I wonder how many people they reach and their income level.

No, their only audience is shareholders as perceived thru spreadsheets. Their affiliates had a money problem and they helped them out. They are likely baffled as to why they're being excoriated.

Monday is going to be an ugly day for Disney as their stock goes the way of Target and they realize the cost of kneeling before Trump.

Can you guess which he'll choose? Hint: He's reworking Small World so that all the non-Americans are in cages. The portraits in the Haunted House elevator are being replaced with Democrats. The Star Wars series is being recut to make the Emperor the hero.

Because they are protecting themselves from real Americans. If being Trump's Gestapo were popular, they could disappear people while wearing jeans and MAGA t-shirts.

@buehlmeister.bsky.social Just a note to say, having just discovered you're on BlueSky, how much I loved BETWEEN TWO FIRES. It's competing for best novel I've read all year against THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD and A RAGE IN HARLEM. So good. And so much more fun than A DISTANT MIRROR.

One of my ideas for the cover of THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP was just his signature repeated a hundred times because it looks like the scrawl of a madman.

And if you're looking to support a regular old collection with a profoundly wicked story by me, check out COSTS OF LIVING.

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[email protected] 2 questions re your latest newsletter: 1. When did Americans start thinking of their wealth, not their income? My guess is 1980-1983. 2. What is the value of a rich person to a community? There's only so much they can buy locally. Do more create a network effect?

What's amazing about this is that Trump doesn't care if you rape a child, but he hates rats--and how he'll be known not only as a rapist but as Epstein's Sammy the Bull.

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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

[email protected] I've edited lots of politics books, and Mamdani's doing all 3 things one needs to win: 1. Boosterism! He knows the city and loves to share it. 2. Listens! Asks voters, not big donors, what they want, plans to get it. 3. Fun! NY is tough, so NYers appreciate joy.

It's out! It includes my story "The Physical Impossibility of Love in the Heart of Someone Wanting," whose first line is: "Zoe kept Harry Styles’ left eye in a jar of preservative gel beside her bed so it would be the last thing she saw at night and the first thing she saw each morning."

The September @lightspeedmagazine.com is here! My story, "City of One," goes up Sept 25. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/sep-2...

The mythical gold digger seems the natural result of princess culture, in which a woman is an asset, not a person. But this piece shows that manosphere guys are the new princesses. The Gold Digger Was an Archvillain. Now She’s an Aspiration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/m...

"One cannot be the big, smart genius that understands the glory and power of AI while also acting like a scared little puppy every time somebody tells them it sucks." This is literally every super jesus christian whose faith is threatened by someone else simply not sharing it.

“This tragedy was not a glitch or an unforeseen edge case — it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices,” is the perfect definition of our times. It explains the flood in Texas that killed those campers. It explains the murderer who killed those school kids.

When editing novels the one question I invariably have to ask when a character is hospitalized is, Who paid for this? Do they have insurance? Because writers invariably treat American hospitals like free buffets, which is insane.

Great terrifying piece.

I'd say this is the end of the long tail for George Bush being pilloried for necessarily breaking his "no new taxes" pledge, with no Republicans will ot admit a mistake or accept any change. Instead, I think Republicans love the cruelty towards this non-white guy, a signal they can do the same.

Better: don't make the yellow field separate. Make it the whole in the a.

That is a very good observation re his tie.

Would Hollywood make a movie today about 4 middle schoolers with a gun and a pack of cigarettes?

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy When you write a book on friction, which would be the perfect follow up to the enshittification bk, here's an example of friction-shifting at a publisher. As you know, a copyeditor codes all the elements of a ms for the compositor: titles, body text, lists, etc. (1)

What this rebrands suggests is that the restaurant wants to move into bigger, betters markets where the customers they desire will be put off by a logo with a cracker and a barrel.

I go the shirt and now I've signed up for an annual subscription to @andrewhickey.500songs.com's amazing podcast A HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC IN 500 SONGS, which has pre-empted all other podcasts and audiobooks.

It's coming: COST OF LIVING from @whisperhousepress.bsky.social

No wonder it's so chilly today in NJ. All the heat is in hell.

I cannot wait for the next president (I could stop there, but I'll go on) to rip up that godawful trash patio to see whom Trump's buried under it. Maybe that's where the Epstein files are too.

Where there is no crime, Republicans use the cops/military to create it, then use that crime to justify more cops/military.

Once again the mediocre white men of MAGA don't show up.

I have been told that execs must be paid so much, otherwise they "won't bring their full selves to work."

Republican voters head to the polls.

As someone who wears cargo shorts everyday, I'm suddenly ashamed.

Obama's America: Immigrants revitalize a Midwestern town that's dying because it's full of shiftless white addicts. Trump's America: Racist cops and quisling business owners terrorize those immigrants and profit off their persecution, even if it kills town. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The question that needs investigating is whether Trump's spa workers were forced into sex work. Was it Epstein's minor league (figuratively and literally)?

Where is our new Democratic Luther, who will protest the Republican Church's sale of indulgences?

As they say in engineering, you can have it fast, cheap or good: pick too. C-suiters are opting for fast and cheap, and thus, unsurprisingly, what they're delivering customers is not good.

In what may be the most targeted marketing campaign ever, SIMPLICITY has been touted by FOUR newsletters I get and read (Doctorow, McKean, Michel, Defector). Looks like I really have to read this book. Added to library list. Great campaign.

We are now living in the world of the mediocre Trump whites, whose entire life is built on self-sabotage.

Your move, Gwyneth.

@matthewstoller.bsky.social Here's something worth investigating: "the massive plant and nursery industry, a $13.8 billion-a-year sector of the economy...a very concentrated and top-heavy industry consisting of a number of massive players." #monopoly #plants www.fastcompany.com/91375097/how...

"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.

Hello, I'm a book editor in a film. I have legs skinnier than a pencil. My shoes cost more than your car. I often host drunk authors at my spectacular apartment in the city. I have a couch in my office. I spend more time being photographed at events than editing. I make $300,000 a year.

“Released as ‘Buckingham Nicks,’ the 1973 album has for decades maintained somewhat of a holy grail status in the dusty bins of record stores, selling for $20 to $90 depending on its condition.” “You put it up on a Saturday morning and it’s gone by Saturday at noon.” abcnews.go.com/amp/Business...

The walking holocaust.

Exciting to be a part of this!

Note: this is on 78, which Trump would have to pass under on the way to Newark Airport from his dacha in Bedminster.