John Heisel
@jheisel.bsky.social
Former expat in Moscow. Currently a Brooklyn dad.
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
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"Whoever invented baseball had a cruel streak. Whoever enjoys it has a touch of masochism." defector.com/toronto-will...
Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector
Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Whoever invented baseball had a cruel streak. Whoever enjoys it has a touch of masochism." defector.com/toronto-will...
What a pleasant surprise to come home to find a big-ass box of stuff from @nathanrabin.bsky.social , including his new book! Thanks!!
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a pleasant surprise to come home to find a big-ass box of stuff from @nathanrabin.bsky.social , including his new book! Thanks!!
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this entire clip is fuckin comedy gold
October 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
this entire clip is fuckin comedy gold
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a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
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100,000+ veterans without citizenship. What a country.
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
100,000+ veterans without citizenship. What a country.
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Good for you, Peanut! #Bears
Former Bears CB Charles 'Peanut' Tillman says he quit FBI due to Trump administration's policies
“I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done."
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September 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Good for you, Peanut! #Bears
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It's time. I started a newsletter. It's called Art & Politics and the first post is on Jimmy Kimmel and Ezra Klein and how despite asking what Russia was like, most people don't really want to know miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...
Beware The Crocodile
So you want to survive authoritarianism.
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September 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It's time. I started a newsletter. It's called Art & Politics and the first post is on Jimmy Kimmel and Ezra Klein and how despite asking what Russia was like, most people don't really want to know miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...
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For new readers, $5 will get you three months of access to the collaborative effort of more than two dozen sharp writers and editors on staff at Defector. defector.com/products
August 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For new readers, $5 will get you three months of access to the collaborative effort of more than two dozen sharp writers and editors on staff at Defector. defector.com/products
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We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most.
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt
It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most.
Learn more:
Learn more:
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i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out
August 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out
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For a limited time, you can try out three months of Defector blogs for less than the price of a happy hour pint. I hope you will do it, because I think the blogs are good and the more people that subscribe the more we can hire. defector.com/defector-is-...
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...
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August 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For a limited time, you can try out three months of Defector blogs for less than the price of a happy hour pint. I hope you will do it, because I think the blogs are good and the more people that subscribe the more we can hire. defector.com/defector-is-...
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LOCAL LEDGER: Shiner has released a video from its upcoming album. Check out "Asleep in the Trunk" for thick tones, Paul's love of bass cabinets, a lime green 442, and revenge.
Shiner - "Asleep In The Trunk"
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August 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
LOCAL LEDGER: Shiner has released a video from its upcoming album. Check out "Asleep in the Trunk" for thick tones, Paul's love of bass cabinets, a lime green 442, and revenge.
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Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy
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August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy
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Leonid Bershidsky, Vedomosti’s first editor-in-chief, pens an obituary for pioneering Dutch journalist (and pillar of the Russian independent press) Derk Sauer. (This is my translation of Bershidsky’s text.) meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza
Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed ...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Leonid Bershidsky, Vedomosti’s first editor-in-chief, pens an obituary for pioneering Dutch journalist (and pillar of the Russian independent press) Derk Sauer. (This is my translation of Bershidsky’s text.) meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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How do you get Donald Trump to change a lightbulb?
You tell him Barack Obama installed it.
You tell him Barack Obama installed it.
July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How do you get Donald Trump to change a lightbulb?
You tell him Barack Obama installed it.
You tell him Barack Obama installed it.
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"Across the Spectrum."
Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.
Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.
![A comic in black and white, with rainbow accents. It's a wide shot in a big store not unlike Target, with shirts, flags, accessories, and packaged food sporting various LGBTQ+ Pride colors and slogans. Every person walking through has a different response.
Pissed off young tattooed woman: "Corporate hypocrites. They fired a trans woman last year for speaking out about harassment."
Young college kids: "[gasp] Is that a non-binary scarf?? Oh my god, back home you'd never see this kind of stuff in like, a mainstream store!" "I know they're just trying to take our money, but you gotta get it!"
Guy wearing a button down shirt and slacks: "Well... this at least proves that businesses see our acceptance as good for their bottom line."
Two chuds mocking the merchandise: "Check it out, Tr---y beer! Doesn't your dad drink that brand?" "Oh, ha ha, yup." The second guy has a sheepish look and thinks: "Even if Dad won't accept me, his BEER is on my side."
A Mom who looks like a Karen: "You can't go anywhere without seeing this propaganda! Let's go to Chick-Fil-A." Her young kid thinks: "All these rainbows... I"m not so alone after all, am I."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l2bvlovg53aahtytp32r7mqe/bafkreidksb4xv22pqyyyn3y5hw3zlgjyydfvktqwxr3ypedtmryy6ct2jm@jpeg)
June 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Across the Spectrum."
Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.
Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.
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Tampa Bay announcers were slightly less enthusiastic about @redsox.com walk-off home run than the Red Sox announcers.
July 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Tampa Bay announcers were slightly less enthusiastic about @redsox.com walk-off home run than the Red Sox announcers.
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"In the light of day, all we are left with is the misery of tragedy, the shocking reminder that we all survive only upon the whims of the Earth and men, and the dreadful fear that mercy is in shorter supply every day." defector.com/the-floodwat...
The Floodwaters Are Rising | Defector
It’s easy to forget that God’s covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again … however. “Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life,”…
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July 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"In the light of day, all we are left with is the misery of tragedy, the shocking reminder that we all survive only upon the whims of the Earth and men, and the dreadful fear that mercy is in shorter supply every day." defector.com/the-floodwat...
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speech is at its freest in a society where your speech may make people dislike you and decline to associate with you, but even if it makes you lose your job it never makes you lose your healthcare or your access to the food supply and never gives the government permission to incarcerate you
July 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
speech is at its freest in a society where your speech may make people dislike you and decline to associate with you, but even if it makes you lose your job it never makes you lose your healthcare or your access to the food supply and never gives the government permission to incarcerate you
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
June 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
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This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
June 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
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Time for the annual schoolhouse rock style history lesson about slavery and the origins of Juneteenth from The Roots
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Time for the annual schoolhouse rock style history lesson about slavery and the origins of Juneteenth from The Roots