Voices, The Peoples News
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
House GOP’s immigration gamble hits a wall as Chip Roy and other conservatives demand permanent reforms or risk bringing the bill down entirely. Conservatives like Chip Roy temporarily withheld their votes on a critical $70 billion Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol budget package, demanding that leadership commit to making Trump-era border policies (like those outlined in H.R. 2) permanent.
https://thehill.com/latino/3920921-tensions-high-as-house-gop-tackles-take-two-at-border-bill/
‘It’s massive destruction’: Outcry in Texas over waivers to allow border wall in Big Bend National Park. Despite plunging border crossings, the Trump administration is circumventing laws to expedite building in a vast, pristine wilderness
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-border-wall-big-bend-national-park
Philadelphia Family Demands Answers After Second Southeast Asian Man Dies in ICE Detention. Tuan Van Bui died in April at an Indiana immigration detention center
https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/tuan-van-bu-dies-ice-custody-family-requests-investigation
Thousands of children are losing parents to ICE detention, report says
https://www.kxan.com/news/thousands-of-children-are-losing-parents-to-ice-detention-report-says/
# Consumer Protection / Product Safety
This shrub looks like a garden ornamental, but it’s more toxic than a snake bite: Oleander (Nerium oleander), produces beautiful, showy flowers, but every part of the plant, the leaves, roots, nectar, and sap, is highly toxic. Even the smoke from burning clippings, or the water used in a vase with the flowers, remains severely toxic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd71kNUd2ko
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banking / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
Americas Taxpayers Could Face a New $3 Billion Cost Thanks to Kevin Warsh and the Fed
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/americans-taxpayers-could-face-3-145030786.html
Trump cements end to US ‘global empire’ – and the economic damage ‘will be huge’: expert
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677036730/
# Environment / Climate / Weather / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water
Trump Admin Opens Door to Resumed ‘Cyanide Bomb’ Use on BLM Land: What they are: M-44s are spring-loaded devices staked into the ground that use scented bait to lure in predators like coyotes and foxes. When an animal tugs at them, they shoot a lethal dose of sodium cyanide into the mouth.
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/trump-administration-lifts-ban-cyanide-bombs-killing-animals
Judge orders Trump admin to reverse National Park changes. Judge Angel Kelley sided with the challengers on Friday, finding that the federal government’s action “sets a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization” while undermining the “integrity” of the National Parks system.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5922592-judge-rules-trump-parks-diversity/
Trump administration waives environmental laws to blast barriers, bulldoze roads in Big Bend National Park
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-waives-environmental-laws-to-blast-border-barriers-roads-through-big-bend-national-park-2026-06-08/
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
8 warning signs from Tyson’s Texas layoffs show America’s beef industry is under pressure. Tyson Foods’ mass layoffs in Amarillo, Texas, cutting 1,761 jobs by reducing the facility to a single shift, and the shutdown of its Lexington, Nebraska plant perfectly illustrate the critical challenges facing the American beef industry.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-nebraska-cattle-industry-mass-layoffs-11099816
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
Epstein survivors hit Trump with a birthday gift he won’t want to open
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2677037686/
# Gov / Politics / US
“Ted Lieu Cornered Patel With One Recording — The 7 Words That Ended The Hearing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJx8NzcBfjE
Issue One Policy Director Michael McNulty released the following statement: The FBI’s raid on free and fair election: “This fits with a troubling pattern of an election takeover playbook that we’ve seen across the country: spreading false claims about election fraud, using those claims to justify extraordinary government action, and then abusing the power of the executive branch to intimidate and attack the very people and institutions that administer and support elections.”
