To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

1/3 There’s a strong relationship between Reform / far right support and the Brexit Leave constituency. A continuation of the refusal to accept that Britain is poorer and more unequal not due to immigration but because it is no longer subsidised by an Empire. theconversation.com/brexit-how-t...

The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?

There's very good money in being a right-wing hate monger. We really need to be pointing that out a lot more. It's a path to wealth for quite a few people on both sides of the Atlantic in the age of politainment.

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

"Oaxacan Sketchbooks" is on the walls and ready for today's opening at Galerie Hertz! Reception at 1:00, 1253 South Preston St, Louisville, KY. If you're near, come on down! (The show runs through mid-October if you can't make it today.)

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

The news that they're collectively compiling a list of abusers should be sending some terror though some elite male circles right about now. Also this:

@mrjamesob.bsky.social think someone listens in regularly

NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…

Good to see this excellent review of @hofrench.bsky.social's important new book. "French has delivered a panoramic, sympathetic, yet analytical portrait of a global black movement, deepened by his own family connections with West Africa." (Gift link 👇🏽.)

2 still lives, Angkor Village Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 2000. I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.

There's no such thing as good settler colonialism. Not in the past. Not today in Palestine.

"Netanyahu's manipulation of antisemitism is unworthy." "By pushing the idea that Jews around the world identify with his far-right policies, it is the Israeli prime minister himself who is fueling antisemitism, in France and elsewhere." (No paywall.) www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Dead TV, Rotherhithe, London 2000. I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

Outside Dupont north metro

Great thread for jazz lovers & the jazz curious. Start with the video, then come back to the thread. It's smart! Fun! Opinionated! Long! Worth it!

fstoppers.com/opinion/sam-... I needed to rant.

Today's the Dominican Day Parade in New York! I'm not there but I've been. The first photo from 2005 has been published in "Bystanders: A History of Street Photography" by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck but the second, from 2014, has never been seen before.

OK techno, metal, hard-core fans: One of the most amazing videos you'll see in recent times from my friend AI artist Alessandro Bavari. It's original, brilliant, & a bit disturbing. This is a Good Thing. Beats kick in at about 0:50 so stay with it. www.alessandrobavari.com/pure-collaps...

Last night I had a fun conversation with Todd Visser and Danny Jackson of @street_badass on Instagram about my story in photography, photography in general, and lots of other things. There were a lot of laughs. They put it all on YouTube and you can see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOui...

“For news organizations, the issue isn’t responsibility, but survival. Autocratic leaders don’t want evidence-based journalism of any kind to exist at all: They want to shape reality, to decide themselves what is true and false.” — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

Flaco Jiménez, King of Tejano music, has passed on aged 86. I was lucky to photograph him and his band for the Lonesome Pine Specials in the summer of 1989. His last words were “Ya estoy cansado.” Adios, Flaco, y gracias para la musica.

Another great, long-missing story!

16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census) 12% of UK prisoners were born overseas Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK. That should be the headline.

To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.

To be clear: Trump is a repugnant racist who's almost certainly zeroing in on the Mayor of London because he's a South Asian Muslim.

Exhibition in 6 weeks! "Oaxacan Sketchbooks" at Galerie Hertz, 1239 South Preston St, Louisville, KY - opening 6 September, 1:00 p.m. I'll be there and will briefly hold forth around 2:00. (Exhibition 6 September through 25 October)

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history

THIS.

Nice to see someone finding this and posting it: from a collaborative series between me and German painter Silvia Willkens, made in Mainz over several visits in 2000 and 2001.

Here in London, light rain is fallin' down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdT...

Leonard Freed. Policeman with Puppet and Gun. New York. 1979.

'This isn't a football match. This is people's lives.' Francesca Albanese pushes back against the tendency to brand people 'pro-Palestine' or 'pro-Israel', telling @mrjamesob.bsky.social that 'one injustice does not justify more injustice.'

Timeline cleanser. Two songs of staggering beauty, sung by the University of Johannesburg Choir. In South Africa, the kids are alright. 1/2 m.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYL...

Mexico sent more than thoughts and prayers.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI posted about Musk’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in first person, as if Grok was Musk. In response to viral exposure, the original Grok post has been deleted and Grok is now falsely claiming screenshots of it are fabricated. This is just one example of why AI is so dangerous

Pure genius. It will take your mind off all your troubles. And you don't even have to know who Siegfried was calling! 😄 📯

There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in the USA. There are no plans to move any of them into FLA concentration camps or El Salvador torture gulags. And everyone knows why.

The State of the Nation, 4 July 2025.

Ella agrees: It's too darn hot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgUO...

London today: 33ºC - 91ºF! It's too hot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzJ...

Technicallye to have a fairye tale weddinge you must go ynto a mysterious cave under the hill wher a gaudye banquet ys beinge helde and thogh you staye ther for onlye an hour you returne seventye yeares later wyth differente eyes

not the first person to say it, but every single Dem spending their energy going at Mamdani while the GOP is on the verge of funding ICE sufficiently to wage an actual literal war can eat my whole goddamn ass