Robert Gumpert

Intimate photographs of 1970s East London squatters discovered decades later Found after the photographer's death at 99, Joyce Edwards' previously unseen portraits document the people who reclaimed abandoned homes and went on to create a rare social housing project that sti...

Intimate photographs of 1970s East London squatters discovered decades later
Found after the photographer's death at 99, Joyce Edwards' previously unseen portraits ... www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...

Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.

ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.

Wyze Mocks Ring as Super Bowl Ad Fallout Continues That's an expensive mistake.

Wyze Mocks Ring as Super Bowl Ad Fallout Continues petapixel.com/2026/02/17/w...

Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks during a ‘Not My President’s Day” rally outside Dallas City Hall, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. ELÍAS VALVERDE II / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Jasmine Crockett: “Other countries have CEOs that are stepping down & princes that are being indicted — in the United States, crickets. Nothing is happening — we have a president that says that the Epstein files are a hoax because his name is in there more times than I can count”

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of ‘Trump Republican’ candidate Property where abuse took place purchased for $13.4m in 2023 by Texas businessman Donald Huffines’ family

Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of ‘Trump Republican’ candidate
Property where abuse took place purchased for $13.4m in 2023 by Texas businessman Donald Huffines’ family www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

Don’t worry ladies, all you have to do to vote is sign a legal affidavit under penalty of perjury. Unlike men, who just get to vote. 🤔

FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say State’s governor had demanded impartial inquiry into the shooting of the VA nurse by federal immigration agents

On Monday, Minnesota’s bureau of criminal apprehension (BCA), a state-level criminal investigative law enforcement agency, said the FBI had formally notified it that it would not share any information or evidence related to Pretti’s shooting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, scientist and writer: ‘Capitalism is not a natural phenomenon; it’s a choice’ The author captivated millions of readers with her book, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass.’ In ‘The Serviceberry,’ her latest work of nonfiction, she proposes changing the dominant narrative as part of the resist...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, scientist and writer: ‘Capitalism is not a natural phenomenon; it’s a choice’ english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

Local police agreements with ICE are skyrocketing in the United States, reigniting debate over public trust Over 1,000 agencies now collaborate on immigration matters as fears grow of a rift with immigrant communities

Local police agreements with ICE are skyrocketing in the United States, reigniting debate over public trust
Over 1,000 agencies now collaborate on immigration matters as fears grow of a rift with immigrant communities english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-...

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters Wiseman's 50-plus year career started with a bang, "Titicut Follies," and only got better.

In film after film, Frederick Wiseman watched with preternatural patience as systems revealed themselves through the tenacious, irreducible vitality of the people inside them.

I kept returning to his films while reporting my book, hoping to absorb some of that patience.

Such a profound loss.

Bernie Sanders: ‘These are the most dangerous times that the United States has faced in modern history’ The Vermont senator, a global icon of the left, warns in an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS that the president is using ICE as “a domestic army” and says that “it will have to be the American people ...

The Vermont senator, a global icon of the left, warns in an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS that the president is using ICE as “a domestic army” and says that “it will have to be the American people who say ‘no’ to authoritarianism” english.elpais.com/usa/2026-02-...

Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies

He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Duvall poses on a busy New York street corner

#RIP Robert Duvall
📷 Chuck Fishman, 1981

"Every actor has their own process, but his is seamless. He just becomes."
- Sissy Spacek

Mitch McConnell's staff abandons him to support Trump "I think this is the most dangerous period since before World War Two"

Yeah, but what have u done for me lately? R perhaps no honor between theives is more appropriate www.alternet.org/mitch-mccone...

Really interesting, sharing my thoughts on the book production process with @gmotophotos.bsky.social, alongside Michelle Sank and Lottie Davies, commissioned by Peter Dench and Amateur Photography magazine.

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

AI Has Made It Absurdly Expensive to Capture and Store Your Photos Storage prices haven't been this high in years.

AI Has Made It Absurdly Expensive to Capture and Store Your Photos petapixel.com/2026/02/16/a...

Fern from the garden. Photo: Robert Gumpert 8 February 2025

The Last Bookstore in the Spring Arts Tower. 5th and Spring St. Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026

A url for an amazing set of portraits taken during Reconstruction, part of the Monuments LA exhibit. to listen to the BBC podcast “Kentucky’s Real People Radio”. NYT 2/15 Opinion Section headlines.

Check it out at robertgumpert.com

1/2 Maybe This Week, Maybe Next arrives early. Images from LA; nature’s architecture, human mimicry. And a couple of WTF. Check it out at robertgumpert.com

Gasoline Starved California Is Turning To Fuel From the Bahamas By Will Kubzansky and Lucia Kassai Feb 15, 2026 (Bloomberg) –US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending...

Gasoline Starved California Is Turning To Fuel From the Bahamas. gcaptain.com/gasoline-sta...

26 legendary music sites in L.A., from the Troubadour to the Whisky a Go Go Viper Room, VIP Records, the Troubadour, Whisky a Go Go, Capitol Records, Hollywood Forever Cemetery: Here's a guided tour through the most iconic sites of Los Angeles music history.

26 legendary music sites in L.A., from the Troubadour to the Whisky a Go Go www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Nearly half of L.A County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

Nearly half of L.A County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds www.latimes.com/environment/...

Honoured to have been selected by its readers as one of the @bigissue.com Top 100 Changemakers for 2026. Huge thanks to them and whoever it was who nominated me.
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