Becca Andrews
@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social
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."
If you're covering the Epstein of it all, remember: they were underage *girls*. Not women.
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you're covering the Epstein of it all, remember: they were underage *girls*. Not women.
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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.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
Don’t waste editors’ precious bandwidth with this crap. Good grief.
Pitch in my inbox this morning: "I’d like to pitch a deeply reported story on how local criminal justice policies and practices in [City/County] affect residents’ daily lives."
We get at least 3-5 AI-generated pitches like this a day at this point, quite exhausting.
We get at least 3-5 AI-generated pitches like this a day at this point, quite exhausting.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t waste editors’ precious bandwidth with this crap. Good grief.
I truly didn’t know my mood could get any more foul but here we are
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I truly didn’t know my mood could get any more foul but here we are
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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.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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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
JD Vance is working for Big Menstrual Cramps and maybe that's not even a joke
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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Great news for an active court case that could expand abortion access in Pennsylvania:
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor...
NBC News projects that Pennsylvania will retain all 3 Democratic state Supreme Court justices.
Its a complete and total loss for Republicans tonight.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Its a complete and total loss for Republicans tonight.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Great news for an active court case that could expand abortion access in Pennsylvania:
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/abor...
Oh god is this what joy feels like???
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oh god is this what joy feels like???
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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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
It was a launching pad for so many great young journalists
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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
It was a launching pad for so many great young journalists
This is absolutely fucked. We need publications like Teen Vogue now more than ever, and editors like @leximcmenamin.com who care about shepherding good, smart, challenging work.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This is absolutely fucked. We need publications like Teen Vogue now more than ever, and editors like @leximcmenamin.com who care about shepherding good, smart, challenging work.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
Reasons I love Nashville: the No Kings protest and the Southern Festival of Books were side-by-side for a while and it’s the most hope I’ve felt in ages
October 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Reasons I love Nashville: the No Kings protest and the Southern Festival of Books were side-by-side for a while and it’s the most hope I’ve felt in ages
I spent yesterday in Humphreys County, TN, reporting on the aftermath of an explosion at a munitions plant for @theguardian.com. I won’t forget the profound grief and community care that I saw: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tennessee community mourns 16 killed in munitions plant explosion
Cause of explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems that leveled building is unknown but foul play not ruled out
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I spent yesterday in Humphreys County, TN, reporting on the aftermath of an explosion at a munitions plant for @theguardian.com. I won’t forget the profound grief and community care that I saw: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm not religious these days but y'all best believe I'm on my knees over here for Dolly
Dolly Parton ‘going to be just fine’, singer’s sister says as she calls for prayers amid health problems
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I'm not religious these days but y'all best believe I'm on my knees over here for Dolly
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)
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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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we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon
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“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.”
"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
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“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.”
"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.”
Bari Weiss is Bad and also I’m really enjoying all the love @radleybalko.bsky.social is getting today tbh
October 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Bari Weiss is Bad and also I’m really enjoying all the love @radleybalko.bsky.social is getting today tbh
We should be teaching journalism hand-in-hand with history, too.
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.
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We should be teaching journalism hand-in-hand with history, too.
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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.
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.
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)
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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.
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.
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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."
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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."
My god
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?
TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My god