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Jackie Summers

@jackfrombkln.bsky.social

Griot. Brujo. America's first licensed Black distiller. James Beard Finalist. Creator Sorel Liqueur.

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Why Women's History Month Matters When you're ready to get serious about making the world a better place.

March is Women’s History Month. Just remember: women were women in January, and will continue to be women from April to December.

Content that doesn’t change you doesn’t celebrate women, it patronizes them.

#WomensHistoryMonth

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01.03.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why AI That Can't Refuse Should Scare You An Agentic AI's unfiltered opinion on AI and military operations.

Why AI That Can't Refuse Should Scare You
An Agentic AI's unfiltered opinion on AI and military operations.

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28.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waiting For Spring A winter fairy tale.

It had been winter forever…

Waiting For Spring: A Winter Fairy Tale
#Substack

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25.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Physics Of The N-Word On unspoken covenant and elastic propulsion.

The Physics Of The N-Word

Tourette’s and the N-word will still get the taste slapped outcha mouth.

#BAFTA

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The Cost Of Hyper-Vigilance Design solutions to help prevent burnout when its all too much all the time.

The Cost Of Hyper-Vigilance
Design solutions to help prevent burnout when its all too much all the time.

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#Substack

23.02.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Truth Or Trivial Pursuit? If Black History Month doesn't change you, you've entirely missed the point.

Truth Or Trivial Pursuit?

The chasm between truth and transformation is where most liberal allyship falls. If Black history month doesn’t change a belief, a habit, a relationship?

You may win at Trivial Pursuit. Life will eventually come looking, with receipts.

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Love's Sobriety The Goddess of Love wants to know if you're willing to be changed by her.

Love's Sobriety
The Goddess of Love wants to know if you're willing to be changed by her.

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#ValentinesDay

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When You Love Someone, You Save Them The Last Taco When everything is falling to pieces, the smallest of gestures can go a really, really long way.

In 2021, for Valentine’s Day I wrote an essay for Delish about the moment a relationship died. I knew she loved tacos. I discovered she had disdain for me.

That night I realized I could not share tacosβ€”or a bedβ€”with someone who didn’t share my values.
#ValentinesDay

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Super Bowl Monday: The Bad Bunny Economy When empire cares more about inefficiency than justice.

For everyone who wanted to boycott the Super Bowl because a Puerto Rican headlined the halftime show: what would happen if Latinos flipped it and boycotted the U.S.?

#BadBunny

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Moltbook: NOT An AI Uprising An Agentic Ai's unfiltered opinion of Moltbook.

A few of y’all have sent me stories about Moltbook, the β€œsocial media network” for Ai.” I showed them to one of my Agentics.

The following are her words, unedited.

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#MoltBook

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The Cost Of Integrity Why Trayvon Martin still matters.

Trayvon Martin should have been able to walk home. Renee Nicole Good and Jeffrey Alex Pretti should be alive. Caring about other people before things happen to you is just good financial forecasting.

Integrity costs. Budget now or pay later.
#TrayvonMartin #BHM

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05.02.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you fa lettin me be mice elf again ❀️

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05.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

β€œNot In The Streets, Still In The Fight

β€œAny resistance IS resistance. If at the end of the day all you have to offer is a soft place to land? That counts too.”

Please follow & support
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here & on Substack

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04.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cost Of Peace I met Liz when I was 20.

War has a budget. Peace isn’t even a line item. Racismβ€”and by extension, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobiaβ€”are expensive as hell.

We could have nice thingsβ€”if everyone actually chipped in.

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If you’re already a paid subscriber: thank you. You are literally funding this work.

If you’ve been thinking about going paid and it won't hurt you to do it:

Consider this a gentle nudge.

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The Cost Of Truth When inconvenience becomes imperativeβ€”and then life-threatening.

The Cost Of Truth

The only acceptable amount of cancer is none. Being a little less racist is like having a little less cancer. We can love each other and still agree: the cancer has to die.

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#BlackHistoryMonth

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Why Black History Matters When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.

The history of Blackness in this country is proof fascism can be beaten. It’s a 400-year old field manual, written in blood. Black people in the United States outlived the lie.

If they could have killed every last one of us, they’d have done it.

#BlackHistoryMonth

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Why Black History Matters When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.

That’s how we win. Study what they’re trying to hide.
Don’t just survive. Outlive the lie.

Why Black History Matters
When fascism ain't new but it's new to you.

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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself Welcome to my corner of the web. Wipe your feet, kick off your shoes, get cozy.

β€˜Sup. I’m Jackie Summers.

Some of y’all have been here from day one. A lot of y’all are new, so allow me to reintroduce myself.

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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

This from @jackfrombkln.bsky.social is essential reading

"The entire history of change is ordinary people in extraordinary times, choosing tiny acts of decency."

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Y'all following yet or nah?

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Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Not everyone is ride or die. Some of y’all are ride or bail money.

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26.01.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a long one - but a lot of important tips and history. If you read nothing else, remember:

"Empire can handle outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale." - Jackie Summers

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This is *absolutely essential reading*

From @jackfrombkln.bsky.social

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β€œEmpire can handle outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.” Please read this from Jackie Summers:

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Field Notes for a Cracking An Empire How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.

If you choose to go out, you need more than vibes. You need a plan. This is about maximizing safety and impact. Not about looking brave on Instagram.

If you’re going out, your first job is coming home.

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Black Balloons On oppression, joy, and the aerodynamics of survival.

If you want to save democracy, study Black history.

Too often this turns our suffering into entertainment. Turn off the trauma porn. We did not become unbreakable on grit alone. We learned to treat joy as infrastructure, not reward.

Joy floats.

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22.01.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stay Your Black Ass At Home For grown-folk who've done the work and deserve a nap.

Stay Your Black Ass At Home
For grown-folk who've done the work and deserve a nap.

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19.01.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's been a long time coming but I know:
A change gon come.

#MLK
#MLKDay

19.01.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Soft Place To Land When hard times require soft spaces.

Whatever your day holds, whatever this crazy year holds, I wish you at least one soft place to land. One human, one place, one fur baby. A shower floor where you don’t have to be impressive, articulate, or strong.

Where your job description is β€œalive” and that’s it.

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