Voices, The Peoples News
July 16, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida wants to join a federal lawsuit against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuit-miccosukee-tribe-florida-immigration-164069ac7e4cddc1f7278b218b9cf8f7
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Dem lawmaker: Alligator Alcatraz needs to be “shut the hell down, they’re abusing human beings in cages.”
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-florida-interment-camp-democrats-tour-b2788193.html
Marines rotate border force as service’s immigration operations expand. The Marine Corps swapped out its task force assigned to the southern border mission with a combat logistics unit after nearly six months of repairing the barrier wall
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/15/marines-rotate-border-force-services-immigration-operations-expand.html
Experts make worrisome discovery after analyzing plans for US-Mexico border wall: ‘Would be a tragedy.’ studying wildlife living near wineries: ‘Can be further enhanced.’ The study addressed an ongoing problem.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/vineyard-ecosystems-birds-bats-pest-control/
Fact Check: Inspecting claim ICE deported Marine Corps sergeant major
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-marines-sergeant-major-ruiz/
Federal agents describe unusual run-up to arrests of Pro-Palestinian academics. The revelations came in an ongoing trial on a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration is targeting pro-Palestinian academics for deportation over their speech.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/15/pro-palestinian-academics-deportations-trial-00454324
Homeland Security agent says he was told not to inform Rümeysa Öztürk her visa was revoked when she was arrested. Patrick Cunningham says his division mainly dealt with drug, financial, and other crimes, but then was told to prioritize case of doctoral student who wrote newspaper op-ed in support of Palestine
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-homeland-security-agent-says-he-was-ordered-not-to-inform-turkish-student-of-visa-revocation/3632334
Irish Tourist Detained For 100 Days By ICE After Overstaying Visa For Three Days: ‘Didn’t See The Sky For Weeks’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention
Man demands justice after being tackled, wrongfully detained by police in front of his kids. A Fourth of July family celebration in Texas took a traumatic turn for one man who says he was tackled and wrongfully detained by police in front of his children.
https://www.kplctv.com/2025/07/12/no-sorry-no-nothing-man-wrongfully-detained-by-police-front-his-kids/
MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell sounded the alarm over a Trump administration memo declaring that detained immigrants are ineligible for a bond hearing, which they said paves the way for a “roundup of millions!”
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/msnbc-stars-maddow-and-odonnell-stunned-by-new-trump-legal-bomb-roundup-of-millions/
Trump administration fires 17 immigration court judges across ten states, union says
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/washington/trump-administration-fires-17-immigration-court-judges-across-ten-states-union-says/article_dbfbf018-1685-57b1-a258-5634054103e0.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
The gross national debt of the United States reached $36 trillion yesterday, just over three months since the previous milestone was reached at the end of July, according to the U.S. Treasury.
https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/gross-national-debt-reaches-36-trillion
Trump Signs Megabill Slashing Taxes, and Health Care and Nutrition Benefits Foster Youth and Their Families Rely On
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/trump-signs-megabill-slashing-health-care-and-nutrition-benefits/262477
Senate votes to move ahead with Trump’s request for $9 billion in spending cuts
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/politics/2025/07/16/senate-votes-rescission-package
# Education / Schools
Trump Admin Demands University of Michigan Spill Beans On All Foreign Ties. The Department of Education announced it has opened an investigation into the University of Michigan’s (UM) “inaccurate and incomplete” foreign funding reports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/15/university-of-michigan-education-department-foreign-funding-reports/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Worker says she was pushed to falsify safety records and saw employees lose limbs at Trump-aligned meatpacking plant
https://www.aol.com/worker-says-she-pushed-falsify-171427896.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Trump’s policies have US states eyeing offshore wind power from Canada and elsewhere. His war on clean power is a “golden opportunity” for our neighbors to the north.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-clean-energy-renewables-policies-states-offshore-wind-power-canada-nova-scotia/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Judge Orders EPA To Continue Funding Environmental Justice Grants For Low-Income & Minority Communities Terminated By Trump Administration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/epa-termination-environmental-justice-grants-unlawful-00411906
House GOP pushes steep EPA and Interior cuts in 2026 budget plan. The bill would approve about $38 billion for agencies under its purview, nearly $3 billion below the fiscal 2025 amount. Interior would get about $14.8 billion and EPA would be funded at $7 billion, a 23 percent cut for the environment agency.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/house-releases-interior-epa-spending-bill-with-deep-cuts/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
500 tonnes: The volume of high-energy biscuits, enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week, that will be burned because of cuts to US foreign-aid programmes made by the Trump administration
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
Coca-Cola under fire after undercover investigation reveals disturbing scenes at farm: ‘A habitual offender.’ An undercover investigation found animal welfare violations at Woodcrest Dairy, a main supplier to Coca-Cola’s fairlife milk brand. The findings have been submitted to authorities.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/fairlife-supplier-dairy-coca-cola-animal-abuse/
# Foods / Things that impact your health
Foods for a Tight Budget. Need to slash your food spending and stay healthy? Shopping list of 21 healthy but relatively cheap foods that you may want to consider putting in your shopping cart.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/cheap-healthy-food
More farms nationwide filed for bankruptcy in first three months of 2025 than all of last year, research shows
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/3472003/farms-bankruptcy-filings-2025/#google_vignette
# General News / Floods
Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories
Fact Check: Checking claim Trump sent no Marines to help after Texas floods while thousands were deployed to LA protests. U.S. President Donald Trump actually sent 700 U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in June 2025 — alongside 4,000 National Guard troops.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-marines-la-texas/
The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods: Journalist David Sirota joins “More To The Story” to discuss how climate change drives disasters—while politicians deny and deflect.
https://revealnews.org/podcast/texas-flooding-climate-change-trump-zohran-mamdani/
# General News / Trump / Epstein
Speaker Johnson says he supports more transparency on Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell. Host Benny Johnson asked the speaker if he would support Maxwell potentially testifying before Congress. In a recent interview, he conveyed that “we should put everything out there and let the people decide”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY71Yd1kLew
House Republicans blocked the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-khanna-doj-democrats-republicans
House representatives introduce bipartisan bill to release Epstein files. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the release of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, NewsNation has learned.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/rep-ro-khanna-bill-release-epstein-files/
Man Who Served Time in Same Cell as Epstein Says ‘There’s Just No Way’ He Was Able to Kill Himself. According to Franzese, the architectural layout of the cell, specifically the lack of high fixtures and the low height of the beds, wouldn’t allow for a successful hanging. He added that Epstein was reportedly on suicide watch and under constant observation, making the circumstances surrounding his death highly suspicious.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5401606-epstein-prison-video-investigation/
The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out. Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the ‘missing minute.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-raw-prison-video-214543997.html
Jordan Klepper Charts Trump’s Long History With Jeffrey Epstein on ‘The Daily Show’: “The most simple explanation is probably the correct one,” the host said of the president’s unwillingness to release the Epstein files
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/daily-show-hits-donald-trump-041953776.html
# General News
Publicity firm offered $20M to recruit for anti-Trump protests. Crowds on Demand CEO turned down the contract. CEO Adam Swart said he turned the contract down because he believes the demonstrations will not be effective in making change. The protests are honoring late Congressman John Lewis
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/publicity-firm-20-million-trump-protests/
GOP Chair Used Electronic Signature to Sign Autopen Docs. Rep. James Comer used a “wet signature” during his own probe into Joe Biden. James Comer has used a digital signature on documents throughout his investigation into Biden’s use of an autopen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/biden-autopen-james-comer
# Gov / Politics
Trump acquires a brand new nemesis as his request to run America as he pleases is denied.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/trump-acquires-a-brand-new-nemesis-as-his-request-to-run-america-as-he-pleases-is-denied/
Confronting the biggest genocide cheerleader in Congress. Watch Max Blumenthal’s confrontation with Republican Rep. Randy Fine, the self-proclaimed “Hebrew Hammer” who revels in violence against civilians in Gaza.
https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/confronting-the-biggest-genocide
Poll Shows Musk’s ‘America Party’ Is a Threat to Trump. Musk’s ‘America Party’, called ‘ridiculous’ by Trump, could threaten Republican majorities in 2026 by attracting disaffected independents and young voters
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3317388/musks-america-party-could-pose-wild-card-threat-trumps-republicans-2026-midterms
Office Hours: Trump Wants to Roll Back America to … When? The question is no longer whether Trump wants to roll back America to an earlier time. The question I hear debated is when? What period of American history is he trying to recapture? When was America “great?” in his and his followers’ view?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-19a
One Of America’s Most Insane Local Politicians Just Won In DC. Despite a looming bribery scandal, Trayon White Sr. secured his seat Tuesday after previously being kicked out following an FBI arrest and charge.
