brad listi
@bradlisti.bsky.social
author of books. host of the otherppl podcast. in-depth interviews w writers. founder of DeepDive. hermit. good at walking.
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· Feb 21
the smell of hospitals in winter
and the feeling that it's all
a lot of oysters
but no pearl
all at once you look
across a crowded room
and say
'i host a weekly podcast'
to a girl
and the feeling that it's all
a lot of oysters
but no pearl
all at once you look
across a crowded room
and say
'i host a weekly podcast'
to a girl
Tomorrow I'm gonna be talking w Joseph O'Neill, whose novel GODWIN is out in trade paperback. This is a brilliant book about football (soccer), midlife crises, office politics, and post-colonial avarice.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
✌🏼 Stay tuned…
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
✌🏼 Stay tuned…
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Tomorrow I'm gonna be talking w Joseph O'Neill, whose novel GODWIN is out in trade paperback. This is a brilliant book about football (soccer), midlife crises, office politics, and post-colonial avarice.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
✌🏼 Stay tuned…
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
✌🏼 Stay tuned…
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Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
‘His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him’
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
#ImpeachTrump #Sedition #Pentagon
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Editorial Boards have been derelict in their defense of American democracy.
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
Credit to a local paper for standing up: @sentinelcolorado.com the first to call for #impeachment.
Showing AGSulzberger & NYT, Will Lewis & WaPo, Emma Tucker & WSJ what the Fourth Estate is for.
bsky.app/profile/sent...
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Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
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Important thread
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Important thread
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Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
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Now do Fascism. Interested to see the numbers.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Now do Fascism. Interested to see the numbers.
watching the charlie sheen doc and he just referred to contemporary society as 'the un-flushed toilet that we live in'
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
watching the charlie sheen doc and he just referred to contemporary society as 'the un-flushed toilet that we live in'
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Successful writers take action.
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50+ hours. 40+ acclaimed authors.
Learn from the best. Get your book done.
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'How to Write a Novel,' our flagship course, is an unparalleled masterclass in the art of writing fiction.
50+ hours. 40+ acclaimed authors.
Learn from the best. Get your book done.
Act now:
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November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Successful writers take action.
'How to Write a Novel,' our flagship course, is an unparalleled masterclass in the art of writing fiction.
50+ hours. 40+ acclaimed authors.
Learn from the best. Get your book done.
Act now:
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-write...
'How to Write a Novel,' our flagship course, is an unparalleled masterclass in the art of writing fiction.
50+ hours. 40+ acclaimed authors.
Learn from the best. Get your book done.
Act now:
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-write...
▶️ Vol 69...Brad's toast panic...Mira's plumbing nightmare...Angry Adam, gentler than usual...the Olivia Nuzzi rehabilitation project...RFK Jr. on DMT...Congress votes to release the Epstein emails...did Trump blow Bubba?...and more....
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
▶️ Vol 69...Brad's toast panic...Mira's plumbing nightmare...Angry Adam, gentler than usual...the Olivia Nuzzi rehabilitation project...RFK Jr. on DMT...Congress votes to release the Epstein emails...did Trump blow Bubba?...and more....
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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👀 DeepDive will be having its biggest sale of the year December 1 & 2.
50% off all writing courses (!!).
🎁 The perfect gift to yourself—or the writer in your life—delivered to their inbox on the day & time of your choosing. Just select 'Send as a Gift' at checkout.
Explore: www.deepdive.audio
50% off all writing courses (!!).
🎁 The perfect gift to yourself—or the writer in your life—delivered to their inbox on the day & time of your choosing. Just select 'Send as a Gift' at checkout.
Explore: www.deepdive.audio
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
👀 DeepDive will be having its biggest sale of the year December 1 & 2.
50% off all writing courses (!!).
🎁 The perfect gift to yourself—or the writer in your life—delivered to their inbox on the day & time of your choosing. Just select 'Send as a Gift' at checkout.
Explore: www.deepdive.audio
50% off all writing courses (!!).
🎁 The perfect gift to yourself—or the writer in your life—delivered to their inbox on the day & time of your choosing. Just select 'Send as a Gift' at checkout.
Explore: www.deepdive.audio
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
Tomorrow on the show, I'll be in conversation w Jennifer Eli Bowen, whose new memoir-in-essays, THE BOOK OF KIN, was more than 15 years in the making.
A really good conversation about the micro and the macro, the personal and the political. Coming up tomorrow.
✌🏼 Stay tuned...
A really good conversation about the micro and the macro, the personal and the political. Coming up tomorrow.
✌🏼 Stay tuned...
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Tomorrow on the show, I'll be in conversation w Jennifer Eli Bowen, whose new memoir-in-essays, THE BOOK OF KIN, was more than 15 years in the making.
A really good conversation about the micro and the macro, the personal and the political. Coming up tomorrow.
✌🏼 Stay tuned...
A really good conversation about the micro and the macro, the personal and the political. Coming up tomorrow.
✌🏼 Stay tuned...
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Great beginnings are critical.
Learn how to draw the reader in from the very first line in 'How to Get the Reader Onboard,' our new course w instructor Steve Almond.
For writers of fiction and nonfiction.
Just $97 at launch. Limited time.
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-get-t...
Learn how to draw the reader in from the very first line in 'How to Get the Reader Onboard,' our new course w instructor Steve Almond.
For writers of fiction and nonfiction.
Just $97 at launch. Limited time.
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-get-t...
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Great beginnings are critical.
Learn how to draw the reader in from the very first line in 'How to Get the Reader Onboard,' our new course w instructor Steve Almond.
For writers of fiction and nonfiction.
Just $97 at launch. Limited time.
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-get-t...
Learn how to draw the reader in from the very first line in 'How to Get the Reader Onboard,' our new course w instructor Steve Almond.
For writers of fiction and nonfiction.
Just $97 at launch. Limited time.
courses.deepdive.audio/how-to-get-t...
This month, the book club is reading OPEN WIDE, the new novel by Jessica Gross, available from Abrams Books. A story of obsessive love—romance, desire, body horror, comedy, family—a deft and absorbing blend of surrealism and psychological realism.
🎧 Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This month, the book club is reading OPEN WIDE, the new novel by Jessica Gross, available from Abrams Books. A story of obsessive love—romance, desire, body horror, comedy, family—a deft and absorbing blend of surrealism and psychological realism.
🎧 Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Available now wherever you get your podcasts.
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr