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Mika De Roo
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Writer. Lover of dogs. Cyclist. Team serial comma. Seeker of perfect sandwiches. Activist. Comms strategy at door.org. My thoughts & views are my own.
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Defiant and insistent joy in ordinary extraordinary things, especially during times of deepening pointed injustices by power systems that thrive on our misery and complacency, are revolutionary acts.
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Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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May 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Someone learned a lesson
April 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Today’s featured Wisconsin photographer is Randall Scott Vollmer who captured this moody scene in Waupun. 📸 #Photography
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A much-needed moment of calm 🐺
April 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This reminder, over and over again.
There’s more of us than there are of them
March 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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So their war on Social Security will go like everything else. They'll cancel some people, get caught, say "my bad," wait for court challenge, lose in court, say they've fixed it, not fix it, lather rinse repeat.
March 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Perhaps we should sit more often with Frederick Douglass:

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."  1/
March 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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She told you.
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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fuck it all, here's a bird

photo by me
February 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Gustave Doré, The Fall of Lucifer, from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’
February 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Langston Hughes
February 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Look I'm not an elected official or anything but it seems weird to be trying to stop a coup with only the procedures and rule of law norms the coup willfully ignores
February 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM