I waited until the end of the bottom of the tenth (Raleigh IBB and Julio ground out) to leave a bar in deep Brooklyn, did a 90 minute commute to uptown Manhattan, and am now seated in my apartment for the top of the 15th.

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

The moment I start Remembering Some Yankees Middle Relievers is the moment you learn exactly the seasons I was ~13 years old.

Generally bad practice to sign yourself up for a second job but some things are worth the effort. Grateful to Press Forward for seeing the vision, and very excited to work with Start.coop to get this program up and running

@defector.com's WNBA comedy show is TONIGHT at Littlefield in Brooklyn! We've still got ~15 seated tickets left and plenty of standing room ones. defector.com/wnbashow, use code LETSGOLIBS

i'll be reading and analyzing all of these responses! i'd love to present your ideas to the rest of the staff. we're especially interested in hearing: 1. about how and where you find stuff to read online; & 2. from people who don't (yet!) subscribe to the site.

We had such a good time with TEN MINUTE QUARTERS in May that @defector.com is running it back for the All-Star break. On July 15 we'll be joined by Devon Walker (SNL), Julia Shiplett (Overcompensating), Grace Johnson (Don't Tell), and Joey Dardano (Wild 'n Out) www.eventbrite.com/e/defector-m...

Sorry, I don't want to make a habit of doing Media Business Knower posts (or doing any posts at all, really), but maybe I can help lower some people's blood pressure: This contract is a total nothingburger, that doesn't foretell/confirm anything, and is not worth getting worked up over [thread]

This is TONIGHT! We're basically sold out of seated tickets but there are still plenty of standing room tix, if you want to hang out in the back with our Defector staffers. (Code LETSGOLIBS gives a discount on standing tix, too!)

see now you look at a post like this and go "that's extremely normal, why would this very regular person be getting bullied by their colleagues." and then you see a follow up that makes you go "ah yes, Hague for you"

I'm pioneering a new path to getting stage time as a comic: cofound and operate a media company for ~5 years, and annoy your coworkers until they relent and let you host a stand up show

I did not know about the UConn Puppet Lady until my wife sent me a video from the stands tonight and now I’m obsessed with her

if you are a federal health worker who was laid off today and you'd be interested in sharing your story with Defector, please reach out! I would love to hear from you. email: simbler at defector dot com. signal: simbler.88

Tried a new thing for Defector all-hands today by labeling in advance where agenda items fall on the boring-exciting spectrum - 1. SO, SO BORING: updates to the company Operations Manual 2. SO, SO EXCITING: Brandy Jensen is joining us full time!!!

Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog! defector.com/the-2024-hat...

There are big changes afoot on today’s episode of Normal Gossip! Starting today, Rachelle Hampton will be taking over as host and Se'era Spragley-Ricks will be taking over as lead producer! Check out their latest episode for all the details. defector.com/welcome-to-t...

Discussing with family whether to upgrade our iPhones 11-13, which all work perfectly well except the batteries have gone to total shit. Caused me to revisit the excellent book on degrowth, LESS IS MORE by Jason Hickel. Some chapters are all philosophy but there are concrete policy proposals, too:

Sponsoring DIII Bowl Games is officially part of the Defector Media marketing playbook

Follow the whole gang: go.bsky.app/MVBgfcS

Huge news!!! I am going on book tour in February for my gossip book! I will have stories and guests and it will be SO FUN! kelseymckinneybook.com

Wow and on 4/20, what a day

Couple of us New Yorkers will be coming down for this!

Stop posting that “which big cities have you been to” checklist on Instagram, fill this one out instead:

One cool thing is that you can subscribe to Defector right now for $1.04!!!! $1.04 to support a co-operatively owned, employee run media company that covers everything from J.D. Vance fucking a couch and the premiere league to Colleen Hoover and influencer culture: defector.com/products

guess what i wrote another book :) www.elle.com/culture/book...

Really good day of blogs at Defector. I urge you not to skip this one; the photos are incredible

Thaddeus Young vibes

Wow this Christ Jesus guy must have an insufferable LinkedIn profile

Hey @pfrazee.com can I get some invites for my Defector Media coworkers? One of them wrote among the most famous tweets ever (crab Rangoon/ Stephen a smith), another recently ate an onion like an apple on stream bc he lost a bet. The rest of them are OK too

Who’s gonna invite Shams