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Motel [eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 19 September 2017

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Roy, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2016

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Roy, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2016

Women are covered in dust after making it out of a building that collapsed after an earthquake in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

A woman speaks on her cell phone as people evacuated from office building gather in Reforma Avenue after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

Chalchiuhtlicue, La Diosa del Agua... Atlautla, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 13 September 2017

Chalchiuhtlicue, La Diosa del Agua... Atlautla, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 13 September 2017

Raw: Strong Quake Rattles Mexico City

A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by AP, 19 September 2017

Superior, Arizona: photo by Dean Terasaki, 18 May 2017

Raw: Mexico Quake Death Toll Continues to Rise

The death toll in Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 quake continues to rise. At 6pm Eastern, it rose to 119, that’s the largest number of fatalities in a Mexican earthquake since the 1985 quake that killed thousands.: photo by AP, 19 September 2017

Ixtapaluca, EDOMEX 2017...: photo by Fermin Guzman, 12 September 2017

People evacuated from office buildings gather in Reforma Avenue after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake jolted central Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

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The body of a woman hangs crushed by a collapsed building in the neighborhood of Roma Norte, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescuer workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake.: photo by Marco Ugarte/AP, 19 September 2017

The body of woman hangs crushed by a collapsed building in the neighborhood of Roma Norte, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescuer workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake.: photo by Marco Ugarte/AP, 19 September 2017

People search for survivors in a collapsed building in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake has jolted Mexico, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Enric Marti/AP, 19 September 2017

Remains of a damaged building stands after an earthquake in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake has jolted Mexico, causing buildings to sway sickeningly in the capital on the anniversary of a 1985 quake that did major damage.: photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP, 19 September 2017

A car sits crushed, engulfed in a pile of rubble from a building felled by a 7.1 earthquake, in Jojutla, Morelos state, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. The earthquake stunned central Mexico, killing at least 139 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.: photo by Carlos Rodriguez/AP, 19 September 2017

A man walks out of the door frame of a building that collapsed after an earthquake, in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Throughout Mexico City, rescuer workers and residents dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings seeking survivors following a 7.1 magnitude quake.: photo by Marco Ugarte/AP, 19 September 2017

A construction worker searches a building that collapsed after an earthquake, in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has rocked central Mexico, killing at least 55 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust and thousands fled into the streets in panic.: photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP, 19 September 2017

Soldiers walk past piles of rubble from buildings felled by a 7.1 earthquake, in Jojutla, Morelos state, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. The earthquake stunned central Mexico, killing at least 139 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.: photo by Carlos Rodriguez/AP, 19 September 2017

Death toll rising after 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes central Mexico: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 19 September 2017

Major earthquake hits near Mexico City, dozens dead: Anthony Esposito, Reuters, 19 September 2017

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck central Mexico on Tuesday, toppling dozens of buildings in the heavily populated capital and killing at least 49 people nearby.

President Enrique Pena said 27 buildings had collapsed in Mexico City, one of the world’s biggest cities. The first reports of fatalities were from surrounding areas.

In the state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, 42 people died, the state’s governor said. Authorities reported other deaths in neighboring Puebla and the State of Mexico.

“People are really scared right now,” said dentist Claudia Meneses who was in her clinic in Mexico City’s Lindavista neighborhood when the earthquake struck mid-afternoon. “We’re going to go to a building that fell to see if we can help.”

Earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above are regarded as major and are capable of causing widespread heavy damage.

Television images showed a multi-story building in the capital with a middle floor collapsed as sirens blared and first responders rushed to the scene. Other video showed the side of a government building shearing off and falling into the street as bystanders screamed.

Rescue workers pulled at least one survivor from a collapsed building in the Condesa neighborhood near the center of Mexico City.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter: “God bless the people of Mexico City. We are with you and will be there for you.” The city and its surrounding area are home to about 20 million people.

