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Kerry Howley

@kerryhowley.bsky.social

Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City

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tip: if you raise your kid among all different kinds of people you’ll never even have to have a “conversation” they may or may not be “ready for”

08.03.2026 13:35 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary As he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him?

nymag.com/intelligence...

02.03.2026 15:49 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Pete Hegseth came to national prominence and to Trump’s attention specifically for his defense of men accused of war crimes by their fellow American soldiers.

02.03.2026 15:49 — 👍 406    🔁 130    💬 7    📌 2
Chart of trends in recovered organs from circulatory deaths

Chart of trends in recovered organs from circulatory deaths

The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years.

It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

01.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 204    🔁 43    💬 4    📌 4

One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.

22.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 368    🔁 147    💬 10    📌 2
WICE - Paris Writers Workshop 2026

I’m teaching a weeklong creative nonfiction seminar in Paris this coming spring. More info here : www.wice-paris.org/paris-writer...

21.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

congrats to @ilyasomin.bsky.social , long my single counterexample to “there are no consistent libertarians”

20.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

19.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 7606    🔁 1074    💬 46    📌 132

If you take two seconds to imagine the life of an individual undocumented immigrant in this country, it becomes clear that *voting illegally* would not be high on the to-do list

15.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The season of self-sabotage

11.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

11.02.2026 03:59 — 👍 2009    🔁 373    💬 38    📌 13

thinking about the bit in BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS, in which @kerryhowley.bsky.social writes that surveillance is made of dogs

10.02.2026 03:22 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

09.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 2183    🔁 291    💬 23    📌 46

don’t “are you surprised??” us Jim!

09.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Didn’t they publish a piece where they all said who they voted for ? Might have been a good time to say which party is obviously more of a threat to liberty, and suggest voting for the only viable alternative ?

09.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

09.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 6885    🔁 1696    💬 17    📌 79
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I’m looking forward to teaching a weeklong workshop in creative nonfiction this spring in Paris. Registration just opened. More here: wice-paris.org/paris-writer...

07.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I see.

06.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What is the narrative exactly ? A white house staffer who has unfettered access to the president’s account with no safeguards was casually watching videos in which the obamas are portrayed as apes, and then accidentally hit post?

06.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 242    🔁 61    💬 17    📌 2
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FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

04.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 2044    🔁 648    💬 18    📌 51

This is the business in Uptown that got randomly tear-gassed by ICE a few weeks ago. Guess they didn’t like it

01.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 2102    🔁 394    💬 18    📌 5

The fact that competent people have too much dignity to do this work gives me as much hope as anything

01.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

01.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 67314    🔁 16098    💬 2571    📌 1828

perhaps a research assistant researching my instructive book on the development of “moral
character”

01.02.2026 03:11 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Midwestern earnestness carries with it a real intransigence.

29.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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People power is real Take a moment to savor that

Eight great reads (and one listen) about the miracle of Minneapolis: www.headsupnews.org/p/people-pow... includes @adamserwer.bsky.social @erikhane.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @kerryhowley.bsky.social @mollycoleman.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @pkrugman.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

28.01.2026 21:01 — 👍 102    🔁 46    💬 5    📌 2

congrats

28.01.2026 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

25.01.2026 23:52 — 👍 5133    🔁 1126    💬 17    📌 20
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

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