they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

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-...

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

To me it is tragic that, just because of several hundred disgusting email exchanges with an international sex criminal, CBS viewers will be denied some of the most outrageously specious "wellness" advice imaginable. How are people going to find out about the chalk supplements he sells now?

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

It’s great when Elon Musk fans try to help

Certified Chris Hooks Classic, here. It is very detailed and humane in telling the story it tells, which concerns the damage that a small number of snitches, creeps, and dullards have done to this institution, but also about the long history and awful present of snitches/creeps/dullards doing that.

We are considering a long weekend in Savannah, Georgia at some point this month. I have not been there since I was a young child and would appreciate any recommendations from people who know more, up to and including "go to another city."

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

It's belated on my end but @flaminghydra.com celebrated its second birthday yesterday and I'm really proud of and happy about what a cool and scrappy thing it has become. There's some free blogs in here, but it remains one of the great deals in the Reading Stuff space: flaminghydra.com/issue-492/

SQUAWKIN’ SPORTS LIVE XIX: NBA ALL STAR EDITION Join @davidjroth.bsky.social @lukeepplin.bsky.social @yaronweitzman.bsky.social Yakkin’ old and new school hoops (somehow LeBron is in both camps) over beers as hibernation ends. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

STEPHEN MILLER: so you've gone through all of these files and made sure there's nothing incriminatory about Trump or his friends and associates, right KASH PATEL: *standing in line at berghain dressed like the Ikea monkey* oh yeah definitely

If you emailed an elite pervert with normal syntax and punctuation they'd make you immediately and cut off contact. You need to throw some typos and do the Epstein alpha "ghost period" thing . before sending Noam Chomsky some links to The Right Stuff Dot Biz. Then they know you're solid.

congragulations

Still weighing which is more disgusting between the Steve Tisch emails with Jeffrey Epstein and the Elon Musk emails with Jeffrey Epstein. Both Mr. Tisch and Mr. Musk have been remanded to the ADX Florence supermax facility while my deliberations are ongoing.

"the Trump administration is, as always, happy to make the subtext text: The penguin rocks because it’s killing itself in beautiful full-color video. Just like us." maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...

Lawyer here. There’s a lot of misinformation about what this means. It means he’s innocent even though he did it and the judge said that it’s good what he did

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

This theater being where and what it is I fully expect that every one of these is going to result in a 1200-word freelance piece.

If you find yourself sitting across from this guy you are F U C K E D

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

"CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is 5x higher than other federal law enforcement agencies—and over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP [officers and agents] (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

walking around muttering to myself "who is baby gronk dad" in memory of Dan defector.com/livvy-rizzin...

We recorded this before the news of Dan's passing came out, so it's a kind of jarringly normal/digressive @rohannadkarni.bsky.social episode. We're leaving Defector.com as an All Dan Affair for now but the episode is here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... and here: art19.com/shows/the-di...

One great writer's obituary for another. Brian Howard on Dan McQuade. "Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan." www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

McQuade personally used the power of the press to get the Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop to take down the "Acting is like scoring a touchdown" quote erroneously attributed to Ed Harris. What have you ever done? defector.com/the-garden-s...

Post insane bootleg sports shit for Dan McQuade

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

We took our old lady to the BONE TEMPLE, swiped at the NFL postseason, talked about how hack and overstated fascism is, had a State of the Show chat and fun as always—and, per the teaser clip, talked about the misdirected sadness or anger that erupts unexpectedly from watching evil people all day.

Mommy Mondays with Tony Dokoupil

Feels great to finally get to write about some good news. defector.com/heartwarming...

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

I am also doing this by the way.

"Now see here" ass

Living in the trump era makes me feel very connected to my ancestors, who lived as serfs under a succession of insane moron god kings

A collection of Kaleb's writing put together by his family. www.kalebchorton.com

This is great shit

I wrote about prediction markets, where we’re at and how we got here for Defector

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The point is obviously to make CBS conservative but it's pretty telling that the reason isn't just ideological. Bari Weiss thinks that they are competing with Tim Pool for the gulliible moron market. CBS is going to be selling survival seeds on 60 Minutes.

If you'd like to see what the right thinks might I suggest looking at anything that the federal government is doing right now?

Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.

For years, people have been asking me: "When are you doing the time-traveling pond show?" The answer is now. The future is now. Also the past is now. That's how the pond works. Or doesn't. Please do not explain, the mystery is a wonder to me.

hearing from a trusted source that in the next hour or so, Greg Bovino will climb up onto a spoon, put on tiny little goggles and a scarf, and be flicked in the general direction of his home

Weird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?