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Lorenzo Sunflower
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Devotion to the truth, which we call human truth, partakes of eternity.*
*Martin Buber 'Good and Evil.'

Grandma, mom, stepmom, retired public school educator. DKos 9091
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December 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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You'd think the 'Christian' label would get a Community Notes
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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As if those poor civilians haven’t suffered enough
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I'm surprised Cynthia Arivo is performing there.
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.

He had this to say about the experience:
Excerpt from Magnum. The text is by Anderson: "“A couple of days into our journey, the boat began to sink. We were doomed and we knew it. We started saying goodbye to one another. Strangely, it was quite calm on the boat. There was not much to do except resign oneself to the inevitability of it all. Up to that point, I had not taken many pictures. Everyone on the boat knew I was a photographer, but it somehow had not felt right. It’s difficult to explain. But as the boat sank, David, the Haitian whom I had followed on this journey, said to me, ‘Chris, you’d better start making pictures. We only have an hour to live.’ And so, without much thought, I began making pictures. We were saved at the last moment by a US coast guard cutter that happened upon us, but that’s another story. Much later on, back home safe, I reflected on this question: why make pictures that no one will ever see? The only explanation for me was that the act of photographing had more to do with the explaining of the world to myself than explaining something to someone else. The pictures were about communicating something about my experience, not about reporting literal information. This would be the single most transformative moment of my photographic life.”"
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The photographer on that boat was Christopher Anderson, who, 25 years later, snapped the famous photos of the Trump administration for Vanity Fair.
A photo of Stephen Miller for Vanity Fair. Excerpt from The Washington Post interview with Christopher Anderson: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”"
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The term is 'dry drunk'.
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM