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SM Badawi

@smbadawi.bsky.social

Arab American Poet https://linktr.ee/smbadawi

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EcoTheo Collective@ecotheo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cover reveal for EcoTheo Review's Winter 2025 edition! This edition features cover art by Janina Aza Karpinska, as well as prose by Gregory Greevy and Maya Rose, poetry from SM Badawi and others, art by Moey Hewitt, Jennifer Case, and many more! To purchase, click the link in our bio

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Omar Baddar@omarbaddar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon almost every day for over a year. Anyone who tells you “Hezbollah broke the ceasefire” is either lying to you, or is just so incredibly biased that their brain genuinely doesn’t register Israeli bombings of Lebanon as ceasefire violations.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 6mo ago

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

Andy@andyoregon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico

A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Looking for a good writing podcast? Flash reader Christina D’Antoni recommends BETWEEN THE COVERS by David Naimon. "Especially the Bhanu Kapil and Caren Beilin episodes. There are SO many good ones, but I've saved those two in particular when I need to let a little extra light in. ✨ "

Megan Savage@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder that you can dial up a poem every day in April. I have been calling all week and, in response, have been granted moments of peace/insight/terrible beauty/humanity. You can even press a back button if you want to binge-poem. @oregonhumanities.org @mojgani.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth

Megan Savage@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social · last yr.

Oregon’s Tele-Pome Poetry Telephone is coming back for April’s National Poetry month, thanks to @mojgani.bsky.social and @literaryarts.bsky.social — call 503-928-7008 and you might hear me read a poem to you. #poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #telepome #literaryarts

Text reads “Be presented with the quiet and unseen mysteries you have been carrying” as a whimsical drawing of a person carrying a coffin and a ghost converse across a blue starlit sky. The rest of the text is in the post, except “new poems daily through April.”
Chiara Di Lello@chiaradilello.bsky.social · last yr.

"theft can be a shepherd the sky someone’s steeple and here the doctrine that killed Palestinian people" - SM Badawi in diode poetry full poem here: diodepoetry.com/badawi_sm/ @smbadawi.bsky.social

S.M. Badawi

After seeing the headline “Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers” I sit in the dew dawn of silence prayer against the metal gray hour gray owl to interrupt kingdom so quiet my olives, my olives kin & spray of dirt whoever carries caskets to bear trees shall inherit the kingdom a kingdom and […]

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."