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Megan Greenwell

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Journalist. My book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is out now! Order it here: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm very excited that BAD COMPANY entered its third printing this week! You'd better buy it now before you're relegated to a copy from the fourth printing...

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell yeah, free shipping on BAD COMPANY (and every other book!) from the angels at @bookshop.org today and tomorrow!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 12h

oh the film is really good!

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, I will watch this. (Also, please read @greenwell.bsky.social’s excellent “Bad Company.”)

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 13h

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 16h

criticism is not the same thing as "being mad at" for the love of all the things

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16h

I think if the headline of a column by @sulliview.bsky.social called my hiring "weird and worrisome," I'd simply disappear from society and live off the land, but I suppose our respective capacities for shame is one difference that has existed between Bari and me for going on 20 years now.

Rob Michlowitz @arvrrob.bsky.social · 18h

The brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social on the horrible appointment of Bari Weiss as Chief Editor of CBS News.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

public transit in phoenix, you are god’s strongest soldier.

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

just the most on-brand thread, very proud of u (how’s the soda situation though)

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

ah geez thank you

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 1d

And widely distribute Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, @greenwell.bsky.social's deeply researched, insightful and compelling look at the impacts of private equity across key sectors, including housing, of the US economy.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hell yeah, free shipping on BAD COMPANY (and every other book!) from the angels at @bookshop.org today and tomorrow!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah pal!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

I opened every week! 😭 gonna try to unsubscribe and resubscribe and see if that works.

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

wait, is it still a newsletter? I remain subscribed but it stopped coming to me months ago, so I assumed they weren't sending it anymore!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

i did not, and good LORD

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

omg ty for doing what I was too lazy to do

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Matt Bellis @mattbellis.bsky.social · 1d

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

gotta say I don't think it's a great sign for society that the top editor of a major American news outlet thinks we're in a "fight for the West." (against WHOM, Bari?)

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

bellissima

We're thrilled to announce that Anduril founder Palmer Luckey will join Bari Weiss live in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:00 p.m. for a conversation on the future of American power-and the fight for the West.
Tickets are LIVE- get them here!

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 2d

blocking anyone who texts me about this lady today, I have a feature to write!

bari, i have no desire to be involved here, but your synopsis of the events of 2004/2005 is unfair. you weren't simply "advocating for students' rights," you were calling professors racist. i know because i wrote or edited most of the stories about it. campus-watch.org/article/id/1585
Bari Weiss @bariweiss • Mar 7, 2018
I want to address a baseless accusation being peddled by @ggreenwald and others on this platform. When I was an undergraduate student at Columbia, I advocated for the rights of students to express their viewpoints in the classroom.

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about the College Board's dominance — and its $2 billion war chest — for Businessweek in March. They take in a LOT of public money.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 4d

republicans are going after the college board on antitrust grounds judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 4d

!!!

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 6d

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

"There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald's in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald's? That's actually crazy, right?" KKR & Co. partner Alisa Wood said Wednesday at Bloomberg's Women, Money and Power event in London. "Capital coming back is really important. The mark-to-market paper gains only take you so far."

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 8d

wow hell yes, strong agree

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 8d

THIS IS THE WAY

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 8d

hell yes, welcome to Fancy Solo Business Trip Bar Dinner club.

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 8d

The best part of traveling three weeks a month for five months has been making sure to build in time for Fancy Solo Business Trip Bar Dinner. My best life advice is Fancy Solo Business Trip Bar Dinner.

salmon crudo, a cocktail, a Steinbeck novel

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