Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Habeas 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. 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025So 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 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Was 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. 020 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025DOGE 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. 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Are 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. 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025There 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. 041 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025My 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. 021 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025It does seem to support the old saying that ultimate power corrupts ultimately, looking at the shifting values of these horrible humans. (With very few exceptions). 110 0
Reposted by Ned HoweyPEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Senator Bennet destroys RFK Jr. Hopefully ends his confirmation. But you never know. It's America after all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFg... #cdnpoli #peipoliyoutube.comBennet, Kennedy get into heated back-and-forthYouTube video by Washington Post 614231 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The 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. 142 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025DEI 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. 020 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025It’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. 110 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Remember 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. 072 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Geez. Sent shivers down my spine. Butler was truly prophetic. 100 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I’m looking forward to catching up and hearing your thoughts on it. Thank you so much for sharing. 💚 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024True liberation for all queer people must be center in and can only come as a result from honoring our authentic selves. 021 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024And that presses up against the fears that hold many people in place from a similar transformation. “If they could be authentically themselves so could I” is scary. The resulting friction emerges as anger and hate despite having no impact on their own lives or actions. 100 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I 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. 100 0
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Reposted by Ned HoweyRosemari Ochoa @rosemariochoa.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Women have to over perform in politics…by a lot. From 2019: 131 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Despite 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. 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024An 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. 130 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Being 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. 020 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024To 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. 151 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Democracy 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. 030 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Breathing in, it’s just a Tuesday as any other Tuesday, breathing out - give us money! Haha You all got this! 120 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024US non-profit people - you all breathing through Giving Tuesday? 220 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It’s what I am all about these days. How do we not just defeat Trump, but the movement that caused Trumpism and his similar versions elsewhere: by *being* democracy. (More here: www.tectonica.co/posts/parado...)tectonica.coOn the Paradox of Democracy, Transformation, and Accepting the Darkness AheadBeyond the Disaster of Trump 2024: An Analysis of Democratic Decline, Voter Disillusionment, and the Path to Democratic Renewal 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It’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. 082 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024There is a big metaphor here for a larger discussion going on - one side where discrimination, power injustices and the need to dismantle racism is recognized and another which argues that recognizing the existence of racism itself is racism. We all know who is behind the latter… 100 0
Reposted by Ned HoweyHahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 23/09/2024Eep! 🙈🙈‼️‼️ Excited to see this review of my new book in @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/b...nytimes.comWhat Happened When an Ohio Megachurch Decided to Tackle RacismIn “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias and promote racial justice. 2156 0
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. 130 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024To grieve is actually a super power of sorts. When our deepest minds and bodies process the meaning in loss. Grieving is actually a place where you grow strength, perspective, and resilience. Waking from this we will be more powerful than ever and ready. 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I 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. 🧵 120 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Here is the episode for anyone interested.open.spotify.comTom Hanks: #1 Theory Tom Uses in Order to Live a Balanced and Fulfilled LifeOn Purpose with Jay Shetty · Episode 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I am deeply grateful for the queer elders I have in my life. They have and continue to be formative - not only in making better choices, but in getting a better understand and meaning even when I don’t make the right choices. 100 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I think for queer people this influence is even more relevant - our parents often unable to relate to or guide us through the unique challenges we have in our queer life and experience. 110 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Hearing 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. 🧵 110 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Here is what I am talking about re: the sextets: open.spotify.com/track/6sDV0m...open.spotify.comString Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: I. Allegro ma non troppo 000 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Jajajaja acordeón nooooo!!! Es EL BANDONEÓN! (Mas argento che! 🇦🇷 ) Jeje todavía lo tengo aquí conmigo y sigue tocándolo pero hace un rato que saltó un resorte en uno de los butones pero ni idea donde llevarlo a arreglarlo aquí en España.media.tenor.coma man in a tuxedo is holding an accordion and making a face .ALT: a man in a tuxedo is holding an accordion and making a face . 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I 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. 380 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Clearly fElon didn’t want the very good brand. Can’t we keep it after all? 010 0
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. 001 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This 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.orgJournalists 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. 020 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Right? (Probably somebody somewhere has…but it’s more fun to wonder). 010 0
Ned Howey @nedhowey.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I was really hoping some kind of algorithm had me pegged as “way too gay for sports”. 110 0