https://issueone.org/press/new-fbi-raids-in-ohio-raise-alarm-over-broader-pattern-of-election-interference/
Supreme Court nears end of term with several high-profile cases still pending. Perhaps no case this term has attracted more public attention than the challenge to Trump’s executive order purporting to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who are unlawfully present or on temporary visas.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-court-nears-end-term-several-high-profile-cases-still-pending
Sen. Tom Cotton Vows Fast-Track Confirmation for Trump’s Pick to Lead All 18 U.S. Intelligence Agencies
https://www.dailygazette.com/tribune/senate-plans-fast-action-on-trump-s-dni-pick/article_00d68d69-5027-5694-82a2-286fe5484694.html
Trump’s UFC fight is a ‘volcano of corruption,’ suit says. A judge could deliver an 11th-hour KO to the event
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-ufc-fight-volcano-corruption-175936901.html
Inside Trump’s planned CIA overhaul: president reportedly eyes sweeping purge of Obama- and Biden-era intelligence leaders. A senior CIA officer who oversaw Russia analysis has been stripped of her security clearance, part of a sweeping removal of 37 serving and former officials accused of “betray[ing] their oath to the Constitution,” the Economist reported on Aug. 21.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-escalates-purge-senior-044200685.html
Trump has once again chucked a grenade on the Senate floor ahead of a key funding deadline. Senate Majority Leader John Thune could well end up the loser of Trump’s war with Democrats over Bill Pulte simply because House Speaker Mike Johnson is closer to the president
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-thune-pulte-senate-fisa-b2994122.html
Supreme Court poised to gut century-old law to expand Trump’s power: legal analyst
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-ftc-new-report/
‘It’s Total Confusion’: MS NOW Analyst Argues Trump ‘Kneecapping’ Any Actual Strategy to End Iran War. “Maybe he’ll go in, maybe he won’t go in. We don’t really know. And so it does kneecap his ability to be taken seriously at the negotiating table.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/total-confusion-ms-now-analyst-162200981.html
‘God help us’: Ex-GOP operative warns of ‘incandescent’ signal America is in decline. Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt said that Elon Musk — the world’s first trillionaire — is “a danger to every single American,” in a video on Friday.
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-steve-schmidt/
ICE Digs Into Voter Files Ahead of Midterms: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to a news report.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ice-agents-accessed-voter-files-in-texas-and-north-carolina/
Trump is pushing to have Congress ‘expunge’ his impeachments – even without a law saying its possible. President is first in US history to be impeached twice, over abuse of power and inciting an insurrection
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/trump-congress-expunge-impeachments
# Politics / Global
The US May Not Have Troops on the Ground, Venezuela’s Government Is Occupied. Delcy Rodríguez capitulates to US demands, the Venezuelan left is calling for resistance.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-may-not-have-troops-on-the-ground-but-venezuelas-government-is-occupied/
Iran declares Strait of Hormuz closed to all vessels and says US strikes have made ceasefire ‘practically useless.’ After a second day of exchange of fire between the US and Iran, Tehran further said the Strait of Hormuz was now shut to all shipping, a claim CENTCOM denied.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/11/us-and-iran-trade-strikes-for-second-day-threatening-return-of-all-out-war
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
‘This court does not have the power’: Trump attorneys flatly tell judge to back off inquiry into ‘anti-weaponization fund.’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/this-court-does-not-have-the-power-trump-attorneys-flatly-tell-judge-to-back-off-inquiry-into-anti-weaponization-fund/
A federal judge on Friday said she doesn’t believe President Donald Trump’s plan for a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” is fully dead, and issued an order indefinitely blocking the proposal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judge-says-she-doesn-t-153324389.html
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Fox News viewers turn on Trump after White House move that is ’embarrassing on a global scale.’ Fox News shared images of the UFC Freedom 250 construction underway on the White House South Lawn ahead of the June 14 event, with viewers outraged over the reported $700,000 in damage to the historic grounds
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/fox-news-viewers-turn-trump-1881463
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
Texas rural hospital organization to end contracts with UnitedHealthcare over ‘unsustainable’ rates: “We can’t keep absorbing losses while our communities go without care”
https://www.gilmermirror.com/2026/06/12/rural-texas-hospitals-draw-line-in-the-sand-torch-cin-terminates-unitedhealthcare-contract-we-cant-keep-absorbing-losses-while-our-communities-go-without-care/
Original Medicare now requires prior authorization for some procedures in six states under a new federal pilot. Private Medicare Plans Are Denying Rehab Care at Alarming Rates, New Analysis Shows: 6 States to Pilot Prior Authorizations for Original Medicare
https://www.elderlawanswers.com/6-states-to-pilot-prior-authorizations-for-original-medicare-21225
# Medical / Biologicals / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications
Tennessee health department warns parents their children will be reported to immigration officials. Letters give parents until June 30 to decide whether to keep their disabled children on a public health program that provides life-sustaining care or risk reporting
https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/06/11/tennessee-health-department-warns-parents-their-children-will-be-reported-to-immigration-officials/
[Video] Robot nurses join Texas hospital staff to assist with patient care. Service robots at an Odessa hospital help transport supplies, easing workloads and allowing nurses to focus more on patient care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywX6E33pjHU
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
US to withdraw all aerial refuelling aircraft and several fighter jets from Nato operations in Europe. Plans include cutting 50 fighter jets, while restationing aircraft carrier, bomber task force group
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/us-to-cut-air-and-naval-assets-deployed-for-nato-operations-in-europe
Former U.S. Intelligence official worries America committed ‘an apparent war crime’ in recent strikes. They pointed to reported strikes on civilian infrastructure, including a primary school in Minab where at least 175 people were killed, as evidence
https://www.latintimes.com/more-100-legal-experts-raise-serious-concerns-us-strikes-iran-may-war-crimes-596336
India’s Foreign Minister Tells Marco Rubio U.S. Navy Attacks on Commercial Shipping Are ‘Not Justified’ After Three Indian Mariners Killed
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/ahead-of-modi-trump-meet-us-justifies-ship-attacks-offers-no-regret-for-deaths-of-3-indian-sailors-4038403
# Military / Global
Peace talks descend into chaos after Trump accuses Tehran of leaking ‘fake’ deal terms. The President said the Iranian negotiators were ‘very dishonorable people to deal with’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/12/dishonorable-trump-says-leaked-iran-ceasefire-terms-fake
Taiwan fires dozens of US-made missiles at China from mobile ‘shoot and scoot’ launchers in first show of force. The “shoot and scoot” mobile launchers were used as part of a two-day drill, in which the military targeted the narrow Taiwan strait separating the self-governing island from China.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16479132/taiwan-fires-us-missiles-china/
# Other Interesting Stuff
Something Deeply Abnormal Just Happened In Antarctica: The coldest continent on Earth reached 15.4C during winter and stayed above freezing for weeks. Researchers say it was one of the most extreme winter warming events ever recorded in Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzLqySVz45E
NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible? This increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is a temporary anomaly rather than an indication that global warming has reversed, scientists say.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/nasa-satellites-show-antarctica-has-gained-ice-despite-rising-global-temperatures-how-is-that-possible
Antarctica has a strange gravity hole and scientists finally know why: Gravity often feels dependable and unchanging. It seems steady enough that we rarely question it. But the real picture is more surprising.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260306224213.htm
Why Scientists Are Terrified About What They’re Finding Beneath Antarctica. Scientists believe we may be approaching a tipping point that could completely redraw the world’s coastlines, putting cities such as Kolkata, New York and London at risk of severe flooding, displacing millions of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL3RZsT-Hwg
A mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean has puzzled scientists. The “cold blob” (or “warming hole”) in the North Atlantic is an anomaly south of Greenland and Iceland where sea surface temperatures have cooled by nearly \(1^{\circ}C\) (\(1.8^{\circ}F\)) since 1900. A recent study concludes this cooling is a primary indicator that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/mysterious-cold-blob-ocean-puzzled-095207654.html
# Technology / AI / Data Centers / Robotics
BlackRock CEO says Americans’ savings and pensions can fund a $10 trillion data center boom. A TikTok clip of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is drawing scrutiny after he suggested that Americans’ savings and pension money could help finance a massive buildout of data centers in the artificial intelligence era. “I can’t afford to feed my child but sure.”
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/blackrock-ceo-americans-savings-pension-finance/
# Transportation / Trucking
‘Wall’ of angered drivers may flood shops amid new Texas inspections
https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/wall-angered-drivers-may-flood-110300538.html
# Veterans / VA
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules for 9,000+ Combat-Disabled Veterans To Receive Full Retroactive Combat-Related Special Compensation: U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a class of over 9000 disabled Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard veterans who were wrongfully denied their full retroactive combat-related special compensation (CRSC). The class is represented by pro bono legal counsel Sidley Austin LLP and the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP).
https://nvlsp.org/supreme-court-unanimously-rules-for-9000-combat-disabled-veterans-to-receive-full-retroactive-combat-related-special-compensation/
Federal Court Ruling Upholds Veterans’ Right to Choose Support for VA Claims. In a landmark legal victory, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled in favor of veterans’ constitutional rights, affirming that veterans have the right to seek and pay for professional assistance when navigating the often-complex VA disability claims process.
https://veteransguide.org/news/federal-court-ruling-upholds-veterans-right-to-choose-support-for-va-claims/
Federal Court Orders Sweeping Action to End Veteran Homelessness. Ninth Circuit orders VA to build thousands of units of housing for disabled veterans
https://publiccounsel.org/a-historic-court-victory-for-veterans/
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