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The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website

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He's the best. I recommend looking up his slowest home run trots. No one alive is doing it like him.

04.03.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

/veneers rattling around in mouth like change in a dryer "We booped 'em, I would even say we booped them very strongly, right on the snoot."

04.03.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left h...

Fantastic blog here. defector.com/don-delillo-...

04.03.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10

23 years old today

04.03.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 425    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 33

Hey thanks

04.03.2026 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's beautiful. Rich imagery.

04.03.2026 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bill Bradley was a decent Senator, as I recall.

04.03.2026 05:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark Teixeira Is Ready To Do Whatever It Is Congress Guys Have To Do | Defector As Texas congressional districts go, the 21st is pretty easy to parse. The outline of it, which dips into Austin and enfolds a vast swath of the San Antonio suburbs, looks like a lumpier-than-average ...

Congratulations to Mark Teixeira on his big primary win in Texas. I am sure he will be a totally shameful and absolutely forgettable member of congress. It's basically what he's running on. defector.com/mark-teixeir...

04.03.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 4

I know the business is mostly just aggregating stories in the "unhoused man seen eating from salad bar" vein online, but the print edition definitely looks wrong. Impossible to imagine where someone would read this, and who such a reader would be.

04.03.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

04.03.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7346    πŸ” 1484    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 71

Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.

03.03.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1293    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

03.03.2026 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1793    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 80

Exhausting, thank you.

03.03.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when he's worked up in a big tizzy like this, trying to be an informed american citizen with an awareness of the geopolitical landscape is just an effort to digitally concuss yourself

03.03.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1742    πŸ” 193    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3
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Anyone Want To See Kash Patel Fall On His Ass While Playing Hockey? | Defector It was a busy week for FBI Director and special little guy Kash Patel. On Sunday, he was slamming Michelob Ultras in Team USA’s locker room. Midweek he was firing a dozen veteran agents in retaliation...

The Batkid Arc continues. defector.com/anyone-want-...

03.03.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5

With all due respect, I've built an artificial acting career in the Tillyverse that exactly parallels the one that Bruce McGill has in real life. I suspect that you cannot say the same. I'm in the Tillyverse version of Rizzoli & Isles and a lot of people are jealous of that. (Tilly plays Isles.)

03.03.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Sedgwick’s prescription is β€œreparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, β€œJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: β€œJust because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way,  having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Sedgwick’s prescription is β€œreparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, β€œJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: β€œJust because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

03.03.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Forgetting Some Guys Modern baseball puts up numbers.

Typically good stuff from @sammillerbb.bsky.social on the current MLB Guy Situation and the challenges it presents to those of us in the Guy Remembering Community. (I assume everyone that cares about baseball and follows me already gets this newsletter.) pebblehunting.substack.com/p/forgetting...

03.03.2026 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally, Trading Cards Commemorating The Dumbest Year In American History | Defector Trading cards were not a big part of my life as a sports fan when I was a kid. I cared a lot about Ray Allen, Tino Martinez, and Juan RomΓ‘n Riquelme, but I did not care about collectible rectangular r...

We ran a great blog about the Politics Card Biz back in 2021, but the random autos are new to me. defector.com/finally-trad...

03.03.2026 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

02.03.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1170    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 112

I imagine eventually yeah

02.03.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I understand people getting upset with NBC News for writing about this shit, but also maybe get outside your bubble a bit. In America's diners and taverns, on the bus and in the office, online and off, everyone is clamoring to "enter the Tillyverse" and build artificial acting careers there.

02.03.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1095    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking into this Clue

02.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Pete, talk about your mindset going into today's round of school and hospital bombings."

02.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fundamentally just a very degrading line of work to get on the horn with Donald Trump while he's at one of his little clubs, some shithead chiropractor's second wedding going on 50 feet away, and ask "so what did you have in mind there?" where the question concerns bombing a bunch of foreign kids.

02.03.2026 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 942    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Kind of an ominous dearth of bad news from there actually

02.03.2026 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I once saw Sam Dalembert and a date coming out of the Wahlburgers that used to be in my neighborhood. But the media covered that up, as usual.

02.03.2026 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Boom times for instantly writing 380 ireedemably insane words in a google doc with the working headline The Whole Place Is Dark and then deleting it. I do not think this is quite as much my fault as usual.

02.03.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 580    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

I think it's nice

02.03.2026 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0