This is a doozy. I really need to vent and get perspective check. I mean I'm 99% sure I don't owe them shit but there's just that guilt right of "do the right thing, you can't let your mother be kicked out of her home."

So, my birth parents gave me away for adoption at 8 from China to the US. The crazy thing is my mother maintains she never "gave me away" but rather just temporarily placed me in someone else's care(from 8 until I was an adult...) so id have "more opportunity." But they literally signed adoption papers and at the time had no ability or plan to come to the US.

Our family wasn't poor. Both my parents were university professors in China.

My birth mother later did get a education visa and came over. My father died when I was 13. Birth mom re married and settled in a town close to where I grew up in the US.

The guy she married is a real POS. Terrible with money despite being a lawyer and making decent income. He was eventually disbarred after he was found to have swindled some old ladies out of mid six figures in an investment scheme. He was criminally charged and somehow got that case dropped.

He lost the civil case. He also had bank liens from the IRS.

So when I was 20 he tried to take a 500k mortgage out in my name cause his credit and banking was fucked, thankfully I had the presence of mind even back then to say no. He got really mad at me, said this would be my property anyway, that he was doing me a favor basically.

He always wanted me to hold money in my accounts for him. I now realize this is cause he was hiding it from all his creditors.

He wanted me to sign a power of attorney that said this, I am copy pasting from the pdf he sent in 2022:

While acting on my behalf, my Attorney-in-Fact’s authority extends to and includes each action or power which an adult who is non-disabled and non-incapacitated may carry out through an agent specifically authorized in the premises, with respect to any matters whatsoever. To illustrate, but not to limit, this authority, my Attorney-in-Fact is authorized:

\[1\] To deposit, withdraw, and otherwise deal with my money or my securities (including mutual fund shares or accounts of any description) at any financial institution and to sign or endorse any instrument to complete such deposit, withdrawal, or transaction; and to access my safe deposit box for any purpose;

\[2\] To renew, extend, pay, settle, or contest any loan, indebtedness, or other obligation;

\[3\] To care for, rent, lease, store, or dispose of my personal property of any kind;

\[4\] To buy, modify, cancel, borrow from, commence, or terminate distributions, and otherwise deal with annuities or life insurance policies of any kind;

\[5\] To enter any transaction concerning my real estate, and particularly, any transaction concerning, including the sale or other disposition, of the following tract in \[removed PII\] more particularly described as follows:

I won't get into all the details of his convoluted scheme, but he tried to convince me I absolutely needed to sign this POA because of his various BS reasons. I told him to shove it.

Lots of other things I wont even get into.

Then in 2024 he tried to pressure me into giving them 30k, and tried to use the fact that they gave me Christmas money and whatever growing up as "well now we're in need so you should help."

The thing is they're terrible with money. They've no joke blown through 300k cash since 2022, I know this for a fact. They drive a Mercedes suv and a Porsche cayenne. Their son, my half brother, had a credit card since he was 16 that he'd charge $1-2k on per month. They own a 4plex set of single story apartments, my step dad lives in unit 1, my mom in unit 2, and my half brother in unit 4.

My little brother, using their credit card, got on insane amounts of steroids when he was 16 and has now completely ruined his endocrine system at 20 and is 250lbs deadlifting 500lbs for 12 reps. He almost died of internal bleeding last year due to this steroid abuse.

He still lives with them, has never paid rent, has never worked a real job and I'm pretty sure his money he has now comes from illicit steroid related shit.

I haven't talked to my birth mom or step dad since 24 when they tried to manipulate me into giving them 30k. She just called me today- asking for money, first contact she's made with me since 2024. She says they'll run out of money in 2 or 3 months and "be homeless."

Since 2024 I've moved countries, gotten married, and was worried about ICE(cause I'm an immigrant) but nope didn't call me about any of that, she only called now when they need money.

She claims they're on the brink of homelessness yet... they pay $400/month for their 4 Verizon phone lines.(she couldn't even explain why they had 4 lines I'm assuming 2 for my brother??)

They pay $200/month for a cable/wifi package.

They still drive that Mercedes and Porsche.

They refuse to all live in one unit and rent the other 3 out.

And again, theyve somehow blown through 300k since 2022.

I told her I might as well set money on fire because theyll just come asking for more if I give them any now. There's plenty they can do to balance their budget, for one they have no idea how much they spend per month.

I told her you're not actually desperate, you just want me to bail you out so you don't have to be uncomfortable or do any hard work or make any sacrifices.

None of them work, they both draw social security and my brother just works out and does whatever.

Meanwhile i lived out of a van for 2 years working as a wildland firefighter to save money, almost burnt over multiple times, the money theyre asking for is what I would have saved with TWO SEASONS fighting wildfire with 1,000hrs of overtime, facing death everyday!!

And they want this money so they don't have to change anything about their lifestyle.

Insane right how the fuck can you give your kid away for adoption and then have the audacity to try to guilt trip me into financing their insane lifestyle by bringing up how family should help each other... like bitch if you wanted your kid to be a piggybank maybe don't give them away for adoption.

I'm so so done with them. The only thing I'm debating now is whether to give them like a little bit of fuck off money because that would make things feel super final- like heres a check, congratulations your inability to reign in your lifestyle and unwillingness to make any changes and manipulation of me has completely ended this relationship and you'll now die without any contact from your first born son.

Or, just do that without giving them any money. For some reason it feels a lot more final if I do that with a check.

In no circumstance am I gonna fund their lifestyle tho. The only difference is this will push off their catastrophe for another 2 or 3 months, in the end its just karma for their shitty behavior, I can't believe that POS managed to snake his way out from the criminal case. They had him dead to rights, oh and that's when he bought the 80k Mercedes suv, because "my mom needed a reliable vehicle if he went to prison." Yeah right more like he thought he was going to prison so he just blew all their money.

This is a doozy. I really need to vent and get perspective check. I mean I'm 99% sure I don't owe them shit but there's just that guilt right of "do the right thing."

So, my birth parents gave me away for adoption at 8 from China to the US. The crazy thing is my mother maintains she never "gave me away" but rather just temporarily placed me in someone else's care(from 8 until I was an adult...) so id have "more opportunity." But they literally signed adoption papers and at the time had no ability or plan to come to the US.

Our family wasn't poor. Both my parents were university professors in China.

My birth mother later did get a education visa and came over. My father died when I was 13. Birth mom re married and settled in a town close to where I grew up in the US.

The guy she married is a real POS. Terrible with money despite being a lawyer and making decent income. He was eventually disbarred after he was found to have swindled some old ladies out of mid six figures in an investment scheme. He was criminally charged and somehow got that case dropped.

He lost the civil case. He also had bank liens from the IRS.

So when I was 20 he tried to take a 500k mortgage out in my name cause his credit and banking was fucked, thankfully I had the presence of mind even back then to say no. He got really mad at me, said this would be my property anyway, that he was doing me a favor basically.

He always wanted me to hold money in my accounts for him. I now realize this is cause he was hiding it from all his creditors.

He wanted me to sign a power of attorney that said this, I am copy pasting from the pdf he sent in 2022:

While acting on my behalf, my Attorney-in-Fact’s authority extends to and includes each action or power which an adult who is non-disabled and non-incapacitated may carry out through an agent specifically authorized in the premises, with respect to any matters whatsoever. To illustrate, but not to limit, this authority, my Attorney-in-Fact is authorized:

[1] To deposit, withdraw, and otherwise deal with my money or my securities (including mutual fund shares or accounts of any description) at any financial institution and to sign or endorse any instrument to complete such deposit, withdrawal, or transaction; and to access my safe deposit box for any purpose;

[2] To renew, extend, pay, settle, or contest any loan, indebtedness, or other obligation;

[3] To care for, rent, lease, store, or dispose of my personal property of any kind;

[4] To buy, modify, cancel, borrow from, commence, or terminate distributions, and otherwise deal with annuities or life insurance policies of any kind;

[5] To enter any transaction concerning my real estate, and particularly, any transaction concerning, including the sale or other disposition, of the following tract in [removed PII] more particularly described as follows:

I won't get into all the details of his convoluted scheme, but he tried to convince me I absolutely needed to sign this POA because of his various BS reasons. I told him to shove it.

Lots of other things I wont even get into.

Then in 2024 he tried to pressure me into giving them 30k, and tried to use the fact that they gave me Christmas money and whatever growing up as "well now we're in need so you should help."

The thing is they're terrible with money. They've no joke blown through 300k cash since 2022, I know this for a fact. They drive a Mercedes suv and a Porsche cayenne. Their son, my half brother, had a credit card since he was 16 that he'd charge $1-2k on per month. They own a 4plex set of single story apartments, my step dad lives in unit 1, my mom in unit 2, and my half brother in unit 4.

