(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . My ICE Sighting App Has a Merch Store Now [1] ['Wafflehacker Aka Joshhacks', 'Greg Dworkin', 'Miles Estrelle', 'Sabrina Haake', 'Bill In Portland Maine'] Date: 2026-08-05 I built AntiFreeze.app in March. It started as a way for people to report and track ICE activity in their area without handing over their identity to do it. Since then it has grown past 7,300 users, onboarded a watchdog group in Southern California, and landed on Cloudflare’s Project Galileo. It has also cost money the whole time. So I opened a merch store: bonfire.com/store/antifreeze-merch What’s in it Three campaigns are live. Don’t Let ICE Freeze Your Neighborhood comes as a shirt or a hoodie. The front carries a “no ICE” mark, ice blocks behind the circle-and-slash you know from every no-smoking sign in America. The back has the AntiFreeze pin cracking through the ice, with the website under it. Thaw the Fear is the quieter one. Shirt or hoodie, logo and website on the front, nothing on the back. If you want to support the project without wearing a headline, this is that option. Break the ICE is a water bottle. The phrase goes on the front, logo and site on the back. I went back and forth between this and “Hold the ICE,” which is a softer joke. Activists asked for the louder one. There’s also a yard sign that reads “Don’t Let ICE Freeze Our Neighborhood.” I switched that one to “our” on purpose. A shirt talks to the person wearing it. A sign staked in a lawn speaks for the block. Where the money goes Everything is print on demand through Bonfire. Nobody is sitting on a garage full of inventory. You order a shirt, Bonfire prints a shirt, Bonfire ships a shirt. That means most of what you pay covers the blank garment, the printing, and the shipping. Bonfire keeps that portion. What lands on top is my markup, and I kept those numbers low on purpose. I would rather move a hundred shirts at a small margin than eight shirts at a margin that makes people wince. The margin that reaches me pays for: Servers and infrastructure Advertising, which is the only reason the app reached people outside my own social graph Legal consultations That last one matters more than it sounds. Running a platform that tracks federal enforcement activity attracts questions from people with more lawyers than I have. The EFF has reviewed the app. The Vanderbilt First Amendment Clinic has been involved. Those conversations are worth paying for. If you want the money to go further per dollar, donate straight to the project instead. A direct donation skips the garment cost entirely. Buy the shirt because you want the shirt. The design The logo is a map pin punching through a sheet of ice, cracks running out from where it lands. It reads at a glance on a yard sign from the sidewalk, which was the actual test I cared about. I rebuilt the ice for print. The original app icon lives on a dark starfield background, which looks fine on a phone screen and terrible on a heather gray hoodie. The version on the merch has the pin isolated with the ice reconstructed underneath it, so it prints clean on navy, black, white, or anything in between. The app is still free None of this puts anything behind a paywall. AntiFreeze has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking, and that does not change. The store exists so I can keep saying that. If you have been using the app and wondering how to help, this is one way. Telling three people about it is another, and that one is free. bonfire.com/store/antifreeze-merch [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/8/5/800079845/community/my-ice-sighting-app-has-a-merch-store-now/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/