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Published — 22 February 2026 ⏭

Chatting The Pictures: Eleven Neighbors with Phones vs. ICE: How One Image Spoke for a City

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This photo by Leila Navidi for the Minneapolis Star Tribune captures St. Paul residents on February 11, 2026, using their phones to confront militarized immigration enforcement. On a Cathedral Hill sidewalk, neighbors stand shoulder to shoulder, recording heavily armed agents and, together, shaping a counternarrative to state power. At the center is Minnesota Public Radio News reporter Sam Stroozas, still in her bathrobe and slippers after realizing the ICE raid was unfolding just blocks from her home. The image provides a new level of visibility for community witness and observation networks.

In the video, we explore how the public’s organization and solidarity made this moment resonate—and the small but striking details that helped it go viral, from the bathrobe to the collective presence of the camera as a democratic eye.

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Where Are We Going? Nuclear War Part 3

Today’s episode is the third and final of David’s conversations with S. M. Amadae about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, this time looking to the future. What are the prospects for nuclear disarmament in the 21st century? How does the risk of nuclear war intersect with other existential risks, from climate change to AI? Is the world more dangerous than it has ever been? What are the grounds for hope we might still get out of this alive?

Out tomorrow on PPF+: a bonus episode to accompany this series of conversations in which David explores John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946), the definitive account of what it’s actually like to be on the receiving end of a nuclear attack. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

Tickets are on sale now for our new film season at the Regent Street Cinema in London – starting on 19th March with James Marriott talking to David about Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan. All the details are here https://www.ppfideas.com/events

Join us on 11th March for a joint LRB/PPF event: The Slow Death of Democracy - with Lyse Doucet, Christopher Clark and Thant Myint-U. Tickets are available now https://www.tickettailor.com/events/londonreviewofbooks/2062789

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Next Time: Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse

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