Bridget Read

It's notable that, as @bridgetgillard.bsky.social shows, the MLM industry got started (a century ago!) with unregulated supplements (aka vitamins). Strains of magical thinking, entrepreneurship, and conservativism are longstanding

I am getting closer to convincing myself to write that review

luke, do it!!

www.thecut.com/article/morm...

We talk about this phenomena an ungodly amount in all of my professional settings.

Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture? How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets.

this is excellent www.thecut.com/article/morm...

never thought of it this way but damn, Mormon culture is basically engineered for social media

ah tysm!!

Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture? How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets.

🚨🚨 @bridgetgillard.bsky.social splashy feature alert 🚨🚨

www.thecut.com/article/morm...

Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture? How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets.

My first cover story at @nymag.com! I went to Utah to figure out how everything got so Mormon: www.thecut.com/article/morm...

America is in the middle of a second Mormon Moment. For our Cover Story, Bridget Read reports on how the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into our hearts and wallets. tinyurl.com/484awp7j

omg

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.

My @washingtonpost.com
colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...

Scams All the Way Down In Little Bosses Everywhere, Bridget Read traces how the pyramid scheme transformed America.

To understand the modern American economy you have to understand one of its most important innovations: multi-level marketing. Little Bosses Everywhere by @bridgetgillard.bsky.social is the most comprehensive history yet of the scam consuming us all. inequality.org/article/scam...

Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

we live in hell

www.axios.com/2026/01/03/m...

20 books you should read My friend Aaron thinks he's better than me because he "reads books" and "knows how to read." That's fine. I've looked at so many posts. He's starting a new political newsletter called Heartland Signa...

Aaron @kleinman.bsky.social thinks he's better than me because he "reads books" and "knows how to read." He wrote about the 20 best he read this year (new and old) including @calfraser.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social + @bridgetgillard.bsky.social.
www.welcometohellworld.com/20-books-you...

the highest honor!!

The Stories We Most Admired in 2025: Businessweek’s Jealousy List The stories we admired most this year.

Every year, Businessweek asks us to pick our favorite stories from other publications for our Jealousy List, which is full of some of the best writing you’ll find on all kinds of topics. I chose @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s face lift story for NY Mag! 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

ah thank you sarah!!

photo of hardcover book: little bosses everywhere by bridget read

Horror Nonfiction

Selling a Defective Dream | Zephyr Teachout How did multilevel marketing schemes come to be legal, let alone so widespread? The answer has to do with how we think of workers and how we think of consumers.

Grateful for this thoughtful, lucid piece on my book and what a century of predatory worker/consumer policy has wrought on America from Zephyr Teachout in the New York Review of Books:

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump’s Corruption Q&A with Bridget Read, author of Little Bosses Everywhere.

My latest: How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump's Corruption. A Q&A with @bridgetgillard.bsky.social abt her book Little Bosses Everywhere. We talk abt how MLMs take advantage of U.S. tropes abt success & failure & their ties to right-wing politics.
economicpopulist.substack.com/p/how-multil...

Our union has zero tolerance for bully bosses who harass, target and disrespect our members. Read our joint statement with @condeunion.bsky.social .... nyguild.org/post/stateme...

thank you so much!!

thank you curtis!! and also sorry

great company!! thank you!

oh my god help

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...

oh, i did pass out! lol