"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

For our #StrangerThings cover story, @adambvary.bsky.social and I interviewed Matt and Ross Duffer for hours over two long sit-downs — so we had a ton left over. There's one COVID-season fact about Sadie Sink in Season 4 that blew me away, but we just couldn't include it! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

This is fucking insane, gaslighting the entire nation with a poisonous dehumanization.

What a disgraceful, mortifying time to live in.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

Like, this is approaching turning-your-name-into-a-noun levels of self-owning embarrassment.

I'd been keeping the Nuzzi/RFK/Lizza story at arm's length for my own personal sanity. Then a colleague implored me to read Lizza's first public account, all the way to the end. Welp. I'm invested now! www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

This is looting.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

For our #StrangerThings cover story, @adambvary.bsky.social and I interviewed one zillion people, and asked all of them about their final day working on the show. Adam put that reporting together into an oral history of the last days of "Stranger Things." Enjoy! variety.com/2025/tv/feat...

As @kateaurthur.bsky.social and I were reporting out our #StrangerThings cover from last month, the show's cast kept telling us vivid, emotional about their final days on the show. So we put them all together in this (spoiler free) oral history.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

I think a big reason Chicagoans are avoiding shopping at the Miracle Mile is because it's very inconvenient to drive all the way to the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles

New ep of Podcast Like It’s The 2000s! 🎭 @emilystjams.bsky.social  & @pmiscove.bsky.social  chat w/ @adambvary.bsky.social  about Mike Nichols’ Angels in America: Millennium Approaches a defining moment for HBO & queer storytelling on TV. Listen now + watch full video on Patreon. #PodcastLikeIts

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

X and social media in general are the 21st century’s internal combustion engine: a revolutionary invention at the center of the economy that we’ve all come to realize is poisoning the world.

This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I jump back into our Mike Nichols miniseries to talk Angels in America: Millennium Approaches with Variety’s @adambvary.bsky.social! We discuss the play, its development history and the absolutely incredible cast.

The world is healing.

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Whatever polling you want to look at, there's extremely minimal evidence that anti-trans campaigns move the needle when Donald Trump is not on the ballot.

The gay man who restyles himself as an arrogant bully because he's spent his entire life trying to prove that he's worthy of the company of straight homophobes is a very familiar type to me. I went to college with this one. There are many like him, although, happily, infinitely more who are not.

Gonna be the Gay History Nerd for a sec: This headline continues a decades-old tradition of explaining gay cultural phenomena to readers via straight confusion/resentment--and of assuming that highly specific references are designed to confuse or exclude, not delight. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/s...

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

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Preach

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust

I am outraged most days now, but I did not think I could be genuinely shocked by what he does anymore. And yet, here we are, with an entire wing of the White House in ruins.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

interesting that both the nyt and chicago trib chose to run these the day after millions of people turned out to protest one particular side

In response to @variety.com's request for comment, a representative for the White House simply sent a “Top Gun” meme that reads: “I feel the need for speed.”

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

The NYT app the morning after the biggest wave of protest rallies in America in a generation They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Shameful of the NYT to be burying No Kings on its homepage. It’s the biggest story of the day and it is appropriately leading every other new site even WSJ.

No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

"Together, these developments show a powerful tide of racism in American life, lifting up white people at the expense of all others."

In July 2024, I went to the set of #StrangerThings for two days and observed the Duffer brothers direct Millie Bobby Brown in the fourth episode of the fifth & final season. This year, @kateaurthur.bsky.social and I spent half a day total with the Duffers talking about the show and their future. 1/x

This week's exclusive cover story: Saying Goodbye to 'Stranger Things': The Duffer Brothers Tell All on Season 5 Secrets, the Tearful Finale and Leaving Netflix For Paramount wp.me/pc8uak-1lGryT

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe. Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.