Adam B. Vary
@adambvary.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, editor, researcher. Past: Variety, BuzzFeed News, Entertainment Weekly. Aspiring scrutineer. Opinions mine. He/him. Most recent work is here: https://variety.com/author/adam-b-vary/
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it
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What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
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This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This is straight-up Nazi rhetoric from Musk, and the only tiny thing I can do is address myself to those of you who are still on X. No more excuses about how you need "reach" or how good the conversation is there or the importance of debate. You will not regret walking away, and it's time.
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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The other night on Jeopardy, two players were tied going into final. The woman in third made a small wager and her answer was, "I hope they both bet everything." They both did, all three got it wrong, and she won. As if that wasn't already hilarious enough, turns out it was all a master plan!
Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The other night on Jeopardy, two players were tied going into final. The woman in third made a small wager and her answer was, "I hope they both bet everything." They both did, all three got it wrong, and she won. As if that wasn't already hilarious enough, turns out it was all a master plan!
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"Last year, a user who went by the name ricosuave666 correctly predicted the timeline around the 12-day war between Israel and Iran."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
February 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
"Last year, a user who went by the name ricosuave666 correctly predicted the timeline around the 12-day war between Israel and Iran."
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
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I will believe this when folks in Minnesota say things genuinely seem different
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Live updates: Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end after thousands of arrests and two killings, Trump's border czar says. Over 2,000 federal officers are leaving.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I will believe this when folks in Minnesota say things genuinely seem different
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it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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This doesn’t matter and I don’t care but I WILL NOT LIVE IN A WORLD where Three Caballeros beats Beauty and the Beast. What’s wrong with you people.
Today in the second round of the Walt Disney Animation Studios bracket, we just may have to part ways with a trio of lovable birds, because they’re facing off against a pretty tough customer.
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zVLd2z/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Beauty and the Beast
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zVLd2z/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Three Caballeros
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zVLd2z/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Beauty and the Beast
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/zVLd2z/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Three Caballeros
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February 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
This doesn’t matter and I don’t care but I WILL NOT LIVE IN A WORLD where Three Caballeros beats Beauty and the Beast. What’s wrong with you people.
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Because none of that stuff -- other than voting -- is a right guaranteed to all citizens in the United States Constitution.
You useless, hollow shitheel hack of a lying politician.
You useless, hollow shitheel hack of a lying politician.
Mike Johnson: "Americans need an ID to drive, to open a bank account, to buy cold medicine, to file govt assistance, even to attend the DNC. So why would voting be any different? They can't answer that question."
February 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Because none of that stuff -- other than voting -- is a right guaranteed to all citizens in the United States Constitution.
You useless, hollow shitheel hack of a lying politician.
You useless, hollow shitheel hack of a lying politician.
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
Just rewatched the whole Bad Bunny halftime performance and wept with joy through the entire thing.
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Just rewatched the whole Bad Bunny halftime performance and wept with joy through the entire thing.
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the world is inarguably a worse place now that we’ve created platforms and incentives for dumb inauthentic performative goofball ridiculous statements like this to be loosed in the world
February 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
the world is inarguably a worse place now that we’ve created platforms and incentives for dumb inauthentic performative goofball ridiculous statements like this to be loosed in the world
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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪
“Man sits in stands while fiancée wins gold medal.”
From @theathletic.com: YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul was in attendance to watch his fiancée, Netherlands' Jutta Leerdam, win gold in the women's 1000-meter speed skate, adding to her Olympic silver medal from 2022. nyti.ms/45XJLLJ
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
“Man sits in stands while fiancée wins gold medal.”
Speedskater Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands took the gold medal in the women’s 1,000 meters, while her fiancé, YouTuber-turned boxer Jake Paul, cheered her on from the second row.
See how simple that was?
See how simple that was?
YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul showed up for speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday and was standing at his second-row seat in the stands while his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, took the gold medal in the women’s 1,000 meters.
Jake Paul was in the second row as his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam, won a gold in Olympic speedskating
YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul was in the stands for speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics to watch his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, win the gold medal in the women's 1,000 meters.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Speedskater Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands took the gold medal in the women’s 1,000 meters, while her fiancé, YouTuber-turned boxer Jake Paul, cheered her on from the second row.
See how simple that was?
See how simple that was?
This is cheating a little, but Barbenheimer and the Dune movies.
What 2020s movie has the greatest cultural footprint?
Note: This is not necessarily about box office, Oscars, critical acclaim, though all of those can count. It's more... pieces of it have so completely permeated our cultural groundwater that it will always be there.
Note: This is not necessarily about box office, Oscars, critical acclaim, though all of those can count. It's more... pieces of it have so completely permeated our cultural groundwater that it will always be there.
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 AM
This is cheating a little, but Barbenheimer and the Dune movies.
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
Every single thing anyone from this administration says should be received at minimum with deep skepticism if not total distrust. If they tell you the sun is shining, grab an umbrella.
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."
Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Every single thing anyone from this administration says should be received at minimum with deep skepticism if not total distrust. If they tell you the sun is shining, grab an umbrella.