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Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman (anti-A.I. arc) Profile picture
Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman (anti-A.I. arc)
@abrahamjoseph
NYT-bestselling authoress: TRUE BELIEVER / RINGMASTER / HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Board, @JewishCurrents. Anti-messianic Jew. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHHH Image Whenever I perish, make sure my obit includes the sentence “Mx. Riesman died as she lived: furious at Bari Weiss”
May 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
TikTok is the enemy Image “Hey, lay off TikTok! I use it a lot! And it’s given opportunities to lots of influencers. Banning it won’t solve anything.” I don’t care, shut up, fuck that app
May 15, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Cool so we’re just straight up burying the two state solution without actually defining a new position And the sheer gall of this story getting floated on Nakba Day
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
mfw I read about Gnostic interpretations of scripture Image Neokayfabe in wrestling (& elsewhere) is a form of gnosis. A wrestling superfan will laugh at you for merely discussing the text of what you saw on TV, the same way a gnostic will chortle at your dependence on scripture. To UNDERSTAND what you see, you must have secret knowledge
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Prepping for a podcast discussion of Taylor Swift by reading my archived private-LiveJournal posts from 2010 about FEARLESS. Christ, was I depressed Image I was a swiftie before it was cool Image
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It wasn’t my favorite SJ song but the mere fact/concept of Lana Del Rey listening to the works of David Berman was enough to floor me Lana Del Rey cover “Trains Across the Sea” challenge 2023
Mar 28, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
RINGMASTER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

BUY NOW

ringmasterthebook.com Image On the fence about buying RINGMASTER? Want a taste before you decide? Here’s some related writing I’ve published online, to get you fired up:
Mar 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Eating a corn dog This corn dog got me lookin like Selina Meyer at a state fair
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I let Bret “The Hitman” Hart give his last word on Vince McMahon. Excerpt from RINGMASTER in @vulture: vulture.com/article/bret-h… My frontline editor and spouse, @sirosenbaum, was a huge influence on this little section of the book; I love and admire her so much
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Oh! Also! @Polygon is having a Wrestling Week, pegged to RINGMASTER! I wrote the introductory essay, which is about controlling the present by owning the past, and what Vince McMahon learned from his father: polygon.com/23654827/vince… Okay now I can finally unveil the most astounding assessment of Vince McMahon that I found during my research

polygon.com/23654827/vince…
Mar 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Reading a really, really good graphic novel that isn’t out yet but will be a big deal if there is any justice in this world Seriously this shit is amazing
Mar 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Baby’s first time as a profile subject!!!!!!! I’m terrified to read, so please do it for me theatlantic.com/politics/archi… (Thank you @JohnGHendy and @TheAtlantic!!!!)
Mar 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Overhearing conversations in Brentwood is horrifying I’ve been sitting at this Brentwood cafe for 20 minutes and have already heard a tech guy rave about how great it is that he can fire his engineers and replace them with AI **and** a discussion about tactics for scaring homeless people off your block
Mar 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Bad timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-fire… When the brutal authoritarians are getting fired for being insufficiently fascist, you are pretty far along in your (herrenvolk) democracy’s collapse
Mar 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hey! The Economist reviewed RINGMASTER!! They half-loved it!!! economist.com/culture/2023/0… The Economist’s critique of RINGMASTER is perhaps the most comically neoliberal set of reasons to dislike the book!! I’m honored!!!! economist.com/culture/2023/0…
Mar 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
That pic of Gaga as Harley Quinn got me feeling like I should tweet out one of my first big reported features for @vulture, which I remain proud of: vulture.com/2014/12/harley… No lie, reporting this Harley Quinn feature altered and improved my feminism, especially thanks to this pithy statement from a fan:

vulture.com/2014/12/harley… Image
Mar 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
I’m gonna write new lyrics to “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends” to make it about transfems and cis gay men 🎶 Bossy-bottom folks should stick together
Bossy-bottom folks should all be f*gs
Gay men dance with the transfems’ fathers
Transfems dance with the gay men’s hags
Mar 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Image Admit it I’m right
Mar 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Uhhhh thanks but no thanks Image shoot your shot Image
Dec 7, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The Onion’s OUR DUMB CENTURY being long out of print and notoriously hard to Google is a travesty, but it does let me feel smug about having my childhood copy for anniversaries like today Someone (me?) has to do an oral history of this absolute masterwork
Dec 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
From my grandfather’s wartime archives: a printed-out Associated Press report about D-Day weather Image A letter in which a Jewish survivor of Buchenwald thanks my grandfather and the great Walter Bierenger for arranging to have him and his family extricated from the camps. Not sure how that worked or what my grandfather’s role was, but wow Image