"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

orlando has made an advanced theoretical breakthrough: what if you have the skilled 6’10” 250 lb guy set screens and roll or slip to the hoop

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-...

regretfully i have begun drafting paolo’s letter of recommendation to julius randle vocational college

Seriously, contact your state AG and send them this, asking when they will be filing charges. They can and should be against Elon, Grok devs, Twitter management, and identifiable individual users generating and sharing RP and CSAM literally TODAY.

favorite albums this year:

"you made me realise" type beat parannoul.bandcamp.com/track/soft-b...

felis hallwayfoodus

kawhi hoops like you'd imagine the and1 logo would

In our new issue, Bruce Robbins writes on the Sokal affair, the academic left, and so-called elitism.

slow, humid afternoon; going back for more eliana glass elianaglass.bandcamp.com/album/e

Storming in here and demanding "that Bilbo Pack."

How can a life be wonderful? defector.com/how-can-a-li...

earned my first, tiny reporting credit in this all-timer of a blog for knocking on the door of the alleged CEO of alleged "record label" Rich America and handing that guy's confused wife an envelope of documents about the investigation and asking them to contact chris 🥲

beautiful ceremony

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

This is one of those mornings when you log into Defector, and every single piece looks like it's going to be a banger. I have like 17 open tabs now.

I spent $900 at 1587 Prime so you don’t have to.

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

never in a million years would have guessed john buck (24 PAs as a waiver deadline add in 2013) was the veteran teammate in question:

smart to make this out of stress ball material because it sure spikes my blood pressure each time i see it

i asked @davidjroth.bsky.social to write a "a quick 2-3 graf sub appeal" based on his typically excellent blog earlier this week. because he can only be himself, roth turned in 600 original words, trimmed down and reproduced here. if you also liked reading this, consider a sub: defector.com/products

Thank you to @seankuhn.bsky.social for reaching out to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social with this opportunity! The idea of building community between indie publications is a great one; it's also a shining example of @defector.com using its leverage to make our whole industry stronger.

monetizing a lack of belief in anything defector.com/toward-a-the...

Delighted to learn from this essay that the OU girl who got a zero for free speech is the daughter of a lawyer who defended J6 rioters in court

Vaccines do not cause autism, no matter what the CDC website now says 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...

the problems and solutions here are structural but at some point you've simply gotta have enough respect for yourself and other people to not take money to shill like this

defector does vital work in this space:

this is excellent: