Matthew Wesley Smith
@m-w-s.bsky.social
songwriter / wordsmith
stubborn collection of atoms
music @matthewwesleysmith.bsky.social
stubborn collection of atoms
music @matthewwesleysmith.bsky.social
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I know I’m probably biased because I’m in this film, but it’s just so well done. The editing, cinematography, directing…I could go on. Everyone featured pours their hearts into standing up for intellectual freedom and I’m so proud to be a small part of this. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
Earlier: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, this film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
www.texasobserver.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I know I’m probably biased because I’m in this film, but it’s just so well done. The editing, cinematography, directing…I could go on. Everyone featured pours their hearts into standing up for intellectual freedom and I’m so proud to be a small part of this. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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"5. Remember professional ethics.
March 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"5. Remember professional ethics.
March 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thank you world’s richest bully for elevating the good work of Valerie Costa and her group Troublemakers. I donated to them this morning. Check out the NPR story about Costa on Weekend Edition. Fascists go to hell, down with Tesla, up with courageous people like Costa.
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6 days ago, the world's richest man falsely accused me of "committing crimes" for protesting Tesla.
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
March 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thank you world’s richest bully for elevating the good work of Valerie Costa and her group Troublemakers. I donated to them this morning. Check out the NPR story about Costa on Weekend Edition. Fascists go to hell, down with Tesla, up with courageous people like Costa.
bsky.app/profile/vale...
bsky.app/profile/vale...
😆 Notes of Groundhog Day and Angel Heart.
Q: “The foreign affairs minister called all of this a psychodrama - how do you characterize it?”
TRUDEAU: “Thursday.” 🔥
TRUDEAU: “Thursday.” 🔥
March 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
😆 Notes of Groundhog Day and Angel Heart.
Reposted by Matthew Wesley Smith
Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
March 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
The Kennedy Center having been occupied by fascists with no appreciation much less respect or understanding of art, I propose a shadow Kennedy Center awards that can go deeper and wider than the usual establishment fare.
First nominee @publicenemyno1.bsky.social!!!
@chuckdpe.bsky.social C’mon down!
First nominee @publicenemyno1.bsky.social!!!
@chuckdpe.bsky.social C’mon down!
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The Kennedy Center having been occupied by fascists with no appreciation much less respect or understanding of art, I propose a shadow Kennedy Center awards that can go deeper and wider than the usual establishment fare.
First nominee @publicenemyno1.bsky.social!!!
@chuckdpe.bsky.social C’mon down!
First nominee @publicenemyno1.bsky.social!!!
@chuckdpe.bsky.social C’mon down!
Art Week at Laguna, Mexico City
February 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Art Week at Laguna, Mexico City
Testing testing for flashes here’s a grackle - or by its much better Spanish name “El Zanate” doing his thing in Veracruz, Veracruz. Shake that tail!!
February 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Testing testing for flashes here’s a grackle - or by its much better Spanish name “El Zanate” doing his thing in Veracruz, Veracruz. Shake that tail!!
Reposted by Matthew Wesley Smith
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
In CDMX: A showing of Les Blank’s film Burden of Dreams at Cine Tonalá, attended by Maureen Gosling, Blank’s film editor, and Harrod Blank, his son.
Burden of Dreams chronicles Werner Herzog and crew’s difficult nearly 5 year journey filming FITZCARRALDO. Highly recommend!!!
#lesblank #herzog
Burden of Dreams chronicles Werner Herzog and crew’s difficult nearly 5 year journey filming FITZCARRALDO. Highly recommend!!!
#lesblank #herzog
February 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Elon Musk’s famed SWASTICAR dreams of self-driving on an April day in Mexico City.
“Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head”, by artist Chavis Mármol, 2024.
#swasticar #swastikkkar
“Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head”, by artist Chavis Mármol, 2024.
#swasticar #swastikkkar
February 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Elon Musk’s famed SWASTICAR dreams of self-driving on an April day in Mexico City.
“Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head”, by artist Chavis Mármol, 2024.
#swasticar #swastikkkar
“Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head”, by artist Chavis Mármol, 2024.
#swasticar #swastikkkar
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The wonderful Marianne Faithfull has left us.
She of course was a deep interpreter of song, but not enough attention is given to her own talent as a songwriter. She wrote some gems that cut to the heart of things. Here’s one. Thank you Marianne. 🌹
The wonderful Marianne Faithfull has left us.
She of course was a deep interpreter of song, but not enough attention is given to her own talent as a songwriter. She wrote some gems that cut to the heart of things. Here’s one. Thank you Marianne. 🌹
Blazing Away
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull - Topic
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
youtu.be/EB41U-rh0WA?...
The wonderful Marianne Faithfull has left us.
She of course was a deep interpreter of song, but not enough attention is given to her own talent as a songwriter. She wrote some gems that cut to the heart of things. Here’s one. Thank you Marianne. 🌹
The wonderful Marianne Faithfull has left us.
She of course was a deep interpreter of song, but not enough attention is given to her own talent as a songwriter. She wrote some gems that cut to the heart of things. Here’s one. Thank you Marianne. 🌹
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“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.
Why Bishop Mariann Budde Wanted to Speak to Donald Trump
“If you know what people are thinking about when they’re coming into church on Sunday morning, it’s very important to acknowledge that,” Budde says.
www.newyorker.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“You don’t have to be a person of faith to trust that innate human capacity to channel love, goodness, and real strength into our own lives and into the world.” A conversation with Reverend Mariann Budde.
Today is the birthday of Virginia Woolf, Etta James, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Masters of language all in their way.
“How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.”
-Virginia Woolf
“How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.”
-Virginia Woolf
January 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today is the birthday of Virginia Woolf, Etta James, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Masters of language all in their way.
“How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.”
-Virginia Woolf
“How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.”
-Virginia Woolf