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David Poller
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Photojournalist | Portraits | Photo Editor @ nytimes
San Diego & further afield
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Waiting for the bus.
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On Dec. 19, 1986 I was awakened by a phone call from a Miami News photographer who was shouting excitedly “Poller! Have you seen the Herald? Your photo’s on the front page! It IS the front page!” So I ran outside and picked up the morning paper and saw that my photo of Eugene Hasenfus…
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
So sad to hear that Udo Kier has died. He was a gifted and talented actor, and a sweetheart. I know some will say he was “quirky,” or chose oddball roles. He was just honest and completely committed to telling the stories he chose. And more daring than most. Hugs to Delbert 💔
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Eastern Sierras - Milky Way from Brees Lookout.

Last week I road tripped up the 395 on a whim and a hope.
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Dawn, Mono Lake, California
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A SpaceX Starlink launch as seen from San Diego tonight.
@neomonsterisland.com is that #Mothra flying after the rocket?
June 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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The National Press Photographers Association along with the Freedom of the Press Foundation & several other press advocacy orgs have written to the current Secretary of Homeland Security to address 1st Amendment concerns related to federal officer conduct in Los Angeles area. See the letter below. 🇺🇸
June 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“United States Of Whatever” by Liam Lynch #nowplaying #6music
May 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Stop taking this administration at its word
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Who says there are no second acts in American lives?
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.
American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope
The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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FORBES: How This Photojournalist Learned To Capture Legendary Moments: Lynsey Addario youtu.be/A7EQNmscgHg?... @forbes.com @lynseyaddario.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
How This Photojournalist Learned To Capture Legendary Moments
YouTube video by Forbes Clips
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May 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Painted Desert Project, Gray Mountain, AZ
April 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
April 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.
Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.
We tariffed BIOT, Mike.

BIOT. Diego fucking Garcia.

We tarrifed our own military base.
April 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Amboy, CA. Route 66 is just outside.
April 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Pillars making a come back
April 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Greetings from
April 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Merrick Butte, Monument Valley.
March 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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TIL: There are more kids in Texas with measles than there are trans athletes in college. (And one of those numbers is quickly rising.)
March 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Even a tree can be a camera.
#cameraobscura
March 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Breaking news: The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees.
HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections
The decision came after resistance from career staff at the agency.
wapo.st
March 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that it is moving to correct the accidental firing of several people working on the federal government’s response to an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.
USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers
The department is trying to rehire the employees as avian influenza causes egg prices to soar and as Elon Musk’s DOGE makes sweeping cuts to government agencies
wapo.st
February 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM