i hated the shit out of this adaptation defector.com/emerald-fenn...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Emerald Fennell now going moor-to-moor trying to shock people: defector.com/emerald-fenn...

A.S. Hamrah speaks about state of the film industry today, the demarcation between cinema and Hollywood, the generational uptake of technological innovation, and what it takes to make a living as a critic today. defector.com/where-is-cin...

The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained: defector.com/the-big-cana...

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

A "professor of civics education" at OSU's much ballyhooed intellectual diversity center (funded by McCarthyites, of course) punches documentarian who deigns to ask Gordon Gee a single question. The ironist who coded this simulation has no sense of subtlety.

Adulterous Norwegian biathlete’s appeal denied: defector.com/adulterous-n...

by the end of this weekend my phone had learned "cablp" without autocorrecting it. please enjoy my trip report: defector.com/criss-angel-...

Jesus

Norwegian biathlete, at summit of his life’s work: I cheated on my girlfriend defector.com/biathlon-oly...

brother/sister ice dancing teams should be illegal imo. no thank you!!

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

loving each country being walked in by a Winter Bene Gesserit

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

oh that’s why she lost

many thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social and @defector.com for letting write about two passions: my love of 'The Traitors' and my hatred of Michael Rapaport

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Michael Rapaport eat shit on ‘The Traitors’:

The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

going through old photos

If you'd told me, a decade ago, that the rising concept of the 'influencer' would one day serve as a transmission belt for the elevation of subliterate clowns seeking to provoke pogroms in exchange for promotional deals with online betting companies, I'd probably have said, "That tracks."

This is really smart and thoughtful and satisfying: defector.com/fanfictions-...

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

I wish I had written this! Really good overview of a cultural strain I've been bringing up in meetings for a long time defector.com/fanfictions-...

A fair-minded and comprehensive look at how fanfiction has been shaping contemporary publishing

Sixers enact intentional, then unintentional tribute to the late great Dan McQuade:

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Absolutely not

this is incredible work

Dan McQuade was a real blogger and journalist in the best meanings of both terms, with an eye for the uncanny and a strident curiosity that all his peers and readers admired. He was also a true blue son of Philly, the peculiar city he loved very much and helped explain better than anyone else.

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

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This group was founded post 10/7. They cleverly chose a name that makes them sound venerable and respectable but they are basically the Jewish version of Moms for Liberty, completely batshit.

Alex Pareene byline alert

I'm not going to post screenshots for obvious reasons but I have been alerted that a bunch of the top posts in r/MassiveCock are anti-ICE now and anyone who defends ICE in comments is getting yelled down lol

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

in 1973, basque separatists killed spain’s fascist prime minister with a bomb so powerful it launched the car he was in clear over a five story building. he survived the initial attack but died in the hospital

This is fucking gross

they lie and lie and lie and don’t even care enough to craft plausible ones

Moved beyond words by the courage and resolve shown by the people of Minneapolis

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes