John Trotter
@johntrotter.bsky.social
Photographer, cyclist, survivor. Founding member of MAPS.
Tonight in Los Angeles, a picture of mine from Lake Powell, from the long term “No Agua, No Vida”project about the human alteration of the Colorado River, is included in the opening of an exhibition of the Photolucida Critical Mass 50 winners, at the Duncan Miller Gallery, 1933 S Broadway, No. 1270.
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Tonight in Los Angeles, a picture of mine from Lake Powell, from the long term “No Agua, No Vida”project about the human alteration of the Colorado River, is included in the opening of an exhibition of the Photolucida Critical Mass 50 winners, at the Duncan Miller Gallery, 1933 S Broadway, No. 1270.
Dozens gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday night at the Stonewall National Monument in New York for the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, honoring the more than 365 trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people estimated to have who lost their lives due to suicide and violence this year.
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Dozens gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday night at the Stonewall National Monument in New York for the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, honoring the more than 365 trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people estimated to have who lost their lives due to suicide and violence this year.
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Just an FYI: We’re not facing a “government shutdown.” This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.
October 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just an FYI: We’re not facing a “government shutdown.” This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.
My friend Blanka Amezkua co-curated this exhibition in The Bronx
For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...
For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...
For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My friend Blanka Amezkua co-curated this exhibition in The Bronx
For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...
For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/a...
Imagine the budget if we were actually at war.
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
May 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Imagine the budget if we were actually at war.
I never posted these photos I took a dozen days ago in Washington, D.C., when thousands of people marched through the streets of the U.S. Capital as part of a "Day of Action" across all 50 states. Today, May Day, more protests across the country. Go to the 50501 website for events in your location.
May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I never posted these photos I took a dozen days ago in Washington, D.C., when thousands of people marched through the streets of the U.S. Capital as part of a "Day of Action" across all 50 states. Today, May Day, more protests across the country. Go to the 50501 website for events in your location.
Further down the road toward our collective, fossil-fueled dystopia
Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Further down the road toward our collective, fossil-fueled dystopia
More attacks on women and their healthcare.
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.
theintercept.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
More attacks on women and their healthcare.
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...
Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...
On my very first trip to NYC, in 1982, on spring break from the University of Missouri with a used Canon F-1 and some Kodachrome, I photographed these girls staging on West 46th Street for that year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The city, the country, the world and I were all so different then.
March 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
On my very first trip to NYC, in 1982, on spring break from the University of Missouri with a used Canon F-1 and some Kodachrome, I photographed these girls staging on West 46th Street for that year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The city, the country, the world and I were all so different then.
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Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods.
Source: NYT
Source: NYT
March 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods.
Source: NYT
Source: NYT
Sixty years ago today, these white cops did this to their fellow citizens in Alabama.
On this day in 1965, police brutally attacked hundreds of civil rights activists during a march in Selma, Alabama, now known as Bloody Sunday.
Mar. 7, 1965 | AL Law Enforcement Attacks Civil Rights Activists on 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sixty years ago today, these white cops did this to their fellow citizens in Alabama.
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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
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Trump calling for a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer -- after pardoning nearly all of the rioters who stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement on January 6.
March 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Trump calling for a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of murdering a police officer -- after pardoning nearly all of the rioters who stormed the Capitol and attacked law enforcement on January 6.
Criminalizing the resistance to genocide begets criminalizing all resistance to fascism.
Trump here is is referring to pro-Palestine protests so you won’t hear a peep from conservatives or even pro-Israel liberals. But just imagine if this was Biden referring to ‘illegal protests’ by conservative students or pro-life groups. Free speech brigade would be going mad!
March 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Criminalizing the resistance to genocide begets criminalizing all resistance to fascism.
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trump: I’m going to protect women
women: no thank you
trump: I’m gonna do it
women: please don’t
trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team
women: what
trump: and brought back andrew tate
women: why
trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore
women: no thank you
trump: I’m gonna do it
women: please don’t
trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team
women: what
trump: and brought back andrew tate
women: why
trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore
February 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
trump: I’m going to protect women
women: no thank you
trump: I’m gonna do it
women: please don’t
trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team
women: what
trump: and brought back andrew tate
women: why
trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore
women: no thank you
trump: I’m gonna do it
women: please don’t
trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team
women: what
trump: and brought back andrew tate
women: why
trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore
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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
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Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Photos: ‘Distress flag’ towers over Yosemite to protest cuts as crowds view firefall
Saturday’s protest sought to bring attention to the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration this month.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Protestors blocked New York Governor Kathy Hochul's Midtown Manhattan office entrances late Friday morning demanding that Hochul remove indicted New York City mayor, Eric Adams, after he made apparently made a deal with the Trump administration’s Justice Department.
February 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Protestors blocked New York Governor Kathy Hochul's Midtown Manhattan office entrances late Friday morning demanding that Hochul remove indicted New York City mayor, Eric Adams, after he made apparently made a deal with the Trump administration’s Justice Department.
Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
One of my pictures from a big demonstration supporting trans youth a couple of weeks ago near NYU Medical Center.
Emily Witt speaks to the parents of trans children in New York, who expressed anger that state hospitals had seemingly acquiesced to the Republican political agenda to ban transition-related care before they were legally required to do so.
Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here?
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whe...
www.newyorker.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of my pictures from a big demonstration supporting trans youth a couple of weeks ago near NYU Medical Center.
As part af a series of “No Kings Day”protests against Donald Trump in every state Monday—Presidents’ Day in the United States—thousands marched from Union Square in New York City to Washington Square Park, as Trump, and oligarch Elon Musk, attempt to disassemble and wreck the people’s government.
February 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
As part af a series of “No Kings Day”protests against Donald Trump in every state Monday—Presidents’ Day in the United States—thousands marched from Union Square in New York City to Washington Square Park, as Trump, and oligarch Elon Musk, attempt to disassemble and wreck the people’s government.
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Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.
If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this.
Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
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Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.”
What?!
👀
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.
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I'm not an expert on the law by any means, but she is and here's what she says: bsky.app/profile/debp...
This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1
ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.
February 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I'm not an expert on the law by any means, but she is and here's what she says: bsky.app/profile/debp...
On Thursday, as part of the Trump administration’s plan to erase trans and nonbinary people from all federal agencies, the words ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ were removed from the web page for the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, which marks what is widely regarded as...
February 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
On Thursday, as part of the Trump administration’s plan to erase trans and nonbinary people from all federal agencies, the words ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ were removed from the web page for the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, which marks what is widely regarded as...
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I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.