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Dawn Smith
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STATEMENT FROM MATT MOBERG, CHAPLAIN OF THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES IF YOU'RE A CHURCH POSTING PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND UNITY TODAY WHILE MY CITY BLEEDS IN THE STREET, MISS ME WITH THAT SOFTNESS YOU ONLY WEAR WHEN IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. DON'T DRESS AVOIDANCE UP AS HOLINESS. DON'T CALL SILENCE "PEACEMAKING." DON'T LIGHT A CANDLE AND THINK IT SUBSTITUTES FOR SHOWING UP. TONIGHT AN ICE AGENT TOOK A PHOTO OF ME NEXT TO MY CAR, LOOKED ME IN THE EYE AND TOLD ME, "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU SOON." NOT METAPHOR. NOT HYPERBOLE. A THREAT DRESSED UP IN A BADGE AND A PAYCHECK. PEACE ISN'T WHAT YOU ASK FOR WHEN THE BOOT IS ALREADY ON SOMEONE'S NECK. PEACE IS WHAT THE POWERFUL ASK FOR WHEN THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INTERRUPTED. UNITY ISN'T NEUTRAL. UNITY THAT REFUSES TO NAME VIOLENCE IS JUST LOYALTY TO THE ONES HOLDING THE WEAPONS. STOP USING SCRIPTURE LIKE CHLOROFORM. STOP CALLING YOUR FEAR "WISDOM." STOP PRETENDING JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED BECAUSE HE PREACHED GOOD VIBES AND PERSONAL GROWTH. YOU DON'T GET TO QUOTE SCRIPTURE LIKE A LULLABY, WHILE INJUSTICE STAYS WIDE AWAKE. YOU DON'T GET TO ASK GOD TO "HEAL THE LAND" IF YOU WON'T EVEN LOOK AT THE WOUND. THERE IS A KIND OF PEACE THAT ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH. THAT PEACE IS A LIE. AND LIES DON'T GROW ANYTHING WORTH SAVING. THE SCRIPTURES YOU LOVE WEREN'T WRITTEN TO KEEP THINGS CALM. THEY WERE WRITTEN TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AND SOMETIMES THE MOST FAITHFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS STOP PRAYING AROUND THE PAIN AND START STANDING INSIDE IT. IF THAT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE— GOOD. GROWTH ALWAYS IS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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The day a poet is murdered by ICE is a school day like every other in the first week of the year. Time isn't real but still it's January, and scientists say we're gaining about sixty seconds of sunlight even as the sun sets. I wake up and feel closer to death than the day before. I am a mother. so I wait for my daughter at the bottom of the stairs and I hold her hand when crossing the street and when we stop at the corner I run my fingers over her ponytail like it's my own hair. She says there's a cloud in the sky that looks like a heart but I can't see what she sees. lam a mother so when she is hungry I feed her and when she asks me how to spell wolves I explain how some nouns transform in the plural. Man is men and tooth is teeth and person who is murdered becomes people. - hannah eve levy
January 25, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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This magnolia in Daniel Webster Park that proves that Spring is here.
Branches of a tree with no leaves but containing white blossoms.
January 12, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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A political cartoon by Clay Bennett suggesting that oil might be the reason that the United States vilified another country to go to war with it. This cartoon depicts George W Bush, not Donald Trump.
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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Little Red Riding Hood is getting vaccinated. The arm vaccinating her surrounds her keeping the wolves at bay. Text says “Vaccines keep kids protected”
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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(and say it to @jbpritzker.bsky.social)
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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A monstrous Trump with red eyes consumes the United States.
October 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A picture is worth a thousand words. #chicago #TeslaTakedown
Police lined up in front of Tesla showroom protecting against harsh words. Police lined up in front of Tesla showroom protecting against harsh words. Police lined up in front of Tesla showroom protecting against harsh words.
March 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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It’s back.
Facebook memory from 4 years ago stating “wondering if that tension that seems to have lifted from my shoulders was there for 4 years.”
January 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #374,535!
I never post, but it's a great community to lurk in.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #374,535, Dawn Smith ‪@dawnsmith.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 25, 2023"
September 26, 2024 at 8:24 PM