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1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
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"In an era when it’s exceedingly hard to learn what the Old Masters knew, Art + Water will impart those skills. These emerging artists must know how to draw, and from there, they’ll be taught everything Rembrandt was taught." - Dave Eggers
The Story of Art + Water
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"In an era when it’s exceedingly hard to learn what the Old Masters knew, Art + Water will impart those skills. These emerging artists must know how to draw, and from there, they’ll be taught everything Rembrandt was taught." - Dave Eggers
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
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nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners
September 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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I've asked around and it's clear the best way to close out Prime Days is by stopping by your local bookstore and getting a recommendation from a bookseller who (most likely) doesn't provide tech to ICE or bully municipal governments into giving them tax breaks.
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've asked around and it's clear the best way to close out Prime Days is by stopping by your local bookstore and getting a recommendation from a bookseller who (most likely) doesn't provide tech to ICE or bully municipal governments into giving them tax breaks.
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This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
July 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
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if you cancel your NYT games subscription there’s great alternatives for newspaper games like @puzzmo.com … www.puzzmo.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
if you cancel your NYT games subscription there’s great alternatives for newspaper games like @puzzmo.com … www.puzzmo.com
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"With corporate sponsors retreating ... local businesses are helping to make up some of the shortfall. Many see it as a way of standing up not only for L.G.B.T.Q. people, but also for what the annual celebration means for their local economies." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...
This Year’s Pride Festivals Are Brought to You by Small Businesses
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"With corporate sponsors retreating ... local businesses are helping to make up some of the shortfall. Many see it as a way of standing up not only for L.G.B.T.Q. people, but also for what the annual celebration means for their local economies." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...
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Last night a number of small presses including @twolinespress.bsky.social and @openletterbooks.bsky.social received this insane letter.
Please read small press books, recommend them, buy them, request from your library. The continuation of these publishers is vital!
Please read small press books, recommend them, buy them, request from your library. The continuation of these publishers is vital!
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Last night a number of small presses including @twolinespress.bsky.social and @openletterbooks.bsky.social received this insane letter.
Please read small press books, recommend them, buy them, request from your library. The continuation of these publishers is vital!
Please read small press books, recommend them, buy them, request from your library. The continuation of these publishers is vital!
Ready for Independent Bookstore Day at @lindentree.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ready for Independent Bookstore Day at @lindentree.bsky.social
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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I wonder if giant megacorps who can afford to purchase access to the president getting tariff exemptions will be good or bad for small businesses 🤔
April 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I wonder if giant megacorps who can afford to purchase access to the president getting tariff exemptions will be good or bad for small businesses 🤔
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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
How it started. How it’s going. (book fair setup edition)
March 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
How it started. How it’s going. (book fair setup edition)
Meta is doing a fantastic job promoting this book they don’t want anyone to read. Just ordered more for the store.
Publisher stands behind ex-Facebook employee's book, rebuffing Meta
Publishing house Macmillan said it was committed to standing behind the memoir, “Careless People,” by former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Meta is doing a fantastic job promoting this book they don’t want anyone to read. Just ordered more for the store.
Excited for the biggest event in our store's history: an afternoon with Captain Underpants/Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey at the Center for Performing Arts in San Jose, February 8 at 3pm. Tickets are going fast! www.lindentreebooks.com/pilkey
Meet Dav Pilkey!
Join Dav Pilkey’s international tour! Enjoy live drawing, meet & greet, signed books, giveaways, and photo-ops with Dog Man. Perfect for fans of all ages—don’t miss out! Feb 8, 2025, 3pm, San Jose, CA
www.lindentreebooks.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Excited for the biggest event in our store's history: an afternoon with Captain Underpants/Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey at the Center for Performing Arts in San Jose, February 8 at 3pm. Tickets are going fast! www.lindentreebooks.com/pilkey
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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Books.
When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it.
Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.
When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it.
Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.
November 26, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Books.
When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it.
Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.
When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it.
Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.
Fun list of some of our favorite books by local authors this year, courtesy of our incredible store manager Grace www.paloaltoonline.com/ae/arts/2024...
The year’s best books by local authors
Another year, another round of amazing local authors releasing phenomenal books for every age!
www.paloaltoonline.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Fun list of some of our favorite books by local authors this year, courtesy of our incredible store manager Grace www.paloaltoonline.com/ae/arts/2024...