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John Trotter

@johntrotter.bsky.social
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Photographer, cyclist, survivor. Founding member of MAPS.

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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This past Sunday evening, Joy Askew and her band played a wonderful set at the venerable Bitter End, in Greenwich Village. She’s been releasing some singles from a new album that will itself be released later this month. Something to look forward to.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Chennai, in southern India, may be far away, but I’m very pleased to have an exhibition of my Colorado River project, No Agua, No Vida, opening today, March 19, as part of this year’s Chennai Photo Biennale, along with photographers from India and the rest of the world. Exhibition pictures to come.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I’m late again, this time in wishing a Happy Friday the Thirteenth Birthday weekend to my pal, the Great Scot, photographer Graham McIndoe!@grahammacindoe.bsky.social
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 13/03/2026
An Astroturf group backed by the rideshare giant Uber has poured $8 million into supporting Gov. Hochul's controversial agenda to lower auto insurance rates at the expense of crash victims.
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Hired Actors, Paid Media: Big Tech Has Already Dumped $8M Into Hochul's Car Insurance Ploy - Streetsblog New York City
Buckets of cash and ads with professional actors are boosting Uber and Hochul's cause.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
See how this works?
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I was traveling yesterday, March 11, so I’m late commemorating the birthday of one of the greats, Larry Fink. He would’ve been 85. I miss having him in the world, but we have his great pictures still and I have had this one hanging where I can see it every day for a while now.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On Tuesday, the 11th day of the joint attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israeli states, members of the direct-action political group, Rise and Resist, made their weekly noon protest in front of the headquarters of Fox News, in midtown Manhattan.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War newrepublic.com/post/207263/... via @newrepublic.com
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Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War
They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.
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Damaso Reyes @damaso.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Why so many are blasting the SAVE America Act as voter suppression
The U.S House of Representatives voted last week to pass the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us theintercept.com/2026/02/16/d...
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Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A crowd of about 2,000 people gathered in sub-freezing weather outside the Veteran's Administration NY Harbor Healthcare System on E. 23rd St. near First Ave last night for a vigil honoring the life of VA nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and the other people already killed this year by ICE agents.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I just wrote a @socialists.nyc letter: Tell Schumer and Gillibrand: Keep ICE Out of New York City Streets. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Your Congressmember: Keep ICE Out of New York City Streets
We need our New York Senators — Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand — to commit to voting NO on ICE funding.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wishing a Very Happy Birthday +1 to my pal, the great photographer, Reuben Radding!
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just an FYI: We’re not facing a “government shutdown.” This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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...
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For Some Immigrant Artists, This Is No Time to Retreat
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Imagine the budget if we were actually at war.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Further down the road toward our collective, fossil-fueled dystopia
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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’
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
More attacks on women and their healthcare. Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers theintercept.com/2025/03/18/t...
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Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers
The arrest of a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions is the latest attack on reproductive care.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods. Source: NYT
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sixty years ago today, these white cops did this to their fellow citizens in Alabama.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Criminalizing the resistance to genocide begets criminalizing all resistance to fascism.
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 25/02/2025
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.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...
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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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
One of my pictures from a big demonstration supporting trans youth a couple of weeks ago near NYU Medical Center.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I'm not an expert on the law by any means, but she is and here's what she says: bsky.app/profile/debp...
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Lots of talk, with zero evidence. So many people will believe anything. Elon Musk Is Faking It open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Elon Musk Is Faking It
The fraudster who cried “fraud”
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hundreds answered the call from Brooklyn Indivisible and New York City DSA and showed up Saturday across from the apartment building of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) near Prospect Park, demanding that he maximize his political party’s resistance…
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Rage at any kind of collective action to make the world a better place. That's about all he has in his toolkit.
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
How many know the work of the great Shoup Dogg?
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John Trotter @johntrotter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As the Democratic Party leadership has so far been ineffective at putting a stop to the vandalization and infiltration of vast amounts of the people’s data and the governmental departments and agencies that serve them, ...
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Damaso Reyes @damaso.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
‘Pandemonium’: Palestinian Americans React to Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/n...
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‘Pandemonium’: Palestinian Americans React to Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan (Gift Article)
In interviews, Palestinian Americans said that it was surreal and horrifying to hear the president talk about expelling millions of people from the Gaza Strip and placing it under U.S. control.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/02/2025
I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden
A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 05/02/2025
On this day in 1917, Congress passed an Immigration Act that banned racial groups deemed "undesirable" from entering the U.S., and primarily barred Asian people.
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Feb. 5, 1917 | Immigration Act of 1917 Bans Asians, Non-White People from Entering U.S.
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
She's asking in terms of international law and he's answering in terms of real estate
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