To review: 1. FBI yanks investigation of ICE from local police 2. FBI kills investigation of ICE 3. FBI pivots to investigating victim 4. Miller says local police must “surrender” to feds This is neither law nor order; it’s state murder and coverup

Stick a fork in her

With everything awful going on in the world, I’m trying to remind myself to count my blessings. A few random things I’m thankful for tonight, typed as they come to my mind:

The thing about the Ellisons, who bought CBS and are running its fabled news division into the ground, is that they’re worth hundreds of billions of dollars. They can lose 99.9% of their money and still be UNBELIEVABLY rich. What they want is to control a propaganda machine. Don’t watch.

As you watch this analysis, which is VERY clear, remember that Trump, Vance and Noem have been straight-up lying about it from day one—and that Renee Good still had a pulse when ICE refused to allow her medical attention. Call it what it is: state murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

MINI REVIEW: The Disappear (not recommended) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

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Two headlines today

Reminder: NEO-NAZI: “White solidarity is the only way to survive.” ELON MUSK: “💯” This was last week.

Good scoop by @liamjscott.bsky.social: People seeking jobs at Stars and Stripes, which Congress guaranteed editorial independence, are being asked how they would advance administration priorities. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Eerie

Janet Yellen tells @nytimes.com that the investigation against Powell is the most significant attack ever on Fed independence. "If you can bring charges for no reason whatsoever against your enemies, we're no longer living in a society governed by the rule of law." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...

This is an actual line from the ICE GoFundMe that the right-wing Minnesota outlet Alpha News recommends. Let’s call this what it is. (Hint: It starts with an N and ends with an I and goes from A to Z in between.)

NEW: What do Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne, Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle, John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Luke Evans and Ebon Moss-Bachrach have in common? A full guide to the Broadway season ahead. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

How does Tesla’s board of directors justify keeping a CEO who is an open white supremacist?

This is the white-power neo-Nazi that Elon Musk retweeted this week with “💯.” Musk hasn’t deleted it and he’ll never apologize for it. Why? Because this is what Musk is. So let’s call it what it is. This is not an exaggeration: Elon Musk is a white-supremacist Nazi.

In case you had any doubt left that Elon Musk was an actual neo-Nazi

Stop ICE. Stop Trump. Stop lying.

New episode of Sitting Ovations just dropped! This time I talk to Jordan Harrison and Anne Kauffman, the playwright and director of the excellent Broadway play Marjorie Prime. Listen up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFZ...

BROADWAY REVIEW: Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood go to dark places in Tracy Letts's taut Broadway thriller Bug (★★★★) www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Tonight at 8:30pm: My review of Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in the Broadway revival of Tracy Letts's psycho-thriller Bug. Stay tuned!

Anyone who trusts the Trump Administration about anything needs to watch this. And then ask themselves why they continue to support an administration that murders unarmed mothers in the street and then lies openly about it to the public www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Every person who is friendly with or related to JD Vance should be asked a simple question: Why is this awful person still in your life?

RIP Renee Good, 36, murdered today by the state thugs of ICE

Vintage

In a better world this man would be in a mental institution getting the care he needs but instead he is representing Georgia in Congress

Today is January 6, the feast of the Epiphany and the setting for James Joyce’s gorgeous story “The Dead” and its somehow even more gorgeous 1987 film adaptation: John Huston’s final movie, and one of my favorite films ever made. I’ve seen it a dozen times and I get more from it with each pass.

This…does not inspire trust in the legal system

The funniest thing about Jew-haters on social media is how they use terms like “goy” and “Talmud” as if they’d cracked some secret code about how Jews really talk and think. It’s so corny and lame. (I’ve never heard anyone call a non-Jew a goy or cite the Talmud for anything!)

Broadway Week tickets go on sale this week! Snap them up fast. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Wow. Amazing to see Kathleen Chalfant get crossover recognition after decades of superb work onstage

This book about the 2018 hate-crime murder of gay Jewish teenager Blaze Bernstein by neo-Nazi scumbag Sam Woodward sounds compelling. But also: Their names are Woodward and Bernstein? Seriously? This is the kind of thing that makes a person feel like they live in a glitch.

I’ve spent nearly all my free time in the past couple weeks on Heated Rivalry: watching and rewatching episodes, listening to podcasts, reading interviews etc. If you haven’t seen it yet: SEE IT. The first two eps are kinda porny but if you aren’t in tears by the final two then you’re a monster.

Spent my Christmas listening to straight guys with hockey podcasts gush over Heated Rivalry and then watching the series finale and this day truly has filled me with love and goodwill

Is Coalhouse Walker a terrorist? The very smart Lear deBessonet, director of Ragtime and artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, joins me to discuss this and other questions in the third episode of the new theater podcast Sitting Ovations. Give it a watch! youtu.be/cpSJkKXNPFI

New episode of Sitting Ovations drops later today: a sit-down with Ragtime director Lear deBessonet. Stay tuned!

This is 100% a Cecily Strong character

I loathed Russell Brand before it was cool

“In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore”—JD Vance, making whiteness more embarrassing by the day

My god the fumigation this country is going to need after that man is gone

Second episode of my Sitting Ovations podcast just dropped! This time I'm joined by Bess Wohl to dive into her excellent new Broadway play, Liberation. Love! Feminism! Merkins! Tune in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v65...

Re-normalize Seymours who are not just gorgeous guys wearing glasses

"You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?" If Rudolph is really the most famous of the reindeer, then how come he’s the one we wouldn’t remember? 🤔

The RFK, jr effect.

BREAKING: Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road will now close on December 21, several weeks earlier than planned. This is a really beautiful piece of work and if you can see it before it closes, you should. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Start spreading the news! I am thrilled to announce the debut of Sitting Ovations, my new YouTube podcast for Time Out. Each week, I will sit down with the creators of current plays and musicals that I've admired to discuss them at greater length and in deeper detail. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.