curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Dara Kerr @ Guardian:
Off-duty employee at Colorado ICE facility arrested for shooting protester
Woman has non-life threatening injuries after Brandon Booth shot her with pistol outside ICE facility and drove off
An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening. The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day, according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body. She had a friend with her, who was unharmed.
(Dara Kerr @ Guardian more…)
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Sarah Jones: New York City Marched Against ICE’s Reign of Terror
New York City continued their “Good Trouble” marches against ICE’s undemocratic reign of terror, with Friday’s march honoring the death of John Lewis on July 17, 2020.
(Sarah Jones more…)
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David Stringer, Azman Usmani, Alisha Sachdev, Rakesh Sharma @ Bloomberg:
Data in the World’s Cleanest Air Shows a Grim Climate RecordScientists in Australia collect some of the world’s most crucial measurements of greenhouse gases
(David Stringer, Azman Usmani, Alisha Sachdev, Rakesh Sharma @ Bloomberg more…)
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Dissent in Bloom: Flock Camera Data Lives in Top-Secret Data Centers
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Joyce Vance: A Feek-Good Moment
… this car, with these stickers, was parked in front of me.
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We’re in this together
(Joyce Vance more…)
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Heather Delaney Reese: Trump’s plan to use the federal government to interfere with our elections
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Tim Balk, Lisa Lerer @ NY Times: The vice president’s comment that there were ties between Mr. Epstein and the “highest levels” of Israeli intelligence troubled some in his party.
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Chris Geidner: After the first hearing ever convened by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, the judge concluded DOJ still had more work to do to make its case.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 18, 2026
On July 18, 1863, at dusk, the Black soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry of the U.S. Army charged the walls of Fort Wagner, a fortification on Morris Island off Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. Because Fort Wagner covered the southern entrance to the harbor, it was key to enabling the U.S. government to take the city.
The 600 soldiers of the 54th made up one of the first Black regiments for the Union, organized after the Emancipation Proclamation called for the enlistment of African American soldiers. The 54th’s leader was a Boston abolitionist from a leading family: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
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