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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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.
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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...
I'm sorry what
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I'm sorry what
the next time I need to slice up a pizza, I'm gonna ask my wife to "fetch me the steel blade" and see how that goes
"He arrived at a federal jail in Brooklyn impersonating an F.B.I. agent while carrying a steel blade that resembled a pizza cutter and saying he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/n...
Man With Steel Blade Is Said to Have Tried to Break Mangione Out of Jail
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM
the next time I need to slice up a pizza, I'm gonna ask my wife to "fetch me the steel blade" and see how that goes
oh yeah, because oil wells and refineries are picturesque structures
BIG SCOOP @heatmap.news: The Trump administration is now going after renewable energy projects on both public and private lands by indefinitely delaying water permits … on grounds that the projects might have bad “aesthetics”
Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
Yes, they’re hurting renewable energy projects by calling them ugly
The Trump Administration Is Now Delaying Renewable Projects It Thinks Are Ugly
The Army Corps of Engineers is out to protect “the beauty of the Nation’s natural landscape.”
heatmap.news
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
oh yeah, because oil wells and refineries are picturesque structures
I dunno why I'm fixating on a silly little continuity error of the kind that isn't uncommon in movies/TV, but: Paine's vest is unbuttoned when Franklin hands him the whiskey, but by the time they clink glasses moments later, it's buttoned up
also why does Ben look like Sally Field as a man
also why does Ben look like Sally Field as a man
You don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I dunno why I'm fixating on a silly little continuity error of the kind that isn't uncommon in movies/TV, but: Paine's vest is unbuttoned when Franklin hands him the whiskey, but by the time they clink glasses moments later, it's buttoned up
also why does Ben look like Sally Field as a man
also why does Ben look like Sally Field as a man
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Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
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The ethos of Trumpism is the ethos of the most pathetic schoolyard bully: I can say and do anything to you, but if you say anything back, I will run mewling to the teacher.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The ethos of Trumpism is the ethos of the most pathetic schoolyard bully: I can say and do anything to you, but if you say anything back, I will run mewling to the teacher.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
Just despicable liars nad snivvelers.
great piece packed with only-on-The-Verge lines
• "There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression."
• "3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression"
• "There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression."
• "3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression"
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
great piece packed with only-on-The-Verge lines
• "There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression."
• "3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression"
• "There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression."
• "3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression"
as someone who grew up on Long Island, it gives me great pleasure to see Tom Suozzi get interrupted like this
“These 9 people were killed by ICE this month and you’re throwing me out while I read their names. How fucking dare you!”
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@tomsuozzi.bsky.social is a YES TO FUND ICE !
@waltermasterson.bsky.social @davidsonboswell.bsky.social stevexnroberts @climatenate.bsky.social
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@tomsuozzi.bsky.social is a YES TO FUND ICE !
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 AM
as someone who grew up on Long Island, it gives me great pleasure to see Tom Suozzi get interrupted like this
🗣️🗣️🗣️ "The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors."
If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 AM
🗣️🗣️🗣️ "The people of Minnesota have forced the Trump administration into a strategic retreat—one inflicted not as rioters or insurgents, but as neighbors."
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child."
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
"There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child."