Students for Trump co-founder Ryan Fournier arrested on domestic violence charges, allegedly yelled “Do you want to die today?” defector.com/students-for...

Oklahoma newspaper deletes column comparing Thunder to Israel: defector.com/oklahoma-new...

Wrote something about Jason Collins, and revisited some of the media coverage at the time: defector.com/jason-collin...

Raise your kid to watch movies that are half as old as he is. Start off with old movies and then every year your kid will be watching newer and newer movies. Stack those on top of each other. Soon your kid is watching movies that haven’t been made yet. You have now changed and manipulated time

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i cannot recommend defector, this role, and the people you'll get to work with enough. i miss them already.

Holding myself accountable: On Monday in Defector Slack I referred to Cal Raleigh as “Big Slumper” (a nickname used by many), and he has since homered in three straight games

By all means--continue. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

They should rename the tournaments to March Mindfulness. Like and share if you agree

Just so I have this right: The guys who built careers off “Argh, the internet is consolidated and we’re too online!” now have ideas on how to make a specific app blast more information at people?

If you don’t stand behind Team USA, feel free to laugh in front of them: defector.com/good-riddanc...

a new WNBA romance novel got me thinking about how romance fandom and WNBA fandom can both feel like expressions of optimism: defector.com/how-can-you-...

interviewed someone about what it's like to live in a building owned by a two-time MVP and also not have heat in the aftermath of a blizzard defector.com/an-interview...

Here’s a dumb little blog about the experience of witnessing Wemby in person: defector.com/victor-wemba...

I wrote about Punch the monkey and who, if anyone, is really to blame for the suffering of primates defector.com/the-mournful...

My interview with Cherien Dabis, on the challenges of writing, filming, and distributing a Palestinian movie: defector.com/all-thats-le...

Brilliant feature by @roughnotes.bsky.social about a forgotten era of women’s basketball, and one particularly fascinating player within it: defector.com/cardte-hicks...

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

If you’ve seen a Defector sticker in the wild, credit Dan. Either he put it there or gave them to us. Dude once sent me video of one he put on a pole in Hawaii. He was so generous, kind, and enthusiastic about everything, even putting up stickers in shitty bar bathrooms. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Not disputing what Eric says here, but whenever Bill Melugin’s name comes up, I always think of that time in 2020 when he got duped by a cop who said a Starbucks worker put a tampon in his drink (it was a cleaning cloth that accidentally fell in)

NFL sends mixed signals in its stance on genocide: defector.com/nfl-sends-mi...

Finally… news for MEN

There are Bari Weisses everywhere for those with the eyes to see defector.com/bari-weiss-i...

Rolling Stone makes the absurd claim that women are not allowed to sing in Gaza: defector.com/rolling-ston...

Last year, ICE agents used Canary Mission to kidnap pro-Palestine students for deportation. Yesterday, they prevented medical aid from reaching Renee Nicole Good. American law enforcement was already in horrific shape; it’s getting even worse in distinct ways. defector.com/ice-is-model...

Time for some tortured prose. At 1 p.m. ET today, the Defector Twitch stream will present the nominees for the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia (art by @mattielubchansky.com)

The ADL is having a Mamdani meltdown: defector.com/the-adl-is-h...

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

This is who Charlie Kirk was: defector.com/this-is-who-...

Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...

I’ve been browsing the grids everyone’s making and really enjoying it. This one looks like a captcha where you have to select all the nu-metal band members to prove you’re a human

Somehow, getting on TV was the least eventful part of my Mets experience last night: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...

Concerning: During Tuesday’s MLB broadcast, TNT Sports gave airtime to a Palestinian with radical views. Read more here: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...

CHANGEOVER is out 8/19/25 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

Writing this was cathartic, in a way: defector.com/why-your-tea...

If the WNBA in fact provides no value to its owners and can't work as a business, why don't they just shut the league down?

This week, the Defector staff was mentally Bill. Catch up with all the posts here: defector.com/category/bil...

Today, we’re happy to share that Press Forward, a coalition of funders committed to strengthening local newsrooms, has awarded our group a grant to build shared services for independent, worker-friendly local media organizations. defector.com/we-won-a-grant

all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...

The New York Times had to work with a eugenicist so they didn’t get scooped by a bigot: defector.com/the-new-york...

Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...

The politics of fear don’t work against a candidate who isn’t scared: defector.com/the-politics...

Christine Brennan won’t rest until Caitlin Clark’s muscle strain is treated as a national crisis: defector.com/christine-br...

The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...

✨🏀 The (fifth!) annual Defector WNBA preview is up today! always fun to work on these…last year a player’s dad emailed me to complain about something I wrote lol defector.com/2025-wnba-se...

The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she's paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...