John Trotter

Just an FYI: We’re not facing a “government shutdown.” This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.

The cost of the flight from NYC was just too much for me to be there. I actually checked.

For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat

My friend Blanka Amezkua co-curated this exhibition in The Bronx

For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...

Imagine the budget if we were actually at war.

I never posted these photos I took a dozen days ago in Washington, D.C., when thousands of people marched through the streets of the U.S. Capital as part of a "Day of Action" across all 50 states. Today, May Day, more protests across the country. Go to the 50501 website for events in your location.

Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Further down the road toward our collective, fossil-fueled dystopia

Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.

More attacks on women and their healthcare.

Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...

It is a deluge and it's exhausting. Like leaning all of one's weight into a door to keep it from being battered open. And then comes that "normal" voice speaking calmly from outside the window and yeah, it's unsettling.

On my very first trip to NYC, in 1982, on spring break from the University of Missouri with a used Canon F-1 and some Kodachrome, I photographed these girls staging on West 46th Street for that year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The city, the country, the world and I were all so different then.

Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods.

Source: NYT

Sixty years ago today, these white cops did this to their fellow citizens in Alabama.

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

Trump calling for a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer -- after pardoning nearly all of the rioters who stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement on January 6.

Criminalizing the resistance to genocide begets criminalizing all resistance to fascism.

trump: I’m going to protect women

women: no thank you

trump: I’m gonna do it

women: please don’t

trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team

women: what

trump: and brought back andrew tate

women: why

trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.

Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.

Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

There are so many Portuguese-Americans in the California Central Valley from Madeira. Things must have been pretty tough for them to leave such a beautiful place.

The protestors accused Adams of quid pro quo, trading the department’s dropping of their case against him in turn for allowing ICE agents access to prisoners in the city’s Riker’s Island jail.

Protestors blocked New York Governor Kathy Hochul's Midtown Manhattan office entrances late Friday morning demanding that Hochul remove indicted New York City mayor, Eric Adams, after he made apparently made a deal with the Trump administration’s Justice Department.

Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.

Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

One of my pictures from a big demonstration supporting trans youth a couple of weeks ago near NYU Medical Center.

Hey John, that's a ficus tree, isn't it?

As part af a series of “No Kings Day”protests against Donald Trump in every state Monday—Presidents’ Day in the United States—thousands marched from Union Square in New York City to Washington Square Park, as Trump, and oligarch Elon Musk, attempt to disassemble and wreck the people’s government.

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

I'm not an expert on the law by any means, but she is and here's what she says: bsky.app/profile/debp...

and aren’t going anywhere. Indeed, trans activists like the now-legendary Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were at the forefront of the liberation movement for the entire LGBTQ community and as several speakers at the rally said, “We have been here before.”

the birthplace of the nation’s modern LGBTQ civil rights movement, in 1969. By noon on Friday a crowd from the community, including trans people of all ages, arrived at the monument to protest this shocking yet predictable move and vowed that trans and nonbinary people refuse to be erased...

On Thursday, as part of the Trump administration’s plan to erase trans and nonbinary people from all federal agencies, the words ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ were removed from the web page for the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, which marks what is widely regarded as...

I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.