Jerome Blanco
@jeromeblanco.bsky.social
🇵🇭 | He/Him | Writer | Words in Ecotone, Lit Hub, Southern Humanities Review + | Tin House ’22 | Rep'd by Caroline Eisenmann at the Goldin Agency
Wept in my parked car as I finished listening to Lily King’s Heart The Lover. A perfect novel. 😭
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wept in my parked car as I finished listening to Lily King’s Heart The Lover. A perfect novel. 😭
Wow 🤦🏽♂️
August 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wow 🤦🏽♂️
A must-read: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A must-read: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
Full-time work and parenting a toddler and infant have me asking everyday what possible writing life I can have in this season. Really needed this 😭
I wrote about how some of us are just never going to get to a residency and that’s (mostly) fine.
Microdosing residencies
The moment I realized the pool is my MacDowell
shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Full-time work and parenting a toddler and infant have me asking everyday what possible writing life I can have in this season. Really needed this 😭
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name)
(500) Days of Summer
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Lobster
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
(500) Days of Summer
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Lobster
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Okay, everyone quote-tweet this with your five personal favorite films of the 21st century that didn’t make the NYT list.
Mine:
Ali
Anora
Hugo
La La Land
Phoenix
Mine:
Ali
Anora
Hugo
La La Land
Phoenix
June 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name)
(500) Days of Summer
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Lobster
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
(500) Days of Summer
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Lobster
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Evil evil evil
The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
trib.al
June 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Evil evil evil
I have no words. What an evil world we live in.
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I have no words. What an evil world we live in.
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Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.
No surprise here if you’ve talked to anyone actually in LA.
June 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
No surprise here if you’ve talked to anyone actually in LA.
I ❤️ you, LA. Keep up the good fight. Resist. Abolish ICE.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I ❤️ you, LA. Keep up the good fight. Resist. Abolish ICE.
Lol. Lmao even.
Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky
New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'
Novelist and critic Jude Cook has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focussing initially on male authors”.
www.thebookseller.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Lol. Lmao even.
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
Reposted by Jerome Blanco
Reposted by Jerome Blanco
“The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.”
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.”
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
Wow.
Now he needs to be brought home. Now we need more senators actually stepping up and DOING things like this.
Now he needs to be brought home. Now we need more senators actually stepping up and DOING things like this.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Wow.
Now he needs to be brought home. Now we need more senators actually stepping up and DOING things like this.
Now he needs to be brought home. Now we need more senators actually stepping up and DOING things like this.
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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“you can tell how bad the stock market is doing based on how obscure the sport a trans athlete is participating in during the fox news coverage”
April 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“you can tell how bad the stock market is doing based on how obscure the sport a trans athlete is participating in during the fox news coverage”
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Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.
April 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.
Hardly anything more anti-Christian than these evil people pretending to be Christians and committing the most evil acts in the name of God.
State Department employees have been told to report on any colleagues who display "anti-Christian bias."
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
www.politico.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Hardly anything more anti-Christian than these evil people pretending to be Christians and committing the most evil acts in the name of God.
Me, every day, waiting for a single check or balance.
a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
Alt: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Me, every day, waiting for a single check or balance.
Everyday I’m perplexed at how so many of us are going on so “normally” with our little US American lives as if this authoritarian rampage isn’t working to destroy us all. And at how we have a judicial and legislative branch that are doing absolutely nothing to stop such great evil.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Everyday I’m perplexed at how so many of us are going on so “normally” with our little US American lives as if this authoritarian rampage isn’t working to destroy us all. And at how we have a judicial and legislative branch that are doing absolutely nothing to stop such great evil.
Reposting largely for myself since we don’t have bookmarks on this app yet.
Love to see In the Country on this list 😍
Love to see In the Country on this list 😍
Here's a fun thing: We at Kirkus have spent the last few months reading and debating the best books of the 21st century (so far!) in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. Here's the list of 100 fiction titles: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...
Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Kirkus Reviews
www.kirkusreviews.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposting largely for myself since we don’t have bookmarks on this app yet.
Love to see In the Country on this list 😍
Love to see In the Country on this list 😍