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[tomorrowusa]

Colombian immigrant in Maine reportedly killed by ICE agents

The victim is one of at least nine people who have been killed by immigration agents since last year.

In Maine, trigger-happy ICE agents shot and killed yet another Hispanic on Monday.

On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting, this time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine said the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, according to the Portland Press Herald. “He was a member of our community, a neighbor, and a human being whose life was cut tragically short. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and everyone now grieving this unimaginable loss,” the two immigration organizations said in a statement. Daniel Boucher, who witnessed the aftermath of the shooting, told the Portland Press Herald that he was getting ready for work and after hearing what sounded like fireworks, he witnessed agents remove the driver of a sedan. “He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher told the Press Herald. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”  A representative of the Biddeford Police Department said calls about the shooting should be directed to ICE; the Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to a request for comment. FBI agents were photographed at the scene of the shooting as part of an apparent federal investigation. [ ... ] It is unclear whether video of Monday’s shooting will emerge. The ICE agents involved were not wearing body cameras, according to (Sen. Angus) King. Monday’s victim is one of more than 20 people whom federal immigration agents have shot at since last year, according to the New York Times. Most of those shootings have involved people who were inside their cars. At least nine people have now been killed during encounters with immigration agents during President Donald Trump’s second term.

WMTW-TV in Maine identified the victim of the ICE shooters...

A family friend told Maine's Total Coverage Joan Sebastian Guerrero was killed in the shooting Monday morning. She says Guerrero leaves behind a wife, 3-year-old child, and sister.

This occurred just a week after a similar incident in Texas.

‘His blood is on Trump’s hands’: man killed by ICE in Texas mourned at vigil

[thewarmvoid]

we must love one another more than they hate us.

I see no way else to survive this. If we do not love one another more than we hate them, what they’ve done and are continuing to do to us, they will outlive us. We must outlive our enemies. We outlive them by actively loving one another more than they could ever actively hate + seek to destroy us. We must love one another more than they hate us.

[thewarmvoid]

solidarity is not transaction, it is a vow & this is what I mean by “loving” one another. not a romantic, sexual or even familial love. it is a love defined by a vow to fight for freedom, an understanding that our freedom depends on one anothers. my freedom depends on yours and yours depends on mine.

[enchantedbook]

The knight’s encounter with the mysterious faery lady, an otherworldly figure who enchants him, draws him away from the world of men, and leaves his soul bound to her spell.

“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful, a faery’s child…”

From John Keats’s poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Engraving after Edward Brewtnall, 1881.

[robertreich]

Abolish ICE.

[pink-lemonade-rose]

A few resources for voting in the United States and protecting this year's midterm elections:

Vote.org - register, check you registration status, find out where your polling place is, what will be on your ballot, etc

The ACLU's election safeguarding program

Indivisible's Hands Off Our Vote campaign

VoteRiders - they help make sure people know what the voting requirements are in their states, and provide free help for people to get any ID documents they might need

Good Trouble Lives On - a weekend of action (July 17 - July 19) focused on voting and civic engagement, in response to attacks on black voting rights

Field Team 6 registers Democratic voters

The Civics Center is focused on registering people turning 18 (or pre-registering, for those under 18)

Protect the Vote 2026 - poll worker and election observer training

Please consider volunteering with one of these orgs if you can, and/or becoming a poll worker or observer.

[libanezink]

I wanted to create this piece to pay respect, justice, dignity, and compassion to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and to his family. Rest In Peace, señor 🕊

Abolish ICE yesterday….Abolish ICE forever…and get ICE the hell out of our city and every city. I live in Houston, and the rage and grief is only bringing our community together.

[awesomeart-83]

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

Hundreds of Houstonians turn out to denounce ICE at site where father was slain

Flowers and candles laid near a street pole as a memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while the crowd chanted in Spanish, demanding justice f

On Tuesday, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE while he was picking up equipment for a construction project.

Please share this so people won’t forget what ICE is capable of.

