Helene Dunbar
@helenedunbar.bsky.social
“Queen of heartbreaking prose” -Paste Magazine.
Author: We Are Lost and Found, The Promise of Lost Things, These Gentle Wounds, and others.
Lover of words and music.
Detroit, NYC, Nashville
#angret
Author: We Are Lost and Found, The Promise of Lost Things, These Gentle Wounds, and others.
Lover of words and music.
Detroit, NYC, Nashville
#angret
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Helene Dunbar
@helenedunbar.bsky.social
· Nov 10
A brief intro...
I'm a YA author/sometimes music journalist living in Nashville by way of Detroit and NYC. Would love to connect with other authors, readers, music-lovers, & believers in democracy if we ever have the opportunity for such a thing again.
Some things I've written:
I'm a YA author/sometimes music journalist living in Nashville by way of Detroit and NYC. Would love to connect with other authors, readers, music-lovers, & believers in democracy if we ever have the opportunity for such a thing again.
Some things I've written:
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Boom. Get fucked, bigots.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Boom. Get fucked, bigots.
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
Please read it through the lens of 2001, not 2025. I was younger and more idealistic, as was the world.
www.helenedunbar.com/remembering
September 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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
Please read it through the lens of 2001, not 2025. I was younger and more idealistic, as was the world.
www.helenedunbar.com/remembering
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Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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“That won’t work” do it anyways, fail with pride.
June 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“That won’t work” do it anyways, fail with pride.
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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
Help stop Trump’s “Big Bullshit Bill”!
Millions of lives are at stake.
#DontBombMedicaid
June 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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
Help stop Trump’s “Big Bullshit Bill”!
Millions of lives are at stake.
#DontBombMedicaid
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
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
June 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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
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!
Big tunes, deep dives, a gazillion fun facts, and giveaways!
June 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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!
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
June 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Ten years on and #Hamilton still brings me to tears with it’s artistry. Nothing better. #tonyawards
Now, more than ever…..
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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.
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.
At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
www.axios.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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.
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.) 💙⚾️🧡
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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.) 💙⚾️🧡
Today and tomorrow (April 25), use code PREORDER25 for 25% off this amazing compendium of 80's music with 20something contributions by me! (Book releases May 20)
501 Essential Albums of the '80s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide|Hardcover
Break out the parachute pants, jelly shoes, and Aqua Net and indulge in this nostalgic illustrated trip through the 1980s’ most influential albums across all genres.In 501 Essential Albums of th...
www.barnesandnoble.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today and tomorrow (April 25), use code PREORDER25 for 25% off this amazing compendium of 80's music with 20something contributions by me! (Book releases May 20)
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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/
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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 🎶🤷🏻♀️🎵
regardless of one’s opinion on what booker is doing right now (for me: admirable, wish more dems had taken this stand long ago, still not a lot of faith in reformism):
once you felt like you were running out of material, what would you filibuster on? for me, obviously, it would be pokémon
once you felt like you were running out of material, what would you filibuster on? for me, obviously, it would be pokémon
April 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
80’s alternative deep cuts. Some would say that I already filibuster on it 🎶🤷🏻♀️🎵
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If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.
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18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥
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Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.
Escalating threat of government shutdown on March 14
House GOP appears incapable of securing enough of its own votes
And Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries today says GOP has walked “away from the negotiating table”
House GOP appears incapable of securing enough of its own votes
And Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries today says GOP has walked “away from the negotiating table”
March 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Democrats hold the line. Do NOT agree to fund DOGE.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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.”
🇺🇦💔🇺🇦
“This is my gift to you and I ask you to keep it. It will teach you how to love each other.”
🇺🇦💔🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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.”
🇺🇦💔🇺🇦
“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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Bwahahhaha
Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
February 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Bwahahhaha
And THIS is how you do it!
The US Army Chorus performed the Les Misérables Epilogue at the White House Governors Ball February 22nd, 2025.
Source: youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?...
Source: youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?...
February 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
And THIS is how you do it!
IF all the good people are resigning (and I completely respect that decision) who is going to save us?
Breaking on MSNBC: Denise Cheung, the chief of the criminal division at the DC U.S. Attorney's office, resigned this morning.
The acting head of that office, Ed Martin, is a 2020 election denier who defended Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Trump nominated Martin to fill that post permanently this week.
The acting head of that office, Ed Martin, is a 2020 election denier who defended Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Trump nominated Martin to fill that post permanently this week.
February 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
IF all the good people are resigning (and I completely respect that decision) who is going to save us?
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I WANT my taxes to help children. I WANT my taxes to feed people. I WANT my taxes to help the elderly afford medicine. The government should not be run like a business. It should be run to provide for the people. That's what taxes are FOR.
February 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I WANT my taxes to help children. I WANT my taxes to feed people. I WANT my taxes to help the elderly afford medicine. The government should not be run like a business. It should be run to provide for the people. That's what taxes are FOR.
THEM: why do you hate living in Tennessee?
ME: 👇
ME: 👇
The deadline has now passed.
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tntribune.com/democrats-ur...
February 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
THEM: why do you hate living in Tennessee?
ME: 👇
ME: 👇