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Donna Howard

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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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I need all these atrologers and witches who've been feeling his demise coming to tell us what spells we can cast to make it happen faster.

28.02.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes!

Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal.

Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

28.02.2026 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1000    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 15

Check this out

26.02.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1409    πŸ” 668    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 70
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Noem’s luxury β€˜deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way.

Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

27.02.2026 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3881    πŸ” 2142    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 309

It's time.

Colin, the comrade running the shelter-in-place food program I'm working at, told me that this week he's had to turn down asks from schools to supply food directly to their sheltering families. The reason? There's not enough money coming in for that amount of food.

Let's change that.

26.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

17.02.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3525    πŸ” 1748    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 427

And look at who's been wildly successful playing their own game. Mamdani, AOC...there's a whole list of progressive elected officials who learned this lesson a long time ago.

24.02.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would be shocked if the women's team, save one, opted to go if invited.

22.02.2026 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

18.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 884    πŸ” 557    πŸ’¬ 264    πŸ“Œ 796

I am super excited to have her as our Mayor.

20.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

May the souls of these people haunt the dreams of Miller & Noem & Trump & Hegseth & Homan & every night for the rest of their lives.

18.02.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Standing Up For Our Neighbors, DHS Overpays Russian $100m for ICE Warehouse, Welcoming The Year Of The Fire Horse We need to keep making our calls everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy fuck: β€œDHS paid a wealthy Russian, Andrey Sharkov, $130,000,000 for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, a town of 5,000 people. This wealthy Russian paid $29,000,000 for the property in 2023, and last year it’s assessed value was still $29,000,000”

Russian aside 5x in 2 years?

17.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

The blood-suckers are ever hungry.

17.02.2026 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because far too many people have an inability to form opinions without some shouty white man telling them what to think.

16.02.2026 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is breathtaking to me that someone would say this out loud with their whole chest.

But it is paralyzing that this person has the ear and attention of so many young men and people in our government.

14.02.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot showing that the U.S. spends $54.3 billion on immigration policing and detention

Screenshot showing that the U.S. spends $54.3 billion on immigration policing and detention

Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, immigration policing and detention now take up 13% of all government spending on the criminal legal system.

12.02.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Nick Fuentes: β€œThe number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: β€œOur #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

12.02.2026 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5666    πŸ” 2434    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2346

We in Seattle hate how he tries to glom onto us as if he is one of us. He grew up in a town 25 miles outside of Seattle, and he has long since proven that he does NOT share our values nor ideals. We have so many other good celebrities who are actually from the city and rep us well.

09.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

09.02.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1183    πŸ” 447    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 17
From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

message from MN

07.02.2026 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1294    πŸ” 512    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 80

Jesus Christ. Fuck every single billionaire.

08.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œ.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

08.02.2026 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13929    πŸ” 3058    πŸ’¬ 372    πŸ“Œ 271

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

08.02.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1811    πŸ” 1070    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

This is wind beneath my wings. I need someone to help compile a list of all House candidates endorsed by DSA, WFP, AOC or Warren so that we can collectively contribute to them to fuel more wins like this. Those are the only ones I trust to put forward true progressive candidates.

06.02.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds good to me.

06.02.2026 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She is the leader we need right now.

06.02.2026 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so tired.

04.02.2026 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ten years on from 2016 and people still have not internalized that a vote isn't an endorsement, nor a reward for politicians with good mouth noises. A vote is a lever of power, and the only one that you, the voter, have direct and unmitigated access to.

Sitting out elections is dereliction.

04.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

03.02.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 26536    πŸ” 6088    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 44

Washington friends, call to action.

03.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0