“why would she make dinner for her abuser??” asks the party immolating itself to keep the president from jumping into another primary
Kerry Howley
@kerryhowley.bsky.social
Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
wrote this in 2019 and never imagined that the reporting would be confirmed as thoroughly as @jonswaine.bsky.social has managed. Incredible work nymag.com/intelligence...
Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood
Which may just help explain why she’s so totally out of place in today’s Democratic Party. And her long-shot race for the presidency.
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I quaintly maintain that “will anyone be held accountable for the mass murder of children?” is not, in fact, a strange question.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoNYT: Can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children? TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question.
Since we’re all talking about MMA, this is a good excuse to plug @kerryhowley.bsky.social’s phenomenal book “Thrown”, which I think about all the time and is unlike anything I’ve ever read. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
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Really interesting research on schizophrenia voices as inner speech that is misattributed
50-Year-Old Theory on Schizophrenia's 'Voices' Confirmed by Recent Study
New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external.
sciencealert.com
these are all the appropriate positions for an LA mayoral race
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo agoLos Angeles mayoral candidate and reality star Spencer Pratt sat down with NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Llamas to talk about his crystal collection, saying he believes "anything God put on this earth has energy."
♥️🗞️goodbye for now to @thebarbedwire.com — it’s been an honor, and any newsroom would be stupid not to hire @carakelly.bsky.social @briangaar.bsky.social @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and @candibolden.bsky.social
One of these classes is called “capitalism rocks.” Presumably it covers the efficient allocation of resources in accordance with market demand.
Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment
A last minute Republican legislative push could force University of Iowa college students to take classes at the newly-created Center for Intellectual Freedom. It's exactly what a report highlighted w...
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The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
Finally read Bottom's Up And the Devil Laughs by @kerryhowley.bsky.social. Can't think of a time when I've read nonfiction writing so smart and inventive that even events/people I had thought I'd read about before, even ones I've reported and written about myself, felt 100% new. Incredible book.
Love seeing conservatives argue for separation between church and state but only when religious doctrine conflicts with blowing people up
This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.
Opinion | The Affordable Car Is Dead. What Happened? (Gift Article)
This is how cars got so ridiculously, forbiddingly expensive.
nytimes.com
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
"The parents of dead children are a problem. They stand opposed to our most basic and necessary illusions." An absolutely haunting story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social that resist all such illusions. A story of Camp Mystic, and the 27 girls who died there unnecessarily, that I never knew.
Kerry Howley@kerryhowley.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...
Horrific & sensitively reported story by the peerless @kerryhowley.bsky.social. Seeing the delusion on display here I can't help but think about climate change, whose effects (eg torrential rain & floods) will also be treated as acts of God, when they are the work of people nymag.com/intelligence...
Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?
Twenty-seven children died in a Texas flood, dividing families over whether it was an act of God or adult failure.
nymag.com
I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...
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.
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...
One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
I’m teaching a weeklong creative nonfiction seminar in Paris this coming spring. More info here : www.wice-paris.org/paris-writer...
WICE - Paris Writers Workshop 2026
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congrats to @ilyasomin.bsky.social , long my single counterexample to “there are no consistent libertarians”