Chris Thompson

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

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Read the @davidgilbert.bsky.social story that broke the news of Antoni’s apparently colorful past here:

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

this rules, i'm pumped that Defector got to run it defector.com/good-riddanc...

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

christ, the sound that i made when i read this paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

hooting, hollering defector.com/who-gets-rem...

look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans.

it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?

PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

a great damn blog bidoun.org/articles/hou...

great blog defector.com/the-united-s...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave

This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Mollie Hemingway: “All public universities should be required to have minimum 50% if their staffs be conservative professors by spring 2026. In each department. Michael Tracey: “so you want to bring back affirmative action?” Hemingway: “No, I want to remove the left-wing oppression that has destroyed American universities.”

*looks directly at the camera*

I think if I could experience any fictional food item I would choose French ham truck

max kellerman makes me miss jim lampley

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Fancies A Go At Cake Week | Defector Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens,...

back in hell as hell defector.com/the-not-so-g...

the election season Trump sales pitch (propped up by useful idiots like Matt Stoller) was that Trump 2.0 would be a lot like Lina Khan, taking serious aim at corporate power

In reality, they've destroyed all functional consumer protection and corporate oversight and fired critical commissioners

Defector Is Celebrating Its Fifth Birthday By Giving You A Big Fat Discount | Defector Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about the 10-year mark—how we’re going to get there, and what we want Defector t...

today is the final day of this big fat freakin discount. this sale has been a big success for us, and we hope and believe that the product (news blogs, fart blogs, almost no fart-sniffing blogs) will convince our new subscribers to stick around for the long haul defector.com/defector-is-...

Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left

Cassie Kozyrkov, CEO, says: "95% of GenAI initiatives are failing. That's not a technology problem. That's a leadership problem."

LinkedIn Brain belongs in the DSM

Ordinary people have got to at least comprehend that the entire top layer of society is currently controlled by "of course Santa is real, I hung up my stocking and everything" logic

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable