Voices, The Peoples News
July 21, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘Broken promises with devastating consequences’: Abused immigrant youth sue Trump admin for abrupt cancellation of program that kept deportation off the table
https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administrations-about-face-on-protecting-abused-and-neglected-immigrant-youth-from-deportation/262678
‘What a ridiculous thing’: Adam Kinzinger unloads on Trump’s $250 scheme to make US ‘unvisitable.’
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/what-a-ridiculous-thing-adam-kinzinger-unloads-on-trumps-250-scheme-to-make-us-unvisitable/
Visa integrity fee: The new $250 charge visitors to US must pay under Trump scheme. Travellers may be able to have the fee reimbursed if they comply with visa conditions
https://www.the-independent.com/travel/news-and-advice/us-visa-integrity-fee-tourists-visitors-trump-b2792747.html
Illegal Accused Of Shooting, Attempting To Rob Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent In Moped Ambush. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released video of an incident during which a Border Patrol agent was shot in the face by an illegal immigrant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkfAl-stL5c
New Helpline Aims to Disrupt the ‘Prison-to-ICE Deportation Pipeline.’ It is designed to help incarcerated people who are vulnerable to being transferred by ICE following their release.
https://truthout.org/articles/new-helpline-aims-to-disrupt-the-prison-to-ice-deportation-pipeline/
By Refusing to Show Faces or Badges, ICE Opens Door to Vigilante Impersonators. The masked, plainclothes ICE agents terrorizing immigrant communities are indistinguishable from racist vigilantes.
https://truthout.org/articles/by-refusing-to-show-faces-or-badges-ice-opens-door-to-vigilante-impersonators/
ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons issued a fresh reminder for those in the US illegally, in addition to sounding the alarm on companies hiring undocumented employees.
https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/ice-agents-will-arrest-anyone-they-find-in-the-country-says-us-immigration-chief/3921236/
Kristi Noem says other unnamed states are in the process of building Alligator Alcatraz-style facilities
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-kristi-noem-detention-b2791655.html
Nonprofit sues US government over construction of new ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility: ‘America’s worst idea’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alligator-alcatraz-detention-facility-florida/
Detainees sue Trump administration over conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project and lead counsel in the case, said, “We brought this lawsuit in order to challenge the total lack of attorney client access at the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility.”
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/07/17/detainees-sue-trump-administration-over-conditions-at-alligator-alcatraz/
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Businesses are already passing the cost of tariffs onto consumers, Federal Reserve survey finds
https://thehill.com/business/5406292-businesses-tariff-costs-consumers/
# Children / Youth
Child found dead after father reported abduction in New York. Police said Melina Frattolin was reported abducted around 9:40 p.m. on July 19, according to local reports
https://abc7.com/post/imminent-danger-amber-alert-issued-kidnapped-9-year-old-girl-upstate-new-york/17214684/#:~:text=A%209%2Dyear%2Dold%20Canadian,dad’s%20story%2C%20according%20to%20authorities
Also: Luciano Frattolin, 45, was arrested early Monday and charged with murder in the second degree and concealment of a human corpse. Luciano Frattolin was booked early Monday at the Essex County jail
https://www.foxnews.com/us/canadian-father-arrested-new-york-after-missing-9-year-old-daughter-found-dead-lake-george-area
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
While Trump’s trade guy was testifying before Congress, the man himself nuked the entire conversation dropping a tariff bomb on X (Twitter) mid-hearing. One rep actually blurted out: “W*F. Who’s in charge?” Answer: Trump is. Trump doesn’t follow the rules. He rewrites the playbook.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-navarro-trade-counsel-trump/
Democrats seek federal ban on price gouging amid tariff rollout. Democrats are pushing a bill prohibiting price gouging at the federal level and giving the Federal Trade Commission another $1 billion and new tools to go after companies charging “grossly excessive” prices.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2049fa1e-fc54-462c-917c-e32bd805e2dd.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
US DOI ends “preferential treatment” for wind and solar energy. This decision is in line with President Trump’s Energy Dominance agenda and follows Executive Order 14315 and the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
https://www.power-technology.com/news/us-doi-ends-preferential-treatment-wind-solar-energy/
Global dispute deepens over deep sea mining as nations weigh science, sovereignty, and the ocean floor
