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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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!
"I don't like Candace Owens but" is not a sentence opener that will lead you anywhere worth going.
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"I don't like Candace Owens but" is not a sentence opener that will lead you anywhere worth going.
btw
The official name of the holiday that I prefer to refer to as Presidents Day, no apostrophe, is still officially Washington's Birthday, though it never actually falls on Washington's birthday.
Also: I can't operate on this patient. He's my son!
Also: I can't operate on this patient. He's my son!
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
btw
I don't actually know Bob, but "the moors road to Whitby is increasingly snowy" is something that everyone should see and know about.
Apologies all, but tonight's 'North Wind' has been postponed - apparently the moors road to Whitby is increasingly snowy with more forecast throughout the day/night! We're going to do it on Friday 6th March instead...
Anybody around Whitby on Friday? 'At The Back Of The North Wind' is back in Flowergate Hall, and I'll be discussing the legendary Black Heart of Whorlton Castle before singing a song about my favourite gravestone. Come and join us for a full evening of folky, haunto fun - pay what you fancy.
February 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I don't actually know Bob, but "the moors road to Whitby is increasingly snowy" is something that everyone should see and know about.
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There’s a section of the populist left that wants to win internal Democratic Party fights by calling their factional opponents the “Epstein class,” and it just seems really obvious that the populist right is going to hear that as “the Jews” with some very bad results.
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
There’s a section of the populist left that wants to win internal Democratic Party fights by calling their factional opponents the “Epstein class,” and it just seems really obvious that the populist right is going to hear that as “the Jews” with some very bad results.
And of course they're all three officeholders.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
And of course they're all three officeholders.
today's random theater photo:
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
today's random theater photo:
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
And it's Kim's day too!
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
And it's Kim's day too!
Happy birthday to delightful Stockard Channing!
[photo by Martha Swope]
[photo by Martha Swope]
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Happy birthday to delightful Stockard Channing!
[photo by Martha Swope]
[photo by Martha Swope]
Happy Ollie's birthday.
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Happy Ollie's birthday.
Actually, no, I don't think that what Kristi Noem needs is to be fired.
February 13, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Actually, no, I don't think that what Kristi Noem needs is to be fired.
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
His niece.
His girlfriend.
She's his girlfriend.
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
His niece.
His girlfriend.
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 AM
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
His niece.
His girlfriend.
She's his girlfriend.
She's his niece.
She's his girlfriend.
His niece.
His girlfriend.
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Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.
A fun thing is that gnome and gnomic are etymologically unrelated but they're both short.
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM
A fun thing is that gnome and gnomic are etymologically unrelated but they're both short.
maybe he means the lid and not the actual seat...?
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
maybe he means the lid and not the actual seat...?
[Nathan Fillion gif goes here]
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 AM
[Nathan Fillion gif goes here]
godDAMMIT
[f'ing typos]
[not gonna repost, it wasn't all that brilliant to begin with]
[f'ing typos]
[not gonna repost, it wasn't all that brilliant to begin with]
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 AM
godDAMMIT
[f'ing typos]
[not gonna repost, it wasn't all that brilliant to begin with]
[f'ing typos]
[not gonna repost, it wasn't all that brilliant to begin with]
The judges will accept this answer.
Halfly pretentious-witted?
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The judges will accept this answer.
Once more (well, once more today) for the dinnertime/bedtime/overnight crowd.
Featuring a very special cameo by Prunella Scales.
Featuring a very special cameo by Prunella Scales.
in the blink of an eye
[things seen and watched and read and thought]
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Once more (well, once more today) for the dinnertime/bedtime/overnight crowd.
Featuring a very special cameo by Prunella Scales.
Featuring a very special cameo by Prunella Scales.
Muting is self-care.
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Muting is self-care.
Pak! Pak! Pak!
When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Pak! Pak! Pak!
“You can love literature and ignore Wuthering Heights.”
Thanks, sis.
Thanks, sis.
February 13, 2026 at 2:39 AM
“You can love literature and ignore Wuthering Heights.”
Thanks, sis.
Thanks, sis.
I’ve been playing ADIT in Scrabble for aeons, and I could not for a skillion dollars have told you what it meant just now till I looked it up (and discovered that I did once know what it meant).
February 13, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I’ve been playing ADIT in Scrabble for aeons, and I could not for a skillion dollars have told you what it meant just now till I looked it up (and discovered that I did once know what it meant).
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As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?
Breaking WSJ:
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:23 PM
As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?
Reposted by Benjamin Dreyer
The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.
I'm still thinking about what a weird, loathsome freak Pam Bondi is, so I guess she's really good at her job of being a weird, loathsome freak.
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I'm still thinking about what a weird, loathsome freak Pam Bondi is, so I guess she's really good at her job of being a weird, loathsome freak.