Law and Disorder: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup

This could prove to be the defining image of the White House’s recent Mooch Moment: https://t.co/4xKbpyatm1 pic.twitter.com/c2OeHrzJhz

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 3, 2017

As we all grow more visually savvy, also defines how individual photos carrying lot more editorial weight. https://t.co/t9rmOV7q6a

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 3, 2017

Call it our law-and-order edition. Or, the attempt at it, anyway.

Clearly, new White House Chief-of-Staff, General John Kelly, has his work cut out for him. After a bloodletting in the West Wing that shook up Trump’s motley crew, our sequence of Kelly photos tells you how much we really expect to change. Kelly may be disciplined, but he’s dealing with a family that knows only drama and chaos, the storm clouds tinged with feigned optimism.

To distract from the Russia investigations and the White House fire fight, Trump, too, went full authoritarian this week. Ginning up the culture war, he tweet-banned trans soldiers from the military and encouraged cops to rough up detainees. Because transgender soldiers have been the subject of many documentary photo stories, get ready for visual pushback there. At the same time, other threats — such as North Korea’s ICBM tests — seemed to generated fluff.

Given what’s at stake, we’re also paying closer attention to environmental stories. And here, in contrast to the tempest in the White House, the question is: how much can photography deliver with authority?

Symbolic #JohnKelly pic arriving in W Va for #Trump MAGA event. New sheriff in town #speakingwiththeirhands @saulloeb @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/rBSxZ0nlME

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 4, 2017

Looking forward to serving alongside John Kelly as we work for the American people. General Kelly is a true American hero. pic.twitter.com/XQLuFaS3ce

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 31, 2017

Word “alongside” gobsmacks even more w photo. So 2-sided, factional. Then there’s having Daddy’s back + what happens when looks other way. https://t.co/eP1F8zE2iy

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 1, 2017

One more from the Kelly-Trump intro by @evanvucci. The General as furniture. @AP_Images @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/tVDyCQ18AN

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 1, 2017

“Y’know where you protect their heads putting ’em in the wagon? You can take your hands away.” (Cheers.) Also flanking #Trump w women again. pic.twitter.com/uhTSLsTLaP

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 28, 2017

Mood. 📷@olivercontreras #WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/LHJhiJuzjS

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 28, 2017

Leaving dinner at the White House with @EricTrump and @LaraLeaTrump. Thank you dad! pic.twitter.com/x3xWswOOWo

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 3, 2017

Always looking up. https://t.co/3HSsiqQ04Y

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 3, 2017

All respect to@jeffsheng, were so sure this work was behind us. #Trans #troops serving in shadows. https://t.co/4ShDm0ks0w via @CNNPhotos pic.twitter.com/vY6sfMsL05

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 28, 2017

How #Iraq war info & interest steers toward #infotainment. Like #ISIS customized #car bombs, #MadMax. https://t.co/VkBOfztQQr 📷@Reuters

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 3, 2017

Also scary how much #NKorea threat pix pushed out by #military PR so much eye candy. https://t.co/qYhpUlJQbI via @GettyImages @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/yDBTUscetu

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) August 1, 2017

Most odious: that Mongolian’s wouldn’t see dead grassland livestock #sculptures as testimony. @visapourlimage press pix 📷Lu Guang #pollution pic.twitter.com/nolsnj5wgD

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 30, 2017

Still, languorous & thoroughly unnerving when we understand warming vanishing parts of #Kiribati republic. #visapourlimage2017 📷@Vlad_Sokhin pic.twitter.com/NtOQ5XVEvE

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) July 30, 2017

Seeing the environment – but really seeing it – is arguably our most critical challenge. Hilary’s photo balances an artful rush with the requirement, helped along by the hashtags (especially the longing one) to understand what we’re actually looking at. And its vascular quality seems to speak less to the head than our bodies.⠀ ⠀ Reposting @hlswift:⠀ …⠀ “#Glacier #Alaska #IDontWantToLeave”

A post shared by Reading The Pictures (@readingthepictures) on Aug 1, 2017 at 9:38am PDT

Photo: Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS. Caption: Former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (C) says hello to reporters as he and White House advisors Sebastian Gorka (from L), Omarosa Manigault and Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci accompany President Trump for an event celebrating veterans at AMVETS Post 44 in Struthers, Ohio, U.S. July 25, 2017.