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David Gate

@davidgate.bsky.social

Poet. Writer. YNWA. A Rebellion of Care πŸ¦‰ davidgatepoet.com Asheville, NC

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A Rebellion of Care I just reviewed A Rebellion of Care by David Gate

A Rebellion of Care, poems & prose by @davidgate.bsky.social
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How ANDOR Helps Teach Us How To Form A Rebellion

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This is more than a poem, it’s a call to conscience, courage, and community. In dark times, words like these remind us that resistance rooted in hope and unity is a force no fascism can withstand.

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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of BjΓΆrk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! πŸ“•

Go support your indie!

AN ODE TO INDIE BOOKSTORES:

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... I believe in what rises after loss, the morning after sorrow, in the old rhythms that outlast our forgetting. The world is full of resurrections. It is enough, sometimes, to plant and to wait, trusting that life will come again in its own time." - @davidgate.bsky.social

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"I still believe in Resurrection - not only in the grave's undoing, but in the green return of spring, in the earth's insistence on life. I see it in the turning soil, the seeds that split in darkness, the trees that bloom though no one asks them to ...

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I see Christians are complaining about the hoodoo in Sinners.

To quote, @solomonmissouri.bsky.social if Christians don’t like it… it’s a hit! See it twice!

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@davidgate.bsky.social - thank you for this πŸ™πŸΌ

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I would watch the shit out of a β€˜Choctaw Vampire Hunters’ TV series

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A Rebellion of Care | David Gate | Substack Your favorite Instagram poet brings a weekly newsletter, insight into creative resistance, curated poems and a weekly (life altering) playlist. Click to read A Rebellion of Care, by David Gate, a Subs...

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American. Concentration. Camps.

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Was actually wrong, I'm just two days away form having a full year's worth of stats.

It's going to come in at just under 1,100 articles about trans people in the Guardian, Times, Mail and Telegraph over that time, almost all attacks.

That's an ave of 3 a day every single day from just those papers

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SIMPLE RULES #1 - INK PRINT β€” DAVID GATE - POET Hand stamped by author using red, green and blue ink on recycled sturdy card stock.  Each one is unique and signed by the author on the back.

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I have exhausted my lifetime quota for using the word tariff. I was supposed to only say it maybe 14 or 15 times total. The next time I should have said "tariff" wasn't until 2032

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[experiencing an existential grief that no joy could soothe] it is what it is :)

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Of course Corey Booker’s feat was performative. He’s performing resistance. The rest of the Dems should try it some time.

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Students Are Disappearing. The Hour Is Later Than You Think. Authoritarianism is already quickening into Totalitarianism.

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you have to live while there is living to be had.

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Dear god

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That can’t be real

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A Rebellion of Care | David Gate | Substack Your favorite Instagram poet brings a weekly newsletter, insight into creative resistance, curated poems and a weekly (life altering) playlist. Click to read A Rebellion of Care, by David Gate, a Subs...

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TANKING TESLA IS GONNA TAKE US ALL

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If he has a heart attack…

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Dems: Neo-liberalism is not real and nobody knows what it means

GOP: The post office should be profit making and uninsured people don’t deserve to be healthy

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