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Ned Howey

@nedhowey.bsky.social
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Cofounder/CEO of Tectonica Queer. Immigrant. Joyful loudmouth. Author of "The Age of Junk Politics" Download here: www.tectonica.co/age_of_junk_politi… Social movements, democracy, progressive politics, tech, transformational practice

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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Habeas Corpus cannot be selectively applied based on immigration status or any other factor; otherwise, its underlying value as a right becomes useless. To even determine if a person is covered by other rights, this fundamental principle must apply to all. It must be an unquestionable universal.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So a guy who is supposed to be so brilliant at business doesn't understand that creating "efficiency" doesn't mean just getting rid of things you are supposed to do? (and yes, I know efficiency was never their real aim anyway.) #DOGE #elon
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Was typing an idea on my phone and meant to write - “most powerful nation”, but it came out - either through thumb fumble or autocorrect -, “lost powerful nation.” And yeah, that tracks.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
DOGE has nothing to do with efficiency. It’s a full frontal attack on government in its existence. As Trump said - he wants everything to be private sector. It is an attempt to have market take over of all aspects of life including our democracies. Reminder: the government is We THE PEOPLE.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Are we tired yet of progressive leadership telling us not to fall into fatalism? Give us something to be hopeful for. Point a real way. Show a vision. Be leaders and give us all a reason to be a part. Or STFU about how we are supposed to feel.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There is no human rights without democracy. I am so curious to see how younger populations are reportedly turning away from democracy as a concept while deeply attached to human rights. I suspect a core part of this is the current culture of democracy and how they don’t see their agency in it.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My fellow Americans: we are more than what we buy at the supermarket. Until we fundamentally realize that and reconnect to our true values, our elections will continue to imperil the fabric of our democracies and the power of our communities.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Senator Bennet destroys RFK Jr. Hopefully ends his confirmation. But you never know. It's America after all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFg... #cdnpoli #peipoli
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Bennet, Kennedy get into heated back-and-forth
YouTube video by Washington Post
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The amount of money, energy and resources, that the hyper-wealthy are putting into shifting the Overton window to a place where everyday fascism is accepted - is both petrifying and working. We need deep work in reconnecting people’s political understanding with their deeper values to halt this.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
DEI is not contrary to a fair meritocracy. It’s a means to achieve it in a world full of bias. The attacks on and removal of DEI programs will be a huge disservice not only to individuals from marginalized backgrounds but to businesses and consumers.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It’s been the plan all along. Public money is frozen. The intent to destroy every sector that is not the private sector + neoliberalisms wet dream is finally realized: every aspect of life ruled by the market - one which is already stacked, unequal, and fairly dysfunctional in many regards.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Remember when reporters used to have to go under cover to explore the world of white nationalism and neonazis? Now they just have to schedule through the White House Press Office.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I suspect a good deal of where the hate and fear of trans people (and queer ppl more broadly) is not just the implications of gender but the fact that people can boldly transform themselves and their relationship to a world to be authentically themselves despite what the world pressures them to be.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
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Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
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Rosemari Ochoa @rosemariochoa.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Women have to over perform in politics…by a lot. From 2019:
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Despite knowing history and having been through this all before, we are driven to do it all again as societies. As populations we are as unable to adjust our behavior simply based on knowledge as we are as individuals.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
An area @bsky.app ( @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app ) clearly need to take care of is the spam bot issue. I have reported about 20 people of the same name and repeated image use over the last week and continue to get account follows. It seems it would not be that hard to fix this issue.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Being on BlueSky is a bit of an experiment for me. Still not sure if I put energy and attention here. Not the app specifically, just this kind of social media. I like LinkedIn a lot - because i see colleagues share useful ideas and resources for political organizing. Not clear the value here yet.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
To be clear, posting stories to Insta is not activism. (That is about ego and self image). Of course many people now think just being loud in any context is what will get demands met. With no intent to call people into movements, to move them, it’s just political selfies, not political action.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Democracy is going off the rails globally. I need to know more about the context of S. Korean politics - but this all feels like a movie portrayal of dystopia.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
US non-profit people - you all breathing through Giving Tuesday?
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It’s time we all see ourselves as activists. It doesn’t matter in what way we are active - the goal is that we are active in our democracies. We need a revolution of participation whose reach is universal.
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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Eep! 🙈🙈‼️‼️ Excited to see this review of my new book in @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/b...
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What Happened When an Ohio Megachurch Decided to Tackle Racism
In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
‘Teaching a man to fish’ is always preferred, but let’s be clear - it’s not less work.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I continue to hear respect for the need of us US progressives to grieve following the election. As someone who is 15 years into grieving the loss of my husband I can tell you - grieving is not a time when we are just laying immobile and losing power. Quite the contrary. 🧵
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hearing Tom Hanks speak in “on Purpose” about the important value of inter generational connections makes me think of my generation of queer men and how much we lost in not having the same possibilities of these connections - so many of our elders having passed for the AIDS epidemic. 🧵
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am so glad to be playing Brahm’s 1st Symphony right now. Since the US elections I’ve been listening to a lot of Brahms (especially the sextets) and the thought that all this beauty survived incredibly dark times comforts me. Yes, there are dark times ahead. And much beauty will still live on.
Ned Howey playing the bassoon with Orchestra Tekhne.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📈 You can understand your constituents standing on issues, policy or candidates through polling. 🧠 You can understand a your constituents language and way of thinking of issues through focus groups. ❤️ Only w/ organizing can you understand your constituents values. Which is the 🔑 to leadership.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This makes a lot of sense. Journalist play a core role in the democratic function of accountability of government to the people. As Twitter/X has become increasingly antithetical to those ends in its policy and culture in social network, of course journalist would be eager for a new venue.
www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If a post on Twitter (X) was a tweet, what is a post on BlueSky? A bleep? A bleak? A skippy? A balloon? A bird? A skib? A bluekey? (Also, are they still tweets now that it’s X?)
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I don’t think social media is the space to foster conversations that can be positively transformational. I don’t believe staying in Twitter/X, Facebook or whatever else fundamentally helped open people’s eyes, touched their humanity and beliefs, or made visible others they had not seen before.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Getting a feeling we may still yet see the rise of social media that serves the intentions of its users, but jury is still out.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Finally got these two to agree on something.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Amazing how much a subset of the US population has confused ‘democracy’ with white nationalist patriarchal cultural dominance - which is why they are so willing to dismantle democratic guardrails. Well, maybe not that amazing. (‘Disgusting’, yes that’s the word I was looking for).
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This past month I started closely tracking a personal budget. I always found it incredibly stressful - although known I needed it. Anyone else have experience with their budgeting and the emotions around it?
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Love how prominent the “Following” feed option is on BlueSky. I mostly stay there. How about you all?
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Isn’t it fun how we get to be told we’re catastrophe alarmists first and then told ‘no one saw it coming’ after? (Applies to several areas, really).
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Much of our struggles (and greatness) can be boiled down to humans trying to be - together as a group - more than animals when we are really still just a bunch of animals, but with the capacity for and of language.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There should be a reality show where middle class American right wingers come and live a year in Europe and experience what having quality public space, social and medical service, social safety net and infrastructure feels like to actually live in. And then they bring them back to the US to vote.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Maybe it's time for me to tweet again (to tell people I'm here and still not there)? Or is it time to just disable my account? What do you think? Best way to drop an eX?
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The gays want our song back.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and feeling a bit blue this year for not having the energy to put anything together for foreign version as I usually do. Have an extra scoop of stuffing or mac for me folks.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Super happy for SkyBridge bringing over Twitter accounts I used to follow (or whatever the fElon wants to call it now). Hoping some of my old followers follow me back. (Espcially considering I stopped tweeting some time ago anyhow). www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
sky-follower-bridge.dev
Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
How I know I am not an ai: no ai would ever be this wordy and long-winded.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Instead of all this “we will find common ground with a want-to-be-dictator” Democratic Senators should be committing now to filibuster any legislation which will be put forward that impacts democratic norms. (Including the bill targeting non-profit independance). People want leaders with a spine.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This update will vastly improve my life. You have no idea how many times I’ve sent jumbled messages because the keyboard was on the wrong language.
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Which ai will get out of bed and go to the gym for me early on dark mornings in winter?
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Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“How can we make / keep the culture of BlueSky good in the way we use it?” Is a question I have going through my head. Certainly, there were issues with Twitter before Elon took over. How can we make this different?
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