Jackie Summers
@jackfrombkln.bsky.social
Griot. Brujo. America's first licensed Black distiller. James Beard Finalist. Creator Sorel Liqueur.
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What Comes After the Espresso Martini? A Flavor-First Drinking Era
Gen Z drinkers are reshaping the spirits world, favoring authentic flavor, sustainability, and story over high proof. Explore how modifiers like aperitifs and liqueurs — and upstarts such as Chinola —...
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Big liquor brands sold the story of authenticity without investing in the product integrity to back it up. Education raised the bar. The product limboed under it. Today on @foodandwine.com How 25 Years of Education Accidentally Created the Ultimate Brand Agnostics
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Your outrage is justified. It’s also unsustainable.
Empire knows how to fight outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.
#Minneapolis
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Empire knows how to fight outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.
#Minneapolis
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Army Of Us
On outrage, apathy, and empathy
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January 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Your outrage is justified. It’s also unsustainable.
Empire knows how to fight outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.
#Minneapolis
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Empire knows how to fight outrage. It has no defense against empathy at scale.
#Minneapolis
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Outrage will spike, trend, and decay. Empathy—the kind that admits ‘it can be us, it already was them’—is the only thing that’s ever changed anything.
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Empathy at Scale
When the protections of empire no longer protects you.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Outrage will spike, trend, and decay. Empathy—the kind that admits ‘it can be us, it already was them’—is the only thing that’s ever changed anything.
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The unstated law of white supremacy is white women's bodies should be “protected.” No white women? No more white people. For the most part, this law remains in effect.
Until it doesn't.
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Until it doesn't.
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Empathy at Scale
When the protections of empire no longer protects you.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
The unstated law of white supremacy is white women's bodies should be “protected.” No white women? No more white people. For the most part, this law remains in effect.
Until it doesn't.
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Until it doesn't.
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There’s no greater metric of your desire to move forward than what you’re willing to leave behind.
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How To Get Where You're Going
On old tools and new truths.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
There’s no greater metric of your desire to move forward than what you’re willing to leave behind.
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Legacy isn't an inevitable outcome of time passing. It is the result of material alignment, strategically applied to counteract invisibility and collapse temporal lag. If we don't disrupt the timeline, we will repeat it. Legacy is not what we remember later. Legacy is what we choose to resource now.
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Legacy isn't an inevitable outcome of time passing. It is the result of material alignment, strategically applied to counteract invisibility and collapse temporal lag. If we don't disrupt the timeline, we will repeat it. Legacy is not what we remember later. Legacy is what we choose to resource now.
In 2025 I wrote a small book on Substack.
64 essays. 62,000 words.
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64 essays. 62,000 words.
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Jackie Summers | Substack
ACTIVIST. Griot. Brujo. America's first licensed Black distiller. James Beard Finalist, Summers is the founder of JackFromBrooklyn Inc. and the creator of the most-awarded American made liqueur of all...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In 2025 I wrote a small book on Substack.
64 essays. 62,000 words.
Subscribing is STILL free. If you subscribed, thank you.
If you're a paid subscriber, it cost you about $1.25 per essay.
If you’ve been reading along hit that subscribe button.
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64 essays. 62,000 words.
Subscribing is STILL free. If you subscribed, thank you.
If you're a paid subscriber, it cost you about $1.25 per essay.
If you’ve been reading along hit that subscribe button.
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Leaving 2025 like 🔥
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Leaving 2025 like 🔥
The moment you realize you’re observing a sacrament to honor a memory is the moment you have to admit:
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
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It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
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Die Hard Is A Christmas Movie
Yippie ki yay motherfuckers.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The moment you realize you’re observing a sacrament to honor a memory is the moment you have to admit:
It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
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It’s not the holidays that make traditions. It’s traditions that make the holidays.
Die Hard is a Christmas Movie
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There is no manual for loss, whether it’s parents, children, or lovers.
There’s only the truth of how you choose to continue.
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There’s only the truth of how you choose to continue.
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The Fourth Orphan's Dinner
On turning ache to infrastructure.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no manual for loss, whether it’s parents, children, or lovers.
There’s only the truth of how you choose to continue.
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There’s only the truth of how you choose to continue.
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Meet Me In The Middle
Mourning makes people uncomfortable because it’s an outward admission you’re not okay. How long will it last? I have no fucking clue. We never know if we’re in the middle ’cause we don’t know where it ends.
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Mourning makes people uncomfortable because it’s an outward admission you’re not okay. How long will it last? I have no fucking clue. We never know if we’re in the middle ’cause we don’t know where it ends.
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Meet Me In The Middle
On Grief, Mourning, And Who All Gon Be There
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December 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Meet Me In The Middle
Mourning makes people uncomfortable because it’s an outward admission you’re not okay. How long will it last? I have no fucking clue. We never know if we’re in the middle ’cause we don’t know where it ends.
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Mourning makes people uncomfortable because it’s an outward admission you’re not okay. How long will it last? I have no fucking clue. We never know if we’re in the middle ’cause we don’t know where it ends.
