Robert Merle
@rmj440.bsky.social
Retired MD, lover of the scenery of nature, wildlife, and dogs. There are beautiful scenes wherever you look in Iceland.
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True.
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
True.
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What the fuck
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
What the fuck
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December 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Our boy Buster is dressed for the holidays and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
#dogs #pets #Christmas #photography #bowties
#chippendales
#dogs #pets #Christmas #photography #bowties
#chippendales
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Our boy Buster is dressed for the holidays and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
#dogs #pets #Christmas #photography #bowties
#chippendales
#dogs #pets #Christmas #photography #bowties
#chippendales
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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This article is terrifying because it's both believable and possible, and something everyone needs to be thinking about.
"This is what a coup looks like."
"This is what a coup looks like."
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This article is terrifying because it's both believable and possible, and something everyone needs to be thinking about.
"This is what a coup looks like."
"This is what a coup looks like."
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This piece took me over 2 months to write.
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
0714
A Story About Illegal Orders
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This piece took me over 2 months to write.
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
It’s about a man given illegal orders that is impossible not to obey.
Please read.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
Cruelty isn’t strength.
Reject it.
Always.
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Everything Trumpiggy does starts from the premise: how do we avoid the law/rule. He should be rotting in a cell for all the crimes he has committed and the criminal behavior he has fostered.
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Everything Trumpiggy does starts from the premise: how do we avoid the law/rule. He should be rotting in a cell for all the crimes he has committed and the criminal behavior he has fostered.
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Quiet morning sky with the sun just starting to hit the hill in the distance...It just gave me a good feeling so I had to stop and take a picture. The Canada geese were silent.
#sunrise #pasturefences #nature #newhampshire #photograhy
#sunrise #pasturefences #nature #newhampshire #photograhy
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Quiet morning sky with the sun just starting to hit the hill in the distance...It just gave me a good feeling so I had to stop and take a picture. The Canada geese were silent.
#sunrise #pasturefences #nature #newhampshire #photograhy
#sunrise #pasturefences #nature #newhampshire #photograhy
This Basset Hound has his eyes on YOU and is staring deep into your heart.
#dogs #animals #pets #photography
#dogs #animals #pets #photography
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This Basset Hound has his eyes on YOU and is staring deep into your heart.
#dogs #animals #pets #photography
#dogs #animals #pets #photography
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AI is destroying our ability to educate and robbing students of their opportunities to learn. "Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
AI is destroying our ability to educate and robbing students of their opportunities to learn. "Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
Beautiful clear day with easy viewing of Mt. Washington 70 miles away.
#nature #mountains #snow
#photography #newhampshire
#nature #mountains #snow
#photography #newhampshire
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Beautiful clear day with easy viewing of Mt. Washington 70 miles away.
#nature #mountains #snow
#photography #newhampshire
#nature #mountains #snow
#photography #newhampshire
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Just one example of a red state shooting itself in the foot.
"SNAP lifted 115,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama, including 51,000 children, per year between 2015 and 2019, on average." www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
"SNAP lifted 115,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama, including 51,000 children, per year between 2015 and 2019, on average." www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching some 41 million people nationwide in 2024. These...
www.cbpp.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just one example of a red state shooting itself in the foot.
"SNAP lifted 115,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama, including 51,000 children, per year between 2015 and 2019, on average." www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
"SNAP lifted 115,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama, including 51,000 children, per year between 2015 and 2019, on average." www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
New Hampshire fall foliage colors with a rainbow after an evening shower
#rainbow #fall #foliage
#nature #photography
#StormHour #PhotoHour
#rainbow #fall #foliage
#nature #photography
#StormHour #PhotoHour
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New Hampshire fall foliage colors with a rainbow after an evening shower
#rainbow #fall #foliage
#nature #photography
#StormHour #PhotoHour
#rainbow #fall #foliage
#nature #photography
#StormHour #PhotoHour
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This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.
October 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.
