claimed by: Multiple sources
Fact check by AFP Fact Check: Misleading
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.66FC863
Texas county where campers died was denied money to boost warning systems: Spokespeople for Kerr County did not respond to requests for comment. Phone and email messages attempting to reach Moser and Dub Thomas, Kerr County’s deputy sheriff and emergency management coordinator, went unreturned.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/07/texas-flooding-kerr-county-flood-warning-money-denial/84499153007/
Texas Flooding Tragedy: State And Local Officials—And Partisan Politics—Face Blame For No Alarm Systems. Texas state officials repeatedly rejected requests from Kerry County to pay for such a warning system, estimated to cost about $1 million, and turned away the county’s applications at least three times between 2017 and 2024 for various reasons
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/07/11/texas-flooding-tragedy-state-and-local-officials-and-partisan-politics-face-blame-for-no-alarm-systems/
Trump defends federal flood response in Texas visit
https://www.axios.com/local/san-antonio/2025/07/11/trump-visit-texas-flooding-fema-abbott
Trump Claims Texas Flood Victims Were Fully Funded ‘Within Minutes’ Despite 72-Hour FEMA Delay
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heads-texas-after-catastrophic-flooding-avoiding-criticism/story?id=123650032
‘Horrific’: Thousands of flood survivors called for aid, but FEMA didn’t answer, hundreds of call center contractors were let go the previous day
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-2673142115/
‘Embarrassing’ Trump implies floods have ‘never happened’ before and sirens don’t exist. President Donald Trump seemingly implied during a news conference in Texas that floods had “never happened before” and that sirens to alert people do not exist.
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/embarrassing-trump-implies-floods-never-1261752
After Delaying FEMA Response for Three Days, Noem Calls to ‘Eliminate’ Agency Due to Slow Texas Response. Congressional Democrats want investigations “at every level of government of what went wrong” and to “stop the dismantling of federal agencies.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/noem-fema-delays
# Gov / Politics
The Take: Can Trump strip Musk, Mamdani and others of their US citizenship? As US President Donald Trump ramps up efforts to revoke citizenship from some naturalised citizens, who is at risk?
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2025/7/11/the-take-can-trump-strip-musk-mamdani-and-others-of-their-us-citizenship
Trump’s Threats Against Mamdani Put a Target on the Back of All Immigrants. By using denaturalization as a threat, Trump shifts the goal posts of citizenship to further his political agenda.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-threats-against-mamdani-put-a-target-on-the-back-of-all-immigrants/
‘Radical ideology: How Marco Rubio is helping Trump purge the ‘enemy from within’
https://www.alternet.org/marco-rubio-glasser/
Trump hands Congress a ‘weapon’ he once warned would do ‘grave damage’ to presidency. Executive privilege normally keeps White House communications secret. But both Trump and Biden waived the privilege during investigations of each other.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/trump-biden-executive-privilege-00447732
‘Acted to defy the Constitution’: Trump admin violating FOIA by refusing to release documents about judicial nominee and current DOJ official Emil Bove, watchdog says
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/acted-to-defy-the-constitution-trump-admin-violating-foia-by-refusing-to-release-documents-about-judicial-nominee-and-current-doj-official-emil-bove-watchdog-says/
Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry, “If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration,” said one U.S. group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank
Progressives, Democrats Vow Fight as Senate GOP Aims to Claw Back Billions in Federal Funding.
Republicans plan to utilize a rare process called “rescission” to skirt Congress’ power of the purse and illegally allow Trump to withhold hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding to critical programs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-gop-rescissions-bill
In ‘Lawless, Vile Act,’ Trump Admin Sanctions UN Expert Critical of Israeli Genocide in Gaza. One critic said Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “crude effort” to sanction Francesca Albanese “only serves to establish that the U.S. is an international outlaw.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-sanctions-albanese
# Gov / Politics / Global
Brazil’s President Delivers Warning to US. Lula stated that Brazil will retaliate with its own reciprocal tariffs if the U.S. imposes the increased tariffs. He emphasized that Brazil is a sovereign nation and will not accept being treated as a subordinate.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5394178-brazil-president-retaliation-trump-tariffs/
Subverting America From Within: How CCP Is Manipulating US Media and Legal System to Target Its Critics
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/subverting-america-from-within-how-the-ccp-is-manipulating-us-media-and-legal-system-to-target-its-critics-5885748
# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
What Trump’s CIA Director Is Doing Right Now Is Dishonest and Dangerous. James Comey’s name is back in the news for a very unwelcome reason.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/russia-trump-james-comey-john-brennan-cia-john-ratcliffe-russiagate.html
Dan Bongino Considers Leaving FBI Following Clash w/ AG Bondi
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/11/epstein-files-dan-bongino-pam-bondi-trump
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified. “The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website,” the magazine wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/full-raw-epstein-clip-released-205910653.html
Black man seeks help from police, instead, he was shackled and left to die after 8-minute delay in response. He did everything right. He realized he needed help, so he approached the police. He didn’t over react or cause anyone harm. All he did was ask for help, yet he didn’t get it at the right time.
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4098541273404-black-man-seeks-help-from-police-instead-he-was-shackled-and-left-to-die-after-8-minute-delay-in-response
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Justice Department Whistleblower Warns of Trump Administration’s Assault on the Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAwwFq6G5g
‘Pay attention’: Supreme Court justice gives dire warning about ‘state of our democracy’
https://www.alternet.org/ketanji-brown-jackson-trump/
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Arizona resident dies of pneumonic plague in Flagstaff emergency room
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/07/11/coconino-county-resident-dies-plague-flagstaff-emergency-room/
Under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is being gutted by mass firings, conflicting policies, and political theater — threatening decades of public health safeguards.
https://www.ehn.org/kennedys-war-on-the-fda-leaves-public-health-in-the-crosshairs
# Science / Science Engineers / Chemistry/ Research
Trump administration yanks $15m in research into Pfas on US farms: ‘not just stupid, it’s evil.’ Pfas-laden pesticides and sewage sludge used as fertilizer move into crops and nearby water sources
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-pfas-research-funding-farms
# Social Media / Internet
The Big Beautiful Bill’s Ugly Choice: Internet or Food? The Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-11-big-beautiful-bills-ugly-choice-internet-or-food/
# Social Services / Programs
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reassigning up to 1,000 employees from its field offices to answer calls to its national 1-800 number. Phones have been ringing off the hook at the Social Security Administration prompting the agency to use a temporary solution for a growing problem
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/social-security-customer-service-phone-workers-b2786824.html
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Apple committing a colossal $500 billion to build new U.S. factories. Teams and facilities to expand in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/
Microsoft injecting $80 billion into domestic manufacturing, with over half of the funds earmarked for U.S.-based projects.
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2025/01/06/microsoft-committing-80-billion-to-ai-datacenter-investments.aspx
Nvidia has announced plans to manufacture some of its AI supercomputers in the United States for the first time, a move aimed at diversifying its supply chain and addressing geopolitical concerns.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-manufacture-american-made-ai-supercomputers-us/
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