“Breathtaking Brooklyn Bridge night panorama”

The view from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade after sunset is amazing, I couldn't resist making a long exposure panorama of Lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. You can also see the Statue of Liberty in the left side, and the…

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📅 23 May 2015

📸 Canon 5D II + 24-70mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/9, 30 s

#TravelPhotography #NorthAmerica #UnitedStates #NewYork #Brooklyn #Photography #Canon #5DMark2

"Our new Silicon Valley overlords have taken this mindset to new levels of insanity and fraudulence. They boast about sleeping in their offices and their 120-hour workweeks as they “build the modern world” and then claim that no one else is working at all..."

thenation.com/article/society/…
#TheNation #Capitalism #Employment #UnitedStates

How America Failed the Unhoused | The Nation

Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.

^{The Nation}

The 1807 #InsurrectionAct #law also permits the president to deploy #troops to suppress “any #insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” in a #state that “opposes or #obstructs the execution of the laws of the #UnitedStates or impedes the course of justice under those laws.”

[also not the case in #LosAngeles]

#Trump #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #NationalGuard #USTroops #immigration

Almost forgot to tell you:

Our gazillion FREE COVID tests will arrive any day now.

This is going to be sooooo much better than Christmas! No offense intended.

Shortly after ordering, an email confirmed receipt of the order and that processing was under way.

Instructions by the great:
zirk.us/@grammargirl/114434864…

#free #COVID #tests #UnitedStates

“You know you're living in a #fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why you're safe.”

In this Opinion video, 3 professors at Yale and experts in #authoritarianism and #fascism explain why the #USA is especially vulnerable to a #democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the #UnitedStates to take up positions in other Countries.

Listening to them is downright frightening.

#trump #newyorktimes #dictatorship #uspol

youtu.be/IXR9PByA9SY?si=cE3Zcq…

#Trump:

As #president of the #UnitedStates of #America it is my holy duty to protect the #SecondAmendment.

And not the #Constitution !

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William Bache's Silhouettes Album via The National Portrait Gallery

[Shared]William Bache (1771–1845) emigrated from England to Philadelphia in May 1793 with no apparent training as an artist. Yet from 1803 to 1812, he pursued a prolific and successful career as an itinerant maker of silhouette portraits, traveling up and down the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Virginia, and further south to Louisiana and Cuba. Working sporadically over that nine-year period, he produced thousands of shaded profiles with the aid of a patented physiognotrace, a mechanical device used to trace the outline of a person’s face. Cheap and quick to make, silhouettes captured the likenesses of a broad cross-section of society, including those who could afford no other form of portrait.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/01…

#art #artwork #portrait #silhouette #shared #smithsonian #nationalportraitgallery #usa #unitedstates

"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."

researchgate.net/figure/ote-bu…

Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.

#BreakingNews

#Ukraine & the #UnitedStates have agreed to a framework for an expansive #minerals deal, acc/to a Ukrainian ofcl & another person familiar w/the matter. The White House has not confirmed the agreement has not commented.

The #Trump admin has pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky to repay US #war #aid with such an agreement, amid broader pressure to come to a *peace* deal w/ #Russia.

#extortion #WarProfiteering #authoritarianism #geopolitics #USpol #StandWithUkraine

This is like bringing a casserole to a friend who lost a loved one when an arson torched their house, & then a month or so later telling them they owe you $50 for it.

#UnitedStates #Trump #Ukraine #Zelensky #Russia #Putin #authoritarianism #extortion #WarProfiteer #democracy #allies #geopolitics #StandWithUkraine

…#Trump’s transactional approach represents a shattering of #ForeignPolicy values pursued by the #UnitedStates for decades, including the principle that mighty nations should not invade smaller ones, which Washington enshrined in the #UnitedNations charter.

#Ukraine #Russia #Putin #authoritarianism #extortion #WarProfiteer #democracy #allies #geopolitics #StandWithUkraine

Per Richard Engel on likelihood of #Ukraine signing the rare earth minerals deal with the #UnitedStates: Ukraine was essentially asked to sign the deal under #duress, they were told they had to sign within 1 hour or #Trump would be very angry. The deal was apparently very thin on details such as what Ukraine would be getting in return for giving up ~$500B in their #minerals.

#Russia #Putin #authoritarianism #democracy #allies #extortion #geopolitics #StandWithUkraine