Malmö Voices, The Peoples News
August 6, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her as she sat quietly in the front yard of her DC home. National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/veteran-sues-national-guard-detained-dc-b3027489.html
Gruesome criminal history ‘rampant’ as probe exposes multiple immigration agents
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/immigration-agent-crimes/
Legal aid groups alarmed as Trump administration awards $150M migrant child contract to Texas firm. The contract to the Houston-based Burke Law Group comes as the Trump administration ramps up its mass deportation campaign across the country
https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-deport-unaccompanied-8c8c5b7929f25c410e83d8b1112c5f09
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA
While you’re still debating if insects will be part of our future diet, you’ve already been eating crickets and larvae for over a year, disguised as your favorite foods. Corporate translation: “We add insect flour to products, but call it ‘alternative protein.’”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbofP0NSr9A/
GOP giddy as Trump official brags 5M booted off food stamps: ‘Listen, we’re very generous’: Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid ‘A Pretty Big Win.’ “The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, ‘a pretty big win,’” said one policy expert.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-rollins-snap-cuts-2677660136
# Gov / Politics / US
In blow to Trump, ‘very concerned’ GOP senator threatens to withhold Blanche AG vote. A GOP lawmaker on the outs with President Donald Trump is not sold on voting for Todd Blanche to be the country’s next attorney general, per Mediaite.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/blow-trump-very-concerned-gop-205129293.html
Senate committee votes in favor of holding Fauci in contempt of Congress. The former Covid czar refused to testify at a hearing last week, exercising his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/senate-panel-votes-to-hold-fauci-in-contempt-01026988
Trump Becomes INCOHERENT During Fox News Interview. Fox News is carrying water for Donald Trump in a big way. They continue trying to convince everyone that he isn’t mentally declining, even though it’s happening right before our eyes.
https://www.aol.com/articles/donald-trump-sparks-health-concerns-064952000.html
Pressure is building on Sen. Mitch McConnell after more than six weeks away from the Senate with little public information about his condition, renewing scrutiny over the country’s aging leaders and questions about their health impacting their ability to serve.
https://cbs4local.com/news/nation-world/oldest-congress-ever-faces-fresh-scrutiny-over-their-health-mitch-mcconnell-transparency-health-problems-age-limits-term-limits
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the midnight hours to hurl angry threats at people who have spoken out against him. Trump responded with fury after the Washington Post spoke to internal and anonymous sources about a fight between himself and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over concerns the U.S. is running out of missiles in the middle of a war. “The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down,” wrote Trump. “Long term jail sentences will be sought!”
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-hegseth-2677664638-2677664638
Vance calls on Congress to codify fraud, fund investigations. Vice President JD Vance called on leaders in Congress to codify more than $230 billion in fraud on Wednesday. He called on leaders to develop legislation that would require data sharing between state and federal governments, increase penalties for bad actors and appropriate more funds for fraud prosecution.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7f984529-2141-4c85-81bc-bc69eebcd152.amp.html
More than 600,000 voter files ripped off Arizona site in 2020 by hacker, but DOJ didn’t prosecute: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say
Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of the county’s vote.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi
Murphy Says Trump “Has Been Gaslighting Us All Along” on Iran — Calls the Latest News “A Possible Deal to Start Talking About a Possible Deal”
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4809274264002-murphy-says-trump-has-been-gaslighting-us-all-along-on-iran-calls-the-latest-news-a-possible-deal-to-start-talking-about-a-possible-deal
Gov. Andy Beshear Rejects Notion That a “Deadline” Has Passed to Replace Mitch McConnell
The Kentucky Republican senator has not made any public appearances since June.
https://truthout.org/articles/beshear-rejects-notion-that-a-deadline-has-passed-to-replace-mcconnell/
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Pressure mounts on Texas to address brutal heat crisis in prison cells. State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cell. Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won’t shell out for AC. The system for choosing who gets a “cool bed” is “arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/heat-stroke-death-texas-prisons-air-conditioning-bills/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations (UN)
Here’s Why Judge Jeanine Defied Trump—And What It Will Cost Her: Even the insiders are sick of hearing about the reflecting pool. “At some moment you have to take a step back and say, ‘This is ludicrous.’ That is what Jeanine Pirro did. So that’s her sin.”
