Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I went to Dollywood for @theguardian.com (but mostly for Dolly). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...theguardian.com‘It’s sad to lose a really nice person’: mourners flock to Dollywood after death of Dolly PartonA memorial at the park’s entrance held bouquets, and a child asked his mothers why so many people were crying 182
Reposted by Becca AndrewsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Chauvin 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. 18169561384
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I 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-...substack.comThe Year of the TomeOne woman's odyssey into Robert Caro's The Power Broker. 000
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I 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...open.substack.com 230
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’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/...publishersweekly.comAI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not EasyAt 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... 312219
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The 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. 110
Reposted by Becca AndrewsBryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Half 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.thenation.comThe Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food StampsNew work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come. 11295146
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"she asked for it" 4926452863
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is the best essay I've read in ages. Stop doomscrolling, stop spiraling, make some herbal tea and sit with this. 120
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMadison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Today, 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.comThe Supreme Court's trans athlete ruling is a threat to gender equalityJustice Brett Kavanaugh is "not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection all women get." 17326
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Some of y’all are real comfortable throwing stones like you ain’t never fucked up 020
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The women who were on NPR’s live coverage of the birthright citizenship SCOTUS decision deserve a raise. Michelle Kellerman in particular 110
Reposted by Becca AndrewsSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Nashville 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-... 063
Reposted by Becca AndrewsrePROs 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...bookshop.orgNo Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American RightThe Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right 132
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026To get to visit with @marthaannetoll.bsky.social in London was such a treat. Read everything she writes, including her two novels! 121
Reposted by Becca AndrewsLiam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe. 1003260946
Reposted by Becca AndrewsScott Gordon @scottgordonwi.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Really 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. 21208
Reposted by Becca AndrewsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The 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. 992215606
Reposted by Becca AndrewsSummer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Do not use AI to "edit"! Do not use it to "brainstorm" or "outline" or "research" or any other thing. 34913
Reposted by Becca AndrewsKelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026New 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.newsfromthestates.comContraception services dropped after ‘defunding’ provision hit clinicsVisits 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... 21411
Reposted by Becca AndrewsHolly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Higher quality of life in Franklin if you can pay $1 million for a house, are super conservative and don't care about good restaurants. 6323
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I finished reading “The Power Broker” this week, please clap 120
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/03/2026In 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.comThe infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rightsThe men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise. 816580
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Speaking of people who are out here doing The Work: follow Kelcie, she’s brilliant. 141
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I’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...motherjones.comInside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion warsAfter Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged. 8227104
Reposted by Becca AndrewsClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Read this piece on how abortion clinics are facing more, and more sophisticated threats, from @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comInside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion warsAfter Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged. 211966
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/03/2026Trump’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.comInside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion warsAfter Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged. 13312130
Reposted by Becca AndrewsYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026my god. this has to stop, this all has to stop. we are in the clutches of actual monsters. 16809229
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026After 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.comInside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion warsAfter Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged. 416993
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it." 125150982876
Reposted by Becca AndrewsSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/01/2026Let'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 219583
Reposted by Becca AndrewsLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026So 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 32973132151
Reposted by Becca AndrewsLiz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 29/12/2025And 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? 0217
Reposted by Becca AndrewsAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2: 1290164
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Excited 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...niemanstoryboard.orgHow the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe - Nieman StoryboardAs a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent 174
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If you're covering the Epstein of it all, remember: they were underage *girls*. Not women. 030
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMonica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If 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. 530855
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Don’t waste editors’ precious bandwidth with this crap. Good grief. 010
Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I truly didn’t know my mood could get any more foul but here we are 020
Reposted by Becca AndrewsEva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I 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. 204349662
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 12/11/2025This 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 21887207
Reposted by Becca AndrewsMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇 6448021479
Reposted by Becca AndrewsSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/11/2025Great news for an active court case that could expand abortion access in Pennsylvania: www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor... 214729
Reposted by Becca AndrewsVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing. 115150121962
Reposted by Becca AndrewsRainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is. 2255481163
Reposted by Becca AndrewsAllegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Teen 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 4744138