Helene Dunbar

I kept a journal in 2001 and wrote about being in NYC on 9/11, working in Union Station, and about having the honor to volunteer at Ground Zero.

Please read it through the lens of 2001, not 2025. I was younger and more idealistic, as was the world.

www.helenedunbar.com/remembering

Same. I just asked my daughter if it was actually a drill and she said it was, but................it's so hard.

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

“That won’t work” do it anyways, fail with pride.

WARNING! While Trump is dropping F-Bombs and causing international chaos, don’t be distracted. Senators are back in DC and Medicaid is on the chopping block for MILLIONS of Americans.

Help stop Trump’s “Big Bullshit Bill”!

Millions of lives are at stake.

#DontBombMedicaid

So happy to see you on! 🌸

A LOT of super important things going on & I realize this isn't one of them.

But if you need to let your mind settle with some 80's tunes, curated tonight by me from my contributions to Gary Graff's 501 Essential Albums of the 80's, please join us on Twitch at 9 ET).
www.twitch.tv/kimballcollins

Join us Saturday, June 14 on Twitch at 9 pm ET on Kimball Collins' BLITZ TV channel (www.twitch.tv/kimballcollins) I'll be curating a show featuring tracks from my blurbs in Gary Graff's, 501 Essential Albums of the 80's: A Fan's Guide.

Big tunes, deep dives, a gazillion fun facts, and giveaways!

Ten years on and #Hamilton still brings me to tears with it’s artistry. Nothing better. #tonyawards

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Now, more than ever…..

I feel like I’m screaming into the void on this as I see my co-workers embrace the AI writing tools that will one day render us obsolete.

Like boiling a lobster in cool water so they don’t notice it heating up. Those tools we use to “help” our work writing projects will soon write them without us.

Really wish all my baseball peeps would migrate over here from the other place. My @tigers.bsky.social are magical fire this season and I have no one to gloat with. (Also really missing my dad who supported the team through bleak seasons & would have loved this.) 💙⚾️🧡

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That was fascinating. And the end gave me chills. Also, I'm pretty sure you're great at whatever you do, so thank you for doing good for the world (and for us!).

Page from “We Are Lost & Found” that says: I don't know how I'm going to keep everyone I care about safe. Or if I can. Or what safe even means. But I'm going to own my fear. Own my voice. Own my love. Own my life. And I'm not giving any of them up without a fight. Also features a book mark that says “Free People Read Freely”.

Some words that hit me as I wrapped up @helenedunbar.bsky.social’s “We Are Lost & Found”. It captures the moment I, & maybe you, am in right now and simply, but profoundly, articulates how I, & maybe you, will choose to respond. 1/

80’s alternative deep cuts. Some would say that I already filibuster on it 🎶🤷🏻‍♀️🎵

Actually my memory isn’t as bad as I feared. You were West End? I saw it in NYC in ‘85.

Holy crap! I’d forgotten that. Should have gotten your autograph next to Harvey’s. I was so nervous about getting caught. But everyone taking smoke breaks made it easy.

lol!!! I saw the second act of Torch Song many, many times 😂😂😂😂

If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.

18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥

Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

#Istandwithukraine

My great grandmother’s family in Staraya Ushitsa 1913.

“This is my gift to you and I ask you to keep it. It will teach you how to love each other.”

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BRILLIANT!

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