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

I'm really proud to work at a media company that isn't made up of cowards, that can say All of This Is Really Fucking Bad over and over again because it is. defector.com/charlie-kirk...

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

How does "the official non-profit of Banana Ball" spend its money? defector.com/the-official...

it must be so easy and freeing to think of politics as an academic discourse that does not effect you or anyone you know ever

"The worst person to ask about what socialism is is a Republican, who doesn’t know what socialism means, and will tell you that everything is socialism. The second worst...is a leftist college professor, who...will tell you that nothing qualifies" wrecked www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

everyone say happy birthday to the blog or else defector.com/five-years-o...

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." a must-read from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the Anthropic settlement defector.com/if-the-thiev...

I wrote about how I am not buying the narrative that the anthropic AI settlement is good for authors: defector.com/if-the-thiev...

you too could see all the beautiful things I would buy if I had family money by subscribing to my newsletter lol buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey

Self-promotion makes my skin crawl but it's easier to do when it's a legitimately good deal being offered.

There is nothing I like more than a flawlessly executed kicker. The one finishing this piece is a Nadia Comăneci 10/10. Exquisite. defector.com/donald-trump...

I wrote about Trump not dying and the bleak fantasy that he will defector.com/donald-trump...

btw! WNBA fans, you can also Remember Some Gals! rumor has it that I will be posting my grid of memorable Wubble season gals later this week...

I don't really follow baseball, so I'm just using this to play tic-tac-toe with players whose names start with 'X' and 'O'

Impress and horrify your friends with this piece of lore: The very first Guy to be Remembered was Vick Ballard

I love the thing that Immaculate Grid built for this. Messing around and making a grid of Extremely 2000s Brewers Guys was like giving my brain a cool drink of water. We'll be goofing around with it all week in various venues, and streaming later today: defector.com/defector-and...

short kings of MLB* *(according to me I did not look up their heights)

i <3 shortstops

Let's remember some guys! Immaculate Grid has teamed up with our friends at @defector.com to present "Remember Some Guys from the 21st Century." Visit immaculategrid.com/remember this week to create and share a list of your favorite guys since 2000—there are no wrong answers!

do NOT listen to my colleague @barryp.bsky.social defector.com/i-apologize-...

Defector is the only media outlet that I support with my dollars. My subscription was the last thing I cancelled when I lost my job in April, and the first thing I re-activated when I got work again.

these mfers have let me write about yoko ono, brand new, and noel gallagher. i love them, so please support their genuinely radical efforts at making a better, smarter internet.

really love defector -- and i don't even really follow mainstream sports that much at all. there's so much rad stuff on the site all the time. super enjoyable a++

The website that I co-own Defector.com is hosting a RARE sale where you get three months of blogs for just $5! That’s something like 600 blogs for FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pretty good deal imo and you get to support worker-owned media.

I've been thinking a lot about the basically-defunct concept of "selling out" and this piece gets at a lot of fascinating stuff! This tension of like...money for creative work drying up versus creative people who seem to do work exclusively to court brand partnerships is always on my mind!

Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up

wow many beautiful things in my newsletter this week like SWAN BAG buttondown.com/mckinneykels...

What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?

love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was “about the capture of social life”

i think @maitreyiaa.bsky.social might be one of the best book interviewers out there, full stop, this was so fun defector.com/giri-nathan-...

i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed

"Public transit is a service, not a business—should public schools have to turn a profit? A powerful transit system can benefit everyone, unless one is so petty as to view the ability of human beings to move from place to place as a zero-sum game to be won" defector.com/doomsday-for...

the fp piece perfectly captures a certain type of person—usually a person you first encounter in college because they're excessively argumentative in class. this human approaches everything like its debate club. they believe they are smarter than everyone. at *best* they're an asshole

Defector is celebrating its fifth birthday by giving you a big fat discount: defector.com/defector-is-...

read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the despicable logic of the "Free Press" defector.com/the-free-pre...

A new low even for the free press defector.com/the-free-pre...

sent my weekly email with all my fave links from the internet on WEDNESDAY this week because i'm wild!! (forgot to hit sent on monday) buttondown.com/mckinneykels...

i loved this blog by @laurentheisen.bsky.social about being in love and Taylor Swift defector.com/taylor-swift...

we really have to bring back nerd (derogatory) www.thefp.com/p/best-night...

sydney sweeney news cycle again!!!! defector.com/the-money-is...

in times like these, it's worth re-reading this old @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social banger about the lady with the jeans

ATTN UK: my book has a new gorgina cover for paperback, and if you order it from waterstones you can get 25% this week wow

it’s almost as if—as some have long maintained—substack has a nazi problem.

huge update in my links this week (i'm reading east of eden) buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey

nothing hotter than a union man

So much to love and chew on in Richard Brody’s new defense of written reviews www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued