Sam Adams
@samadams.bsky.social
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.
this man is effectively the president of the United States
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
this man is effectively the president of the United States
I didn’t even know English had a subjunctive until I learned about it in high school French.
Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I didn’t even know English had a subjunctive until I learned about it in high school French.
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someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello
Prince
Regina Spektor
The Replacements
Paul McCartney
Elvis Costello
Prince
Regina Spektor
The Replacements
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Billy Joel
Elton John
Billy Joel AND Elton John
P!nk
Barenaked Ladies
Billy Joel
Elton John
Billy Joel AND Elton John
P!nk
Barenaked Ladies
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
Yo La Tengo
Taylor Swift
Wilson Pickett
Gang of Four
Spice Girls
gave my teen the thanksgiving gift of simultaneously beating me at cribbage and making fun of my Duolingo Spanish
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
gave my teen the thanksgiving gift of simultaneously beating me at cribbage and making fun of my Duolingo Spanish
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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I sometimes feel like the horse and buggy driver just watching cars making me irrelevant but also *murdering people and making them dumber.*
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I sometimes feel like the horse and buggy driver just watching cars making me irrelevant but also *murdering people and making them dumber.*
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Sixty-five years ago, in one of his final CBS News broadcasts, Edward R. Murrow introduced viewers to the migrant workers who harvested the food on their Thanksgiving tables:
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1960: "Harvest of Shame"
YouTube video by CBS
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November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Sixty-five years ago, in one of his final CBS News broadcasts, Edward R. Murrow introduced viewers to the migrant workers who harvested the food on their Thanksgiving tables:
youtu.be/yJTVF_dya7E?...
youtu.be/yJTVF_dya7E?...
who puts their full name on a coffee order
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
who puts their full name on a coffee order
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
The Plague is a basically hybrid of Suspiria and Beau Travail set at a summer athletic camp for tween boys. That’s a recommendation.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Plague is a basically hybrid of Suspiria and Beau Travail set at a summer athletic camp for tween boys. That’s a recommendation.
few things are more clearly a skill issue than saying you don’t like turkey
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
few things are more clearly a skill issue than saying you don’t like turkey
fellas, is it gay to like turkey
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
fellas, is it gay to like turkey
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Got the date wrong of course: it’s 12/16-12/21. You would have been so early!
Bay Area Alert: if you don't see Jefferson Mays' magnificent solo A Christmas Carol at Berkeley Rep this Friday you've only yourself to blame. It's a beaut.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Got the date wrong of course: it’s 12/16-12/21. You would have been so early!
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Never mind the Last Waltz — here’s the Rolling Thunder Revue celebrating thanksgiving in 1975 in Bangor, ME. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8013725...
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Bob Dylan - Bangor Municipal Auditorium, Bangor, Maine, November 27, 1975
Fifty Thanksgivings ago! Bob Dylan was going down (up?) to Bangor, Maine, with the entire Rolling Thunder Revue. An absolutely...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Never mind the Last Waltz — here’s the Rolling Thunder Revue celebrating thanksgiving in 1975 in Bangor, ME. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8013725...
something keeps making me think this is a word
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
something keeps making me think this is a word
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
spent a minute last night thinking this through. The Fall's Domesday Triad—the revamped US issue of 1986's Bend Sinister LP—came out in 1987, when Hawkins was already under quarantine. So either Jonathan knows a record store with UK imports or he's such a MES superfan he had Murray smuggle this in.
I do want to make sure we leave room to discuss the most important aspect of the new Stranger Things season: Jonathan Byers’ Bend Sinister t-shirt
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
spent a minute last night thinking this through. The Fall's Domesday Triad—the revamped US issue of 1986's Bend Sinister LP—came out in 1987, when Hawkins was already under quarantine. So either Jonathan knows a record store with UK imports or he's such a MES superfan he had Murray smuggle this in.
I do want to make sure we leave room to discuss the most important aspect of the new Stranger Things season: Jonathan Byers’ Bend Sinister t-shirt
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I do want to make sure we leave room to discuss the most important aspect of the new Stranger Things season: Jonathan Byers’ Bend Sinister t-shirt
basically Noah Schnapp in Stranger Things now
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
basically Noah Schnapp in Stranger Things now
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
Greetings, I have traveled through time from the year 2016 to remind you of something that has become increasingly difficult to believe in your time: Stranger Things used to be good.
It Might Be the Most Popular TV Show in the World. It Keeps Getting Worse and Worse.
There’s a pretty glaring problem with Stranger Things’ final season.
slate.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Greetings, I have traveled through time from the year 2016 to remind you of something that has become increasingly difficult to believe in your time: Stranger Things used to be good.
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas