There is nothing I like more than a flawlessly executed kicker. The one finishing this piece is a Nadia Comăneci 10/10. Exquisite. defector.com/donald-trump...
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There is nothing I like more than a flawlessly executed kicker. The one finishing this piece is a Nadia Comăneci 10/10. Exquisite. defector.com/donald-trump...
thank you david
I wrote about Trump not dying and the bleak fantasy that he will defector.com/donald-trump...
btw! WNBA fans, you can also Remember Some Gals! rumor has it that I will be posting my grid of memorable Wubble season gals later this week...
I don't really follow baseball, so I'm just using this to play tic-tac-toe with players whose names start with 'X' and 'O'
wow good submission thank you
no it's fun
Impress and horrify your friends with this piece of lore: The very first Guy to be Remembered was Vick Ballard
I love the thing that Immaculate Grid built for this. Messing around and making a grid of Extremely 2000s Brewers Guys was like giving my brain a cool drink of water. We'll be goofing around with it all week in various venues, and streaming later today: defector.com/defector-and...
short kings of MLB* *(according to me I did not look up their heights)
i <3 shortstops
Let's remember some guys! Immaculate Grid has teamed up with our friends at @defector.com to present "Remember Some Guys from the 21st Century." Visit immaculategrid.com/remember this week to create and share a list of your favorite guys since 2000—there are no wrong answers!
you're welcome
do NOT listen to my colleague @barryp.bsky.social defector.com/i-apologize-...
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hold tight babe
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really love defector -- and i don't even really follow mainstream sports that much at all. there's so much rad stuff on the site all the time. super enjoyable a++
We are coming up on our 5 year birthday and would really love to continue to expand our offerings/ number of people we can hire in an industry that is more fucked every year
The website that I co-own Defector.com is hosting a RARE sale where you get three months of blogs for just $5! That’s something like 600 blogs for FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Pretty good deal imo and you get to support worker-owned media.
I've been thinking a lot about the basically-defunct concept of "selling out" and this piece gets at a lot of fascinating stuff! This tension of like...money for creative work drying up versus creative people who seem to do work exclusively to court brand partnerships is always on my mind!
Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up
wow many beautiful things in my newsletter this week like SWAN BAG buttondown.com/mckinneykels...
What it comes down to is: Should beautiful, interesting, entertaining things exist in the world, and should we spend our time making them?
love this from @mitchtherieau.bsky.social on the difficulty we have historicizing Obama-era musical trends and how folk-rock in particular was “about the capture of social life”
this RULES!!!!! congratulations!!!
i think @maitreyiaa.bsky.social might be one of the best book interviewers out there, full stop, this was so fun defector.com/giri-nathan-...
i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed
yeah blog the chips or else
"Public transit is a service, not a business—should public schools have to turn a profit? A powerful transit system can benefit everyone, unless one is so petty as to view the ability of human beings to move from place to place as a zero-sum game to be won" defector.com/doomsday-for...
the fp piece perfectly captures a certain type of person—usually a person you first encounter in college because they're excessively argumentative in class. this human approaches everything like its debate club. they believe they are smarter than everyone. at *best* they're an asshole
Defector is celebrating its fifth birthday by giving you a big fat discount: defector.com/defector-is-...
read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the despicable logic of the "Free Press" defector.com/the-free-pre...
A new low even for the free press defector.com/the-free-pre...
sent my weekly email with all my fave links from the internet on WEDNESDAY this week because i'm wild!! (forgot to hit sent on monday) buttondown.com/mckinneykels...
omg that's so cute
i loved this blog by @laurentheisen.bsky.social about being in love and Taylor Swift defector.com/taylor-swift...
we really have to bring back nerd (derogatory) www.thefp.com/p/best-night...
another one!!! defector.com/why-cant-peo...
sydney sweeney news cycle again!!!! defector.com/the-money-is...
in times like these, it's worth re-reading this old @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social banger about the lady with the jeans
linky: www.waterstones.com/book/you-did...
