72 Posts
Notes Photo February 19, 2017

Boy with Hand Grenade: Our Social Media Roundup

One month into the Trump administration, the forecast is for more explosiveness.

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Notes Photo February 17, 2017

The Size Epidemic. It’s Not Just Trump.

President Trump is not the only one who has turned to magnitude in order to visualize the meaning, purpose, and effects of his presidency.

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Notes Photo February 13, 2017

Crisis Follies: Trump’s N. Korea Missile Dinner

The photo demonstrates Trump's conflict between country club owner and Commander-in-Chief. The dreamy look during a potential world crisis is quite damning.

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Notes Photo February 10, 2017

Black Soldiers as White House Props, Once Again

I predict a steady diet of pictures like this one as the White House panders along.

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Notes Photo February 5, 2017

Donald Meets Mad Ave in the First Trump Super Bowl

More and more, corporations are coming to understand how much prosperity is tied to the health and humanism of our society.

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Notes Photo February 2, 2017

Viewing Trump’s Ugly Call With Australia’s Prime Minister

The photos give us a further sense of Trump, the bully. But they also indicate how much information is left to our imagination.

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Notes Photo January 29, 2017

The Trump-Putin Call: Our Tweet Thread

As the first high profile "behind the scenes" photo from the Trump White House, there were some details to absorb.

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Notes Photo January 26, 2017

Trump’s Captives: On the Pathological White House Body Language

Get ready for years of photos of people held held hostage, of Trump as the Wizard of Oz.

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Notes Photo January 22, 2017

Cranky Transfer of Power: Our Trump Inauguration Round Up

Perhaps the best thing way to sum up the inauguration is that the deed has been done and the Trump era has officially begun.

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Notes Photo January 19, 2017

Our “Trump Writes” Tweet Thread

Best stick to Twitter? We deconstruct Trump's Instagram in which he's surely writing his inauguration speech.

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Notes Photo January 16, 2017

MLK Day Meets the Trump Inauguration

We felt a special obligation this year to find just the right photo to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.

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Notes Photo January 11, 2017

The Jeff Sessions Attorney General Hearing in 7 Photos

As it turned out, the amount of political and racial baggage Sessions brought to the table generated plenty of visual noise.

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Notes Photo January 9, 2017

Hello Orwell: On the Congressman’s Kid Who Dabbed Paul Ryan

In the new atmosphere, the dab can be seen in the same register as the Kaepernick knee down.

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Notes Photo January 5, 2017

Bernie Commandeers a Trump Tweet

What Bernie did is profound. He captured a Trump tweet, a telling one, the same way you would capture and display an infected mosquito in a jar.

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Notes Photo December 8, 2016

The Evil Nobody Saw in the Trump – Hitler “Person of the Year” Nonsense

A more viable comparison with the Hitler cover comes from Kander’s photos of Pence and Bannon.

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Notes Photo November 30, 2016

Tabloid President: A Brilliant Trump Era Snapshot

To 56 million people, "fresh air" has nothing to do with NPR. Want to know what it means for Trump to take a stand? Well, you're looking at it.

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Notes Photo November 18, 2016

What We Can Learn or Confirm from Trump’s Visit with Japan’s Prime Minister

We can start with the fact that the only pictures of the visit were made and released to the press by the Japanese.

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Notes Photo November 13, 2016

Media Normalizing: Reading the Ryan/Trump Speaker’s Balcony Photo Op

The impression is that Ryan and Trump, in completely normal fashion, are sharing the governing landscape. But that is not what is happening at all.

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