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Dana Houle

@danahoule.bsky.social

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Family’s first HS grad. Worked in labor/Did policy/Elected Dems/Stint on Cap Hill. Blogged+pieces for WaPo/TNR/etc. Got rare disease, nearly died 5 times. Detroiter in Chicago. Husband. Dad to twins. Gardener. Getting healthy. Actually lives in IL-09

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · Jan 1

“Hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”
Nick Cave

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Rude Tay @stardusttay.bsky.social · 35m

A note: this should be grounds for subpoenas & public records requests for PMs from Truth Social (not that they will comply, but w/e)

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 1h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing has changed. It's still the dumbest fucking losers on earth who are killing us.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2h

Fascism came wrapped in a flag and a cross but it also came wrapped in swastikas and it also came on the airwaves and the newspapers with paranoid delusions of Jewish conspiracies and it came wrapped in silver shirts with stories of demonic possession and that's just the 1930s.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 3h

One of our Kings tried to pull this shit once. He refused to summon Parliament because he didn’t like what they were going to vote for, in part because he’d plunged the country into penury trying to strong-arm a crony into a top foreign job.

That was 1629.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3h

This is more like the team that had the best record in baseball most of the first four months of the season.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3h

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7d

Javy compared to MLB averages

2024
-195 overall
+152 RISP
+64 2 outs/RISP

2025
-39 overall
+68 RISP
+222 2 outs/RISP

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3h

Javy is ridiculous

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7d

Javy Baez OPS

2024
.516 overall
.893 RISP
.776 2 outs/RISP

2025
.680 overall
.813 RISP
.930 2 outs/RISP

No pressure & Javy is a bad hitter. Put Javy in a pressure position & he becomes Miguel Cabrera

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

See, this is exciting baseball!

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

But other than the Charlie Kirk memorial games when they pounded the Yankees they stopped hitting in late July, especially against RHP. Kind of hard to score runs with baserunning if you don’t have baserunners.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

Tigers or Mariners?

Tigers were an exciting team to watch most of the season. 50 years since a team on singles went first to third or second to home as often as the Tigers did.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

And it happens again.

Two days in a row.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 22h

I’d love to see somebody run numbers, bc I don’t remembered so many line drive double plays as Tigers have hit last 6 weeks. Or maybe it’s just that they’ve had so many in key moments.

Their left handed hitters went 0-16. Tork, Jones, & the catchers have been doing the job. Carp only LHH who’s hit

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe I’m wrong, but I didn’t see any examples where the House wasn’t in some kind of session.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

That’s about the start of the session.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 5h

If you’ve got nerds making Ozempic jokes about my governor right now, idk rethink what you are doing and who you are attracting on social media

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 5h

Does it embarrass you how many cowards are in your replies

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5h

False sense of security can breed carelessness

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t wear swimming goggles to a riot or demo. You might think they might help with tear gas, and they will. But they may make blunt force trauma more damaging.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

Your periodic reminder that Kevin Warsh is a fundamentally unserious person, with incredibly awful ideas about macroeconomic policy & central banking, who should not be let anywhere near the Federal Reserve:

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Barron's @barrons.com · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Warsh is a leading contender to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

He spoke with Barron's about interest rates, inflation, and more.

Trump Fed Chair Pick: Contender Kevin Warsh Explains How He Would Overhaul the Central Bank

In Kevin Warsh’s view, the next Fed chair can reset the institution’s credibility by overhauling the way the central bank thinks about its relationship with the markets, the economy, and the rest of t...

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

And there it is.

Trump would choose to be a dictator rather than let people find out that he’s a pedophile.

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Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 6h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5h

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 5h

I gotta say: the papacy of a Chicagoan with the cultural competency to comment firmly, yet carefully, on U.S. events has been a hell of a plot twist.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 5h

I gotta say: the papacy of a Chicagoan with the cultural competency to comment firmly, yet carefully, on U.S. events has been a hell of a plot twist.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

Time for the press to start asking Stephen Miller why they would rather have the country collapse instead of release the Epstein files. And ask him something like “if you knew someone was a pedophile would you work for him?”

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

If Pam Bondi had short hair that she didn’t color I doubt she would have become AG. I’m not making a comment about her qualifications (or reasons she shouldn’t have been confirmed). It’s just Trump. It’s his look.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder if she ever admitted she was wrong about whether Pelosi would ever support impeaching Trump.

Energetic Nova @energetic-nova.bsky.social · 6h

Finally one of these big users admits they were wrong about the Democratic strategy. Oh that feels nice. And it’s actually really great to see that somebody can do that

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here