KoKo McSass
@kokomcsass.bsky.social
Chicago. Liberal Democrat. Singer. Rock Collector. Lover of freedom. Elder Millennial.
I’m going to keep looking for what is good. I’m going to keep singing and writing. Im going to love my people and myself and my country and my world, I’m going to be strong and resist passive surrender. I’m going to be brave. I’m going to keep a hold on humility. Join me.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m going to keep looking for what is good. I’m going to keep singing and writing. Im going to love my people and myself and my country and my world, I’m going to be strong and resist passive surrender. I’m going to be brave. I’m going to keep a hold on humility. Join me.
When I look for something, I can find it. That is my greatest power, to choose what to give my time, attention, and life force to. The only way despair crushes me is if I let it, if I lay down in the snow and give up.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
When I look for something, I can find it. That is my greatest power, to choose what to give my time, attention, and life force to. The only way despair crushes me is if I let it, if I lay down in the snow and give up.
I am looking for the ways we are not totally fucked. For people who inspire me. HCR. Lawyers filing complaints against unconstitutional power grabs. Judges granting TROs. Standing at the edge catching us before we fly right off.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I am looking for the ways we are not totally fucked. For people who inspire me. HCR. Lawyers filing complaints against unconstitutional power grabs. Judges granting TROs. Standing at the edge catching us before we fly right off.
Underneath despair is passionate love. Caring a lot. Having something I don’t want to lose. Freedom. The rule of law. A reality based community. Those tender & precious things are worth fighting for, worth trying to resist the despair as I see them threatened.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Underneath despair is passionate love. Caring a lot. Having something I don’t want to lose. Freedom. The rule of law. A reality based community. Those tender & precious things are worth fighting for, worth trying to resist the despair as I see them threatened.
Life for its own sake, nothing guaranteed. The joy of doing. The act of moving forward, welcoming all of it. Writing a song that maybe nobody will hear.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Life for its own sake, nothing guaranteed. The joy of doing. The act of moving forward, welcoming all of it. Writing a song that maybe nobody will hear.
I survived coercive control & manipulation by hiding my treasures, my self, my soul, deep inside like a tulip bulb in winter. Like the protagonist in 1984 scribbling some words down in the one spot the cameras can’t see. Resistance is deciding to live in the face of destruction.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I survived coercive control & manipulation by hiding my treasures, my self, my soul, deep inside like a tulip bulb in winter. Like the protagonist in 1984 scribbling some words down in the one spot the cameras can’t see. Resistance is deciding to live in the face of destruction.
Light & dark. Joy & suffering. Abundance & depravation. Fulfillment & longing. Growth & trauma. Repairing & wounding. Despair & action. Birth & death.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Light & dark. Joy & suffering. Abundance & depravation. Fulfillment & longing. Growth & trauma. Repairing & wounding. Despair & action. Birth & death.
I do not bullshit myself, the despair is there. But I can’t stay only in despair and I can’t stop letting it visit, either. I keep driving. I stay open. In my therapy relationship going on 9 years together, we constantly return to the work of holding the tension of opposites.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I do not bullshit myself, the despair is there. But I can’t stay only in despair and I can’t stop letting it visit, either. I keep driving. I stay open. In my therapy relationship going on 9 years together, we constantly return to the work of holding the tension of opposites.
The clear, cold morning air. Steam rising off the lake. A song stuck in my head. Feeling safe & loved in my marriage. Being lucky enough to be my daughter’s mom. Coloring with crayons. I can go on inventorying the good if only I decide to.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The clear, cold morning air. Steam rising off the lake. A song stuck in my head. Feeling safe & loved in my marriage. Being lucky enough to be my daughter’s mom. Coloring with crayons. I can go on inventorying the good if only I decide to.