In Cuernavaca, a city south of Mexico City, there were unconfirmed reports on local radio of people trapped beneath collapsed buildings.

Mexican TV and social media showed cars crushed by debris. Many people fled into the streets, and electricity and phone lines were down in parts of the capital.

“We got out really fast, leaving everything as it was and just left,” said Rosaura Suarez, as she stood with a crowd on the street.

The quake hit only hours after many people participated in earthquake drills around the nation on the anniversary of a devastating quake that killed thousands in Mexico City in 1985.

Many people were also still shaken from another quake on Sept. 7 in southern Mexico that killed at least 98 people.

The epicenter of Tuesday’s quake was located in the central state of Puebla, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Disaster scenario: Cat 5 Hurricane Maria strengthening on approach to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands.: image via Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather, 19 September 2017

Map of the 2017 hurricane season to date. h/t @StormForce_1 for the cumulative wind swath idea.: image via Ian Livingston @islivington , 19 September 2017

"Mind-boggling damage" reported in #Dominica from Cat. 5 Hurricane #Maria's landfall last night :-: image via Philip Klotzbach @philklotzbach, 19 September 2017

Anyone else see the skull with Category 5 Hurricane #Maria approaching #Dominica #HurricaneMaria: image via Joshua Napper @JoshNapperTV, 19 September 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi, a Much-Changed Icon, Evades Rohingya Accusations: Richard C. Paddock and Hannah Beech, The New York Times, 18 September 2017

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, arriving to deliver a speech in Naypyidaw on Tuesday addressing the plight of the country’s Rohingya ethnic minority.: photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters, 18 September 2017

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, stood before a room of government officials and foreign dignitaries on Tuesday to at last, after weeks of international urging, address the plight of the country’s Rohingya ethnic minority.

But those who expected her to eloquently acknowledge a people’s oppression were disappointed.

In her speech, delivered in crisp English and often directly inviting foreign listeners to “join us” in addressing Myanmar’s problems, she steadfastly refused to criticize the country’s military, which has been accused of a vast campaign of killing, rape and village burning.

“The security forces have been instructed to adhere strictly to the code of conduct in carrying out security operations, to exercise all due restraint and to take full measures to avoid collateral damage and the harming of innocent civilians,” she said.

It has been a stunning reversal for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, 72, who was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her “nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights.”

As she spoke, more than 400,000 Rohingya, a Muslim minority long repressed by the Buddhists who dominate Myanmar, had fled a military massacre that the United Nations has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” The lucky ones are suffering in makeshift camps in Bangladesh where there is not nearly enough food or medical aid.

A stark satellite analysis by Human Rights Watch shows that at least 210 Rohingya villages have been burned to the ground since the offensive began on Aug. 25. Bangladeshi officials say land mines had been planted on Myanmar's side of the border, posing a threat to the fleeing Rohingya.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi tried to mollify her critics by saying she was committed to restoring peace and the rule of law.

Supporters of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, on Tesday: photo by Lynn Bo Bo/European Pressphoto Agency, 18 September 2017

Supporters of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, on Tuesday: photo by Lynn Bo Bo/European Pressphoto Agency, 18 September 2017

“We condemn all human rights violations and unlawful violence,” she said. “We feel deeply for the suffering of all the people caught up in the conflict.”

But, asking why the world did not acknowledge the progress made in her country, she also boasted that Muslims living in the violence-torn area had ample access to health care and radio broadcasts. And she expressed uncertainty about why Muslims might be fleeing the country, even as she sidestepped evidence of widespread abuses by the security forces by saying there had been “allegations and counter-allegations.”

Her speech was remarkably similar in language to that of the generals who had locked her up for the better part of two decades, in the process making her a political legend: the regal prisoner of conscience who vanquished the military with no weapons but her principles.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the assassinated independence hero Aung San, who founded the modern Burmese Army. She is a member of the country’s elite, from the highest class of the ethnic Bamar Buddhist majority.

Officials in her government have accused the Rohingya, who have suffered decades of persecution and have been mostly stripped of their citizenship, of faking rape and burning their own houses in a bid to hijack international public opinion. She has done nothing to correct the record.

A Facebook page associated with her office suggested that international aid groups were colluding with Rohingya militants, whose attack on Myanmar police posts and an army base precipitated the fierce military counteroffensive. In a statement, her government labeled the insurgent strikes “brutal acts of terrorism.”

During her address, made from a vast convention center in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi tried to evoke a program of grand goals including democratic transition, peace, stability and development.

But she also cautioned that the country’s long experience with authoritarian rule and nearly seven decades of ethnic conflict in Myanmar’s frontier lands have frayed national unity.

Myanmar police officers at the Bangladesh border near Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State last month.: photo by Agence France-Presse, 18 September 2017

“People expect us to overcome all these challenges in as short a time as possible,” she said, noting that her civilian government only took office last year. “Eighteen months is a very short time in which to expect us to meet and overcome all the challenges that we are facing.”

There were worrisome signs from the moment she entered a power-sharing agreement with the military after her National League for Democracy won he 2015 elections.

Myanmar’s generals — who ruled the country for nearly half a century and turned a resource-rich land also known as Burma into an economic failure — stage-managed every facet of the political transition. The Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar Army is known, kept the most important levers of power for itself.

It also effectively relegated Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to the post of state counselor by designing a Constitution that kept her from the presidency.

“It’s always a dance with the generals,” said U Win Htein, an N.L.D. party elder and former military officer, who served alongside some of the Tatmadaw’s highest-ranking generals.

He warned that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi had to placate an army with a history of pushing aside civilian leaders under the pretext of defending national sovereignty.

“The army, they are watching her every word,” he said. “One misstep on the Muslim issue, and they can make their move.”

Yet even before the compromises that accompanied her ascension to power, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was already distancing herself from the hopes invested in her by the rest of the world.

Rohingya refugees resting after crossing into Bangladesh from Myanmar last month.: photo by Adam Dean for The New York Times, 18 September 2017

“Let me be clear that I would like to be seen as a politician, not some human rights icon,” she said in an interview shortly after her release from house arrest in 2010.

Such a recasting of her role has disappointed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates. In an open letter, Desmond Tutu, the South African former archbishop, advised his “dearly beloved younger sister” that “if the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.”

Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi social entrepreneur and recipient of the prize in 2006, was more pointed.

“She should not have received a Nobel Peace Prize if she says, sorry, I’m a politician, and the norms of democracy don’t suit me,” he said in a telephone interview with The New York Times. “The whole world stood by her for decades, but today she has become the mirror image of Aung San Suu Kyi by destroying human rights and denying citizenship to the Rohingya.”

“All we can do,” he said, “is pray for the return of the old Aung San Suu Kyi.”

Beyond her personal legacy, the direction of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s leadership carries global consequence.

“This is a democratic moment, and she represents Burma’s democratic promise,” said Derek Mitchell, the former American ambassador to Myanmar.

“The country sits at the crossroads of Asia in a region where democracy is in retreat, which makes Burma’s success even more important.”

In Tuesday’s speech, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, acknowledged the state of democracy in her country.

“We are a young and fragile democracy facing many problems,” she said, “but we have to cope with them all at the same time.”

But she also stressed that “more than 50 percent” of Rohingya villages in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine remained “intact.” And she seemed to borrow vocabulary from a self-help manual when she described the need to research why certain villages had not been touched by the violence.

Fires in Myanmar as seen from the Bangladesh side of the border this month. The Myanmar military has been accused of a vast campaign of killing, rape and village burning.: Bernat Armangue/Associated Press, 18 September 2017

“We have to remove the negative and increase the positive,” she said.

Through all of the current Rohingya crisis, and a series of military offensives against other ethnic armed groups, she has publicly supported the military.

“We do not have any trust in Aung San Suu Kyi because she was born into the military,” said Hkapra Hkun Awng, a leader of the Kachin ethnic group from northern Myanmar, one of more than a dozen minorities whose rebel armies have fought the Tatmadaw over the decades. “She is more loyal to her own people than to the ethnics. Her blood is thicker than a promise of national reconciliation.”

Even before the mudslinging of the 2015 election campaign, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was sidestepping questions about the sectarian violence in Rakhine that disproportionately affected the Rohingya. Rather than condemning pogroms against the persecuted Muslim minority, she has dismissed accusations of ethnic cleansing and called, instead, for rule of law to solve any problem.

Because most Rohingya were stripped of their citizenship by the military, it has not been clear how any laws might apply to them. Even though Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday that Myanmar was prepared to repatriate refugees who can establish that they are residents of Myanmar, that may be a formidable task for people who are unlikely to have documents proving that.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has largely shielded herself from the media and has holed up in the capital. Although a year ago, as the nation’s new civilian leader, she attended the United Nations General Assembly, and was celebrated by world leaders, this year she chose not to attend, avoiding criticism of her stance on the Rohingya.

Several heads of state who spoke on the General Assembly’s first day of speeches on Tuesday in New York assailed Myanmar for the Rohingya crackdown, with some describing it as an anti-Muslim atrocity.

The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, whose country’s population of nearly 200 million is nearly half Muslim, said “the Myanmar crisis is very reminiscent of what happened in Bosnia in 1995 and in Rwanda in 1994.” The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country is majority Muslim and who spoke with Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi recently, said the Rohingya had been “subjected to almost an ethnic cleansing, with provocative terrorist acts used as a pretext.”

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi is attuned enough to public sentiment to understand the deep reservoir of anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar. If anything, her equivocations on the Rohingya have given currency to the widely held assumption in Myanmar that they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh who have occupied land that rightfully belongs to the Burmese.

Since Myanmar’s political transition began, a virulent strain of Buddhist extremism has pushed such attitudes further into the mainstream. Influential monks have preached anti-Muslim rhetoric and pushed successfully for a law that circumscribes interfaith marriage.

“Buddhist nationalist radicalism has been allowed to spread basically unchecked,” said Min Zin, the executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar. “The government is doing very little to stop it.”

little flower lady with iron fist

Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been speaking about the violence and refugee crisis in Rakhine State: image via EPA, 19 September 2017

Rohingya crisis: Are Suu Kyi's Rohingya claims correct?: Jonathan Head, BBC News, 19 September 2017

The BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, who has been covering the story of the Rohingya people from both sides of the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, assesses her claims.

Aung San Suu Kyi: "There have been no conflicts since the 5 September and no clearance operations."

On 7 September, I was on a government-organised media trip in the town of Alel Than Kyaw, where we heard automatic weapons fire in the distance and saw four large columns of smoke, indicating villages being burned.

Four columns of smoke near Alel Than Kyaw on 7 September: image via Jonathan Head/BBC, 19 September 2017

Later that same day, we came across the Rohingya village of Gaw Du Thar Ya being set alight by Rakhine Buddhist men, in front of armed policemen and close to a police barracks.

A Rohingya village burnt on 7 September: image via Jonathan Head/BBC, 19 September 2017

Now, from Bangladesh, we have seen columns of smoke on the other side of the Naf River large enough to suggest villages being burned.

River in foreground and white smoke rising from the ground beyond

Smoke in Myanmar, seen from Bangladesh on 14 September: image by Getty via BBC, 19 September 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi may not term these "clearance" operations, but given the heavy military and police presence in these areas, close to the riverbank, it is difficult to believe they do not have at least tacit approval from the authorities there.

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Action will be taken against all people's regardless of their religion, race or political position who go against the laws of the land and who violate human rights as accepted by our international community."

