What a dream.

I'm running for re-election! I'll never stop fighting for our safety, our freedom, and our democracy. Join us in this fight to build a safer, stronger community. Donate at AndrewWarrenFL.com

Google has become a $2 trillion company by commanding endless free labor from journalists and other content creators, and in today’s San Francisco Chronicle I argue that’s a bad thing. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Exciting news! My first podcast, an Audible Original, is out today: audible.com/holdfast

I teamed up with Sam Eifling and Trevor Aaronson to tell a story about sex, money, media, power, and one of the most important free speech cases of our time.

It’s a real wild ride…

This is so good. I couldn’t listen fast enough. audible.com/pd/B0CYNFZVXY?… Huge congrats Michael J. Mooney Sam Eifling Trevor Aaronson

When I got fired a year ago, I started telling people I was going to become a boat captain. It was a joke, but I said it so many times it actually happened. Please tell your Tampa-bound friends who like some stories with their saltwater. capnbenjamin.com

This Visit Lauderdale ad near the front of today’s NYT Magazine answers a Florida question I’ve had: are tourism people worried about the national perception of anti-woke politics?

Hosted a yard sale today. Reminded me how nice it is sometimes to shoot the shit with strangers.

This is just sad: #Florida newspaper plans to publish print editions only on Wednesdays and Sundays and be delivered by mail, which means the Sunday paper will arrive on Saturdays. bradenton.com/news/local/art… via Ryan Callihan

I recently had the cops called on me after I requested to inspect public records in person at the Tampa fire rescue headquarters. Mark Katches wrote this column about how it all went down. And my long hair made it into the story... Tampa Bay Times
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We need a barbecue place or steakhouse called Tedious and Beef.

FINALLY. If you'd like to learn more about the horrible Dozier School scandal, listen to this 'Welcome to #Florida ' podcast with Ben Montgomery: buzzsprout.com/1169570/144881…

Help community radio in Tampa Bay thrive. wmnf.org/?form=FUNPACGD…

On Friday, I am going to spend an hour asking your for money to keep our slice of WMNF 88.5 FM community radio on the air. Donate ahead of time, and if we reach our goal before midnight today, I will do a full-hour acoustic concert instead.wmnf.org/its-time-for-d…
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Aside from my work at Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, I, along with Mitch Perry Ben Montgomery, volunteer our time to present a weekly public affairs program. Please help keep us on the air with a donation to the nonprofit commercial-free gem that is WMNF 88.5 FM.
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For our'Welcome to #Florida ' podcast, Chadd Scott & I talked to Ben Montgomery about the Dozier School, the real-life horror that inspired such fiction as colson whitehead's Pulitzer-winner 'The Nickel Boys' & Tananarive Due - The Reformatory's acclaimed novel 'The Reformatory.' buzzsprout.com/1169570/144881…

The abusers were paid by the State of Florida. Some boys didn’t make it out alive All were damaged. Now they ask for recognition through justice. Help them by emailing FL Legislators, no matter where you are from.

It’s always hard to watch the victims of child abuse try to summarize how that abuse has affected them.

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My inspiration for writing THE REFORMATORY was to bring attention to my great-uncle, Robert Stephens & the Dozier School for Boys. (With ghosts.) But I also fictionalized my parents & mentioned others.

As I said in the documentary HORROR NOIRE, 'Black History is Black Horror.'