我是。Illiterate.

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Many of you may have seen the horrific news out of Biddeford, Maine today: Joan Sebastian Guerrero, an innocent 26 year old man on his way to work, was murdered by ICE agents—reportedly in front of his family, including his young child. While there is no world in which anything would justify this act, reports indicate that ICE agents stopped the wrong vehicle while attempting to execute an arrest warrant; Guerrero was not the target of this warrant. He committed no crimes, was legally authorized to live and work in the US, and was murdered in the street where his body was left for more than five hours.

While Maine experienced a surge in ICE activity at the beginning of the year, national coverage of this activity ceased when out-of-state agents retreated. ICE activity did not stop here in Maine, as made very clear by today's events.

The Maine Solidarity Fund was created last year by a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant and trans communities. The fund was designed to provide rapid-response funding to members of our most targeted communities. Since the fund's creation, well over $1,000,000 has been distributed to nearly 500 immigrant and trans Mainers.

Prior to today's events, the fund was running very low. Donations have begun to pick up in the aftermath of this shooting, but more are desperately needed. The organizations at the heart of the MSF are in contact with Guerrero's family and are at the helm of the state's anti-ICE structures and initiatives, including upcoming actions related to this shooting.

To those wishing to support immigrant communities in Maine, donating to the Maine Solidarity Fund is a wonderful way to do so.

(Please note that on the donation page, you may see that we've raised more than $1,000,000 out of our $2,000,000 goal. Almost all of what's been raised has been distributed—that number does not reflect funds currently available.)

Other important resources tied to the MSF and affiliated organizations include:

The Maine Immigrant Defense Hotline: A statewide and community-led rapid response and resource network providing real-time information, safety monitoring, and mutual aid for immigrant communities across Maine.

LighthouseME: A statewide resource hub connecting immigrant communities with trusted services and support.

like, spelling mistakes everywhere, grammar all out of whack, and when it's handwritten, it's not even legible. I feel like I need a cipher just to navigate society and I can't tell if it's the disaster that is North America or just my brain being broken in yet another way.

it's mostly kids and teenagers (though even then a sixteen year old who can't differentiate between to, too, and two is concerning), but I've seen a few full grown adults do it too.

I don't really mind their inability to write, my beef is with their inability to read. Like yes I know that they were taught to just skip over words that they don't know and assume that it wasn't important for the sentence, but a good chunk of people genuinely do not seem to be aware - or at least consciously aware - of the idea that the same word can have multiple different meanings depending on context, and therefore a sentence could have multiple different interpretations depending on which definition and meaning you go by, and if your first guess of what a sentence could possibly mean doesn't make any sense to you, you can actually re-read it to see if there's an alternative way of reading it that does make more sense.

Hmm... Maybe not as extreme as a corpse, but if you handed someone composed of mostly metal an extremely corroded piece of copper, I could see them reacting like you just handed them a very moldy orange.

To reach "handed a decomposing roadkill squirrel" level, maybe give them something with identifiable parts similar to what is in their body, like corroded circuit boards, batteries, wire connectors. That's a more direct reminder of mortality.

I’m serious. Do you actually want that life? Like actually? Picking spinach out in the sun? Living communally? If you actually want that there’s ways for you to do it.