The discussions around the murder of Renee Good are such a clear case study for the need for intersectional frameworks. There are lots of claims that she is the “first US citizen killed by ICE” which not only is not true, she is not even the first of 2026. There is both a massive erasure of the victims before her, and an erasure of Renee’s own identity and connections that made her a more acceptable target for both murder and smearing.

Everyone MUST contend with:

1. US citizens are falsely labeled as non-citizens or had their citizenship “stripped” and are deported and then sometimes killed elsewhere

2. US citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs), are “deported” to places they have never lived and are at the mercy of new countries, sometimes those that will kill them or imprison them again

3. Lawful Permanent Residents are killed in custody

4. US citizens are disappeared from their homes and record of them is lost

5. Native Americans born and raised on these lands with US documents are placed into legal limbo and killed and imprisoned and sometimes deported to places they have never visited let alone lived in

6. US citizens killed on US soil or abroad taking peaceful action against an armed oppressor if not attacked going about their days, are routinely distanced from their citizenship, when it serves the narrative

7. Renee was a queer woman with a masc wife and her identity is being used as justification for her murder and proof of her “corruption” when it isnt completely omitted outright

8. Renee’s wife’s identity and attitude is also being used to justify Renee’s murder

9. Renee was politically vocal and is being held up as proof of “left-wing extremism”

Say_Qis discussing queer identity at play in the killing

10. Renee is being labeled a domestic terrorist using language, ordinances, and memos that have been coming out for a long while

Yesterqueers dive into The Palmer Raids

The Right Is Lying About Left-Wing Violence

Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins of ideological Deportation and the Suppression of Expression

Documenting Red Scare Deportees

Renee is the latest in a long line of murders and violence that will continue on, and it is crucial to understand that no this is not new, yes it is just as important to care about nonwhite citizens and non-citizens of all races, yes your legal status and loyalty will be called into question once you are dead and it helps no one to make excuses for why the murder is legal, yes “it could happen to (you)” but understand why it hasn’t—what makes you different—and as the differences get smaller and smaller, recognize when is the time to do something about it

(limited by tumblr for how many links i can include)

choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about

i'm gonna thrup

something harrowing about a wave of youtube videos about people recreating things made by ai because they want to only consume things made with human hands and soul or whatever, then they go on to read off a sponsor for an expensive watch company that is definitely outsourcing that labor and using materials acquired in the most inhumane ways you can imagine

"this video about how generative ai is being used to cause real life harm is sponsored by the Poor Person Grinder, the company that grinds up poor people! here's my code to get 0.0001% off of their $500 Poor Person Grinder Products!"

As a graphic designer, I've noticed similar ironies.

clown cats

these silly guys are now stickers in my shop!

Ok I'm curious

*or the equivalent in your/their language

Also feel free to put what kind of animals you have in the tags. My horses, dogs, and some of the chickens are all Stinky

circus animals 🥠

Detectives

Art by Ahmed Raafat

Batman, Columbo, Benoit Blanc, Batman And Hercule Poirot

i wonder what they're gossiping about

had to draw them

Alright, fine, here's the backstory about replacing my Microsoft Copilot key with a picture of a carp. Warning: that's the whole story.

When I bought my latest laptop, which coincidentally is already losing functionality in multiple keys, I noticed that the right Control button was no longer a right Control button. This was a bad sign for me, someone who fairly frequently used the right Control button. Worse still, it now bore the Microsoft Copilot logo and would open, when pressed, Microsoft Copilot. Not having personal interest in that particular robot, I was now in the market to rebind that key to something else.

I initially considered setting it up as my dedicated The Sims 2 button, but not only do I not yet have The Sims 2 installed on this computer, the way I play that game, it takes upwards of 15 minutes to boot up. I knew I would be constantly accidentally hitting this key, and I did not want to be constantly accidentally opening The Sims 2.

My partner immediately suggested that I set it to open "a jpeg of a fish." I Googled "carp," found an image, and set my right Control key to open a tiny browser window with a link to said fish. Though it is a .png file from pngtree labeled "pngtree-rohu-carp-fish-png-png-image_4022775.png", in an effort to display matrimonial piety, I dutifully labeled it "fish jpeg."

I now accidentally open this link multiple times a day, which is great, because it means I have a lot of opportunities to see a fish. Sometimes I accidentally hit it several times in quick succession, which means I get to see several fish! When I close all my open programs to shut down my computer, I usually find at least one forgotten fish. Things are working out beautifully, and everyone is happy.

The other day I brought up this story to a friend and relayed the saga of my success to her through her obvious confusion. At the end of my tale she asked me, "Why didn't you just bind it back to right Control?" and I had to admit to her that it honestly never occurred to me.

silly

Unrestrained New Year's Eve fun

FRANKENSTEIN (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro