Thursday, January 08, 2026

We Are All Renee Nicole Good

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed ~ Martin Luther


“Renee Nicole Good exercised her Constitutional right to protest the tyranny of this regime. Renee Nicole Good was murdered for being an American.”


Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE?

“What I saw in her work was a writer that was trying to illuminate the lives of others” 


… he was struck by the poem’s idea that “we have to kill something in order to know it,” and since Ms. Good’s killing, has been ruminating on its ending words:

“that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths ‘make room for wonder’ —

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.”




 Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem


Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune:

[An ICE agent] shot and killed a woman in south Minneapolis during a morning confrontation between community members and federal officers […] Several residents of the area who witnessed the scene said agents were ordering the woman out of the vehicle. A video showed agents around the vehicle as the driver reversed and then pulled forward. One agent appeared to fire multiple rounds into the car.

The bio from a now-private Instagram account belonging to Good describes her as a “Poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.” In 2020, when she went by Renée Nicole Macklin, she won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize for a poem called “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” which begins:

i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of
cockroaches.

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores
(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—
the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the
dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs
inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

[READ THE FULL POEM HERE]

This is murder in broad daylight by the Trump administration, obvious and brutal. And though each senseless act of violence committed by the state upon its citizens echoes the thousands that have gone before, we cannot become numb to the particular (and intensifying) depravities of this administration.

So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action.

UPDATE: Head here to donate in support of Renee’s wife and son.


Renee Nicole Good – ICE Cold Blooded Murder

Minneapolis Star Tribune: “Thousands gather to memorialize woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis The mother of the deceased driver identified the woman as Renee Nicole Good, 37. 

Video of the shooting shows agents near the vehicle as Good reversed and then pulled forward. One agent appeared to fire multiple rounds into the car [He fired three bullets at point blank range into the head and face of the unarmed Ms. Good after she was denied medical assistance for more than 15 minutes]. 

ICE said the agent acted defensively. Thousands gather to memorialize woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis The mother of the deceased driver identified the woman as Renee Nicole Good, 37. Video of the shooting shows agents near the vehicle as Good reversed and then pulled forward. One agent appeared to fire multiple rounds into the car. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Good Shooting: Three Shots, One Timeline: A Preliminary Forensic Video Breakdown

Zeteo: Renee Nicole Good, Good’s “murder,” as described by multiple Democratic lawmakers in the aftermath of the shooting, comes on the heels of the Trump administration deploying some 2,000 ICE officers to the North Star State. Last night, the president took to social media to claim, despite clear video evidence widely circulating online showing otherwise, Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.” 

He added it’s “hard to believe” the federal agent is even alive. Trump’s blatantly dishonest smears of Good and her actions stand in stark contrast with how the president has lionized violent Jan. 6 rioters, in particular Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by an officer as she stormed the US Capitol. The smears feel even sicker once you see the photo of the glove compartment in Good’s car filled with stuffed animals…”

The armed shooter, who had no visible identification, had his face covered, sustained no injuries, immediately walked away from scene of the crime, rendering no medical assistance to the women he murdered. He immediately got into an SUV and was unobstructed as he drove away from the crime scene. All of these actions are in contradiction to the DOJ Policy on Use of 


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