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Tom Andes

@tomandes.bsky.social

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Write mostly noir and noir adjacent fiction, play guitar, and sing songs.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · Feb 28

This, friends, is a vinyl record I made. It's 10 songs recorded with a great band including @misterodom.bsky.social and Beau Bishop and initially released as two EPs. It's now a single album. You can order it from my Bandcamp page, or if you just want to listen it's free to stream there, too.

The Ones That Brought You Home, by Tom Andes

10 track album

tomandes.bandcamp.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9h

exceedingly rare mainstream coverage of real college

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 9h

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I hope people remember that the @nytimes.com has actively worked to try to sabotage Mamdani at almost every single turn. ACTIVELY. They've been the NY Post.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 4h

Inside Man. Great Spike Lee thriller. Up there with the greats in that genre from the early oughts.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 16h

Without saying Malcolm X, fav Denzel Washington Film?

Denzel Washington in a black suit, short black hair. looking away. hot.

“At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back.”
Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 11h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

It is an evil society that requires this of the sick and injured. But this is a great primer on how to do it.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

Same. I’m like pass the popcorn.

Furthermore and agreed.

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

And maybe also because it’s always been pushed by crypto fascist weirdoes who are rooting for the overthrow of elected governments and enabling international sex trafficking.

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

Same. This and AI. I have no empathy for the people who have gone all in on this stuff.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 2d

As the public health infrastructure is decimated, certain people are protecting themselves

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 4d

Style tip: if you are a writer or editor describing a law or constitutional clause as a ‘longstanding norm’ you are helping end the republic.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 4d

Also I saw them tonight and holy hell they’re so good—it’s great to feel so alive and moved after a show.

Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 5d

Really honest, beautifully wrought piece. Karly is the queen of the telling detail. www.vulture.com/article/wedn...

‘I’m Poking Roadkill With a Stick. Making It Twitch.’

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him.

www.vulture.com

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 5d

Really honest, beautifully wrought piece. Karly is the queen of the telling detail. www.vulture.com/article/wedn...

‘I’m Poking Roadkill With a Stick. Making It Twitch.’

Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman broke up. A month later, she writes in this personal essay, she had to record a love song for him.

www.vulture.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s video of the incident

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 6d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 6d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 5d

I have never had an experience with an editor where they diluted or somehow tried to get me to compromise my work. Always made the work better.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 5d

A while back after reading about it in Bourdain I started making recipes from Julia Childs’ The Art of French Cooking, and that is the key: butter and cream.