Somehow, comedy is no longer legal again.

Obviously this is all horrible but it’s pretty funny that everyone on the right keeps being like “Our vengeance will be swift and unyielding” and “The cry of the Valkyrie calls us to war” and then they just go and get Jimmy Kimmel fired.

The official charity of the Savannah Bananas has a hard time explaining how its money is spent: defector.com/the-official...

[EMPATHY] - You should say something. This is important. 1. “My heart goes out to his family” 2. [Drama - Easy 8] Blow everyone’s minds with an epic and inspiring quote FAIL “Rest easy brother, we have the watch, I’ll see you in Valhalla”

Crazy week for indelible images. “Shots fired” TikTok guy… “was dead on impact” TV news girl… Clay Travis sobbing on air after reading an email from a listener whose 20-year-old son is too sad to come out of his room…

Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...

Ben Johnson trying to get Caleb Williams to make the first read and throw a normal ball

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Calling this one Middle Infielders That I Was Oddly Fixated On For A Time

We're celebrating our upcoming fifth birthday with a big sale! I think the site has been particularly good this week, so take a look at Defector.com and then smash that damn subscribe button. defector.com/defector-is-...

Notes from the D.C. clampdown: defector.com/notes-from-t...

The Free Piss has graduated from stupid vanity project to make fun of to genuinely evil institution: defector.com/the-free-pre...

this @laurentheisen.bsky.social essay made me tear tf up on the way to the Clara Barton rest stop in New Jersey defector.com/taylor-swift...

Very cool blog

Tyranny is managed into existence: defector.com/tyranny-is-m...

this felt like one of the most vulnerable things I've written, and I'm so grateful for the reaction to it defector.com/taylor-swift...

Come and party with us, Danny defector.com/youre-invite...

Tom Brady may be incredibly famous, obscenely successful, and (formerly?) outrageously handsome, but he has never been cool. defector.com/built-in-bir...

E.Y. Zhao had a strange, sweaty time at a big international table tennis tournament in Las Vegas, and came back with this great story: defector.com/sweating-thr...

Sweating through the existential angst of a Las Vegas table tennis tournament: defector.com/sweating-thr...

SHANE GILLIS: Hey can you pass the salt? ME: Sure— GILLIS: [weirdly smirking] ope, haha, careful ME: What? GILLIS: I got kinda out there with that one, huh? Don't worry, you don't have to laugh ME: I don't— GILLIS: [doing a weird self-effacing chuckle] I'll win you back with the next one

[receives the John Wick is excommunicado text message] Time to find this motherfucker and walk towards him very slowly in a straight line

really good essay on how the figure of the alligator has always loomed large in the imagination of American racists, from @asherelbein.bsky.social

all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...

Back in @defector.com today! I wrote about the "Alligator Alcatraz," the vicious folklore of "gator bait," and the cultural history of white supremacists trying to recruit alligators as enforcers of racial terror

I thought Defector had a really good week, so I'm going to thread some gift links here. Please read and subscribe!

It's Wet Beast Wednesday defector.com/lets-figure-...

What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out: defector.com/what-world-d...

I got completely obsessed with my local bin store and @defector.com let me write about it: penis garlands, nose beards, whippits and all. defector.com/seven-days-a...

Dave McKenna insists they have ham trucks in France: defector.com/dave-mckenna...

It's a great time to be a pathetic loser: defector.com/its-a-great-...

The Earned Time Act would bring freedom to those who need it: defector.com/the-earned-t...

It took the Oklahoma City Thunder about four minutes to kill the Denver Nuggets dead. defector.com/the-thunder-...

✨🏀 The (fifth!) annual Defector WNBA preview is up today! always fun to work on these…last year a player’s dad emailed me to complain about something I wrote lol defector.com/2025-wnba-se...

Paul Pierce turns grim men's wager into pleasant men's march 🎁 defector.com/paul-pierce-...

Nothing changes a story like Game 7, and on Saturday night the Nuggets found a new way to think about themselves. defector.com/nikola-jokic...

If you saw this homer can you please tell me about it: defector.com/which-toweri...

Horny sports blogging makes a bewildering return to Sports Illustrated: defector.com/horny-sports...

“Both [Israel and Gaza] are mere background for the real subject of the film, which is the wounded, paranoid feelings of American Zionists. And for this, we must leave Israel and head to the heart of the action: the phone.”

Kawhi Leonard is just living with it: defector.com/kawhi-leonar...

This 'Weapons' trailer looks sick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIOF...

Can’t believe they put Saul Williams in Sinners and didn’t even let him do a little spoken word

Silence! You are summoned to read a preview of the 2025 NBA playoffs: defector.com/silence-you-...

Truly nothing funnier than the "free speech" tag page at The Free Piss looking like this: www.thefp.com/s/free-speech. The U.S. government is proudly imprisoning people for speech acts, and they can't even farm out a "hmm this is actually bad" take to Lee Fang or whatever.

How I became highly educated grist for the AI mill: defector.com/how-i-became...

Issuing a correction to Barack Obama, Gretchen Whitmer, various liberal pundits, and most of the Ivy League regarding the fascist movement looting and burning the United States, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" defector.com/the-bargain-...

Tomorrow is the last day that you can get a Defector subscription and pay just $0.98 for your first month. We published several blogs just today that are easily worth $0.98, perhaps more. defector.com/enjoy-a-defe...

Michael Malone and Calvin Booth lose their war over the soul of the Nuggets:

Sarah Strong told me the player she watched most as a kid was Luka, but other than that, she does a pretty good job of hiding her real age. Wrote about the freshman who makes everyone around her dream big. defector.com/sarah-strong...

Going to get a job writing for The Pitt by convincing them I’m super woke, and then just insist on a bunch of scenes where Dr. Robbie explains to Dr. McKay that if you consider he’s in the top 3 in points, rebounds, and assists you could argue Nikola Jokic is having the best season ever.