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Donna Howard

@donnachka.bsky.social
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Self-employed mom of recent UW graduate; accountant for tech start-ups in Seattle, UVa grad, proudly of Lithuanian heritage, lover of soccer, slightly obsessed with sour beers

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When a dog is rescued by a woman who loves crocheting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DUDE! Michael LaRosa, the former Biden spokesperson who has since become Fox News' favorite Democrat who trashes progressive Democrats, is one of the hosts of a high-dollar fundraiser for Hakeem Jeffries. www.thebulwark.com/p/jeffries-t...
thebulwark.com
SCOOP: Jeffries to Fundraise With Fox News’s Favorite Democrat
Thin wallets make strange bedfellows.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
deadline.com
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: In Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's new proposed city budget being released Tuesday, there is no projected deficit through 2030. Given the state of the projected deficit over the past many years, this is quite an achievement.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump gutting our national parks for his vanity projects. Officials pulled at least $67 million from park visitor fees and put it toward projects Trump favors in Washington. Hundreds of needed repairs in national parks could stall this year without funding. www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...
rawstory.com
'Catastrophic' cost of Trump's gluttonous gilding exposed in bombshell NYT report
President Donald Trump's gluttonous hunger to gild Washington, D.C has left America's national parks in dire turmoil, according to experts sounding the alarm.Trump has cut national park staff across t...
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oregon has a long history as a datacenter state. But a new study details a wild imbalance that comes with the industry. Data centers consume ~23% of the state's electricity, but provide jobs for just 0.2% of the state's workforce
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2026
This is straight-up evil. Yom Kippur is on Monday — the moral contradiction is impossible to ignore. 📌 REUTERS: Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the town of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian residents. Burned trees that are “thousands of years” old.
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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I haven’t understood for a long time while they even still go at all. Everything out of the mouth of anyone in his administration is a lie, and reporting is as “so and so says…” just furthers that lie. Get out there and do some real damn reporting!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for advocating for a free Palestine, which a growing majority of Americans support. Meanwhile unrepentant abuser Chris Brown was just presented with a congressional honor on his tour
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The fine Irish poet and editor Pat Boran just posted this on FB (shared here with his permission): DOONBEG Thoughts and prayers for Trump on his golf course. The record for fascist dictators emerging unscathed from bunkers isn’t always the best.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
propublica.org
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Derek Richards @derek-richards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seattle folks getting misleading texts lying about the fair pricing ordinance. Coupons, rewards and discounts are already exempt by the Fair and Transparent Pricing Ordinance
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 09/09/2026
A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
kuow.org
New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids
A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An OB-GYN sued (often low-income, uninsured) patients for owing as little as $114. He charged them 18% interest. And oh, he had many of them *arrested* if they didn't follow through. That OB-GYN? Republican Senator Roger Marshall www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... Insane story by Sarah Kliff
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As WSJ reported, Witkoff was handpicked by Putin to replace Gen Kellogg. He was picked because he built his whole New York real estate empire by laundering money for assorted Russian oligarchs in Putin's inner circle and is beholden to them.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who is going to primary this fucker? Could we get a real progressive like Malcolm Kenyatta this time?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is so stuck in the '80s that he keeps trying the movie cliche of "we'll solve our problems by putting on a cool show!" Military parade, the "Great State Fair," a UFC fight at the White House, the Formula 1 race, etc. Except he's not the scrappy teen hero. He's the evil real estate developer.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A third of the national debt rung up on Trump’s tab
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This should forever be Elon Musk's legacy. Not spaceships. Not electric cars. Starvation. Misery. Mass murder.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 15/08/2026
Ten used jets, supposedly needed for deportation flights, bought through another no-bid contract. The price tag was $464 million. So where are these jets now? Seven of them have been sitting on a tarmac in Louisiana for months. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.
The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 13/08/2026
Trump’s decided to keep the National Guard deployed in DC until January 2029. Guess how much it’ll cost? $200 million? $500 million? Not even close, it’ll cost roughly $1.4 BILLION. And that’s all taxpayer money being spent.
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Guard deployment to Washington into 2029 will cost roughly $1.4B, estimate shows
The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029 will cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a Defense Department estimate provided to Congress.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
So last year Max Miller sued his daughter's daycare center after they reported to police that she had bruises and injuries on her thighs, face, groin, and vaginal area, and she was taken to an emergency room. He sued the daycare center that reported it! 😱 newrepublic.com/post/214108/...
newrepublic.com
Allegedly Abusive MAGA Rep. Sued Daughter’s Daycare Over Her Bruises
Representative Max Miller, whose ex-wife was not listed as a complainant in the suit, filed the lawsuit in 2025.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
During today’s shooting, and currently, Seattle police chief shon Barnes was out of town. He had planned to be out of the city until mid-August.
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Natalie Louise Lucas (Shorter) @natalielshorter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Never throw a stone and hide your hands...
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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But we can’t afford to feed children and give our neighbors healthcare.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Alexandra Bravo, the Ecuadorian prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors’ accounts of torture & kidnapping by US, was shot dead by a hitman. The police detail that had been assigned to protect her was not present. www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This stupid asshole had literally nothing to do with any success the World Cup enjoyed. In fact, it was in spite of him that it succeeded. Thousands of local officials spent years planning every detail.l, and the American people rose to the occasion. That is why it succeeded.
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... it’s official: four year limit for student visas. Can apply to USCIS to extend if necessary but case-by-case decision. Also must depart 30 days after concluding program (previously 60). This will wreck so many departments, collaborations, research programs…
insidehighered.com
Trump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student Visas
International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.
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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So damn embarrassing.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Trumps aren’t just using their family name to make money. Their companies have received almost a billion $$ in federal contracts – a shocking and unprecedented display of corruption. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026
"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."
reneweconomy.com.au
Renewables remain cheapest new power option, and avoided $US480bn in fossil fuel costs in 2025
Renewables described as not only the cheapest new power source around the world, but also a “prime geopolitical shock absorber” in new report.
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