My little brother, using their credit card, got on insane amounts of steroids when he was 16 and has now completely ruined his endocrine system at 20 and is 250lbs deadlifting 500lbs for 12 reps. He almost died of internal bleeding last year due to this steroid abuse.

He still lives with them, has never paid rent, has never worked a real job and I'm pretty sure his money he has now comes from illicit steroid related shit.

I haven't talked to my birth mom or step dad since 24 when they tried to manipulate me into giving them 30k. She just called me today- asking for money. She says they'll run out of money in 2 or 3 months. I've moved countries, gotten married, and was worried about ICE(cause I'm an immigrant) but nope didn't call about any of that, she only called now when they need money.

She claims they're on the brink of homelessness yet... they pay $400/month for their 4 Verizon phone lines.

They pay $200/month for a cable/wifi package.

They still drive that Mercedes and Porsche.

They refuse to all live in one unit and rent the other 3 out.

And again, theyve somehow blown through 300k since 2022.

I told her I might as well set money on fire because theyll just come asking for more if I give them any now. There's plenty they can do to balance their budget, for one they have no idea how much they spend per month.

I told her you're not actually desperate, you just want me to bail you out so you don't have to be uncomfortable or do any hard work or make any sacrifices.

None of them work, they both draw social security and my brother just works out and does whatever.

Meanwhile i lived out of a van for 2 years working as a wildland firefighter to save money, almost burnt over multiple times, the money theyre asking for is what I would have saved with TWO SEASONS fighting wildfire with 1,000hrs of overtime, facing death everyday!!

And they want this money so they don't have to change anything about their lifestyle.

Insane right how the fuck can you give your kid away for adoption and then have the audacity to try to guilt trip me into financing their insane lifestyle by bringing up how family should help each other... like bitch if you wanted your kid to be a piggybank maybe don't give them away for adoption.

See, football is a useful sport you burgerreich Neanderthals.

Also, wtf. Quite an insane escalation for someone to have attacked a NATO hub with an explosive drone.

Got into Almaty and took a yandex to our hotel, only had 10,000 bills from the ATM. Driver insisted he had no change, ride was only 2300. Tried offering him 10 euros, 10 dollars, 1,000 som... nothing. My wife went to find change and then he kept demanding 10k because he said he didn't have time. I just told him wait, or he can leave, then my wife got back 3 mins later with change. He took 3k and just took off. Left a real negative feeling, his whole attitude was very aggressive which made me feel like he just wanted to push for the 10k.

Surely yandex drivers carry cash, right?

Y'all ready for the hottest hot girl summer? Imagine the chaos- dozens of dead troops leads to raids into Iranian soil, which leads to downed helos and crippled aircraft carriers, which puts U.S. into a full wartime footing, all coinciding with midterms shenanigans and brutal repression of anti-war, anti-ice, and anti-regime protests at home.

The situation just makes me think of what I read in Ordinary Men, everyone holding out hope things will just stabilize and won't get to worst case scenarios, but the worst case comes so fast, especially when war is on the table.

Roughly 80% of Holocaust victims were murdered in a 20-month window from early 1942 through 1943.The peak intensity occurred during Operation Reinhard. Over a brutal 100-day period in the fall of 1942 (specifically August through October), the Nazis murdered approximately 1.32 million people. 15,000 people per day.

ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo around 6:50am in Houston, TX on July 7th. In a statement posted to social media Araujo’s son said that his father had been in the U.S. for 35 years and had his own construction business which provided for his wife and three sons. Araujo was in the process of getting immigration papers - which is not an indictment of Araujo but rather one of our broken immigration system; a system that offers no pathways for legal status to someone who has contributed taxes and labor for 35 years.

ICE gave their same canned speech they give after every ICE shooting, that Araujo “weaponized” his vehicle and that agents “fired in self defense.” I’ll report more as details come to light.

Ruben Ray Martinez

23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen was shot and killed by ICE in March of 2025. His murder was kept under wraps by DHS until a year later. DHS claims that Martinez “intentionally ran over” a federal agent. The bodycam footage clearly shows that Martinez’s vehicle was at a full stop when three shots are fired, and then it slowly rolls forward as Martinez, fatally wounded, let off the brakes. How does a car at a dead stop run over anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayo0n4Z7VcM

Martinez’s passenger reported that no officer had been hit by the vehicle. The HSI agent who murdered Martinez, Jack Stevens, said in a written statement that he saw Martinez looking past officers with clenched hands on the steering wheel and that this was a “pre attack indicator” and that Stevens was afraid of “numerous casualties” and that was what prompted him to shoot Martinez three times through his driver’s side window.

