This photo by Pierre Lavie of John Abernathy in Jan 2026 in Minneapolis should win a Pulitizer

[irisblue]

I think about this photo and it's inevitable place in history texts about the US slide into decline

[aeromanKC]

1. This photo will be in the 2025 chapter

Just as the fire hoses on the people pics are in the early 1960's chapter.

[republianmushroom]

2. trump's private SS Gestapo.

[Amaryllis]

4. Yep. Springsteen nailed it in Streets of Minneapolis.

[Wild blueberry]

3. Journalist and hero

Yes, into history. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
Thank you.

[NBachers]

5. My God - an overwhelming mixture of sadness and anger.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. That's what I thought the first time I saw it: Pulitzer!

Remarkably Abernathy said his camera wasn't damaged.

[GiqueCee]

7. When these evil psychopaths go down...

... and they ARE going down, they're gonna go down HARD. And the sooner the better.

[llmart]

8. If we don't put an end to today's Republicanism...

it'll never get into the history textbooks. They'll be revising a whole lot of history.

[irisblue]

9. I disagree, the rapid self administered collapse of the Americian Experiment will be in history books

Maybe not in American ones till 50+ years on.
Other nations and cultures are watching.


And yes republicansim is a disease

[llmart]

11. I don't disagree, but if truthful history is only in other countries' books...

then Americans will continue to only get the revised history which will lead them to be dumbed down even further.

I'm not worried about other countries. Right now we need to turn ours around from this downward spiral.

[fujiyamasan]

15. The internet remembers

Even if they try to transform the culture through warped propaganda, the images will still be there.

I know what you’re saying though. China is an interesting example. Over decades their government censored the tank man photo and several surveys indicated a majority of Chinese (especially younger people) either hadn’t seen it or believed it was fake news or a scene from a movie. It will be harder for republicans to enact that level of control, given the cultural differences, but I’m sure they’ll do their best.

So yes we should definitely be vigilant.

[BidenRocks]

10. Let me know when we really are down to

Second Amendment remedies.
The American underground, like the Europeans in WWII.
Will OUR military fight Americans at home?

We know the enemy. It is us!

[lame54]

12. Is that camera in mid-air?

[irisblue]

13. Yep, Abernathy, the guy getting abused by ICE& border patrol threw his camera to Lavie, another photographer

They both knew ICE & the border patrol would delete or damage the images Abernathy took.

Lavie snapped his photo & took Abernathys' camera to safety and into history

[calimary]

14. What a shot!

Deserves every kind of award there is to give.