In more than 70 years of recorded abuses by the Burmese armed forces, there are almost no records of military officers being disciplined in Rakhine State or in the many other areas where armed conflicts continue inside the country.

It is hard to see that happening now, with the military insisting all of the more than 400,000 Rohingyas who have fled did so because of their involvement in the attacks by the militant group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.

One colonel in Maungdaw told me the many allegations of rape made by Rohingya refugees could not be true because his men were too busy fighting to rape and would find the Rohingya women too unattractive.

Aung San Suu Kyi: "All people living in the Rakhine State have access to education and health care services without discrimination."

This is patently untrue. Rohingyas have been subjected to discriminatory restrictions for many years barring them from moving, even getting married, without official permission, which often involves paying bribes.

Since the 2012 communal violence, Rohingyas have had even tighter restrictions imposed on them.

Many in the displacement camps within Myanmar are confined to those areas unless they have special permission to leave, which is hard to get.

I know students inside the camps whose education has been halted for the past five years.

Four years ago, I visited the Rohingya village of Ah Nauk Pyin, south of Rathedaung, where the inhabitants were unable to leave even for medical treatment because of the hostility of the surrounding Rakhine Buddhist communities.

On Monday, in Bangladesh, I met Abdulmajid, from Gaw Du Thar Ya - the village I saw being burnt.

He told me for "the last five years, we couldn't go outside our village for work".

A #Rohingya with the body of her four-day-old son who drowned on the crossing to #Bangladesh. #AungSanSuuKyi stop butchering the innocent.: image via Javed Kayani @Javed_Kayani, 15 September 2017

Can anyone help #AungSanSuuKyi solve this mystery? Why would anyone flee mass killings, gang rapes and the torching of their villages: image via George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot,19 September 2017

My cartoon Thursday @TheTimes on Burma..... #AungSanSuuKyi's fall from grace. #EthnicCleansing #RohingyaMuslims: image via Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes, 14 September 2017

It's an Exodus

Edward Rees @ReesEdward

In the 24 days since 25 Aug 420k #Rohingya have fled violence in #Rakhine. Now nearly 900k Rohingya in #Bangladesh
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Edward Rees added, That is 729 #Rohingya refugees entering #Bangladesh every hour 24/7 for 24 days. It's an Exodus. #myanmar
image via Edward Rees @ReesEdward, 19 September 2017:

Unspeakable Visions of the Stateless

Disabled Vision. An elderly Rohingya woman with lost eyesight tries to talk to the journalists standing in front of her to explain what had happened to her family members and herself back in Rakhine State of Myanmar. Thousands of women from different age groups and physical inabilities have fled Myanmar and taken shelter at Teknaf and Ukhia upazilla in Cox's Bazaar district of Bangladesh as Myanmar army has unleashed an ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya Muslim minority of Rakhine State, Myanmar.: photo by Muhammad A. Bashed, 15 September 2017

00048318. A boy from the Rohingya community stands outside a shack in a camp in Delhi, August 17, 2017. (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters): image by Jean Bosco SIBOMANA, 19 September 2017

Rohingya. Shamplapur, Bangladesh. More than 10 million people worldwide have no nationality and most are stateless by no fault of their own. Not having a nationality usually occurs because of discrimination against certain groups.Over a million Rohingya live in Myanmar (Burma) where they are stateless in their own country. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority, living mainly in the Northwestern Sate of Rakhine, Myanmar (Burma). They have been discriminated against, persecuted and deprived of citizenship since the end of the seventies by the Burmese authorities and are not even recognized as a minority. As a result, Rohingya have been segregated and excluded from civil society in places they have lived for several generations. Without citizenship or documents, Rohingya belong to no country and are deprived of civil, social and human rights. They will usually be denied access to the legal labour market, to basic health care services and, most of all, to proper education. In Myanmar they have been relocated in internment camps for internally displaced persons, not allowed to leave without permission and police escort. More than half a million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh during the past decades, to makeshift camps and registered refugee camps. Prospects for education, employment, basic human rights, such as housing and access to medical facilities, and hope for dignified life are practically inexistent and impossible for the stateless. Thousands have fallen victim of human smugglers on their way for a better life in Malaysia or India, ending up in prison camps and held for ransom or in situations of bonded labour. The proportion of families that have been resettled in Europe or the US where they can start a new life is extremely low compared to the scope of this forgotten tragedy. Having usually no other document than a registration card, Rohingya are usually not allowed to travel within their own or host country without the risk of being arrested and jailed. Being stateless keeps them in a poverty limbo on the extreme margins of society. This is a story of the stateless and forgotten Rohingya Rohingya working as low paid daily labour for Bangladeshi fishing boat owners. The same boats have been used to smuggle desperate refugees towards international waters where bigger boats wait to transport them towards Thailand and Malaysia.: image by Organ Vida Archive, 7 June 2015

Mania

Spencer's shots of #Trump's hand were inspired. That speech, the stuff of mania. #UN #GeneralAssembly @spencerplatt1 @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

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The most reliable look from Kelly, the minder/babysitter, is tedium. #Trump #UN #GeneralAssembly @spencerplatt1 @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

It's a worthy shot (and not a cheap one) because he's oblivious by nature. Photo @drewangerer @GettyImages #un #unga #UN #GeneralAssembly: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

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Many variations on this today. It's called pushback. (Hand-over-mouth version.) #UN #GeneralAssembly @spencerplatt1 @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

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Replying to @BuzzFeedNews
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Melania Trump listening to Trump's first speech at the UN. (Photo: AP)

Reading The Pictures Retweeted BuzzFeed News

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Doubt #Kelly was cringing. But as Trump's minder, your face is a lightning rod. #UN #GeneralAssembly

image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

As much resolution as we could handle of Trump and lawnmower boy.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

Horse of a different color? Photo @drewangerer @GettyImages #un #unga #UN #GeneralAssembly: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

This is an honest to god @washingtonpost headline and illo. We really are in trouble. #trump #media #northkorea: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 19 September 2017

Giddy In Gilead (Are they the handmaids?)

Clear trend now: small regressive demos spawning larger counter ones. Ghosting understandable. #LGBTQ #gaymarriage #Berlin @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadngThePix, 19 September 2017

We have your #HandmaidsTale Emmy Prep right here. Emmy mini-episode 1: Best Actress: image via HandmaidsPodcast @HandmaidPodcast, 16 September 2017

#Emmys: How #HandmaidsTale became the most unintentionally relevant show ever: image via Hollywood Reporters @THR, 17 September 2017

#ElisabethMoss on the red carpet. She's absolutely stunning! #Emmys #HandmaidsTale #Emmy: image via Elisabeth Moss Fan @ElisabethMossFr, 17 September 2017

#Emmys #HandmaidsTale scored a relative sweep, winning best drama, lead + supporting actress, writing, directing: image via Hollywood Reporters @THR, 18 September 2017

Elisabeth Moss wins her first #Emmy! More on her journey through the making of #HandmaidsTale, in THR's cover: image via Hollywood Reporter @THR, 17 September 2017

Yashar Ali Verified account @yashar

1. Would be a travesty if Elisabeth Moss won an Emmy for Handmaid's Tale. She's a Scientologist...hypocritical of her to benefit from it.
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A must-read thread by @yashar on #HandmaidsTale in which he nails the parallels between Scientology and Gilead Watch @LeahRimini’s show

image via Cameron Gray @Cameron_Gray, 18 September 2017

Here's Tuesday's #Marijuana cartoon in @TorontoStar #HandmaidsTale #onpoli: image via Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis, 18 September 2017

@HandmaidsOnHulu wins Outstanding Drama Series. #Emmys: image via CNN Entertainment @CNNent, 17 September 2017

Demonstrators participate in a “die-in” protest outside the St. Louis Police Department headquarters in response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in St. Louis. Stockley was acquitted on Friday in the 2011 killing of a black man following a high-speed chase.: photo by Jeff Roberson/AP, 17 September 2017

The smashed business widows -- Are they the handmaids?

