Genevieve Renard Painter
Bereaved (2020, 2019, 2018). Finding things out. Legal historian. Teacher. Dancer. she/her. 🌈 Un-invited guest and new immigrant, Montreal / Tiohtià:ke. COVID is airborne. Re-posts don't imply agreement. Image: Mona Hatoum, Light Sentence 1992
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
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- Renee Good and Alex Pretti should have been here to see this victory. All love to their loved ones, for whom life will never be the same. Long live the resistance!
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterCurrent status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterAbsolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterFilming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterAbolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterHe was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard Painter"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMemory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard Painterthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMAGAs are already defending ICE fascists by saying the man they killed today had a gun. 1. MN is an open carry state 2. The same MAGA bootlickers who claim we need unlimited guns to "prevent government tyranny" are the first ones to scream "OH MY GOD HE HAD A GUN" when tyrannical govt kills someone
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterWe are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterIt has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMurdering protestors is what dictators do. Trump threatened to bomb Iran for it — while he and his ICE brownshirts are doing it right here. ICE must leave Minnesota now. Congress must stop funding them. And the perpetrators of these crimes must be held accountable. x.com/startribune/...
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- maybe what Border Patrol wants is a separate bathroom where they are safe
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterI think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterI came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
- this is child trafficking. this is what the republican party is for.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterEvery American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterThe most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI: Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterEvery day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterBorgen Season 4 writers room is alive right now
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard Painterschool being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard Painteri feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterAs writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterMinneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterNew from me, in conjunction with 8th Fire Rising and The Breach -- the first piece of a broader research project on anti-protest injunctions and the limits of access to justice.
- From Palestine protests to Indigenous land defence, police are dusting off old, abandoned court orders—”zombie” injunctions—to threaten or arrest organizers @irinaceric.bsky.social explains how these legal threats are being used to chill social movements. breachmedia.ca/police-using...
- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterBreaking: Three unions are calling on the University of Minnesota to shut down for Jan. 23. They include the Graduate Labor Union Electrical Workers Local 1105, AFSCME 3800, & Teamsters Local 320. Campus undergraduate organizations are joining the call. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...
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- Reposted by Genevieve Renard PainterEveryone teaching IR and American right now.