Resisting despair is allowing other things to arise, too. Intensely noticing pieces of reality that are working and beautiful and good. Training my mind not to fix only on what is wrong & bad & harmful.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Resisting despair is allowing other things to arise, too. Intensely noticing pieces of reality that are working and beautiful and good. Training my mind not to fix only on what is wrong & bad & harmful.
I need a blank page to fill. I need to feel my despair, let it have me completely, let it live, let it speak. Then I need to let it move on. Resisting the despair doesn’t mean denying it, ignoring it, numbing it.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I need a blank page to fill. I need to feel my despair, let it have me completely, let it live, let it speak. Then I need to let it move on. Resisting the despair doesn’t mean denying it, ignoring it, numbing it.
I need places where my treasures are gathered. A drawer of quartz points. A cabinet of books. A luck shrine. A shelf of all my journals. A quiet place to think.
February 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I need places where my treasures are gathered. A drawer of quartz points. A cabinet of books. A luck shrine. A shelf of all my journals. A quiet place to think.
We live in a strange digital landscape, who knew this is where we would spend time together. I wish it meant more. Or held up. It feels like zeros and ones that can just wash away into the sea.
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 AM
We live in a strange digital landscape, who knew this is where we would spend time together. I wish it meant more. Or held up. It feels like zeros and ones that can just wash away into the sea.
I have noticed the change in myself, reflecting on what I want to get out of posting content anywhere. Any content at all will feed one troll or another. I have times the “share” comes over me like an urgent need. I miss that feeling.
December 6, 2024 at 4:05 AM
I have noticed the change in myself, reflecting on what I want to get out of posting content anywhere. Any content at all will feed one troll or another. I have times the “share” comes over me like an urgent need. I miss that feeling.
Another part is the decade + of very brutal online discourse with people I know in real life (FB maga ppl), or people I don’t know but found my content (blog times), or just the crushing algorithm power that makes posting art or writing so vulnerable. That it’s like shouting off a cliff.
December 6, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Another part is the decade + of very brutal online discourse with people I know in real life (FB maga ppl), or people I don’t know but found my content (blog times), or just the crushing algorithm power that makes posting art or writing so vulnerable. That it’s like shouting off a cliff.
Part of this has been an honest inventory of the ego part of it all. Look at me. I’m so insightful & wise, I’m so talented. Whatever it is in a like and an audience that gets us theater kids jazzed to high hell.
December 6, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Part of this has been an honest inventory of the ego part of it all. Look at me. I’m so insightful & wise, I’m so talented. Whatever it is in a like and an audience that gets us theater kids jazzed to high hell.
It was extremely disappointing that they failed to address this topic. A forensic audit of the swing states seems fair to ensure integrity. They said "keep fighting" but appear to have given up. Public trust is at an all time low.
November 26, 2024 at 11:08 PM
It was extremely disappointing that they failed to address this topic. A forensic audit of the swing states seems fair to ensure integrity. They said "keep fighting" but appear to have given up. Public trust is at an all time low.
There were hundreds of comments asking Harris & Walz to address the irregularities in the 2024 election: bomb threats, software breaches, Russian interference, voter roll purges, rejected mail in ballots.
November 26, 2024 at 11:07 PM
There were hundreds of comments asking Harris & Walz to address the irregularities in the 2024 election: bomb threats, software breaches, Russian interference, voter roll purges, rejected mail in ballots.
If there are no anomalies, then great, we can all accept this f-ing travesty and move forward. But damn dude, Gore fought harder than this.
November 23, 2024 at 4:21 PM
If there are no anomalies, then great, we can all accept this f-ing travesty and move forward. But damn dude, Gore fought harder than this.
If you spend your ENTIRE CAMPAIGN warning of your opponent’s threat to democracy, it follows that you would fight to ensure that his win was legit. But no, it’s vacation in Hawaii time. WTF.
November 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
If you spend your ENTIRE CAMPAIGN warning of your opponent’s threat to democracy, it follows that you would fight to ensure that his win was legit. But no, it’s vacation in Hawaii time. WTF.