THE DECK | Making Renee Nicole Good
POINT AND SHOOT | WHEN THE ACT IS THE MESSAGE
Say Her Name | Renee Nicole Good
When the Act Is the Message
Making Renee Good — Witness, Not Whitewash
This isn’t commentary.
This isn’t opinion.
This is a witness.
On January 7, 2026, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother, poet, and creative spirit named Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a federal operation. Her loss shocked countless people because how her life was ended didn’t feel proportional — to her character, to her intentions, or to the world we want to live in.
This image isn’t a card. It isn’t decoration.
It is a witness profile — an impressionist outline of a human life laid beside a literal emblem of a society built for point-and-shoot brevity.
A society where tools shape our reflexes before our reflection.
Point. Shoot. Be Good.
Once upon a time, that was the language of a camera.
Today, it has become the language of culture.
Not literal violence — but the glide from noticing to aiming without ever pausing to ask why.
This isn’t about left versus right.
This is about human coherence.
We live in a world where:
instruments once used for documenting life now teach us how to perform life
slogans once meant for tools now shape habits of thought
narratives about safety get weaponized faster than safety ever arrives
And while words like domestic terrorism and self-defense are being broadcast as explanations, what resonates with millions of people’s lived reality is this simple grief: a beloved human being is gone, and no explanation has replaced the absence.
So this post is not a manifesto.
It is a record.
Tools matter.
Language matters.
And we all — the 70-plus percent of decent human beings in this country — matter too. Most of us didn’t create this moment. Most of us care about kindness, shelter, food security, community, and safety. We didn’t design the instruments that now shape public narrative. We didn’t write the slogans we quote reflexively. But we can choose how we use them.
This image stands here not as accusation, but as witness.
To life.
To loss.
To the quiet power of remembering.
Make good.
For Renae.
For each other.
Before history gets too subtle to recognize.
Say Her Name | Renee Nicole Good
TJ Baden CreatorHuman™