A Texas grand jury did not find probable cause to issue a criminal indictment related to this murder.

Carlos Hernandez

Hernandez was shot 6 times by ICE in Patterson, California. ICE claimed he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an officer.” Dashcam footage from a passing motorist disproves this lie and corroborates Hernandez’s account. Hernandez’s attorney said that Hernandez was “adamant” that he was “fired upon before driving away.” “He was trying to get away because he was being shot at … he fled in a panic.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_6GD8Y1RWI

At 30 seconds pay attention to the black object that flies up from the hood of the reversing car. That object flies up before the car strikes the truck in the back. I think that’s when the agents started shooting at Hernandez - one of the rounds struck a windshield wiper or something on the hood and sent it flying. Which matches with Hernandez’s account that ICE started firing on him while his car was in reverse, before he put it in drive to escape over the median.

Carlitos Ricardo Parias

Parias, a LA based creator who live-streamed breaking news was shot by ICE in October of 2025. It’s likely he landed on ICE’s radar because he’d been covering ICE raids in LA with his news streams. He was shot by an ICE agent in the elbow, the bullet ricocheted and hit a U.S. Marshall in the arm. LA Times got a copy of the bodycam footage and the officer who shot Parias acted surprised.

https://www.latimes.com/0000019b-6791-ddf1-a9bb-6fb5f0130000-123

“Oh,” the officer who opened fire said, sounding surprised. “F—.”

“Who shot?” an agent asked.

“I shot, I shot,” the officer responded.

Parias was accused of “weaponizing” his vehicle and charged with assault. All charges against him were dropped after the bodycam footage was reviewed by a judge. Parias has been in ICE detention since the shooting.

In June NPR reviewed medical records that showed while under ICE custody Parias reported consistent pain and decreased mobility. He’s received no physical therapy, has been in a sling for six months, and received only Motrin, gabapentin, and muscle rub cream for his pain.

Julio Sosa-Celis

In January ICE agent Christian Castro chased two men to their home. Castro attempted to apprehend the men outside their home and after a brief struggle the two men ran inside where four other adults and two children were present. Castro then fired his pistol through the closed front door of the home striking Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg.

“Mr. Castro fired his service weapon at the front door of the home knowing there were people who had just run inside that presented absolutely no threat to him or anyone else,” said Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.

Castro initially told investigators that he was attacked by three men wielding shovels and brooms and “fearing for his life” fired defensive shots.

Castro was charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of filing a false police report and arrested in Texas in May.

Francisco Longoria

In August of 2025 Border Patrol surrounded Longoria’s truck, smashed his window, and fired multiple rounds into passenger side of his truck. Longoria’s teenage son was sitting in the passenger seat.

https://youtu.be/zmtoy8OA7Y0?t=247

Several rounds hit the car but thankfully no one was injured. DHS claimed that Longoria “drove his truck at the officers and struck two CBP [Customs and Border Protection] officers with his vehicle,” and that an officer fired his gun “in self-defense.”

Longoria was charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. His charges were dropped a month later after prosecutors acknowledged there was no legal basis for Border Patrol to stop him and that no officers were injured.

Marimar Martinez

Marimar Martinez was shot five times in Chicago last October by Border Patrol.

>She said she was on her way to drop off a clothing donation to her local church when she saw a Border Patrol vehicle and began to tail it in an attempt to warn others around her of their presence in the area.

>After following the vehicle for more than 15 minutes, Martinez said the driver — later identified as Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum — swerved into her vehicle before they pulled over near 39th Street and Kedzie Avenue.

>Martinez said she stopped briefly then tried to swerve away from the agents and drive past them, but as she did so, she “shrugged” down while seeing Exum exit the SUV with a gun and then heard gunshots.

>Martinez told the commission the last thing she remembered was looking down and seeing her hand and arm covered in blood.

New testimony was made public from an anonymous eye-witness at the Illinois Accountability Commission in April. The anonymous eye-witness testified that Exum fired at Martinez without provocation and that the federal agents on scene never appeared to be under any sort of attack.

DHS described Martinez as a “domestic terrorist” who “ambushed” agents and that Exum fired “defensive” shots. DHS claimed that Martinez rammed the Border Patrol vehicle but body cam footage shows Exum swerved to the left to strike Martinez’s vehicle with pistol in hand before he out and shot her five times. After the shooting Exum drove the vehicle which was involved in the shooting 1,000 miles away, to Maine, and had repairs completed to remove the damage from hitting Martinez. Her lawyers argued that this was destruction of evidence and the judge agreed.

