Voices, The Peoples News
July 22, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘They’re human beings!’ Republicans cheering ICE raids change their tune behind the scenes
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mass-deportation-2673538227/
“We Were Kidnapped”: On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a mega prison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/we-were-kidnapped-prisoner-swap-venezuela-bukele-cecot-trump-ms13-deportation-el-salvador/
The plainclothes goon squad. The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/
How Mexican consulate staff struggle to defend migrants in the US while living on the brink of poverty themselves. Foreign Service employees are receiving the same salary as in 1998, getting by on subsidies, and coping with grueling workdays to deal with the surge in requests for help stemming from Trump’s deportation drive
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-21/mexican-consulate-staff-face-the-challenge-of-defending-migrants-in-the-us-while-living-on-the-brink-of-poverty-themselves.html
Two detained in NYC shooting of off-duty border patrol agent, DHS says. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the perpetrators were two unauthorized immigrants who had been arrested multiple times
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-random-robbery-nyc-park-rcna219905
Tom Homan on CBP shooting: Sanctuary cities are enabling criminals. Homan fed up after federal officer was shot by two migrants. ‘People put politics over public safety’ — border czar on shooting. Homan says ICE will ‘flood’ NYC after Adams’ invite
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-czar-homan-cbp-officer-shot-enough/
Noncriminal ICE arrests rose in Arkansas last month
https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2025/07/22/ice-arrests-non-criminal-arkansas-trump-quota
Noncriminal migrants arrested to curb crime, violence: ICE director. ICE Director says 70% of ‘noncriminal’ arrestees have pending charges. Agency defends arrests as crime prevention, cites violent incidents. Data shows sharp rise in noncriminal vs. criminal immigrant arrests
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/noncriminal-migrants-arrested-curb-crime-ice-director/
Immigrants at three Florida detention facilities have been deprived of critical medical care — including access to vital medications like insulin as well as timely treatments for life-threatening conditions. These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious abuses
https://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/you-feel-your-life-over-abusive-practices-three-florida-immigration-detention-centers-january-2025
Federal agencies sued for targeting migrants during court proceedings. Claiming the U.S. government violated constitutional and legal protections by detaining and deporting migrants during their court proceedings
https://san.com/cc/federal-agencies-sued-for-targeting-migrants-during-court-proceedings/
Migrants face degrading treatment at US detention centers: Immigrants in Florida detention centers face abuse, neglect, overcrowding. Report details poor medical care, degrading treatment, and rights violations in ICE facilities
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/hrw-immigrants-in-florida-detention-centers-face-abuse-neglect-overcrowding/3638257
Outrage Erupts After Honors Student Sara Lizeth Lopez Garcia Detained By ICE In New York. Lopez Garcia, 22, was taken from her home in Mastic, New York, alongside her mother and younger brother, despite reportedly being in the process of obtaining legal permanent residency. According to her fiancé, Santiago Ruiz Castilla, ICE agents admitted they were looking for someone else entirely.
https://shinemycrown.com/outrage-erupts-after-honors-student-sara-lizeth-lopez-garcia-detained-by-ice-in-new-york/
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details. Judge rules Trump administration broke law in takedown of public funding tracker
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5411550-trump-administration-funding-tracker-judge/
CBO: ‘Big, beautiful bill’ will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficit by 2034. Republicans’ recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add trillions to the federal deficit and debt over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s final cost analysis.