https://www.ehn.org/global-dispute-deepens-over-deep-sea-mining-as-nations-weigh-science-sovereignty-and-the-ocean-floor
Exploring plausible future scenarios of deep seabed mining in international waters. The global transition to renewable energy has intensified the demand for critical minerals, which are essential components in key green technologies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811625000151
Environmental risk weighs heavily on the possible rewards of deep-sea mining. In March, the White House issued an executive order promoting mining generally and, in April, followed with a second order to fast-track deep sea permitting and circumvent multilateral regulations of the practice.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/environmental-risk-weighs-heavily-on-the-possible-rewards-of-deep-sea-mining/#:~:text=Environmental%20risk%20weighs%20heavily%20on%20the%20possible%20rewards%20of%20deep%20sea%20mining,-By%20William%20Yancey&text=Many%20industry%20stakeholders%20and%20policymakers,clean%20energy%20and%20defense%20technologies
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Trump administration delays toxic coal ash cleanup and eases pollution rules for industry: EPA Seeks to Delay Monitoring and Clean up Requirements for Toxic Coal Ash, Adopting the Wishes of the Coal Power Industry. Across the U.S., coal ash dump sites leak dangerous levels of toxic pollutants, contaminating water and threatening health
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/epa-seeks-to-delay-monitoring-and-clean-up-requirements-for-toxic-coal-ash-adopting-the-wishes-of-the-coal-power-industry
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Thanks to Congress, Puerto Ricans Will Struggle Even More to Feed Their Families. The island imports more than 80 percent of its food, and residents already face rising prices and supply chain issues.
https://truthout.org/articles/thanks-to-congress-puerto-ricans-will-struggle-even-more-to-feed-their-families/
High prices, blackouts and half the money: Inside Puerto Rico’s stagnant food aid system. Puerto Rico’s block grant food assistance program already doesn’t stretch enough to meet the needs of its recipients. Congress just froze one way to boost it.
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/puerto-rico-food-aid-nap-congress-frozen/
# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘My highest, ever’: Donald Trump proudly announces defending Jeffrey Epstein improved his popularity
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/my-highest-ever-donald-trump-proudly-announces-defending-jeffrey-epstein-improved-his-popularity/
Epstein victim urged FBI to look at Trump, twice. Miss Farmer claimed she was troubled by 1995 incident allegedly involving US president
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/07/21/epstein-victim-trump-fbi/
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Just Deployed a Robotic Guard Dog… But That’s Just the Beginning. The Secret Service had also highlighted the robots’ abilities in a video shared from July’s 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. A Secret Service official explains that the units are part of its “ASTRO” program, which stands for “Autonomous Systems and Technical Robotic Operation.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/robotic-dogs-mar-a-lago-tump/
‘Reeks of regret’: Republicans suffering ‘remorse and shame’ over ‘grudgingly’ obeying Trump
https://www.alternet.org/murkowski-trump-hawley/
Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned. The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris. Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous – and ever more so by the day.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president
Trump is imitating a notorious president he truly admires, Richard M. Nixon — by adopting what became known during the Watergate scandal as the “modified limited hangout.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-nixon-2673534369/
8 historical figures Trump has invoked over the years
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4694274-8-historical-figures-trump-has-invoked-over-the-years/
Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book. Excerpt from Jim Sciutto’s ‘The Return of Great Powers’ shares insight into former, and would-be, US president’s desire to emulate the ‘tough guy’ authoritarians he looks up to
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-admires-hitler-is-infatuated-with-putin-former-staff-claim-in-new-book/
House Dems Begin To Take Credit For Provisions In Trump-Backed Law They Voted Against
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/19/house-democrats-credit-provisions-big-beautiful-bill-trump/
Trump’s War on Iran Killed Any Shot at Dialogue With North Korea. Trump’s strikes on Iran may show North Korea that US diplomacy is masking its real strategy of coercion or aggression. Trump’s strikes on Iran may show North Korea that US diplomacy is masking its real strategy of coercion or aggression.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-war-on-iran-killed-any-shot-at-dialogue-with-north-korea/
Congress to Consider Bills That Would Gut Oversight of US Arms Sales. If passed, the bills would reduce vetting of future sales in the name of speeding up the process.
https://us.transparency.org/news/house-approves-limits-to-key-anti-corruption-checks-on-u-s-arms-sales/
She left her federal job because of Trump. Now she’s running for office to fight his policies. Evans is among what some Democratic groups identify as a growing trend: Former federal officials alienated by Trump’s remaking of the federal government deciding to run for office themselves. Those groups are actively recruiting current federal employees as well as those who were fired or left voluntarily, betting that they will make good messengers against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/she-left-her-federal-job-100041404.html
Trump keeps brutalizing immigrants because he’s failing at everything else. The Trump administration is busy producing smoke and mirrors to pacify its Republican base by targeting immigrants while failing to improve the lives of the working class.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/19/trump-immigration-medicaid-cuts-economy-failure/85259690007/
# Gov / Politics / Global
‘Shot in the head, as if executed’: Four days of violence end with hundreds dead in southern Syria. Sectarian divisions prompted the worst unrest in Syria since March as the Druze population of Sweida province suffered massacres and executions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/18/its-impossible-to-tell-who-is-killing-us-four-days-of-violence-end-with-hundreds-dead-in-southern-syria
Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders. There was new alarm as Israel’s military issued evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, one of the few areas where it has rarely operated with ground troops and where many international organizations trying to distribute aid are located.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-07-20-2025-2b494af89d710793bc6933f5ae437566
# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Texas prisons are still sweltering without AC and no clear fix in sight. Despite receiving substantial state funding to air-condition prisons in the last few years, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has stayed mum on when it will install cooling across the system.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/17/texas-prison-ac-progress-slow-most-lack-cooling/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major Housing Discrimination Cases. Three cases allege that local governments clustered polluting industrial facilities in minority neighborhoods.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Alan Dershowitz said he could be called as a witness in Donald Trump’s suit against the Wall Street Journal, adding that he can help “prove malice” in the case.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/20/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-wall-street-journal-report-epstein-malice/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
‘This was no accident’: Trump blamed as health insurers prep to jack up premiums. An analysis released Friday by the health policy research organization KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare found that across a sample of more than 105 ACA marketplace insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia, companies are set to increase premiums by a median of 15%.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-health-insurance/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.21.2025_11.43am
‘Extra Cruel’: Trump Admin Ends Job Program for Seniors as Work Requirements Loom. “Many of our participants are living on the edge of poverty,” said the head of one organization impacted by the termination of the Senior Community Service Employment Program.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senior-job-training-program?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=829f7655e2-Weekend+Edition%3A+Sun.+7%2F13%2F25_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600473715
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
Report: Some medical schools still racially discriminate in admissions. American medical schools may still be participating in racial discrimination in their admissions even after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action is illegal, a recent report showed.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7b330046-cb64-463d-811f-5e84fbdfdee1.html
# Medical Science / Research / Technology
Cancer experts alarmed over ‘gut-wrenching’ Trump plan to cut research spending by billions. More people will die due to White House’s plans to slash nearly $2.7bn from National Cancer Institute, workers warn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/cancer-research-trump-nci-cuts-plan
# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Defense: Why is Trump purging the Pentagon? Trump fires a half-dozen top military leaders: It’s the next step in his pursuit of total power. After capturing the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the Pentagon is “the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government.” With “his generals” in charge, Trump can start building a military that is loyal to him—and not to the Constitution. “It is praetorianism, plain and simple.”
https://theweek.com/politics/trump-purging-pentagon
Another Hegseth aide exits as Pentagon churn continues: Another senior aide of US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth is quitting the Pentagon, making him the sixth top official to exit in Hegseth’s first six months in the Department of Defence.
https://www.firstpost.com/world/united-states/another-hegseth-aide-exits-pentagon-sixth-top-official-departure-in-first-6-months-13909290.html
# Military / Global
Israeli tanks ‘open fire into crowd trying to get food from aid trucks in Gaza killing dozens’ as IDF launches probe. Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacre
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/gaza-israel-palestinians-killed-idf-fires-on-crowds
# Security / DHS / Surveillance / Cybersecurity / Spyware
National security elites accept Trump is creating a new world order. The U.S. president has revamped trade, aid and military force to an extent that attendees here say will have effects for decades to come.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/aspen-forum-attendees-admit-theres-no-return-to-a-pre-trump-world-order-00464338?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru
# Social Services / Programs
Social Security benefits are already being clawed back from retirees across the country.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/
Social Security ‘Clawback’ Change Could Bankrupt Seniors
https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/social-security-clawback-change-could-bankrupt-seniors
# Solar Activity
June 10, 2025, is the midpoint between the April 8, 2024, and August 12, 2026, total solar eclipses. It’s 429 days after the 2024 eclipse and 429 days before the 2026 eclipse. The 2026 eclipse will be visible in Greenland, Iceland, and Spain
https://www.space.com/stargazing/solar-eclipses/were-halfway-between-the-april-2024-and-august-2026-total-solar-eclipses-heres-why-were-excited
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