Usamah "Sam" Husseini

...except that many people appeared to be socializing nicely.

No reflecting, no pool, just a ditch

There hasn't been much serious reflecting in DC for a long time, so
this seems appropriate.

But feel sad for the Hiroshima commemorations that John Steinbeck
organizes there.

Life in the DC Metro

Woman with slight Mona Lisa smile reading messages wearing McDonald's uniform on bus

Most buildings today are beautiful in their construction and destruction. Abominations in between.

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Streets paved with kitsch jewelry

medium signed

My "Concrete Expressionism" Set in the DC Metro

"Concrete Expressionism: Adventures in the DC Metro". One of my favorite photo sets. Did this in 2007 with my friend Matt Bradley's camera. Just realized I'd let my flickr account lapse, so the pics have been mothballed until today.

I love seeing art at the museum that they don't

Usamah Husseini

“Indefatigable” — Robert Parry (RIP). “Bomb thrower” — some Bloomberg reporter. “Cut his mic!” — Bill O'Reilly.

This is the personal (mostly political) blog of Usamah "Sam" Husseini, a writer and artist living in Riverdale, Maryland. Sign up to his Substack.

He is also an artist -- creating pieces that work with Nature: BeThatEmpty.org.

Bylines at CounterPunch, antiwar.com, The Nation, Salon, Consortium News, FAIR and elsewhere. He's founder of VotePact.org -- which helps break out of the two party bind.

He is also senior analyst for the Institute for Public Accuracy.

See his CV.

samhusseini atttttt gmail dottttt com -- no lists please. @samhusseini sam.husseini

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On critical mass bike ride; what I love are the shadows

Just before yesterday's Critical Mass -- "Look at All the Lonely People"