V oices, The Peoples News
January 13, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” is
the iconic opening of the second paragraph of the U.S.
Declaration of Independence.
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# Indigenous
Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps. “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants,” he said. “We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/01/13/native-leaders-in-north-dakota-urge-use-of-tribal-ids-denounce-ice-tactics/
# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Choke holds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing. Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a choke hold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
‘Unhinged, angry psychopaths’: ICE agents in Oregon falsely accuse a man of interfering with their operations and threaten to arrest him, it wasn’t for blocking an operation or interfering in any meaningful sense. But for simply standing on a public sidewalk, filming.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/featured/unhinged-angry-psychopaths-ice-agents-in-oregon-falsely-accuse-a-man-of-interfering-with-their-operations-and-threaten-to-arrest-him/
New Video of Minneapolis ICE Shooting Incident Fuels Fresh Debate Online — “I Don’t See Her Hitting Him.” New clip from ICE agent offers fresh perspective into Renee Nicole Good’s fatal shooting incident.
https://www.inquisitr.com/new-video-of-minneapolis-ice-shooting-incident-fuels-fresh-debate-online-i-dont-see-him-hitting-her
Afraid But Undeterred, Minnesota Greets Trump’s ICE Surge With Demonstrations. Minneapolis residents have organized a steady stream of protests amid ICE raids after the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
https://truthout.org/articles/afraid-but-undeterred-minnesota-greets-trumps-ice-surge-with-demonstrations/
‘Goebbels Could Not Have Improved On This’: DHS Spreads ‘Propaganda’ on ICE Killing as Violence Mounts
“I never imagined that my government would so blatantly lie like this,” said one author and attorney.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lauren-bis-dhs
‘Horrifying’ leak reveals ICE ‘stalkers’ have access to Americans’ cell phone data
https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-ice-can-now-spy-on-every-phone-in-your-neighborhood/
# Children / Youth
Texas parental rights amendment gets its first test in court, as Calif ignores Texas child orders. Texas Supreme Court cost father his parental rights with his gender-confused son by wrongly assuming California courts would follow Texas court orders. Now it’s asking for help interpreting new constitutional amendment.
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/texas-parental-rights-amendment-gets-its-first-test-court-calif-ignores
Texas voters approve constitutional amendment affirming parental rights. Texas voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment affirming parental rights.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texas-voters-approve-constitutional-amendment-affirming-parental-rights#:~:text=Texas%20voters%20approve%20constitutional%20amendment%20affirming%20parental,approved%20a%20constitutional%20amendment%20affirming%20parental%20rights.
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Trump says U.S. is ‘SCREWED’ without tariffs. President Donald Trump said Monday that repaying tariff revenue and related investments from his tariffs on imports would be “almost impossible.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_42708c81-01ac-452f-8b25-289ce0bc244a.amp.html
House to vote on two more govt funding bills costing $76 billion. As a potential Jan. 30 government shutdown looms, the U.S. House plans to vote this week on the next batch of appropriations bills funding the federal government in fiscal year 2026.
https://www.aol.com/articles/house-vote-two-more-govt-194100137.html
# General News / Boat Strikes
President Donald Trump’s administration faced new war crime accusations on Monday after it was revealed that the administration disguised the airplanes it used to bomb at least one alleged drug boat.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-2674877201/
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein ‘Murder Cover-Up’ Explodes: Brother Claims Secret Autopsy Facts Ruling Out Suicide Coming. “Jeff was murdered. I want to know who killed him and on whose behalf?”
