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· Nov 20
The Meaning of a Photograph
Eric Langberg argues we are experiencing a massive breakdown in the way humans process communication and the very act of meaning-making." Webworm with David Farrier
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For the past few months, I’ve attended dozens of protests and taken thousands of photos, to the tune of something like 42 million views online and a whole lot of comments.
David Farrier let me write about my main takeaway from this year, which is: Uh oh!!
www.webworm.co/meaningofaph...
David Farrier let me write about my main takeaway from this year, which is: Uh oh!!
www.webworm.co/meaningofaph...
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I Am Queer; I Am Embodied: Longing and Lust in CHALLENGERS and QUEER - @ericanders.bsky.social
Longing & Lust in Luca Guadagnino's 'Challengers' and 'Queer'
Luca Guadagnino has been working out a fixation on the body for more than a decade now. What does it mean to have a body? To long for another body?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
June 20, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I Am Queer; I Am Embodied: Longing and Lust in CHALLENGERS and QUEER - @ericanders.bsky.social
Hey FYI there’s a 2016 interview where Spencer Pratt says his dream job is to work for the CIA & manipulate the media on behalf of the government! FYI! In case you find that as interesting as I did!
www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/0...
www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/0...
May 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Hey FYI there’s a 2016 interview where Spencer Pratt says his dream job is to work for the CIA & manipulate the media on behalf of the government! FYI! In case you find that as interesting as I did!
www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/0...
www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/0...
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nazis impatiently waiting to be given the go-ahead
May 2, 2026 at 9:33 PM
nazis impatiently waiting to be given the go-ahead
Downtown LA, May Day 2026, at the ICE Detention Center
May 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Downtown LA, May Day 2026, at the ICE Detention Center
I addressed Nithya Raman today at the LA City Council.
While campaigning for mayor, she’s touted the fact that she helped craft LA’s Sanctuary City policies, claiming LA doesn’t collaborate with ICE.
But… the LAPD admits they DO help, just not with apprehensions.
…Is that what she intended?
While campaigning for mayor, she’s touted the fact that she helped craft LA’s Sanctuary City policies, claiming LA doesn’t collaborate with ICE.
But… the LAPD admits they DO help, just not with apprehensions.
…Is that what she intended?
April 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I addressed Nithya Raman today at the LA City Council.
While campaigning for mayor, she’s touted the fact that she helped craft LA’s Sanctuary City policies, claiming LA doesn’t collaborate with ICE.
But… the LAPD admits they DO help, just not with apprehensions.
…Is that what she intended?
While campaigning for mayor, she’s touted the fact that she helped craft LA’s Sanctuary City policies, claiming LA doesn’t collaborate with ICE.
But… the LAPD admits they DO help, just not with apprehensions.
…Is that what she intended?
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The LAPD is working with ICE & lying about it.
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
The LAPD just revealed they've been lying about working with ICE
Notes on the April 14th, 2026 Board of Police Commissioners meeting
open.substack.com
April 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM
The LAPD is working with ICE & lying about it.
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
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Thanks to all the folks who donated to this fund already, it means so much. I can get some of the gear upgrades I’ve been eyeing already. I have some stretch goals with this that go beyond upgrading gear—any additional funds will help pay rent & food so I can focus on work. Please share if you can🫡
Donate to Support Mel's Indie Journalism, organized by Mel Buer
My name's Mel Buer, and I am an independent multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, Califo… Mel Buer needs your support for Support Mel's Indie Journalism
gofund.me
April 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Thanks to all the folks who donated to this fund already, it means so much. I can get some of the gear upgrades I’ve been eyeing already. I have some stretch goals with this that go beyond upgrading gear—any additional funds will help pay rent & food so I can focus on work. Please share if you can🫡
Hi why am I suddenly getting a bunch of new followers on this app? Where’d y’all come from?
April 1, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Hi why am I suddenly getting a bunch of new followers on this app? Where’d y’all come from?
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If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!
March 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!
wait I was six months off lol
March 16, 2026 at 4:29 AM
wait I was six months off lol
I cannot believe we reinvented Pizzagate
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I cannot believe we reinvented Pizzagate
The reporting around this has been breathtakingly irresponsible. He said the SURGE was over, not that the operation would end, and he said they were drawing down the surge because they’d secured “unprecedented” cooperation with state and local law enforcement to do crowd control.
February 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The reporting around this has been breathtakingly irresponsible. He said the SURGE was over, not that the operation would end, and he said they were drawing down the surge because they’d secured “unprecedented” cooperation with state and local law enforcement to do crowd control.
These are photos of the LAPD doing the bidding of a masked ICE agent whose shirt possibly signals his membership in a far-right extremist militia group trying to spark a civil war.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says it’s fine for him to wear a mask that says POLICE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogalo...
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says it’s fine for him to wear a mask that says POLICE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogalo...
February 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
These are photos of the LAPD doing the bidding of a masked ICE agent whose shirt possibly signals his membership in a far-right extremist militia group trying to spark a civil war.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says it’s fine for him to wear a mask that says POLICE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogalo...
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says it’s fine for him to wear a mask that says POLICE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogalo...
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At about 1m20 the most non-elite US mall ninja shows up with a bafflingly seemingly self inflicted bleeding nose, tucks a shotgun under his taint before tossing a munition canister god knows where, then starts shooting at journalists. If you saw this in a war videogame you’d think it was broken.
Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 AM
At about 1m20 the most non-elite US mall ninja shows up with a bafflingly seemingly self inflicted bleeding nose, tucks a shotgun under his taint before tossing a munition canister god knows where, then starts shooting at journalists. If you saw this in a war videogame you’d think it was broken.
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him"
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him"
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
The other night I watched a cop literally named HELPER send someone through the police line and back into the crowd of protesters they were trying to disperse. He said the person was “ruining the media’s shot” and needed to get on that side of the police line if they wanted to demonstrate.
😵💫
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January 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The other night I watched a cop literally named HELPER send someone through the police line and back into the crowd of protesters they were trying to disperse. He said the person was “ruining the media’s shot” and needed to get on that side of the police line if they wanted to demonstrate.
😵💫
😵💫
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HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."
![“If a violating party has taken all reasonable steps to comply with the court
order, technical or inadvertent violations of the order will not support a finding of
civil contempt.”) General Signal Corp. v. Donallco, Inc., 787 F.2d 1376, 1379
(9th Cir. 1986). “A contemnor in violation of a court order may avoid a finding of
civil contempt only by showing it took all reasonable steps to comply with the
order.” Kelly v. Wengler, 822 F.3d 1085, 1096 (9th Cir. 2016). Here, Plaintiffs
argue that Defendants directly violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction by
“repeatedly [shooting] individuals in the face, eye, groin and back” with 40mm
weapons. (Mot at 10.) Because the Circuit has held that the 40mm munition is not
intended to disperse crowds, but “is chiefly designed, intended, and used for the
purpose of incapacitating its target,” Sanderlin v. Dwyer, 116 F.4th 905, 912 (9th
Cir. 2024), Plaintiffs argue these instances are not “technical or inadvertent” so as
to allow Defendants to avoid liability. (Id.)
However, Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that
all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s
Preliminary Injunction Order. (See Dkt. No. 243 at 4-7; Quiroz Decl. ¶ 4) (e.g.,
Crown management/Crowd Control management training, Crowd Management
and Control for Patrol training, requiring officers to undergo 24 hours of
perishable skills training every two years which includes use of force, LAPD
disseminated the content of the TRO to all personnel, and a notice to all personal
after the modified TRO was issued on April 28, 2021, LAPD issued nine
directives and policy updates regarding the use of 37mm and 40mm LLMs
between September 2021 and May 2025). Defendants do not argue that the
exceptions to the Preliminary Injunction Order apply here (e.g., if a protestor is
violently resisting arrest, poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnsn3gjqvtaianuuziyiqxlx/bafkreiasowqazj7cr3fk3qbghkvk75juqztyaab75kgw247rz4imhqpn64)
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."
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I keep saying that the government will not just announce that they are at war with the people but this statement is a pretty clear declaration
You think the fascist country that has killed millions around the world & was built on slavery & slaughter is “weak” & “scared?” Stop it. Take it seriously.
You think the fascist country that has killed millions around the world & was built on slavery & slaughter is “weak” & “scared?” Stop it. Take it seriously.
How is this not inciting violence?
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
Why must they remind ICE that they have immunity?
One of their agents just shot a killed a woman in broad daylight and they’re effectively telling them to go ahead and do whatever they want because they’re above the law.
Be safe Minneapolis.
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I keep saying that the government will not just announce that they are at war with the people but this statement is a pretty clear declaration
You think the fascist country that has killed millions around the world & was built on slavery & slaughter is “weak” & “scared?” Stop it. Take it seriously.
You think the fascist country that has killed millions around the world & was built on slavery & slaughter is “weak” & “scared?” Stop it. Take it seriously.
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This weekend, while writing a section of my book on COIN & police militarization, I took a moment to situate ICE Agent Jonathan Ross' trajectory in the post 9/11 era. From the Army->Border Patrol->ICE: he *embodies* Imperial Feedback.
At Bleeding Edge ($$) bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jonathan-ros...
At Bleeding Edge ($$) bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jonathan-ros...
Jonathan Ross is the Poster Boy for Post-9/11 America
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota last week is a living manifestation of America's Forever Wars and their stateside fallout
bleeding-edge.ghost.io
January 13, 2026 at 12:33 AM
This weekend, while writing a section of my book on COIN & police militarization, I took a moment to situate ICE Agent Jonathan Ross' trajectory in the post 9/11 era. From the Army->Border Patrol->ICE: he *embodies* Imperial Feedback.
At Bleeding Edge ($$) bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jonathan-ros...
At Bleeding Edge ($$) bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jonathan-ros...
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"The agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics. 'The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.'"
January 14, 2026 at 3:52 AM
"The agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics. 'The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.'"
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Henry Rivas was the worker who was taken by ICE from this spot in Echo Park. He was in the middle of painting this building when ICE rolled up and took him. You can support his family below:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
January 13, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Henry Rivas was the worker who was taken by ICE from this spot in Echo Park. He was in the middle of painting this building when ICE rolled up and took him. You can support his family below:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
Who do you go to for help when, in front of a room of some of the most powerful people in LA, a policeman laughs with a man wearing a swastika *while* the mother of a man murdered by the government sobs and begs those powerful people — ignoring the cop laughing with swastika man — for justice?
January 10, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Who do you go to for help when, in front of a room of some of the most powerful people in LA, a policeman laughs with a man wearing a swastika *while* the mother of a man murdered by the government sobs and begs those powerful people — ignoring the cop laughing with swastika man — for justice?
At the first LA City Council meeting of the year
There’s a guy in a swastika hoodie
Someone confronted him
LAPD kicked out THAT guy for being disruptive
And then laughed with the guy in the swastika hoodie about it
There’s a guy in a swastika hoodie
Someone confronted him
LAPD kicked out THAT guy for being disruptive
And then laughed with the guy in the swastika hoodie about it
January 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
At the first LA City Council meeting of the year
There’s a guy in a swastika hoodie
Someone confronted him
LAPD kicked out THAT guy for being disruptive
And then laughed with the guy in the swastika hoodie about it
There’s a guy in a swastika hoodie
Someone confronted him
LAPD kicked out THAT guy for being disruptive
And then laughed with the guy in the swastika hoodie about it