John Trotter

Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War newrepublic.com/post/207263/... via @newrepublic.com

Why so many are blasting the SAVE America Act as voter suppression The U.S House of Representatives voted last week to pass the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.

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Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
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A crowd of about 2,000 people gathered in sub-freezing weather outside the Veteran's Administration NY Harbor Healthcare System on E. 23rd St. near First Ave last night for a vigil honoring the life of VA nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and the other people already killed this year by ICE agents.

Tell Your Congressmember: Keep ICE Out of New York City Streets We need our New York Senators — Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand — to commit to voting NO on ICE funding.

I just wrote a @socialists.nyc letter: Tell Schumer and Gillibrand: Keep ICE Out of New York City Streets. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Wishing a Very Happy Birthday +1 to my pal, the great photographer, Reuben Radding!

I am honored to have my work alongside that of the great photographers chosen.

Tonight in Los Angeles, a picture of mine from Lake Powell, from the long term “No Agua, No Vida”project about the human alteration of the Colorado River, is included in the opening of an exhibition of the Photolucida Critical Mass 50 winners, at the Duncan Miller Gallery, 1933 S Broadway, No. 1270.

The community has come under unprecedented attack since the very beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency.

Dozens gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday night at the Stonewall National Monument in New York for the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, honoring the more than 365 trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people estimated to have who lost their lives due to suicide and violence this year.

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.