Adam Davids
@adamdavids.bsky.social
Not just here for the politics. (But sometimes that too.) Attorney in the arts, dad, proud dual citizen 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 and really bad piano player.
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Nothing about this quote about a “ballroom” suggests “peaceful transfer of power.”
Trump on the ballroom: "It's bigger than I told you. It's, you know -- after realizing we're gonna do the inauguration in that building, it's got all bulletproof glass, it's got all drone, they call it drone-free roof. It's dronessss -- won't touch it. It's a big beautiful safe building."
December 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Nothing about this quote about a “ballroom” suggests “peaceful transfer of power.”
Getting older means losing heroes, mentors and lodestars at a more rapid clip. Amos Poe was one such light pointing the way to creation amidst detritus and punching up with your own resources and a mighty band while being kicked down. May his memory be a blessing:
deadline.com/2025/12/amos...
deadline.com/2025/12/amos...
Amos Poe Dies: Leading “No Wave” Filmmaker Of The ’70s Who Made ‘The Blank Generation’ Was 76
Amos Poe, the groundbreaking experimental filmmaker who documented the birth of punk rock in New York, has died. He was 76.
deadline.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Getting older means losing heroes, mentors and lodestars at a more rapid clip. Amos Poe was one such light pointing the way to creation amidst detritus and punching up with your own resources and a mighty band while being kicked down. May his memory be a blessing:
deadline.com/2025/12/amos...
deadline.com/2025/12/amos...
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Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
This list of albums out of time - or of their own time - is really a perfect list. There are some on here that I was unfamiliar with and am going to give a listen to over the break:
www.classical-music.com/rock/albums-...
www.classical-music.com/rock/albums-...
These 15 albums seem to exist out of time
Timeless artefacts and sonic anomalies: 15 singular albums that abandoned the cultural conveyor belt to exist in their own dimensions
www.classical-music.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This list of albums out of time - or of their own time - is really a perfect list. There are some on here that I was unfamiliar with and am going to give a listen to over the break:
www.classical-music.com/rock/albums-...
www.classical-music.com/rock/albums-...
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This is Seth at his best youtu.be/CUW2GmKtqO0?...
Seth Remembers Rob Reiner
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is Seth at his best youtu.be/CUW2GmKtqO0?...
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"Voter suppression is proof that your vote has power"
December 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Voter suppression is proof that your vote has power"
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
This whole 🧵 is an essay that merits attention for a discursive analysis of decency, customs and fashion.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This whole 🧵 is an essay that merits attention for a discursive analysis of decency, customs and fashion.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
Still remember when Goldman Sachs threatened to move operations to New Jersey unless they got tax breaks. Giuliani, then mayor, said "try taking your clients for lunch in New Jersey." Goldman stayed in New York.
Is there anything we can say to convince him to follow his original plan?
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Still remember when Goldman Sachs threatened to move operations to New Jersey unless they got tax breaks. Giuliani, then mayor, said "try taking your clients for lunch in New Jersey." Goldman stayed in New York.
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Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere
It was today I learned that One Step Beyond is a cover. And leave it to the inimitable @carlzoilus.bsky.social to provide criticism with nuance and social context (as well as a fre relatable biographical notes).
As part of Hilobrow's "Skank Your Enthusiasm" series on ska, I wrote a short piece about my conflicted history with the genre's post-punk revival waves, via Madness's 1979 signature cover of Prince Buster's 1964 "One Step Beyond." www.hilobrow.com/2025/11/04/s...
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It was today I learned that One Step Beyond is a cover. And leave it to the inimitable @carlzoilus.bsky.social to provide criticism with nuance and social context (as well as a fre relatable biographical notes).
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Untitled (flipped), by Marsden Hartley, early-mid 20th c, 📸 via @BlakeHHarris
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
And, yes, that Etobicoke trip today was awful!
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
And, yes, that Etobicoke trip today was awful!
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If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States."
Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?
Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?
BREAKING: Trump says he's punishing Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down an anti-tariff ad sooner.
Trump punishes Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
bit.ly
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States."
Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?
Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?
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The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy
Game 7!!! Let's Go @bluejays.com !!!
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Game 7!!! Let's Go @bluejays.com !!!