quickly becoming a thing of the past today / power game theory (Clark Coolidge: seven easy pieces from Life Forms Here)

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#19 "Through the looking glass, make a memory" [Dhaka, Bangladesh]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 18 November 2016

Clark Coolidge: Game Boy

He put up a pillar of sleet
in memory of justice

Clark Coolidge: Game Boy, from Life Forms Here, 2017

[Dhaka, Bangladesh]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 5 February 2017

Clark Coolidge: There

An alarmist I am not
but the mystery is back

Clark Coolidge: There, from Life Forms Here, 2017

#18 [Dhaka, Bangladesh]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 23 December 2016

Clark Coolidge: Hobbyist

Death is composed of these nodules
one day you'll have a complete set

Clark Coolidge: Hobbyist, from Life Forms Here, 2017

Carrizozo, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, October 2016

Clark Coolidge: Our America

Where the cheese
and leather stand
together and conquer

Clark Coolidge: Our America, from Life Forms Here, 2017

Portland, Oregon: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 13 January 2017

Portland, Oregon: photo by Lucas DeShazer, 13 January 2017

Portland, Oregon: photo by Lucas DeShazer 13 January 2017

Clark Coolidge: Game

In Russia they make only fifty cents a day
I broke fifty windows in one night
right in America

Clark Coolidge: Game, from Life Forms Here, 2017

Eden, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 8 February 2017

Eden, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 8 February 2017

Eden, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 8 February 2017

Clark Coolidge: Power

I want to tell you about power
you should really hide home from power
power has given you the big look
and now it's ready

Clark Coolidge: PowerCome, from Life Forms Here, 2017

American career [101 bridge, Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 February 2017

Clark Coolidge: Come

Many things are over after a while

Clark Coolidge: Come, from Life Forms Here, 2017

Rowhouse fillet [Baltimore]. There's  something poignant about seeing the exposed rooms and stairs of a tear down home. It's a bit like finding a stranger's family photos in the street.: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 February 2017

quickly becoming a thing of the past today

Lake #Orovillle controlled #Spillway seems to be quickly becoming a thing of the past today: image via bill husa @billhusa, 9 February 2017

Lake #Orovillle controlled #Spillway seems to be quickly becoming a thing of the past today: image via bill husa @billhusa, 9 February 2017

Lake #Orovillle controlled #Spillway seems to be quickly becoming a thing of the past today: image via bill husa @billhusa, 9 February 2017

Lake #Orovillle controlled #Spillway seems to be quickly becoming a thing of the past today: image via bill husa @billhusa, 9 February 2017

 VERY nervous times for us... #OrovillleSpillway disaster a day our city will never forget. Keep us in your thoughts and wish us luck!! #castorm: image via Caleb Lambert @calelambert, 9 February 2017

More pix of #OrovillleDam #Spillway disaster #castorm #Spillway #FAIL #Oroville #ButteCounty #LakeOrovile #FeatherRiver: image via Caleb Lambert @CaleLambert, 10 February 2017 

More pix of #OrovillleDam #Spillway disaster #castorm #Spillway #FAIL #Oroville #ButteCounty #LakeOrovile #FeatherRiver: image via Caleb Lambert @CaleLambert, 10 February 2017 

More pix of #OrovillleDam #Spillway disaster #castorm #Spillway #FAIL #Oroville #ButteCounty #LakeOrovile #FeatherRiver: image via Caleb Lambert @CaleLambert, 10 February 2017  

#OrovillleDam #Spillway this afternoon. Taken around 2:30PM. #Oroville: image via Ryan Vesely @Cmmndr312, 10 February 2017

murican realty

One of the many extended handshakes between President @realDonaldTrump and Japanese Prime Minister @AbeShinzo  at the @WhiteHouse today.: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 10 February 2017

President Donald Trump welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.: photo by Andrew Harnik /AP, 10 February 2017

@POTUS with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe during their news conference in the East Room of the White House: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 10 February 2017

@POTUS with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in the Oval Office.  @realDonaldTrump: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 10 February 2017

Pres Trump and Japanese PM Abe boarding Marine One: image via Steve Holland @steveholland1, 10 February 2017

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Heading to Joint Base Andrews on #MarineOne with Prime Minister Shinzō earlier today.

Jennifer Epstein Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Jennifer Epstein added,

This is like him calling you President Donald

image via Jennifer Epstein @jeneps, 10 February 2017

Bradley P. Moss, Esq @BradMossEsq  

Shinzō is his first name, not his last name, Mr. President
Sam Stein added,
details
tweet via Sam Stein @samstein, 10 February 2017

Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy

[Trump and Abe hold hands for 19 seconds] Trump: “Strong hands.” [golf swing]

Michael Anti Retweeted Bradd Jaffy

Michael Anti added,

现场。川普：他们说什么？（What did they say?) 安倍：请看着我。(Please, look at me) 川普：啊 (Ah-)。

image via Michael Anti @mranti, 10 February 2017

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Heading to Joint Base Andrews on #MarineOne with Prime Minister Shinzō earlier today.

ian bremmer Retweeted Donald J. Trump
ian bremmer added,

Upside: Doesn't matter how you pronounce Abe.

image via ian bremmer @ianbremmer, 10 February 2017

Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander

Pres Trump doesn't appear to be wearing the translation earpiece during PM Abe's remarks. Wait, does POTUS speak Japanese?

Bradd Jaffy Retweeted Peter Alexander

Bradd Jaffy added,

Wait, what? Then how can he understand what the Japanese prime minister is saying?

image via Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy, 10 February 2017

 
This is the translation headset provided to everyone in East Room. Trump aides wearing it, but not the president.: image via Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander, 10 February 2017

President Trump is now using the translation earpiece; he was apparently not wearing it during Japanese Prime Minister Abe's opening remarks: tweet via Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy, 10 February 2017



After listening to PM Abe's extended opening remarks in Japanese, Trump *now using translation headset.: image via Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander, 10 February 2017

NEW: Re: no translation earpiece, WH official says Trump previewed text of speech and he and Abe spoke extensively about it beforehand.: tweet via Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander, 10 February 2017

Andrea Mitchell @mitchellreports

Japanese PM shows political savvy praising Trump for election, name checking Trump Tower, citing strong economic and security ties w/ U.S
Bradd Jaffy Retweeted Andrea Mitchell
Bradd Jaffy added,
Has mentioned: the election, high-speed rail, business savvy, intellectual property, how his golf game isn't as good. Hitting all the spots.

tweet via Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy, 10 February 2017

I'm told 186 Japanese press (incl 70 from Tokyo), covering Abe's visit to WH and Mar-a-Lago. 23 flew on Abe's plane. (13 press seats on AF1): tweet via David Nakamura @DavidNakamura,  10 February 2017

Yashar @yashar

Per CNN's @KateBennett_DC - The WH broke protocol by not having Melania Trump/Mrs. Pence guide Mrs. Abe around DC

Yashar Retweeted Yashar
Yashar added,

Just keep this image in your mind, The First Lady of Japan was meandering around DC today. No one even had tea with her. A G20 nation.

image via Yashar @yashar, 10 February 2017

Spoiler alert ahead of @POTUS presser with Japan's prime minister: Breitbart reporter is seated front row with major networks.: image via Todd J. Gillman@toddgillman,  10 February 2017

there's a world going on

 
An Afghan refugee sits up after waking up in an abandoned warehouse where he and other migrants took refuge in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Hundreds of migrants have been sleeping rough in freezing conditions in central Belgrade looking for ways to cross the heavily guarded EU borders.: photo by Muhammed Muheisen /AP, 10 February 2017

A masked Kashmiri protester throws a rock at Indian security forces in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Indian forces fired tear gas shells to prevent a protest march to the disputed Himalayan region's office of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) called by separatist leaders demanding the mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat, founder of Jammu Kashmir Libration Front (JKLF) and Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man executed after being convicted of attacking the Indian Parliament.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 10 February 2017

 
Iranians attend an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, which toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.: photo by Ebrahim Noroozi /AP, 10 February 2017

A man looks through an icy window in a streetcar in Ukraine's capital in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The temperature in the Ukrainian capital fell to -8 degrees Celsius (20 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday.: photo by Sergei Chuzavkov /AP, 10 February 2017

Startled roe deer make their way on an ice floe surrounded by driftwood by the rising icy water of the River Tisza at Cigand, 271 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.: photo by Attila Balazs/MTI via AP, 10 February 2017

Water flows through break in the wall of the Oroville Dam spillway, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 February 2017

viewed through gold-tinted lens 

 @IvankaTrump walks with her husband White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner as they board Marine One.: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 10 February 2017

God I wish this guy wasn't just trolling: image via Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos, 10 February 2017 

 

That time @RosieGray tried to get Neoreactionary blogger "Mencius Moldbug" to talk to her about influencing the WH...: image via Eli Stokols @EliStokols, 10 February 2017... 



[Untitled].: image via Ben Shapiro is 5'4" @cushbomb, Eli Stokols @EliStokols, 10 February 2017... 
 

[Untitled].: image via Ben Shapiro is 5'4" @cushbomb, Eli Stokols @EliStokols, 10 February 2017...



[Untitled].: image via Ben Shapiro is 5'4" @cushbomb, Eli Stokols @EliStokols, 10 February 2017...

Got the photos back from John Podesta's #nationalpizzaday party: image via Dave Weigel @daveweigel, 10 February 2017

Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie

Is Trump a 'Fascist, Loofa-Faced, Shit-Gibbon' for Opposing Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform? 

Dave Weigel added,

Gotta hear both sides.

image via Dave Weigel @daveweigel, 10 February 2017

Trump turning out biggest demonstrations in Iran since Green Revolution.: image via ian bremmer @ianbremmer, 10 February 2017

 

 
Trump on Iranian President Rouhani: “He better be careful.” (via pool): image via Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy, 10 February 2017

 
Trump turning out biggest demonstrations in Iran since Green Revolution.: image via ian bremmer @ianbremmer, 10 February 2017

A look back on Iran's 1979 revolution as Iranians mark 38th anniversary: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 10 February 2017 

funny valentines 

When vanity, virility and absolute power is how you're colored, you get these kinds of valentines. @theeconomist: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 February 2017

 Expectable side-effect of Viagra White House (and Trump’s long tail). Ominous Steve has never looked Rosier. Photo @thedailybeast: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 February 2017

Reading The Pictures Retweeted IM

HIM @ziyatong

This Danish ad is brilliant.

Reading The Pictures added,

“And then there is us.” Three minutes that could literally save the world. Quite moving.
 image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 February 2017

The Outline @outline

What do you do when the world is falling apart??? Stress bake

Reading The Pictures Retweeted The Outline

Reading The Pictures added,

Besides trump-a-thon stress reliever, a tasty helping of perspective and self-care

  image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 February 2017

Black soldiers as @WhiteHouse props, once again Photo @CarlosBarria @reuterspictures: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 February 2017