Photos above and below from a Sunday protest of the government shutdown, now in its second week. Shared by outtacontext in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.
Government Shutdown protest on Capitol Hill (photos from the Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
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Eastern Blocks: photographs of the brutalist towers of the former USSR
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