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

Yes votes to confirm Noem:

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) 
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) 
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) 
Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) 
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) 
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) 
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

Are you not aware that she's just a beard for Corey Lewandowski? Noem is just the shadow Secretary.

"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:

Sign reading "FUCK ICE" flys on flag in Minneapolis after murder of Renee Good.

"ILWU Local 34 members in the Bay Area commemorated the life of Renee Good by loading a ship with containers to spell her name. The ship then went to Tacoma, Washington." via Indybay.org

Students in California walkout against ICE.

Demonstrators in Chicago hold signs condemning ICE terror and murder. Person holds sign reading, "ICE murders Moms and Nurses" as others march with signs around them.

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.

Our kids? Can we talk about the generations of smooth brained cultists that are running amok in this country? I don't blame kids for wanting to tune out on Tik-Tok They are living in an insane asylum.

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.

TRB - Typical Republican Behavior

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"

He got a bruised palm from high-fiving his fellow Orcs.

The Constitution also exists to mediate conflict among citizens, factions, states, and interests so disputes are resolved through law instead of force. It provides the basis upon which we are protected each from one another.

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.

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs

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.

Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes

“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...

😂🤣

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

Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’

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

Jeff Bezos is Charlie Pickett's New Neighbor Manassas resident Charlie Pickett, born and raised on Dean Drive, shares his story as data centers and energy infrastructure reshape his lifelong neighborhood. A powerful reflection on history, loss, ...

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.

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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

A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump

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

Amish people selling weed from jars

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything