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Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

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...

hello! thanks for subscribing. this, uh, definitely used to work -- although i'm now getting the behavior that you've reported here. i will flag to our developers.

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social
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How Baseball Became Brazilian | Defector SÃO PAULO — Most of the 45-minute drive felt familiar. You follow the Marginal Tietê and then President Dutra highway out of São Paulo, the same route that I’d taken dozens of times over the last two ...

hey everybody go read this imo
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and subscribers brave enough to say it 🙏

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

a screenshot of my results from this morning's 10k road race; i broke 40 minutes for the first time.

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 If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...

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

E-40 - Sick YouTube video by Meach Dot

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Cardte Hicks Played Above The Rim And Ahead Of Her Time | Defector As Cardte Hicks leapt toward the hoop, the audience at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium suddenly hushed. These were the final minutes of the Women’s Professional Basketball League’s All-Star Game on F...

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...

Have you seen the news? Or, not the news, but the press releases? “Prediction markets,” which are fundamentally gambling companies that benefit from preferential regulatory treatment, are shacking up with putative “news organizations.” In December, CNN and CNBC signed “multi-year exclusive partnerships with prediction market platform Kalshi to integrate event-based probabilities across its TV, digital, and subscription products from 2026.” Polymarket has cut similar deals with Dow Jones, Yahoo, and Substack. This is a familiar playbook. Outside of Defector and a few other oases, contemporary sports media primarily functions as the top of the funnel for gambling interests. There is an addled, soulless logic to running this scheme back with the political and financial press. To their credit (?), Polymarket has put a fresh coat of heavily leaded paint on the approach: The post announcing their Substack deal highlights an anti-vaccine and pro-Ghislaine-Maxwell influencer linking to the odds that the US government confirms that aliens are real. They expect you to regard this as the future of journalism; it is followed by a disclaimer that none of this “financial, investment, legal or any other type of professional advice.” I’ll grant that this is one possible future of journalism. But Defector is another, better future. We don’t feed our readers to gambling companies; we don’t use generative AI; we don’t have outside investors to please. Subscribers enable our critical, independent stance. If you’re as sick of this shit as I am, please consider becoming one.

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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.

suwinski, who is himself a power goof...much to consider

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!

My Life Among The 33 Pomeranians (And A Few Thousand Other Dogs) | Defector NEW YORK — In the days before the Westminster Dog Show, I could not stop saying the phrase “33 Pomeranians.” There’s a pleasing rhythm to the phrase—better spelled out as thirty-three Pomeranians—that...

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...

A Message From Dan McQuade's Mom | Defector Dan’s mom here. While I hope to thank everyone more formally, for so many of you it won’t be possible; I don’t know how to reach you. So I thought I’d reach you the way my Dan did—through the online w...

"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...

The Cipher, with 'The Grabowski Shuffle' and a baseball trip

eating tape on a straight-to-VHS promotional sports rap + taking his son to his first phillies game. the good stuff: defector.beehiiv.com/p/the-cipher...

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:

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The Cipher, with Halloween decorations and Homey the Clown

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The Cipher, with a basketball review and Detective's games

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The Cipher, with Mickey Morandini and Detective

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

Mystic YouTube video by Release - Topic

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

Guild Journalists, Pittsburgh Community, Local Labor Comes Together to Launch PAPER A mere three weeks after the Post-Gazette announced its impending closure, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, community organizers, neighbors, and labor leaders unveiled their initiative to...

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...