A $127 million win for Black farmers, Planned Parenthood's funding survives, and Mexico takes ICE to court. (1)

This week, ICE faced renewed nationwide outrage and protests after agents fatally shot two men in separate traffic stops within days of each other. Here are ways to take action in response to recent events.

Sign the petition. Demand a full, independent, and transparent investigation into the fatal shooting of 25-year-old father, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, by ICE agents in Biddeford. Action Network >

Save and share the MigraWatch hotline: 1-844-363-1423. United We Dream's nationwide line to report ICE or CBP activity and connect people to support. Details >

Print ILRC Red Cards for your community. Free wallet-sized know-your-rights cards in 56 languages — what to say and do in an ICE encounter. Download >

Fund a bond to free someone from detention. The National Bail Fund Network's directory routes your gift to vetted local immigration bond funds. Give >

Join the "End the ICE Age" launch call, July 22 at 5:00 PM ET. Detention Watch Network's new campaign to shut down ICE detention and redirect its funding. Register >

Train up during Immigrant Justice Summer, July 23–Aug 27. Indivisible's five-call series on rapid response and community defense. Sign up >

Immigration

ICE ordered its agents to stop vehicle stops after killing two men. Five officials confirmed leadership halted the practice nationwide after agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine — neither the intended target. The Intercept >

How ICE arrests went quiet — and got even more deadly. After two fatal shootings in a single week, Natasha Lennard argues Democratic leaders need to commit to abolishing the agency, not just opposing it rhetorically. The Intercept >

After ICE kills a father in Maine, calls for justice grow on the ground and across borders. The killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero has drawn mounting demands for accountability, locally and internationally. Prism >

Inside Maine's immigrant defense movement. An excerpt from Sonali Kolhatkar's Breaking ICE on how the state's Immigrants' Rights Coalition builds community defense against federal enforcement. In These Times >

Criminal Justice

He was arrested over unpaid court fees. He was dead 48 hours later. Todd Sidesinger was jailed at Pennsylvania's York County Prison over roughly $1,500 in fees from 2008 misdemeanors; his family says staff failed to charge his prescribed defibrillator vest. The Appeal >

California is rolling back its solitary-confinement reforms. Prison officials are expanding isolation eligibility and restricting communication and food, undoing modest 2023 gains as advocates push blocked legislation. Bolts >

What ProPublica uncovered about the Alice Sebold case and a city's buried rape crisis. The investigation exposes systemic failures in Syracuse's handling of rape cases and the decades-long wrongful imprisonment of the man convicted. ProPublica >

Crump and Sharpton demand answers in the Nolan Wells case. The civil rights attorneys are pressing for a full investigation into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells in Mississippi. Word In Black >

Voting Rights

Trump pushes out the last members of the bipartisan election commission. He removed all three remaining Election Assistance Commission members — a body that had resisted his proof-of-citizenship registration order — before the midterms. ProPublica >

Ari Berman on a "completely unprecedented" attack on elections. The voting-rights journalist details moves to reshape election administration and registration rules ahead of November. Democracy Now >

A new Supreme Court ruling may make it easier for donors to sway elections. A 6-3 decision in NRSC v. FEC struck down caps on coordinated party spending. Truthout >

Health

At a clinic built "for women," patients say their pregnancies went undetected. An investigation into the venture-backed Tia clinic chain finds missed pregnancies, surprise bills, and upselling of alternative medicine. The 19th >

LGBTQ+ Rights

As transgender troops leave the military, California moves to help them rebuild. State legislation would protect service members forced out under less-than-honorable discharges, a countermove to the federal ban. Rewire News Group >

An AI chatbot is pushing conversion therapy on trans users. "Detrans.ai" cites debunked science and reactionary talking points to question trans identity, delivering conversion-therapy-style messaging. Rewire News Group >

Climate & Environment

They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked. Court documents allege Exxon hired investigators to orchestrate the hacking of climate activists' emails during the #ExxonKnew campaign. Grist >

How a Utah Republican's quiet fight for hunting access undercut LandBack hopes. A state land transfer to wildlife officials cut the Ute Tribe out of decisions over ancestral land. High Country News >

Labor

The unionized workers decrying Trump's war on wind. Wind-energy workers are protesting a campaign that has halted construction and cost more than $2.6 billion in buyouts, arguing it destroys good union jobs. Grist >

Section 8 promises renters they can live where they choose. It mostly fails to deliver. An investigation finds voucher holders remain concentrated in low-resource areas despite the program's promise of housing mobility. Capital & Main >

Racial Justice

New Mexico's AG calls for reform over "substantial racial disparities" in one district. Indigenous students in Gallup-McKinley County Schools lose 8 to 10 times more classroom days to suspension than white students. ProPublica >

Uplifting stories to close out the issue.

An immigrant artist collective turns a solo show into a shared one in Queens. For its third edition, "¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo!" gathered Indigenous women textile artists, photographers, and first-time exhibitors — immigrants building community, or pueblo, through art. palabra >

Black joy takes over a park in Indianapolis. The fifth annual free BLACK: A Festival of Joy drew thousands to Riverside Park for local artists, vendors, and a hundreds-strong Soul Train line, produced by the arts group GANGGANG. WTLC >

A guide to Chicago's mutual aid networks, built by neighbors. Residents mapped the food, mental-health, legal-clinic, and ICE-watch networks they created themselves — a directory of people organizing for each other, not waiting to be helped. Borderless >

The city that chose beauty over billboards. Grenoble became Europe's first city to strip advertising from its public spaces, pulling more than 400 billboard structures and replacing many with trees and bike lanes. Reasons to be Cheerful >