Eric Vilas-Boas
@ericvb.bsky.social
@vulture.com writer and editor covering animation, streaming, movies, and TV | die-hard fan of hiking and physical media
“i’m not a miracle worker, i’m a janitor”
“i’m not a miracle worker, i’m a janitor”
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Eric Vilas-Boas
@ericvb.bsky.social
· Nov 15
with more folks on bluesky, a re-introduction! I'm an entertainment journalist, currently editing at Vulture. I cover streaming and animation, mostly, and I'm a big fan of physical media and old-school anime.
Here are five recentish pieces I was happy with...
Here are five recentish pieces I was happy with...
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It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
February 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.
"For a broadcast now poised for brooking the maelstrom of a Kimmel-esque bout of courthouse clapback, everyone may as well have talked more and colder shit." - @craigsj.bsky.social / @vulture.com
www.vulture.com/article/2026...
www.vulture.com/article/2026...
The 2026 Grammys Needed More Naming and Shaming
Politics was on almost everyone’s mind, but most kept their statements vague.
www.vulture.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"For a broadcast now poised for brooking the maelstrom of a Kimmel-esque bout of courthouse clapback, everyone may as well have talked more and colder shit." - @craigsj.bsky.social / @vulture.com
www.vulture.com/article/2026...
www.vulture.com/article/2026...
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It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
futurism.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
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I think it's funny that this interview gave Chotiner a chance to reference this thing he tweeted about 4 years ago
February 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I think it's funny that this interview gave Chotiner a chance to reference this thing he tweeted about 4 years ago
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Back to work at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social today, just over two months after undergoing my sixth (!) open-heart surgery.
I live to make content.
So hit me with any tips or ideas you have about corrupt politicians, bad corporations, abusive bosses, or good policy.
[email protected]
I live to make content.
So hit me with any tips or ideas you have about corrupt politicians, bad corporations, abusive bosses, or good policy.
[email protected]
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Back to work at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social today, just over two months after undergoing my sixth (!) open-heart surgery.
I live to make content.
So hit me with any tips or ideas you have about corrupt politicians, bad corporations, abusive bosses, or good policy.
[email protected]
I live to make content.
So hit me with any tips or ideas you have about corrupt politicians, bad corporations, abusive bosses, or good policy.
[email protected]
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A friend recently bought me these Tiny Tates Gluten Free cookies and they're pretty delicious. I googled them to see where I could buy more but instead this popped up.
Gross. Evil.
I'll find another sweet treat.
ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...
Gross. Evil.
I'll find another sweet treat.
ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...
Tate’s Bake Shop Workers Allegedly Threatened With Deportation Due to Unionization Efforts
Plus, NYC restaurateurs eagerly look forward to next boost of federal aid — and more intel
ny.eater.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 AM
A friend recently bought me these Tiny Tates Gluten Free cookies and they're pretty delicious. I googled them to see where I could buy more but instead this popped up.
Gross. Evil.
I'll find another sweet treat.
ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...
Gross. Evil.
I'll find another sweet treat.
ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
January 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.
BREAKING... and Thank God...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release
A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.
abcnews.go.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.
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Apologies for engaging your upchuck reflex. The most revolting, exploitative people in the world do seem to be protecting and enriching each other right in our faces.
Fucking creep cabal.
Fucking creep cabal.
Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files
The images of Ratner with Epstein and unidentified women were released the same day as his documentary about the US first lady.
www.bbc.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Apologies for engaging your upchuck reflex. The most revolting, exploitative people in the world do seem to be protecting and enriching each other right in our faces.
Fucking creep cabal.
Fucking creep cabal.
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Video shared with me by attendee at the ICE protest in Portland, OR earlier this evening where federal agents tear gassed peaceful protestors—including children, disabled and elderly:
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Video shared with me by attendee at the ICE protest in Portland, OR earlier this evening where federal agents tear gassed peaceful protestors—including children, disabled and elderly:
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This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.
Children gassed. Children detained. Children used as bait to detain their parents. Children kidnapped and trafficked and sickened with disease across state lines by a secret police force that believes themselves immune from prosecution. ICE and DHS are a cancer on us all.
I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Children gassed. Children detained. Children used as bait to detain their parents. Children kidnapped and trafficked and sickened with disease across state lines by a secret police force that believes themselves immune from prosecution. ICE and DHS are a cancer on us all.
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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"Listen, I realize that it might look bad that I was emailing a man who had already been convicted of soliciting children for the purposes of prostitution and asking when the wildest night of partying would take place at the island he used for pedophile parties ... Hang on, let me come in again."
Interesting to watch Musk spin his newly released correspondence with Epstein.
What he is not addressing is that he very much requested to visit and party with Epstein, while SpaceX gave a tour to Epstein in 2013.
What he is not addressing is that he very much requested to visit and party with Epstein, while SpaceX gave a tour to Epstein in 2013.
January 31, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"Listen, I realize that it might look bad that I was emailing a man who had already been convicted of soliciting children for the purposes of prostitution and asking when the wildest night of partying would take place at the island he used for pedophile parties ... Hang on, let me come in again."
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Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
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It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM
It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.
"She is the modern mom par excellence — endlessly apologetic, doing her best yet constantly failing, always tapping into a well of love and humor and wisdom even as she’s falling apart." www.vulture.com/article/cath...
Catherine O’Hara Was Everyone’s Mom
From Home Alone to Schitt’s Creek, her characters were a monument to the endlessly radical idea that mothers are people, too.
www.vulture.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:08 AM
"She is the modern mom par excellence — endlessly apologetic, doing her best yet constantly failing, always tapping into a well of love and humor and wisdom even as she’s falling apart." www.vulture.com/article/cath...
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People need to really fully understand how deep The fascist Police state is here and nationally now and how all of the pieces are working as interconnected systems of a much larger whole.
The goal is mass intimidation and fear as much as it is the brutality we are seeing in our streets.
The goal is mass intimidation and fear as much as it is the brutality we are seeing in our streets.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
People need to really fully understand how deep The fascist Police state is here and nationally now and how all of the pieces are working as interconnected systems of a much larger whole.
The goal is mass intimidation and fear as much as it is the brutality we are seeing in our streets.
The goal is mass intimidation and fear as much as it is the brutality we are seeing in our streets.
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my first piece since returning from disability leave nymag.com/intelligence...
Alex Pretti Died for the Idea of America
He was fighting to preserve a kind of national creed. He was killed in the name of another.
nymag.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
my first piece since returning from disability leave nymag.com/intelligence...
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I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon.
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24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 PM
24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested
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"CBS was the only big-three broadcast network that kept the killing of Alex Pretti out of the lead spot on both Sunday and Monday nights; it also devoted notably fewer minutes to the situation than its rivals" www.vulture.com/article/bari...
The Gospel According to Bari
Weiss’s CBS News has sidelined the biggest story of the moment.
www.vulture.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"CBS was the only big-three broadcast network that kept the killing of Alex Pretti out of the lead spot on both Sunday and Monday nights; it also devoted notably fewer minutes to the situation than its rivals" www.vulture.com/article/bari...