Wednesday, July 15, 2026

ICE agents gunned down Joan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian immigrant legally working in Biddeford, Maine, as his three-year-old daughter watched; the killer had been on the job just a few short months. DHS officials blame government shutdowns — and Democrats — for agents' failure to wear body cameras promised after prior killings.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, held for months in ICE detention, filed a federal lawsuit alleging a "public-private conspiracy" to deport him, naming the Trump administration and a constellation of right-wing organizations including the Heritage Foundation.

On the tenth anniversary of the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, the Erdoğan government celebrates a "victory of democracy" while burying US-NATO involvement and the dictatorship that followed.

Trump prepares to release classified documents claiming 2020 election "irregularities," but his own former intelligence analyst Miles Taylor calls it bunk; the president threatened fees on the Strait of Hormuz then denounced his own idea the next day. CounterPunch argues redistribution begins before markets exist, through legal structures that pre-distribute economic power.