Fascinating how many men are musing on Big Smart philosophical questions about AI while we're out here furiously trying to keep it from poisoning the environment & people, disempowering & dislocating workers, worsening inequality, weakening education, spreading propaganda & aiding authoritarianism.

At the southern reaches of the bomb cyclone in Northern Virginia. The snow is sticking on the ground 2 hours before it was forecast to start. Bad omen? #snow #storm #monochromephography #eastcoastkin

The Trump administration fired Alexis Goldstein for confronting members of DOGE last year over access to sensitive personal information of U.S. residents at a key watchdog agency. Now she's running for Congress.

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

I’m a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and I’m furious. While a Coast Guardsman was missing at sea, Secretary Kristi Noem tried to pull aircraft from the search, and her team threatened Coast Guard flight crews over a heated blanket. Reckless. Disgraceful. Kristi Noem is unfit for public office.

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The Colbert interview Paramount, Ellison, Trump & GOP don't want you to see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Yikes. 40% of respondents are either completely oblivious to what’s happening in this country or they like the cruelty. Either way, Trump’s signature issue is sinking him.

Water seeks its own level. Despite Epstein’s Toxicity, Steve Bannon Stood by Him, Texts Indicate www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

A picture from the recent DC Peace Walk to the Lincoln Memorial. So what comes next? For me, for you, for us? What was it that captured the imagination of so many? For some there was a sense of the holy, from others I picked up a pervasive sense of simply wanting to coexist peacefully for a time.

The DC's Activist Street Band met up with Brass Solidarity from Minneapolis and together they brought some joy and resistance to the neighbors around Lamont Plaza in Mt Pleasant (DC NW).

The DC Activist Street Band has joined together with the Brass Solidarity from Minneapolis at the Lamont Plaza in Mt Pleasant tonight from 6-8. Brass Solidarity came to DC this week as part of a delegation demanding the end of ICE. Great turnout and great vibes. More soon.

Todd's wife: "Todd, I looked at your browser history and we need to sit down and talk." Todd: " The DOW is over 50K!

109 days. 2,300 miles. A monk walks toward the Peace Gathering and Concluding Ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. Fingers forming the ancient gesture of teaching — not to instruct, but to remind. Peace is not argued. It is practiced. #PeaceWalkDC #PeaceWalk #MonksWalkingForPeace #MonksWalk

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) to Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons: "People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist. If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."

108 days and 2,300 miles. Several thousand admirers turned out at the National Cathedral and along embassy row to be in the presence of the monks who walked from Texas to the nation’s capital, to “raise awareness and mindfulness.” #PeaceWalkDC #PeaceWalk #MonksWalkingForPeace #MonksWalk

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Guanacaste Province, Santa Cruz, Costa Rica #travelphotography #surfscape #surfcast

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This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Surfcaster at sunset near Tamarindo, Costa Rico #travelphotography #costarico #tamarindo #sunset

Greetings from Costa Rica. #travelphotography #seascape #sunset #twilight

When 'Christian' Means Nation, Not Discipleship open.substack.com/pub/keithbum...

#AbolishICE #EndICE #ImmigrationJustice #HumanRights #NoCages #CloseTheCamps #Solidarity #Witness

In 1858, the men of Oberlin, OH, Black and White, marched to Wellington where a federal agent had taken the fugitive John Price and was preparing to return him to slavery. The Oberlin men seized John Price and sent him to freedom in Canada. We must be like the Oberlin-Wellington rescuers of 1858!

This was as far as I made it yesterday before I turned my ankle walking across an ice mound. ICE is treacherous !!! You know what you will never see the National Guard doing in DC? Picking up a shovel and helping to dig the city out. Too busy posing for pictures in the Metro.

Faces in the crowd at a student led walkout to protest ICE brutality. #DC #eastcoastkin #photography #streetportraiture

Seen around DC. Poster sized and bearing an unforgivable truth. Say their names. #alexpretti #reneegood #impeach #convict #remove #blockice

Christ overturned the tables in the Temple. Martin Luther nailed his theses to a church door. According to the Trump's DOJ: malicious mischief and trespassing. Don Lemon interviewing Rep. Al Green 09/02/2025 at a @flareusa.bsky.social event. Say no to political prisoners. #resist

The weather is crazy here right now but Chicago always shows up!

DC today. Angelic troublemakers led a student walkout demanding human justice and an end to ICE. The march began in Shaw–Howard U and moved toward the White House. Students braved bitter cold and punishing wind for a peaceful, boisterous demonstration. #AbolishICE #StudentWalkout

Retired Army Lt Colonel here in Minneapolis. Yes. It is a war zone. I lived 2 years in a tent in the shit, carried dead comrades and have TBI. I know what TF a war zone is.

#streetphotography #bwphotography #eastcoastkin

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, one of the country's highest-ranking Catholic leaders, called for the defunding of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement due to "concern for the common good."

Outside Doug Collins office at VA HQ last night.

Looks like we're watching the prequel to Alex Garland's Civil War.

3 whole likes in 12 hours for original content documenting a gathering of thousands braving temperatures in the teens. That's logarithmic malpractice right there. Do better BlueSky #AlexPretti

3 whole likes in 12 hours for original content documenting a gathering of thousands braving temperatures in the teens. That's logarithmic malpractice right there. Do better BlueSky #AlexPretti

Candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti in Washington, DC. Alex was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. More than a thousand people gathered outside the Veterans Administration Building to mourn Alex and others lost to lawless, unaccountable state violence. #AlexPretti

Probably heading back to the Patriot Front Compound in Coeur d'Alene for a little R&R. They'll be back out rampaging soon enough.

I live for catching people on their best day — joy in their eyes, fully alive in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. But fidelity to my own conscience means bearing witness to the division and harm being done to this country. We either document it, or risk erasure. #photography

Thank you, Mr. President.