https://thehill.com/business/5412262-biden-bill-adds-3-4-trillion-deficits/
# FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency]
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response. Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fema-search-rescue-chief-resigns-224252589.html
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USAID
Scientists outraged as US cuts threaten food supply and farm workers: ‘Not just stupid, it’s evil.’ “Will doom us to decades or even hundreds of years more of exposure.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/pfas-farm-research-funding-trump/
Warning on Popular Sugar Substitute. Popular Sugar Substitute Linked to Brain Cell Damage
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-warn-popular-sugar-substitute-linked-to-brain-cell-damage/
# General News
The Trump administration on Monday released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a pledge from President Trump despite some reluctance from the civil rights icon’s children.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5412414-historic-release-mlk-fbi-records/
Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/don-jr-eric-trump-secret-service-qatar-saudi-arabia-b2793080.html
# General News / Floods
Veterans come together in aftermath of Texas floods to support community, each other. Military veterans volunteer to help victims of the floods in Texas.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-07-21/texas-flood-veterans-18508510.html
Veteran-led nonprofit Team Rubicon mobilizes volunteers in Hill Country flood response. Team Rubicon has a network of more than 200,000 volunteers, who they call “grayshirts” — about 65% of which are either veterans or active-duty military. The nonprofit’s CEO, Art delaCruz, said the majority of the volunteers that assisted in the flood response were from Texas, including some volunteers local to Kerr County.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-07-16/veteran-led-nonprofit-team-rubicon-mobilizes-volunteers-in-hill-country-flood-response
# General News / Trump / Epstein
‘That was a confession’: Ex-insider claims ‘crime happened’ with Trump and Epstein. Donald Trump’s former “trusted operative” on Sunday made the case that the president is indeed hiding something potentially criminal with his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-confession-trump-epstein-allegation/
DOJ officials to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell on Epstein case to ask ‘what do you know?’ The move comes amid a schism in MAGA world over the late financier’s case
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-doj-ghislaine-maxwell-b2793679.html
In Her Own Words: Virginia Giuffre’s Handwritten Diary Claimed the FBI Had Hidden Camera Footage From Epstein’s Properties — in Bombshell That Contradicts Trump’s D.O.J. Memo
https://www.newsbreak.com/radaronline-561399/4122842625864-in-her-own-words-virginia-giuffre-s-handwritten-diary-claimed-the-fbi-had-hidden-camera-footage-from-epstein-s-properties-in-bombshell-that-contradicts-trump-s-d-o-j-memo
Trump Flips Out at Republican Lawmaker Exposing the Party on Epstein. “Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-flips-republican-lawmaker-exposing-134239453.html
# Gov / Politics
Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse. Dismantling the federal government, yanking support for poor and working-class Americans, and emboldening extremism have been among his accomplishments so far.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/six-months-in-trump-has-made-american-life-immeasurably-worse/
Too Many Failures To Count. President Donald Trump’s careless personnel decisions, slapdash executive orders, whiplash-inducing policy pivots, and general malevolence have combined to make this among the most disruptive yet least successful first six months of any presidency in American history.
https://www.newsweek.com/six-months-trump-has-too-many-failures-count-opinion-2099198
Trump stops deportation of U.S. military’s Afghan interpreters to Taliban, begins vetting for visas. Trump tasked Vance and Rubio to make an emergency intervention with United Arab Emirates, which agreed to keep the refugee Afghan interpreters and soldiers safe.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/trump-stops-deportation-us-militarys-afghan-interpreters-taliban-begins-vetting
This Is How Trump Turned the Presidency Into Pure Grift: Conservative commentator David Frum says Donald Trump’s use of the presidency for personal gain is like nothing else in American history. President Donald Trump’s shady financial dealings have turned his second term into a brazen moneymaking scheme,
https://www.newsbreak.com/thedailybeast-513346/4123938732812-this-is-how-trump-turned-the-presidency-into-pure-grift-conservative
Trump Hosts US’s Oldest Pacific Ally Amid Tensions with China. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is staunchly pro-American and has made U.S. ties a priority since he was elected in 2022, replacing a predecessor who spurned the U.S. in favor of closer relations with China.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-philippines-trump-marcos-jr-trade-security-talks-china-2101710
Judge Warns Trump Is Turning Into Henry II With His Dangerous Rants. Donald Trump may not even know the power of his own words, a judge said.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198175/judge-warns-donald-trump-henry-ii-dangerous-rants
Henry II of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England
# Gov / Politics / Global
Thousands of Children Severely Malnourished in Gaza: 4 year old child dies of hunger in Gaza as aid blockade fuels catastrophe. Over 17,000 children face severe malnutrition amid Israel’s restrictions, hospitals overwhelmed
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/another-child-dies-of-hunger-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-fuels-catastrophe/3637003
25 nations slam Israel over “inhumane killing of civilians” in Gaza
https://www.yahoo.com/news/25-nations-slam-israel-over-160426044.html
Updates: Israel aid sites in starved Gaza a ‘sadistic death trap’ – UN
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/21/live-israel-pounds-gaza-as-palestinians-mourn-aid-seekers-killed-at-zikim
Iran Pivots from Russia to China in Quest for New Weapons After Israel War. China is emerging as top candidate to provide advanced weaponry that could help Tehran reestablish deterrence as tensions continue to simmer across the Middle East.
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-pivots-russia-china-quest-new-weapons-after-israel-war-2100933
Will China take the devastating step of invading Taiwan, and if so, when can we expect an invasion to happen?
https://www.globalguardian.com/global-digest/will-china-invade-taiwan
# Law / Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA
Civil rights attorneys, Florida lawmaker call out officers after Black man struck during stop
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-attorneys-florida-lawmaker-153433035.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
DOJ Charges Man for Threatening People on the ‘Epstein Client List’—Which the DOJ Says Doesn’t Exist
https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-man-arrested-threatening-kill-epstein-client-list/story?id=123933077
Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/judge-gives-ex-officer-nearly-3-years-in-breonna-taylor-raid-rebuffs-doj-call-for-no-prison-time-00466606
# LGBTQ / Gender
LGBTQ+ organizers build community-led disaster response amid rising climate threats. As disasters grow more intense and frequent, LGBTQ+ leaders in New Orleans and beyond are developing grassroots networks to support vulnerable communities left out of mainstream emergency planning.
https://www.dailyclimate.org/lgbtq-organizers-build-community-led-disaster-response-amid-rising-climate-threats-2673535528.html?vgo_ee=78N4d5pM5vTMDj%2FFa5ePTc%2BtWnGuFgRmj23%2BOH509tFZEGiquee1dh5R8aw%3D%3A%2BNsuo4twWHW4iObC9lq1CoY34L5UmuLl
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Maddow Cracks Up at MAGA Bots ‘Melting Down’ on Epstein
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-cracks-maga-bots-melting-075236220.html
PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy. Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to subsidize liberal media.
https://theconversation.com/pbs-and-npr-are-generally-unbiased-independent-of-government-propaganda-and-provide-key-benefits-to-us-democracy-261512
# Medicare / Medicaid / Obamacare / ACA
In the latest move by the Trump administration to root out government waste, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid plan to remove duplicative health insurance coverage from 2.8 million Americans improperly enrolled in taxpayer-funded healthcare plans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7c567aee-2b7d-4110-a1dd-3488bf4c837e.html
# Medical / Health / Covid / Biologicals
CDC says COVID-related emergency room visits climbing especially among young children
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cdc-says-covid-related-emergency-room-visits-climbing-especially-among-young-children/
GOP sen tells constituent he’s ‘not obligated to listen’ after she’s denied care over marital status. A 35-year-old pregnant mother in Tennessee reportedly became the first known case in the state of someone being refused prenatal care by a physician because she was unmarried
https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/tennessee-health-care/
Republicans stripping away health care from millions to Give Tax Cuts to Already Wealthy
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/senate-republicans-vote-to-take-away-medicaid-for-millions-to-give-tax-cuts-to-already-wealthy
RFK Jr orders changes for organ donation network as report finds dozens were not dead when harvested. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-orders-changes-organ-204941188.html
Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Who Keep Hospitals Afloat Want a Union. Unionization will lead to better and safer patient outcomes, says one medical resident.
https://truthout.org/articles/underpaid-overworked-medical-residents-who-keep-hospitals-afloat-want-a-union/#:~:text=Unionization%20will%20lead%20to%20better,outcomes%2C%20says%20one%20medical%20resident.&text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20Truthout,our%20work%20with%20a%20donation
Resident physicians largely in favor of unionization, citing low pay, long hours
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/resident-physicians-largely-favor-unionization-citing-low-pay-long-hours
# Military / Militia / National Guard / NATO
Ex-Air Force chief reveals shocking retaliation as he defies Trump effort to silence him. Frank Kendall wrote in the New York Times that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-retribution-2673534432/
Marines ordered home from immigration deployment to LA. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed 700 Marines sent to Los Angeles more than five weeks ago to help quell immigration protests to return to their California duty station.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-07-21/marines-los-angeles-immigration-18508873.html
# Military / Global
Australian Abrams battle tanks arrive in Ukraine. The U.S.-built tanks, still painted in their AusCam camouflage scheme, had been loaded onto a commercial cargo ship in Geelong, Australia, in May 2025.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/07/21/australian-abrams-battle-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence
Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained. Talk about a brain teaser.
https://futurism.com/documents-ai-training-surge
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