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Bobby Mathews

@bamawriter.bsky.social
1.2K followers 776 following 389 posts

Author: NEGATIVE TILT: STORIES (2024), MAGIC CITY BLUES (2023), LIVING THE GIMMICK (2022), Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024, Anthony Award nominee, Derringer Award winner. Unrelentingly weird.

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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
feeling very justified in my long-term hate for Ed Brubaker right now. of course, i always did.
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Ashley Gable @ashleygable.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations, Jordan! “Jordan Harper’s new novel proves noir can still channel the crises and neuroses of the moment.”
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 08/07/2026
Fucking leave already, dipshit
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"They've done everything possible to eliminate us" — Iran captain Mehdi Taremi unleashes on FIFA and U.S. organizers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.
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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Two of my favorite writers and people!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I started Civil Discourse so people who care about democracy aren’t forced to rely on headlines & hot takes. My newsletter gives you legal & historical context. It lets you decide for yourself what matters & why. If that soubds helpful, check it out: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
And it’s the 1930s in America
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”

“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

In a statement, a CBS News sp
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Very excited for you all to read my short story “Dos Caras” in this one and always happy to be in a collection with folks like @nkolakowski.bsky.social & @bamawriter.bsky.social
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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
BIG NEWS!!!!
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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We're delighted to announce that we will be publishing a new anthology from @libbycudmore.bsky.social and @nmamatas.bsky.social: THE BLACK TAPES! Get more details in the press release for The Black Tapes: Haunting Tales of Lost and Dead Media: 📼 links.ruadanbooks.com/blacktapespr #BookSky
Graphic quoting from the press release announcing Libby Cudmore and Nick Mamatas’ 2027 anthology The Black Tapes, which can be read at links.ruadanbooks.com/blacktapespr.
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/11/2025
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/11/2025
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
when the AI bubble bursts, remember your worth and how little regard they had for you when they let you go to save money.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/11/2025
Matt Walsh will have a coronary after seeing this. www.them.us/story/pope-l...
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Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
“I hope this [lunch] will be an opportunity to speak to him and ask him not to backtrack on rights," Alesia Nobile said.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...
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Epstein files reveal his obsession with Trump
The president is mentioned over a thousand times in sex trafficker’s emails
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
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After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/11/2025
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I was a guest on WWE Hall of Famers' Jerry Brisco and John Bradshaw Layfield's podcast. Just went live. Check it out: youtu.be/dln0nol5US8?...
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Author Bobby Matthews *New Episode* Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw
YouTube video by Stories With Brisco And Bradshaw
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 31/10/2025
The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
we're seeing it in slow motion every day anyway.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Libertarians standing around not doing anything (which is on-brand) Then this guy hits them from a thousand yards away with a perfect sniper shot.
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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
that play at 2B wasn't as bad as Kent Hrbek lifting Ron Gant's foot off of first base in the 1991 World series, but that's only because Hrbek is a bitch-ass cheating motherfucker.
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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
If you are in the Birmingham AL area, go see Bobby! And tell him I sent you. Then tell him how amazing he is. Cuz Bobby is fucking amazing.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Hey hey, it's the day of the event. If you're in the Birmingham metro area, come say hi at the Hoover Public Library at 3 p.m. I'll be reading a couple of stories, talking about why I write about the South, and giving away a few books!
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I would totally go to this. YOU should totally go to this. But if you're like me, and way too far away, you can find his short stories lots of places like the ones below.
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 edited by S.A. CosbyNegative Tilt: Stories by Bobby Mathews
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Conor Mahood @conorvoice.com · 02/10/2025
Bobby wrote a couple of my favourite crime novels of this century! If you're in the area I envy you the chance to stop by.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you're in the #BHM — that's Birmingham, Ala-damn-bama — area on October 19, I'll be reading some of my short fiction and talking about what inspires me in this city. Come see me at the Hoover Public Library! Event is free and open to the public. :-)
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If only Robert E. Lee had shaved. Pete Hegseth and the rest of MAGA would have the country they truly want.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sherman coulda marched through Georgia in a day-and-a-half if he hadn't had a beard.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Wtf
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Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 22/09/2025
REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,001* 一 among groups * = added Jimmy Kimmel who got his job back! 😒
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. 

White men saw the largest job
increase 一 365,000 一 among
groups.

According to an analysis of the most recent labor statistics by
Katica Roy, a gender economist
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I've been having some health struggles in recent months that I haven't talked about on here ... some of it seems to be looking up. Keep your fingers crossed, y'all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Bobby Mathews @bamawriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"I can't swim!" "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!" Butch and Sundance are together again. Rest in Peace, Robert Redford.
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RIP to a great actor and watch "All the President's Men" this week/end if you want to remember what it was like back when the Washington Post did real journalism
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scottynola1 @scottynola.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
What a lovely interview! Thanks, Frank!
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Greg Herren: The Master of Queer Mysteries and New Orleans Storytelling
Written by Frank Gaimari Greg Herren / Photo by Mike Smarro Greg Herren is a name synonymous with LGBTQ+ literature, particularly in the mystery genre. A prolific author and advocate, Herren has sp…
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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This, so hard.
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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 18/08/2025
Go F@!k Yourself is out NOW... today the book drops... the ebook and the paperback are available for purchase! (Audio book is on the way!) Check out the 3rd book in the award winning mystery series! #booksky #author #mysterybooks #indieauthor (Also you can order from your local bookstore!) 1/2
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Go F@!k Yourself: A Jimmy Cooper Mystery (Jimmy Cooper Mysteries)
Go F@!k Yourself: A Jimmy Cooper Mystery (Jimmy Cooper Mysteries) [Allan, Lawrence] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Go F@!k Yourself: A Jimmy Cooper Mystery (Jimmy Cooper Mysteries)
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Dave White @davewhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
AN EMPTY HELL, the first appearance of Matt Herrick, is and Early Bird Books Sale wherever you can get ebooks! Only $1.99! @dzhyde.bsky.social @hillnadell.bsky.social
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
More misogynist insanity.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hey, it’s Thursday! I wore pants! Go on, get some @lauramchugh.bsky.social @curtisippolito.bsky.social @robwhart.bsky.social @nkolakowski.bsky.social @bamawriter.bsky.social @steveweddle.bsky.social and @meaganlucas.bsky.social Fun was had! #BookSky
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