[thesweetiepienovels]

The internet is a window with tinted glass, people. Please remember that. You think you’re looking at the whole world, but you’re actually looking through something designed to keep your attention for as long as possible. Fear holds attention. Anger holds attention. Outrage holds attention. Peace doesn’t. Contentment doesn’t. Ordinary kindness doesn’t. The world outside your phone has always been and will always be more balanced than the world inside it. Please stop letting them convince your brain and nervous system that cruelty is the default state of humanity. I promise you it’s not. Love is the carrier of all things and if you need a perfect example of it, go volunteer in a hospital, a nursing home, a school, a food pantry, a beach to pick up trash, an animal shelter. Watch a nurse staying late. A volunteer holding someone’s hand. A teacher buying supplies with their own money. A neighbor bringing over a meal. A stranger donating blood for someone they’ll never meet. etc. Love has carried every generation, it has built everything we have today. And it always will.

I’m not saying there isn’t cruelty and evil, there is, I’m saying it isn’t the whole story.

[enchantedbook]

“Mary’s Child” (Marienkind), Brothers Grimm. Illustration: Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, 1904.

[varanusniloticus]

[glamrockmike]

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

[mammalianmammals]

Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, Canberra, Australia

photographs by Raelene Pitcher

[peaceinthestorm]

Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943, Japanese ) ~ Butterflies, 1904

[caelmor]

Forsake not for anything thy friends — nor believe those who counsel thee to do so.

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales Vol. 2 (ed. Christopher Tolkien), London: HarperCollins, 2024, p. 87

[veryluckyclovers]

[robertreich]

Why Is He Using the Communist Trump Card? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-communist-trump-card

[pitbolshevik]

like idk i think at this point im just gonna have to start blocking anyone who's into taylor swift. sorry but if you can't drop her even after she invites ICE agents to her fucking wedding i just don't really think i want you near me. why are you throwing all of your supposed values away for a mid at best pop singer?

[pitbolshevik]

*guy who runs a ICE concentration camp, not an ICE agent. my bad. point still stands.

[mikilavellan]

Sources:

Steven J. Demetriou, guest 92 of 93 as photographed by Backgrid

He is the executive chair of Amentum, a company that provides engineering and technology to the USA’s army and nuclear programs. They operate the most test and training ranges of any contractor if their site is to be believed.

It appears they run the East Montana concentration camp, the largest in the USA. While much of the abuse, including sexual and physical abuse, occurred under the camp’s previous contractor, Acquisition Logistics, the ACLU has confirmed Amentum was WORKING AS SUBCONTRACTORS at the East Montana camp during this time. Amentum's current role as sole contractor from March onwards proves no less deadly, with 2 overdoses with the intent to commit suicide from inhumane conditions. Representative Escobar confirmed nothing has changed since Amentum’s takeover. Lawyers representing prisoners report being unable to reach their clients.

The following conditions are BY DESIGN, as "Guards tell people detained at Camp East Montana who complain about conditions that if they do not like the conditions, they should self-deport." Civil Detention Centers are not supposed to be punitive. This is only a civil detention center on paper. It is a concentration camp.

The ACLU lists: I already linked this but I'm doing it again bc if you read one source, it should be this one.

Medical neglect, including for people with pregnancies, diabetes, cancer, and HIV.

Severe beatings. One man was beaten to death for requesting his asthma medication.

solitary confinement

unclean water

Tuberculosis and Measles outbreaks

Limited to no sunlight

no or limited hygiene products

rotten food, not enough food, no special diets for medical conditions

SEXUAL ASSAULT

No ventilation in a DESERT leading to lung damage

Not enough toilets, overflow often, whole tent smells of urine and feces

No privacy to use said toilet

Threats and beatings for those that refuse to sign deportation papers, sometimes to places they are NOT FROM

No activities, punished for attempting to make art from recycled items like cracker boxes, can only practice own religion at guards' discretion

no dental care. This is likely universal across US concentration camps. Note Emmanuel Damas, the Haitian immigrant that died from a dental infection due to lack of care

Unable to receive legal representation if not already represented

LOCATED ON FORMER JAPANESE DETENTION CAMP BECAUSE TIME IS A FUCKING CIRCLE

Taylor Swift's guest is directly responsible for these. This is the LARGEST CONCENTRATION CAMP IN THE US, made to hold 5000 people. He's not just any ICE contractor he is the biggest and baddest. At least this will get people talking about just HOW bad this camp is.

Note this camp is in the Chihuahua Desert: This heat wave? Try it in a windowless fucking 108 by 36 ft tent with 72 other people with no soap.