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the place next door to me is an Airbnb that I believe has 2 bedrooms. just watched 13 college-aged girls pile out of there like a clown car

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I hate making angry phone calls, I hate engaging with these ghouls, I’m sure you do too, but: it’s a beautiful day to call Gillibrand’s office, especially if you’re one of her constituents, and express your outrage at her hideous Islamophobia and outright lies. NYC office: (212) 688-6262

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

I watched the Alex Cooper documentary and didn’t much care for the experience

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 97 comments

The politics of fear don't work against a candidate who isn't scared: defector.com/the-politics...

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Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.

submitted 2 days ago • 154 comments

defector.com/the-plight-o... “what's really happening is that, in response to historic declines in literature’s value, the industry has itself become a site of more contingent and more precarious work that is more often done by women”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Wait, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social AND @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social are publishing in @defector.com??? I originally signed up for the annual haters guide to W-S, and now I get all this too?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the number of smug awful dipshits I hate who are having a bad night tonight lmao

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

god damn this feels amazing

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I hate to do this, but please subscribe to Defector if you do not. It's a good value, and doing important, full-newsroom coverage of vital and under-reported stories like this is expensive. I happen to believe it's worth it.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

this was fun and cathartic thanks Andy Perluzzo, who helped with stats, and @brandyjensen.bsky.social‬ @defector.com mistakes all mine of course

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have white men really been driven out of publishing by wokeness? a very smart and sensible corrective from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social

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I wrote about shitty elites rallying behind a truly shitty elite in the NYC mayoral election and the promise and possibility of an ending. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

lmao of course

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

a weird/horrible habit I’ve noticed in romantasy books: Sentences. Punctuated. Like. This.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

Pretty good summary of the second Trump term so far: a visibly checked out parrothead-coded fascist telling a couple of congressmen to fuck off.

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recommended some books

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Books we think you should read this summer:

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i keep cracking up at this post on AI writing

submitted 10 days ago • 99 comments

not to expose myself as insufficiently cynical but I’m actually kind of shocked at how bad this is across multiple levels—as a piece of analysis, as a piece of rhetoric, and as a deployment of the NYT’s outsized power in this specific instance

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

loved reading this book loved talking about this book

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

nobody lives forever but you write God Only Knows and you live forever

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Episode 36 (double chai!) is live! The gang revels in their love for Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS. onebrightbook.com/2025/06/11/e...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

spent 9 hours in the car yesterday and came away convinced of a few truths. the first one being that She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles) is the best country music song title ever written

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

jesus christ lmao

submitted 20 days ago • 221 comments

What world does bitcoin want to build for itself? I spent last week at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas trying to find out: defector.com/what-world-d...

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

This week's guest on Normal Gossip is @brandyjensen.bsky.social! defector.com/spontaneous-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

RIP to a real one

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For the third time in as many days, Palestinians in Gaza have been shot while trying to get food. Israel has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire on people who were approaching them.

submitted 24 days ago • 46 comments

“Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest.”

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments