Nick Baumann

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Jun 15, 1976 - Plains, Georgia, U.S. President JIMMY CARTER takes a forceful swing during a softball game at his alma mater - Plains High School in Plains, Georgia. Catching is James Wooten of The New York Times and the ump is Ralph Nader dressed in a heavy wool…

Stunning black & white photo of the Capitol via Ghosts of DC

Great photo post from the great Aaron Wiener.

(via NASA - New York City on September 11, 2001)

Best thing ever. By the AP’s Carolyn Kaster.

motherjones:

soupsoup:

Great Biden photo or greatest Biden photo?

Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion. Not the Onion.

motherjones:

breakingnews:

Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly scale French Alps

Reuters: Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords traveled to the French Alps on Monday with her astronaut husband Mark Kelly.

Giffords, still recovering from wounds after being shot last year, was on her first trip outside the United States since the January 2011 shooting.

Photo: Giffords, center, stands with her husband Mark Kelly, right, and mountain guide Vincent Lameyre (Denis Balibouse / Reuters)

Awesome.

Keith Richards

…and Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Joan Baez, and a bunch of other people we’ve never heard of from rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall. Y’all wanna see this slideshow. 

(Source: motherjones)

From our engagement photos.

This is a photo from Mary Harris “Mother” Jones’ funeral.