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Bridget Read

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Features Writer at Curbed

Senior Writer at New York Magazine

features @nymag proud @nyguild tips [email protected] author of LITTLE BOSSES EVERYWHERE from @CrownPublishing, a book about pyramid schemes

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  • Everyone In New York Is a Moving Influencer Now

    1 week ago | curbed.com | Bridget Read

    Last year, when the influencer Harry Hill was planning for his move to Greenwich Village, he reached out to Roadway Moving to collaborate. “Hey, I’d love to partner with you to make content around my move,” he told the company. With Hill’s 83,000 Instagram and 34,000 TikTok followers, Roadway was happy to oblige. His entire move, including packing services, were free.

  • The Road to DOGE Was Paved With Pyramid Schemes

    3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Bridget Read

    Economy / May 14, 2025 The Road to DOGE Was Paved With Pyramid SchemesThe second Trump administration has been compared to the Mafia, feudal empires, and the petro-states of the Persian Gulf—but an even more relevant analogy may be Nutrilite. Ad Policy Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn on March 9, 2025, in Washington, DC.

  • How One Woman Lost $75,000 Working for MLM Company Mary Kay

    1 month ago | thecut.com | Bridget Read

    Illustration: María Jesús Contreras When Monique looks back on the night she decided to join Mary Kay, she remembers being hungry. She was thirty-six in 2013, fresh out of the United States Air Force after sixteen years, and living in Tallahassee, Florida, where she knew almost no one. She was sleeping fifteen hours a day in her small, hot apartment, subsisting off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, spending more money on food for her ninety-pound bulldog than on herself.

  • Timothée Chalamet’s Mom Takes Us Apartment Hunting

    1 month ago | curbed.com | Bridget Read

    Showing Apartment 17A at 1600 Broadway. It’s a rainy, gray March afternoon, not the optimal time to see a midtown apartment 17 floors above the Times Square M&M’s store. “It normally gets great light,” Nicole Flender says to the potential buyers, an Italian couple looking for a Manhattan pied-à-terre. They peer out the unit’s windows, a giant neon Krispy Kreme sign shining through the fog.

  • Apartment Hunting With Timothée Chalamet’s Mother

    1 month ago | flipboard.com | Bridget Read

    NowCNN — Like many American manufacturers, Tesla is caught in a bind thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war. Unlike most of those other companies, though, Tesla has an added wrinkle – its CEO, Elon Musk, sometimes called the First Buddy for the close relationship he’s cultivated with the president. …

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Bridget Read @bridgetgillard
14 May 25

RT @thenation: The relevant paradigm for understanding Trump may be the pyramid scheme, a scam that is the origin of multilevel marketing,…

Bridget Read
Bridget Read @bridgetgillard
14 May 25

RT @rmc031: "If DOGE is successful, the future won’t be shaped by an army of entrepreneurs but by a legion of little scammers, all... hopin…

Bridget Read
Bridget Read @bridgetgillard
14 May 25

I have a piece in @thenation today connecting DOGE, MLMs like the DeVos family's Amway, and "the postregulatory world" they want us all living in: https://t.co/8SyeJDDaOa