Dozens of business widows were smashed at and at least 2 police cars damaged during protests last night in #StLouis #gettyimagesnews: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 17 September 2017

The horror. The business widows were smashed and riding around throwing the double bird out of moving vehicles

at nobody in particular. And who are the business widows you ask? And why in the world are they doing this? Are they the handmaids?

Is this their tale? If not, why not? And if not now, when? Don't they understand they are contributing to the death of Earth

by riding around in expensive gas guzzling boojietype vehicles emitting carbon products crazily w/o compunction and giving the impression

the so-called Resistance is nothing more than a loose aggregation of inarticulate spoiled rich brats from the suburbs who want attention

and are just as happy to be widows in any case? But, like, wouldn't you? I mean, if you were, like, uh, a handmaid?

And what is a handmaid you ask? Is it the same thing as, like, a drear hag? A dummy? An annoying thing? And aren't there

getting to be almost enough annoying things to go around, without loading them all into SUVs and encouraging them

to express themselves? Right out here on the streets? Isn't this how they became business widows in the first place?

And where are all the dead businessman husbands anyway? What happened to them? What's the deal here? Does nobody care?

Dozens of business widows were smashed at and at least 2 police cars damaged during protests last night in #StLouis #gettyimagesnews: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 17 September 2017

Police in #StLouis blocking streets downtown after after spraying and arresting protestors who went on window smashing spree. #gettyimagesnews: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 17 September 2017

Demonstrators in #stlouis stage a die-in in front of police headquarters. #gettyimagesnews #Anthony LamarSmith: image via scott olson @scottolson, 17 September 2017

#StLouis protesters plan more action Sunday over white cop's acquittal after violence, smashed windows in suburbs.: image via AP Central U.S. @APCentralRegion, 17 September 2017

Russell Lee: Labor Day, Silverton, Colorado, 1940

Silverton, Colorado. Labor Day celebration. Burros loaded with ore sacks in the burro-loading contest

Silverton, Colorado. Labor Day celebrations. Contestant tying sacks of ore onto a burro in a contest

People in town for the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

Watching the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

Watching the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

Children watching the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

Cranking up motor which will supply power for the miners' drilling contest, Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Miner attaching airhose to power drill he will use at the miners' power drilling contest at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Miners in power drilling contest at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Judges at the miners' drilling contest, Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Candid cameraman at miners' contest at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Boy watching miners' contest at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Group of people watching events at the Labor Day celebration contests, Silverton, Colorado

Spectators at the miners' contest at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Spectators at the contests for miners at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Miner at the contests for miners at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

Photos by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration, September 1940 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Wellington, Kolkata | 2017 #14 | by b i s w a j i t

Wellington, Kolkata | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 3 September 2017

Poltava, Ukraine, 2017: photo by Steven Jensen, 8 February 2017

RC BIRD [Sydney]: photo by Thanakorn Treratanaboot, 30 August 2017

VM021559 [Chennai]: photo by Viduthalai Mani Dharmaraj, 2 September 2017

DSC00239-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 18 March 2017

DSC00239-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 18 March 2017

2 comments:

TC20 September 2017 at 13:16
What Else Is New Dept.

Suckabug Goonsquad Censors Rohingya Squeak-Pipping, Protects Aristo-Pod Mindful Terror-a-ganza

Not that anybody gives a fig. Evidently Arseboke is enjoyed by many. Like, well... cars. You know?
Hilton20 September 2017 at 16:24
A compendium of horror - too much to bear. How many storms of human greed and stupidity will the world endure?

TOM CLARK

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

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