yesteryear Voices, The Peoples News
January 30, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs
Ohio braces for potential immigration surge targeting Haitian community: Springfield, home to 15,000 Haitians, is preparing as hundreds of thousands of Haitians across the U.S. are set to lose their temporary protected status. The agency will swarm a city where Donald Trump previously claimed the Haitian immigrant community was eating their white neighbors’ pets.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205838/ice-springfield-ohio-haitians-temporary-protected-status-tps
We Asked Former Military What They REALLY Think Of ICE — And They Didn’t Hold Back. ‘If we wouldn’t treat an enemy combatant in that way, there is no possible justification for the brutal treatment and killing of a peaceful American citizen.’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/military-vets-on-ice_l_697a60cce4b085e8bf5d14b5
New Orleans PD recruit taken into custody by ICE: The recruit began the hiring process with NOPD in June 2025 and passed a background check, including screening through the FBI’s National Crime Information Center and E-Verify
https://www.police1.com/federal-law-enforcement/new-orleans-pd-recruit-taken-into-custody-by-ice
New video of shooting by federal agent gets ‘worse and worse and worse for the White House’: CNN Drops Full New Bombshell Video of Alex Pretti Killing By Trump Deportation Agents — Almost 7 Minutes Long
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/cnn-drops-full-new-bombshell-video-of-alex-pretti-killing-by-trump-agents-almost-7-minutes-long/
Rep. Joaquin Castro after inspecting Dilley facility: Release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos “immediately”
https://www.kens5.com/video/news/local/rep-joaquin-castro-after-inspecting-dilley-facility-release-5-year-old-liam-conejo-ramos-immediately/273-a53c51d6-2f95-494a-8897-ed33a8d56544
Stephen Colbert Says Comparing ICE to Gestapo Not ‘Fair’ Because at Least ‘Nazis Were Willing To Show Their Faces’: “Masked secret police shooting innocent people with impunity in the streets are not victims.”
https://mashable.com/video/stephen-colbert-response-alex-pretti-ice
Joe Scarborough: Alex Pretti Was ‘Executed on the Streets of America’ Because He ‘Dared to Be a Good Samaritan’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15510197/morning-joe-scarborough-alex-pretti.html
Immigration Officers Sweeping Protestors’ Photos, License Plates and Personal Data Into Huge Database: ICE has expanded its mass surveillance efforts. Online activists are fighting back. Protesters are using social media and encrypted messaging apps to track ICE vehicles and agents, while hackers have targeted ICE’s surveillance arsenal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/ice-tracking-tools-protesters-00755703
‘They are not committing crimes’: Trump admin barred from arresting legal refugees in Minnesota under new DHS policy, must ‘return and release’ all detainees
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15510197/morning-joe-scarborough-alex-pretti.html
More than 200 people were detained in Maine, but what happened next left families scrambling: Families in Maine scramble to halt ICE’s transfer of detainees out of state. Officials are quickly moving people they’ve apprehended out of state, making it difficult for loved ones to reach them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/maine-ice-detainees-transfer
ICE’s Theater of War: Camo and hats for jungle combat do not make sense in American cities. But they are key to dressing for the war ICE has imagined. President Donald Trump and his inner circle still insist that rounding up people and crushing dissidents brings peace to American cities besieged by the assault of having an immigrant community.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/how-ice-dresses-cbp-minneapolis-military-theater-of-war/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Donald Trump nominates Kevin Warsh as chair of Federal Reserve. Pick of former Fed governor to replace Jerome Powell comes as White House seeks to tighten grip on central bank
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/30/donald-trump-nominates-kevin-warsh-us-federal-reserve-chair
Trump expands trade war with Canada by threatening 50% tariffs on aircrafts sold in US
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-aircraft-carney-d8692117bfcf11cf948f834534e7eb88
Senator demands answers after Trump accepted Rolex and gold bar before slashing tariffs on Switzerland. Trump’s love of lavish gifts is well known and many are displayed in the Oval Office
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rolex-swiss-tariffs-ron-wyden-b2910260.html
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
Seismologists verify a massive spike in high-magnitude earthquakes, exactly like “birth pains.” In the last 20 years, the number of major earthquakes (6.0+) statistically spiked compared to the previous century. From Turkey to Japan, the earth is literally shaking more violently more often. Like a woman in labor, the contractions are getting closer together.
https://www.newsbreak.com/deep-waters-1683097/4466041302476-seismologists-verify-a-massive-spike-in-high-magnitude-earthquakes-exactly-like-birth-pains
Experts Warn of ‘Disastrous’ Climate Impacts If Trump Seizes Control of Greenland: “Trump’s energy and climate policies, including his heedless preoccupation with exploiting Greenland and the rest of the Arctic for oil and gas resources, risk a far more rapid meltdown of the Arctic.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenland-climate
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA / USDA
Check your cupboards: Thousands of food items and other products have been recalled due to the presence of rodent and bird contamination.
