On Slave Catchers, Whiteness Killing Whiteness, Movements and Moments

TW: mentions of murder, harassment, abuse, and domestic terrorism.

Two people of pallor, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have been murdered by modern-day slave catchers in just a little over two weeks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a racist podcaster put them on y’all’s president’s radar for no substantiated reason whatsoever.

Modern-day slave catchers have murdered two people of pallor. The U.S. government has given these violent and hateful goons carte blanche to do whatever they want to anyone they please, including anyone legally recording and protesting their domestic terrorism spree.

Two people of pallor, folx who were technically “on paper” U.S. citizens for all intents and purposes (as messy as those words are), were murdered by modern-day slave catchers just three weeks into 2026. This is after 33 recorded ICE-related deaths in 2025 and countless people battered, bloodied, harassed, and terrorized by said modern-day slave catchers:

23 Jan — Genry Ruiz Guillén — 29, Honduran man — Died after experiencing breathing distress; collapsed and died at a hospital in Florida

29 Jan — Serawit Gezahegn Dejene — 45, Ethiopian man — Died after reported fatigue and elevated heart rate; possible lymphoma; died at hospital in Arizona

20 Feb — Maksym Chernyak — 44, Ukrainian man — Died from brain bleeding following stroke symptoms after a delayed medical response

23 Feb — Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez — 44, Dominican man — Died after reporting leg pain; cause of death not disclosed

8 Apr — Brayan Garzón-Rayo — 27, Colombian man — Apparent suicide while detained; official cause not confirmed by ICE

16 Apr — Nhon Ngoc Nguyen — 55, Vietnamese man — Died of acute pneumonia after detention despite known cognitive decline

25 Apr — Marie Ange Blaise — 44, Haitian woman — Died after reporting chest pain and abdominal cramps; medical care allegedly denied; cause disputed

5 May — Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado — 68, Mexican man — Died during transport after becoming unresponsive with severe hypertension

7 Jun — Jesus Molina-Veya — 45, Mexican man — Found unresponsive in cell; ICE labeled death an apparent suicide

23 Jun — Johnny Noviello — 49, Canadian man — Found unresponsive; cause of death under investigation

26 Jun — Isidro Pérez — 75, Cuban man — Died at hospital after weeks in ICE custody; cause undetermined

19 Jul — Tien Xuan Phan — 55, Vietnamese man — Died after seizures and vomiting; cause under investigation

5 Aug — Chaofeng Ge — 32, Chinese man — Died by suicide four days after entering ICE custody

31 Aug — Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas — 32, Mexican man — Died after contracting COVID-19 in detention; cause under investigation

8 Sep — Oscar Rascon Duarte — 58, Mexican man — Died while receiving long-term medical care for Alzheimer’s, cancer, and hepatitis C

18 Sep — Santos Banegas Reyes — 42, Honduran man — Found not breathing in cell; preliminary cause of liver failure; family disputes findings

22 Sep — Ismael Ayala-Uribe — 39, Mexican man — Died after falling ill in detention; cause under investigation

24 Sep — Norlan Guzman-Fuentes — 37, Salvadoran man — Killed when a gunman opened fire at an ICE field office

29 Sep — Miguel Ángel García Medina — 31, Mexican man — Shot while shackled in an ICE transport van; died days later from gunshot wounds

29 Sep — Huabing Xie — Chinese person — Died after seizure-like episode; became unresponsive; died at the hospital

4 Oct — Leo Cruz-Silva — 34, Mexican man — Apparent suicide while detained in county jail

11 Oct — Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh — 67, Jordanian man — Died after high fever and collapse; preliminary cause cardiac arrest

23 Oct — Josué Castro Rivera — 25, Honduran man — Killed after fleeing ICE agents and being struck by traffic

23 Oct — Gabriel Garcia Aviles — 54, Mexican man — Died after sudden illness in detention; ICE claims natural causes; family disputes

25 Oct — Kai Yin Wong — 63, Chinese man — Died from complications following heart failure and pneumonia

3 Dec — Francisco Gaspar-Andrés — 48, Guatemalan man — Died from kidney and liver failure after prolonged detention and illness

5 Dec — Pete Sumalo Montejo — 72, Filipino man — Died from septic shock and pneumonia

6 Dec — Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani — 48, Pakistani man — Died of reported natural causes amid chronic illness

12 Dec — Jean Wilson Brutus — 41, Haitian man — Died one day after detention; ICE claims natural causes

14 Dec — Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir — 46, Eritrean man — Died of medical distress after seeking emergency court relief

14 Dec — Delvin Francisco Rodriguez — 39, Nicaraguan man — Died after cardiac arrest following months in detention

15 Dec — Nenko Stanev Gantchev — 56, Bulgarian man — Found unresponsive in cell; cause under investigation

31 Dec — Keith Porter — Black American Man —Killed by an off-duty ICE agent

And yet y’all’s president hasn’t been impeached, the 25th amendment hasn’t been invoked. Neither the House nor the Senate will do anything other than chastise protestors and the citizenry, offer hopes and prayers, and say things like, “We need to do better” or “This is unfortunate, but these agents did what they had to do.” Why?