https://www.aol.com/one-america-most-insane-local-044453297.html
Trump reshaped the Supreme Court. Now emergency appeals are helping him reshape the government
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-reshaped-the-supreme-court-now-emergency-appeals-are-helping-him-reshape-the-government/
# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Federal investigators arrested two police chiefs in Louisiana, sources say a fourth police chief may be arrested. Several federal agencies are involved
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/feds-arrest-two-police-chiefs-in-louisiana/
DA slams justice system as 12-year-old charged with murder. After Hayes was taken into custody, Albuquerque police said the crime rate in his neighborhood went down because he was off the streets. Bregman told “Banfield” it is “so sad” to see a person so young being charged with such a crime.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/12-year-charged-murder-new-mexico/
Minnesota Alleged Assassin Tells FBI that Gov. Walz Solicited Him to Kill Sen. Klobuchar: The man accused of assassinating one Minnesota lawmaker and critically wounding another allegedly wrote that Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to also kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar in a rambling, conspiracy-laden letter he addressed to the FBI.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/accused-assassin-vance-boelter-claims-175200968.html
CIA Lied About Lee Harvey Oswald’s Connections To Cuban Groups, New Documents Reveal: Newly unearthed CIA documents undermine the agency’s longstanding claim that it had no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s ties to Cuban dissident groups.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/05/cia-agent-oswald-kennedy-assassination
See also: Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
# LGBTQ / Gender
Trump Administration Ends Funding for LGBTQ+ Hotline
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_40e3bfd2-27ae-4212-8ac4-7e2c4f0edb05.html
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Tucker Carlson goes berserk, issues dire warning for the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWNCRtpH4c
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
Congress advances bill that would gut the Medicaid rolls, Senate Republicans approved one of the steepest-ever cuts to publicly funded health insurance today, a move expected to result in millions of Americans losing coverage if they can’t properly complete cumbersome applications or prove they’re employed.
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/congress-advances-bill-that-would-gut-the-medicaid-rolls/262304
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms. A new study in the medical journal The Lancet reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets were altered this spring without any public notice.
https://www.psypost.org/secret-changes-to-major-u-s-health-datasets-raise-alarms/
A rogue doctor just exposed the truth behind Ozempic..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOhGLsbuUU
Johann Hari: They’re Lying To You About The Side Effects Of Ozempic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMnHNIuK3M
The Shocking Truth About Ozempic & The Effects It Has On The Body |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBrvJzPiWU
# Military / Militia / National Guard
Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-los-angeles-national-guard-4424658cc059df31317a83cb53c2b59e
F-15EX Arrives In Japan For The First Time As Part Of Massive Pacific Exercise. The F-15EX Eagle II’s debut as part of a massive contingency response exercise points the way to future Pacific missions for the jet.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-15ex-jets-deploy-to-kadena-training-mission-prepare-for-transition-new-fighters/
The XM7 rifle, the new primary weapon for the U.S. Army infantry, can pierce through body armor
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/guns/xm7-rifle-ngsw.html
# Military / Global
Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine ahead of Trump’s peace talks deadline.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/16/russia-launches-hundreds-of-drones-at-ukraine-defying-trumps-peace-ultimatum-a89835
# Social / Communities
How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town. “We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-volleyball-arrest-eighteen-gomes-da-silva-milford/
Lawsuit Filed After Investigation Found White Bus Driver Made Black Passengers Sit In Back Of Bus
https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/man-sues-jefferson-lines-for-racial-discrimination-after-incident-in-fargo
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
‘Pig butchering’ scams have stolen billions from people around the world. Here’s what you need to know. Scammers establish fake romantic and trusting relationships with victims before luring them into fraudulent investments or other financial traps
https://theconversation.com/pig-butchering-scams-have-stolen-billions-from-people-around-the-world-heres-what-you-need-to-know-252774
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