https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-brother-claims-new-autopsy-report-will-prove-sex-offender-was-murdered-11882934
Bill Clinton faces being held in contempt of Congress after he and Hillary refuse to testify in Epstein inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/13/donald-trump-tariffs-supreme-court-iran-ice-immigration-jerome-powell-us-politics-live
# Gov / Politics
Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy Signals the Start of Imperial America. The 2025 National Security Strategy abandons the liberal international order’s ideological pretensions, embracing transactional imperialism, hemispheric primacy, and economic nationalism to secure America’s survival and unapologetic renewal.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/donald-trumps-national-security-strategy-signals-the-start-of-imperial-america
National Security Strategy of the United States of America
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday — challenging Hegseth’s move to demote Kelly’s military rank after the senator told service members to defy the Trump administration’s “illegal orders.”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/12/mark-kelly-sues-pete-hegseth-military-rank-demotion/?utm_campaign=dcfb&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Colorado expands lawsuit over alleged Trump retaliation. “The U.S. Constitution does not permit the president to single out states for punishment based on their exercise of core sovereign powers. And yet, that is exactly what President Trump has done,” Weiser said. “The administration cannot punish Colorado into submission, and that is why we filed his lawsuit to fight for Colorado.”
https://www.cbs19news.com/colorado-expands-lawsuit-over-alleged-trump-retaliation/article_95e96261-f356-599d-aea2-4bdf45972f62.html
Trump escalates Iran pressure, threatening tariffs and military force. Amid rising tensions, Iran’s intelligence agency says it has seized US arms and explosive equipment from ‘militants’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/13/iran-us-at-possible-precipice-of-renewed-conflict-as-protests-continue
Republicans weigh making foreign-born public fraudsters deportable, subject to denaturalization. Recent revelations about long-standing and wide-ranging fraud schemes prompted a crackdown from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the area that has led to clashes with the local community. Now some in Congress want to help fix the problem.
https://voz.us/en/just-the-news/260113/32485/republicans-weigh-making-foreign-born-public-fraudsters-deportable-subject-to-denaturalization.html
Trump admin labels Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt as terrorist organizations
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-begins-process-to-designate-certain-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
Trump Says International Law Won’t Limit His Use Of Power, Alarming Lawmakers On Both Sides
https://upolitics.com/news/trump-says-international-law-wont-limit-his-power-alarming-lawmakers-on-both-sides/
Time to suspend freedom of speech, tech billionaire says. “We need to control the platforms, all the social platforms.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-billionaire-shlomo-kramer-speech
First Amendment protects five fundamental freedoms: religion, speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
2 GOP Senators Vow to Block Trump Nominees
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/fed-nominations-thom-tillis-powell
Sanders Warns Powell Probe Part of Trump Plan to ‘Intimidate and Destroy’ All Critics. “We must not allow our great country, the United States of America, to become an authoritarian society.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-trump-authoritarianism
Trump, Vance, and Noem Launch a Preemptive Strike Against the Truth. In light of the Trump administration’s lies, the odds of getting a credible federal probe into the killing of Renee Good are slim.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-admin-lies-ice-shooting
Kristi Noem Faces MAGA Backlash for Attacking Minneapolis Victim in ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Claim
https://www.inquisitr.com/kristi-noem-faces-maga-backlash-for-attacking-minneapolis-victim-in-domestic-terrorism-claim
Donald Trump’s Greenland plot just hit a wall as a top Democrat warns the annexation would spell an end for this international alliance
https://attackofthefanboy.com/politics/donald-trumps-greenland-plot-just-hit-a-wall-as-a-top-democrat-warns-the-annexation-would-spell-an-end-for-this-international-alliance/
Kristi Noem says ‘we can’t trust our government’, interviewer points out she is the government
https://www.aol.com/articles/stupidity-forever-ice-barbie-kristi-195921843.html
Trump’s Greenland push escalates as GOP lawmaker moves to make it America’s 51st state. Randy Fine’s office argued that as global competition in the Arctic intensifies, the United States cannot allow enemy powers to gain influence over one of the world’s most strategically important regions.
https://voz.us/en/politics/260113/32496/republican-representative-introduces-bill-to-make-greenland-the-51st-state-of-the-u-s.html
Democratic Congresswoman On MS NOW Calls for ICE to Be Abolished: ‘They Are Rogue, They Are Racist’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/01/12/progressive-squad-member-demands-congress-reign-in-ice-n2669338
Minneapolis Mayor Frey Pushes Back on Noem’s Narrative — ‘I’m Biased Because I’ve Got Two Eyes… Anybody Can See This Victim Is Not a Domestic Terrorist.’ “This was a federal agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.”
https://www.newsbreak.com/altitude-post-361905032/4436105909037-minneapolis-mayor-frey-pushes-back-on-noem-s-narrative-i-m-biased-because-i-ve-got-two-eyes-anybody-can-see-this-victim-is-not-a-domestic-terrorist
# Gov / Politics / Global
Colombian President Petro Says ICE ‘Operates In The Same Way As The Nazi And Italian Brigades’
https://www.latintimes.com/colombian-president-petro-says-ice-operates-same-way-nazi-italian-brigades-593456
‘Final days and weeks’ for regime in Iran, says Germany. Activists say at least 600 protesters have been killed and thousands arrested in the crackdown by Iran’s ruling mullahs.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/regime-iran-germany-2000-protesters-killed-5HjdQf2_2/
Iran protester ‘to be executed tomorrow’, rights group says, as official says 2,000 killed in crackdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj691w2e840t
Ex-Prince Andrew “Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried” and Is Allegedly Considering One “Potential Financial Lifeline,” Royal Sources Claim
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/ex-prince-andrew-lucrative-potential-lifeline-knows-where-bodies-are-buried-sources/
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Cops Claimed They Were ‘Forced’ to Kill Black Man in Broad Daylight, but New Video Tells a Different Story. Video footage of the shooting has been released, and — surprise, surprise — it shows Taylor walking away from cops with his hands raised to his sides, showing that he had no gun in his hand at the time an officer fired the single shot that took his life.
https://newsone.com/6754522/video-shows-florida-police-lied-about-shooting-black-man/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court
Jack Smith to testify publicly before Congress next week. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan scheduled a public hearing with Smith next week.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/12/congress/jack-smith-to-testify-publicly-00724047
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Jon Stewart Breaks the Silence on Live Television — A Moment That Stopped America Cold
https://hotnews.otoarizasi.com/posts/nowuseless-skills-every-person-over-developed-that-no-one-ywhyqssi-shipminion/
Judd Apatow Blasts Donald Trump During 2026 Golden Globes Speech: ‘I Believe We’re in a Dictatorship Now’
https://okmagazine.com/p/judd-apatow-blasts-donald-trump-2026-golden-globes-speech/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits
For 80 years, Republicans have blocked us from fixing our health care system. Beyond the subsidies, we need urgent, comprehensive action to address the American health care mess. And it is quite a mess. As The Guardian noted on Dec. 31, “Costs, insurance delays, and difficult-to-obtain mental health treatment plague the US health system.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5681970-healthcare-crisis-americans-struggle/
# Medical / Science / Research / Nursing
Largest Nurses Strike in NYC History as Nearly 15,000 Healthcare Workers Hit the Picket Line. “No nurse should be asked to accept less pay, fewer benefits, or less dignity for doing lifesaving work,” said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/new-york-nurse-strike-mount-sinai-nyc/
# Military / War Department
Hegseth Says Proposed $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is ‘Message to the World’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5685814-hegseth-trump-defense-budget-request/
# Other Stuff / Archaeology
Cave sealed for 40,000 years finally opened and what was found ‘changes human history’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/2156492/cave-sealed-40000-years-opened-by-archaeologists
Scientists Lowered a Camera 300 Feet into Antarctic Ice— What It Revealed Left Viewers in Awe. As the camera went deeper, the color of the ice transitioned from blue to a diamond-like white.
https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/scientists-lowered-a-camera-300-feet-into-antarctic-ice-what-it-revealed-left-viewers-in-awe
# Technology / AI
Elon Musk gets destroyed as two major countries block X, and the ones ramping up to do the same are making his nightmare far worse. This is a terrible situation for X, especially given the reason for the bans: the platform’s failure to adequately address the rampant creation of non-consensual sexual imagery.
https://attackofthefanboy.com/tech/elon-musk-gets-destroyed-as-two-major-countries-block-x-and-the-ones-ramping-up-to-do-the-same-are-making-his-nightmare-far-worse/
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