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

Never gonna stop saying ""While you're down there, would you mind blowing me?" defector.com/tim-you-were...

I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.

me when i saw Ella McCay

i saw Ella McCay so YOU DONT HAVE TO: defector.com/everything-i...

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

The first live Twitch stream I have ever tuned into, in my life

$46 for the year is a great deal for supporting one of the only sports websites that’s not 90% gambling ads imo. $75 is also a good deal for 2026 but that makes $46 if you subscribe before jan 1 2026 an even better deal!

wow do you want to be an editorial intern at a cool cooperatively owned company and write blogs for the summer???? apply here! defector.com/would-you-li...

lol "Miss Possessive" was my no 1 song of the year. defector.com/two-tate-mcr...

"The work of creation is the work of vulnerability, and when you publish something, you release it into a world where you cannot protect it and therefore cannot protect yourself." Phew, @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social !!!!!

I'm basically never not thinking about Wolf Hall so when I saw the Holbein portrait of Thomas Cromwell it was like worlds colliding defector.com/the-eyes-hav...

it only took 5 years for @jaspercwang.bsky.social to become a blogger, but we did it.

blogged my first bylined blog for defector dot com

This is an excellent story. We got similar pitches from the same writer at Defector and if they had not been entirely generated by someone plugging prompts into The Fabulism Device they really would've been cool.

“Bissinger did little to quell those rumors; he yelled at me, then hung up on me, when reached by phone, and later told the New York Times that while he provided the template for Unfettered, it was Fetterman who delivered the content. “The book is John’s,” he said.” defector.com/john-fetterm...

work on the creative project that pays me money and that i am under contract for and that people like????? no thanks, im busy thinking about my creative project that im kind of bad at and somehow costs me money and that nobody asked for

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important stuff in Defector's annual report, out today defector.com/defector-ann...

famous people should be allowed to add their birth charts to wikipedia so that I can see them

Missed this entirely last week, but @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social goes deep into exactly why Del Toro’s Frankenstein didn’t quite work for me.

two dumb bitches saying exaaactlyyy

Yes, and: There are lots of reporting jobs at startup nonprofit local news organizations doing really important work outside of corporate ownership, for any journalists willing to consider living outside of the nation's three largest cities!

having read both versions of frankenstein and a book of criticism and a novel based on frankenstein in the last month… i am happy to release my creature (this blog) defector.com/guillermo-de...

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2) defector.com/help-secure-...

if you still use goodreads please vote for my book for readers choice awards if you liked it!!! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

"Within this amorphous framework, men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before. " www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

John Fetterman retire bitch.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

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...