Bridget Read

STATEMENT: The NewsGuild of New York condemns the violent attack by ICE agents against three journalists covering immigration proceedings in Manhattan and demands that immigration courts take immediate action to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future.

www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

oh, i did pass out! lol

The Forever-35 Face The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.

Amidst everything, this is a classic NY Mag story, flawlessly executed. www.thecut.com/article/unde...

The Forever-35 Face The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.

I watched a 65 y/o woman move her whole face for this story 😱

Inside the uncanny world of The Face-Lift Singularity, or, how "undetectable" surgery became undetectable: www.thecut.com/article/unde...

i really hope it gets picked up by a streamer

The Best Doc of the Year Is Like a 5.5 Hour-Long Panic Attack Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends drops you into a group of independent Russian journalists in the last months before the invasion of Ukraine.

oh no it's really incredible (and enraging) www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Film Forum · MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW Opens Friday, August 15

if you're in new york, go see this. it's 5.5 hours in 2 sittings but what else is labor day for:

filmforum.org/film/my-unde...

any kind of flare would have helped tbh

STATEMENT: NY Guild leadership condemns the continued killing, harassment and intimidation of journalists in Gaza covering the Israel-Hamas war, and calls for an immediate halt to these practices. More here.... nyguild.org/post/0828-NY...

Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.

The second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

@bridgetgillard.bsky.social's book "little bosses everywhere" talks about "the tools" system, whereby MLM stars make way more money marketing their hokey think and grow rich babble than they do selling, like, Amway products. what struck me is how the exact same thing is true in real estate investing

im totally radicalized, nancy reagan d.a.r.e. level about this

Vox Media has announced yet another round of layoffs at Eater, this time coming as the publication is celebrating its 20th anniversary. We stand in solidarity with our @voxmediaunion.bsky.social colleagues impacted by these devastating cuts.

I just finished Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by @bridgetgillard.bsky.social and I'm begging everyone to read it. I'm well acquainted w/ the New Right and this really drives home that they are all fraudsters.

thank you so much erin!!

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America (2025) bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

this would rock

everyone go read “little bosses everywhere” by bridget read. these guys all have mlm brain

slavery but make it free

I jotted! I did a little mini review of @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's Little Bosses Everywhere:

corp.jotwell.com/when-busines...

ann, thank you!!

Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife and the Get Rich Quick Business Welcome to the podcast Organized Money.

So amped to bring you this episode of Organized Money, our best yet.
We talked to Bridget Read, who wrote a superb book about pyramid schemes & multilevel marketing. We discuss how MLMs prosper by selling the idea of entrepreneurial freedom, its ties to the conservative movement. Great podcast!

I think we know who should get it!

Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Insists He Has a ‘Perfect, Perfect’ Sex Life The former Epstein lawyer is being sued by a woman who says he forced her into sex.

This was my first week at New York, all we did was blog Epstein! for like a month

www.thecut.com/2019/07/epst...

On the Cover: Jeffrey Epstein’s “Little Black Book” Decoding the high society that surrounded and enabled sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

New York cover story, July 22 2019: "Jeffrey Epstein's People" nymag.com/press/2019/0...

seriously, this is the DeVos and Van Andel families getting their way after 50 years, paid for out of the pockets of untold millions of Americans (and beyond)

The Amway Agenda

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids "I just hope I get my mom back," says 15-year-old Juan Martinez, who is now caring for his brothers, ages 8 and 9.

FUCK!!!!!!!!