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Fourth person killed by agents from Trump’s Memphis anticrime taskforce
Federal agents killed a man at a Memphis motel on Wednesday morning in a Drug Enforcement Administration operation with the Memphis Safe Task Force, the fourth officer-involved death since the anticrime initiative began in September.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/memphis-federal-anticrime-agents-kill-man

Kentucky Governor Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell
Mr. McConnell, 84, has been in the hospital since June 14, when medics were called to his Washington address to respond to a report of an unconscious individual. A worker later informed his supervisor over emergency radio that CPR was “in progress.” Mr. McConnell’s staff members have not disclosed what prompted his hospitalization or what treatment he is receiving. On Tuesday, several Republicans said they had spoken to Mr. McConnell for about 20 minutes each.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/us/beshear-mcconnell-kentucky-health.html
https://archive.ph/gRc5F

Felony charges brought against 47 animal rights activists after Ridglan Farms raid
In the detailed, 47-page complaint, prosecutors outline the alleged individual roles that activists played, from cutting fences at the facility to driving vans to assist in the scheme, to carrying dogs out to posting about the day’s events on social media.
https://www.wpr.org/news/ridglan-farms-animal-rights-activists-raid-dane-county-felony-charges

Ford Falsely Accuses Diabetic Worker of Stealing Cookie, Then Fires Him
Kurt Kromm, 60, worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky for 11 years, Shifting Gears reported. Kromm told the publication that he noticed his blood sugar had dropped at around 3:30am during a 12-hour shift on 9 May and so decided to buy a Grandma’s chocolate chip cookie, which cost $1.95 (£1.47).
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/08/ford-falsely-accuses-diabetic-worker-of-stealing-cookie-then-fires-him/

Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water
The incident comes amid growing nationwide backlash to the construction of resource-hungry datacenters, which opponents say place unbearable demands on local water and energy supplies. According to Data Center Map, the US has almost 4,500 datacenters, some consuming up to 300,000 gallons of water each day, equivalent to the demands of about 1,000 households.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/meta-datacenter-ai-wyoming-water

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Manufactured Betrayal
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a participant named Nathan Baumann and fired warning shots at the ground in response. Since then, police have arrested 22 people on widely publicized conspiracy and terrorism charges, subjecting many of them to long-term solitary confinement and other pressure tactics. Eight defendants who chose not to cooperate with the prosecution have been found guilty and sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison each, with one of them receiving a 30-year sentence simply for having moved a box of zines.
https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/manufactured-betrayal-a-statement-from-fire-ant-movement-defense-on-solidarity-and-betrayal-in-the-prairieland-trials

Graham Platner and the fraud of “working-class” Democratic Party politics
The campaign of Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is collapsing under the weight of a new sexual assault allegation, exposing not merely the personal degradation of the candidate but the political forces that manufactured and promoted him as a “working-class” tribune. On Monday, Politico published an interview with Jenny Racicot, who accused Platner of raping her in 2021. Racicot repeated the allegation later that night in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Platner has denied the allegation. Within hours, leading Democrats who had tolerated or excused months of earlier revelations, including his Nazi-linked Totenkopf tattoo and history as a soldier and mercenary for US imperialism, rushed to call for him to withdraw. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand called on Platner to withdraw, with the DSCC declaring it would not fund the Maine Senate race if he remained the nominee. California Rep. Ro Khanna and other endorsers withdrew support as well. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who had been Platner’s most prominent national booster and appeared with him under the fraudulent “Fighting Oligarchy” banner, waited longer than others, but by Tuesday he posted on social media that he “recommended that he step aside.” Under Maine election law, if Platner withdraws by July 13 the Democrats can select a replacement by July 27, a procedure that is now clearly being prepared. The debacle confirms what the World Socialist Web Site explained from the beginning. After Platner won the June primary, the WSWS wrote that while the vote expressed real anger over inequality, “Platner’s promoters—large sections of the Democratic Party and the trade union apparatus, most avidly its so-called ‘progressive’ wing—present him as a genuine representative of the working class. He is nothing of the sort.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/08/fnaa-j08.html

Mass movement of AAC in Pakistan-administered Kashmir defies brutal state repression to write a new chapter in history
The Awami Action Committee (AAC) in Azad Kashmir is leading a historic long march towards Muzaffarabad to press for their demands. In the last three years, these demands had been accepted by the governments of Azad Kashmir and Pakistan following previous long marches. They have not yet been implemented however. This time, the state authorities are hell-bent on crushing this mass movement through mass killings and brutal repression, and have crossed all limits of brutality by the measure of recent decades. This long march was set to start from different parts of Azad Kashmir on 9 June, and reach Muzaffarabad after passing through various cities. But the state authorities unleashed terror on 5 June, when one of the central leaders of the movement, Sardar Umar Nazir, was shot by police at a checkpost near Rawlakot. He miraculously escaped this assasination attempt, the bullet even bruising his ear, while a long-standing activist who was driving his car, Shahzeb Habib, was killed. Earlier that day, the government had labelled the AAC a terrorist organisation and had banned it. Meanwhile, the government also announced elections, despite the fact that earlier they had promised that the electoral reforms suggested by the AAC would be carried out before the elections. This was never fulfilled. On the night of 6 June, when thousands of people gathered to attend the funeral of Shahzeb Habib, in Rawlakot, paramilitary forces such as the Rangers, Punjab Constabulary and Frontier Constabulary, coming from Pakistan, indiscriminately opened fire on the gathering, killing dozens. According to the new norms set by the Pakistani state, the dead bodies from the mass killings were confiscated by the authorities and are dumped at undisclosed locations. Some reports suggest that more than 100 people were killed on this day. A curfew was subsequently imposed on Rawlakot, and anyone who broke it was shot by the security forces.
https://marxist.com/mass-movement-of-aac-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir-defies-brutal-state-repression-to-write-a-new-chapter-in-history.htm