Because all of this that is happening and will continue to happen is white supremacy in action, and while some people of pallor are starting to get it, the issue is SOMEHOW Y’ALL ARE JUST STARTING TO GET IT BECAUSE Y’ALL ARE STILL SHOCKED THAT THE SLAVE-CATCHERS WILL KILL YOU TOO IF YOU OPPOSE WHITE SUPREMACY.

A.K.A.: history repeating itself. I mean, have y’all not heard of people like John Brown?

Meanwhile, what about the other people of pallor who aren’t somehow shocked, dismayed, and driven to finally stand up and fight?

Hiding in the recesses of their privilege and comfort, or being A-OK with white supremacist domestic terrorism as long as it ain’t near their city or neighborhood.

Is it a good thing that some people of pallor are finally getting it? Yes. Long overdue, but yes. But somehow, after all of this, y’all are still in the minority within your own race, and it is absolutely mind-boggling to witness.

So, how many more people of pallor trying to stand up against white supremacy are going to die this time around in the rinse-and-repeat that is U.S. history for people of pallor to finally get that we’re ALL in danger and that the oppressors will happily oppress all of us to achieve white supremacist ideology?

If history repeats itself, as it’s apt to do in Western culture, there will never be a number that will truly tip the scale for people of pallor, even when whiteness openly kills whiteness.

This is why, in a moment that should usher in a collective uprising and some form of nationwide unity, we are just stuck in another moment where whiteness will need to be saved from itself by those in the most danger.

A.K.A. just another day in the United States of America.

On SNAP, Your Friends, Your Neighbors, and You Being Cold as Ice

Come November 1, millions of people in the United States will see their ongoing struggle to survive and afford groceries in a disintegrating economy increase tenfold, as the federal government shutdown has ensured that no one will be receiving SNAP benefits. In a year that has already been an uphill climb up a mountain of quicksand and bramble bushes for millions of families, this is like someone at the top of said mountain throwing barrels down at you like Donkey Kong.

Now, before one of y'all chimes in with glee about people you think are "mooching off the system" and being happy that families, children, senior citizens, people with disabilities - hell, anyone - could starve and die I want you to 1) go take a long walk and call up a therapist to figure out and unpack who hurt you to the point where starvation makes you giggle like the Pillsbury doughboy, 2) prepare for your comment to be deleted as well as being added to my block list, and 3) recognize that government assistance isn't some mooching operation as you've decided to believe.

Your friends, neighbors, and colleagues who go to work every damn day are gettin' SNAP benefits too, you cold bastard. And you don't have a clue because you've proven to be someone they can't trust to care about their wellbeing so they have to keep their needs private while being made self-conscious of their need for assistance by the words and actions of people like you.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBBP) released data in January 2025 that shared the following statistics:

- In 2024, over 38% of households receiving SNAP benefits nationally included at least one working family member.
- For SNAP households with children, 55% had earned income in 2023 (2023 is the most recent data available because why do the work to keep accurate statistics on something like this?).

The CBBP also made sure to emphasize that while the percentage of households with a working family member is significant, data snapshots often undercount how many SNAP participants worked over the course of a year, as job market volatility and other factors lead many folx to cycle in and out of jobs. Studies have also shown that non-disabled working-age adults who can work do so, and many rely on SNAP only for temporary support. The CBBP also emphasized that many workers, particularly those in low-wage or service and sales jobs that are impacted by seasonal fluctuations or the health of the economy, rely on SNAP benefits to supplement their income and help afford groceries.

So instead of havin' a good laugh about the misery of others, maybe take a minute to dispel your ridiculously racist and bigoted notions of welfare and government assistance and keep your thoughts to your damn self.

If you're not going to contribute to supporting others and showing up as a empathic human being then do us all a favor and contribute to reducing noise pollution while the rest of us work our asses off to assist others in a time of crisis.

This Week's Opening Thought: October 13, 2025

This week’s opening thought - a personally hand-drawn bit of energy for a country still celebrating a national holiday based on white supremacy, colonialism, racism, and revisionist history.

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Period. Don’t be comin’ ’round here tryin’ to shout the praises of the mediocre male of pallor who “discovered America” because, and I cannot stress this enough, you can’t discover something that was already inhabited and thriving before your colonizin’ nonsense touched its soil!

Geezus.

It’s ridiculous that we’re still discussing how we should all accept the whitewashing and gaslighting of colonialism, oppression, and murder, especially around topics we all have the facts on and have had said facts at our disposal for countless decades.

Do better.


[Image description: A middle finger surrounded by a simple wreath of roses. A banner saying “Fuck Columbus” can be seen below the hand extending the middle finger.]

Image description: A middle finger surrounded by a simple wreath of roses. A banner saying “Fuck Columbus” can be seen below the hand extending the middle finger.

This Week's Opening Thought: September 29, 2025

This week's opening thought: For those not in the know, I live in "war ravaged" Portland, Oregon. You know, that place y'all's president said was on fire, overrun with violence, and 5 minutes away from devolving into Mad Max Fury Road levels of dystopia.

I was at the farmer's market Saturday morning in "war ravaged" Portland and y'all's president was right! There's just SO much danger here, y'all! Like, how am I supposed to fight these great prices on winter squash without y'all's president's help to keep me safe from getting produce right from the farmers themselves?!

Geezus christ.

If you believe that Portland is a fiery hellscape wrought with danger and violence, I've got some lakefront property in the Nevada desert to sell you for $1 a yard.

Portland has seen sizable decreases in homicides and shootings this year, down by 52% and 33% respectively from last year's numbers. Robberies and aggravated assaults? Also down. These numbers reflect one of the steepest declines among major U.S. cities surveyed regarding crime data.

So, am I scared? Do I need y'all's president to come and save me?

Hell no.

I'm not scared of folx struggling with homelessness, mental health, and addictions. Those folx need help, support, and resources, because all of those issues often stem from poverty, a lack of privilege, generational and societal trauma, and a capitalist white supremacist culture.

I'm not scared of crime in a metropolitan city. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan in the 80s and 90s. It's gonna take a lot more than the crime that Portland does struggle with to put fear in my heart regarding walking around and living in this city. And that crime? Also often stems from poverty, a lack of privilege, generational and societal trauma, and a capitalist white supremacist culture.

So no, I'm not scared living in a city where I can walk freely around downtown Portland and damn near every neighborhood I go and encounter dozens of people with clipboards seeking signatures for causes they champion before finding myself facing a potentially dangerous encounter with someone who needs our society to care about and help them.

Y'all's president could be helping Portland and countless cities across this country with funding for addiction services and addressing our ever-increasing local and national homeless crisis, but nope. He'd rather send in the National Guard to basically beat up folx with addictions, homeless folx, folx in crisis, and people peacefully protesting the inhumanity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

His goal is to make non-dangerous places supremely dangerous for everyone living and working here to feed his narrative that "liberal cities" and "antifa" are a danger to the "[U.S.] American way of life" and harm and kill folx who protest and oppose him.

Portlanders: let's not give him what he wants.

Chill.

Have a beer.

And leave 'em to record themselves picking up trash, just like they're doing in D.C.

Taxpayer dollars at work.

This Week's Opening Thought: September 22, 2025

This week's opening thought: After this past weekend's full-on hate rally masquerading as a memorial service, and seeing the sea of people of pallor who showed up to "pay their respects" to a white supremacist bigot with tears in their eyes and a distortion of the purported "values of Christianity" in their hearts, I found myself once again playing my least favorite game: What Will It Take?

What Will It Take? focuses on me asking myself one question: what will it take for people of pallor to be uncomfortable enough to feel like "enough is enough" and stand up and fight for, well, everyone? Themselves, oppressed communities, targeted communities, everyone?

I've been playing this game for at least 30 years now, y'all.

What Will It Take?

Hell if I know.

After all my years on this planet, and decades of my own learning around the intersections of white supremacy and history, I honestly have no clue what it will take to get people of pallor to recognize how dangerous this country is for marginalized, targeted, and invisible communities and decide they're ready to fight.

I have no clue what it will take for people of pallor to collectively realize that white supremacy harms them, too, and that it's time to do more than show up to a "No Kings" rally.

And I'm flummoxed when it comes to understanding what it'll take for people of pallor to realize that we've been long past "talking it out," "finding a middle ground," choosing to "not get into political conversations," and well into dealing with an escalating level of danger that will eventually subjugate, eradicate, and oppress most if not all of us.

What Will It Take?

What will it take for y’all to fight?

I honestly don't know.

Y'all do always seem more than ready to fight and "stand up" against Black and Brown folx, melanated folx, trans folx, and queer folx for pointing out the harm, hate, or discrepancies in y'all's words and actions, though.

Huh.

Guess I know the answer to the question after all.