not seeing a lot of people on here talking about ICE murdering another man yesterday. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Arajou. He was a Mexican man living in Huston Texas. He was killed at age 52 and lived the past 35 years here in the USA, and was in the process of obtaining a work permit. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop that ICE claims was part of a targeted operation, and claimed he was “weaponizing his vehicle”- the same claim ICE agents made when they shot and murdered Renee Good.
During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.
His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.
The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salg
just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people
(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy)
recommended readings/resources:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby
"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba
"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]
Support Cyrus Carmack-Belton's family in pursuing justice: Mutual Aid.
CW: The murder of a Black child, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, by a HongKong-Chinese-ethnic South Carolina man Rick Chow.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice4cyrus please share this ongoing gofundme for Cyrus’ family. There is STILL an upcoming civil case which requires funds for legal aid. Stand with the Black community in this time when they have to fight this system that rarely if ever delivers justice for Black peoples. This message goes out especially to Asian Americans.
Donate to the ongoing gofundme for Cyrus’ family, they’re gonna need funds for the upcoming civil lawsuit. It is our duty, our test of basic human decency, to ensure that they get the best legal team possible when the odds are already stacked against them with the injustice of the system. Put your money where your mouth is and stand for allyship with the Black communities.
You're against ICE taking babies, so also be against a trigger-happy 60+ year old child killer. Make sure murderers do not get away with killing babies from ALL Black, Indigenous and POC communities.
We have started this GoFundMe to help support the family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton and … Todd Rutherford needs your support for Justice for Cy
My heart is with the Black community, filled with rage and disappointment at the injustice here.
Rick Chow is a murderous anti-Black child-killer with a history of being trigger-happy. He’s been involved in two shootings prior to this, and this time he killed a Black child. We know that this is nothing a Black person would get away with under the oppressive penal systems of America. But Chow walks, Scot-free.
Cyrus was just a baby, a 14 year old boy who probably has only just started learning graphs in class. Who has not even had his 15th birthday nor graduated the 9th grade. He was still in junior high.
There’s more details to the case for those who want to go investigating. But none of which at all exonerates this man of his cruelty and the blood on him, and his family’s hands (both his son and wife involved).
But the injustice remains and this is grief for the Black community which I can only hope the Asian community takes the time to decenter ourselves and stand in support of Cyrus and his family, in empathising with the Black community’s terror in the face of this innocent life taken by a anti-Black NB man, and the justice system which has failed them again.
This is Latasha Harlins all over again. It’s heartbreaking. And yes the AsAm community has to fucking ostracise the Chows, start a protest, raise some funds. Apologising is one thing but it’s empty without material reparations, especially when we KNOW the system won’t deliver.
Cyrus’ family has stated they will continue fighting. The Black community is grieving. The Asian community should not contribute to that boot on their necks nor benefit from the horrors of this system. We should not be centering our own shame or fear, but centering the Black community’s expressed grievances with the dehumanisation and terror they must be facing as a consequence of this murder. We must show loud and meaningful support for the Black community.
We can’t let this slide, this is literally a core moment that requires Asians to step the fuck up, and ensure what happened in the 90s does not come to fruition again.
If Asian Americans are against the death of children, including all Black children, please boycott the Chows. Do everything in your power to ensure that all melanated peoples band together to bring justice for the Carmack-Beltons where the system is designed to fail them, and to ensure that Black people aren't alone in this.
AsAms need to be LOUD about this injustice and in support of Black communities, LOUDER than the skinfolk traitors amongst us who are cruel, inhumane, and anti-Black. LOUDER than those those whose behaviours fuel the ideas that AsAms are just performative Boba Liberals and anti-Black racists. LOUDER than shame or fear because we do not get to center ourselves when the Black community's grief and terror for their babies are overflowing.
You may think they're responsible for their own kids, but in this situation; our own slaughtered theirs. We aren't all like the Chows, but in bystanding, in remaining silent and allowing justice to fail the Black community; we are.
I really want for all bigger black girls to find love. Love that cherishes them, holds them like the most treasured gift that they are and protects them on the daily. Love that doesn’t just accept but absolutely celebrates every inch and facet of their mind and body. Love that they can actually receive and reciprocate. I want bigger black girls to know love like this.
do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets
her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.
remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.
happy pride to everyone in the community!! happy pride to those who are out, those who are not, those who aren’t sure of their identity yet, those who don’t use labels, those who don’t feel seen, etc, etc. stay safe and don’t be ashamed to be yourself.
Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO
And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.
With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.
Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.
Edit: a vid about ICE denying politicians entry, and the lies they’ve told.
getting some fascinating stuff. also realizing this will be horror + psychological thriller + tragedy... because the hoops this community jumps through–specifically the black people participating in this movement–to either justify their proximity to ideas of whiteness or fall into the illusions of soft lives when actually they're just joining the very systems they're trying to get away from... jeez.
like is it actually choice feminism to get to choose someone molding you or you molding yourself into nothing more than a wife/mother? or are you just falling into the mind and lifestyle traps set up that make girls and femmes, from birth and on, tie their existence to they idea that they are nothing without men and should only seek out a life where they [men] provide for you; not because they care about you as a person, but because they believe you are less capable than them at that act???
i’m so excited for you to explore this idea more!! it’s so sad how the trad wife “aesthetic” has been repackaged as the “soft girl/soft life era” that has been popularized on social media. i love (and hate) when dots like this connect.
Today I wanted to talk about Kyle Bassinga. Kyle was a 21 year old man from Georgia, whose family described him as "a kind, thoughtful, and smart young man who loved nature, music, and the people around him". Kyle Bassinga was killed on February 18th 2026, just ten days after his birthday. He was found hanging from a tree in a park.
The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.
I know this website it too white for this to really go anywhere, but an understanding of the present reality of white supremacy in the United States is just so important to transfeminism here. Lynchings never stopped, white supremacy never went away, you just stopped looking.
The case in Memphis also challenges Tennessee’s Halo Law, which criminalizes anyone who gets within 25 feet of an officer after they’ve been warned to step away. Task force agents are invoking the law against observers who are not interfering, and sometimes forcing them back even farther than required so they can no longer see or hear. “It unconstitutionally burdens people’s ability to engage in gathering information and recording what task force agents are doing,” ACLU attorney Scarlet Kim told me. [...]
The surge has not gotten much national attention in part because Tennessee’s Republican governor supports it—he has said it will continue indefinitely. And the Trump administration has framed it not as an immigration crackdown, which would get a lot of press coverage, but as a crime crackdown. (Task force officers from other agencies are arresting people primarily for traffic violations and crimes, but they call DHS officers when they encounter immigrants.)
Demster also believes Memphis has yet to grab the nation’s attention because people like him who want to get the word out are facing retaliation. It’s all part of the task force’s plan “to operate in the shadows,” he says.
