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NORMAL GOSSIP dowager queen, Defector Media, books and shit
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Marisa Kabas
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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'"
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Let's Check In With People Who Threatened To Leave Zohran Mamdani's NYC | Defector
When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist h...
https://defector.com/lets-check-in-with-people-who-threatened-to-leave-zohran-mamdanis-nyc
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owen
8 days ago
my favorite author and my favorite album is the mashup i needed
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Ella Dawson
5 days ago
"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
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Lily Allen Takes The "Fuck It" Approach To A Breakup Album | Defector
All couples in love are alike; each shattered couple, however, has been shattered in its own way. When you fall in love with someone, your friends tolerate you talking about them and fawning over them...
https://defector.com/lily-allen-takes-the-fuck-it-approach-to-a-breakup-album
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Brandy Jensen
7 days ago
good review of Werner Herzogâs book, which is about the dangers of AI, going on long walks, and a cube-shaped translucent pig stuck in a sewer grate
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Werner Herzogâs New Book Tackles The Problem Of Truth | Defector
You might think of Werner Herzogâs new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals. On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting ...
https://defector.com/werner-herzogs-new-book-tackles-the-problem-of-truth
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wrote about lily allen
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Lily Allen Takes The "Fuck It" Approach To A Breakup Album | Defector
All couples in love are alike; each shattered couple, however, has been shattered in its own way. When you fall in love with someone, your friends tolerate you talking about them and fawning over them...
https://defector.com/lily-allen-takes-the-fuck-it-approach-to-a-breakup-album
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sean kuhn
10 days ago
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is:
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Red Emmaâs
10 days ago
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...
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Emma Baccellieri
10 days ago
A great detail from Verducci
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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
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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...
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*The Week in 15 Selections*
It was a great week for reading! And yelling about stuff youâve read. For the first time in god knows how long, the main topic of discussion online was a...
https://buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey/archive/the-week-in-15-selections-1408/
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autumn wright đ
14 days ago
i really appreciate hellgate's interviews asking people why they're voting the way they are. enlightening and maddening. mostly maddening.
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Turkbert Cransauceko
14 days ago
What can't the president do?
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What Can't The President Do? | Defector
Donald Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House this week, so that he can build a ballroom with a footprint nearly twice the size of the existing White House, financed by blatant graft. The Wh...
https://defector.com/what-cant-the-president-do
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rax âlevon honkersâ king
16 days ago
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
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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.
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patrick
17 days ago
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!!!
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Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small. Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/only-if-you-get-caught/id1826568874
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Tommy Craggs
17 days ago
Riding my hobbyhorse into the sunset, via
@redford.bsky.social
's rad new podcast: Sports conspiracy theories are how fans do structural analysis.
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Daramola
17 days ago
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...
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What Even Is 'After The Hunt'? | Defector
After the Hunt, the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, is ostensibly about a great many things. It is a film about campus politics, generational divide, the slippery nature of power dynamics, fantasy k...
https://defector.com/what-even-is-after-the-hunt
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saw AFTER THE HUNT and we are CONFUSED
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What Even Is 'After The Hunt'? | Defector
After the Hunt, the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, is ostensibly about a great many things. It is a film about campus politics, generational divide, the slippery nature of power dynamics, fantasy k...
https://defector.com/what-even-is-after-the-hunt
17 days ago
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tuck woodstock
22 days ago
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!
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sean kuhn
23 days ago
excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe!
defector.com/products
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Jaya Saxena
23 days ago
Could not be more excited to be in
@defector.com
talking about SMiZE&DREAM HOT MAMA Hot Ice Cream
defector.com/tyra-banks-p...
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Tyra Banks Please Explain What The Hell You Mean By âHot Ice Creamâ | Defector
Tyra Banksâs eyes are wild. Or maybe they were just always that way, her piercing green-gray irises one of many reminders that right, before she was a TV host and an MLM kingpin and a meme, she was a ...
https://defector.com/tyra-banks-please-explain-what-the-hell-you-mean-by-hot-ice-cream
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bart
25 days ago
from
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
's *The Week in 15 Selections* newsletter
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe
28 days ago
âwhat a ridiculous game to care about, to watch, to enjoyâ good. blog.
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Crash Outstein
28 days ago
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.
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Lisa
28 days ago
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.
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i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them.
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What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector
At the Philliesâ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...
https://defector.com/what-ill-remember-about-the-phillies
28 days ago
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I loved this series when
@sabs.bsky.social
started it for us at
Defector.com
in March!!!
defector.com/meet-the-civ...
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Phillip Maciak
about 1 month ago
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.
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
https://defector.com/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-bad-greed
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Kim Kelly
about 1 month ago
support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
about 1 month ago
once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able
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Defector
about 1 month ago
No good art comes from greed:
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence itâŠ
https://defector.com/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-bad-greed
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patrick
about 1 month ago
I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control:
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
https://defector.com/bari-weiss-signs-huge-deal-to-usher-cbs-news-into-its-vichy-era
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Meredith Shiner
about 1 month ago
You could read
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
âs excellent take or you could trust
@rollingstone.com
âs four star review given after they fired all their critics (conveniently shared in Taylorâs Instagram stories!). Iâm going to choose the former and certainly did not click on the latter.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
about 1 month ago
Great
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
blog on The Greed Of A Showgirl:
defector.com/taylor-swift...
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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
https://defector.com/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-bad-greed
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i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl
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Sabrina Imbler
about 1 month ago
simply a brilliant blog from
@redford.bsky.social
on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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"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...
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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
https://defector.com/bari-weiss-signs-huge-deal-to-usher-cbs-news-into-its-vichy-era
about 1 month ago
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"It's entirely possible that this is just some toady trying to score brownie points," said the source.
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Defector
about 1 month ago
Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness:
defector.com/treasury-dep...
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
https://defector.com/treasury-department-has-plans-to-mint-dollar-coin-featuring-donald-trumps-likeness
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
about 1 month ago
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!!!!!
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Josh Cook
about 1 month ago
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.
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Good Riddance To âThe Best American Poetryâ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry
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unchopped uncs
about 1 month ago
can't get enough of this sound
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totally normal blog nothing to see here
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Camera Absolutely Wrecked By Baseball | Defector
Smack! Pop! Crack! Woosh! Thump! Ping! Thud! Zing! Thwack! Whomp! Bam! BOOM! These are the normal, old-hat sounds of baseball. But a new baseball sound just dropped, which is important and also good: ...
https://defector.com/camera-absolutely-wrecked-by-baseball
about 1 month ago
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Jennifer Prokop
about 1 month ago
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.
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Sarah Dowling
about 1 month ago
Nearly impossible to pull a quote from this fantastic essayâeach sentence more fantastic than the last!
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
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.
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"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...
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What Makes A Loser | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On Saturday, the Baltimore Orioles, with a lineup featuring three players batting under .200 and no o...
https://defector.com/what-makes-a-loser
about 1 month ago
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Moon 2 Enthusiast
about 1 month ago
I have read enough of these delightful
@christhompson.bsky.social
and
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
bake posts I knew immediately how pissed theyâd be when the Bread Week challenge was revealed
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The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Makes Goddamned Donuts For Bread Week | Defector
Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens,...
https://defector.com/the-not-so-great-defector-bake-off-makes-goddamned-donuts-for-bread-week
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tuck woodstock
about 1 month ago
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
has never been more correct which is saying a lot tbh
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