https://people.com/thousands-of-gold-star-items-recalled-for-exposure-to-rodent-waste-11894824
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Stunning Epstein Twist As Ghislaine Maxwell Claims 29 Associates Cut Secret DOJ Deals. Ghislaine Maxwell accused the Department of Justice of failing to investigate nearly 30 of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. Those settlements went to “25 men” and four potential “co-conspirators,” reported The Daily Beast. The petition has prompted questions regarding the identities of the cloaked individuals—and why the DOJ would offer them protection.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205806/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-department-justice-settlements
# Gov / Politics
Momentum builds in Congress to ban taxpayer funding of Taliban with bill passed in Senate committee
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/momentum-builds-congress-ban-taxpayer-funding-taliban-bill-passage-senate
Senate blocks string of funding bills as DHS, ICE dispute comes to a head. The vote makes a shutdown increasingly likely, given the House already passed all six bills and has left for recess
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5712883-senate-funding-vote-government-shutdown/
Sen. Mark Kelly Says Proof-of-Citizenship Bill Would “Make It Hard for Americans to Vote” — “They Wanna Continue Trump’s Bulls— Story About How His Election Was Stolen in 2020”
https://www.newsbreak.com/altitude-post-361905032/4467531709477-sen-mark-kelly-says-proof-of-citizenship-bill-would-make-it-hard-for-americans-to-vote-they-wanna-continue-trump-s-bull-story-about-how-his-election-was-stolen-in-2020
‘Time for a revolution’: ‘Breaking Bad’ star says Americans must fight Trump regime – ‘they can’t take us all down.’ “I’m mad as hell. And I’m not gonna take it anymore.” It’s fair to say they’re generally coming at this from the standard Hollywood lib perspective where they want change, but not in a scary or violent way.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/time-for-a-revolution-breaking-bad-star-says-americans-must-fight-trump-regime-they-cant-take-us-all-down/
Trump Makes Major Venezuela Announcement. Trump announcing new ‘Trump-class’ battleship at Mar-a-Lago. President Donald Trump told service members the United States will soon begin land operations against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers. The comment follows his designation of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a foreign terrorist and a recent U.S. military buildup in the region.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/slideshows/trump-makes-major-announcement-venezuela-011902852.html
Who’s next? Majority of Republicans support Trump getting the US military involved in more countries
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/28/trump-is-threatening-strike-iran-his-supporters-wouldnt-mind-00752821
Arizona House Republican proposes repealing 17th Amendment, “They want to ban people from voting for senators”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arizona-house-republican-proposes-repealing-17th-amendment-they-want-to-ban-people-from-voting-for-senators/ar-AA1VgrGN
17th Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous. Trump administration undertook one of its most blatantly authoritarian actions yet, deploying the FBI to seize ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, a heavily blue area in metro Atlanta that has been an epicenter of the president’s conspiracy theories about the election he lost. “People will soon be prosecuted for what they did,” Trump vowed
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/minnesota-georgia-fulton-county-trump-midterms-election-intereference-voter-rolls/
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Virginia Cop Killed Unarmed Black Man – And Was Pardoned After 2 Days In Jail, Courtesy This Republican Governor
https://www.inquisitr.com/virginia-cop-killed-unarmed-black-man-and-was-pardoned-after-2-days-in-jail-courtesy-a-republican-governor
MAGA driver with a Trump flag plows into an innocent protestor and then speeds off in a horrifying hit-and-run. This is where Trump’s America has led us. This is what happens when leaders normalize cruelty and cheer on dehumanization. When a flag becomes a license to intimidate. When kids learn that power comes from fear.
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/fremont-student-hit-in-apparent-hit-and-run-during-student-led-ice-demonstration/
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
‘Terrified’ Americans are faced with life-or-death choice after sky-high Affordable Care Act price hike. ‘We are literally two adults who have worked our entire lives — and we cannot get insurance anywhere,’ one retiree tells Rhian Lubin, as she and her husband face more than a tenfold premium increase
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/health-insurance-premiums-affordable-care-act-obamacare-aca-b2909554.html
# Medical / Science / Research / Nursing
Gabapentin Side Effects Doctors Often Misread. Common side effects from gabapentin include brain fog, dizziness, weight gain, headache, fatigue, and anxiety. The drug has also been linked to a higher risk of dementia.
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2025/12/2/gabapentins-side-effects-may-lead-to-prescribing-cascade
Two Pathogenic Fungi Crossed the Species Barrier—Can Now Infect Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FrsghNwYk
Some still tout ivermectin as a cure-all. Here’s what the science says: Early studies showed antiviral activity in vitro, meaning in isolated cells under artificial conditions, but they did not establish whether ivermectin could safely or effectively treat COVID-19 in people. The battle over ivermectin was only just beginning.
https://san.com/cc/some-still-tout-ivermectin-as-a-cure-all-heres-what-the-science-says/
ADHD medication may not work how scientists thought. Stimulants don’t act on the attention center of the brain, new study suggests. Scientists have long assumed that Ritalin (pictured) and Adderall, stimulants often used to treat the disorder, act on the brain’s internal wiring, but brain scan comparisons between children who took the stimulants and those who didn’t provide a different explanation.
https://www.science.org/content/article/adhd-medication-may-not-work-how-scientists-thought
# Military / Global
Ignored Orders and Growing Resistance in Chinese Military After Purge of Top Generals. Xi Jinping is eliminating the people who might be willing to say no to him.
https://www.vox.com/politics/476711/xi-zhang-youxia-china-military-purge
Russian Soldiers Seen Surrendering to Gun-Wielding Robot
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/russians-surrendering-gun-wielding-robot
# Transportation / Shipping
Waymo Car Hits Child Walking to School During Drop-Off, Prompting Investigation. The child was hit as the self-driving car attempted to break
https://people.com/waymo-car-hits-child-walking-to-school-during-drop-off-prompting-investigation-11895826
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