Point Loma Pam

No #place to go
Tatiana, a Columbian mother, shelters her daughter in an open air migrant camp in Jacumba Hot Springs, California

Hundreds of migrants are stranded days in open desert awaiting processing. Volunteers struggle to provide food, water & blankets #DailyPictureTheme #DoBetter

A young mother, wearing a red hat, face mask, lavender top and jeans, crouches down close to the ground. She embraces a child sitting on bare ground, wrapped in a Thomas the tank engine blanket, trying to warm the child with her body. The only visible part of the child is her sneakers. Photo by Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times

08:39 PM - Dec 22, 2023

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My 2018 response to FLOTUS Melania Trump’s “fashion statement” jacket that read: “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?” that she wore to visit migrant children

I wore mine at a pro-immigration march in California near Mexican border protesting kids in cages 🇲🇽🇺🇸 #care #migrantjustice #DailyPictureTheme

A woman in a wide-brimmed red straw hat stands outdoors by a large American flag on a pole. She looks sideways toward the flag with her back facing the camera. The back of her black jacket has been decorated with masking tape to form the words: I CARE. DO U?

02:35 AM - Dec 20, 2023

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An “Earth Paper” art sculpture by artist Keith Anderson has pride of place over my mantle. I think it’s stunning & my best ever Goodwill #rescue
See artist on IG earthpaperbykeith #thrifting #BlackExcellence #DailyPictureTheme

A large horizontal art form hangs on a white wall over a fireplace mantle. Its highly textured canvas is made of pulp paper shaped and molded. It depicts a scene with mountains and hills in dark orange, brick red and brown, with painted green details. The scene is embedded with sliced agates, shiny black stones and split geodes with crystal centers. The mantle also displays artifacts in similar colors, such as fossils, rock, petrified wood and a raptor carved from a water buffalo horn.

05:00 PM - Dec 17, 2023

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Opuntia santa-rita or Santa Rita Prickly Pear #purple #DailyPictureTheme

A cluster of prickly pear cactus, with light green and purple hues, grows on sandy ground next to a rusty wagon. In the background is a golden washed, stucco wall with a sprinkling of small holes and a single doorway. Colorful metal flowers adorn the door frame. A rough, rustic door is partly open.

01:58 PM - Dec 16, 2023

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A Borneo #forest warden was clearing dangerous snakes from a river, to protect local primates. Thinking he fell in, a helpful orangutan offers his hand. #kindness
Photo by Anil Prabhakar #DailyPictureTheme

An adult orangutan on a leafy green river bank reaches out one hand to a man wearing a ranger uniform who is up to his chest in water.

03:37 PM - Dec 14, 2023

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🍾🥂Champagne on my #table on November 7, 2020, the day Joe Biden & Kamala Harris won the election. I had saved that bottle, bought for Hillary, since election night 2016.

🇺🇸 May we all celebrate a #Biden /Harris victory again in 2024! #DailyPictureTheme

The foreground shows a teak coffee table with an opened bottle of champagne resting on a blue hand towel. A full glass of champagne rests on a coaster. In the background, a television screen shows celebrants live on stage at the Biden/Harris victory party in 2020. The chyron reads: JOE BIDEN ELECTED PRESIDENT.

09:50 PM - Dec 09, 2023

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Lowrider car culture is BIG in #SanDiego . Cruising was widely banned, but advocates just got a new law passed making it legal across #California

Defying stereotypes associated with crime, cruising is about family & community coming together #low #lowandslow #DailyPictureTheme

An older man in a straw hat and holding a cane smiles proudly as he stands by the back of a spectacular bright red Chevy Impala with a fancy chrome bumper and red spare wheel holder. The lowrider is a convertible with its top down, revealing a red and white interior. The hood is up.

06:47 AM - Dec 09, 2023

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“Fear is contagious, but so is #courage .”
—Ukrainian platoon leader

Let’s see some courage in Congress to send more aid to the heroes of Ukraine! #SlavaUkrainii #DailyPictureTheme
Photograph: Emre Çaylak/The Guardian

A half-dozen Ukrainian soldiers in camouflage and armor carry backpacks and weapons in a field with large muddy ruts. A young female soldier in a helmet stares at the camera.

02:18 AM - Dec 08, 2023

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I would #pause (paws?) before pulling out my camera in this situation, but not nature photographer Art Wolfe. He held steady, capturing a killer shot. See more at Art Wolfe.com 🙌 #DailyPictureTheme

A large grizzly bear charges straight at the viewer through water, splashing white droplets all around it, with its long claws extended in front of its body, as if it were flying through the air

12:39 AM - Dec 07, 2023

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Who needs a #car in Southern California? #Dailypicturetheme #pugpuppy

On a tree-lined street, a woman with a long blonde ponytail is seen in traffic from behind, riding a motorbike. Her helmet has pink stripes on white, and the motorbike is painted pastel pink. A pug sits in a square black basket on the seat behind her.

05:14 AM - Nov 25, 2023

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I know polls are flawed but willful blindness on base discontent is unwise. New from UC Berkeley:
🗳️Biden is underwater w/ California voters
🗳️His 2020 CA gain over Trump has halved
🗳️Major decline among women, Latinos, Asian Americans, under 40s
🗳️Cornel West takes 4% & RFK Jr takes 8%

Survey report page is highlighted to show that independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr today draws virtually equal support from California voters who supported Trump (7%) and those who supported Biden (8%).

03:40 PM - Nov 10, 2023

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You’ve been warned #DailyPictureTheme #Warning

In the background is a low yellow building, a large brown, antler-like sculpture and a huge, leafy, green tree. A large board has been painted yellow and posted on stakes in lush green grass. The red stencil lettering reads: NO SIGNS IN YARD. A much smaller white sign with black lettering reads: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

02:18 AM - Nov 10, 2023

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Memorable #message cursing garden thieves #DailyPictureTheme

A pink sign in a plastic sleeve is attached to a black metal fence. Green leafy plants are seen behind the fence. The sign reads: Shame, shame on the person(s) who stole our beautiful ONIONS. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.

12:39 PM - Nov 09, 2023

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#Strange choice of a flotation device…🤔 #DailyPictureTheme

A man wearing a swimsuit is floating on his stomach in blue ocean water. He is lying on a face-up, inflatable sex doll with yellow “hair” and white arms and legs sticking out of the water.

03:11 AM - Nov 06, 2023

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When uninvited guests #drop in on your beach party #DailyPictureTheme

Four women on a beach react dramatically to 2 seagulls swooping in for food on a round black table. Drinks are flying in the air as the people try to move away quickly, their faces comically contorted.

01:41 PM - Nov 05, 2023

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Crashing your bike into a cactus patch can be #dangerous 🌵 #DailyPictureTheme

A man in a biking helmet, shorts & shirt is standing by the roadside on a sunny day. The man’s body is covered with chunks of gray-green cactus, with pink flowers. Spines are sticking into his neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, arms, chest & legs. A minivan has stopped in the roadway and several people are trying to help the man pull off the pieces. He reportedly went to hospital to remove thousands of spines from his body.

03:18 AM - Nov 01, 2023

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A migrant mother comforts her #young child after US border agents launched flash bangs & tear gas canisters at a crowd of families at the Tijuana/San Diego border #DailyPictureTheme

Photo by San Diego Union Tribune, 2018

A teary mother in a dark blue shirt holds her toddler under a low, metal structure where others are cowering. The child wears a blue, white & purple tie-dyed coat and her eyes are red and running. The mother is holding a cloth over the child’s mouth & nose to filter the stinging gas.

06:30 PM - Oct 28, 2023

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As a proud Trump supporter stood by his #ride at a #California protest, a counterprotestor stepped in & harshed his vibe 😏 #DailyPictureTheme #TrumpSucks

A man in a red MAGA cap holding a Trump sign stands by his motorcycle at a street protest. An American flag hangs off the back of the bike. A woman stands to his left with a sign that reads: SUCKS

02:32 AM - Oct 27, 2023

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Surf’s up in San Diego #California
Photo by Chris Mannerino #DailyPictureTheme #spray

In the warm glow of a setting sun, a single surfer floats above a green wave frosted with white spray. The bottom of the surfboard is visible and out of the water, as the wetsuit-clad silhouette of the surfer hangs horizontally in midair, with his feet hidden on the top of the board & his hips well below it.

04:25 AM - Oct 26, 2023

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🚨Meteorologists are gobsmacked by how fast catastrophic #HurricaneOtis surged from tropical storm to a Cat 5. It’s about to detonate over a million people in #Acapulco Mexico with no time to evacuate 🌀

A colorful weather map shows a huge hurricane hurtling toward the city of Acapulco on the coast of Mexico. The storm is represented by a round blob with yellow edges, turning to orange, dark red, pink and then red again in the center. The eye is a light gray dot.

01:31 AM - Oct 25, 2023 (Edited)

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Remember when #DisabilityRights activists fought for their lives in 2017 as GOP tried to repeal ADA accommodations, cut Medicaid funding & end lifetime caps & coverage for preexisting conditions? This is #badass Colleen w/ ADAPT being removed from Congressional hearing #DailyPictureTheme #wheel

A Capitol Hill police officer pushes a woman in a wheelchair out of a crowded room through heavy wooden doors with brass detailing. The woman is shouting in protest and wears a red t-shirt that reads: DISABILITY RIGHTS ARE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

12:20 AM - Oct 25, 2023

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American creativity or American excess? How do Spoutonians from other nations view the US adults’ obsession with #Halloween ?
(Yes, this is in my community. It lights up spookily at night.)

A 2-story home and front yard are bedecked in Halloween decorations, including fake spiderwebs, a guillotine, Jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, giant spiders, fake tombstones, horror movie figures, a mummy, a zombie, warning signs and a menacing 20’ high skeleton with a pumpkin head.

04:04 PM - Oct 24, 2023

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“I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world.” #DailyPictureTheme #messy

Painting of a young woman with her chin resting on her hands on a tabletop, staring thoughtfully at a burning candle. A quote attributed to Glennon Doyle reads: I understand now that I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when somebody someone asked me why I cry often, I say “For the same reason I laugh so often. Because I’m paying attention.”

03:15 AM - Oct 24, 2023

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In starling murmurations, each bird seems to know when to #turn to escape predators #DailyPictureTheme

Against a blue sky filled with puffy white clouds turning pink & orange from a setting sun, a swirl of thousands of black birds swarm in unison to form a murmuration.

10:16 PM - Oct 23, 2023

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A survivor of American Indian residential schools joins a 2018 protest against Trump’s child separation policy at the border of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico #sign #DailyPictureTheme

An older woman in braids stands behind a dog crate screen representing imprisonment. Her sign identifies her as a survivor of family separation of Native Americans due to US government policy between 1869 and the 1970s. The sign lists 4 schools in 3 states.

02:00 PM - Oct 22, 2023

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My dog Sunny was very popular at the first Women’s March 2017 #sign #DailyPictureTheme

Women stand at a march around a large white goldendoodle dog wearing a Trump costume, including a blue suit with white shirt and red tie. It also wears a reddish blonde wig. A handmade sign reads: Putin’s Poodle

01:19 PM - Oct 22, 2023

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“I am grounded in Jewish values of opposing oppression wherever it lives. With our Jewish history of being oppressed ... I think it’s important that we not only say never again, but never again for anybody.”
—Janna Wennberg, San Diego California, at vigil for Israeli & Palestinian war deaths

03:11 PM - Oct 21, 2023

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After a six-week journey from Ecuador, Janina, age 4, waits at the the U.S./Mexico border, hoping to #cross . Like many migrants, her family had endured kidnapping in Mexico on their way to seek asylum. #DailyPictureTheme

After a long journey, an exhausted child, with a dirty face & eyes half closed, stands between rusted steel bollards at the border wall between U.S. and Mexico.

01:29 PM - Oct 21, 2023

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