Reposted by Brandy Jensenryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8h"With that established reality, the Daily Wire is given no choice but to push hard on the message that Muslims are doing a long con as sleeper agents, ready to establish a caliphate at a Virginia college, of all places." defector.com/finally-a-sh...defector.comFinally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | DefectorI can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg... 2867
Reposted by Brandy JensenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 9886932146
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 6hthe genius Sophie Abromowitz is back with an essay on Resident Evil and addictiondefector.comAccept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus... 07113
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨defector.comFinally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | DefectorI can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg... 425329
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 25/09/2026Paula González-Nasser gives location scouts their due: defector.com/paula-gonzal...defector.comPaula González-Nasser Gives Location Scouts Their Due | DefectorSofia rises early to drive from Brooklyn to the Manhattan production office where she works as a location scout. She’s tasked with finding spots in which to film an upcoming television pilot: a few… 0142
Reposted by Brandy JensenDaramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ turns 30 today. I wrote about the album, its immediate failure, its delayed success and how it has aged alongside how I’ve aged. A toast to God’s horniest soldier! defector.com/revisiting-w...defector.comRevisiting Weezer’s Cringe Masterpiece At 30 | DefectorThe second project is probably always the hardest. This is especially true if it follows a successful debut. You make something great, and by some act of the gods it catches fire and becomes the new, ... 1411826
Reposted by Brandy JensenAustin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...unduemedicaldebt.orgWhen Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things HappenHow I’d Fix Atlanta was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […] 31227146
Reposted by Brandy JensenBarry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Such a fun story: defector.com/how-one-tric...defector.comHow One Trick Play Tells The History Of Football | DefectorWhen I called up my grandfather Irwin Miller last fall, I asked him if he felt his age. “Uh, no, probably 94,” he said, laughing as he shaved off three years. “The body feels 97, the head doesn’t, tha... 2608
Reposted by Brandy JensenRobert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Many thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for letting me write about the blessed rise and mixed returns of prestige indie action cinema for @defector.com: defector.com/two-indie-ac...defector.comTwo Indie Action Films, One Clear Winner | DefectorAdam Wingard opens his new movie, Onslaught, with a brainrot history of the military industrial complex, a slipshod compilation of combat footage, political speechmaking, and behind-the-headlines cons... 0282
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 21/09/2026Ed Sheeran delivers pointless statement then cries during latest concert: defector.com/ed-sheeran-d...defector.comEd Sheeran Delivers Pointless Statement Then Cries During Latest Concert | DefectorThis past weekend, Ed Sheeran performed his first concert since decrepit Patriots owner Robert Kraft stuck his hand up the singer’s ass and made him respect Israel. The culturally Irish but… 2058477
Reposted by Brandy JensenLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember when the centrist groupthinkers like @mattyglesias.bsky.social and @jonathanbchait.bsky.social types held Golden up as a model for the Democratic party? 212414
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026what’s this? an interview with China Miéville on Defector? that’s rightdefector.comChina Miéville On The “Completely Defining” Book It Took 20 Years To Write | DefectorIt takes an open mind to engage with China Miéville’s work. A writer for whom the already cliched phrase “genre-bending” is even more banal, Miéville has never opposed the designation of genre writer.... 1237547
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026got rolled by some children who persuaded me to buy lemonade at a red light then told me it wouldn’t be ready for another 10 minutes 2261326
Reposted by Brandy JensenSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think about this essay all the time 310937
Reposted by Brandy Jensengiri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026full interview: youtu.be/BL8dNHrC_fc?...youtu.beGiri Nathan On Tennis & The Spectacle Of The U.S. Open | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 17810
Reposted by Brandy JensenFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 16/09/2026I spent nearly two years talking to former players & fans of the WNBA’s Miami Sol without knowing if the story would find a home. Here it is at @defector.com, about what modern league expansion can learn from the team’s all-too-brief existence.defector.comThe Miami Sol's Needless Demise Provided A Familiar Lesson | DefectorFor a brief period two decades ago, Miami was an amazing place to be a fan of women’s professional basketball. The team had a roster full of promise and reached the playoffs in their second season of ... 217844
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 15/09/2026Arch Manning, room full of dipshits, snicker about AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe: defector.com/arch-manning...defector.comArch Manning, Room Full Of Dipshits, Snicker About AI Video Of Steve Sarkisian Slapping Holly Rowe | DefectorFair warning: This is a short blog post in which you are going to encounter exhausting behavior from some fellas who will leave you pining for the restoration of our culture’s sense of shame. Texas be... 24594119
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 11/09/2026How an unsubtle 9/11 tribute was added to Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' defector.com/how-an-unsub...defector.comHow An Unsubtle 9/11 Tribute Was Added To Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' | DefectorName an iconic scene from the first Spider-Man movie, the one directed by Sam Raimi that came out in 2002. You’re saying it’s the upside-down kiss? Yeah, that’s fair. Let me ask my question in a… 18019
Reposted by Brandy JensenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad. 352512636
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yet another great day to be a member of the Giri Nathan Fan Club 3857
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 10/09/2026What gets left out of math's new era? defector.com/what-gets-le...defector.comWhat Gets Left Out Of Math's New Era? | DefectorThe science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed” has had different shades of meaning since it was first… 1284
Reposted by Brandy Jensen#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 08/09/2026Funny for Moskowitz to say this two weeks after he was promoted by Hakeem Jeffries to ranking member on the House's Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, despite holding positions on Israel-Palestine out of lockstep with 80% of the party electorate. 14791132
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 09/09/2026'Furious' is not a girlboss fantasy. Instead, it’s a story of our world—a world in which women are sidelined, beaten, raped, and killed with impunity—and the women who try, in their own mangled ways, to resist it. defector.com/furious-make...defector.com‘Furious’ Makes You Face It | DefectorIn her 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich lists over 60 examples of systematized female oppression. To name a few: the power of men to deny women their… 36410
Reposted by Brandy JensenAbigail Segel @abigailsegel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Sterling Point" is a brilliant and wonderfully Canadian show about growing up, friendship, romance, and, more than anything, sisterhood. I wrote a review: defector.com/summer-may-b...defector.comSummer May Be Ending, But We’ll Always Have ‘Sterling Point’ | Defector“I’m coming to the cottage,” Ilya Rozanov growled, and Canada has never been the same—at least the American film and TV industry’s depiction of it. The final episode of the first season of Heated Riva... 0223
Reposted by Brandy JensenVikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Wrote about IT ENDS, one of my favorites of the year, its scrappy production (sorta reminiscent of how the Coens funded BLOOD SIMPLE), and the importance of "touching grass," i.e., talking bullshit with your friends for @defector.com Check it out! defector.com/it-ends-is-t...defector.com‘It Ends’ Is The Gen Z Horror Movie Of The Year | DefectorEarlier this year, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons became young Hollywood phenoms in quick succession. An actor and sketch comedian, the 26-year-old Barker wrote, edited, and directed Obsession, which i... 211521
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 03/09/2026'It Ends' is the Gen Z horror movie of the year: defector.com/it-ends-is-t...defector.com‘It Ends’ Is The Gen Z Horror Movie Of The Year | DefectorEarlier this year, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons became young Hollywood phenoms in quick succession. An actor and sketch comedian, the 26-year-old Barker wrote, edited, and directed Obsession, which… 1283
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Dick Wolf is out here making shows you wouldn’t believe. I saw a recent procedural called FBI: International where in the first episode they arrest the Ukrainian Defense Minister as part of a sex trafficking investigation. They have a dog on the team who helps apprehend suspects. 2964938
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 02/09/2026It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...defector.comIt’s Time To Grow Up | DefectorHBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but… 211079338
Reposted by Brandy JensenJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 596165407118
Reposted by Brandy Jensen#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/09/2026The Financial Times calls on the EU to suspend its entire association agreement, which covers trade and scientific cooperation as well as cultural initiatives, with Israel over Israel's "de facto annexation" of the illegally occupied West Bank. They also call for a trade ban on settler goods.ft.comIsrael’s de facto annexation of the West BankNew housing tenders could end chance of a contiguous Palestinian state 6503162
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 01/09/2026CBS News now performing oafish racism on behalf of Bari Weiss: defector.com/cbs-news-now...defector.comCBS News Now Performing Oafish Racism On Behalf Of Bari Weiss | DefectorIt did not take a lot of special insight to suspect that recently installed CBS News boss Bari Weiss played some role in the production of a story the outlet ran on Monday, headlined “Michigan… 1141175
Reposted by Brandy JensenJoel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:defector.comWhat Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | DefectorIf you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh... 1023479
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 01/09/2026What do booksellers make of "the end of reading"? defector.com/what-do-book...defector.comWhat Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | DefectorIf you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a… 4326
Reposted by Brandy JensenBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviellodefector.comDolly, Josephine, And Me | DefectorLike all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ... 515430
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026and a sweet little blog from @heyydnae.bsky.social. This concludes Dolly Sunday at Defector 0403
Reposted by Brandy JensenChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife" is an absolute hall of fame all-timer 391595258
Reposted by Brandy JensenAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"What could be more remarkable, more humanly admirable, than the impulse to create a world of happiness for the people you love most to do so without any workable model to draw on, any inherited template for how that would work +how it would be done?" always lovely pete defector.com/dolly-joseph...defector.comDolly, Josephine, And Me | DefectorLike all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ... 0467
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviellodefector.comDolly, Josephine, And Me | DefectorLike all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ... 515430
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026always such a pleasure to have @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the site 3688
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 28/08/2026There is only one lesson of Red Vienna: defector.com/there-is-onl...defector.comThere Is Only One Lesson Of Red Vienna | DefectorTwo things are true about me: I hate rich people and I love architecture. These days, that presents a terrible contradiction because only the extremely rich are able to finance the perpetuation of… 36820
Reposted by Brandy Jensen#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/08/2026The Israeli commander who personally ordered the airstrikes on seven World Central Kitchen workers who were murdered in cold blood says that he is not sorry and falsely claims that the WCK has ties to Hamas. WCK is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."abc.net.auIsraeli commander defends ordering strike that killed Zomi FrankcomAn Israeli commander who ordered a deadly drone strike on an aid convoy in Gaza, killing Australian woman Zomi Frankcom, says he stands by his decision. 241809691
Reposted by Brandy JensenDefector @defector.com · 27/08/2026What do the Red Hot Chili Peppers stand for? Surely they stand for something. defector.com/the-red-hot-...defector.comThe Red Hot Chili Peppers Beyond Good And Evil | DefectorCalifornia: Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It is the edge of the continent, it is the apocalypse state, and it is the subject of many songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, though fewer than you might… 6393
Reposted by Brandy JensenAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Economic of the Zohranmarket" LOL at this banger opening by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/rent-alway... 4598135
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026brilliant essay on The Red Hot Chili Peppers, including brief considerations of the great work of literary naturalism, McTeague, the regression enabled by California, and why Blood Sugar Sex Magik sounds so gooddefector.comThe Red Hot Chili Peppers Beyond Good and Evil | DefectorCalifornia. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It is the edge of the continent, it is the apocalypse state, and it is the subject of many songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, though fewer than you might think... 26911
