This World We Live In
TWs: murder, suicide mentions, ICE, Gestapo,
December 31st, 2025. Keith Porter Jr. Los Angeles, CA. ICE.
January 7, 2026. Renee Nicole Good. Minneapolis, Minnesota. ICE.
January 8, 2026. Luis David Nico Moncada y Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, Portland, OR. CBP.
January 9, 2026. Parady La. ICE Custody in Philidelphia, PA.
January 14, 2026. Heber Sanchez Domínguez. ICE Facility in GA.
January 14, 2026. Victor Manuel Diaz. ICE Facility in El Paso, TX.
January 24, 2026. Alex Pretti. Minneapolis, MN. ICE.
Others I don't have the energy to look into more, but I want to say their names as well: Luiz Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luiz Gustavo Nuñez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.
And those names are just at the tip of the iceberg of ICE-related murders. And even more so, the tip of the iceberg of the American way.
Many white Americans are waking up to the reality that this has always been America from the get-go. We're indoctrinated from a young age into believing in American exceptionalism and that America is the safest place. But for everyone who isn't a cishet, white, Christian Man? It's anything but.
What we're seeing now is the truth. The truth of what Indigenous and Black people have been screaming for centuries. It's in our faces, hard to ignore. See, when it was just Indigenous and Black communities talking about it, white people simply ignored them. That's what white people have always done.
But now it's undeniable, isn't it?
Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both good people. Both white. Both, slaughtered by ICE in Minneapolis. Keith Porter Jr., murdered in LA by off-duty ICE agents, though? Nary a singular word until Renee's murder. How many of you remember hearing about Keith's death before Renee's? Or, even Alex's on Saturday. Because that's the world we live in, where white people are seen and everyone else is ignored.
And the ones I mentioned who I only found out about today? Out of the whole list, I only knew of 3. The rest were in ICE facilities. The Portland shooting I knew about but didn't know the names of. We didn't know about the ICE facility deaths. And DHS wants to say they were suicides.
But were they?
I'm white. I know I have privilege. I know as hard as I work to unravel racism, and work to be anti-racist, I still have my faults and I still have privileges. But I know it's my duty to at least say something. And I've been trying to on social media. I'm the most active on bluesky, and I've talked about this as much as I can mentally tolerate. Threads? Any Anti-ICE posts I push out gets silenced by the algo. But I'm still talking about it. And angry.
I can only do but so much, though. Every time something new comes out, I feel like I'm taking 1d20 of psychic damage. I keep myself as up-to-date as I can, but it gets rough.
Honestly? I feel like everything I want to say has already been said. I feel like I may just be going in circles at this point. And by the gods, I feel like I'm awful at these things.
But the mask is off, America. They have finally ripped the damn thing off. America's true colors are visible for everyone, not just the marginalized communities.
ICE, AKA the Gestapo, AKA the Slave Patrol, is terrorizing our country. And white America is only now finally waking up.
But we can stop them. We can fight back. There are ways to do it, resources to be found. All hope is not lost, team.
We can rebuild this country into something better.
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ETA: I have a GFM I found for Keith Porter. Can we get his family to the goal? <3
