The New Foreboding: Our Twitter and Instagram Favs of the Week

Our round up this week is mostly colored by the transition. The antagonistic tone of the president-elect and his team, Trump’s divisive cabinet choices, the political pushback and what it all portends for the future is embodied in this ominous image of the Capitol Building by Olivier Contreras. In our Joan Walsh retweet, you notice we’re trying something new. We are reading visual language. In between the domestic politics, we also recognize the Russian boot in Syria and the passing of John Glenn. If the holidays represent a time out, they couldn’t be coming at a better time.

Can’t say how many D.C. pics we’ve seen in the last few weeks foreshadowing pestilence 📷@oliverzero @instagram pic.twitter.com/ShSrrlwGQ1

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 3, 2016

Not that anyone noticed w the #media #normalizing of #Trump so-called #techsummit, but @Tim_Cook looked ashen throughout #damnedeitherway pic.twitter.com/nRRuprb0ZZ

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 15, 2016

Paging Dr. Freud! (h/t: @amandarivkin) pic.twitter.com/WeYmnHKUn5

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 10, 2016

How dare @MotherJones use double chin when #Trump said not cool! Seriously tho, a ripping statement about taking things at face value. pic.twitter.com/cl3uJdnmyY

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 9, 2016

Parties rise and fall on viz language. Per @JoanWalsh, “picking their battles” signals Democratic retreat. https://t.co/AZarLDh3eC

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 8, 2016

We bomb you, then we feed you. (Text: “#Russia is with you,” w Syrian & Russian flags.). Waiting for 45’s quick answer to #Aleppo. 📷@reuters pic.twitter.com/VvTQbniErX

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 3, 2016

Victory tour 📷@drewangerer/#instagram #presidentelect #GrandRapids #healing pic.twitter.com/KMjuKnOqur

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 13, 2016

And I only have eyes for you #Tillerson #Putin @ExxonMobil – #Russia oil giant @Rosneft 2012 agreement ceremony 📷@GettyImages pic.twitter.com/0eKpSPEq0M

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) December 10, 2016

The new foreboding. #Repost @reuters ・・・ Law enforcement personnel look on from a rooftop while U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s plane takes off as Trump is travelling to Ohio from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, U.S. December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar @msegar #trump #plane #reutersphotos #reuters #ohio #newyork

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Dec 13, 2016 at 9:30am PST

No sleigh ride. #Repost @jeffsedlik ・・・ Winter 2016, Chicago. #Christmas #trump #holiday #wheelchair #politics #challenge #winter #chicago

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Dec 12, 2016 at 9:18am PST

Très chic? Let good times keep rolling? Big hand gestures are in? #Repost @lucianperkins ・・・ #Transformer auction @transformerdc #art #artworld #gallery #painting #auction #collecting #society #culture #1percent #hands #bodylanguage #dc #washingtondc #normalizing #enabling #fetishart #aesthetics

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Dec 11, 2016 at 9:17am PST

Finding this a haunting reflection of loss, the passage of time since America thrilled in his exploits and the atmosphere that Glenn leaves behind. Perhaps Winters felt something similar with his “ghost” reference below. #Repost @danwintersphoto ・・・ Navy MK IV spacesuit worn by American astronaut John Glenn on his 4 hour and 55 minute flight aboard the Mercury spacecraft “FRIENDSHIP 7” on February 20th, 1962. John Glenn gave up the ghost today. One of my boyhood heros. He will be missed. #johnglenn #space #astronaut #suit #clothing #loss #memorium #death #america #explorers

A photo posted by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Dec 9, 2016 at 12:02pm PST