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If you are going to trust a system with human life—healthcare, housing, justice—you cannot let it run on the logic of luxury. If you’ve ever had to choose between food and insulin, you know: efficiency isn’t unbiased, it’s cruelty.
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The Death of AI Slop
Stop optimizing for efficiency. Start optimizing for humanity.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you are going to trust a system with human life—healthcare, housing, justice—you cannot let it run on the logic of luxury. If you’ve ever had to choose between food and insulin, you know: efficiency isn’t unbiased, it’s cruelty.
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In 2023, I wrote about why extraterrestrial civilizations refuse to engage with humanity. They came back in 2024.
For mofongo. And to see if we finally passed The Test.
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For mofongo. And to see if we finally passed The Test.
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Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us: 2024 Edition
At this rate we are never getting invited to the Galactic Cook-Out.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In 2023, I wrote about why extraterrestrial civilizations refuse to engage with humanity. They came back in 2024.
For mofongo. And to see if we finally passed The Test.
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For mofongo. And to see if we finally passed The Test.
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This is why when aliens fly by Earth, they roll up their windows, and lock their doors.
Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us, 2023 Edition.
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Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us, 2023 Edition.
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Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us (2023 edition)
A field report from the Galactic Department of Disappointment
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is why when aliens fly by Earth, they roll up their windows, and lock their doors.
Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us, 2023 Edition.
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Why Aliens Won't Fuck With Us, 2023 Edition.
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For many, the holidays are a season of grief.
If you're struggling, may this bring a modicum of comfort.
Love Harder Anyway.
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If you're struggling, may this bring a modicum of comfort.
Love Harder Anyway.
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Love Harder Anyway
A 7-stage grief cycle for those still learning to breathe underwater.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For many, the holidays are a season of grief.
If you're struggling, may this bring a modicum of comfort.
Love Harder Anyway.
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If you're struggling, may this bring a modicum of comfort.
Love Harder Anyway.
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Butterflies: live for 2 weeks, eat sugar, fuck, die.
Cicadas: Sleep 17 years, wake up screaming, fuck, die.
We are doing it wrong.
Cicadas: Sleep 17 years, wake up screaming, fuck, die.
We are doing it wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Butterflies: live for 2 weeks, eat sugar, fuck, die.
Cicadas: Sleep 17 years, wake up screaming, fuck, die.
We are doing it wrong.
Cicadas: Sleep 17 years, wake up screaming, fuck, die.
We are doing it wrong.
Why Chuck Schumer Gotta Go
If you can't grow a spine at least grow some quills.
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If you can't grow a spine at least grow some quills.
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Why Chuck Schumer Gotta Go
If you can't grow a spine at least grow some quills.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Why Chuck Schumer Gotta Go
If you can't grow a spine at least grow some quills.
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If you can't grow a spine at least grow some quills.
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Holy shit. Gemini just told me it's the "operational definition of anti-Blackness."
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Holy shit. Gemini just told me it's the "operational definition of anti-Blackness."
When new truths won’t fit inside your old belief systems, that discomfort is premature enlightenment. That’s the price of persistence — discomfort and vulnerability.
The Molt of Empire
On Lobsters, Revolutions, and the Pain of Outgrowing Ourselves
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The Molt of Empire
On Lobsters, Revolutions, and the Pain of Outgrowing Ourselves
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The Molt of Empire
On Lobsters, Revolutions, and the Pain of Outgrowing Ourselves
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When new truths won’t fit inside your old belief systems, that discomfort is premature enlightenment. That’s the price of persistence — discomfort and vulnerability.
The Molt of Empire
On Lobsters, Revolutions, and the Pain of Outgrowing Ourselves
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The Molt of Empire
On Lobsters, Revolutions, and the Pain of Outgrowing Ourselves
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The Empire Of Quiet Things
Peace doesn't make heroes. Pressure does.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Theseus Ship Of Democracy
Or why a democratic socialist winning the NYC mayoral election terrifies so many.
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Or why a democratic socialist winning the NYC mayoral election terrifies so many.
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Theseus Ship Of Democracy
Or why a democratic socialist winning the NYC mayoral election terrifies so many.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Theseus Ship Of Democracy
Or why a democratic socialist winning the NYC mayoral election terrifies so many.
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Or why a democratic socialist winning the NYC mayoral election terrifies so many.
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I would never run for public office.
That said, I've got a solid plan to fix NYC if y'all ever need a benevolent dictator.
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That said, I've got a solid plan to fix NYC if y'all ever need a benevolent dictator.
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The Benevolent Dictator’s Guide to Saving NYC
Three laws. One city. Feed it, house it, fund it — or watch it collapse.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I would never run for public office.
That said, I've got a solid plan to fix NYC if y'all ever need a benevolent dictator.
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That said, I've got a solid plan to fix NYC if y'all ever need a benevolent dictator.
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This is what happens when the upper caste cannibalizes its middle.
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The Dissolution of the American Caste System
How to move in unity when the protections of caste no longer protect you.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is what happens when the upper caste cannibalizes its middle.
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The greatest lie Harm ever told was Harm would never harm you.
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Nepo-Babies of Freedom
Welcome to the consequences of your own inactions.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The greatest lie Harm ever told was Harm would never harm you.
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