Samit Sarkar
@samitsarkar.bsky.social
✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | 📝 past life: @polygon.com, next thing: TBD | ⁉️ proud @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
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Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
February 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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for those keeping track, we're at "Long Island fireman polarized against Trump" levels of thermostatic popular opinion
ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:42 PM
for those keeping track, we're at "Long Island fireman polarized against Trump" levels of thermostatic popular opinion
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“A review of 47 victims’ full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files that were made public by the government on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Several women’s full names appeared more than 100 times in the files. “
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Exclusive | Epstein Files Release Exposes Names of at Least 43 Victims, WSJ Review Finds
The Justice Department was required to redact all victims’ names prior to releasing the files.
www.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
“A review of 47 victims’ full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files that were made public by the government on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Several women’s full names appeared more than 100 times in the files. “
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
looks like the remnants of a 40-foot wall of sulfuric acid that horribly burned everything in its path, including Radioactive Man
Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!
February 2, 2026 at 3:51 AM
looks like the remnants of a 40-foot wall of sulfuric acid that horribly burned everything in its path, including Radioactive Man
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A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 AM
A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
Trump's Justice Department X dot com
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distributing CSAM on the internet
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distributing CSAM on the internet
NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Trump's Justice Department X dot com
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distributing CSAM on the internet
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distributing CSAM on the internet
"It’s important to make them look as good as possible, too. That’s part of your job, or our job."
"It’s not about making them look as good as possible. It is about making them look as they are without having anything that is distinctively not nice or proper."
"It’s not about making them look as good as possible. It is about making them look as they are without having anything that is distinctively not nice or proper."
i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
What a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
Dante Spinotti has had a legendary Hollywood career. Why is he making propaganda for the Trump family?
www.newyorker.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 AM
"It’s important to make them look as good as possible, too. That’s part of your job, or our job."
"It’s not about making them look as good as possible. It is about making them look as they are without having anything that is distinctively not nice or proper."
"It’s not about making them look as good as possible. It is about making them look as they are without having anything that is distinctively not nice or proper."
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A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
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first amendment rights in the trash, billionaires demolishing revered media institutions, journalists being hit with frivolous lawsuits just because the legal fees will bleed them out. i just need an enormous mea culpa from the media people who called gawker a deserving exception after hogan.
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
February 1, 2026 at 1:40 AM
first amendment rights in the trash, billionaires demolishing revered media institutions, journalists being hit with frivolous lawsuits just because the legal fees will bleed them out. i just need an enormous mea culpa from the media people who called gawker a deserving exception after hogan.
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Microtransactions. Who would have guessed.
February 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Microtransactions. Who would have guessed.
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that’s enough internet for today
that’s enough internet for forever
that’s enough internet for forever
thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus
January 31, 2026 at 4:01 AM
that’s enough internet for today
that’s enough internet for forever
that’s enough internet for forever
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For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything
And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.
www.theringer.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:33 AM
For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
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Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
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Subject: E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Title: Xbox LIVE - E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Xbox LIVE
E-STOP: Message to Impacted Users
Dear Xbox LIVE member,
This message is to notify you that Xbox LIVE has permanently suspended the Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address. This action is based on the New York Attorney General&s partnership with Microsoft and other online gaming companies to remove New York registered sex offenders from online gaming services to minimize the risk to others, particularly children. As a result, any Xbox LIVE account associated with this email address will not be able to connect to Xbox LIVE.
If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription, or any unused Microsoft points, we are refunding the remaining value of those to you within 30 days.
If you do not receive a refund within 30 days, or if you feel that you have been banned incorrectly, please send Microsoft a notice using the process at www.xbox.com/notice.
Sincerely,
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January 31, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.
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Highlight of my career, probably
January 31, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Highlight of my career, probably
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i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents.
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents.
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
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@marcnormandin.bsky.social this tweet's for you, bud
me watching Marty Supreme: wow, it's wild that they cast Indian Rob Manfred to play the head of the International Table Tennis Association
me watching the Marty Supreme credits: OH
me watching the Marty Supreme credits: OH
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 PM
@marcnormandin.bsky.social this tweet's for you, bud
things you can do when you're unemployed (and your kid's in daycare): see a two-and-a-half-hour movie with your wife at 12:35 on a Tuesday afternoon, sitting dead center of one of the optimal rows
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
things you can do when you're unemployed (and your kid's in daycare): see a two-and-a-half-hour movie with your wife at 12:35 on a Tuesday afternoon, sitting dead center of one of the optimal rows
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here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
here is the abbreviated backstory on lemon www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
too bad we're not in the (relatively) innocent days of, like, 2004, where we could have a recurring Daily Show segment with a pithy name like "Department of Injustice"
interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
January 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
too bad we're not in the (relatively) innocent days of, like, 2004, where we could have a recurring Daily Show segment with a pithy name like "Department of Injustice"
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DOJ’s original complaint against Don was rejected by Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko who refused to sign the criminal complaint and then the DOJ appealed and that too was rejected. That chief judge, Hon. Patrick J. Schiltz— is a former Scalia clerk and George W. Bush appointee:
January 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
DOJ’s original complaint against Don was rejected by Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko who refused to sign the criminal complaint and then the DOJ appealed and that too was rejected. That chief judge, Hon. Patrick J. Schiltz— is a former Scalia clerk and George W. Bush appointee:
so, uh, who the hell signed off on this arrest warrant, and have they heard of the First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:59 PM
so, uh, who the hell signed off on this arrest warrant, and have they heard of the First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...