In April 2025, The Pinkerton Raid's singer-songwriter Jesse James DeConto was visiting his grandfather's birthplace in Sicily when he started hearing about ICE surges like the one that took Kilmar Abrego Garcia from his wife and four disabled children in Maryland and sent him to the megaprison in El Salvador, the same country he had fled for fear of gang violence as a teenager.

"Strawberry Ice (and the World Burns)" is the song that came out of learning to make Italian ice, or 'granita,' in Sicily and reflecting on Jesse's own immigrant story. "Strawberries & sugar while the world it ever burns" is the high-energy singalong chorus that has been a fan favorite in the lead-up to Jesse's next full-length album, IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM. Wear it because the world needs beauty and strawberries and sweetness even during these hard times we're living in.

• 100% combed and ringspun cotton
• Tri-blends are 50% polyester/25% combed/25% ringspun cotton/rayon
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz/yd² (142.40 g/m²), triblends: 3.8 oz/yd² (90.07 g/m²)
• 30 singles thread weight
• Side-seamed
• Blank product sourced from Nicaragua, Honduras, or the US