imagine how fucked paul hollywood's pronunciation of "paolo banchero" would be

man, what a thread. this has done powerful things for my mood!

Journalism is better when it's backed by people, not markets: defector.com/products

i really like this one and think i'm on the same wavelength as mayor mark about the places we live: they are usually cruel and brutal, deserve (most of) the jokes made at their expense, but nonetheless capable of real (if sporadic) beauty

Incredibly well put - defector.com/why-i-got-ou...

I wrote about AI and performance for Defector defector.com/the-new-evan...

an ancillary benefit of working at defector is getting to tail my colleagues' recommendations for other stuff to read. each edition of the newsletter will also include some of those recommendations. let kelsey, brandy, and guests sprinkle you some game: subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com/5aa07d55-9de...

IMO: thanks primarily to brandy, israel, and kelsey, defector has grown into "Defector, but for Culture." i get why it happens, but it bugs me that we get pigeonholed as "a sports site." we publish a ton of excellent arts & culture stuff! this newsletter will collect and highlight that work.

defector has many virtues, but this might be foremost among them. my colleagues' work is uncommonly clear, plainspoken, and righteous. i've gift-linked some examples below. read them, and consider subscribing: defector.com/products

a tennis partner once hit a ball out onto the road and as i went to retrieve it a car stopped and its door opened and i feared some maniac was gonna flip out or worse but the guy was wearing a ~15 year old jason bay giveaway shirsey and he calmly fielded and tossed me the ball waved and drove away

beastmode 👇

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social defector.com/how-i-became...

hey everybody go read this imo defector.com/how-baseball...

this blog makes a great case for defector: as a home for writing like this; as an heir to the style of culture coverage pioneered by these magazines; and as somewhere you don't need to worry about ownership class interference. our subscribers make that possible: defector.beehiiv.com/p/defector-i...

if anyone has a copy i will pay you a slightly less reasonable price for it

evergreen bit: sending your wife an email

myanmar aerobics lady moment: knocked like 75 seconds off my 10k pr this morning

Victor Wembanyama sighting confirmed in Brooklyn: defector.com/victor-wemba...

A complimentary profile of Jason Lee that was surprisingly difficult to publish: defector.com/a-compliment...

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...

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ohio is vastly better for the rooster's work. if you're locked in here with us, it's worth your time and subscription dollars.

kathryn does a good job articulating the ambivalence i feel toward power athletes in "artistic" disciplines. one additional problem no one is talking about is that he looks too much like jack suwinski

be smart: every paragraph in here is an lol sean's view: read it!

And this is one of my favorite blogs we've run in a while on any topic. I remember my own experience covering the event years ago so fondly, and Kathryn really brings home how fun and strange it is to hang out there all day, and also how crazy it smells. defector.com/my-life-amon...

"One day, we will read these to Simon. He will never forget his Daddy because all of you have left him a documented history book of who Dan was." defector.com/a-message-fr...

i love the morandini bit; i'll forever hear his name in dan's voice from the harry kalas impersonation he does around the 37:00 mark in here: pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

this week, lauren and maitreyi have been recirculating old dan bits from our daily newsletter. they are great; you can read them here: defector.beehiiv.com/p/the-cipher...

a blockbuster in the sense that the principals haven’t been a going concern for years

magic are getting k*lled by the thunder which is bad but did free me up to dig through numero group soul compilations to find the track with drums mixed crazy-style like the rims in OKC tonight youtu.be/v7Ya6lZIb_Y?...

the wicker man (1973) is a yarn about a community working together in response to the arrival of an outside police force

man i am choked up about this. my mom is a retired CWA member from pittsburgh; they’re now trying to do a defector to the PG 😭 cwa-union.org/news/release...

Unfortunately they did not capture Dan's tribute on the broadcast but the in arena feed did get the audio

Also remember this and have a laugh. I think it was Dan’s favorite thing that ever happened.

I’ve been thinking about Dan non-stop, and what I’ve come to understand is just how much I admired him. Dan built his life and moved through the world in a way I wish I could emulate more easily. I’ll keep trying, and in moments when I succeed I’ll think of him again. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

I am biased but Defector has been unbelievably good lately! Thank you to everyone who has been reading and subscribing, we really appreciate you

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

Jarrett Stidham is a PROBLEM!! 🤯 ALL PASSES 😵 RUNS 😱 TDS 🥵 2025 SEASON 🤪🔥🫠

"In the Twin Cities and elsewhere, thousands of ordinary folks were still out there in the screaming, punishing cold, in streets Alex Pretti's murderers might still be stalking, in their own government's crosshairs, for each other."

i’d be delighted to replace the shoutout to local venture capitalists (?) in our airport with a photograph of a corrugated drainage pipe.

NO GODS NO MASTERS NO PAYWALL LET'S GET THIS STRIKE GOING

when your wife goes on the record to compare you to les moonves <<< www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

Local Steelers and Aaron Rodgers fan, @drewmagary.bsky.social, prepares a delicious gametime meal in preparation of a Steelers victory

as a stupid bit i committed to doing an extra set of curls each time desmond bane hits a three but he’s taking the fewest threes and making the lowest rate in his career so now i’m dealing with the double whammy of not being jacked and the magic offense still being ass

righteous blogging defector.com/how-hard-is-...