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.

Amidst everything, this is a classic NY Mag story, flawlessly executed. www.thecut.com/article/unde...

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...

if you're in new york, go see this. it's 5.5 hours in 2 sittings but what else is labor day for: filmforum.org/film/my-unde...

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...

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 www.reuters.com/world/middle...

@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

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.

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.

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

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

I jotted! I did a little mini review of @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's Little Bosses Everywhere: corp.jotwell.com/when-busines...

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!

New York cover story, July 22 2019: "Jeffrey Epstein's People" nymag.com/press/2019/0...

The Amway Agenda

FUCK!!!!!!!!

LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE mentioned!!! one of the most riveting non-fic titles I've picked up this year. highly recommend!!! (on sale over at @bookshop.org in 2 formats, fwiw) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...

I’m late to this episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social but DO NOT MISS this fascinating conversation about how MLMs scamified American society in a gendered fashion. I can’t wait to read @bridgetgillard.bsky.social’s book Little Bosses Everywhere 🎩 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Just finished @bridgetgillard.bsky.social's excellent Little Bosses Everywhere, and man it is hard not to notice the overlap between the pyramid scheming of the American economy and the messaging of conservatives urging women to get back to their rightful place.

Why not slip into our downline and let us sell you this new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social on the gender politics of multi-level marketing, on backlash politics and on garages overflowing with alfalfa supplements! With @bridgetgillard.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I wrote about the grifters who turned door-to-door sales from the most pitiable, loathed job in America to a glamorous once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And other elements of Bridget Read's fantastic new book on the predatory multi-level marketing industry. newrepublic.com/article/1961...

NYC: Tomorrow night I'm screening HELL ON HEELS, a made-for-TV Mary Kay movie starring Shirley Maclaine and Parker Posey, with @readlux.bsky.social. It's campy, it's fun, it's anti-feminist propaganda! Come watch! 6:30 at Francis Kite. Drinks & talk!

NYC: Tomorrow night I'm screening HELL ON HEELS, a made-for-TV Mary Kay movie starring Shirley Maclaine and Parker Posey, with @readlux.bsky.social. It's campy, it's fun, it's anti-feminist propaganda! Come watch! 6:30 at Francis Kite. Drinks & talk!

🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking with NY Magazine writer @bridgetgillard.bsky.social about her book "Little Bosses Everywhere," the rise of the multi-level marketing model and how it helped fuel the modern conservative movement. 📻 Listen:

TUE at 10AM: NY Magazine writer @bridgetgillard.bsky.social‬ joins to talk about her book "Little Bosses Everywhere," the rise of the multi-level marketing model and how it helped fuel the modern conservative movement.

Wrote about @bridgetgillard.bsky.social ’s very good and very timely “Little Bosses Everywhere”

Listen to the full episode, for free, on Patreon (and wherever you get your podcasts): www.patreon.com/posts/little... Purchase a copy of Bridget's book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...

This week we spoke to @nymag.com writer Bridget Read about her newest book, "Little Bosses Everywhere". We talk about the proliferation of Multi Level Marketing, how it took over America (and the world) and what the business 'model' tells us about the way politics – and power – truly works.

"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...

Bridget Read's fascinating LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE is full of absolutely cursed paragraphs, and this one might take first place.

"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...

thanks @ryanlcooper.com for this thoughtful and thorough review of my book in the american prospect. he called it "superb" !

Bridget Read has an excellent book about the incredibly deep influence MLMs have had on modern society. Read @ryanlcooper.com's review from our latest print issue: prospect.org/culture/book...

In @theatlantic.com today: "A damning portrait . . . .Investigating an industry notorious for doublespeak and euphemism, @bridgetgillard.bsky.social calls things what they are.” www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

I’m sure y’all are busy right now, but find some time for Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America”. I can’t believe that a book on Multilevel Marketing companies might be the best explainer for America in 2025, but here we are. #BookSky #MLM #Blessed

Listening to Little Bosses Everywhere by @bridgetgillard.bsky.social and goddamn, I thought I knew the history of MLM well and I’ve learned a ton I didn’t know. These ideas are key to what is currently ruining America. Highly recommended.

The book, “Little Bosses Everywhere” by Bridget Read spells out how grifters including Trump, the Devoss’s, and other “direct selling” leaders and lobbyists, dragged us into this exact moment in time. I wish I had another human to rant in person about this book with.

I just finished Little Bosses Everywhere and I have so many thoughts. Like, are MLM schemes just a way to undermine solidarity in the working class? Probably. Anyway, really good, if anyone has more recommendations of books on MLMs I want to know.

My niche historiography of the FTC’s unfairness authority has broken containment and made it into a popular press book (Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read—on the MLM industry)

I read this book the other day. Strongly recommend. It is especially timely for understanding our weird political moment and the seemingly odd alliances.

A long slate of book reviews today: A Haruki Murakami Novel, obviously, but also a David Foster Wallace collection, book-length essays by Junichiro Tanizaki and Thomas Ligotti, and two popular nonfiction books (Careless People and Little Bosses Everywhere.)

Bath time this evening with audiobooks and Planet of the Grapes pre-rolls 🛀 😌👌🏻💨 📚🎧 Keeping my fingers crossed for a half day tomorrow🤞 ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛ ʀᴇᴀᴅ 📖 Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read #booksky 📚💕 #audiobooks 🎧💓 #currentread 📖 #nonfiction 📚💡

Check out The Regulatory Review's take on Professor Alexandra Robert’s new article, “Multi-Level Lies,” just published in the UC Davis Law Review. @lexlanham.bsky.social @clicatnusl.bsky.social

While working on a story about the multi-level marketing industry (MLMs) for @thecut.com, journalist @bridgetgillard.bsky.social became obsessed with how the business model had powered some of the most influential, wealthiest people in the world.

Extremely cool to talk with @bridgetgillard.bsky.social about her brilliant new book, Little Bosses Everywhere, for this week’s Depth Perception newsletter from @longlead.com depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/little-bos...

@nytimes.com recommends Little Bosses Everywhere among new books this week: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/b...

Just started reading Bridget Read’s Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the post war Americana of hucksters, conmen, salespeople spreading capitalism like a virus

kicking off the annual conference on multi-level marketing in DC w/ participants from all over the world, in dc & online speakers are activists, scholars, authors, & lawyers, including from ftc, truthinad, & national consumer league www.mlmconference.com/schedule-1