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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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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I'm not anti-aging. I'm negentropic.
The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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The Physics of Joy, Vol. 58
Of course Black boy magic is real.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm not anti-aging. I'm negentropic.
The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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The Physics of Joy vol. 58.
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You are future Ancestors.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You are future Ancestors.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
The metaphor of taking a wrecking ball to the White House feels a bit on the nose.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The metaphor of taking a wrecking ball to the White House feels a bit on the nose.
And this too:
“This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."
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“This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."
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When The Race War Ain't Your War
Only structural anti-racism can undo structural racism.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And this too:
“This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/when-the-r...
“This country needs and deserves to have the racial reckoning it clamors for. Can y’all do us a favor tho? Leave the Blacks out of it. This ain’t our fight. We’re already on the side of and justice for all."
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And this:
"Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."
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"Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."
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How To Beat White Supremacy And Save Democracy
Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors
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October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And this:
"Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."
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"Freedom is not something you are given; it is something you claim. Equality is a prize torn from the blood-soaked hands of your oppressors."
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Today feels like a good day to repost this:
"When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."
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"When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."
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The Price Of Freedom
If your freedom didn’t come with grief, it came from someone else’s.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today feels like a good day to repost this:
"When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."
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"When you’ve never had to bleed for freedom, you don’t know how to protect it. You expect laws to hold what only sacrifice ever could."
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An original poem. By me.
STAY YOUR BLACK ASS HOME
Someone told me there’s a protest;
Black people: this isn’t your zone.
This isn’t your mess
So I won’t say less
Than stay your Black ass at home.
STAY YOUR BLACK ASS HOME
Someone told me there’s a protest;
Black people: this isn’t your zone.
This isn’t your mess
So I won’t say less
Than stay your Black ass at home.
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The best lie empire ever sold was convincing melanated people technology was real, while our traditions were superstition.
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The Alchemy of Blackness
Harry Potter and Hogwarts ain't got shit on Black and Indigenous peoples.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The best lie empire ever sold was convincing melanated people technology was real, while our traditions were superstition.
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Alexander Bernstein, the second child and only son of Leonard Bernstein, was a champion of education, a music enthusiast, and one helluva good man. He was the first investor in Jack From Brooklyn, and someone I came to trust as kin.
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In Honor of Alexander Bernstein
July 7, 1955-July 22, 2025
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October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Alexander Bernstein, the second child and only son of Leonard Bernstein, was a champion of education, a music enthusiast, and one helluva good man. He was the first investor in Jack From Brooklyn, and someone I came to trust as kin.
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Her: My name's not easy to say.
Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.
Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Her: My name's not easy to say.
Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.
Me: Only for men who aren't good with their mouths.
Reposted by Jackie Summers
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
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
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 —...
www.foodandwine.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
www.foodandwine.com/flavor-is-th...
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Reposted by Jackie Summers
"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode.
Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
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Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
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The Blackbody Problem
A Thermodynamic Field Equation of Emergent Coherence and Cultural Cool
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October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"To be Black in the U.S. is to live in a state of hyper-vigilance. In physics, things that can’t dissipate heat break down—or explode.
Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackb...
Instead, we metabolize contradiction and transmute it into style."
jackiesummers1.substack.com/p/the-blackb...