Robert Gumpert

The magic of Donckers has graced Marquette for over 130 years! Let's ensure small businesses like this one can last another 130 by passing Medicare for All. 🍬🍭🍫

Really wish this was surprising, it’s not. A Damning Account Alleges Jared Kushner Conducted Diplomacy for Profit www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

Part of San Francisco just flooded on a sunny day. Here’s what it looked like www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

Orwellian arguments, fuzzy math and a hippie cult: This is the dawning of the S.F. midterm election missionlocal.org/2026/10/dani...

Living With The Sea This is work I did (exactly 20 years ago) & may give you a brief glimpse into the lives of a couple of families who work on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. Visit this bay at high tide, it looks wild and empty, but as the tide falls... 1/11

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

And that's why Marine Engineers - who sweated blood to keep those engines running - hated the deck department.

I like sailing. It goes back to the whole basics of the experience. You are more in touch with why your ship is moving and how you affect the ship moving. 

On a big metal ship with an engine, the engine goes ... That's not a big connection really. robertgumpert.com/from-the-hir...

Make Susan Collins Pay for Her Big Abortion Lie newrepublic.com/post/217070/...

Well, Lindsey is already reaping the "benefits" of being a hate-filled, evil motherfucker. The rest will get what they deserve as well - in this life or the next.

I found out about this one at the opening of the Rebellion! exhibition and am going to do my best to be there to document these arrests.

Ara Güler, the eye of Istanbul. Like Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929), which filmed life in Soviet cities over several years, he recorded the Istanbul of the 1960s and ’70s. Before he became a photographer, he was a projectionist, working at the old Yıldız Cinema.

So now it’s election fraud and a crime to have the same name as a Republican on the ballot. Smacks big time of govt woke. Trump Says He Ordered Justice Dept. to Intervene in Alaska Senate Race

Which college football teams are spending $50 million. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

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Peter Thiel's Palmer Luckey stays innovating the worst possible things you can even imagine

Have the last 2 years been “amazing” for you and your family?

Dr Matthew in front of the photo of him being arrested for peacefully protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action. Private view of our Rebellion! exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery yesterday. A man of principle and it was a pleasure to meet him in person.

The millions spent by California billionaires against Prop. 40 is about 0.07% of their wealth www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Judge threatens to dismiss Trump’s BBC lawsuit unless he cooperates with discovery process and sits for deposition www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm a doctor and a dad. I rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services. We put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, eliminated medical debt. It just shouldn't be this hard to get by in the richest country in the world.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Remembering the Aberfan children. 21st October 1966. In the morning hush so cold and stark And grey skys overhead. When the mountain moved its awesome mass To leave generations of dead. Local poet, Ron Cook.

THIS is the energy we need from our leaders! 💥💥💥 #VoteBlue #StrongerTogether

"Some may object as follows: Musk owns Starlink. Doesn’t he have the right to do what he wants with a business he owns? No." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

California’s oceans have become shockingly warm. And strange things are happening www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11 www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Gerard Exupery. ‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky.’ ‘I’ve always wanted to take pictures from the moment my dad helped steady his Rolleiflex in my shakey little hands while I took my first picture. His death greatly influenced why and what I see, and how I photograph it’.

Australia to Sue Meta and TikTok for Failing to Enforce Under-16s Social Media Ban petapixel.com/2026/10/21/a...

Corruption - everywhere you look

Mike Rogers was just caught on tape talking about how he wanted to make sure that there were retired cops who could intimidate voters in the city of Detroit. We deserve the right to vote. People have fought and died for that right. No more election deniers.

we got vague platitudes that reeked of defensiveness and dismissiveness. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Endless greed. How Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him From California’s Proposed Wealth Tax www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

In more than six decades spent in and around economic policymaking, I never imagined having to write a piece such as this. If we act now, we … www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Those claims, however, mask his real agenda: to protect and enhance the wealth and income of the superrich — most importantly himself — while leaving driblets behind for the struggling working class. Trump Can No Longer Mask His Real Agenda www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

AI-Edited Photos Can Lead People to Form False Memories petapixel.com/2026/10/19/a...

Behind the Settler Attack on Palestinians and a Washington Post Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Great Escape: Street Photography as Visual Haiku Embarking on a poetic drift through his older work, Bouwe Brouwer Photographs by Bouwe Brouwer Text by Magali Duzant www.lensculture.com/articles/bou...

All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea review – stirring portrait of fishers driven to eco-activism. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

Ken Loach has been making films that focus on the political and social experiences of the working class, from the earlier BBC plays to his Palme d’Or award winning films. He's always been a constant in my cineaste life. Land and Freedom. Cathy Come Home. My Name Is Joe. Riff-Raff.

‘Big business’: little-known court system in Louisiana churns out thousands of evictions – and millions in fees for judges www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Key findings from the Guardian’s investigation of Louisiana’s justice of the peace courts www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...