John Loughlin

Approximately 113,000 refugees have pending green card applications. Instead of processing them, the administration is freezing applications, subjecting refugees to mass re-vetting, and making it easier to terminate their status. We're going to court to fight for safety, stability, and due process!

Congrats Sh. Taha, we're so thrilled to see you honored by our friends at Casa Cornelia and we're here to join in on the fun to celebrate you. Your kindness, dedication, and unwavering support make our San Diego community a better place for all of us! Mabrook.

As federal attacks on immigrant and refugee families escalate, PANA is expanding its policy team. To lead its people-first policy program, Trinh Le will turn the priorities of immigrant and refugee communities into policy at City Hall and in Sacramento.

Youth need spaces to be authentically themselves! At PANA, we believe intergenerational organizing is a part of creating these spaces. Thank you to The California Endowment for featuring our Director of Organizing, Rahmo Abdi, and Board Member Mohamed Mbenge! Read more: buff.ly/02iyKT0

PANA Youth Congress voice, Fowzia Farah, on the Global Village: “A space where our communities can exist freely, without surveillance and be governed by our own values where we can feel safe, seen, and supported.” Read more from The California Endowment!

Henry Foster understands we should not be funding and supporting systems of mass surveillance over investing in our communities. If only all ‘Democrats’ — such as the Mayor — took their own Party Resolutions as seriously: drive.google.com/file/d/1FFBY...

Our TEDx talk is live. Please help share the story of Global Village. What if the people most affected by displacement were the ones designing the future of land? In our TEDxSanDiego talk, I share how that question became Global Village. Watch the talk (7 minutes) youtu.be/zYfEcGMl-PE

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

August 16-22 is the National Week of Action Against ALPRs. Join us and fight back. Sunday, canvass City Heights. Wednesday, tell SD City Council why they should shut down ALPR. Friday, hear from Austin and LA organizers at Safety in Unity 2026. Details in thread below... 🧵

Silent movies that sound as good as they look! www.lamesahistory.com/silent-movie-night/

Important statement from the New York Times

Hey Museum Peeps! The Natural History Museum in San Diego is looking for a Director of Education: http://www.sdnhm.org/about-us/our-museum/employment/ #museums #jobs

Take the La Mesa History Center with you: walking tour guidance, news, events, newsletters, and local stories organized for the phone in your pocket. www.lamesahistory.com/mobile-app/

Maija Isola (1927– 2001) Finnish designer of printed textiles who created over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy") #womensart

Shifting power. www.panasd.org/youre-invite...

La Mesa History Center has a new mobile app with a downtown walking tour. www.lamesahistory.com/walking-tour/

The Internet Archive is a precious resource that needs feeding www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Can you sort the items into the correct order? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

Join Us Today, May 19th at 6:30pm - Interfaith Community Vigil www.panasd.org/join-us-toda...

Jar with Anthropomorphic Figure ceramic with resinous postfire paint 650–150 BCE Paracas Ocucaje area, Ica Valley, south coast, Peru #handmade #art #culture #religion #paracas #peru #flyingfigure #afterlife #spiritual #fertility #agriculture #ancientart #ancientpottery #precolumubian #prehispanic

"Nanci Griffith once said she had a sacred voice. She was right. But what made it sacred was her honesty. She gave everything, without pretence. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust. More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" publicdomainreview.org/essay/h... #OTD

If you like 2 kool Consider a donation to PANA panasd.org 2kool.rubywhite.com

Thirsty bee.

Gazania rigens - Treasure flower.

Join friends of Harrison Serenity Ranch Foundation at the California Overland Adventure & Power Sports Show – February 14–15, 2026, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Visit us at booth #129, learn more about this amazing 67 acre ranch on Palomar Mountain & get 20% discount on your next camping adventure!

“Something breaks when a politician stops ?practicing an economy of truth and instead devalues the whole currency of veracity. Self-worth is replaced by the pursuit of high net worth.” web.archive.org/web/20260203...

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Welcome visitors to the house in the last 24 hours. www.rubywhite.com/birdweather....

“… over several sessions, the community spoke, and that's what we designed from. The community were the master planners, which I just think is really radical and awesome.” www.daylightsandiego.org/newsletter-g...

“This person before you, he was born with the kora. The seventh generation of his lineage. Even if you just touch him, out comes the sound of one of the strings.” We had the pleasure of hearing Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper at the Kroc Center yesterday. ❤️ theconversation.com/kora-in-sear...

”There are only two businesses that call their clients users—drug dealers and Internet businesses. The East India Company is a role model for both.” Ted Gioia (via John Naughton) www.honest-broker.com/p/google-is-...

Want to get involved in supporting San Diego's immigrant communities? Here’s a list of some great organizations in San Diego. www.daylightsandiego.org/want-to-get-...

Feed: "The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint" By: Tihut Tamrat on Thursday, January 8, 2026

It’s fascinating how immigrants are somehow both lazy and collect welfare, and also stealing our jobs. Behold, Schrödinger's immigrant! lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/how-to-prote...

Dislodged a rock in the front yard, found this fossilized conch. No wonder they call this area Mt Helix.

You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

“Child care should be universal and should be affordable for everyone, and it sure as hell should be saved from extremists.” edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Please consider signing: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

I have a piece out today on @nextcity.org. To start 2026, my latest report is a story on @panasd.org & how they have been developing a community land trust. Leading an effort to build community-owned affordable housing & in San Diego, CA for immigrant & refugee families. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

‘Tis the season of renewal: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

A safe apartment after fleeing violence. A bus pass to get to work. A funeral for a loved one. A phone to stay connected. For 10 years, PANA’s mutual aid has turned community care into collective resilience.

Flock left 60 Condor AI-people tracking cameras open to the internet. @404mediaco reports cameras can zoom in close enough to read your cell phone screen. San Diego has not said it has these cameras, but it shows (again) Flock as sloppy and creepy. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Former ICE and CBP leaders who have now left the agency told the FT that previous safeguards are gone, with ICE pursuing aggressive quotas by using data from Social Security, the IRS, and commercial surveillance and license plate reader companies. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...

We are inspired, furious, and we will not stop. Read our statement on yesterday's San Diego City Council vote on ALPR.