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Donna Counts

@donnacounts.bsky.social
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Economist, environmentalist, public policy nerd, hiker, gardener, and lover of animals. Moms Demand Action volunteer working to reduce gun violence, avid traveler and searcher for the meaning of life.

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Martin O'Malley @martinomalley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If you’re a Maryland voter, you should know Andy Harris (R MD-1) voted to cut $453 MILLION from the Social Security Administration in 2024. His opponent, Democrat Dan Schwartz, will fight to protect your earned benefits. Use your vote in November to send a Social Security champion to Congress.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
WATCH— @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “We’re often told the only way to tackle the debt is on the backs of working people… not true. We can close billionaire tax loopholes + end this disastrous war… The debt exploded the last 30 years because of tax cuts for the rich and forever wars.”
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 15/10/2026
When are Republican members of Congress going to admit that Trump and Musk are Russian assets? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14...
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October 14, 2026
According to Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov, last night, without warning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted the speed limits for the Starlink terminals Ukraine’s military uses, known as...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's simply journalistic incompetence to write an extended political analysis of JD Vance's homophobic slurs without at any point noting Vance's decades-long relationship with his patron, Peter Thiel, a homosexual.
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Vance’s Talarico Attacks Show His Penchant for Personal Broadsides
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.
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Donna Counts @donnacounts.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Absolutely agree!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Assume an American president was in Putin’s pocket. What would they do differently than Trump? @nytimes 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 13/10/2026
If you want America to fully become an autocracy controlled by billionaires like Elon Musk, vote Republican. If you like freedom and democracy, vote the other way. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I urge you to support Ilhan Omar’s campaign for reelection. If Democrats regain control of the House, they must investigate this flagrant abuse of power against her by Trump, Vance, and the Department of Justice. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-a…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It would in fact be sensible for investigations to be launched targeting Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel for immigration fraud... largely because there are obvious and highly meritorious cases each time. Musk in particular is a notorious immigration fraud—having come to the US to study
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The richest man in the nation’s history is spending big to prop up the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history. charliesykes.substack.com/p/thank-you-...
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Thank You For Your Attention To This
Don’t be distracted by the flotsam and jetsam. Because the real stories are spectacular,
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Christian” pastors cheering on public executions when the whole Christian faith is based on the abhorrence of the gruesomeness of a public execution shows how far Christian Nationalism is off the rails.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -Millions of dollars in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting lawyer No wonder he's been such a Trump sycophant.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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IndySnix @indysnix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 05/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Public vulgarity and lewdness are Trump's signature on the campaign trail. These are well recognized as signs of advanced senile dementia.
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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Donna Counts @donnacounts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love his ending. When a witness lies in front of Congress,they can be charged with lying but when a senator lies while he’s asking questions, he’s just asking questions.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One Squashed Chihuahua. 🤣😂🤣
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the bribe payments that Kao made to Susan Collins, very carefully laundered.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's potash deal is designed to put massive sums directly into the private pocket of Belarus dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko. And no one inside the Washington Beltway is even asking questions about it.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tom Joscelyn discusses the launch of the Civil Defense Institute, a research organization that reports on organizations and individuals who work to undermines our civil society and our personal freedoms. First case study: Kevin Roberts and the Heritage Foundation. open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...
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The Heritage Foundation’s Extremist Turn
It’s Happening Here with Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn. Plus, Tom announces the launch of the Civil Defense Institute.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.S. government isn't regulating big business. Big business is regulating the U.S. government.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Defund ICE. Take its entire budget and devote it to a Manhattan Project that can devise and implement sound guardrails for AI, and figure out how to stop what can and should be stopped in the way of superintelligence and recursive self-improvement. AI is far, far more dangerous than immigrants.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NARRATOR: "The funny story about the so-called 'Russia! Russia! Russia! Hoax' was that it turned out the connections between Russia[!] and the Trump Family were far deeper and numerous than was originally thought."
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a hidden-camera operation, pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said that for $300,000, they could help a felon get a pardon from the president. They said their services included working with influencers to advocate for his case. cbsn.ws/4dj706z
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pretty much the worst dumbest most dangerous thing Ted could do
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Barney loves this tune 💕 IG: @barney_maltipooo
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 01/09/2026
“If any of the defense secretaries under Presidents Biden, Obama, or Bush had gotten this degree and range of pushback from top uniformed personnel, there would be immediate congressional hearings, calls for resignations, and talks of impeachment," heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-31-...
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August 31, 2026
Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran ...
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Donna Counts @donnacounts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Laura is thirsty.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted said the ad was taken down. It wasn’t. And the victims’ family says their grief was used without permission. The details are even worse.
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Husted Car Crash Ad Still Up on YouTube Without Permission From Victims' Family Despite Claims it Was Removed
Husted lied about his campaign's involvement with the ad and that he had asked for it to be taken down
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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