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Mikko Alanne

@mikkoalanne.bsky.social
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Screenwriter | Showrunner The Long Road Home, The 33, Mapplethorpe + others. Lover of cats, books, art, horror movies, film music, and yeah... of Democracy. 🇺🇸 🇫🇮 🏳️‍🌈 www.finngatepictures.com

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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Flailing regimes dehumanize minorities to distract from their failures... they find a tiny group of people, make them the enemy within, and rally the country against them... This will not stop with trans people. It never has.” | The Wrong Kind of American www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The latest eruption of hostilities and Iran’s clear intention to control the Strait suggests not only that Trump has no idea what he’s doing, but that he’s losing worse by the day. Which means the U.S. is losing worse. Total disaster. And all brought on entirely by Trump’s arrogance and idiocy.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
After Secretary Hegseth scrapped the military’s flu vaccine mandate, it was only a matter of time before an outbreak occurred. It was a reckless decision that put troops in harm’s way and undermined our military readiness.
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Eliminating most of this complex ocean monitoring system threatens the safety of our coastal communities while undermining our nation’s ability to monitor coastal environments, marine currents, and extreme weather events.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US lawmakers fight Trump cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, joins Democrats in bid to stop dismantling of Ocean Observatories Initiative
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2026
When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve. This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive. From our “The End of Aid” series, a 2026 Pulitzer finalist:
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
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‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
Naturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall David Attenborough said he had been “completely overwhelmed by birthday greetings” for his centenary on Friday and thanked wellwishers “most sincerely”. The naturalist said he had hoped to celebrate his 100th birthday quietly. Instead, the milestone will be marked with a live event at the Royal Albert Hall broadcast on BBC One, featuring music from his programmes as well as stories and reflections from public figures and leading advocates for the natural world. In a recorded audio message shared on Thursday night, Attenborough said: “I had rather thought that I would celebrate my 100th birthday quietly, but it seems that many of you have had other ideas. Continue reading...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“In a final judgment dated April 18, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the so-called ‘Kennedy Declaration,’ finding it exceeded the administration’s authority, violated federal rulemaking requirements, and conflicted with existing law.”
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Orbán’s loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded the MAGA movement, as well as the belief... that illiberal parties are somehow destined not just to win but to hold power forever.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A kitten is following her dream of opening a flower shop and is already receiving her first customers.
A painting of a happy cat in an apron standing in front of a flower shop, happily watching other customers, kittens, and a frog arriving.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Proud to see my news organization (@usatoday.com) running No Kings coverage front-and-center on its homepage while the NY Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal all have it far lower. Ideology aside, it's smart news judgment. Today could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.
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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis. It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ken Paxton is on the ballots for which Ken Paxton is now putting his thumb on the scale.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
According to Texas authorities, video evidence calls into question ICE's own accounting of the fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez. A US citizen was shot and killed by ICE agents and then ICE and DPS attempted to cover it up for nearly a year. news4sanantonio.com/news/local/f...
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Fatal shooting of San Antonio man by federal agents raising serious transparency concerns
AUSTIN, Texas — Rep. Ray Lopez, a San Antonio Democrat, invoked a new Texas House rule to force a public hearing into the killing of 23-year-old American citize
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...
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A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története
YouTube video by Direkt36
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Op-ed: We shared a rainbow with Jesse Jackson, who shook our hands when no one else would www.advocate.com/opinion/jess...
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sen Ossoff (D-GA) nails it‼️This administration is of, by and for the Epstein Class. The middle class is getting absolutely crushed by this economy. The #TrumpAffordabilityChaos is wreaking havoc on working citizens, everything costs more and prices will only continue to rise.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Jewish people who support this admin should maybe consider the fact that Rubio does not consider you part of Western civilization. they've even dispensed with the "Judeo-Christian" fig leaf at this point. just openly, sneeringly admitting they hate us.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
ICE is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people. It's $38.3 billion plan to launch a “new detention center model” would expand the agency’s detention capacity by 92,600 beds by the end of FY26. newrepublic.com/post/206591/...
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ICE Is Gearing Up to Build “Mega” Jails
ICE is planning on spending $38 billion on the project.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"I have dreams that cannot be monetized. I have a problem with our society that cannot be solved with an algorithm. I have words to write and say that cannot be generated artificially." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/02/2026
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The official ICE account of what transpired was an obvious lie from the outset. News outlets like the NYT reported it just the same without noting its obvious untruthfulness. Is there a lesson here for NYT?
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last. You know my wife’s name, and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine." people.com/renee-good-s...
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Renee Good’s Wife Makes First Public Appearance After Her Murder, Shares New Personal Statement
Renee Nicole Good's wife, Becca Good, made her first public appearance after the mother of three was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Becca appeared onstage in front of hundre...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
WATCH: “In any remotely sane political climate she would be impeached, fired, or just have the good sense to resign in disgrace,” says Chris Hayes on Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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‘Astounding’: Chris Hayes stunned Bondi still has DOJ job 
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
On the Trump Admin's orders, the Pride flag has been removed from the Stonewall National Monument. This follows earlier bans/removals of the Progress and Trans Pride flags... from THE FIRST NATIONAL MONUMENT DEDICATED TO LGBTQ+ RIGHTS. You will not erase us. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/admi...
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Trump admin removes Pride flag from Stonewall monument in "deliberate act of erasure" - LGBTQ Nation
The administration had already banned the Trans Pride flag and the Progress Pride flag from flying at the monument.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Before I read posts on here today, please tell me which MSM outlet was parked outside “youth pastor” and sometime Speaker Mike Johnson’s home (D.C. townhouse or home in Shreveport) this morning to get his reaction to the Epstein files & the horrifying allegations made in them against the President?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
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Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans
Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“It is one of the scariest moments of my life to know that a fellow journalist, a 3 time Emmy award winning journalist, is right now sitting in federal custody for doing her duty. She was the only journalist who was in the courtroom during the Derek Chauvin trial."
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Nebraska student was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle with a Trump flag.
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"We reject attempts to dismiss the significance of who these journalists are: Black journalists, one of whom is queer, whose voices amplify perspectives too often excluded from mainstream discourse. We will not sit by and allow a wannabe-tyrant to demolish our democracy.” www.hrc.org/press-releas...
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Don Lemon Arrested: Trump Administration Escalates War on Freedom in…
Lemon, in addition to Minneapolis journalist Georgia Fort, Was Arrested for Coverage of a Minneapolis Protest
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"The Arctic air that has gripped much of the U.S. this week should be a few thousand miles to the north... But as man-made climate change continues to disrupt global weather patterns, that mass of cold air, known as the polar vortex, is straying" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c...
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Climate Change Is Fueling Extremes, Both Hot and Cold
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"You were mean to us, so we had to murder you" is the tactic this rancid, racist canned ham is going with, in case you were wondering if things were going to get better.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Trump needs to go. He needs to be impeached and removed. Now.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mark your calendars. This week marks the beginning of the end for Trump. Unfortunately, thanks to his ugly blundering, it also marks the end for an era of American leadership and international partnership that shall be sorely missed. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Davos Was the Beginning of the End for Trump
It's all downhill for here for the America's aging mad king
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Mikko Alanne @mikkoalanne.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is a Philadelphia Inquirer photo of the slavery exhibit being removed from the President's House site at Independence Park on Trump's orders. A snapshot of the blighted America the Trump voter has made, with history being erased and falsified before our eyes. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
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