There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

Born this Day: Khris Davis W/Brewers: 2013-2015 .809 OPS 60 HR 162 RBI 3.6 WAR

Malik Willis absolutely rules.

Andrew T'aint

Born this Day: Cecil Cooper W/Brewers: 1977-1987 5x All-Star 2x Gold Glove 3x Silver Slugger .302 BA .809 OPS 1815 Hits 201 HR 944 RBI 30.7 WAR

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Fuck this guy and his extremely shiny forehead

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LEAVE BILL WATTERSON ALONE, YOU CREEP

here are two graves i can’t wait to piss on, hopefully sooner rather than later www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

"On one East Side block in St. Paul, Public Works crews showed up nine times to fix the same lights. Nine times. Como Park looks like a constellation map of darkness when you check the crowdsourced outage reports." streets.mn/2025/12/18/h...

Most of the shirt designs I have done are and will remain single, limited run. That's what's what I like to do. But some designs I've done have been so popular that people never stop bugging me about them, and they've been bootlegged 100s of times. So rawpaw.ink/collections/...

the guy who ignored the aids crisis? And called black people horrible things behind doors? And is responsible for pretty much every horrible thing happening in America today?

*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*

The one way I would like Mick Foley to be used in AEW is Tony Khan to give him a million dollars, health insurance and the knowledge he made way more money for Vince than Vince ever paid him, maybe giving him the self confidence to realize he doesn't owe WWE anything.

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Oh fuck. Windows *AND* attention to detail? Sir, I have a perfect network admin job for you.

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

my show is good and you should listen to it even if you don't care about baseball. especially if you don't care about baseball.

"Arnulfo" shares, "At this time of year it is very difficult to do this work. We work in freezing temps. On rainy days the ladders get very slippery. The work required to prune apple trees is very demanding and the low piece rate we make doesn't cover our expenses." #WeFeedYou

See, the match was good, an expert said so.

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

I'm still thinking about the absolutely wild intro to this LeBron fancam I found last night

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

you have been visited by the money mushroom. repost for a prosperous new year

On this day 40 years ago, on the penultimate night of the Reconstruction Tour at the Park Centre in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Minutemen joined R.E.M. for a performance of ‘See No Evil’. It was the last appearance by D. Boon before he was killed in a motor vehicle accident, aged 27.

walter cronkite told america we lost the vietnam war on this channel

Happy Friday to you guys

Killing is my beeswax and . . . beeswax is good! bsky.app/profile/webw...

lmao

Last reskeet made me think, maybe I should do a daily "advent calendar" thread of not-awful Christmas songs. I will include Slade, Wizzard, and McCartney because they're amazing, but few of the other played-to-death ones. Day 1 is of course Half Man Half Biscuit

well it finally happened. if i put just an s in the youtube search bar, spatula city comes up first youtu.be/4BUDwj_mXKE?...

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

Are the Twin Cities known for its twinks?

OFFICIALLY-LICENSED AI GOOFY: Gawrsh, buddy! It seems like you've got it all figured out! All signs points to you being gang-stalked by enough people to fill a theme park! I guess you're going to have to take matters into your own hands, ah-hyuck!

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This Fletcher/Bailey match is fucking heater. Absolutely incredible shit

just imagine... a whole town of mozarts!! hundreds of mozarts to spare even if an entire shift were to perish in the mine

Willow fucking rules