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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

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

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 5h

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 · 15h

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.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 15h

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.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Another example of TPUSA ‘doing politics the right way’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 1d

How the fuck do any of the people who support this sleep at night?

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Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 1d

D&O not paying its authors on the way out has taken over the feed, and good! But if you’re looking for something else, check out this convo @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social and I had about On Fire and Under Water. Thanks!

James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 1d

When the bell tolls, it tolls for thee at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re talking to @curtisippolito.bsky.social about his climate change anthology, ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry for your loss.

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

I studied with Bob at SF State 20 years ago. He was a great teacher and writer. I’m psyched to see this getting reprinted by NYRB.

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Honey, look at the gorgeous new edition of one of my favorite books, yes, JACK THE MODERNIST by Robert Gluck with those lovely ladies lounging on the mesmerizing cover, yes, it's stunning!!👠🔥 Out on October 28th from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Book cover with a painting of a naked guy lounging odalisque-style, covering his crotch with his hand but then there he is on the side again, this time without the hand covering, or maybe that's someone else, a city in the middle, his hand reaching over, an ornamental railing, lovely green in the top right, faces with big eyes and pronounced noses to evoke a particular painter that I can't quite place

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

As CBS News puts Bari Weiss in charge can we remember the NYT having her wife Nellie Bowles the cattle heiress write a hit piece on the Sanders campaign that made him out to be a crusty old coot with a race problem. These people have had a lot of help from places that should’ve known better.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

These people are such disingenuous assholes.

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

Feel like it’s the story of New Orleans public schools as well.

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

Hard pass.

Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the classic Reagan playbook: defund everything, make government shitty, then use its shittyness to justify defunding it further.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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