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Sam Adams

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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Dec 19

This was my first full year as a staff writer at Slate, and it gave me a chance to try some new things, improve some old ones, and have a lot of fun. Here are some of the things I'm proudest of.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2h

I weep for the children of 2040

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 5h

that Kronos box is the good shit

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 7h

“‘There have long been attacks on Soros and OSF by those who want to shut down the left, and there have long been attacks on the pro-Palestinian movement using false accusations of terrorism...This report marries those two attacks,’ said Emily Tamkin.” jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-sor...

The Anti-Soros Strategy at the Heart of Trump’s War on Progressive…

Following a report by the Capital Research Center, the administration is investigating the Open Society Foundations as part of a broader crackdown on…

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 8h

the Nazi bar analogy is undefeated

Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 8h

what caused the exodus is that there were a couple of nazi accounts that got banned for doxing leftists (including lib_crusher) but were personally reinstated by elon. one of the reasons i still have my account but only post by accident is because of the group chat that monitors those assholes.

Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

I’m not mad about it but I’m deeply confused that we’re getting a Twitter exodus today of all days

thought we’d basically reached the point that there was no line that place could cross that would chase anyone off of it at this point

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 9h

I suspect disinviting the press corps from official Pentagon briefings and forcing them to get their info from other sources is not going to work out the way the administration hopes it will

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Jake Blumgart @jblumgart.bsky.social · 9h

The eviction of the homeless encampments between Washington and Reed streets on the Delaware river which I reported were coming last week, to make way for redevelopment of the site, is still unfolding today. Our story TK: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Apartment tower planned for Columbus Boulevard could be the first of three

The proposal is the latest for a parcel that has seen multiple failed development plans in the last decade.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12h

My oldest friends have all chosen to disassociate themselves from me for moral reasons. Clearly, the problem is them.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 14h

quite touched by this kevin tighe interview in @thereveal.bsky.social.

the conversation gives him space to reflect on his extensive career and the ways PTA made allowances for his disability on set of “one battle after another” and didn’t shy from casting him once the disability was known.

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 15h

we get one cheat day every 32 years

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 16h

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 15h

this sounds like a mid-tier FU:EL track but any excuse to hear Malcolm Travis bust into sixteenth notes is a red letter day for me

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16h

NY and London thus far

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16h

Gen X: Today we feast

House of Dead Memories

YouTube video by Sugar - Topic

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16h

what!

the cover art for Sugar’s House of Dead Memories single

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

some sign of something or other that The Residents are doing the complete album tour thing

Live & Preserved - The Residents

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

"If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

flying one of the world’s great newspapers right into a mountain

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

I would think peace would be a bare minimum for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

“Lots of good stuff here!”

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

I used my review of The Chair Company to get at just what is going on with its deliberately flat, almost amateurish performances. Consider it my contribution to the burgeoning field of Tim Robinson Studies. slate.com/culture/2025...

The actor who plays the part doesn’t seem to have any previous screen credits, which might account for the off-kilter delivery, but even the series’ seasoned pros, like Lake Bell and Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Ron’s glad-handing boss, seem to have been coached to act as if they don’t know how to act. Robinson is a singular performer with an awfully narrow range, which he periodically pushes himself beyond for the sake of comedic unease. (You don’t see a man crying; you see an actor trying to play one, and wince at how far he is from pulling it off.) But it’s not just a matter of making the other actors lower themselves to his level. Their flat, almost rote line readings keep us in Ron’s permanently baffled shoes, unable to comprehend what they’re doing or why they’re doing it. And that makes the whole world feel like one big conspiracy, a place where people carry on as if their behavior makes sense when it’s clear that they’re all out of their minds.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

It’s literally not reposting if there’s no link. The rest of your post is just making up things I didn’t say and getting mad at them. Have fun arguing with no one.

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

lol I thought that too. Like “hey boss, I’ve got one where a few hairs are out of place, is that enough?”

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why it’s a screenshot and not a link. But pretending that a major news network will just go away if we ignore it is not the play.

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