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“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)
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Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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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
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Republicans are upset that Fuentes keeps saying the quiet part out loud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Charlie Pickett has lived on Dean Dr. in Manassas his entire life. Now he has a new neighbor, Jeff Bezos.

📷 New blog post →
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#ColdSteelRail #NoActTooSmall #PhotoEssay #CommunityVoices #AWSDataCenter #ManassasVA
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, ...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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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.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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.
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Between play and defiance. A face half in frame, half in character — somewhere between street and stage. #StreetPhotography #CandidMoments #OttoImagery#StreetPortraiture #VisualPoetry
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Welcome the Generals Banner Deployment. #bridgebrigade #resist #protest #protestsigns
September 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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.

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A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump
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September 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
September 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Read this.
Take a long hard look at the photos.

Eight months. That’s all it’s taken for the United States to turn into whatever the hell we are now.
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.

One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
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September 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Yes, “you reap what you sow” is biblical, rooted in Galatians 6:7 and echoed throughout scripture. It serves as a moral warning: what you put into the world—whether kindness or cruelty—will return to you in kind.
I wonder how many Sunday sermons will be covering that ground this morning?
donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face while talking .
ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face while talking .
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September 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This shot is from Military Occupied DC. The subject being detained was harassing a group of anti-Trump veterans. But I love this photo for more than the FAFO. It's a great example of what the Leica #Summilux21mmf/1.4 is capable of for #documentaryphotography Low light, wide scenes, cinematic detail.
August 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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August 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The danger is not only in the presence of militarized police, but in the acceptance of their presence as ordinary. The banality of evil grows out of uniforms in the street, armored vehicles at schools, and people shrugging, “that’s just the way it is.”

#freedc
#documentaryphotography
#bwphotography
August 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Accepting fascism into your heart means happily bowing down so tyrants can feel big.
#freedc #resist
August 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You want irony? How about Virginians who have the Gadsden flag license plate - who also happen to support the occupation of DC. They don't want freedom - they want white supremacy. #freedc
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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From today’s #FreeDC rally at U & 14th NW. Outrage was palpable, but so was the dignity, determination & strength of community. Trump has his toys & thugged-up police. The people carry the arc of moral justice. ✊

#Resistance #NoActTooSmall #homerule
August 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Hugh, @flareusa.bsky.social the maestro, addressing his noisy chorus after the show. Their angelic voices carried 400 yards— to Union Station, serenading the demonic forces inside the Heritage Citadel.
And the best part? New people are arriving from all over the country. ✊🎶

#FreeDC #FLARE
August 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM