It's just "Let's Remember Some Guys" defector.com/its-just-let...

you gotta admit that Saudi Just For Laughs is a very funny concept

I’m dying (I have a mild cold) but I fought my way back from the precipice of eternity (pseudoephedrine) to write about media in the age of corruption (it’s bad)

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

Nobody better than @heatherchen.bsky.social at writing about marches or gatherings and talking to those there: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵

Did not get raptured but listening to The Leftovers soundtrack as per

I’ve been on his show. I’ve had conversations with him. He’s simply drifted towards apologia for the fascists, like so many, through constant and repeated exposure. Things he used to know were obviously repugnant now seem normal, even acceptable. Many such cases. Still on Twitter, never on here.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

When the New York Times interviews a person, and that persons says "we all know Joe Biden kicked Trump off social media," a statement that you don't even need to know the timeline to know isn't true, let alone "we all know," and you STILL INCLUDE THAT QUOTATION IN THE NEWSPAPER

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Shame that one of the best hard courts all year is wasted on Laver Cup, a court this glacially slow deserves its own major

Dang, that's crazy. Anyway, we moved our annual refugee resettlement fundraiser to Bluesky this spring, after running it entirely on Twitter for over a decade, started with ZERO followers, took our "shrunken" audiences and beat last year's total by $200,000 in a time of massive economic upheaval

Or you just suck really bad?

"Fight back and you might lose; don't fight back and you've already lost."

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

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For The Guardian, I wrote about Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Aside from landing pieces in publications I haven't written for yet, this is what I struggle with most. I write a decent amount (I think?) but I'd have to write an article every day or two to simulate a salary.

ben smith, boy, i dunno

For @the2ndserve.bsky.social, I wrote about Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka's high-quality, high-stakes, and all-too-infrequent rivalry: www.thesecondserve.com/sabalenka-an...

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...

Hooooooooly fuck logging off

We 👏 need 👏 to 👏 whitewash 👏 this 👏 guy 👏

Not that they did anyway, but if we make it out to the other side of this, the bigots fear-mongering about free speech suppression and the Harper's letter folks deserve never to be taken seriously again now that the things they claimed to care about are happening and no one seems to care

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...

"But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates for @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Don’t do this

hot damn, what a blog www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Ready to never hear anything from Klein again thanks

He killed again defector.com/how-do-you-s...

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.

I wrote about a nice day at the ballpark, and how to be strange there. defector.com/how-to-go-to...

I know “every accusation is a confession” gets said a lot but holy shit this is a doozy. The whole conservative media sphere is funded by dark money and being the death drive for a third of the nation is its whole point. Keep buying guns. Don’t get vaxxed. No preventative care. Work until the grave.

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Posobiec - whose ties to white supremacists are legion - wrote a book last year called “Unhumans” in which he labeled half the country UNHUMAN It is language designed to inspire political violence yet our cable news channels have made him a talking head about political violence

That is too late defector.com/sports-shoul...

Lmao Mr Beast sitting next to Dana White and Turki Alalshikh is the least surprising part of this night so far

like do they need to stomp us into the ground any further I am already dead

Our expectations for right wing media are so low that it’s basically impossible to hold them to account for the ghoulish things they say.

He could have argued while handing out money to everybody he passed on the street and it still would have been messed up *because of the content of those arguments*.

This is very good

Hey friends! I realize this is a weird time for a “personal news” drop, but things have been wild and I’m bad about sharing updates. This week I began working with CBS Sports as their Women’s Sports Lead! I’ll be writing and editing on the website, primarily women’s basketball. Very excited.