Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.social
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.social
· Nov 27
Greetings, new people here at House of Copyediting. Besides first-rate, IISSM, prose advice, you'll get:
• a random theater photo of the day, sometimes more than one
• birthday alerts for dead actresses, and occasionally live ones
• Sallie updates
And it's all free!
• a random theater photo of the day, sometimes more than one
• birthday alerts for dead actresses, and occasionally live ones
• Sallie updates
And it's all free!
"Thar ain't no reason fer war, unless us poor folks fight the rich uns for the way they air bleedin' us to death with the prices for meat and bread."
—Lula Vollmer, Sun-Up (1923)
—Lula Vollmer, Sun-Up (1923)
February 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
"Thar ain't no reason fer war, unless us poor folks fight the rich uns for the way they air bleedin' us to death with the prices for meat and bread."
—Lula Vollmer, Sun-Up (1923)
—Lula Vollmer, Sun-Up (1923)
Reposted by Benjamin Dreyer
Impeach Kash Patel
Swalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files
February 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Impeach Kash Patel
Reposted by Benjamin Dreyer
it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours
"Raskin"
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"Raskin"
[endless screaming]
Tranche @bcdreyer.social
In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails, themes of genes, genetics, and IQ—alongside more explicit threads of white supremacy—keep cropping up, often adjacent to Epstein’s fascination with steering research in the biological sciences.
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
[endless screaming]
BTW if you're looking to block that very special subset of left-wing Bluesky anti-Semites, the replies here are the place to find them.
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I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
BTW if you're looking to block that very special subset of left-wing Bluesky anti-Semites, the replies here are the place to find them.
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Absolute fucking trash, that one.
wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Absolute fucking trash, that one.
My Bluesky Rules (For Me) (I Don't Give Advice) (Except About Punctuation and Stuff)
• If people are being weird in my replies, I lock down the post.
• If you quoteskeet me to demonstrate, in the immortal words of Alice Playten, your superior mental I.Q., expect a detach and block.
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• If people are being weird in my replies, I lock down the post.
• If you quoteskeet me to demonstrate, in the immortal words of Alice Playten, your superior mental I.Q., expect a detach and block.
1/
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
My Bluesky Rules (For Me) (I Don't Give Advice) (Except About Punctuation and Stuff)
• If people are being weird in my replies, I lock down the post.
• If you quoteskeet me to demonstrate, in the immortal words of Alice Playten, your superior mental I.Q., expect a detach and block.
1/
• If people are being weird in my replies, I lock down the post.
• If you quoteskeet me to demonstrate, in the immortal words of Alice Playten, your superior mental I.Q., expect a detach and block.
1/
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asking jurors in a city occupied for months by the national guard to indict members of congress for telling servicemembers they don't need to obey unlawful orders, under a statute likely unconstitutional under the first amendment. masterful gambit sir
No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
asking jurors in a city occupied for months by the national guard to indict members of congress for telling servicemembers they don't need to obey unlawful orders, under a statute likely unconstitutional under the first amendment. masterful gambit sir
Reposted by Benjamin Dreyer
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
Reposted by Benjamin Dreyer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
February 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Green Acres did more for my understanding of surrealism than Man Ray, André Breton, and Eugène Ionesco, put tagither.
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Green Acres did more for my understanding of surrealism than Man Ray, André Breton, and Eugène Ionesco, put tagither.
apparently I slept through the entire El Paso thing...?
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
apparently I slept through the entire El Paso thing...?
The Madman’s Stenographer is a good title for a novel, I’m thinking.
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The Madman’s Stenographer is a good title for a novel, I’m thinking.
and yet more Burt
"Any time you have Pat Suzuki dressed as a small ape, I think you're in trouble."
—Burt Reynolds
—Burt Reynolds
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
and yet more Burt
more Burt
Happy celestial birthday to Burt Reynolds, shown here in a publicity shot for Look: We've Come Through (with Ralph Williams, Collin Wilcox, Zack Matalon, Zohra Lampert, and Clinton Kimbrough), 1961
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
more Burt
Happy Burt Reynolds's birthday!
February 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Happy Burt Reynolds's birthday!
Happy birthday, Tina Louise!
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Happy birthday, Tina Louise!
today's unrandom theater photo:
Bramwell Fletcher and birthday girl Eva Gabor in Little Glass Clock (1956)
(designed by Cecil Beaton)
(8 performances, oh well)
Bramwell Fletcher and birthday girl Eva Gabor in Little Glass Clock (1956)
(designed by Cecil Beaton)
(8 performances, oh well)
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
today's unrandom theater photo:
Bramwell Fletcher and birthday girl Eva Gabor in Little Glass Clock (1956)
(designed by Cecil Beaton)
(8 performances, oh well)
Bramwell Fletcher and birthday girl Eva Gabor in Little Glass Clock (1956)
(designed by Cecil Beaton)
(8 performances, oh well)
I feel as if I've gone nearly all my life never having seen the word "tranche," and now I can't seem to get away from it.
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I feel as if I've gone nearly all my life never having seen the word "tranche," and now I can't seem to get away from it.
When people put “words in The New York Times” in their bios, I always read that as “I wrote a letter and they published it.”
February 11, 2026 at 6:42 AM
When people put “words in The New York Times” in their bios, I always read that as “I wrote a letter and they published it.”
"I won’t be reading Wuthering Heights anytime soon. I don’t need the romance, I don’t need the unreliable narrator, I don’t need the brooding melodrama, etc."
Well, all righty, then.
Well, all righty, then.
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
"I won’t be reading Wuthering Heights anytime soon. I don’t need the romance, I don’t need the unreliable narrator, I don’t need the brooding melodrama, etc."
Well, all righty, then.
Well, all righty, then.
OK, I think it's time for a soothing Lotte Reiniger gif.
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
OK, I think it's time for a soothing Lotte Reiniger gif.
Back in 2001 I was the production editor working on the King-Straub collaboration Black House. (We also did a light refurbishing of The Talisman and reissued it in a matching hardcover.)
I had no idea that a third volume was ever under discussion.
I had no idea that a third volume was ever under discussion.
Exclusive: The First Excerpt from Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Ending to ‘The Talisman’ Trilogy
King tells us about ‘Other Worlds Than These,’ where he’ll finish the saga after Straub’s death—and how his late friend’s ideas were resurrected for this epic goodbye.
www.esquire.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Back in 2001 I was the production editor working on the King-Straub collaboration Black House. (We also did a light refurbishing of The Talisman and reissued it in a matching hardcover.)
I had no idea that a third volume was ever under discussion.
I had no idea that a third volume was ever under discussion.