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Becca Andrews

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social
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Journalist. Professor at Western Kentucky University. Co-host/co-creator of "American Shrapnel." Author of “No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental Right."

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You don’t say!
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I went to Dollywood for @theguardian.com (but mostly for Dolly). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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‘It’s sad to lose a really nice person’: mourners flock to Dollywood after death of Dolly Parton
A memorial at the park’s entrance held bouquets, and a child asked his mothers why so many people were crying
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I wrote about my self-appointed Year of the Tome, and how it got me to finally crack the tomeliest tome that ever did tome: The Power Broker. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Year of the Tome
One woman's odyssey into Robert Caro's The Power Broker.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I made a little space on the internet where I can write about the joy of being a nonfiction reader and I hope you’ll join me for this ongoing conversation: open.substack.com/pub/beccaand...
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m so sick of the both sides-ing. AI is creating monumental existential problems for book publishing but okay cool it makes metadata easier. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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AI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not Easy
At an online summit cohosted by industry platform Publishing Signal, participants agreed that AI is accelerating the pace of production and lowering some costs, but core questions about curation, audi...
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The discourse about reading—that a lot of Americans don’t—is devastating. *And* I’m frustrated, as an insatiable reader, that we aren’t talking more about how this is a byproduct of living in a capitalistic system that demands every second of one’s time, every last spark of energy.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Half of Arizonans on food stamps have lost benefits since Republicans enacted the biggest cut in the program's history last year. Janae Wall is one of them. Her five children ask her, “Why don’t we have a bunch of food in the house like we used to?” she said.
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The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"she asked for it"
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is the best essay I've read in ages. Stop doomscrolling, stop spiraling, make some herbal tea and sit with this.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today, SCOTUS ruled that states can ban trans girls from girls' sports. To get there, it watered down the way it analyzes Constitutional protections against sex discrimination. My analysis with comments from @maryrziegler.bsky.social and @avaayers.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Supreme Court's trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equality
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is "not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get."
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Some of y’all are real comfortable throwing stones like you ain’t never fucked up
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The women who were on NPR’s live coverage of the birthright citizenship SCOTUS decision deserve a raise. Michelle Kellerman in particular
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Nashville folks, my neighborhood has a great new-ish bookstore and me and a couple pals are doing an event there. Come on out. @jordanritterconn.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social www.duckbillbookshop.com/authorevent-...
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rePROs Fight Back @reprosfightback.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#ReproReads 🧵 No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right by Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...
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No Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
To get to visit with @marthaannetoll.bsky.social in London was such a treat. Read everything she writes, including her two novels!
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe.
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Scott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Really appreciate this given how many media people who should know better have drunk the AI-inevitability Kool-Aid. It really doesn’t have many uses for journalists except for embarrassing oneself. "I’ve always hated the zero-to-one process of writing a story.” Join the club, welcome to hell, etc.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The distinctively American language of politicized white evangelicalism this woman speaks is only about 50 years old. It was still considered a fairly embarrassing element of the GOP coalition in 2012 when it manifested in the form of Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. Now it's the only note.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Do not use AI to "edit"! Do not use it to "brainstorm" or "outline" or "research" or any other thing.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New from me: Visits for contraception and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics have dropped by double-digits after Congress passed a bill cutting off Medicaid funding to certain providers last year, according to a new Democratic congressional report.
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Contraception services dropped after ‘defunding’ provision hit clinics
Visits for contraception and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics have dropped by double-digits after Congress passed a bill cutting off Medicaid funding to certain reproductive health care...
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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Higher quality of life in Franklin if you can pay $1 million for a house, are super conservative and don't care about good restaurants.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I finished reading “The Power Broker” this week, please clap
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/03/2026
In 1974, an Internal Revenue Service attorney named Paul Haring pitched an idea to Catholic leaders that would shape the lives of millions of women for the next half-century. The Hyde Amendment is a ban on federal Medicaid funding of abortion that will mark its 50th anniversary this year.
motherjones.com
The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights
The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Speaking of people who are out here doing The Work: follow Kelcie, she’s brilliant.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 08/03/2026
10/10 take. no notes
teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Read this piece on how abortion clinics are facing more, and more sophisticated threats, from @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/03/2026
Trump’s pardon of anti-abortion activists who harassed and threatened clinics and patients has created the sense that it’s “open season” on providers across the country. @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on what one North Carolina clinic reveals about our endless abortion wars.
motherjones.com
Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
my god. this has to stop, this all has to stop. we are in the clutches of actual monsters.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished. @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement.
motherjones.com
Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars
After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/01/2026
Let's be clear about what's happening: Trump gaslit voters about his abortion stance during the campaign because winning meant staying out of prison. His administration is now pushing off abortion pill restrictions until after the midterms to try keep the House and prevent Trump being impeached
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
And the exclusion of Planned Parenthood from Medicaid These state efforts also complicate political accountability. Will people think "oh the fed gov cuts werent that bad"? Will they know to credit the dem states?
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:
1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.''

The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead.

2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day……a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.''
3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' ''

4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals.5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.''

6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything.

7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.
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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/20/a...
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How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe - Nieman Storyboard
As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you're covering the Epstein of it all, remember: they were underage *girls*. Not women.
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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If I could tell you how many women journalists I've known over the years who work so hard despite repeated sexual harassment and discrimination and then to live in a time when the president is openly calling a reporter piggy and that woman probably got paid a lot for that stupid book. I can't.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Don’t waste editors’ precious bandwidth with this crap. Good grief.
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I truly didn’t know my mood could get any more foul but here we are
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 12/11/2025
This is one of the weirder bits of fundamentalist rhetoric. There's an school of thought in several churches including some old Catholic ones that women are supposed to suffer because of Eve. I am not telling you it makes sense. I am telling you he's parroting a line that is a giant warning sign
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/11/2025
Great news for an active court case that could expand abortion access in Pennsylvania: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor...
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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oh god is this what joy feels like???
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Teen Vogue was one of the only outlets that took young people seriously as political actors and covered how they're organizing, voting, and being impacted by state + national legislation. It was a launching pad for so many great young journalists
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