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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eeyore hides his thoughts.

A black cat (Eeyore) stares at the camera with ambiguous eyes while he rests his face against fabric scales rising behind a curved tail.

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At a conference I attended recently, public defense was described as being similar to working in an Emergency Room, except that in emergency rooms, everyone has the same goal and no one is actively trying to kill the patient. It resonated quite a bit.

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Winnie looks away from the light.

A black cat (Winnie) stares at the camera with a hint of a smirk while she sits up in front of a window filled by white light.

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2025 Police Violence Report

"At least 1,201 people [in the US] were killed by police in 2025. ... 67% of killings by police in 2025 — 760 deaths — were traffic stops, police responses to mental health crises, or situations where the person was not reportedly threatening anyone with a gun."

policeviolencereport.org

Comprehensive review of killings by police in 2025.

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Cassie isn't interested in a puddle.

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) stands on wet pavement and stares sternly below the camera while her toddler sister inspects a puddle in the background.

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"I then wrote the division problem in words, and [my child] again answered correctly ... I explained to her that if she looked at math problems as reading, she would be just fine. Our weekend visit taught me I could still be an active, supportive and loving father to my children while incarcerated."

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Cassie feels the wind.

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) smiles at the camera with one ear back and the other up while she stands in front of rocks meeting windswept water under clouds that continue to a distant coast.

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"Experience running a school wasn't needed. No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications ... No one questioned what we plan to teach or how we would measure whether students are learning."

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Cassie intends to press further.

A tawny dog (Cassie) looks back to the camera with a turned-up tail while walking over wet earth and fallen leaves between lines of leafy plants.

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"The illegal invasion killed 100 people, Venezuelan officials reported, including civilians. People in Caracas described the attack as terrifying, with U.S. aircraft dropping bombs 'indiscriminately.' ... The U.S. has since been seizing all of Venezuela's oil revenues and its oil reserves[.]"

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Cassie perceives a promising sight.

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) stares excitedly past the camera on the right while she stands in front of wet green and yellow flora with her mouth cracked and ears up.

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"[I]immigration enforcement has become pervasive ... [I]mmigration enforcement has been woven into the ordinary operations of state and local government, extending from highway traffic stops to wildlife officers, university police, professional licensing agencies, and even the state lottery."

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Friends make fine use of a fence.

A dozen or so small birds line the upper end of wet chain-link fencing while green tree tops give way to gray sky beyond them.

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"[Rep. Derrick Van Orden] bragged about exposing an unwilling patient's testicles to women he was training ... [Van Orden] harassed a teenage worker at a library in his district over the display of LGBTQ books[.]"

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Cassie wonders what's right.

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) stares right curiously with her ears back while she stands on wet asphalt and fallen leaves in front of green grass and trees.

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"Evidently, Trump himself has repeatedly asked former Nixon aides why he resigned instead of staying in office ... Meanwhile, the Trump administration has undermined protections put in after Watergate in order to allow an even wider breadth of corrupt activity, with less oversight[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14h

A friend stays under cover.

A small bird (perhaps a sparrow) faces left while perched on one of many small branches darting past wet green foliage in front of a lilypad-bearing pond.

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"[Israel's] Central Elections Committee is ... pushing for the barring of all of the Palestinian-majority parties from the Israeli elections[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14h

Eeyore shares some love.

A black cat (Eeyore) narrows his eyes toward the camera while he lies with a subtle smile in front of a window to green foliage.

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"Kalshi's lobbying disclosures also reveal its focus on the [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] ... The director of the CFTC has been explicitly pro-prediction market, both through public statements and the commission's legal action against states attempting to regulate the platforms."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14h

A friend goes against the crowd.

A duck drifts leftward on a lilypad-bearing pond while five nearby geese drift rightward.

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"The November 22 dinner will mark the second exclusive event for holders of Trump's meme coin, which has netted the president at least $635 million ... [N]early a million people who purchased the meme coin through the end of June 2026 had combined losses of around $4 billion."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cassie lifts a paw.

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) smiles off to the right with her ears back while she walks toward the camera on grass before trees with her front left paw hanging off the ground.

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"[Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey] once bragged about being 'sick,' describing himself as someone who doesn't 'lose any sleep making tools of violence' ... He also called for a 'warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others[.]'"

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"While War Powers resolutions have been passed in the House to cease military operations in Iran, none of those have been binding on President Trump, and overall, Congress has stood aside in the face of ... criminal aggression and war crimes by Trump."

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"This is what a broken, corrupt political system looks like: [people] follow the rules, register to vote before the deadline, and still risk losing their ... right to the ballot box because their government failed to do its job."

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"Atrazine is the second most widely used herbicide in the US after glyphosate. US farmers apply roughly 70 million pounds of the pesticide to their fields every year ... Exposure has been linked to birth defects, low birth weights, hormone disruption, some cancers and immune system problems."

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"If Prop. 40 captures more votes than both 41 and 42, the wealth tax takes effect, voiding the countermeasures. If either 41 or 42 outpolls Prop. 40, the billionaire tax does not take effect ... [T]he billionaire tax's backers will have a difficult time overcoming voter confusion[.]"

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"These [youth prisons] are not humane places ... They're not rehabilitative. They never have been."

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"The manufacturer, StayCon, voluntarily flagged 49 of its products ... The recalled items include vapes that go by the brand name Maui Wowie and Grape Gorilla. The recall notice said a 'botanically-derived' flavoring compound used in its marijuana vapes contained methylene chloride."

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"The only fear I ever saw in [Bad Company's] eyes was when the nurse informed him he had to be moved to the infirmary. ... He tried to go out on his own terms, but they wouldn't let him. Dying among friends in prison is apparently against protocol."

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"It has been said that the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its Prisons ... [I]n a state where outdoor heat indexes exceed 130 degrees, inmates in Texas prisons are suffering — and in some cases dying — in extreme heat every summer."

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"There is little academic research examining the experiences of incarcerated women during menopause. What's out there suggests that prison staff, including medical professionals, lack ... understanding of the ways this transition can present itself, or even how differently symptoms can look[.]"

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"[R]ecords do not support DHS's claims, and DHS has still not provided evidence to change that. Instead, DHS officials continue their attempts to intimidate election officials into compliance and deter voters with [baseless] claims of fraud ... Repeating unsupported claims does not make them true."

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"We are complicit in [Israel's] atrocities. We are funding that genocide. ... [W]e stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and all over the Middle East who are victims of this extraordinary regime that's working with Israel[.]"

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"We owe it to those directly impacted to take what they're saying seriously ... What we so desperately need — not just in [NY] but [nationwide] — are public servants with the humility to admit when they or their policies are problematic or harmful, and then embracing the real work of social change."

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"Like previous attempts to impeach Trump, the articles are doomed to fail under the Republican-controlled Congress. The latest attempt, by Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), garnered 147 votes to advance the measure, all from Democrats ... [18] Democrats joined Republicans in voting to table the articles[.]"

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"More than 500 federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration in some 20,000 mandatory detention cases over the past year, according to court records. Nine ... federal appeals courts have issued rulings that [rejected] ICE's interpretation of the law[.]"

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"We can't live in this ... limbo every time the president decides he wants to unilaterally start a war."

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"The [students'] prosecution ... is reflective of the systemic corruption at our universities. The Stanford 11 paid an enormous cost — nothing can restore the time, energy, education, prospects for employment, and the physical and mental health they lost, nor all the sacrifices of their loved ones."

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"The things that help with successful reentry can be so random. There's privilege and opportunity—and there's also ... luck. It was such chance that, through my dog, I was able to meet people who would believe in me and help me get my life together at a time when most people would not."

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"[A]ctivists on the ground have been calling for ICE to be abolished for decades ... ICE has accumulated a remarkable record of human rights abuses under both Democratic and Republican administrations as Congress repeatedly failed to pass immigration reforms."

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"As was revealed in the declassified minutes of a 1979 meeting between the World Zionist Organization ... [former Israel PM Ariel Sharon] said that 'firing zones' in the West Bank would be used as 'land reserves for settlements.' Israel declared Masafer Yatta a 'firing zone' the following year."

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"[MO's] legislature is asking ... to overturn the abortion protections [voters] recently supported. The conflicting measures even have the same title: Amendment 3. But while a 'yes' vote in 2024 supported adding [abortion] protections to the state constitution, a 'no' vote in 2026 would keep them."

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"Research shows that larger facilities often involve harsher treatment of youth, including higher rates of sexual abuse and practices such as solitary confinement. ... Experts say robust independent oversight is crucial to keep youth in juvenile justice facilities safe, but [TN] does not have this."

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Why states should change Medicaid rules to cover people leaving prison

"In states with Medicaid expansion (i.e., where eligibility is based solely on income), there have been correlated reductions in crime rates and arrests ... Increased access to healthcare through Medicaid coverage also reduces recidivism."

prisonpolicy.org

People leaving prison have sky-high mortality rates. Most are likely Medicaid-eligible. Making sure they are covered upon release from prison would save lives and reduce ...

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"Other countries have already taken aggressive steps to curb some of the industry's more problematic products, from marketing practices to advertisements. But in the U.S., the industry has actively opposed proposed reforms ... [I]t even seeded a [PAC] with $41 million to influence elections[.]"

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"Several new women's prisons are being built despite a growing chorus of voices arguing that prisons only inflict more harm on women who have already endured abuse and trauma. ... Instead of sentencing reform or much-needed mental and medical services, legislators chose to build a new prison."

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"[A] chaplain (or representative from the chaplaincy department) comes to our cell doors offering conversion therapy to 'heal' us of being transgender. If we refuse their help, they begin to shout at us ... while spitting and throwing holy oil or water at the cell door, condemning us to hell."

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