ATTN UK: my book has a new gorgina cover for paperback, and if you order it from waterstones you can get 25% this week wow
it’s almost as if—as some have long maintained—substack has a nazi problem.
huge update in my links this week (i'm reading east of eden) buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
nothing hotter than a union man
So much to love and chew on in Richard Brody’s new defense of written reviews www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newsletter link here for those who want! buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
andrea are you getting one
interesting weekend! anyway! I’m really excited to work on this book about all the ways women’s basketball players are valued and devalued
i have to say that i love when fortune smiles upon me, but by the same token i cannot stand it when im subject to the cruel whims of fate
"It is similarly hard to rate the conspiratorial might of the FBI when two of its top officials are a steroidal podcast host and a man who constantly looks like a baby recognizing colors for the first time." defector.com/what-are-the...
Big announcement! We've got TWO new podcast collabs between Radiotopia and @defector.com, hosted by @redford.bsky.social and me! defector.com/try-hard-onl...
@mckinneykelsey.bsky.social is right and she should say it: defector.com/all-star-wee...
Bills Week! There's some excellent writing advice tucked into this @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social piece about reading Shakespeare:
returned to Defector after a month away so that @yuekaxu.bsky.social and I could recap our new love of loons defector.com/fatal-battle...
I KNOW IT IS SO UNFAIR
you too could get all my insane links buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
Thank you so much to my dear friend @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social for ruining my day with this article about children being "homeschooled" at fucking Disney World. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/mo...
lmfao he TRIED tho. i was screaming at my tv
i'm collecting all my fave links to send in a little newsletter each week! sign up here: buttondown.com/mckinneykelsey
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aaron parsley’s incredible, horrifying, somehow beautiful essay about what happened to him and his family last weekend on the guadalupe river is one of the best and most moving things you will read this year (content note: child loss) www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The floodwaters are rising: defector.com/the-floodwat...
i wrote about the texas floods and climate anxiety and mercy defector.com/the-floodwat...
i'm not afraid
no the warrior cats are REAL
celeste you should take a look at the interview series @sabs.bsky.social did for us with civil servants! defector.com/tag/civil-se...
Fun Philly strike update from a city worker: “the office of the mayor has changed their number to 215-686-2181 because of overwhelming calls in support of DC33.” Ring ring motherfucker!!!
it *we
I agree: pitchers unsettlingly large
omg thank you!
Hurdler wins 400-meter race despite his dick and balls falling out several times: defector.com/hurdler-wins...
So @defector.com is on a complete tear today, I gotta say, and I'm going to share gift links for three amazing pieces (and there are even more beyond that, but really, consider subscribing). First up: going deep on something at once typical and that still needs calling out.
And third, I think I've finally read the piece that best helps me understand why _Love Island_ has completely clicked for a lot of people and it's because @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social has compared it to watching baseball on TV.
i love my beautiful tv games defector.com/i-love-my-da...
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
looking at all these pundits, I cannot stop thinking about this paragraph from @albertburneko.bsky.social's blog last week: defector.com/toward-a-the...
I hate to do this, but please subscribe to Defector if you do not. It's a good value, and doing important, full-newsroom coverage of vital and under-reported stories like this is expensive. I happen to believe it's worth it.
omg jenny thank you
hell yeah i'm making it tomorrow
IT IS THAT TIME AGAIN
lmfao this rules
What a delight to yell at my pals @davidjroth.bsky.social and @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social about why work travel is good, why taking fish to a union meeting is bad, and also private equity.
My new standup special "Positive Reinforcement" premieres ONE WEEK FROM TODAY on Blonde Medicine's YouTube channel!!! (The album version with a little bonus material will be out on 7/11!) Here's a little clip (the first one!)! If you like it, maybe tell somebody about it! :)
maureen hello. you need to get a crush.
we made you a summer book guide for ALL YOUR MOODS including defector.com/books-we-thi...
I can barely express how gutwrenching it is to steal health care away from trans kids and essentially force them into conversion therapy defector.com/on-bridges?g...
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i mean sure but the jobs were also systematically destroyed by private equity.
they can't. they don't have jobs.
ok. those are different careers.
more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.
Glad I was able to write about this in my forthcoming book… truly, thank you HarperCollins, for allowing me to be critical.
awooooo we're starting a publication in the Bay Area with a STACKED team (@amir.photo @rahawahaile.bsky.social @nuala.bsky.social @estefancy.bsky.social @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @soleilho.com @emmaruthless.bsky.social @dannymlavery.bsky.social AND MORE)! givebutter.com/coyotemedia
that's marvin
genuinely, i do not know what movie that person saw