Andrew Fleig

As I wrote on my site a while back, every good writer has to be a good reader. Put in the work reading today, and the writing tomorrow will get that much better. Thus, in honor of #WorldBookDay, here are three books I'm reading to make me a better writer:

"We stand in the bleachers watching lives unfold like innings, cheering the dramatic plays, leaving during the quiet stretches. How quickly we forget that beneath every uniform is a body trying to make it home." Loved the poetic prose in this @_andrewfleig piece on former Cubs player Jimmy Piersall. andrewfleig.net/on-heroes-and-…

@shpillo_ Dudes rlly watch Luka play and say things like this smh

I get tired of these dumbass commentators saying “they’re letting these teams play” NOOOO these refs are letting us get MAULED while the Knicks get ticky tack bullshit 💀

@ImanEurope Wrote a piece on him a while back! What an honor! andrewfleig.net/on-the-color-q…

my great-great-grandfather, James Reese Europe, made Jazz music a popular sound. let’s honor him for Black History Month!

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@nateliason Congratulations!

Husk 2 starts today

mid-day meditations. philosophy, artistry, current events. all for free: andrewfleig.net/newsletter #WritingCommunity

Perhaps the most mind boggling aspect of modern social politics is this talking point that politicians and people with extraordinary amounts of wealth “hate the establishment”. Politics, at its core, is a game of power, money, and consolidation-mix and match however you want. Normal people agree in that we don’t like it-said people with extraordinary amounts of money don’t typically benefit us. But politicians saying it means they don’t like the competition that the establishment brings, competition that is inevitably healthy for protecting our interests in the long run.

Velma Pollard.. distinguished poet, novelist, and educator. Beyond your storytelling, you were a scholar and a custodian of our language and culture. You helped to shape a generation of thinkers and writers. Walk good, literary genius.

@NEgrab77 @Radle @AndrewYang americanprogress.org/article/clean-…

@_andrewfleig @Radle @AndrewYang What renewable solutions are cheaper?

The problem for Trump will be getting prices to go down. Tariffs won’t help - quite the opposite.

@Radle @AndrewYang Unleash energy production? When we're already producing more oil than ever? Yet oppose renewable energy solutions, which are cheaper?

@AndrewYang Truth be told, prices almost never recede. We can't vote our way out of this. Stop spending. Shrink government. Unleash energy production. Remove regulations that stifle business. That's the solve.

@NBA fans...new piece out on Mitch Richmond's Sacramento, and what it means to make the HOF Read here: andrewfleig.net/on-sacramento #writers #WritingCommmunity #NBA2K25

@DemocraticWins Man (along with other Dems) refuses to acknowledge that the deliberate chaos in federal agencies is meant to transition public sector work to private sector, the defining characteristic of late-stage capitalism. Good luck finding any regulations that actually benefit you soon.

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy just demolished Donald Trump for causing chaos within the U.S. government just a week after being inaugurated. Trump is a disaster for our country.

they should invent a bald guy who isn’t foucault

@ABCPolitics …so they let everybody go crazy for weeks?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the mysterious drones flown across New Jersey in 2024 were "authorized to be flown by the FAA" in the first press briefing of the Trump administration. Read more: abcnews.link/wPSYf0k

@elonmusk The ACLU does not receive any government funding in the first place big dawg

Defund the ACLU

@Jack_Raines Contently watching the Eberflus downfall

Impeccable clock management by the Bears. No notes.

@delia_burgess Glad to have you back🤝

Scallion cream cheese bagel. So fkn good to be back in the city 🤙

Bandwagon, golden age, and false dichotomy fallacies all in less than 20 words. Efficient!

The only thing worse than living in a soon-to-be autocracy is Cashman letting Soto, perhaps the most stable investment in the history of baseball, walk into an increasingly autocractic free agent market. Be a rich dude and do your job.