New Hope

08/18/2026

[UPDATED] Recent Shootings. Real People. Call to Faith, Caution, Change.

GRIEVE. PROTECT. OUST. RECONSTRUCT.

At a Glance:

• At least 12 communities, 18 documented incidents in 2026 — 11 recent civilian shootings across Twin Falls, Prospect Hill, Missaukee County, Lexington, Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood, Virginia State University (a historically Black institution), Houston, and Omaha, alongside 7 law-enforcement and ICE incidents.

• A much larger pattern: at least 55 people died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office.

• Black Americans are nearly three times as likely as White Americans to be killed by police. Some Native communities also face severe disparities. Immigrants now face a dramatically expanded federal enforcement apparatus.

• The gospel: violence and terror do not have the final word, because Jesus was crucified, rose again, and already reigns as Emperor–Reconstructor.

• The call: grieve honestly, protect the targeted, and act — electing consequences, removing Trump and MAGA from power, and reconstructing USA for real.

Read the FREE updated short essay:

https://glemmelo.com/2026/08/16/endviolence

08/18/2026

“The [Philippine] Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said its ‘provisional understanding’ with China on the Ayungin Shoal does not in any way concede the Philippines’ sovereignty and rights over the West Philippine Sea.”

— Philippine News Agency

Xi Jinping and the CCP pose direct, serious threats to Philippine national security and must be resisted and stopped.

Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan knowingly spread disinformation to advance Xi’s invasion and occupation ambitions against the Filipino people and nation.

The Philippine government should:

1. Declare Jing Quan persona non grata—i.e., require him to leave the Philippines.

2. Terminate the “provisional understanding” between the Philippines and China on the Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal.

The Philippines does not need China’s permission to conduct lawful activities within Philippine maritime zones.

Read the evidence. Verify the facts. Defend Philippine sovereignty through truth, international law, and resolute but lawful action.







https://glemmelo.com/2026/07/26/expelxijinping/

08/17/2026

Recent shootings. Real people. At least eleven communities. Seventeen documented incidents.

Twin Falls. Prospect Hill. Missaukee County. Lexington — where five people were shot, including a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old. Virginia State University — a historically Black institution. Houston — one killed and four injured. And Omaha, where two shootings occurred within minutes of each other early Sunday, one fatal.

But civilian violence is not the whole story. We have to count violence by law enforcement too — fatal and nonfatal shootings, Tasers, restraint, vehicles, chemical agents, physical force, and other mechanisms.

Immigration enforcement has turned deadly. ICE officers fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. Neither shooting was captured by officers’ body cameras. Federal accounts have been disputed, with key claims challenged by witnesses and evidence. A substance highlighted as suspected methamphetamine after the Araujo shooting: tested negative.

Corey Ruiz was fatally shot by police in Madison. As of August 4, the city’s Independent Police Monitor reported that her evidence request had been denied, a subpoena had been issued, and MPD turned over nothing.

Geraldo Lunas Campos died in ICE custody. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide caused by asphyxia from neck and torso compression while he was being physically restrained. His death is part of a much larger toll: at least 24 people have died in ICE custody in 2026 alone.

Oakland has also recorded three officer-involved shootings this year — two fatal and one nonfatal. Evidence has been released. However, investigations and final accountability findings remain pending.

These dangers are not distributed equally. Black Americans continue to experience extraordinarily high firearm-homicide rates and are nearly three times as likely as White Americans to be killed by police. Some Indigenous populations experience severe disparities as well. And immigrants now encounter a dramatically expanded federal enforcement system.

First: grieve. Every number was somebody — a child, parent, sibling, friend, neighbor.

Violence and terror do not have the final word. Jesus was crucified, rose again, and already reigns as Emperor–Reconstructor.

Then: protect. Choose faith over fear. Hope over fatalism. Love over hatred. Reject racism, dehumanization, vigilantism, and revenge. Take credible threats seriously. Protect children and the targeted.

Then: act. Grief and protection are not the end of the work. Mishpāṭ — justice — is also a warning, not just a verdict, and it falls on structures as much as individuals.



Read the FREE short essay 👇

https://glemmelo.com/2026/08/16/endviolence

08/17/2026

Recent Shootings. Real People. Call to Faith, Caution, Change.

GRIEVE. PROTECT. OUST. RECONSTRUCT.

At a Glance:

• At least eleven communities, seventeen documented incidents — ten recent civilian shootings across Twin Falls, Prospect Hill, Missaukee County, Lexington, Virginia State University (a historically Black institution), a Houston gas station, and Omaha, alongside seven law-enforcement and ICE incidents, including Corey Ruiz and Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death was ruled a homicide. Lunas Campos is one of at least two dozen people who have died in ICE custody in 2026 alone — part of a toll that has reached at least 53 since January 2025, the highest ICE-custody mortality rate in nearly two decades.

• Black Americans are nearly three times as likely as White Americans to be killed by police. Some Native communities also face severe disparities.

• The gospel: violence and terror do not have the final word, because Jesus was crucified, rose again, and already reigns as Emperor–Reconstructor.

• The call: grieve honestly, protect the targeted, and act — electing consequences, removing Trump and MAGA from power, and reconstructing USA for real.

Read the FREE short essay:

https://glemmelo.com/2026/08/16/endviolence

07/26/2026

Seven AI tools. One indictment. And a raw record of what happens when generative AI is asked to sit with a prophetic case to dismantle the imperialist, white supremacist, lyncher, apartheider, child ra**st, predatory capitalist patriarchy.

I didn’t just ask them to write. I asked them to critique each other.

What came back: self-praise followed by self-dilution. Theological register adopted, then quietly stripped. One flat refusal. One system reframing sourced history as “unexamined.” And one recurring pattern across nearly all of them — soften the register, cut the hashtags, sand down the title.

This reel reports and interprets the raw evidence posted on my website.

Watch what each tool actually did —
not what it claimed to do.












Read and analyze the raw-output evidence:

https://glemmelo.com/2026/07/26/naziai

07/24/2026