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David Robert Newman
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Avid picture maker, reluctant scribe, recovering engineer, accidental politician.

Personal account, personal opinions.
Yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, around 7:30 am, masked ICE agents took a man near Wilbur Road and Marin Street in Thousand Oaks.

Image 1: Screen capture from VCDefensa video; images 2,3 courtesy @805undocufund.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The end of Warren Buffett’s last annual letter: Help one another.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
He did much better on the UWS than among the Woody Allen fans on the UES…
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sowing distrust in democracy. Putin must be so proud.
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There was bigotry around the 1977 mayoral race – with Mario Cuomo supporters chanting "vote for Cuomo, not the homo," referring to Koch – but I can't imagine the father being OK with what the son said here in any way/shape/form.
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
October 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“In honor of Friendship Month,” someone put up a statue near the US Capitol of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Then a rainbow appeared.

📷: Kent Nishimura
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Remembering Roberto Clemente, a great ballplayer and even greater human, on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is the correct response to the president saying broadcasters who dare criticize him risk losing their licenses and the FCC chairman asserting that only speech he agrees with is acceptable. 👏 👏
September 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
September 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Someone on the NYT copy desk earned their pay today.
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
He was for it before he was against it.

#MailinVoting
August 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Honoring John Lewis. #goodtrouble
July 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Here, @vcstar, fixed your headline:

357 Non-Criminals Disappeared in ICE Raid
July 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Farewell to Sebastião Salgado, a great photojournalist, environmentalist, and human being. RIP.
May 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson
May 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Three Dancers, Mills College. Photographer Imogen Cunningham was born #otd in 1883.
April 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
As Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein about a different set of crooks, “the truth is these are not very bright guys…” (h/t Bradley Huffaker)
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Remember this young woman as the heroine that she is.

She works for Skadden Arps, a prestigious law firm. She has put her career on the line. Please read the story below right. (h/t @davidhkrenkel.bsky.social)
March 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Not an AI hallucination
March 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.

Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
March 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That Oval Office tantrum was an embarrassment to *conservative* principles. What happened to standing with our allies and against autocrats?
February 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Blaming #Ukraine for starting the war: “Hey kid! Stop hitting yourself!” #slavaukraini
February 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM