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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
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Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) is seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border (above). Her community is rife with rhino poachers and the village has been known to shelter poachers running from the authorities. Nomsa walks more than 21 kilometers of game fence every few days as part of her role in the village police, an initiative set up by the anti-poaching team at Sabie Game Park, the most active reserve on the Mozambiqe side of the border.
Nomsa and the other village police are threatened by their community who say they are interfering in money coming into the village from poachers. A month after this photograph was taken, Nomsa and the other village police were beaten so badly they had to be evacuated. They have not been able to return to work in their villages.
Inside Kruger National Park, the largest rhinoceros reserve in the world, along the border of Mozambique and South Africa, there exists a battle between poachers and small NGOs trying to protect this rare species. After crossing the border into Mozambique, the life expectancy for a rhinoceros is 24 hours. It is an environmental crisis, caused by Asia's upper class hunger for the horn, which is worth more than gold.
The horn is part of an ancient Asian medical system and today is seen as a cure for everything from cancer to kidney stones. Essentially keratin, a mild alkaline substance identical to fingernails, the horn is ground down and then ingested by the sick and the wealthy of Vietnam and China, The imbiber hopes for a miracle cure, but science has shown that it has a placebo effect at best.
In South Africa, with so-called “Rhino Ranches”, such as that of millionaire John Hume who owns 1,500 rhinoceroses worth over $50 million in horn, the job of protecting the rhinoceros is increasingly dangerous and politicized. It is painted as a “white issue” in South Africa and often framed in apartheid terminology, a convenient methodology for poachers and their handlers.
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016 ![]()
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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On the Need for a Photography of the Anthropocene https://eyeson.earth/blog/2017@eyeson_earth@ddimick@JimRichardsonNG#photography#environment
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![Displaced Iraqis flee their homes due to fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 2017. The Iraqi security forces advance comes as part of a major assault that started five days earlier to drive Islamic State militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)]()
Displaced Iraqis flee their homes due to fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2017. The Iraqi security forces advance comes as part of a major assault that started five days earlier to drive Islamic State militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.: photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP, 20 February 2017
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#Iraq. Displaced from #mosul. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 25 February 2017
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The battle for #Mosul continues as Iraqi troops fight to expel #IslamicState #jihadists from the west of the city Photo @ArisMessinis@AFPphoto: image via Sunday Times Pictures @STPictures, 25 February 2017
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As per usual, #belgrade #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 30 January 2017
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Happy to have been featured #on @instagram and Instagram stories: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 16 February 2017
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Charging, #serbia #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 10 February 2017
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Camping, #serbia #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 7 February 2017
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Great meeting with CEOs of leading U.S. health insurance companies who provide great healthcare to the American people.: image via Donald J. Trump @#realDonaldTrump, 27 February 2017
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Today #HBCU leaders visited the White House. They are formal but Kellyann isn't. If I ever put my feet on furniture in the WH, kick me.: image via Monica Cox @monicafcox, 27 February 2017
Olivier Knox Retweeted AFP news agency
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? cc: @jeneps: image via Justin Hamilton @justinhamilton, 26 February 2017
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Pres Trump addresses governors this morning in the State Dining Room: image via Steve Holland @steveholland1, 27 February 2017
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This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
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This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
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This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
![Protesters clash with police in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge President Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed "Not My President's Day." (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)]()
Protesters clash with police in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge President Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed "Not My President's Day.": photo by Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, 20 February 2017
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
Rhino Wars is photographer @Brent Stirton's first prize story for Nature, #WPPPh2017: image via World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 25 February 2017
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
From Rhino Wars—Nature, first prize stories #WPPh2017: image via World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto, 27 February 2017
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Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border.Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
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Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border.Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border.Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border.Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Rhino Wars: photos by Brent Stirton/Getty Images for National Geographic: Nature, first prize stories, World Press Photo, 5 April 2017
Sabie Game park Village Police member Nomsa Nduvane (38) is seen in her modest home inside the community of Macacasar, Mozambique, South Africa border (above). Her community is rife with rhino poachers and the village has been known to shelter poachers running from the authorities. Nomsa walks more than 21 kilometers of game fence every few days as part of her role in the village police, an initiative set up by the anti-poaching team at Sabie Game Park, the most active reserve on the Mozambiqe side of the border.
Nomsa and the other village police are threatened by their community who say they are interfering in money coming into the village from poachers. A month after this photograph was taken, Nomsa and the other village police were beaten so badly they had to be evacuated. They have not been able to return to work in their villages.
Inside Kruger National Park, the largest rhinoceros reserve in the world, along the border of Mozambique and South Africa, there exists a battle between poachers and small NGOs trying to protect this rare species. After crossing the border into Mozambique, the life expectancy for a rhinoceros is 24 hours. It is an environmental crisis, caused by Asia's upper class hunger for the horn, which is worth more than gold.
The horn is part of an ancient Asian medical system and today is seen as a cure for everything from cancer to kidney stones. Essentially keratin, a mild alkaline substance identical to fingernails, the horn is ground down and then ingested by the sick and the wealthy of Vietnam and China, The imbiber hopes for a miracle cure, but science has shown that it has a placebo effect at best.
In South Africa, with so-called “Rhino Ranches”, such as that of millionaire John Hume who owns 1,500 rhinoceroses worth over $50 million in horn, the job of protecting the rhinoceros is increasingly dangerous and politicized. It is painted as a “white issue” in South Africa and often framed in apartheid terminology, a convenient methodology for poachers and their handlers.
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Photo from Rhino Wars by Brent Stirton, first prize story for Nature, World Press Photo Awards2017: image via World Press Photo @World Press Photo @WorldPressPhoto 27 February 2016
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Dennis Dimick
Reading The Pictures added,
"We cannot save or protect what we cannot see." Rallying cry for newly emphatic and emphatically new environmental #photography. Time is now.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 February 2017
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How telling @Brent Stirton pic wins #Nature prize @worldpressphoto. Poached #SoAfrica rhino opened up like watermelon: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 February 2016
How telling @Brent Stirton pic wins #Nature prize @worldpressphoto. Poached #SoAfrica rhino opened up like watermelon: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 27 February 2016
Imagine living through this
Trump hypes #terror, mil budget while #ISIS on ropes in Mosul. Iraqi's attack from west as war mints new refugees--the real issue. Photo @Reuters: image via ReadingThePictures@ReadingThePix, 27 February 2017
Displaced Iraqis flee their homes due to fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2017. The Iraqi security forces advance comes as part of a major assault that started five days earlier to drive Islamic State militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.: photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP, 20 February 2017
"lock your doors." order in a Humvee as civilians flee edge of west Mosul. soldiers worry about ISIS attackers among them + need to screen: image via Mike Giglio @mike_giglio, 23 February 2017
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Finally having to flee the fighting: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
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This man's brother was killed in an airstrike. His eyes are red from crying. He's having to leave his brother's body behind.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017 ![]()
Civilians fleeing the fighting in Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
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Families leaving.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
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Iraqi forces encountering heavy resistance as they push forward their advance into west Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 24 February 2017
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Imagine living through this.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 22 February 2017
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A rare sight around here - a civilian. First one I've seen in four days although team member spotted some on Monday: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 22 February 2017
Civilians on the airports edge. Iraqi forces all along the perimeter and inside now.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
In the midst of the madness... horses: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Finally having to flee the fighting: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Civilians fleeing the fighting in Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Civilians fleeing the fighting in Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
This man's brother was killed in an airstrike. His eyes are red from crying. He's having to leave his brother's body behind.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Civilians fleeing the fighting in Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Pity those trapped in this.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Families leaving.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 23 February 2017
Iraqi forces encountering heavy resistance as they push forward their advance into west Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 24 February 2017
Washing still on line as an almighty battle erupts around these houses in West Mosul: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 24 February 2017
This monster barked continually last night then slept all day. Can't imagine the IS fighters who lived here before were big fans. Poor pup.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommevillebbc, 24 February 2017
Dark skies about the south of the city.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommevillebbc, 24 February 2017
Imagine living through this.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 22 February 2017
Imagine living through this.: image via Quentin Sommerville @sommervillebbc, 22 February 2017
#Iraq. Iraqi troops keep fighting IS fighters as they continue advancing in #mosul. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMsssinis, 27 February 2017
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IRAQ - A displaced Iraqi woman from the Dindan neighborhood in Mosul is seen as she flees towards the Hammam al-Alil area. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 February 2017
IRAQ - A displaced Iraqi woman from the Dindan neighborhood in Mosul is seen as she flees towards the Hammam al-Alil area. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 February 2017
#Iraq. Displaced from #mosul. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 25 February 2017
As per usual
As per usual, #belgrade #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 30 January 2017
Happy to have been featured #on @instagram and Instagram stories: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 16 February 2017
Charging, #serbia #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 10 February 2017
Camping, #serbia #migrants #refugees: image via Marko Drobnjakovic @xmd101, 7 February 2017
Kellyanne checks her phone (fantastic animal playset)
Great meeting with CEOs of leading U.S. health insurance companies who provide great healthcare to the American people.: image via Donald J. Trump @#realDonaldTrump, 27 February 2017
Today #HBCU leaders visited the White House. They are formal but Kellyann isn't. If I ever put my feet on furniture in the WH, kick me.: image via Monica Cox @monicafcox, 27 February 2017
Olivier Knox Retweeted AFP news agency
Olivier Knox added,
This is one where I go full-on Coastal Elite. Just do not care. She may have taken the pic standing on the sofa. Still don't care. Judge me.
image via Olivier Knox @OKnox, 27 February 2017
? cc: @jeneps: image via Justin Hamilton @justinhamilton, 26 February 2017
Press Sec Spicer re investigation into alleged Trump campaign/Russia contacts “I guess my question would be... A special prosecutor for what?”: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 27 February 2017
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Pres Trump addresses governors this morning in the State Dining Room: image via Steve Holland @steveholland1, 27 February 2017
"Forget it, Jake. It's La La Land." #oscars2017 #mistakesweremade #moonlight: image via Stephen Crowley @Stcrow, 27 February 2017
This is the reaction in the press trophy room amongst the photographers when the #Oscars mistake was made.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 27 February 2017
This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
This photo sums up the #Oscars perfectly.: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 27 February 2017
Protesters clash with police in Portland, Ore., on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge President Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed "Not My President's Day.": photo by Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, 20 February 2017