Wednesday, July 15, 2026

ICE agents murdered Joan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian husband and father legally working in Biddeford, Maine, as his three-year-old daughter watched — the second fatal shooting of the wrong person in days, committed as Guerrero tried to drive away. The agent who killed him had been with the agency for mere months. State Democrats blasted the killing; DHS officials blamed government shutdowns and Democrats for ICE agents' failure to wear body cameras during two recent killings, even after ICE killings prompted a pledge to equip agents.

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

A billionaire-funded media machine led by a former Israeli spy is targeting U.S. children with racist, neoconservative, pro-war, pro-business and pro-Israel messaging through PragerU, which is explicitly trying to take over American schools, Alan MacLeod reports for MintPress News.

Trump is preparing to release classified intelligence documents he claims will reveal 2020 election irregularities, but his former intelligence analyst Miles Taylor calls the material bunk — Taylor, who said "I helped dig it" regarding the fraud claims. Meanwhile, a writer recounts 11 years of Trump's blight on political norms: "The frustrating thing about telling the truth is knowing that you're right, but that it ultimately may not make any difference to the people who need to hear it the most."