https://michaelwolffnyc.substack.com/p/heres-why-judge-jeanine-defied-trump
‘Strong evidence of collusion’ in Trump case ‘amply supported’ judge’s decision to slap his lawyers with serious sanctions: Court filing
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/strong-evidence-of-collusion-in-trump-case-amply-supported-judges-decision-to-slap-his-lawyers-with-serious-sanctions-court-filing/amp/
Federal judge reveals chilling threats and intimidation after blocking Trump policy. McConnell said the threats intensified after he blocked parts of the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal funding early last year. : Nothing ‘disturbed me as much as that’
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-reveals-chilling-threats-and-intimidation-after-blocking-trump-policy-11785948834188.html
Dozens of judges have ruled that Donald Trump’s policies illegally stifled free speech, in what legal experts say is an unprecedented rebuke of a president who campaigned on a platform of ending censorship.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-vowed-bring-free-speech-back-judges-75-cases-ruled-that-he-has-stifled-it-2026-08-04/
Louisiana is supposed to compensate wrongfully convicted people. The AG keeps pushing back. In her two years in the role, Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill has opposed almost all compensation claims by wrongfully convicted people. Elvis Brooks’ murder conviction was thrown out after a prosecutor admitted he hid potentially exonerating evidence. Murrill maintains he’s guilty.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-wrongful-conviction-compensation-liz-murrill-elvis-brooks
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Here’s What Will Happen to CNN…and to Donald Trump’s deep, abiding hatred for the network. The fate of CNN, undoubtedly the world’s most famous name in news, hangs in the balance. I will tell you here what’s going to happen to it. Though I’m not sure you should care.
https://michaelwolffnyc.substack.com/p/heres-what-will-happen-to-cnn
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits / Health and Human Services [HHS]
# Medical / Biologicals / Research / CDC / Recalls / Nursing / Medications / Hospitals / Pharma
FDA: Heart and Blood Meds Recalled: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a report warning that some dabigatran capsules have been recalled nationwide.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/prescription-blood-thinner-recalled-nationwide-120800340.html
# Medical Alternatives / Medical Marijuana / Hemp
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
‘Shocking’: Veterans sound the alarm on ‘staggering sum’ spent on Trump crackdown. The Pentagon has already spent more than $700 million to deploy troops in the nation’s capital since last August, and their continued deployment is expected to cost another $1.43 billion, Goldbeck wrote, citing estimates from the Pentagon comptroller nominee.
https://www.rawstory.com/national-guard-2677664010/
Cuba Uses ‘Revolutionary Tourism’ to Destabilize US: Official; The Trump administration is taking the threat from Cuba seriously. A recent State Department report revealed that Cuban agents have infiltrated the top levels of the Pentagon and the National Security Council.
https://mronline.org/2026/08/06/unbreakable-cuba-why-washington-still-fears-a-defiant-island/
# Other Interestimg Stuff
In one of the most extraordinary fossil discoveries ever made, a worker operating heavy equipment near Fort McMurray, Alberta, accidentally uncovered the remains of a 110-million-year-old nodosaur during mining operations. Today, the specimen is regarded as one of the finest dinosaur fossils ever discovered.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/in-2011-a-shovel-strike-at-an-alberta-mine-exposed-a-rare-armoured-dinosaur-hidden-for-millions-of-years/articleshow/131414266.cms
# Security / DHS / Communication / Surveillance / AI / Data Centers / Secret Service
U.S. Rep. Keith Self, a Texas Republican, used social media on Wednesday to accuse the federal government of building an expansive domestic surveillance apparatus. Rep. Self Says “Our Founding Fathers Would Be Disgusted” As America’s Surveillance State Expands — Blasts Flock Cameras, 2027 Car “Kill Switches,” and CBDC
https://share.newsbreak.com/j7xaat29
# Social / Communities / Housing
# Social Services Programs / Social Security / Disability / AFDC (Aid for dependant children)
U.S. lawmakers clash over ways to extend Social Security funding. With the Social Security Trust Fund insolvency date looming, a congressional committee discussed creating a basic procedural framework to address the thorny issue at a Wednesday hearing.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_32642fa0-d212-4ee2-ad24-f5356e9f1cf5.html
# Veterans / VA
This dishonorable Trump henchman is robbing fallen heroes — literally. As a veteran, I will go to my grave believing that covering each other’s six doesn’t end at the grave. These names were removed from the Defense Casualty Analysis System due to a supposed “glitch,” taking the number of KIA from 18 to 14.
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/hegseth-iran-war-dead/
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