Finally… news for MEN
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Finally… news for MEN
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There are Bari Weisses everywhere for those with the eyes to see defector.com/bari-weiss-i...
Bari Weiss Is The Symptom | Defector
Who says Bari Weiss doesn’t know how to run a newsroom? “My general view here,” the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in a memo before shelving the now-infamous 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT c...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
There are Bari Weisses everywhere for those with the eyes to see defector.com/bari-weiss-i...
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Hard to get more racist than “I miss rhodesia“
January 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Hard to get more racist than “I miss rhodesia“
Rolling Stone makes the absurd claim that women are not allowed to sing in Gaza: defector.com/rolling-ston...
Rolling Stone Makes The Absurd Claim That Women Are Not Allowed To Sing In Gaza | Defector
This week, Rolling Stone published an article in which writer Marisa Fox interviewed hostages who were held in Gaza after Oct. 7, talking to them about how music helped them. The artists mentioned in ...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Rolling Stone makes the absurd claim that women are not allowed to sing in Gaza: defector.com/rolling-ston...
Last year, ICE agents used Canary Mission to kidnap pro-Palestine students for deportation. Yesterday, they prevented medical aid from reaching Renee Nicole Good. American law enforcement was already in horrific shape; it’s getting even worse in distinct ways. defector.com/ice-is-model...
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 ...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Last year, ICE agents used Canary Mission to kidnap pro-Palestine students for deportation. Yesterday, they prevented medical aid from reaching Renee Nicole Good. American law enforcement was already in horrific shape; it’s getting even worse in distinct ways. defector.com/ice-is-model...
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Time for some tortured prose. At 1 p.m. ET today, the Defector Twitch stream will present the nominees for the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Time for some tortured prose. At 1 p.m. ET today, the Defector Twitch stream will present the nominees for the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia
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The ADL is having a Mamdani meltdown: defector.com/the-adl-is-h...
The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown | Defector
The focus of the Anti-Defamation League has become entirely warped. Support for Israel was always part of the organization’s goals, but typically that was nested within a broader declaration to fight ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The ADL is having a Mamdani meltdown: defector.com/the-adl-is-h...
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...
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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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Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...
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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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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...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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This is who Charlie Kirk was: defector.com/this-is-who-...
This Is Who Charlie Kirk Was | Defector
Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a bigo...
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September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is who Charlie Kirk was: defector.com/this-is-who-...
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Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...
I’ve been browsing the grids everyone’s making and really enjoying it. This one looks like a captcha where you have to select all the nu-metal band members to prove you’re a human
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’ve been browsing the grids everyone’s making and really enjoying it. This one looks like a captcha where you have to select all the nu-metal band members to prove you’re a human
Somehow, getting on TV was the least eventful part of my Mets experience last night: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector
It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Somehow, getting on TV was the least eventful part of my Mets experience last night: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
Concerning: During Tuesday’s MLB broadcast, TNT Sports gave airtime to a Palestinian with radical views. Read more here: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector
It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...
defector.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Concerning: During Tuesday’s MLB broadcast, TNT Sports gave airtime to a Palestinian with radical views. Read more here: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
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August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Writing this was cathartic, in a way: defector.com/why-your-tea...
Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New England Patriots | Defector
Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all th...
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July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Writing this was cathartic, in a way: defector.com/why-your-tea...
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If the WNBA in fact provides no value to its owners and can't work as a business, why don't they just shut the league down?
WNBA Players Want To Share In The League's "Hypergrowth" | Defector
What money are WNBA players owed? The league’s biggest names got people asking this question Saturday night, when they all wore “Pay Us What You Owe Us” warmup T-shirts before the All-Star Game in Ind...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If the WNBA in fact provides no value to its owners and can't work as a business, why don't they just shut the league down?
This week, the Defector staff was mentally Bill. Catch up with all the posts here: defector.com/category/bil...
Bills Week Archives | Defector
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July 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This week, the Defector staff was mentally Bill. Catch up with all the posts here: defector.com/category/bil...
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Today, we’re happy to share that Press Forward, a coalition of funders committed to strengthening local newsrooms, has awarded our group a grant to build shared services for independent, worker-friendly local media organizations. defector.com/we-won-a-grant
We Won A Grant | Defector
Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over the years to help other emerging worker-owned publications find their footing.…
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July 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today, we’re happy to share that Press Forward, a coalition of funders committed to strengthening local newsrooms, has awarded our group a grant to build shared services for independent, worker-friendly local media organizations. defector.com/we-won-a-grant
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all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...
Christine Brennan's Caitlin Clark Book Is More About Gripes Than Greatness | Defector
Before one copy showed up on a bookstore shelf, Christine Brennan’s new book had women’s basketball abuzz. The longtime sports columnist began reporting On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution i...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
all I'm saying is that books should be well-written and teach me something new. defector.com/christine-br...
The New York Times had to work with a eugenicist so they didn’t get scooped by a bigot: defector.com/the-new-york...
The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn't Get Scooped By A Bigot | Defector
On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 years ago, in an application form for a college that ultimately did not accep...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The New York Times had to work with a eugenicist so they didn’t get scooped by a bigot: defector.com/the-new-york...
Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...
Kirsten Gillibrand Has A Racist Meltdown Over Zohran Mamdani On Public Radio | Defector
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary has led to a lot of vile reactions from across the political spectrum. That’d be expected from any Republican, but plenty of liberals are ...
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June 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...
The politics of fear don’t work against a candidate who isn’t scared: defector.com/the-politics...
The Politics Of Fear Don’t Work Against A Candidate Who Isn’t Scared | Defector
If there is one takeaway from Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, it’s that there is no one takeaway. The democratic socialist and his wide-ranging can...
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June 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The politics of fear don’t work against a candidate who isn’t scared: defector.com/the-politics...
Christine Brennan won’t rest until Caitlin Clark’s muscle strain is treated as a national crisis: defector.com/christine-br...
Christine Brennan Won't Rest Until Caitlin Clark's Muscle Strain Is Treated As A National Crisis | Defector
Credit where credit is due: USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan has tried very hard to establish herself as the nation’s foremost Caitlin Clark alarmist. Whenever something routine for a pro ...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Christine Brennan won’t rest until Caitlin Clark’s muscle strain is treated as a national crisis: defector.com/christine-br...