Martinez’s charges of assaulting a federal officer were dropped in November. Exum has yet to be charged for his attempted murder, perjury, or destruction of evidence.

Clemente Lara-Hernandez

On Wednesday the 1st of July ICE agents fired at Hernandez’s vehicle. You can see that Hernandez’s vehicle was already well clear of all the agents when the shots were fired and that no agents were ever in the path of the vehicle. Again, ICE claimed that Hernandez “weaponized” his vehicle.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaS_idssppi/

Renee Good and Alex Pretti

And of course there’s Renee Good and Alex Pretti who were murdered by ICE/CBP in Minneapolis in January. The murders were witnessed by dozens of witnesses, caught on multiple videos, yet no one has been charged in these brazen day-light executions.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DT8MEbIjLBM/

I know guards still deployed to DC and Memphis, what other cities, are they still in LA and Chicago?

The NYT reported on July 1st that ICE has detained more than 10,000 people in five days - doubling their daily average of 1,000 people detained per day but still falling short of Stephen Miller’s goal of 3,000 enforced disappearances per day.

This report correlates to the uptick in ICE brutality videos that I’ve come across. I’ll highlight a few here:

June 29th - Bethany, OK

The report from ICEout.org says that the two ICE agents tackled and tazed the man. Notice how they try to hide their faces at the end.

July 1st - Everett, MA

At 37 seconds you can see the female ICE agent holding a pistol that has its flashlight on - one of the other agents dropped his gun. New ICE agents only receive 56 days of training before they’re sent out for “on the job training” per DHS.

I don’t care how well trained the Gestapo are, ICE needs to be abolished and held accountable for all the crimes they’ve committed- not reformed with more training and bodycams like the Democrats want.

June 29th - Milwaukee, WI

ICE caused an accident while in pursuit of a “suspect”(aka anyone who doesn’t look white enough to be a citizen).

June 29th - Madison, TN

There were seven confirmed incidents on ICEout.org in the Nashville area over the weekend.

June 29 - Alhambra, CA

Dozens of confirmed reports in the Los Angeles area over the weekend. Traitors rounding up their fellows.

June 29 - Hudson County, NJ

https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/126812

July 1st - Detroit, MI

Agents stormed a home with children inside, reported on Instagram.

Too Afraid to Go Grocery Shopping or Leave Home

Ysabel Lonazco, an immigration attorney told the NYT that her clients are afraid to leave their homes. They don’t want to go grocery shopping or even drive for fear of being picked up. This state of constant fear is how immigrants have been living for over a year now.

ICE even detained a nun when she was walking to Sunday Mass. She has since been released but think of the thousands of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters that are still being held in the concentration camps.

People are rightfully afraid because detention and deportation can be a death sentence. Deaths in detention have doubled since 2025 and ICE no longer even reports the deaths of detainees after they’ve been released. Paulino Martin San Pedro was detained in November and deported to Mexico where he was hospitalized and died days later due to pneumonia.

On Wednesday 146 humans including 19 women and 7 children were deported to Venezuela. That night their hotel collapsed in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. At least 25 of the deportees have been confirmed dead and many more are still missing.

Four Haitian women were brutally murdered after they were deported from Puerto Rico in February. Their bodies were found in a river bordering the Dominican Republic. Dominican police think all the murders were committed by gangs in Haiti who kidnap returned deportees and demand ransom from their families.

How to Help

You can join rapid response organizations in your community. Do simple searches like “YOUR CITY or STATE + ICE immigration rapid response network”

A few examples:

https://www.ccijustice.org/carrn

https://www.aclusocal.org/socal-rapid-response-networks/

https://stlrapidresponse.org/

Support ICEout.org - You can also do a lot of good by monitoring reports on there and then posting egregious violations to places like https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/

That’s one of the places that I often find videos to share which then can galvanize outrage and action against ICE in the broader population.

Support local mutual-aid networks. For example Minneapolis has a mutual aid network that helps deliver groceries and other necessities to immigrant families because again, they’re hiding in their homes like Anne Frank.

You europoors can finally afford A/C, all you gotta do is merk a few conscripts.

Or, I wonder if somebody on the Isfahan OP intentionally blew their cover while they were in the initial stages and still able to easily exfil because they knew it was a impossible mission.

But if it's the latter it begs the question all the leaders who signed off on it. Guess I shouldn't expect integrity from people whose career is murdering poor brown folks in their sleep and later writing books about it.