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Samiya Bashir

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 11d

Eyyyyyy!
Honored by this cover feature @ The Blue Mountain Review (Sept 2025)
We dive into my creative practice, writing as survival, and the role of art in holding space for contradiction, resilience, and possibility.

Full conversation here:
issuu.com/collectiveme...
#poetry #AddtoBlacksky

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah you will… not be pleased.

Go with Gawd brutha 🙌🏾

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

the Nobel Peace Prize committee going “yeah we felt like recognizing opposition leaders who resist authoritarianism was important right now for whatever reason” somehow feels like Trump won -1 Nobel Peace Prizes

like he somehow has one even less than he did before, despite never having had one

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

lol @ shopping carts why is that so real 😂

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 2d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

I love it when I agree with Me. 😊
You?
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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled for Garrett and urrybody 🎨🎥📚

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 3d

Six visual artists and photographers — Matt Black, Garrett Bradley, Jeremy Frey, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Gala Porras-Kim — are among the 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowship.

Six Artists Win MacArthur “Genius” Grants

Jeremy Frey and Gala Porras-Kim are among this year’s fellows, who receive an $800,000 award.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

“Representation without redistribution is just optics.”

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 3d

The clock doesn’t tick the same way for everyone. Until art institutions admit that, we’ll keep mistaking the optics of equity for the real thing.

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”

If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

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awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t miss the #AWP26 featured event from Nightboat Books: “Traversing Genre: A Nightboat Books Reading,” featuring @scryptkeeper.bsky.social, Miranda Mellis, Aurora Mattia, and Mónica de la Torre, in Baltimore on Friday, March 6!

Traversing Genre: A Nightboat Books Reading

Friday, March 6, 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET

conference.awpwriter.org

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 5d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

OMG that Thrifty ice cream was the truuuuuuth

a woman in a white tank top says " moment of silence " in front of a brick wall

ALT: a woman in a white tank top says " moment of silence " in front of a brick wall

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

Same
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Poetrylifesblood @poetrylifesblood.bsky.social · 5d

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 5d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

but OF COURSE he didn’t

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 5d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

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chris✌🏾 @chrislegacy.bsky.social · 7d

They’re abducting people and treating them like animals. This is wild.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 7d

One fact. One hallway. One night in Chicago. After this, you won’t say “just another immigration story.”👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Justin Of Brooklyn🇰🇳🇵🇸 @neohxc.bsky.social · 7d

ICE randomly throwing tear gas in an open block full of innocent Americans.

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

a woman in a white shirt clapping her hands

ALT: a woman in a white shirt clapping her hands

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Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

omg the alt text 😂😭😭😂

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Nacho 'Captain Jeopardy' (she/her) @nach0patronus.bsky.social · 10d

I come over to your house; it smells like there's garlic bread in your oven. I start getting hungry and then you look at me and say, "Nah, that's just my candle."
We're not talking anymore.

An advertisement for candles that smell like warm garlic bread.
Imo, if you aren't making warm garlic bread, you shouldn't make your house smell like warm garlic bread. It will make people want warm garlic bread and if you don't have any, that's just mean.

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