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Zines - A Dousing of News Clips

Through August 31st (2025), we've lived through 224 days of the Donald J. Trump Presidency.  Upon his inauguration, I began a zine series representing the news articles/issues for roughly two-month periods of time.  PoliZine #1 covered Inauguration Day through February 28, and PoliZine #2 covered March 1 through April 30.  

This post contains photos of PoliZine #3 (May 1-June 30) and PoliZine #4 (July 1-August 31).  Both are digital collages of many shared Facebook posts from those time periods about political stories prominent in the news cycle during the respective periods.  

These PoliZines feel like hosting containers for information dumps I've needed to make for my own unburdening.  None of them are pretty, and they have no order.  But isn't that what we -- who are citizens of the U.S. -- have been living through since January 20th?  Looking at it this way, they seem quite fitting.

How are you artfully expressing your reactions, positively or negatively, to the politics of our time?

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