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The flannel dunce.
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'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

submitted 9 hours ago • 69 comments

New unpopular bookstore bit: describing books to my wife in a Bernie Sanders voice, e.g. "in Rachel Yoder's 'Nightbitch,' a women's dissatisfaction with her staid domestic life leads her to become a dog." Tough to do this quietly, but I imagine that skill will come with more repetitions.

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

That’s too many baseball cards! defector.com/thats-too-ma...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

The Aftermath Hours Inside Baseball Week worker-owned media roundtable special, featuring @defector.bsky.social, @404media.co, and @hellgatenyc.com aftermath.site/aftermath-ho...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Funny as it is to see this creepy dry well of an ideology getting covered at the classic 3:1 adherents-to-journalists ratio that applies to conservative stuff, I am baffled by the endless appetite in the press for more iterations of the same story. I know these people already, and have for years.

submitted 16 hours ago • 40 comments

love too play the hits

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Hmm this doesn't sound like him. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

We talked about The Big Fella. (I liked the season more than my fellow Reacher Squad members, but do think he is too big now) defector.com/is-reacher-t...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

The thing about this guy is that he’s a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

WHERE MY NY METS, HOMER’S ODYSSEY HEADS AT? HAVE WE GOT THE 5/15 @squawkinsports.bsky.social NIGHT FOR YOU! (Fine, Yankees Iliad fold too) greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Today's the last day of our sale on Defector subscriptions. Just 98 damn cents for the first month. And I promise it is almost comically easy to cancel if you hate it: just, like, three clicks. defector.com/enjoy-a-defe...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ideas

submitted 2 days ago • 573 comments

It is a testament to how incredibly good things are going overall that the Defector sale month is now cheaper than the price of two eggs. It is still a pretty good deal for Grade-A, cage-free blogs, though. defector.com/enjoy-a-defe...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

A good conversation about bad business/bad guys with Tim Marchman this week. defector.com/beavises-in-...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments