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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

The exception to the rule that being evil makes you age more quickly

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

this feels… like it’s not gonna age well

Front page of the New York Times
How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described 'Deal Guy, Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough
Trained in New York City real estate, the president's son-in-law had a singular goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear, I know that libel laws are very different in the UK. But usually CEOs don't leave their jobs simply because of a libel claim.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 21h

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 23h

While I'm on it, at some point we need to recognize the consolidation & corporatization of publishing is also an existential threat to free expression.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23h

IKYK

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Before Gaza, if you said the words "genocide" and "Jewish" together, people would first think of the Holocaust. Now, for a whole generation, if you say those words, they will think of Gaza as much as Treblinka. The Jewish community has not yet reckoned with what this will do to collective memory.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

lithub.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I used to get so much work as a freelance writer from my Twitter. I also met my husband. And many friends. And Liz Phair used to follow me.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah, I’m freaking out a little

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Shit, @publisherslunch.bsky.social has made the connection

Harper UK Apologizes to Melania Trump
By Michael Cader

Right after the announcement of the abrupt resignation of longtime Harper UK ceo Charlie Redmayne, the company has apologized on social media to Melania Trump over “unverified claims” in Andrew Lownie’s ENTITLED: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF YORK. In August, shortly after the book was published, the publisher removed the passages in question after Trump threatened to sue them, saying, “We can confirm that several passages from Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie have been removed in consultation with the author.” Lownie had alleged that Jeffrey Epstein “facilitated” Donald Trump meeting Melania. There […]

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Coincidence that the CEO of Harper UK resigned abruptly? Or… www.newsweek.com/publisher-ha...

Publisher removes Melania Trump claims from book, issues apology

Publisher HarperCollins UK has said it removed "unverified" claims about First Lady Melania Trump from a recently published book.

www.newsweek.com

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

They really do

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not just for Halloween!!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

Is it too much to ask, in this profoundly shitty year, to allow my pug to go as one Ben Stiller’s children in the Royal Tenenbaums this Halloween? We needed this win!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

I am furious that Adidas’s new pet collection is only available in China and I don’t care who knows it.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for this very helpful and very depressing explainer. The only space businesses seem to be willing to keep open these days is for AI data centers.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 2d

We'd be interested in talking about forming a consortium to fundraise for this, and to contribute our progress so far on ebook sales. I wrote about the dangers recently here:

www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about two excellent novels, and also summarized a few great deals that have nothing to do with Amazon Prime Days. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 75

What I read this week Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa It's been more than a decade since the New York Times ran this piece about the plight of nail salon workers, but I think of it every t...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll take it. Thank you!!