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We Live In The Bone Temple Now | Defector David Roth: I feel like when we have these sorts of conversation blogs on the site, the subject is generally something that everyone kind of likes, but not in a way that they’d fully feel comfortable ...

I talked with Tom Ley about our shared love for the delightfully and unnecessarily committed and entirely batshit 28 Days Later sequels. (There are spoilers in here but nothing you wouldn't have learned from reading basically any review of the films.) defector.com/we-live-in-t...

Learner Tien Is The Brightest Pupil | Defector You will notice the announcer of the following highlight reel continually returns to one word to describe Learner Tien’s performance against Alexander Shevchenko in the second round of the Australian ...

Learner Tien just made the fourth round of the Australian Open in real style. I wrote about the game’s most fun young player to watch: defector.com/learner-tien...

Let Your Buyers Become Your Criers When You Pull The Rug Out From Beneath The Table Of Success | Defector I have some unsurprising news: Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched a memecoin to combat antisemitism, and someone connected to the coin’s launch appears to have executed a clean rug pull wi...

Let your buyers become your criers when you pull the rug from beneath the table of success: defector.com/let-your-buy...

How Michigan’s Man on the Inside Got Caught Podcast Episode · Only If You Get Caught · 01/13/2026 · 31m

Only If You Get Caught S1E7 is out now. The great @edsbs.bsky.social and I discussed the story of Connor Stalions. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

black t-shirt with two words in white letters: ICE OUT

tim standing at a courtside seat while wearing an ICE OUT shirt during the timberwolves game on jan. 11, 2026

I wore an ICE OUT shirt while courtside at the Timberwolves game yesterday. Security initially said I needed to give them the shirt (I didn't), but later clarified that I just needed to wear something else. Here's a nice write-up about it by Jon Krawczynski ✊

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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

When Everyday Life Becomes Domestic Terrorism | Defector People are back out on the streets of Minneapolis again, they are barricading the roads and tending curbside memorials, they are asking for someone to make sense of a reckless and unnecessary death…

When everyday life becomes domestic terrorism: defector.com/when-everyda...

Holy fuck they actually did it

Man who built Korea's fried chicken industry dies at 74 Yoon Jong-gye, the founder of Mexican Chicken and widely regarded as the creator of Korea’s signature sweet-and-spicy fried chicken, has died after a long illne

the man widely regarded as creator of Korean fried chicken has died www.koreaherald.com/article/1065...

ICE Is Modeling Its Brutality After The IDF | Defector Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society’s trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday’s news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good…

ICE is modelling its brutality after the IDF: defector.com/ice-is-model...

The Throne - Franco Bernini This meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of a planned trilogy, recounts the enigmatic life of Niccolò Machiavelli, revealing the complex man behind the infamous po...

I haven't read it yet but someone did Wolf Hall about Machiavelli www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889...

Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story — Only If You Get Caught The simple story of the early-aughts baseball steroids scandal is that Congress caught a bunch of star players juicing. That’s mostly true, but that reading fails to properly place the scandal in the ...

learning about baseball with @redford.bsky.social

Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story Podcast Episode · Only If You Get Caught · 12/30/2025 · 36m

New episode of Only If You Get Caught with the great @timmarchman.bsky.social is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

agree

totally agree, it would be a crazy surprise

i think it would go very well for that young man

Maxime Raynaud needs to grow a terrible mustache right now

yes! for the best thing we read this year defector post, which i think drops between christmas and new years

Negentropic and Pop with Tom Krell Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · 12/15/2025 · 1h 27m

also also, and I'm sorry this is the final update this morning, the latest episode of Nothing But Respect, with Tom Krell of How To Dress Well, was particularly good podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The fifth episode of Only If You Get Caught is also out now, wherein the great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social and I talk WNBA labor battles, charter flights, and the gender wage gap in sports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Is It Even Possible to Cheat on The Bachelor? Podcast Episode · Only If You Get Caught · 12/02/2025 · 27m

The fourth episode of Only If You Get Caught is out now, wherein the great @claireefallon.bsky.social, @emmagray.bsky.social, and I consider whether it is possible to cheat on the Bachelor podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

For Calif.'s worst college football team, a 0-287 slump is the tip of a scandal Are the Oaks an aspiring folktale or an ill-fated fantasy?

As the nation turns to the best college football programs in the country this weekend, we turn our attention to one of the worst: Lincoln University, a downtown Oakland school whose head coach, and athletic director, threatened me at the end of our interview. www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

Let’s Check In On The State Of The NBA’s National Broadcasts | Defector Halfway through the second quarter of a Dec. 1 game between the Phoenix Suns and the hosting Los Angeles Lakers, the Peacock streaming network broadcast returned from commercial and threw to Robbie Hu...

We are two months into the new NBA TV deal. Here’s the state of national basketball broadcasting: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Sources: The Opening Domino Of The 2025 Shamsy Selection Process Has Fallen Invariably, Will Spawn Numerous Pathways For Unique News | Defector The year is progressing along in its ramp-down process, according to the calendar. Fittingly, and justifiably, given the gulf between the iron-fisted thrall of winter and the honey-laden proceedings…

Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news defector.com/nothing-but-...

The duality of Defector

YouTube video by Defector Presenting: The Shamsy Nominees For 2025 | Defector

Thank you to everyone who watched or sent stuff in. The full broadcast is up on YouTube and can be found as a podcast episode on the Nothing But Respect feed www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMR...

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In 15 minutes, our panel will reveal the longlist of nominees for the Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many. Join us here! www.twitch.tv/defectormedia

it’s like a good stylistic comp and as a Fox stan, i think a nice compliment but also he’s just kinda too small and not a good enough shooter (yet!) to really be convincing

Jeremiah Fears is the Trae Young of De’Aaron Foxes

The Rap Music That Defined 2025 | Defector Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. After working in music journalism for over 10 years, if there’s one thing I’ve come away feeling it’s a…

The rap music that defined 2025: defector.com/the-rap-musi...