Voices, The Peoples News
October 24, 2026
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Immigrants
New details in a Texas ICE death: the man was a green-card holder, and the stories conflict. The cause of death remains unknown pending an autopsy, ICE said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/man-died-ice-custody-texas-041715386.html
Senator Alex Padilla Visits Sacramento ICE Facility After Agent Was Accused of Hit and Run, Says ‘This Administration’ Must Be Held ‘Accountable.’ Padilla was among several Democratic lawmakers who shamed ICE after video showed an ICE vehicle appearing to intentionally hit citizen Antonio Moreida, then drive off without checking on him. Moreida was filming ICE vehicles in the middle of a Woodland street. Multiple video angles showed that the ICE vehicle had plenty of space to stop before striking Moreida.
https://okmagazine.com/p/senator-alex-padilla-visits-sacramento-ice-facility-hit-run-accountable/
‘Someone like me isn’t worth’: José García-Sorto, shot by an ICE officer on a Phoenix freeway and never charged with a crime, lives with a bullet lodged in his spine
https://knewz.com/jose-garcia-sorto-shot-by-ice-officer-phoenix-never-charged-lives-bullet-lodged-spine/
‘We’ve seen the killings’: Fury mounts as lawmakers demand Trump remove ICE
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2678128109/
# Education / Schools / Libraries and Museums
Texas School Police Referred Tens of Thousands of Children to Prosecutors for Minor Misbehavior. A media investigation found criminal referrals of schoolchildren age 10 to 13 grew as the number of school resource officers in Texas likewise ballooned.
https://reason.com/2026/10/21/texas-school-police-referred-tens-of-thousands-of-children-to-prosecutors-for-minor-misbehavior/
# Environment / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands / Water / USGS / Animals
“The Trump EPA is tearing down our national limits on the extensive and dangerous pollution from power plant smokestacks, just as data centers and other drivers are increasing this harmful pollution,” says Vickie Patton, general counsel for Environmental Defense Fund
https://www.edf.org/media/trump-epa-attacks-us-protections-against-power-plant-pollution
Iconic Texas lake now more than 70% below capacity after mid-year surge. Canyon Lake, in Comal County, has plunged to a mean water level of just 886.75 feet this April, Texas Water Data reports. This is the lowest the lake has been since the 1960s, when its construction was first completed, according to a local report.
https://www.newsweek.com/major-texas-lake-lowest-water-level-1893115
# Food / Farming / FDA / Agriculture / Ranching / SNAP [Food Stamps] / USDA / FEMA
15 canned foods you won’t find after Nov. 1st. Worried about grocery shortages? These 15 canned foods deserve a closer look before holiday shopping picks up and pantry budgets get tighter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5XPOvqhaO0
Healthy foods that are actually toxic. Walk through any grocery store and you’ll see foods labeled “multigrain,” “high-protein,” “plant-based,” or “natural.” These words, paired with attractive packaging, can make products seem like healthy choices. Sometimes they are. But these labels can also be misleading.
https://www.goodrx.com/well-being/diet-nutrition/unhealthiest-healthy-foods?srsltid=AYCX9vKYj7SdkqFUDCumaA6Fq__IBo4wOG3xaM6JaMNgELUBIOEFdJst
‘Hunger Disaster Unrolling Before Our Eyes’: Alarm Grows Over Trump Food Aid Evisceration. “SNAP participation is falling because the Trump administration has intentionally kicked people off of the program—leaving Americans hungry and still struggling to afford food,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/5-million-lose-snap-benefits
# Gov / Politics / US
Trump erupts as court clears path for criminal trial: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled unanimously that former presidents do not possess absolute and permanent immunity from criminal prosecution for private acts, a legal principle later addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 immunity ruling (Trump v. United States).
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-loses-bid-move-already-decided-criminal-hush-money-case-us-court-2026-08-28/
Texas Woman Goes to Vote Early, Gets Threatened With $500 Fine by Stranger Who Says She Doesn’t ‘Look Disabled’: ‘The Audacity of People!’
https://thenerdstash.com/texas-woman-goes-to-vote-early-gets-threatened-with-500-fine-by-stranger-who-says-she-doesnt-look-disabled-the-audacity-of-people/
The ‘Flat-Out’ Lies, Moral Decrepitude, and Economic Malpractice of Trump’s GOP: What are loosely described as Trump’s “conflicts of interest,” for example, extend way beyond enriching himself from his presidency. He has violated the basic norms of presidential decency.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-morality/
Supreme Court hands Republicans major election win just days before midterms. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only member of the court to publicly dissent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/supreme-court-new-hampshire-student-d-voting-b3072109.html
Trump Launches Desperate Move to Snatch Must-Win Seat. After nearly 30 years in the Senate, Collins appears to be on the brink of losing her seat to Democratic challenger Troy Jackson, with Trump worsening her troubles in August by imposing a 50 percent tariff on about $20 billion of Canadian products.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-launches-desperate-move-to-snatch-must-win-seat
US and Israel are warned against launching fresh strikes on Iran. Multinational ‘anti-war bloc’ uses Istanbul summit to call for a diplomatic solution to Middle East crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/european-middle-eastern-ministers-summit-iran-us-israel
The astonishing Trump-Putin mystery just got much darker: Trump, Russian bribes, and Reform: What really happened? Foreign correspondent Luke Harding tells openDemocracy what he’s learnt from two decades of reporting on Russia
https://www.opendemocracy.net/trump-russia-asset-reform-farage-luke-harding-ukraine-war-putin-nathan-gill-bribes/
Spy chief warns Marco Rubio lethal plots against Americans reached ‘advanced stages.’ Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told Rubio that Iran has “substantially increased” its efforts to go after U.S. personnel, such as diplomats, and that lethal plotting against American citizens has reached “advanced stages” in the Middle East and other countries, according to an Oct. 23 memo Axios obtained and reported on Friday.
https://www.rawstory.com/marco-rubio-iran-assassinations/
Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine Elections. From promoting false claims of fraud to trying to wrest control of elections from the states, the administration is attempting to interfere with the foundation of American democracy.
https://www.brennancenter.org/series/trump-administrations-campaign-undermine-elections
We are in a constitutional crisis: “We Believe We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Law Professors and Law Teachers Stand Against Administration’s Illegal and Unconstitutional Actions. More than 1,000 law scholars from around the country have signed on to a bipartisan letter decrying President Trump’s slew of illegal executive orders and actions. The letter was coordinated by Kent Greenfield, Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, and the American Constitution Society.
https://www.acslaw.org/inbrief/we-believe-we-are-in-a-constitutional-crisis-law-professors-and-law-teachers-stand-against-administrations-illegal-and-unconstitutional-actions/
Trump threatens to ‘veto everything’ during a Democratic Congress: President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he plans to use his veto power on bills or resolutions Democrats want to pass if they win in either the House or the Senate, with days to go before the November midterm elections.
https://www.ntd.com/trump-says-he-will-veto-everything-if-democrats-win-midterms_1180979.html
Trump declares Dem’s House seat ‘conceded’ and orders Republicans to inform Mike Johnson: “The Dumocrat Party has just conceded the seat of the former Ilhan Omar from the lovely country of Somalia,” Trump said. Democrats have not conceded the seat, and Omar remains in office.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ilhan-omar-2678135963/
‘And so it begins’: Americans brace as Trump preemptively launches first midterm challenge. Critics sounded the alarm Friday after the Trump administration launched its first legal challenge to results of the midterms, more than a week before Election Day.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-midterms-2678134876/
Mark Kelly Says Trump’s Administration Is “One of the Most Corrupt in History,” Claims “Everything” He Does Enriches Himself and “His Rich Friends” While Americans Are “Struggling to Get By” Amid Iran War Gas Prices and 3.7% Inflation
https://www.newsbreak.com/combat-rated-361333999/4959837530258-mark-kelly-says-trump-s-administration-is-one-of-the-most-corrupt-in-history-claims-everything-he-does-enriches-himself-and-his-rich-friends-while-americans-are-struggling-to-get-by-amid-iran-war-gas-prices-and-3-7-inflation
‘Let’s Be Clear,’ Expert Says, There Is ‘No Role’ for DOJ or Todd Blanche in Election Certification. Blanche said the DOJ would not “improperly interfere” in elections, but did not rule out blocking certification of a state’s election results in a hypothetical “doomsday scenario.”
https://truthout.org/articles/todd-blanche-wont-rule-out-doj-disruption-of-midterm-elections-certification/
# Global News
French President Emmanuel Macron accuses Trump, other foreign leaders of exploiting France’s unrest for political gain. French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that foreign leaders — including those “on the other side of the Atlantic” — were seeking to exploit France’s tense social climate for political gain following a weekend of street violence and looting.
https://www.kptv.com/2026/10/21/macron-calls-claims-by-trump-others-blaming-muslim-migrants-french-riots-stupid/
More than 70,000 police officers deployed in France as cities prepare for more riots
https://www.dw.com/en/france-to-deploy-70000-police-officers-ahead-of-protests/a-79747655
Putin Is Ready to Restart Ukraine Peace Talks With US Mediation, But He Wants More Than a Ceasefire: ‘Let’s See How Things Develop.’ Vladimir Putin announced through the Kremlin that Moscow is prepared to resume U.S.-mediated trilateral peace talks with Ukraine as early as November, though he emphasized that any final agreement must establish comprehensive security guarantees rather than a temporary ceasefire.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/politics/26/10/62551339/putin-ukraine-peace-talks
A Russian drone slammed into a 24-storey Kyiv apartment block, and hours later Trump’s envoy was in St Petersburg telling Putin ‘I commend you’
https://attackofthefanboy.com/news/a-russian-drone-slammed-into-a-24-storey-kyiv-apartment-block-and-hours-later-trumps-envoy-was-in-st-petersburg-telling-putin-i-commend-you/
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA / ATF / DEA
Entire Georgia Police Department Resigns After Mayor Allegedly Puts Tracker on Chief’s Car
https://people.com/georgia-police-department-resigns-claims-mayor-tracker-chief-car-12188595
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court / United Nations
Why DOJ is trying to block Alaska’s Senate results in advance. The DOJ’s highly unusual lawsuit asks a federal judge to block the state from certifying the race’s results if Sullivan loses by a margin less than the number of votes his same-named challenger, Republican Dan J. Sullivan, receives. The midterm elections happen Nov. 3.
https://san.com/cc/why-the-doj-is-trying-to-block-alaskas-senate-results-in-advance/
GOP senator blows Trump-ordered election lawsuit out of water: ‘Should never have filed’: President Donald Trump on Friday said he told his administration to file its lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, kicking off what many fear could become a lengthy battle between the government and states over certifying an election where the president’s party is struggling.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/trump-s-administration-sues-block-possible-a22490957
‘Furious’ judges are tired of assuming Trump administration’s good faith. The Trump administration’s brazen disregard for the legal process is shattering the longstanding norm that judges assume DOJ attorneys are operating in good faith.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/furious-judges-are-tired-of-assuming-trump-administrations-good-faith/
# Medical Pharmaceuticals
Mothers of 2 girls who died after Gardisil HPV vaccine sue Merck. The mothers of a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old filed wrongful death lawsuits against Merck in February 2024, alleging that the Gardasil HPV vaccine caused severe autoimmune and neurological dysfunction leading to their daughters’ deaths
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-pulse/merck-hit-two-new-wrongful-death-lawsuits-allege-gardasil-vaccine-killed-young-women/
# Military / Department of Defense [DOD] / NATO / Boat Strikes
Trump threatens new Iran strike: ‘We may do another little Epic Fury, or they’ll agree.’ Trump Says After Claiming Not to Know About Possible Strike on Iran. The president previously said he wouldn’t take any more military action in Iran until after the midterms. Trump’s warning follows Tom Barrack’s suggestion of a weekend strike on Iran, despite the White House pledge to wait until after the midterms; UN envoy Mike Waltz says the US can maintain its blockade but disputes claims of a prolonged standoff
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hj0xogyhfg
# Technology / Robotics / AI / Data Centers
Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers
https://futurism.com/future-society/wolves-finland-google-ai-data-centers
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