ModestoFlakoJimenez

You think you have healed till you're finally in a healthy relationship and realize you have so many triggers/unresolved trauma. I hope you don't self-sabotage. I also hope your partner extends enough grace or patience and holds your hand as you rewire your brain.

There is no such thing as “your truth”. Failure to understand this creates confusion on many topics, like gender ideology. Truth exists independent of a subject. It is objective. It cannot be owned by a person. “Your truth, my truth” shuts down conversations about the truth.

Please join us in thanking our AMPLIFY Host Committee members: @HalLuftig, Rashad Chambers, Jane Dubin, @ReggieVanLee, @AaliythaStevens, Kate Cerulli, Ruth Zowader, Craig Lucas, @FlakoBK, & Kevin Connor! Celebrate with this amazing team, Monday Oct. 6th: housesonthemoon.org/amplify-2025/

Taxilandia, the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you to @OfficialJValle and NBC for such a lovely piece and capturing the neighborhood. youtu.be/cqt9zpQVi3w?si…

He asks "Can you buy me a gun?" Reminders of the past. #titua

At 27, I had my own office in the penthouse, a reserved parking spot for my BMW, a primary home in a golf course community, and 1 rental property. That's the year I was diagnosed with depression. Be careful chasing society's dream for you.

Feliz platanero. See ya in the building, vamos a celebrar coño! eventbrite.com/e/homecoming-m…

I can feel it burning inside me. My dreams, my goals, my purpose. I want it all. I want to make it happen. Sometimes it feels like time is slipping away… But then I remind myself…I have time. Everything unfolds when it’s meant to. So I breathe. I focus. And I keep going.

Dope episode. open.spotify.com/episode/1YWw6J…

crazy how every smart person recommends going for walks.

🔸SAVE THE DATE🔹 ¡Mi Casa, Su Casa! Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 The Performing Garage @ 6- 9 An evening of musica, arte, comida, and community as we celebrate our new home to continue shaping our future together. More details soon!

We need more of these gathering. Shout out to @DorisDukeFdn and all that were involved. Cup full. Actions not just words.

He said... Let me pay for your breakfast Unc! I'm out here things are good. I remember him from the block pushing him inside to not let him see the chaos. He saw it all through the peephole. Now runs blocks. Has workers. Shifts. New tools to flip. The metal stays grip Daily.

We are thrilled to announce our conference keynote with @FlakoBK. Flako is a Dominican-born, Bushiwick-raised, multi-hyphenate artist. Learn more and register at bit.ly/F2F2025.

Shout out to #indiespacenyc and Randi. They got me feeling like I can own anything. Thank you for the energy @IndieSpaceNYC

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SECOND WIND POETRY WILL NOW BE AT EATON HOTEL DC (1201 K St NW, Washington, DC 20005) Same INCREDIBLE lineup. More mission-aligned venue. Please spread the word! @ChampagnePoet @ClintSmithIII @RamirezPoet @CarlynnNewhouse @sasaaakil @SeeMalPractice

It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world, between: 1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇) 2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" (state.gov/secretary-marc…) and that "the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us" (foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…) 3) The tariffs on supposed "allies" like Mexico, Canada or the EU This is the US effectively saying "our attempt at running the world is over, to each his own, we're now just another great power, not the 'indispensable nation'." It looks "dumb" (as the WSJ just wrote) if you are still mentally in the old paradigm but it's always a mistake to think that what the US (or any country) does is dumb. Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order - brought to you by America itself. Even the tariffs on allies, viewed under this angle, make sense, as it redefines the concept of "allies": they don't want - or maybe rather can't afford - vassals anymore, but rather relationships that evolve based on current interests. You can either view it as decline - because it does unquestionably look like the end of the American empire - or as avoiding further decline: controlled withdrawal from imperial commitments in order to focus resources on core national interests rather than being forced into an even messier retreat at a later stage. In any case it is the end of an era and, while the Trump administration looks like chaos to many observers, they're probably much more attuned to the changing realities of the world and their own country's predicament than their predecessors. Acknowledging the existence of a multipolar world and choosing to operate within it rather than trying to maintain an increasingly costly global hegemony couldn't be delayed much further. It looks messy but it is probably better than maintaining the fiction of American primacy until it eventually collapses under its own weight. This is not to say that the U.S. won't continue to wreak havoc on the world, and in fact we might be seeing it become even more aggressive than before. Because when it previously was (badly, and very hypocritically) trying to maintain some semblance of self-proclaimed "rules-based order", it now doesn't even have to pretend it is under any constraint, not even the constraint of playing nice with allies. It's the end of the U.S. empire, but definitely not the end of the U.S. as a major disruptive force in world affairs. All in all this transformation may mark one of the most significant shifts in international relations since the fall of the Soviet Union. And those most unprepared for it, as is already painfully obvious, are America's vassals caught completely flat-footed by the realization that the patron they've relied on for decades is now treating them as just another set of countries to negotiate with.

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