Kelsey McKinney
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Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
The pitt spinoff show called the DMV where every season someone from the DMV gets into a fistfight and gets transfered to the Pitt
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feel so romantic about the passenger side rear-view window. everything is so beautiful in her eyes
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4 days ago
"Boy, I love working" might have been my favourite line out of a whole bunch of good ones in The Devil Wears Prada 2, so of course this
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Even In The Movies, Journalism Is Fucked | Defector
For the duration of my childhood, it felt like all of the romantic-comedy heroines were journalists. They worked at newspapers in Kissing Jessica Stein, Sleepless In Seattle, The Holiday, Never Been K...
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Seth Rosenthal
5 days ago
THIS POST HAS REAL VIDEOS OF SKELETONS DUNKING
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beginning my campaign for Jeff Probst's Biggest Hater
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Jeff Probst Is Ruining âSurvivor 50â | Defector
There is nothing that sucks the life out of a good time like someone self-consciously asking whether you are having fun. Maybe a moment ago, you were having fun, but now, faced with their anxiety (or ...
https://defector.com/jeff-probst-is-ruining-survivor-50
6 days ago
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philadelphia flyers listen to me: plz win
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Jaya Saxena
14 days ago
So weâre a few days from the end of our subscription drive at
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Lauren Theisen
16 days ago
We're getting a Wild-Avalanche series, which is neat because when I watched them play in March it was maybe the most impressive hockey game I'd ever seen.
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I Have So Many Nice Things To Say About The Avalanche And The Wild | Defector
DENVER â The Colorado Avalancheâs home building, 26-year-old Puck Arena, is a blandly serviceable midpoint between the old-school kookiness of Calgaryâs Saddledome and the blinding shininess of Edmont...
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I LOVE WINNING
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Two Walk-Off Wins? In This Economy? | Defector
One walk-off win can cure you of any emotional or intellectual ailment. The smack of the bat, the moment of anticipation as you wait to see if all youâve wished for could come true, and the immediate,...
https://defector.com/two-walk-off-wins-in-this-economy
16 days ago
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can't stop laughing at the inhaler FOR DOGS
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16 days ago
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come help us build something cool!
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18 days ago
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David_j_roth
18 days ago
This is a really good job for someone who understands math/business and is also willing to deal with blogger-style personalities in the workplace.
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Justin Ellis
18 days ago
We are in the market for new director of revenue! This is a truly hands-on job to steer how defectorâs business grows and help solve for the unknowns of being a cooperative media company
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Jasper Wang
18 days ago
Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from
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's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here:
apply.workable.com/defector-med...
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Director of Revenue - Defector Media
Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that launched in 2020. You can read about our origin story in the New York Times, the recent state of our business in our 2025 ...
https://apply.workable.com/defector-media/j/81AA49B001/
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Ronald AKA DJ Regularity
19 days ago
@izdaramola.bsky.social
on the Michael Jackson biopic, and our current moment of anti-thought.
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[delusional voice] what happened the last time the Phillies lost a ton early in the season and fired the manager?
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i wrote about LOVE OVERBOARD lol
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How Close To The Stanford Prison Experiment Can A Reality Show Get? | Defector
âAhoy there, perverts!â are the first words out of Gabby Windeyâs mouth. The host of the new Hulu show Love Overboard stands on the deck of a 280-foot superyacht named The Chakra, wearing a gorgeous, ...
https://defector.com/how-close-to-the-stanford-prison-experiment-can-a-reality-show-get
22 days ago
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threatening all my friends until they read Middlemarch
23 days ago
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Defector
24 days ago
Bonk! This ball went somewhere new!
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Bonk! This Ball Went Somewhere New! | Defector
There are 30 Major League Baseball teams, and every summer they play a combined 2,430 games. There is baseball on every day all the time. Someone is always hitting a ground ball into a 6-4-3 doubleâŚ
https://defector.com/oneil-cruz-home-run-foul-pole
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Justin Ellis
24 days ago
An incredible early review from Kirkus called The Cruelty of Nice Folks, âAn urgent critique of âpoliteâ racism that demands attention.â
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THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS | Kirkus Reviews
An understandably despairing view of race relations in the wake of racist murders in Minneapolis.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/justin-ellis/the-cruelty-of-nice-folks/
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i gotta get in
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Philadelphia's Hottest Club Is The Penalty Box | Defector
This isnât Berghain; theyâre not going to turn you away at the door; the more the merrier. Everybody whoâs anybody is in the penalty box in South Philly, from the generationâs greatest skater to the l...
https://defector.com/philadelphias-hottest-club-is-the-penalty-box
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i am always available to accept playoff tickets :)
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sean
about 1 month ago
this is what supply chain risk looks like đ hedge your risks in the Information Space with a defector subscription:
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Defector
about 1 month ago
My year in November 18ths:
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My Year In November 18ths | Defector
Time began tormenting me in March of last year. I had been traveling for weeks to promote my book about gossip, a kind of capstone to the fastest-paced era of my life. All of itâthe podcast we made,âŚ
https://defector.com/my-year-in-november-18ths
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i wrote about my year with On the Calculation of Volume
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My Year In November 18ths | Defector
Time began tormenting me in March of last year. I had been traveling for weeks to promote my book about gossip, a kind of capstone to the fastest-paced era of my life. All of itâthe podcast we made, t...
https://defector.com/my-year-in-november-18ths
about 1 month ago
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giri nathan
about 1 month ago
Italian translation out next month âĽď¸đ¤đ
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Brandy Jensen
about 1 month ago
I got to write about Nancy Lemann! For The New Yorker!
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The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents
The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-patron-saint-of-oddballs-and-delinquents
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Luis Paez-Pumar
about 1 month ago
Survivor 50 has made it to the merge (sort of), so the Defector Survivor sickos decided to weigh in on the first half of the season:
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Welcome To The Defector 'Survivor 50' Midseason Questionnaire
You can count on the things that mark the passage of time on Survivor. Early on, thereâs the very first tribal council, the first tribal swap, the first double elimination. Nothing looms larger over t...
https://defector.com/welcome-to-the-defector-survivor-50-midseason-questionnaire
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David_j_roth
about 1 month ago
You will not read a more comprehensive or informative blog on Space Toilets today. That's the Defector promise.
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Artemis Boldly Goes Where No Toilet Has Gone Before | Defector
It was about 65 minutes after liftoff, the Integrity spacecraft 800 miles above the Indian Ocean and moving at about 16,000 miles per hour, when the historic words were spoken:Â âIntegrity, Houston, to...
https://defector.com/artemis-boldly-goes-where-no-toilet-has-gone-before
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congratulations to the FIRST NEW SAINT SINCE 1988!!!
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It is Time To Canonize A New Baseball Saint | Defector
A half-decade ago in the early days of this website, long before ABS or âThe Big Dumper,â I became obsessed with a very rare and unexciting way to play baseball. Frustrated by the prevalence of the lo...
https://defector.com/it-is-time-to-canonize-a-new-baseball-saint
about 2 months ago
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no one allow alec bohm to cut his hair until november. he is samson.
about 2 months ago
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it wrote about the dark tragic story of Taylor Frankie Paul
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The Not-At-All-Secret Life Of Taylor Frankie Paul | Defector
Taylor Frankie Paul was supposed to save The Bachelorette. The showâs viewership has been in a steady decline for almost a decade, dropping from about 10 million viewers in 2010 to just under 3 millio...
https://defector.com/the-not-at-all-secret-life-of-taylor-frankie-paul
about 2 months ago
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JOIN US FOR THE BIGGEST COMPETITION IN SPORTS* *a bracket to determine which victorian novel is best
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We Have A New Culture Newsletter | Defector
This week we are launching The Span, Defectorâs first and only culture newsletter. Every other week, we will collect the best non-sports writing from Defector so that you wonât miss anything, and also...
https://defector.com/we-have-a-new-culture-newsletter
about 2 months ago
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"She framed her silence at the time not as an absence of pain, but as a kind of strategic necessity, particularly as a woman fighting for respect in the male-dominated world of 1960s union organizing."
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html?nl=bre
about 2 months ago
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
Well this is horrible.
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html?nl=breaking-news&segment_id=216850
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AnnaClimbsMtns
2 months ago
They canceled his citizenship interview and he drove in the winning run to beat the US. Eugenio Suarez is a gem.
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Azure
2 months ago
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN, MY FRIENDS.
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David_j_roth
2 months ago
Bryce Harper disconsolately drinking a room-temp pint of raw milk in the clubhouse right now.
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what a normal way for a pair of shoes to fit a grown man!! nothing to see here!
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2 months ago
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proud of him like he is my son
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The Greatest Traitor Of All Time | Defector
On Thursday night, in the season finale of The Traitors, two former Love Island contestants locked eyes across the round table. In the face of Maura Higgins you could see a dangerous hope growingâas i...
https://defector.com/the-greatest-traitor-of-all-time
3 months ago
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Luis Paez-Pumar
3 months ago
Blurbs by: Yours truly Kelsey
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
Alex
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Sabrina
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Rachelle
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Normal Gossip producer Jae Towle Vieira
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Patrick Dubuque
3 months ago
Hey, the good folks at Defector were kind enough to republish my weirdo love letter to spring baseball, and spring narratives. If you don't have a subscription to BP but do have one to Defector, you can read it here:
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this is so fuckin cool
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3 months ago
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victoria zellerâď¸ (RISEBALL, summer â27)
3 months ago
lesbians > desbiens imo
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really proud of all our weird and fun Olympics coverage at
@defector.com
this week and last! You can subscribe here and support cooperatively-owned, small media!!
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3 months ago
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I LOVE U NAZGUL
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Beautiful Wolfdog Now An Olympian | Defector
By the end of a cross-country skiing team sprint competition, the athletes are on the brink of collapse. The best teams complete their six-mile sprint in about twenty minutes. Their legs burn, and the...
https://defector.com/beautiful-wolf-dog-now-an-olympian
3 months ago
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"An injury reminds us that their god-like efforts have stakes in the earthly world we share. But watching Vonnâs crash, I am reminded of the self-sacrifice of the saints, and I suddenly consider a different understanding of elite athletes."
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The Suffering Of Lindsey Vonn | Defector
I woke to a flurry of notifications on my phone. Overnight in Cortino, Lindsey Vonn violently crashed in her Olympic downhill race and was airlifted from the mountain. My group chat, made up of colleg...
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3 months ago
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we're so back
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3 months ago
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The Season of the Jorts
3 months ago
so long suckers *i sprint onto my luge sled and when i arrive at the bottom of the track i'm completely dead*
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Defector
3 months ago
The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained:
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The Big Canada-Sweden Curling Beef, Explained | Defector
As a sport most people pay intense attention to for two weeks every four years and then not at all the rest of the time, curling can be slightly impenetrable to the casual viewer; its intricacies and ...
https://defector.com/the-big-canada-sweden-curling-beef-explained
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