“Put cameras on their cameras.”—Ai Weiwei

This is worth a watch: I'm watching Lola on The Criterion Channel www.criterionchannel.com/videos/lola

Yeah so basically the Jan 6 rioters are now ICE. Everyone gets that right? Just checking in ✌️💀

#trump #pseudoscience #racism #polygenesis #obama

#redacted Picasso #epstein

Again nothing to see here. This is totally normal. Go back to work. Now.

#streetphotography #nyc

The lady, redacted

If you have a weak stomach maybe avoid the NTOC NAMES LIST in the Epstein files. It’s one of millions of dos on the DOJ site right now. Docs=3.5 million Arrests=0 That said the news isn’t all bad. I’m glad hey detained that five year old in Minneapolis the other day. He looked freaky…

📍57th Street #streetphotography

The continuing allure of the American Interregnum:

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Another important thing about the Epstein files: there are some emails mentioning Trump indicating even some in his own inner circle (apparently including Epstein) thought his claims of fraud in the 2020 election were false.

Again, nothing to see here… www.justice.gov/epstein

Nothing to see here…. www.justice.gov/epstein

Mamdani is great at using social media functionally youtu.be/oMIopO7Ysm8

2025 social media platform privacy rankings according to Incogni.com

📍Sunnyside Winter’s not all bad

This is a website/ feed/ podcast that does a really good job in tracking the trackers @404media.co 👇

Minnesota Live Updates: Don Lemon Is Among Several More Arrested Over Church Protest www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

This is one of the perks of authoritarianism: accountability becomes a myth.

One of ICE’s digital surveillance tools

See below. This is called “art washing” in real estate.

This wouldn’t fit into Bluesky’s character limit so here’s a screenshot from Notes:

More pre-history: the invention of ceramics—pots, bowls, plates—implies the existence of surplus food. Prior to pottery, food was cooked and eaten in smaller bits due to its scarcity. Pottery indicates the presence of surplus food items and thus the need for storage.

This is why the study of human pre-history matters: the oldest known skeletons, tools, and architectural ruins are found in Eastern Africa. The earliest advanced civilizations are likewise found in East Africa; millennia before those of Europe. Alleged African “primitivism” is a tool of colonialism.

Trump’s contrasting views of the anti-ICE protests in the US (“communistic,” “conspiratorial” etc) versus the anti-theocracy protests in Iran (“heroic,” “democratic” etc) is an effective if unintended measure of the degree of his egotism and how it clouds his political judgement.

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📍Union Square #streetphotography

After months of reviewing candidates, a federal judge overseeing Rikers Island announced the appointment of Nicholas Deml, a former CIA officer, as the “remediation manager” who will have sweeping powers to enact reforms at the jail complex. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/27/n...

A 9th Century Manuscript Teaches Astronomy by Making Sublime Pictures Out of Words

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Assorted photos #streetphotography

📍Union Square Emergency anti-ICE protest this afternoon

We *really* need to have a discussion in this country about the meaning of the word “antifa.” It’s clear from listening that most of our highest-level elected officials don’t have a clue what it means.

I don’t need Greenland I need a cancer cure

Political tyranny in societies breeds psychological tyranny in societies. You can’t have one without the other. In plain English: if a government oppresses its own people it produces a society of killers, intended or not. There’s no better illustration of this process than Trump-era America.

Today’s Barnes &Noble haul

I’m not a huge NFL fan but damnit those Bills can’t buy a break…

📍NYC #streetphotography

📍NYC #streetphotography