Alex Sujong Laughlin

crying probably

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

I've been numb since hearing the news, and I still don't really have words, but I woke up with Dan's name and face at the front of my mind. Everyone's tributes have been beautiful. Hold your people close. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Really proud of the work we did on this podcast that has been so many years in the making!!!!

confirming from the trenches of book leave that every published book is a fucking miracle and you should spend your money on good ones!

Consider: Gatorwine | Defector Last week I traveled to Tuscany, the birthplace of the Renaissance, the home of Chianti, land of cobblestones and no air conditioning and extremely rare T-bone steaks. What better place to expand your...

Yes!! defector.com/consider-gat...

No one knows

(PSA it’s not the year of the horse until lunar new year in mid Feb)

finally watched les miserables movie version for the first time

yall were so mean to anne hathaway for no reason!!!

2026 is the year of hathassaince

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Alexa, 17, has a moving out fund on their Transanta wishlist and we need just $145 to fund it completely www.instagram.com/p/DSODr0fDhL...

"we" doing a lot of work here but i know i'm not alone

was just thinking about the era of twitter when we would tweet out-of-context quotes from our friends and sometimes we would post something a little too specific and there'd be this scramble to delete it before their boss saw it

twice in the last week i have cured a vague midday malaise with a steaming cup of hot water. miracle cure!

The duality of Defector

Is It Even Possible To Cheat On 'The Bachelor?' | Defector So far on Only If You Get Caught, the stakes of the competition in most of the situations we have talked about have been limited to winning and losing games. This episode, something much more signific...

The latest episode of OIYGC is about The BACHELOR and whether it's possible to cheat on it! defector.com/is-it-even-p...

The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

my mom was so mad when she found out about my secret myspace account but as each year goes on i'm like wow, is my career myspace

imagine being 14 and someone tells you that in 20 years, "going to work" would be sitting in a chatroom all day

Ronald Young Jr. Comes Clean | Defector I didn’t consider the possibility of failure enough when I was developing this show. For the last episode of the season I was supposed to have a conversation with Ronald Young Jr., he had been wanting...

The last episode of the first season of Try Hard is out today. It's a break in format because my guest didn't actually accomplish his goal, at all.

We ended up having a really nice meta conversation about failure and how uncomfortable it is to rely on your people: defector.com/ronald-young...

It was great!! I ran so much faster than I meant to and now I feel destroyed 💀

Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly upda...

wrote about this shitbag again
defector.com/vaccines-do-...

Tomorrow I'm running my first half marathon in 6 years!! I'm really excited about it!! I wrote this essay about finding my way back to running after I thought my long distance days were over defector.com/falling-back...

die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a jilted lover in an ephron film

"What’s left when the rich people lose interest is the work," an important statement. An industry boom will show you who people really are. (Like Ira Glass, who starts this piece insisting that all podcasts should be listened to at 2x to maximize podcast listening.)

The Bad News Is There’s No More Money, But That’s Also The Good News | Defector RICHMOND, VA – The audience was booing Ira Glass.  It was the opening session of Resonate, a podcast festival founded three years ago by Chioke l’Anson at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute ...

I expected this podcast festival to feel like a funeral, but it was surprisingly optimistic. Once you hit rock bottom, you can only really go up.

defector.com/resonate-pod...

Selling Zohran | Defector On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU…

An in-depth look at the video team that helped so many people get into the Zohran Mamdani campaign: defector.com/selling-zohran

We lost a diva

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

not to brag but i went through a whole 24 pack of pimple stickers this weekend

the way i genuinely thought you were referencing kier eagan lmao