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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The best political feature I read last year was @kerryhowley.bsky.social on Pete Hegseth in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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
January 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The best political feature I read last year was @kerryhowley.bsky.social on Pete Hegseth in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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How much did it cost? The planning started months ago, possibly preceding or during the shutdown. How much were we paying for this while we weren’t paying for food stamps?
January 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
How much did it cost? The planning started months ago, possibly preceding or during the shutdown. How much were we paying for this while we weren’t paying for food stamps?
[it was actually worse when they pretended (or truly believed!) it was about democracy and scolded as cynical anyone who argued otherwise]
January 4, 2026 at 3:08 AM
[it was actually worse when they pretended (or truly believed!) it was about democracy and scolded as cynical anyone who argued otherwise]
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A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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I'm not great about tooting my own horn. But as an independent journalist whose work is reliant on contributions from my readers, it's part of the job.
So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe.
(Plus, shameless dog photos!)
So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe.
(Plus, shameless dog photos!)
The roundup -- and a request for your support
My year-end pitch for your paid subscription
radleybalko.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm not great about tooting my own horn. But as an independent journalist whose work is reliant on contributions from my readers, it's part of the job.
So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe.
(Plus, shameless dog photos!)
So here's a post and thread on my work over the last year and beyond -- and why you, reader, should subscribe.
(Plus, shameless dog photos!)
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I responded to the film differently, and a good deal more positively, but this is a fantastic essay. defector.com/one-battle-a...
'One Battle After Another' Isn't Up For The Fight | Defector
To paraphrase the late, great Prodigy, there are wars going on outside no one is safe from. They are cultural, political, racial, class-based, and literal. It’s increasingly difficult to shake the fee...
defector.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I responded to the film differently, and a good deal more positively, but this is a fantastic essay. defector.com/one-battle-a...
“prices work” is left-coded
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“prices work” is left-coded
thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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Hello, at the University of Minnesota, we're hiring a visiting creative nonfiction writer for the next 2-3 years to teach a 1-1 (one grad class, one undergrad class) and potentially sit on some MFA thesis committees. This job will give you time to write you next book: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hello, at the University of Minnesota, we're hiring a visiting creative nonfiction writer for the next 2-3 years to teach a 1-1 (one grad class, one undergrad class) and potentially sit on some MFA thesis committees. This job will give you time to write you next book: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
worth pointing out how we first came to know this. In populations affected by measles, deaths from other infections are elevated for YEARS afterward. So scientists started comparing blood samples and looking for antibodies.
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
worth pointing out how we first came to know this. In populations affected by measles, deaths from other infections are elevated for YEARS afterward. So scientists started comparing blood samples and looking for antibodies.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This reaction from a guide at @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social offers a profound and urgent insight.
From iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-... HT @mgcroadster.bsky.social
From iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-... HT @mgcroadster.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This reaction from a guide at @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social offers a profound and urgent insight.
From iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-... HT @mgcroadster.bsky.social
From iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-... HT @mgcroadster.bsky.social
Any theory about a way out of Trumpism must contend with the fact that parents of both children who have died of measles maintain they were right not to vaccinate. You will not convince people they’ve done harm. You can only present them with new choices.
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any theory about a way out of Trumpism must contend with the fact that parents of both children who have died of measles maintain they were right not to vaccinate. You will not convince people they’ve done harm. You can only present them with new choices.
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This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
nymag.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
some great sentences in this one
“If reality is this fluid, and if the mind communes with matter in ways we don’t understand, maybe miracles aren’t miracles. Intellect simply hasn’t caught up with—or recovered—intuition.” —Christian Wiman
The Tune of Things, by Christian Wiman
Is consciousness God?
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
some great sentences in this one
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As so much reporting about RFK Jr. fails to meet the moment or worse, this piece about what it's like with people with actual expertise and the goal of saving lives rather than culling them to work for his HHS from @kerryhowley.bsky.social is should-win-major-awards good: nymag.com/intelligence...
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
As so much reporting about RFK Jr. fails to meet the moment or worse, this piece about what it's like with people with actual expertise and the goal of saving lives rather than culling them to work for his HHS from @kerryhowley.bsky.social is should-win-major-awards good: nymag.com/intelligence...
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How RFK Jr. destroyed the CDC. Another banger from Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
nymag.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How RFK Jr. destroyed the CDC. Another banger from Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...