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CrypticMerle

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If empathy is a sin, sin boldly! 🌈 ally Often found in the company of four-leggeds #aussierescue #nosework #australianshepherds #sewists

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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chicken of the Woods found on a hike #olympiawa #olywa
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A needless moral failure…”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026
Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/09/2026
These men have a right to a hearing, like everyone in the United States. We're in federal court today and next week demanding a course correction for the sake of all of our civil liberties.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What about milk?
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 “Instead of producing more bombs and weapons and seeing the military-industrial complex enjoy huge profits, governments throughout the world need to come together to feed the children, take care of the vulnerable, and protect our planet." @sanders.senate.gov
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In Riverside Church Address, Sanders Warns 'Dangerous Global Oligarchy' Threatens Humanity | Common Dreams
"If there was ever a time in human history, in our country and throughout the world, that we have got to come together and create a world not based on greed but based on justice, based on decency,…
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Frisbee worship is never wrong #uglydogs #frisbeeworship #australianshepherds
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t think we’ve had one here lately
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Huge Jemisin fan here!
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I said we have a broken political system, it'd be the least memorable thing I said all day. We all know it. We all say it. The question is: Why do we act like it isn't? It can't go on like this.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eddy in his forest nest. Hope the bird doesn’t come back! #olywa # OlympiaWa #uglydogs
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/09/2026
A bill is quietly moving through Congress that would broaden DHS' power to surveil anyone shopping in a strip mall or picking up groceries. Retailers shouldn't be deputized to help ICE.
retaildive.com
How the retail crime bill could bolster ICE
Concerns are mounting that organized retail crime-fighting legislation, which passed the U.S. House and is now before the Senate, could drag retailers into mass deportations that have little to do wit...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
propublica.org
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Putin pal and oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid $100,000 towards Don Jr’s wedding, is a former member of the ultranationalist Russian biker gang the Night Wolves and is linked to the abduction of Ukrainian children.
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Melania Trump denies link to oligarch ‘involved in child abductions’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
The US first lady said she had no relationship with Umar Kremlev, who paid for Donald Trump Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas this year
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Aussie floofs #uglydogs
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just as we thought, AI use for prior authorization denies medically necessary procedures www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of r...
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eddy remembering his late friend Nick. They spent many mornings in this meadow.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“They treated us like we were criminals” 😕
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Eddy went camping this week. He likes it!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
popular.info
The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Take the train
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bloomed out fireweed. In Alaska we said this marks the end of summer. Sounds about right. #olympiawa #olywa #fireweed
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/09/2026
I spoke with providers at Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend about how Trump and Republicans' historic Medicaid cuts are making it harder for them to help cancer patients, seniors, sexual assault survivors, and more. Congress needs to put patients first & REPEAL TRUMP’S MEDICAID CUTS.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Eddy likes the last days of summer #OlympiaWa #ARPH #australianshepherds
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
These could be Chicken of the Woods #olympiaWA #OlyWa #fungus
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Eddy & I found an elf house in the woods this morning
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've been posting a daily poem for just over a year As a fitting birthday celebration I will be sharing the 10 most popular poems of the last 12 months In 9th place is this poem about resilience, about not to instinctually run from ‘an obesity of grief’, but to enter it #poetry #poemofday
Poem - 'The Thing Is' by Ellen Bass
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Coming again this week. The Absolutely Free Sharing Market! Volunteers spend hours sorting through generous donations of useful things to make this happen. #OlyWa #Olympiawa #sharingmarket #communitycares
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
propublica.org
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Blue sky kites fly sort of a day at the beach #pacificbeach #kites
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Gillnetter sitting on the beach waiting for tide to come in. The line of net extends up the beach from the boat. # buddInlet #salmon #olympiawa
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.friendsjournal.org/quakers-sue-...
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Quakers Win Preliminary Injunction Against Homeland Security [Updated Aug. 2026] - Friends Journal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed Judge Chuang’s ruling in an appeal filed by DHS.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"GEO donated $1 million to Trump's PAC on July 16, three days after the company announced it had signed an $85m contract with ICE. "On July 29, GEO announced it had received another $80m ICE contract; two days later, GEO gave Trump's PAC an additional $413,000..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
nytimes.com
Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think we are entering a sharp decline of the written word as the driver of mass information. Visual/ oral storytelling is the new primary way of reaching and influencing people.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a season of unconfined wildfires, this is what remains of a prescribed burn in the Scatter Creek prairie next to a Garry oak wood. #scattercreek #olympiawa
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It was a simple walk to the park but Eddy likes it
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Today is National Vinyl Record Day When I got my 1st job every Friday I went to Makin’ Tracks and bought a new LP. Flicking through the rack was a tactile experience It felt like you'd bought something substantial, not just the music – but the art work, the sleeve notes. #poetry #poemoftheday
Poem - 'When The Music's Over' by David Atkinson
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/08/2026
I.e., this is apparently its original, rarely-sung last stanza (Springsteen sang a version of it): One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, By the relief office I saw my people. As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc...
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Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
YouTube video by OberstKrautwaschl
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/08/2026
We’ve seen too much cowardice from large law firms ahead of the 2026 midterms. “We can’t just send the voters out by themselves,” Marc Elias says. “We need the lawyers to do their part.” We’re stepping up and speaking out for voters like you: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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RNS @rns.org · 22/08/2026
(RNS) — Religious groups now argue that the government has committed ‘multiple egregious violations’ of a preliminary injunction handed down in their case back in February.
religionnews.com
11 faith groups accuse Trump administration of violating court order while spying on churches
(RNS) — Religious groups now argue that the government has committed ‘multiple egregious violations’ of a preliminary injunction handed down in their case back in February.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
50501 Rising Star Oliver Larkin, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 25th District (his election is on 8/18!), is an American Hero. Enough Said.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We have a saying: Feeling is believing,” Compliant Technologies CEO Jeff Niklaus said in one 2022 YouTube video. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/08/2026
Republicans delivered $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid last year. They also delivered $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1%. That's not a coincidence.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Be careful, friends, even Powell’s emails might be a scam.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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CrypticMerle @abbykeith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m old enough to remember Cointelpro under Hoover’s FBI and not naive enough to be surprised by this.
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