i haven't heard back from portnoy yet, but here's an update from @defector.com: "When reached for comment Thursday, Portnoy declined to say whether he'd follow through on his company relocation plans, but sent this instead: 'Suck my cock Samer'"

my favorite author and my favorite album is the mashup i needed

"The songs are not built with pop choruses and meant for radio play. The album is a story, and the story is about getting fucked over so badly that you have no choice but to exorcise the demon from your body with art." @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social

good review of Werner Herzog’s book, which is about the dangers of AI, going on long walks, and a cube-shaped translucent pig stuck in a sewer grate

wrote about lily allen defector.com/lily-allen-t...

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

With a lot of people already hungry, and many more about to lose SNAP benefits, here's a timely piece from @baltimoremagazine.com on Baltimore's growing network of community fridges, including the one we host inside our store: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...

A great detail from Verducci www.si.com/mlb/shohei-o...

i love when someone asks me why someone is my enemy and I have to pull up source material that is so unimportant that no one else even knew to be mad about it

this week in my exclusive email only newsletter, i found so many good things for you to read/listen/look at. this one online only as a preview! buttondown.com/mckinneykels...

i really appreciate hellgate's interviews asking people why they're voting the way they are. enlightening and maddening. mostly maddening.

What can't the president do? defector.com/what-cant-th...

if someone took me aside and said hey rax that dumb flash tattoo you got for $50 when you were 19 is actually a nazi symbol. i would be at the shop getting it covered before they got the sentence all the way out. i would blow red lights the whole way there

it's actually so funny that the pod save america doofuses are so bad at their jobs that a candidate for senate thought he could use them as image rehab for a nazi tattoo.

Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Riding my hobbyhorse into the sunset, via @redford.bsky.social's rad new podcast: Sports conspiracy theories are how fans do structural analysis.

I found After The Hunt completely confounding… too strange and beautiful to be awful and too ridiculous and silly to be likable. It was so confusing that I forced @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social to watch it just so we could discuss it on Defector. defector.com/what-even-is...

me and @izdaramola.bsky.social saw AFTER THE HUNT and we are CONFUSED defector.com/what-even-is...

SEX CHANGE AND THE CITY's official launch event is in Philly on Wed, Nov 5, technically before the book is even published! I'll be chatting with @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social at Wooden Shoe, which is very small so plz RSVP here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/3/for... afterparty at TMoms, all are welcome!

excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe! defector.com/products

Could not be more excited to be in @defector.com talking about SMiZE&DREAM HOT MAMA Hot Ice Cream defector.com/tyra-banks-p...

from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social's *The Week in 15 Selections* newsletter

“what a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoy” good. blog.

this is so, so good. it's also, in its way, a paean to the regular season and why it matters in and of itself, even if MLB is doing its best to pretend it only exists as a prelude to the playoffs.

I love (hate) this team with every fiber of my being but being here with all of you is the best--especially when they're at their worst.

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care! This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

You could read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social’s excellent take or you could trust @rollingstone.com’s four star review given after they fired all their critics (conveniently shared in Taylor’s Instagram stories!). I’m going to choose the former and certainly did not click on the latter.

Great @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social blog on The Greed Of A Showgirl: defector.com/taylor-swift...

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

"If you are a billionaire buying a media organization in order to consolidate your power, you could not find a more eager servant than [Bari] Weiss." defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

"It's entirely possible that this is just some toady trying to score brownie points," said the source.

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

when they tell you publishing is slow they mean S L O W i've been working on this for five years and we sold it six months ago but now i get to announce to the world! i'm writing a book! never say the word "talent" around me if you don't want a whole ass dissertation!!!!!

Must read for the book world from @defector.com and something I would have cited the hell out of in Art of Libromancy if it'd been out before I wrote it. tl;dr: Publishing is always ideological, especially when we claim it's not.

can't get enough of this sound

totally normal blog nothing to see here defector.com/camera-absol...

In case the WNBA coverage isn't enough, the fact that this interesting cultural tale about poetry is in defector should be enough to get you to subscribe... i honestly love a poetry beef so much.

Nearly impossible to pull a quote from this fantastic essay—each sentence more fantastic than the last!

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

"Pundits nowadays all think they're really political strategists, and fans think they're all general managers, but they aren't, and they don't need to be. It's fine to judge leaders and institutions by their results." defector.com/what-makes-a...

I have read enough of these delightful @christhompson.bsky.social and @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social bake posts I knew immediately how pissed they’d be when the Bread Week challenge was revealed

@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social has never been more correct which is saying a lot tbh