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The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown | Defector The focus of the Anti-Defamation League has become entirely warped. Support for Israel was always part of the organization’s goals, but typically that was nested within a broader declaration to fight ...

The ADL is having a Mamdani meltdown: defector.com/the-adl-is-h...

Let's Check In With People Who Threatened To Leave Zohran Mamdani's NYC | Defector When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist h...

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Fixed, thanks.

Good suggestion, it’s there now

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigo...

This is who Charlie Kirk was: defector.com/this-is-who-...

When we started Defector, we set out to make a sustainable business out of providing people things to read during their workday. Thanks to the efforts of my colleagues and the support of our subscribers, we have achieved that goal. It didn’t even take that long to find ourselves standing on solid ground. Within a year, it was clear this was going to work—we would write blogs intended to entertain, inform, clarify and challenge, and people would pay us a few bucks a month to read them. The simplicity of all this has had something of a deprogramming effect on me. I got into this business during the hothouse days of the 2010s, when it was taken for granted that the true purpose of every media company was to achieve a nine-figure valuation. The collapse of that industry demanded a new way of thinking about what a media company can and should be, and my hope is that Defector has provided a useful example of just one way of doing things.

Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...

I’ve been browsing the grids everyone’s making and really enjoying it. This one looks like a captcha where you have to select all the nu-metal band members to prove you’re a human

TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...

Somehow, getting on TV was the least eventful part of my Mets experience last night: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...

TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...

Concerning: During Tuesday’s MLB broadcast, TNT Sports gave airtime to a Palestinian with radical views. Read more here: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...

CHANGEOVER is out 8/19/25

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Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New England Patriots | Defector Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all th...

Writing this was cathartic, in a way: defector.com/why-your-tea...

WNBA Players Want To Share In The League's "Hypergrowth" | Defector What money are WNBA players owed? The league’s biggest names got people asking this question Saturday night, when they all wore “Pay Us What You Owe Us” warmup T-shirts before the All-Star Game in Ind...

If the WNBA in fact provides no value to its owners and can't work as a business, why don't they just shut the league down?

This week, the Defector staff was mentally Bill. Catch up with all the posts here: defector.com/category/bil...

We Won A Grant | Defector Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over the years to help other emerging worker-owned publications find their footing.…

Today, we’re happy to share that Press Forward, a coalition of funders committed to strengthening local newsrooms, has awarded our group a grant to build shared services for independent, worker-friendly local media organizations. defector.com/we-won-a-grant

Christine Brennan's Caitlin Clark Book Is More About Gripes Than Greatness | Defector Before one copy showed up on a bookstore shelf, Christine Brennan’s new book had women’s basketball abuzz. The longtime sports columnist began reporting On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution i...

all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...

The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn't Get Scooped By A Bigot | Defector On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 years ago, in an application form for a college that ultimately did not accep...

The New York Times had to work with a eugenicist so they didn’t get scooped by a bigot: defector.com/the-new-york...

Kirsten Gillibrand Has A Racist Meltdown Over Zohran Mamdani On Public Radio | Defector Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary has led to a lot of vile reactions from across the political spectrum. That’d be expected from any Republican, but plenty of liberals are ...

Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...

The Politics Of Fear Don’t Work Against A Candidate Who Isn’t Scared | Defector If there is one takeaway from Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, it’s that there is no one takeaway. The democratic socialist and his wide-ranging can...

The politics of fear don’t work against a candidate who isn’t scared: defector.com/the-politics...

Christine Brennan Won't Rest Until Caitlin Clark's Muscle Strain Is Treated As A National Crisis | Defector Credit where credit is due: USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan has tried very hard to establish herself as the nation’s foremost Caitlin Clark alarmist. Whenever something routine for a pro ...

Christine Brennan won’t rest until Caitlin Clark’s muscle strain is treated as a national crisis: defector.com/christine-br...

The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are…

The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...

An Old Grudge, A New Team, A Swole Caitlin: The 2025 WNBA Season Preview | Defector When the 2025 WNBA season tips off tonight, so much will be new: a new team, eight new head coaches, veterans in new places, and legions of new fans who saw the stupid fights we had online last year a...

✨🏀 The (fifth!) annual Defector WNBA preview is up today! always fun to work on these…last year a player’s dad emailed me to complain about something I wrote lol defector.com/2025-wnba-se...

The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disa...

The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she's paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...

How the Japanese-American basketball leagues built Natalie Nakase: defector.com/how-the-japa...

Woman Attacked by Pro-Israel Mob: 'I'm Afraid to Walk Around My Own Neighborhood Now' In an interview with Hell Gate, the woman blamed the NYPD for failing to intervene.

In an interview with Hell Gate, the woman who was attacked by a pro-Israel mob in Crown Heights last Thursday, including being repeatedly kicked and spat-on, says she's now afraid to walk in her own neighborhood, and blames the NYPD for failing to intervene.

Seal Up The Pit That Contains Fox Sports 1 | Defector Even by the standards of Fox Corp, Fox Sports 1 seems like a pretty sinister place for an employee. Over the past few months, enough lawsuits, complaints, and allegations have emerged to suggest that ...

Seal up the pit that contains Fox Sports 1: defector.com/seal-up-the-...

Ms. Rachel Is Hamas Now | Defector When we previously checked in with Liora Rez, who runs the nuisance group StopAntisemitism, she was trying to get some flight attendants fired over a Palestinian flag pin. Between then and now, she ha...

Ms. Rachel is Hamas now: defector.com/ms-rachel-is...

Who Had Diana? | Defector “We have Diana, and they don’t,” the quote went. But who ever had Diana? It is the magic thing about her, the way she gave herself over to no one.

Diana Taurasi retired while I was on vacation (her final troll) so here is my slightly late tribute to her and the life she wanted for herself. defector.com/diana-tauras...