@StephenSilver

Dad, Writer, Critic. Cofounder of @philafcc, member of @criticschoice Words: @phillyinquirer @JTANews @broadstreview @splicetoday2022 @substack

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Happy to introduce my new @substack newsletter, The SS Ben Hecht: open.substack.com/pub/stephe…
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Cartoons Hate Her!
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I don't know why Nate Silver has to "live down" predicting a 30% chance Trump would win in 2016. Things with 30% likelihood still happen all the time! 30% of the time in fact!
Ben Yelin
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Listened to Nate Silver on Ezra this morning. One of the least popular things I could do on this website is defend Nate Silver, so challenge accepted. His "vibes" have been directionally correct in every Election. In 2012, he fought against the polling unskewers making claims that Romney would win based on undersampling of Republicans. In 2016, his model was famously FAR more bullish on Trump than any others. He was the only modeler who understood the possibility of correlated polling error. In 2020, he repeatedly emphasized the higher than usual uncertainty due to the pandemic. In 2022, he fought back against pollsters (NY Times!) basically ignoring their own data to buy into the Red Wave. In 2024, he said that even though his model was 50/50, his gut said Trump would win. All in all, a better record than anyone else on Election Twitter.
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Zack Stentz@MuseZack22h
Shatner and Takei are going to die on the same day (hopefully many years from now) like Jefferson and Adams, aren't they?
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Aaron Fritschner@Fritschner22h
The Cheesecake Factory stuff is a really good encapsulation of conservative discourse during the Obama era for folks not old enough to have experienced it. Endless whining and mind-loss over something they wouldn’t even notice if someone else said it. Eight years of that!
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They handed out a fantastic fake Playbill at the #PFF35 showing of THE DEBUT xitter.cf/MikeIsaac/status/21151…
rat king 🐀
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really wish A24's (very smart) merch marketing strategies didnt work on me but they do. satanic butter dishes ascendant shop.a24films.com/products/t…
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Tommy Vietor
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I hate this condescending whataboutism. Yes Bret, if the interior minister of Japan was a right-wing religious zealot using US taxpayer money for ethnic cleansing, they would probably be better known.
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸
@infolibnews16h
NYT's Bret Stephens whines that Democrats know "Smotrich and Ben-Gvir" but not "the interior minister of Japan." Their "obsession" with Israel drives him "crazy." (Being politically informed on Israel is now anti-Semitic.)
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Mine is Josh Hartnett, born (also in Minnesota) a week before me
Josh Barzon
@JoshuaBarzonOct 25
What famous person was born in your birthday month/year?
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Remember this weird shit? bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct715n

BBC Audio | The Global Story | Netanyahu is not dead. So why did the internet think he was?

Is Iran the first AI slop war?

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I fear that is not a question Grok can accurately answer. xitter.cf/Abhishek060722/status/…
Abhishek Kumar
@Abhishek06072215h
Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul has just accused Trump of raping her in a hotel suite in 1993. Hey @grok , is this true? If so, why didn't she speak up at the time, or is this just political fiction?
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I reviewed five more from #PFF35- THE DEBUT, ELSINORE, WILD HORSE NINE, RAY GUNN and MOUSE stephensilver.substack.com/p… @philafcc @OFCS @CriticsChoice
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RIP. For some reason, my mind went straight to a joke she made in the SNL 15th-anniversary special in 1990, where she revealed she was the first SNL host to marry the producer. But she wasn't the first host to sleep with a producer; that was Buck Henry. pagesix.com/2026/10/27/celeb…

Susan Saint James, 'Kate & Allie' star, dead at 80

The actress' family confirmed she died on Monday.

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erin🪩@wallowsgardenOct 26
elmo doing an impression of lorne michaels is actually killing me so bad bc why is it good
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Guys this is very obviously fake. It has the woman talking like how men who know nothing about women imagine they text. Most dating app/dating text screenshots posted are clearly fake
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Michael Roston@michaelrostonOct 26
We already know what the two best days of this job are
–30–@30newsletterOct 26
USA Today is hiring a boats reporter jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/g…
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Kyle Bandujo@kylebandujoOct 26
Anyone who votes for someone because Johnny Manziel told them to is too stupid to live in a functional society.
Alex Isenstadt@axiosalexOct 26
News: Trump is bringing three football stars — Johnny Manziel, Colt McCoy and Danny Amendola — onto the campaign trail in Texas tomorrow The play: Turn football fans into midterm voters — especially the young men who helped Trump win in '24 axios.com/2026/10/26/trump-s…

Scoop: Trump enlists football stars for final midterm push in Texas

The president is trying to activate a constituency Republicans fear will stay home.

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iconnorpop@iconnnorpopOct 26
Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla.
Pop Base
@PopBaseOct 26
Last Ditch, also known as the "COVID-conscious Western Massachusetts lesbian bar," is closing effective immediately.
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Here's my latest @broadstreview repertory preview, including @FathomEnt's ROCKY re-release, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL at @BMFI, @NoirCityPH at @amblertheater, and BOOGIE NIGHTS in 70mm at @phillyfilmsoc broadstreetreview.com/previe… @philafcc @OFCS @CriticsChoice @colonialtheatre

The November 2026 repertory movie roundup

Ringing in 50 years of "Rocky," Autumn cult classics, a film noir festival, and a film about Warhol. Stephen Silver rounds up.

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who’s gonna tell them they accidentally described the movie the quote is famously from
xD@jackiecore666Oct 25
if i was a gay man in new york i'd be like ayyy im walkin' here, plus i'm gay too! i have sex with men
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Mike Nellis
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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She did nothing wrong. She's an actress, acting.
eric@powerswitchhhOct 18
amanda seyfried portraying holmes like this and then asserting that she did nothing wrong is so tea
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What's wild is that Lurie is by far the best owner in Eagles history and absolutely deserves enshrinement in the team's Hall of Fame. This is also the worst possible timing.
CogginToboggan@CogginTobogganOct 26
I'm sure if the Eagles are down at halftime everyone will put aside their feelings about the team's performance to be respectful of Jeffrey Lurie's enshrinement into the franchise's hall of fame.
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