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The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime
Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed, Tulsi’s Tricks, Epstein’s Trail
A quick read on images of motion, spectacle, and selective seeing shaping the latest politics.
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The ICE Occupation of Minneapolis: They Call It ‘Security.’ The Pictures Say ‘War.’
As Trump sells ‘law and order,’ most of politics and media still treat ‘war’ as a metaphor. On the ground, photographers see it and show it for what it is.
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Caught My Eye: Minneapolis; Copenhagen; Maputo; Manhattan
State violence. Portraits, not penguins. Climate supercharged. The wealth divide with a sparkle.
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Roadway Impunity: Telling Photos After ICE Killed Renee Good
Trump and Noem spun her death into proof of her guilt. Forensic analysis proved them wrong—and photographs revealed the larger pattern of who lives and dies behind the wheel and on the street.
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The January 6 Photo That Knew
Among hundreds of images documenting the Capitol attack, Balazs Gardi captured something different: a moment of quiet triumph that seemed premature then, but prophetic now.
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