Adam B. Vary
@adambvary.bsky.social
Senior Entertainment Writer for @variety.com. I used to work for BuzzFeed News (RIP) and Entertainment Weekly. Aspiring scrutineer. Opinions, pie, & cupcakes mine. He/him. https://variety.com/author/adam-b-vary/
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‘I’m at a Loss Without the Show’: Inside the Final Days of ‘Stranger Things’ and the Cast’s Heartbreaking Goodbyes
The cast of 'Stranger Things' tells all about the final days of making the Netflix hit, from tons of tears to emotional farewells.
variety.com
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.
PSA FOR FANS OF #STRANGERTHINGS: If you watch the show but won't be able to binge it tonight, I ***highly*** recommend staying off the social web until you finish the fourth episode.
(Not that Bluesky is a hotbed of Upside Down fandom. But all the same! Be forewarned!)
(Not that Bluesky is a hotbed of Upside Down fandom. But all the same! Be forewarned!)
a young boy with curly hair is wearing a baseball cap .
ALT: a young boy with curly hair is wearing a baseball cap .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
PSA FOR FANS OF #STRANGERTHINGS: If you watch the show but won't be able to binge it tonight, I ***highly*** recommend staying off the social web until you finish the fourth episode.
(Not that Bluesky is a hotbed of Upside Down fandom. But all the same! Be forewarned!)
(Not that Bluesky is a hotbed of Upside Down fandom. But all the same! Be forewarned!)
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Who knew Linda Hamilton was so delightfully batty? @adambvary.bsky.social interviewed her on the #StrangerThings set in July 2024, and this is very funny! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Linda Hamilton on Joining ‘Stranger Things,’ Why She Almost Retired and Being Millie Bobby Brown’s ‘Biggest Fan’: ‘Thank God She’s Not an Asshole’
"Stranger Things" co-star Linda Hamilton discusses why she is such a big fan of Millie Bobby Brown, why she almost wasn't on the show, and why she may retire.
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who knew Linda Hamilton was so delightfully batty? @adambvary.bsky.social interviewed her on the #StrangerThings set in July 2024, and this is very funny! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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#StrangerThings director/EP Shawn Levy championed it from the start. @adambvary.bsky.social and I spoke with him about the origins of the show, what the Duffer brothers were like when he first met them — and how the show has changed HIS career too. He's a quote machine! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Shawn Levy on the Origins of ‘Stranger Things,’ Working With Matt and Ross Duffer and Why ‘Sticking the Landing’ Is Their ‘North Star Principle’
'Stranger Things' director/executive producer Shawn Levy on working with Matt and Ross Duffer, how the show came to be and the future of the 'STU.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#StrangerThings director/EP Shawn Levy championed it from the start. @adambvary.bsky.social and I spoke with him about the origins of the show, what the Duffer brothers were like when he first met them — and how the show has changed HIS career too. He's a quote machine! variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength"
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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...
The Duffer Brothers on How ‘Game of Thrones’ Taught Them to Get Bigger Budgets From Netflix and Why the ‘Stranger Things’ Cast Aging Is ‘Not as Dramatic as People Think’
"Stranger Things" creators Matt and Ross Duffer discuss how "Game of Thrones" helped them to get bigger budgets and why they aren't sweating how their cast has aged.
variety.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
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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 comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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 comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
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This is fucking insane, gaslighting the entire nation with a poisonous dehumanization.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is fucking insane, gaslighting the entire nation with a poisonous dehumanization.
What a disgraceful, mortifying time to live in.
Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard
Swastika No Longer Hate Symbol Under New U.S. Coast Guard Policy: Report
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What a disgraceful, mortifying time to live in.
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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.
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.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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...
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This is looting.
NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is looting.
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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
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
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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...
‘I’m at a Loss Without the Show’: Inside the Final Days of ‘Stranger Things’ and the Cast’s Heartbreaking Goodbyes
The cast of 'Stranger Things' tells all about the final days of making the Netflix hit, from tons of tears to emotional farewells.
variety.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
‘I’m at a Loss Without the Show’: Inside the Final Days of ‘Stranger Things’ and the Cast’s Heartbreaking Goodbyes
The cast of 'Stranger Things' tells all about the final days of making the Netflix hit, from tons of tears to emotional farewells.
variety.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
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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.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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.
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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
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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
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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
@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
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
@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
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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-...
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-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
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-...
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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
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
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
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
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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
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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