Mikka
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Mikka
@mikkarose.bsky.social
Here to lurk.
With apologies to my four year old son.
September 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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We’ve done this. We know. It’s maddening.
June 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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remember how Wile E. Coyote used to hold up a little sign saying ‘help’ or ‘oh no’ or some such just before the huge boulder crushed him
March 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
March 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
COLLINS: Where exactly are you suggesting Gazans should go? Who do you envision living there?

TRUMP: I envision world people living there. The world's people. I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place.
February 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Stevie Wonder during his set in #FireAid: “DEI forever.”
January 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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“Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong”

Brilliant and much-needed takedown of the latest anti-vax misinformation and propaganda from the pseudo-scientists, ahead of the RFK hearings.
Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong
A methodological autopsy of flawed research that contradicts decades of rigorous evidence
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Los Angeles, I see you. I see your tears, your generosity, your creativity, your beautiful mutual aid. You were never an old or stable city; you were a city of invention and imagination and change. You are maybe right now you are your best as well as most devastated self. 1906 account.
January 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s been an unimaginably sad week in Los Angeles. The proceeds from anything I sell in my Etsy shop thru Wednesday night will be donated to underfunded go fund mes for Eaton/Palisades Fire relief and World Central Kitchen - Wildskyquilts.Etsy.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning
Untold Stories of L.A. Fires
We continue our coverage of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, which have killed at least 24 people as of Monday. Some 150,000 more have been forced to evacuate their homes and over 40,000...
www.democracynow.org
January 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#Altadena has a Black community that began during the Great Migration of people escaping the Jim Crow South. Now those neighborhoods are 2nd-4th gen Black families. Over 60% of Black residents are over 65 yrs old. LA’s #EatonFire burned it to the ground

Here’s a compiled doc of their GoFundMes
Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory
docs.google.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Also this spread sheet of mutual aid organizations and what they do: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
docs.google.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A list of some mutual aid in Los Angeles: malan.softr.app/groups
MALAN Group Directory
malan.softr.app
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
smoky skies at sunrise over Atwater Village this morning - stay safe out there, LA 💔
January 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, watch our interview with filmmaker Errol Morris and journalist Jacob Soboroff on how he tore immigrant families apart during his first term in office. Hundreds of children remain orphaned to this day.
“Separated”: Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart
We speak with Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary, Separated, based on NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book of the same name. The film details the horrors of the Trump “z...
www.democracynow.org
November 10, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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After every US election, we get lectures suggesting that if we were nicer to Nazis they wouldn't be Nazis. I mean, they're threatening the very survival of a lot of us, and it's supposed to be uncouth of us to mention that in mixed company. Wrote about that in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
lithub.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:21 PM