Howell Williams
@hhowell.bsky.social
political science @ Western Connecticut State University || union member || deeply concerned
Randomly caught 60 Minutes tonight, first watch post-Weiss appointment at CBS…
Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela
Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo
Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code
Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela
Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo
Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Randomly caught 60 Minutes tonight, first watch post-Weiss appointment at CBS…
Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela
Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo
Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code
Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela
Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo
Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
Modernist beauties in Stamford CT designed by architect Victor H. Bisharat
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Modernist beauties in Stamford CT designed by architect Victor H. Bisharat
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Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.
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A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word.
Answers:
Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway
Answers:
Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word.
Answers:
Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway
Answers:
Roberts: Chief
Thomas: Laugh
Alito: Grandfather
Sotomayor: Lively
Kagan: Analytical
Gorsuch: Out West
Kavanaugh: Sports
Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway
"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim
Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.
Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.
WYDEN: All over the country, scientists and doctors are saying otherwise. They're all wrong too? They're all lying?
RFK Jr: Scientists and doctors are supporting me all over the country. I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag.
September 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim
Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.
Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country.
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Okay, for those of you who can't do the scavenger hunt, I'm gonna take you with me via video lol
August 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Okay, for those of you who can't do the scavenger hunt, I'm gonna take you with me via video lol
Mamdani scavenger hunt is thawing—just slightly—my perennially cold political heart. Community building is hopeful work.
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Mamdani scavenger hunt is thawing—just slightly—my perennially cold political heart. Community building is hopeful work.
Watched Heightened Scrutiny last night. Excellent doc about the harmful power of the media to shape narratives about trans lives. Highly recommend.
www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com
www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com
HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY | 2025 Documentary From Director Sam Feder
New documentary that premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposin...
www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Watched Heightened Scrutiny last night. Excellent doc about the harmful power of the media to shape narratives about trans lives. Highly recommend.
www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com
www.heightenedscrutinydoc.com
I’m looking for advice on good indexers for my book. Has anyone worked with someone recently they would recommend? Book is on fatherhood and race in 20th century APD, so qual poli sci/history pros especially helpful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’m looking for advice on good indexers for my book. Has anyone worked with someone recently they would recommend? Book is on fatherhood and race in 20th century APD, so qual poli sci/history pros especially helpful.
Nominations for the Ann Snitow Prize are due 8/1
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Nominations for the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize—a $12,000 award for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States—are now open. To nominate someone for the Ann Snitow...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nominations for the Ann Snitow Prize are due 8/1
Nominate an outstanding #feminist thinker, activist, artist
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My forthcoming book on fatherhood politics discusses this postcard to highlight how suffrage provoked crisis in patriarchal norms
Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family
Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family
July 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My forthcoming book on fatherhood politics discusses this postcard to highlight how suffrage provoked crisis in patriarchal norms
Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family
Anti-suffrage provided a repertoire of discourses for patriarchy’s defenders, including the idea that expanding women’s rights threatened the family
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If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/
When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
July 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/
There are 6 days left to nominate someone for the Ann Snitow Prize, $12,000 honoring an outstanding #feminist, who combines intellectual or artistic work with creative, generative, effective social justice activism. Find out more: annsnitowprize.com/nominations
Nominations - The Ann Snitow Prize
Calendar and Requirements Nominations for the 2025 Prize will open on May 12, 2025 and will close July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Nominations are submitted via email and should include the following:• ...
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July 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There are 6 days left to nominate someone for the Ann Snitow Prize, $12,000 honoring an outstanding #feminist, who combines intellectual or artistic work with creative, generative, effective social justice activism. Find out more: annsnitowprize.com/nominations
The problem with “are men/boys ok?” discourse is it only feeds into reactionary politics like this
This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
July 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The problem with “are men/boys ok?” discourse is it only feeds into reactionary politics like this
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If you care about the well being of Black people, here is a color coded map showing you where we are concentrated in this country before you drop your ignorant “red state” take.
July 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you care about the well being of Black people, here is a color coded map showing you where we are concentrated in this country before you drop your ignorant “red state” take.
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If this were a repeated line from congressional Democrats, there would be countless think pieces about why such rhetoric is alienating young men from the party.
Scalise: "The 35-year-old who's sitting in his mom's basement playing video games is gonna have to go get a job again."
July 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If this were a repeated line from congressional Democrats, there would be countless think pieces about why such rhetoric is alienating young men from the party.
Self Esteem’s Glastonbury set…remarkable!
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Self Esteem’s Glastonbury set…remarkable!
Said goodbye to this sweet 17-year-old today. Rest well, Lucy 💕
June 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Said goodbye to this sweet 17-year-old today. Rest well, Lucy 💕
Yes! And I’ll go one further: can we not use “performative” when we mean “performance”?
Read your Butler!
Read your Butler!
As someone who has written a little about performance and legislative politics, I am begging people to stop using "performative" pejoratively. Politics *is* performance. All human interaction is performance.
April 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yes! And I’ll go one further: can we not use “performative” when we mean “performance”?
Read your Butler!
Read your Butler!
This weakens the intervention. Effectively indistinguishable from a response to the question “Mr Chief Justice, who do you think will win the Super Bowl?”
There's no link—the Supreme Court sent the statement to reporters "in response to inquiries." (Presumably inquiries about Trump's call to impeach Judge Boasberg.)
March 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This weakens the intervention. Effectively indistinguishable from a response to the question “Mr Chief Justice, who do you think will win the Super Bowl?”
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In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends.
The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war.
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war.
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
www.axios.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In the absence of adequate staff, the lion's share of the administrative burden of helping the elderly navigate SSA will fall on adult daughters, DILs, and female friends.
The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war.
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
The war on the elderly, the war on lower income Americans, and the war on women are the same war.
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
A neighbor shared this pic of a red-tailed hawk in Peekskill this afternoon
March 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A neighbor shared this pic of a red-tailed hawk in Peekskill this afternoon