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Googie Gómez

@soulamami.bsky.social

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Writer/editor/author. Recovered journalist. Displaced New Yorker. Cultural critic. Soulful cynic. Queer Blatina matriarch of an LBGTQ+ household. I contain multitudes. Hablo español. Parlo italiano. Aprendiendo portugués. Beyoncé hugged me once.

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · Sep 16

Finally got the 🎉! I’m in the Talented Tenth Percentile, bitches!

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 2h

Look, I like JB and can’t stand Newsom, but I’m not gonna start speculating and predicting 2.5 years out who is gonna be the Democratic candidate. Literally anything can happen.

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 4h

Again, you’re putting the cart way before the horse. Let’s just see how the next few years plays out before hopping on anybody’s bandwagon

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 6h

Saying this in 2025 is so pointless

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 6h

Slow down, Sparky. We’re only 9 months into this presidency. Any speculation at this point is pointless.

thatsheetyghost.bsky.social @thatsheetyghost.bsky.social · 8h

Remember, anyone who says Pritzker won’t be getting their primary vote because he’s not perfect enough for them is practically allowing Newsom to win the nomination.

So you could say that they’re allowing the Democratic party to become fully transphobic in a sense

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a good point. I still wish I had earned out

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

People think authors get rich. I haven’t even earned out my book advance so I don’t get royalties

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

Ken Griffey Jr once checked out my ass in 1995 so he will always have a special place in my heart.

Not to mention he had the sweetest swing in baseball

original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 23h

ok how many elder millennials out there are thinking, "yeah, the mariners, i've always kinda liked the mariners" because they're thinking about ken griffey jr in 1995

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned.

Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51.

No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

The funniest thing to me about Barron is that Trump named him after the fake last name he used when he’d call the media to pretend he was his own publicist.

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t think Barron is even 21 and he’s a college dropout

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

And the Puppy Bowl will get bigger ratings

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

It’s a crime against society!

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Sylphanne @sylphanne.bsky.social · 7h

Benny Medina will pay for putting the battery in her back

Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 8h

Jennifer López CANNOT sing and I feel like y’all continuously putting her in front of a damn mic as if she can is a part of the fucking problem 😒

STOP IT.

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

I do both. I only line my top lid

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 7h

Is this bigly Nepo baby even 21? Didn’t he drop OUT OF NYU? An executive?!?

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 8h

JLo’s voice is an aural affront

Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 8h

Jennifer López CANNOT sing and I feel like y’all continuously putting her in front of a damn mic as if she can is a part of the fucking problem 😒

STOP IT.

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 8h

Do you use it for wing tip or just a regular line?

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve never heard of this brand. But thanks!

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Desiree 🌞 @deztiara.bsky.social · 8h

Recently tried the MAC gel liner pencil. I've never been so mad to spend $25 on a pencil bc god DAMN is it good and now I have to keep buying it.

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 1d

Makeup ladies: what’s your favorite black eyeliner crayon?

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 8h

lol, that is quite an endorsement

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 8h

Lemme ask the weekend crowd.

Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 1d

Makeup ladies: what’s your favorite black eyeliner crayon?

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Googie Gómez @soulamami.bsky.social · 9h

The other 7 universities that were offered this “deal” better tell Trump to eat a dick too. (I’m not confident about UT tho)

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h

Good start.

But she can add the part about 100s of years of profit from free labor & use of Black bodies as collateral. Compounding is powerful.

And how bloodlines of future generational Black wealth was stolen, and after Emancipation, wiped out by lynchings, massacres, burning of thriving towns.

☀️Sunshine☀️ @missmielle.blacksky.app · 10d

🙌🏽🌈

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