After a while the technician came and got me and she asked if I had ever had an ultrasound before and I said yes but not in this area. In Concord she asked and I said no I meant my balls. www.welcometohellworld.com/how-was-your...

The two leaders talked about the Iran War started by Trump and Israel and the resulting energy crisis. Musk has a based 20yo child named Saxon who orders whole milk at omakase-style sushi restaurants.

My son Saxon is so based. [crowd, in unison] "How based is he?"

Delightful time with Emma B on the podcast this week talking women's hoops, the unglamorous and expensive work of obtaining photos for your own book, and the unlikely resurrection of Mr. Pibb. defector.com/please-mr-pi...

lmao

Exciting news—We've finally found a way to do a paid indie media bundle so you don't have to separately subscribe to so many newsletters. Now you can get a 30-day trial of @katelynburns.com @kattenbarge.bsky.social and my publications in your inbox for one [heavily discounted] price! Sign up now:

A delightful post here, and a good example of the classic weird-thing-someone-dropped-into-Slack-to-blog pipeline. defector.com/we-asked-the...

If you have been in the market for a podcast with Opening Day complaints and then some women's basketball chat and finally a lot of thoughts about Mr. Pibb, boy do I have the show for you

Agree, but Bert Kreischer should still have to be there. No formal role, not on camera. He should just have to watch the Reds game, quietly.

It’s big ball chunky time

I'm the guy in the government who decides when it's time to "just say some shit." Industry best practices hold that after a big human rights violation or bad job stats or the president says "I would never kiss Katy Tur on her whatever" to a visiting head of state it's a good time to talk about Mars.

Want to feel old? All the teenagers who used to email Rockstar Games asking why you can't shoot dogs in Grand Theft Auto now work for the federal government

I truly love that Defector has carved out a Reacher beat over the years, starting with this @brandyjensen.bsky.social essay that was one of the very best things we published in our first twelve months. defector.com/my-year-with...

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

/Avery Johnson voice

sometimes it really feels like a whole bunch of (mostly rich and powerful) people have completely given up on culture. which makes the average person’s resistance to slop even more compelling.

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

I’m at ICE HQ

TOWN BULLY (NOTICING REACHER): Who’s this, your boyfriend? REACHER (BLOTTING OUT SUN): No,

Worth every penny. EW has been the best baseball pod around for over a decade, and that's really not debatable. Support good people doing good work.

If you’ve got the chops please apply. SFGATE jobs are good jobs

I aspire to the level of Suburban Brain Excellence required to start a physical fight with Jack Reacher because you perceive him to be in violation of HOA bylaws. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

ICE Agents driving enormous rented Dodge Rams around the concourse and security areas at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, periodically steering one into an oversized rolling suitcase and then abandoning the vehicle.

god bless our brave airport dorks

this statistic seems compelling but like all Gen X stats it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny once fifty guys all reply to defensively talk about themselves

saw some baby shoes for sale, never worn and it reminded me of the poem for sale: baby shoes, never worn

Tough loss for High Point, but sometimes you just run into a more prayed-up opponent.

My based son Saxon also orders milk at fancy restaurants but you won't catch me posting about it. That's private.

🎵the world is a vampire / im gonna ride it all night long 🎵

For 10 or 12 minutes of every game I've seen him play, Darryn Peterson is the best scoring guard I've seen in college in many years. The rest of the time he kind of jogs around emanating Ben Simmons Particles. A weird type of guy!

MARCH MADNESS* SQUAWKIN’ SPORTS LIVE XX: MEN’s & WOMEN’S HOOPS 🏀🍺🏀🍺🏀🍺 Starring @sportyprof.bsky.social @squawkinsports.bsky.social @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social *it’s in April 4/9 7pm Deets & Tix: greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Excellent and informative time talking March Madness with the legend Ken Pomeroy on the podcast this week, although I should have known that our lamenting the end of the 5/12 upset was not going to age well. defector.com/lets-get-ups...

One of my real regrets is not getting to see LIU during their Brooklyn Paramount Era.

i am, effective immediately, opting out of the american century of humiliation. it will not apply to me. thank you!

Defector covers sports yes, but we also now cover pop culture. An unprecedented editorial vision. defector.com/we-have-a-ne...

between grok and the alexa+ ads where the alexa is being kind of mean to the celebs, what the fuck is this obsession with getting "roasted" by a chatbot??? why are we under the thumb of the fucking friendless!!!!!!!!

I wrote about what's strange and new, and also what's strange and old, about college basketball at this moment. defector.com/there-is-no-...

This is why my team and I created ShAI LaBoeuf. And also why David Ellison paid me $170 million dollars for that technology.

The sort of thing we absolutely love to see.

I have had all the goofy little songs that Afroman made about the crybully cops that broke his door stuck in my head all day. Decent chance that "Randy Walters Is A Son Of A Bitch" is the song of the summer for me. defector.com/lets-catch-u...

I wrote about Venezuela, pride, and (finally) winning: defector.com/viva-venezue...

You guys are laughing. Paul Skenes almost was in the Air Force, and you're laughing.

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

Bryce Harper disconsolately drinking a room-temp pint of raw milk in the clubhouse right now.

Hilarious to go from this to another sleepwalking week of spring training baseball.

Everyone's getting their jokes off about this, which is fine. But instead of goofing around, I won $300,000 on Kalshi by betting that there'd only be one provably barefoot person in a photo of seven crypto freaks. Enjoy being poor.

One of the worst symptoms of the “disrupt” era was startup bros badly failing up at industries they didn’t understand. AI and the sudden proliferation of crypto wealth has exacerbated that well-funded ignorance to the consumer’s ultimate detriment.

the future's battles will be fought on flat terrain with the primary goal of killing your own soldiers