"Americans don’t particularly like endless wars..." Sorry, all available evidence points to a different conclusion, for the most part, American's are a bunch of sheep that like to be told what to think. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

#DefendTheArts #ArtsWorkers #FreeExpression #FirstAmendment #PublicCulture #DemocracyInPractice #ResistAuthoritarianism #SupportTheArts #KennedyCenter #DCArts #PublicSquare #NoActTooSmall

You could call it a protest. You could also call it a gathering of people who’d rather not watch something they love get destroyed. There was laughter. Music. A drag show. All very pleasant. And then, just beneath it, the less pleasant thought: if we don’t show up for these places, who will? When?

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A group of angelic troublemakers brings the Trump minions to life in a VA backyard. Join us next week for the best NoKings event yet. . www.nokings.org @susanfdouglas.bsky.social @thirdactmd.bsky.social @cyn70.bsky.social @grizeldatee.bsky.social @inklingstar.bsky.social @kevinmorrow.bsky.social

Here is why we march. We’ll see you 3/28 #NK3 @https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/901610/ @indivmocowomen.bsky.social @susanfdouglas.bsky.social @thirdactmd.bsky.social @cyn70.bsky.social @DCMediaGroup.bsky.social @noacttoosmall.com @grizeldatee.bsky.social @inklingstar.bsky.social @dashifen.com

DC - 3/7. Anti-war demonstrators call for an end to the Iran invasion. #protest #Iran #DC #documentaryphotography

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).

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

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

"Team Trump’s authoritarian project is failing. They apparently imagined Americans would cheer or cower in the face of violent repression, but the opposite has happened." I like the way @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social captures how ICE brutality is resonating deep in MAGA-adjacent info spaces:

A general strike in Minneapolis. Student walkouts across the country. Demonstrations break out everywhere, organized by prisoners, workers, and youth - are all picking up speed. Masses of people are working together to organize mutual aid + community solidarity on a growing scale. A thread.

Has White Supremacy risen from the ashes of history or has it been with us all along? People often assumed white supremacy was being dismantled—because surface indicators improved. But we rarely confronted capitalism, the system that quietly reconstitutes hierarchy even as the language changes.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

We are racing toward AI and hyperscale data centers without fully articulating—much less quantifying—the risks, and we’re doing so with no meaningful guardrails or brakes. That recklessness makes grim sense when you remember that climate risks are well known, well measured, and routinely ignored.

As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone. But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant? This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.

“The system depends on its citizens behaving as though the system’s commands were natural, accepted, beyond question. When they do so, they help create the reality that enslaves them.” ~ Václav Havel (The Power of the Powerless, 1978) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

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Old Town Manassas this evening. A curative to all the data center fences and walls I've been seeing. A slant of warm light across worn bricks. We live in a world rushing past—but still, some places hold time gently, like a photograph just waiting to be taken. #StreetPhotography #Presence #TFTD

My favorite picture from yesterday's Veterans Rally. It's ice cream on a cold day but there's a genuine warmth in the interaction. There's a lot going on visually at these events but the best moments are catching people just being real. #streetphotography #eastcoastkin #DC #vets

Republicans are upset that Fuentes keeps saying the quiet part out loud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Data Center Spotting,Northern VA, where we build data centers in backyards. They are here for cheap land, tax breaks, and lax regulation. What could go wrong? #MICROSOFTIAD11 #documentaryphotography #suburbanlandscape #infrastructure

Charlie Pickett has lived on Dean Dr. in Manassas his entire life. Now he has a new neighbor, Jeff Bezos. 📷 New blog post → www.ottoimagery.art/post/jeff-be... #ColdSteelRail #NoActTooSmall #PhotoEssay #CommunityVoices #AWSDataCenter #ManassasVA

Invasion #datacenterimpact #ColdSteelRail #digitalfootprint #northernvirginia #environmentaljustice #photography #bwphotography #urbanlandscapes

While all eyes are on DC, thirty miles to the west in Prince William and Loudoun Counties, they’re hard at work building the deep infrastructure of the corporate surveillance state. We'll make great pets.

🧵 (1/4) This is the couple from the first wedding I officiated as a Secular Humanist Chaplain. Earlier this year, as DOGE tore through the federal government, I knew my time in public service was ending — and something deeper in America was shifting.

Between play and defiance. A face half in frame, half in character — somewhere between street and stage. #StreetPhotography #CandidMoments #OttoImagery#StreetPortraiture #VisualPoetry

Welcome the Generals Banner Deployment. #bridgebrigade #resist #protest #protestsigns

Demand Justice has been committed to courts that work for everyday people–and we now have a new leader in this fight: Meet Josh Orton–a lawyer and veteran of progressive politics who is ready to mobilize opposition to Trump’s judicial nominees and attacks on the rule of law. tinyurl.com/ybua4mtr

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything

Read this. Take a long hard look at the photos. Eight months. That’s all it’s taken for the United States to turn into whatever the hell we are now.

Yes, “you reap what you sow” is biblical, rooted in Galatians 6:7 and echoed throughout scripture. It serves as a moral warning: what you put into the world—whether kindness or cruelty—will return to you in kind. I wonder how many Sunday sermons will be covering that ground this morning?

This shot is from Military Occupied DC. The subject being detained was harassing a group of anti-Trump veterans. But I love this photo for more than the FAFO. It's a great example of what the Leica #Summilux21mmf/1.4 is capable of for #documentaryphotography Low light, wide scenes, cinematic detail.

The danger is not only in the presence of militarized police, but in the acceptance of their presence as ordinary. The banality of evil grows out of uniforms in the street, armored vehicles at schools, and people shrugging, “that’s just the way it is.” #freedc #documentaryphotography #bwphotography

Accepting fascism into your heart means happily bowing down so tyrants can feel big. #freedc #resist

You want irony? How about Virginians who have the Gadsden flag license plate - who also happen to support the occupation of DC. They don't want freedom - they want white supremacy. #freedc

From today’s #FreeDC rally at U & 14th NW. Outrage was palpable, but so was the dignity, determination & strength of community. Trump has his toys & thugged-up police. The people carry the arc of moral justice. ✊ #Resistance #NoActTooSmall #homerule

Hugh, @flareusa.bsky.social the maestro, addressing his noisy chorus after the show. Their angelic voices carried 400 yards— to Union Station, serenading the demonic forces inside the Heritage Citadel. And the best part? New people are arriving from all over the country. ✊🎶 #FreeDC #FLARE

DC today, August 16 Dupont Circle rally and march to the White House It was a large and energetic crowd. People are pissed off and want to take action. #refusefascism #freedc #trumpmustgo #homeruledc #witness #mycameraismyweapon #photography #resistance

DC today, August 16 Dupont Circle rally and march to the White House Signs. #protestsigns #refusefascism #freedc #trumpmustgo #homeruledc #witness #mycameraismyweapon #photography #resistance

DC today, August 16 Dupont Circle rally and march to the White House Interesting people. #refusefascism #freedc #trumpmustgo #homeruledc #witness #mycameraismyweapon #photography #resistance

“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced. Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny, 2017) #freedc #homeruledc #witness #mycameraismyweapon #photography #resistance

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

I met Brion months ago—waiting for a bus, just trying to get home. A man of means by no means. Now he’s a “villain” in Trump’s paranoid theatre. That’s not just his story—it’s an indictment of a society that feeds on scapegoats instead of fixing what’s broken. #FreeDC #ThisIsDc #Streetlife