Samiya Bashir

Still an all-time favorite poem

OMG did y’all see / hear / read this amazing conversation? What fun!

“IT’S OUTSIDE THE PAPER: IN CONVERSATION WITH SAMIYA BASHIR ON HER POETRY COLLECTION, I HOPE THIS HELPS”

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The moment someone says “don’t get me started”:

Wait ‘til folks find out about 20c. Argentina 😬

in honor of back to school I am —

SCHOOL SHOULD NOT START BEFORE LABOR DAY

— years old and I always will be. 😭😭😭😭😭

Jokes on them — they can’t even GET to the moon without DEI
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think it’s fucked up that people think that teachers should have to spend their own money to effectively do their job of educating other people’s children…

“madam maxwell”

Whew … this is #ongawd!
Nighthawk For Life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh good, that’s the year I get my #Harley

Mississippi Masala
#ZohranMamdani!!!!!!

This clip is a poem.

The only thing NOT nauseatingly unserious about these people is the damage they do. Like: WTAF

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EVER!!!

OMG mine vacuum.
All they do is vacuum.
And also, quite often, they vacuum some more.

Introducing the Sealey Challenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza!

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omg I can’t WAAAAAAIIIIITTTT

A photo of Ormes.

A photo of her at her drawing table.

A photo of her with Patty Jo and Benji dolls

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.

Utterly incredible.

My dad worked on weaponizing the immune system against cancer before pivoting to epidemiology, but I vividly remember him telling me that someday we’d be able to fight disease using the body’s own tools and a bit of help.

Just a bit. Absolutely amazing stuff.

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

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Read Naya Clark’s interview with @scryptkeeper and pick up a copy of I HOPE THIS HELPS

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

I hate this man
SO —
— MUCH —
— I — I — SO —
SO — MUCH!

It’s like … imagine what $270billion would do to not only SOLVE each of those problems (globally, achully 🫠) and STILL leave this Assclown a hundred-billionaire which he could still not spend in his lifetime but the idea is “Naaahhh” like … the COMMITTED
LACK OF IMAGINATION (because don’t care) is 🤡

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I … I …

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

Imagine the art that could get made if we didn't have to fight assholes every day

Robots to Humans:
“OH, I WANT THIS”

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