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The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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STATEMENT: NYGuild Executive Committee Condemns ICE Agent Attacks on Journalists

The bedrock of democracy is a free press, which includes the right of reporters to ask questions of and report on the government, including law enforcement …

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Sep 11

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.

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Sep 5

oh, i did pass out! lol

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

The Forever-35 Face

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

www.thecut.com

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 29

i really hope it gets picked up by a streamer

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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.

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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Film Forum · MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW

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

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 28

any kind of flare would have helped tbh

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The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

STATEMENT: NYGuild Executive Committee condemns violence against journalists in Gaza

Following Israel’s killing of five journalists in Gaza on Aug. 25, the NewsGuild of New York again condemns in the strongest possible terms the continued …

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Michael Learmonth @learmonth.bsky.social · Aug 25

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
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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.

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Aug 19

@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

kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · Aug 19

The lawyers in my family stare at HouseFlipTok in awe. Apparently something like 70% of the "Get Rich Through Real Estate" videos posted are blatantly, prosecutably illegal

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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New York Mag Union @nymagunion.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · Aug 7

Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

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Erin E. Worrel @erinerex.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · Aug 7

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · Aug 6

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 7

thank you so much erin!!

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 7

this would rock

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veery @veery.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Aug 5

it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Aug 1

slavery but make it free

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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When Business is a Cult - Corporate Law

Bridget Read, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America (2025).Ann LiptonRecent high-profile business implosions such as FTX and WeWork introduced the world to the notion of the ...

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Jul 31

ann, thank you!!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jul 29

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!

Amway, Mary Kay, Herbalife and the Get Rich Quick Business

Welcome to the podcast Organized Money.

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Jul 29

I think we know who should get it!

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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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.

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