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sepia pen sketch of a hunched-over furry creature with a bloody stump tail. caption reads "tailypo, tailypo, who's got my tailypo?"

still from bride of re-animator (1990) in which herbert west is making a silly face

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s story, however, is available to us. “That’s how I want the world to know my father, not as someone who got shot and killed,” his son Ronaldo told reporters. “He worked for thirty years building homes in the Houston suburbs.” After working on hundreds of homes for others, he dreamed of building one for his own family—“one he could call our home, and he did.” In the evenings, after work, “that’s where you could find him,” Ronaldo said, “resting on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog.” Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, he said, “did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE.”

If the withdrawal marked a shift in public relations, it did not, importantly, mark a shift in enforcement. Indeed, the violence resulting from those operations may be escalating: ICE shootings and killings in 2026 are already outpacing those in 2025. And mass deportation operations have expanded: In five days this June, federal immigration agents reportedly arrested 10,000 people—doubling their usual daily rate of arrests. They are still terrorizing neighborhoods: A recent raid in Virginia Beach involved agents chasing people through backyards, “searching everywhere,” from boats to trash bins, one resident said. They just aren’t marketing it as they once were.

Mass arrests lead to more killings, not only in the streets but also in detention camps. During this Trump administration, more than 50 people have died while in ICE custody, research by Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights has found. “The mortality rate of deaths in ICE custody is at its highest level in over a decade and has more than doubled since Trump’s second term began,” their report stated. At the same time, these may be undercounts: DHS has lagged behind on reporting detention data and no longer reports deaths of those recently released. The lack of transparency is systemic, leaving the work of investigating anti-immigration operations, from detention centers to deportation flights, to nongovernmental organizations and neighbors.

watercolor and pencil sketch of a trans satyr with red-brown hair, small horns, a daisy crown, and a long-stemmed pipe. he has top surgery scars. he looks chilled out and relaxed.

starry campion blooming with white, fringe-y petals

crayon drawing of two earthworms knotted into a heart resting beneath the sod.

quick pen drawing of my cat wormwood

Disputes are piling up, per the newspaper, from lawsuits over filled septic systems to complaints over off-leash dogs biting residents. During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker.

The resident eventually shot the contractor, injuring him. However, South Dakota’s stand-your-ground law led to a grand jury declining to indict him.

big tuxedo cat sitting on the couch like a little man with one white sock footie in the air and he is very cute

watercolor painting. a vaguely defined pile of bodies rests on the ocean floor, covered in deep blue water.

watercolor painting. an amalgamation of bird organs, feet, feathers, and miscellaneous tissues attached to the top of a power line, like a tumor. the sky overhead is bright blue with airy clouds.

graphite drawing of the ending of the wicker man (1973) showing the people of summerisle dancing around the titular effigy as it burns.