Jon Gorey

@jongorey.bsky.social

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Writer, musician, dad, giver of shits, fan of preindustrial climate

“Outlaw Billionaires” zine by Hamilton Nolan and S Mirk
A gloved hand holds plastic bottle caps by the marsh
Honey bear sitting in a deep soup crock of hot water
Cars honk on 93 south under milton overpass
Colorful sign says We the People Have No King
Cartoon with the word COWARDICE, with ICE spelled on a masked immigration officer’s chest
Trimmed yew bushes with spicebush in front
Ripping up a dense patch of non-native English Ivy- this was PUNISHING work but also ery satisfying
A skinny, 5-foot tall oak sapling among some flowers in an otherwise flat and empty lawn
Removing grass from around a red oak tree to plant more native groundcover - caterpillars love oaks but need a “soft landing” zone to complete their life cycle
Digging up a layer of sod from the front lawn
Native eastern columbine in bloom
Sticker on a lamppost says Long Live Ideas
spade in the ground digging up turfgrass exposing soil beneath
A wet and dirty stuffed santa in a chimney cast aside on the sidewalk next to a pack of cigarettes
An excerpt reads: Yesterday the White House posted on social media an image of a hand that has been very obviously altered by adding “M-S-1-3” over the knuckles. A social media post by Trump is superimposed on the image. It says: “This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person.’ They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” The White House account added: “If he tattoos like MS-13, beats women like MS-13, and tramples the law like MS-13—THEN HE’S PROBABLY MS-13.” Except the image is clearly false, no courts found he was a member of MS-13, and scholar of MS-13 Óscar Martínez commented: “I covered MS-13 for over a decade: its history, crimes, symbolism, cruelty, pacts with Salvadoran governments. I wrote a book about it. Never, ever, did any of the hundreds of sources I spoke to say anything that would allow us to believe Trump's strange interpretation of tattoos.”
Pillows with tom seleck and bill murray dressed as old time military leaders
Our dog watson
Map of HandsOff protests in Eastern Mass
Crowd chanting hands off on Boston Common
Sign at HandsOff Boston reads “in Boston we only like ICE in our coffee”
Real men destroy the patriarchy / demolish systemic injustice
Statue of Liberty covering her eyes saying I can’t look
Cat looking angry, or indifferent, hard to tell, next to hands off protest sign
Highlighted article text that says "Senator Bernie Sanders led a group of senators in a failed fight to block a new multibillionaire bomb sale to Israel."
Scrrenshot of reporting user for homophobic message on Airbnb
House with a pride flag
Former allies have expressed concern over sharing intelligence with the U.S. in the future, and yesterday, 34 army leaders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, Japan, and Australia met in Paris without inviting the United States.
Monument tavern on St Patricks Day 2024
NY Times essay: the One Question That Really Matters: If Trump Defies the Courts, Then What?
Political cartoon meme of an engorged elon musk sucking down a firehose of government subsidies while a starving “greedy cancer researcher” gets one drop
John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler saying “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.”
Screen grab from DOE website: “For years, parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies—but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely,” said Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty. “Parents, now is the time that you share the receipts of the betrayal that has happened in our public schools. This webpage demonstrates that President Trump’s Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents.”
Russian operatives are now pushing the rise of the far-right in Europe through social media as they did in the United States. Russian president Vladimir Putin has long sought to weaken the democratic alliances of the United States and Europe to enable Russia to take at least parts of Ukraine and possibly other neighboring countries without the formidable resistance that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would present. Russian state television praised Vance’s speech. One headline read: “Humiliated Europe out for the count. Its American master flogged its old vassals.” Russian pundits recognized that Vance’s turn away from Europe meant a victory for Russia.
holes in a tree
A statue of St Michael standing on someone’s neck
chart (over the album art for Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) showing a dramatic increase in 2025
a haphazard, seemingly random criss-cross of shovel paths in a snowy driveway
a small round disc made of compacted snow, formed by an ugg boot's treads
An excerpt from “What If We Get It Right,” in which Soul Fire Farm founder Leah Penniman bemoans how being an organic farm requires costly certification while it’s free to ravage the atmosphere and poison the soil through conventional farming.
brick row houses in Boston's Back Bay - formerly single-family townhouses, most have been subdivided into condos and rental apartments.
architectural drawings showing existing and proposed front elevations of a house
The Boston skyline and frozen Charles River seen from a Red Line subway car