John S. Blake

So, we still going to work and paying bills? K

Just checking.

I haven't read it yet

Remembering Katrina, 20 years later, after college and a myriad of books, enables me to see nothing has changed and Trump isn't new. He's just the new and improved Bush, the Nixon 4.0., Reagan with less political savvy. The only thing that's changed is our docile and exhausted reactions.

I'm at a place in my spirit which accepts the United States is all but gone.

Working on the memoir!

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

I cried on the train, all the way from Fields Corner to Harvard. I prayed and cried. I thought about warmth I've gotten from Palestinians I've met or known. Then images of bones protruding through skin skipped on repeat. I remember how many meals they fed me. Giving. So giving.

Yes, this is the world I live in. Yes, it's really this bad. Yes, I'm powerless over a lot of it. Yes, I'm going to keep doing what I can. Yes, it will improve. Yes, it's going to take time. Yes, this is depressing. Yes, I smile. Yes, I'm going to keep going. Yes, I'm going to do it anyway.

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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

The first time I heard Andrea Gibson, I was 6 months on the poetry scene in NYC (2007). I didn't know a poem could turn someone from 5 feet tall to God size. And every time after that, looked up to them.

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Thanks homie. I'm scared af

Moving to Boston. Be there in a few days! Muslims, activists, poets, where y'all at? I need community!

THIS

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

The Most Americans Are On Unemployment—Nearly 2 Milllion—Since Pandemic Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.

Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.

Next week, my new address will be Boston!!!! Who's taking me to a Bruins' game?

I got the place! I'm be in Boston next week

In checking in: I'm sober and want to drink. I'm healthy and don't want to be. For 2 years, I've watched people worship politicians that turn their backs to genocide, but expect these same politicians to give a damn about anyone but their donors.

Black panther party founder Huey newton on the vanguard #blacksky #blackpanthers

14,000 babies

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Your School House Rock moment......