Brandy Jensen

It’s so good!!!

Can Zohran Mamdani Keep New Yorkers Safe From Remembering Some Arsenal Guys? | Defector Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what goes on there, I want his administration…

Can Zohran Mamdani keep New Yorkers safe from remembering some Arsenal guys? defector.com/can-zohran-m...

this is gorgeous and moving

apologies to anyone I’ve confused with it

How A Campy 1970s Game Show Became Part Of Canada's National Lexicon | Defector On tiny Hornby Island northwest of Vancouver, after the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2015, our bed-and-breakfast host was telling us about the town. The pizza place in the park is terrific, he s...

have lived in the US for 15 years and this is how I learned that “it’s a bit of a gong show” is a Canadian figure of speech

amazing!! happy to answer any questions

This is the best thing I've ever done, could not recommend more that people apply!

Sure!

Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...

“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”

You don’t have to be in j-school or a fancy elite program, plus I’m proof you don’t need to know a lot about sports. we’re hoping to get applicants from all sorts of places

Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...

We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing

Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...

“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”

Spectrum of Desire

loved this

frankly i'd rather buy the cursed chapbook of rfk jr's felching poetry than subscribe to ryan lizza's substack

not defending rfk here but neither am I in a position to critique the leaked erotic missives of anyone else on earth lol

Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches

Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁

lol

naming the voice actors in a new Ken Burns doc

I’m howling.

I'm honored to have written a blog for @defector.com that generated an outsized number of pageviews or new registrations in the past year.

defector.com/defector-ann...

loved @redford.bsky.social on Shadow Ticket

🫡

A lovely review!

‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...

I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!

Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm | Defector On Monday, Vanity Fair published the first excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s monograph to sexting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a book titled American Canto. The book, as Nuzzi claimed in a glamorized profile…

Olivia Nuzzi addresses the worm: defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...

okay well you’re in luck on the first part

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

Dear [Professor’s Name], I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