There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

I love what Russell Wilson is doing out there. The results aren't there yet, admittedly, but the process—sprinting in place for four seconds and then throwing the ball off the goal post at 107mph—is sound. Stay the course. This is for sure going to work.

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

more like department of homies' insecurities

rereading @timmarchman.bsky.social on barry bonds and: "Bonds reached base just 330 fewer times than all-time leader Pete Rose, in 3,284 fewer plate appearances."

The people that voted for him are too servile to get mad about it but it is bleakly funny that Trump has won two elections as The Expediter Of White Vengeance and as soon as he gets into office the most important thing to him is getting Rosie O'Donnell digitally edited out of A League Of Their Own.

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In this story I unpack some complicated feelings on the Buffalo Bills Hallmark movie, and Hallmark movies in general. Also yes that's Joe Pantoliano. He's in the Bills Hallmark movie. defector.com/the-hallmark...

Today Raven Geary of @unraveledpress.com reports on the spate of kidnappings and violence against immigrants in the Chicago area over the past week or so including a man who was shot to death by ICE on Friday. www.welcometohellworld.com/theyre-kidna...

GREGORY POLANCO: at a previous job, i spent a day researching the prevalence of account sharing. the biggest offenders were nearly all team accounts; like a dozen and a half pirates staffers logged into the same account to read a feature about the team ruining big greg's development.

I love "data journalism" defector.com/who-gets-rem...

Once again, Yascha has the receipts.

ANTIFA BILL SIMMONS: Are we sure Trotsky is good? Look I'm just saying you know great job with the Rex Army in the Civil War. But you're really getting assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico? Getting some real Brad Beal vibes from him House

/watching The View on mute in a doctor's office waiting room "This is scary stuff. This is just really really sick. They're doing the Cultural Revolution on there. And that's illegal."

wrote about robert redford's trademark second look.

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

It was a treat to have Dan on for both a classic-style and very different Dan McQuade Episode. You will hear "Joe Burrow" said aloud in a Philly accent. We talk about Ben Harper and Carson Wentz. I break my legendary silence on Goldfish crackers. All the important stuff. defector.com/teaching-jal...

Drive a Kompressor / Rate My Professor

Charlie Kirk is a means to an end: defector.com/charlie-kirk...

Just as ASMR the Valks/Lynx game is incredible. The basketball is fun too but this is maybe the most expressive audio track I've experienced watching a pro basketball game.

(kick return called back) Me: (whispering knowingly) Block in the back Ref: BLOCK IN THE BACK Me: See? Cat: (takes shit on rug)

"They've got eight men on the line there," I explain to my cat as he idly paws at a coaster and the ref struggles to turn on his microphone. "You can't have that."

I love to say "walk" to myself in the split second between when the ref blows the whistle on a travel and the TV broadcasters announce the call. It spikes my Uncle Levels such that I levitate briefly. There's no feeling quite like it.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

this is so stupid defector.com/nice-hat-mel...

The uniting theme of the supposed age of AI and the M&A/private equity apocalypse is that the world is controlled by people who literally cannot imagine ever deriving joy or meaning or satisfaction from any activity or pursuit for its own sake if it doesn't make money.

Adult me: There is no "*the* antichrist," but there have always been those who fit the archetype of an anti-Christ, and in this essay on Peter Thiel I will explain [1/99] Child me who believed The Antichrist is a thing: That guy's The Antichrist Close enough kid, count it

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

folks, it's a @davidjroth.bsky.social episode

This is next Thursday at DSK in Brooklyn and the books are really interesting. Wickersham, especially, is doing some really weird (good) stuff in his quarterback book, and I am looking forward to asking him about it. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Barry and The Nameless One

just a reminder that this guy is throwing out the first pitch at the nationals game tonight 🙃

I wrote about a nice day at the ballpark, and how to be strange there. defector.com/how-to-go-to...

Sorry but thank you

let’s keep this going, for fisher and for lindsey www.gofundme.com/f/fisher-rec...

Kash Patel TV appearances giving off a distinct Coach Adam Gase Energy these days. Ominous.

I know “every accusation is a confession” gets said a lot but holy shit this is a doozy. The whole conservative media sphere is funded by dark money and being the death drive for a third of the nation is its whole point. Keep buying guns. Don’t get vaxxed. No preventative care. Work until the grave.

The new Hallmark podcast ep on a film that features the return of Rachael Leigh Cook, the Hallmark debuts of Stephen Schirripa and Jacky Hoffman, and a stirring cameo from the campus of Siena University. Hitting all the quadrants.

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

this is biggie and tupac for people whose rural hospital is about to close

The official charity of the Savannah Bananas has a hard time explaining how its money is spent: defector.com/the-official...

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

The media doesn't want you to know that like 92% of Americans died last year from illegal drugs. But we're not going to let them conceal the truth any longer.