Joseph Ciembroniewicz

J. Ciembroniewicz

Paul Ridlon, a pagan druid who also goes by the name Magnus de Rhuddlan, wears his “Moss Bear” suit as he stands inside of his yurt in Portland, Maine, on Feb. 11, 2026. Ridlon is a member of the Maine Pagan Clergy Association, and “Moss Bear” is one of several suits he constructed for use during shamanic rituals and community events.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner holds a town hall in front of hundreds of curious Mainers at the Edward K. Arey Community Center in Bucksport, Maine, on Nov. 15, 2025.

Family members Miguel Martinez, left, Kye Martinez, 3, and Chebna Altimeau spend time together at the Gene Leahy Mall in Omaha, Neb. on May 26, 2026.

Participants in the University of Rochester pro-Palestine encampment pray during a sit-in inside the administrative building, Wallis Hall, as Peace Officers from the UR Department of Public Safety observe in Rochester, N.Y. on May 1, 2024. The sit-in was intended as a means to bring administrators back to the negotiating table for the university’s academic and financial divestment from Israel.

Penelope Baird, 13, swings in front of an American flag hung above a street in Chautauqua, N.Y. on July 4, 2025.

Mainers gather in small groups organized by region, during a National Day of Prayer event, organized by the Christian Civic League of Maine, near the State House in Augusta, Maine on Thursday May 7, 2026.

A family of beagle-mixes riding in their owner’s car pause at a red light on East Third Street, in Maysville, Ky. on Oct. 22, 2025.

From left Dahabo, Aden, and their son, Duale, 2, who are Somali, ride the elevator to U.S. Senator Susan Collins office to drop off a passport photo in Lewiston, Maine during a statewide ICE surge on Jan. 23, 2026.

Aaron, an Auburn resident, pepper sprays a man who tried to take his pro-ICE sign as he stood in the median on Main St. in Lewiston, Maine on Feb. 1, 2026. Aaron said that even though the ICE surge was mostly over, he wanted to rile up fellow conservatives.

Sarah Aljitawi, a Palestinian-American University of Rochester student organizer for divestment from Israel stands on Eastman Quadrangle in front of Rush Rhees Library, in Rochester, N.Y. on Feb. 20, 2025. Eastman Quadrangle was the site of the UR pro-Palestine encampment.

From left, Tyler Donnelly, Kelsey Donnelly, Ron Lewis, James, 6, Alexis, 7, and Jackie Lewis visit Edith German’s headstone in the Omaha National Cemetery in Papillion, Neb. on Friday, July 3, 2026. German was the family’s mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. German’s husband, Kenneth, served in the Airforce, and she was a registered nurse, who worked in the Omaha V.A. hospital.

Dead freshwater drum lie strewn across Barcelona Beach, on Lake Erie in Westfield, N.Y. on August 2, 2025. The fish were killed following an upswelling that forced cold water from the bottom of the lake to the surface, resulting in a temperature shift that the fish could not survive.

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