Women’s March Sizzles, Shutdown Fizzles: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

Protect. 📷 @mbenderphoto #WomensMarch2018 #women pic.twitter.com/zRozvSzZ3X

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 22, 2018

In a fractured America this week, we had two major stories competing for attention, the Women’s March and the government shutdown. The marches were good size, more focused than last year, but not widely covered. The shutdown, for all the extraordinary political drams and the hope for an immigration breakthrough, was ultimately anti-climatic. Looking back, Trump, having led-on the moderates, tacked hard right and won the day. (At what long term cost, however, remains to be seen.) While on the subject, we highlight why “chain migration” is such an ugly phrase. And, we consider what new citizens might be thinking about the torn up welcome mat.

Rounding out the visual news, we note the remarkable sexual abuse trial of the former women’s Olympic team doctor. Then we dwell on another mass shooting, this one at a Kentucky high school. Yes, that’s the one that was hardly noticed. We have a shot from Mike Pence’s tone deaf Middle East excursion. Finally, we offer you two photos from the White House News Photographers Association best of 2017 contest. You can check out the rest of the fine work here.

In an age where the news cycle is all, packs quite a punch. #WomensMarchNYC @spencerplatt1 @GettyImages @latimesphotos https://t.co/5VbeTlbZRV pic.twitter.com/Sx9ZV7iUFT

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 22, 2018

Pic of the day. Absent actual push. (And on Monday, he’ll likely be sitting at home.) 📷Tom Williams/@CQRollCall A worker pushes a #Senate subway car Friday morning as the Senate considers the House passed CR to fund the government on 1/19/18.) https://t.co/MzWrM8jt3S pic.twitter.com/NYyhBg1NWe

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 19, 2018

So much for art of the deal. 📷Oliver Contreras @postphoto “The Ohio Clock outside the @Senate Chamber strikes midnight at the U.S. Capitol on January 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers were unable to pass a continuing resolution in time to avert a government #shutdown.” pic.twitter.com/B7dJHYWMRL

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 20, 2018

With his wild contradictory swings this week over immigration, now hurtling us toward government shutdown, his disease couldn’t be illustrated more clearly: Split personality. 📷@evanvucci pic.twitter.com/fH3lFEVOhF

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 19, 2018

Disappointed to hear on @NPR, once again today, the term “chain migration” as if it were accurate and neutral. It is NOT. Words matter, as our recent book shows, and “chain migration” is a misleading, ideological phrase that NPR is unwittingly making mainstream (1/3) pic.twitter.com/STGGp3T6CY

— KarthickRamakrishnan (@karthickr) January 18, 2018

Complete agree. Even more, it’s a visually loaded term that would do Rove or Atwater proud. It has echos of prisons, prisoners, chain gangs. Get real. https://t.co/u3HxwOsdLY

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 19, 2018

Beyond the obscenities and the posturing, what must Anna Nwaibari Okoro be thinking? 📷Repost @keithbedford. Originally from Nigeria, Anna closes her eyes before taking the oath of citizenship at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, 1/17/18. pic.twitter.com/IxZAg8FEH0

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 19, 2018

Quite a set of photos from the #Nassar trial, all 72 @reuterspictures. At this time of awakening in America, had the quality of a #sexualabuse truth-and-reconciliation tribunal. (Was like yesterday that victims felt like the guilty ones.) https://t.co/V2eZBbsgGa pic.twitter.com/1KeWfCk1GB

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 25, 2018

We can’t solve our biggest problems if we fail to acknowledge they exist, @MSNBC, @FoxNews, @CNN. When kids witness their classmate open fire on their school, we should all be talking about it and demanding answers. pic.twitter.com/Zo3h419tq8

— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) January 24, 2018

A profound commentary on a culture. https://t.co/k3SYbv35zX

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 24, 2018

Stasis on guns and number of incidents yields state of fatigue. So sorry for Marshall County, their loss reduced to the familiar scenes (if you’ve even seen the pictures). #SchoolShootings #BentonKY #gunviolence @PaducahSunNews @AP_Images https://t.co/5qFpTtyiBc pic.twitter.com/w4WNVobLbp

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 25, 2018

My friend, @VP Mike Pence, welcome to Jerusalem – the capital of Israel. pic.twitter.com/kJS6NPzRpo

— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 22, 2018

Guess they shared the canary. https://t.co/n7u179BEUO

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 23, 2018

Since Obama left office, there have been far fewer photos of African-American kids in the halls of power. This was one. @WHNPA #EyesOfHistory2018. On Capitol Hill/Third Place. Aaron P. Bernstein. Cory Booker with students from Newark as they visit #CapitolHill 5/25/17. pic.twitter.com/AkFP5nW1dT

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 23, 2018

If we’re honest and not just spiteful, we’ll remember him a little like Houdini. @WHNPA Awards #EyesOfHistory2018. 2nd Place/Politics. @StephenVoss @Politico. From: THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF #TRUMP. Washington, DC. pic.twitter.com/KWGXIlSbcN

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) January 23, 2018

Photo: Melissa Bender via Instagram. Caption: Women’s March, New York City, January 20, 2018.