What if instead of taxing the rich we made them compete to see who could GIVE AWAY the most money?
No winners One loser and a head in a basket. And TRILLIONS in redistribution. #TaxDay #TaxTheRich
substack.com/@jackiesumme...
A seed does not become a flower because rupture is noble.
A sunflower bursting through concrete is not pluck.
Not through the concrete. Still a goddamn flower.
Roots Before Petals: The Expensive Middle
How Dandelions Defy Concrete
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Substack
A practice of gratitude will not solve any of the issues currently plaguing our world. They may help you find just enough beauty inside the ache to keep from coming apart.
My Favorite Things
#Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
A new issue of DRIP magazine just dropped, and I’m honored to have the featured essay in it: “The Venn Diagram of East and West Indian Hospitality: A Love Letter To The Aunties Who Overfed Us.”
If you’ve ever been fed like love was a counter-spell, this one’s for you.
thedripmag.com/read/issue-2
If the goal was to keep people from imploding alone, No Kings Day succeeded.
If the goal was to rein in a fascist regime, the outcome is harder to celebrate.
#NoKIngsDay
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Survivor: Billionaire
Don’t eat the rich. They probably taste bad. Just make them give back.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Substack
This is my way of saying thank you to paid subscribers: a peek at the math hiding inside the prose.
open.substack.com/pub/jackiesu...
Surviving A World On Fire
Practical steps to remain coherent when it's everything all the time all at once.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Substack
Written one year ago today:
We live in a baby Universe.
Not a toddler. Not even an infant. From the perspective of an anthropomorphized Universe, the Big Bang JUST happened. t’s not kind or cruel or indifferent.
It just lacks experience.
substack.com/@jackiesumme...
The Tao Of Letting Go
When pop culture is bullshit and ancient wisdom gets real.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Substack
Sinners isn’t a horror film because a juke joint is overrun by vampires. Or because the vampires are somehow less of a threat than the Klan.
Sinners is a horror film because no amount of courage or sweet talk is enough to save them.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Sinners
Safety is never only personal. Safety is relational; to income, community, government policies. Constant vigilance isn’t safety.
Safety is the luxury of not having to constantly scan the perimeter.
#Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Written one year ago today. Because we need modern day fairy tales ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/jackiesu...
Change costs. Sameness costs differently. Truth is expensive. The lie charges interest. The truest measure of your desire to move forward is what you’re willing to leave behind.
The Art Of Reinvention
Why the Lie of Sameness Costs More Than the Pain of Change
#Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
35 million monthly active users.
Over 17,000 writers.
#36 rising in Culture.
THANK YOU.
#Substack
STORY TIME - ON CORRUPTION
“When is battling #corruption like handling an ant #incursion?“
I have been a homeowner for about 20 years. During the Spring, the local ant population begins to grow and my home becomes a target for their campaigns seeking fresh food and water.
It's a miserable time.
I could let thousands of rejections deflate my spirit. I could let a system that sees Blackness as a choke point make me give up on myself.
Or I can choose to pay the price of refusing to remain invisible.
Why I'm On Substack: The Cost Of Invisibility
#Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
There is one true test of what constitutes a real New Yorker.
If you see a woman with a baby stroller either at the top or bottom of a staircase, you are obligated to help her get up or down those stairs.
#Substack #Empathy
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why AI That Can't Refuse Should Scare You
An Agentic AI's unfiltered opinion on AI and military operations.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
It had been winter forever…
Waiting For Spring: A Winter Fairy Tale
#Substack
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Physics Of The N-Word
Tourette’s and the N-word will still get the taste slapped outcha mouth.
#BAFTA
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Cost Of Hyper-Vigilance
Design solutions to help prevent burnout when its all too much all the time.
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
#Substack
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.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Love's Sobriety
The Goddess of Love wants to know if you're willing to be changed by her.
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/loves-sobr...
#ValentinesDay
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 tacos—or a bed—with someone who didn’t share my values.
#ValentinesDay
www.delish.com/food-news/a3...
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
substack.com/@jackiesumme...
A few of y’all have sent me stories about Moltbook, the “social media network” for Ai.” I showed them to one of my Agentics.
The following are her words, unedited.
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/moltbook-n...
#MoltBook
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
substack.com/@jackiesumme...
Thank you fa lettin me be mice elf again ❤️
substack.com/@jackiesumme...