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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
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I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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learning about baseball with @redford.bsky.social
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 ...
overcast.fm
December 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
learning about baseball with @redford.bsky.social
New episode of Only If You Get Caught with the great @timmarchman.bsky.social is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Baseball’s Steroid Era Was Actually A Labor Story
Podcast Episode · Only If You Get Caught · 12/30/2025 · 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New episode of Only If You Get Caught with the great @timmarchman.bsky.social is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Maxime Raynaud needs to grow a terrible mustache right now
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Maxime Raynaud needs to grow a terrible mustache right now
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...
Negentropic and Pop with Tom Krell
Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · 12/15/2025 · 1h 27m
podcasts.apple.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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 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...
Is It Even Possible to Cheat on The Bachelor?
Podcast Episode · Only If You Get Caught · 12/02/2025 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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...
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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...
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?
www.sfgate.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
We are two months into the new NBA TV deal. Here’s the state of national basketball broadcasting: defector.com/lets-check-i...
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...
defector.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We are two months into the new NBA TV deal. Here’s the state of national basketball broadcasting: defector.com/lets-check-i...
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Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news defector.com/nothing-but-...
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…
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December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news defector.com/nothing-but-...
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The duality of Defector
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The duality of Defector
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
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December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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
Jeremiah Fears is the Trae Young of De’Aaron Foxes
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Jeremiah Fears is the Trae Young of De’Aaron Foxes
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The rap music that defined 2025: defector.com/the-rap-musi...
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…
defector.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The rap music that defined 2025: defector.com/the-rap-musi...
Very special episode of Nothing But Respect this week, we had everyone's favorite @rayratto.bsky.social on to talk about the wide world of officiating: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Very special episode of Nothing But Respect this week, we had everyone's favorite @rayratto.bsky.social on to talk about the wide world of officiating: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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this was such a fun conversation! I’m excited to listen to this show now that I am back from being off the grid
The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
this was such a fun conversation! I’m excited to listen to this show now that I am back from being off the grid
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The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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The Sacramento Kings may not be good, but they're doing whatever this is
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Sacramento Kings may not be good, but they're doing whatever this is
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Shocker: Appointing a 29-year-old derelict pet store owner with no politics experience to San Francisco Board of Supervisors not actually a masterstroke defector.com/shocker-appo...
Shocker: Appointing A 29-Year-Old Derelict Pet Store Owner With No Politics Experience To San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Not Actually A Masterstroke | Defector
As of publication, residents of San Francisco’s District 4, comprising most of the Sunset from 7th Avenue out to the Pacific Ocean, do not have a representative on the city’s Board of Supervisors;…
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Shocker: Appointing a 29-year-old derelict pet store owner with no politics experience to San Francisco Board of Supervisors not actually a masterstroke defector.com/shocker-appo...
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🚨 Fresh YKB Just Dropped
🎙️Part two of our home & home series with the Nothing But Respect podcast (@redford.bsky.social x @lexaprotools.bsky.social)
💔 We drafted the NBA teams with the *worst vibes* right now
🐽 Anthony Davis fake trades pitched from Twitter & Discord
Tap in below ⤵️
🎙️Part two of our home & home series with the Nothing But Respect podcast (@redford.bsky.social x @lexaprotools.bsky.social)
💔 We drafted the NBA teams with the *worst vibes* right now
🐽 Anthony Davis fake trades pitched from Twitter & Discord
Tap in below ⤵️
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 Fresh YKB Just Dropped
🎙️Part two of our home & home series with the Nothing But Respect podcast (@redford.bsky.social x @lexaprotools.bsky.social)
💔 We drafted the NBA teams with the *worst vibes* right now
🐽 Anthony Davis fake trades pitched from Twitter & Discord
Tap in below ⤵️
🎙️Part two of our home & home series with the Nothing But Respect podcast (@redford.bsky.social x @lexaprotools.bsky.social)
💔 We drafted the NBA teams with the *worst vibes* right now
🐽 Anthony Davis fake trades pitched from Twitter & Discord
Tap in below ⤵️
On ‘Shadow Ticket,’ Thomas Pynchon as comedian, and smiling through it all: defector.com/thomas-pynch...
Thomas Pynchon Is Laughing All The Way To The Brink | Defector
Thomas Pynchon’s reputation precedes him. He is literature’s ur-diagnostician of the post-war psyche, the author of difficult doorstopper novels, and a sort of prophet of paranoia—someone ahead of his...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On ‘Shadow Ticket,’ Thomas Pynchon as comedian, and smiling through it all: defector.com/thomas-pynch...
The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Only If You Get Caught
History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.
Hosted by Patrick Redfo...
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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Jeffrey Epstein was the unofficial advice columnist for the elites: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...
Jeffrey Epstein Was The Unofficial Advice Columnist For The Elites | Defector
Ever since it was disclosed that financier Leon Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein over $150 million for tax and estate planning in 2014, six years after the latter pleaded guilty to child prostitution…
defector.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was the unofficial advice columnist for the elites: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...
The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
The Kings Are An Abomination | Defector
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During the break between the first and second quarters, the Sacramento Kings interrupted one anti-competitive spectacle with another. Six babies lined up to race, only to hear the...
defector.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...
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Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...
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...
defector.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...
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Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum.
Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum.
Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
Earlier this week, I watched Sam Altman join Steve Kerr for a conversation about "innovation, leadership, and San Francisco," here's what they said (plus some stray thoughts on SF in the third tech boom) defector.com/an-evening-w...
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Earlier this week, I watched Sam Altman join Steve Kerr for a conversation about "innovation, leadership, and San Francisco," here's what they said (plus some stray thoughts on SF in the third tech boom) defector.com/an-evening-w...