Dana Houle
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Dana Houle
@danahoule.bsky.social
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
Your first place Detroit Red Wings…
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
2025 college grad has thoughts
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yeah, it’s been easy to see for a while
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another win for Illinois & Chicagoland: Texas National Guard is headed back to Texas

The courts matter

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
[Borrowed from another context from @grudgie.bsky.social ]
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It doesn’t get much more White Suburban Detroit than a Zamboni-shaped gravy boat giveaway by the Red Wings & Meijer
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It doesn’t mean they killed the story. But it doesn’t mean they didn’t kill the story, either

The NYT has done a lot of good reporting on Trump. But they have also made numerous decisions that favored Donald Trump & can most charitably be described as very peculiar or perplexing
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Every other major news outlet in America should be throwing teams of their best reporters in to finding out WTF happened with Epstein & the NYT.

And remember this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In the SITUATION ROOM??!?
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is amazingly great news. It’s 615 people who are still in custody. That’s roughly 1 out of every 5 people Border Patrol & ICE have taken around Chicago over the last 2 months

Judge will prob agree to a short stay—DOJ attorney said there were at least 12 deemed security risks—and…
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
And you too could be the Unibomber!
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“Miracle” Mile “shopping center” in Chicago
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Eh, she probably shouldn’t have been banned, but shes not some speaker of hard truths, she’s a borderline conspiracy theorist.
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I read this the night before the invasion of Iraq.

I think it was a few years later when I learned that Knox himself had been an incredible soldier.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
In case you were wondering if it’s snowing
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Something worth keeping in mind: The destruction of the ACA exchanges will be felt disproportionately in Republican states. In 5 of the 8 states w the most people using the exchanges the Republicans are defending Senate seats that could be competitive.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This thing may be getting too big to bring inside every winter.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Aaaannnddd, the walk-back begins…
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’m skeptical; the snow totals almost _always_ are less than forecast. But we bought my kids a sled for Christmas 2022 & I’m hopeful they’ll finally get to use it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
She loves it more than the coward behind the mask does.
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
One of?
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Consultants invent elections?

I did campaigns, worked in labor, worked in a legislature, & worked in Congress. This is not how it works
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Almost everyone who survived figured out how to steal &/or trade for extra food that kept them alive. It’s a common subject in the literature of the concentration camps
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM