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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 6h

Free him, he’s a political prisoner

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not religious these days but y'all best believe I'm on my knees over here for Dolly

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Dolly Parton ‘going to be just fine’, singer’s sister says as she calls for prayers amid health problems

Freida Parton says she has been ‘up all night praying’ as singer continues to deal with unspecified ‘health challenges’ Dolly Parton’s sister says she has been “up all night praying” for the singer as she continues to deal with unspecified health problems. Freida Parton wrote that her 79-year-old sister “hasn’t been feeling her best lately”, two weeks after the singer postponed a Las Vegas residency scheduled for December, citing “health challenges”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out it’s a really good time to be reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s “Doppelganger” (and yes I did delete this and rewrite it to fix a spelling error)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

“It is psychologically manipulative."

"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”

“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.

www.motherjones.com

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is Bad and also I’m really enjoying all the love @radleybalko.bsky.social is getting today tbh

Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 4d

We should be teaching journalism hand-in-hand with history, too.

Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 4d

Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 11d

I’m in Wilmington, NC, with journalism and history students right now on a trip studying the 1898 coup and it’s giving me so much desperately needed hope

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 16d

Same same same x100000000

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 23d

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

The trans-shooter myth, reports the Trace, a newsroom focused on gun violence, largely began circulating in 2023 around the aforementioned Nashville shooting, “as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest.” As I’ve explained previously, trans people are over four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent assault. Conversely, over the past decade, according to the Gun Violence Project, less than a tenth of one percent of shootings were committed by someone who identified as trans or nonbinary. Nonetheless, last week the Justice Department was reportedly considering how to ban trans people from buying guns.

Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all or, like in the past week, spending more time mourning the death of a guy who gleefully mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer than urging caution to protect a population that voted for Kamala Harris second only to Black women. It would almost be surprising, considering those numbers, how quickly 2028 hopeful Gavin Newsom praised Kirk, if Kirk hadn’t been Newsom’s first podcast guest.

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 22d

My god

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 23d

This is so cool, Cecilia

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Cecilia Nowell @cecilianowell.bsky.social · 23d

New for @us.theguardian.com: Today, Michigan researchers published 2 studies showing that unconditional cash transfers to new moms lowered rates of postpartum depression, stabilized families’ housing & improved infant outcomes – saving millions in NICU spending.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

www.theguardian.com

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 23d

Sorry babe, I can't talk right now, I'm scrolling through my feed to heart every post of Hannah Einbinder saying, "Go Birds, fuck ICE, and free Palestine" at the Emmys

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 26d

I'm doing LOTS of in-class writing time where I pace around the room and look at their screens, honestly

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks for listening! <3

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27d

Oh yes please, I can't wait to read that <3

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27d

YEAH YOU ARE !

Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27d

Darth, you are such a gift.

I found incredible creative partners in @johnhammontree.bsky.social and @johnarchibald.bsky.social and we made a podcast called American Shrapnel, and now, all eight episodes are streaming! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

American Shrapnel

History Podcast · Weekly Series · The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of pho...

podcasts.apple.com

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks so much for listening!

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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 28d

Check out this podcast by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social.

It's an incredible yarn that captures the violence, loss and inhumanity of Eric Rudolph's 1990s terror campaign, and shows how it echoes forward to our current national crisis. Can't recommend it enough!

Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · Sep 5

In the final episode of American Shrapnel, hosted by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, about Olympic & abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, hear clinic bombing suvivor Emily Lyons give the SHIT to Rudolph in court.

American Shrapnel

History Podcast · Weekly Series · The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of pho...

podcasts.apple.com

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Marc Criley @marcc.bsky.social · Sep 5

In the final episode of American Shrapnel, hosted by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, about Olympic & abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, hear clinic bombing suvivor Emily Lyons give the SHIT to Rudolph in court.

American Shrapnel

History Podcast · Weekly Series · The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of pho...

podcasts.apple.com

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Karen @karenfellows.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a common complication of childbirth. I had it, my BP crashed and I was rushed to the OR for the equivalent of a D&C. These are pro-death policies.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · Sep 4

Minutes ago, the Texas Senate passed HB7, which will incentivize people to bring $100,000 lawsuits against anyone who makes, sends, or transports abortion medication in Texas.

In a guest essay, Kaitlyn Kash begs Gov. Greg Abbott not to sign it. #txlege

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/03/i...

I Almost Died After Giving Birth. Texas Just Made That More Likely for Everyone.

The Women and Child Protection Act does not protect anyone. Instead, it will cause clinicians to second guess themselves.

thebarbedwire.com

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Becca Andrews @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social · Sep 3

AND most importantly, you can now binge the whole season! Have at it: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

American Shrapnel

History Podcast · Weekly Series · The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year. Thousands of pho...

podcasts.apple.com

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