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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 21/07/2026

The Kids Are Alright: Horror Books for 11-12 Year Olds, Part 2 How a school librarian selects the best horror books for 11-12 year olds, based on 11,000 pupil reviews and a reading challenge that changed borrowing habits. gnofhorror.com/the-kids-are... @jonezyboy.bsky.social

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is way too close. This court seems hellbent on overturning the Reconstruction Amendments & the civil rights movements of the 20th & 21st centuries. I don’t see how we remain a democracy without reforming the court in the next presidency.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I like that “Widow’s Bay” is from a “Parks and Recreation” writer and answers the question, “What if they made a whole show out of the Pawnee City Hall murals?”

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

me: girl i am not wearing that, it's not my color marie curie [applying radium mascara]: we're getting rid of colors. it's going to be the only color. we're going to make you wear it.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Every American deserves free access to whatever level of medical care keeps our president from collapsing into a pile of wet bones day after day.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 05/06/2026

Recency bias: Every single story on the post office’s woes should include a paragraph explaining that no one thought it needed to break even until Reagan came along. It’s a public service. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

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Postal Service Frees Up Enough Cash to Keep Operating for ‘Several Years’

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 04/06/2026

Congratulations to the alchemist wizards on their excellent wishing!

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"Creators who get sucked into bad deals in the next 18 months will be the ones who mistake Hollywood’s sudden interest for validation. Please know that Hollywood is trying to import an asset it doesn’t know how to build internally. That’s leverage and should be treated as such."

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Long before my hair went gray, I was a "straight" kid with a love for multi-cam TV production who moved to New York to intern for his favorite late night show. Tonight's gonna hurt. popheist.com/late-show-my...

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‘Late Show’ Changed My Life: An Intern’s 2006 MySpace Blog - Pop Heist

Why does the end of 'The Late Show' mean so much to me? Because I crammed four years of a college experience into four months.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Only in Tennessee — Ummm… maybe someone should tell Knox County Schools ‘ROOTS’, the novel about Black history they just banned… is a STATE BOOK 📕 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

*stares in what the fuck*

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Zuckerberg stole my books and I would very much like to meet him in person for a “conversation.”

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

zero hyperbole one of the best episodes of television ever made

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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hey, the Columbus OH library asked me to visit and have a conversation with @bethmacy.bsky.social so I am. Not only is Beth a bestselling author but she’s running for Congress in Virginia. Come see if we can get banned from Ohio. May 3, 2 pm. events.columbuslibrary.org/event/15523240

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Author Brian Alexander in conversation with BETH MACY, about her award-winning books that examine rural communities left behind by corporate greed and political indifference.. Event starts at May 3, 2...

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 07/04/2026

It's us, you guys. He's talking about us. Swan Lake gifs are the new black squares on everyone's social media. Let's make it happen.

Screenshot of the tv broadcast of the ballet Swan Lake from the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 07/04/2026

The Uno Reverse Law is in full effect, as always. Today is the last day of American civilization, unless something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 31/03/2026

This is spot the fuck on about hollywood, and I’d pay be curious to get past the paywall, but cannot spend $5 to read things I already know to be true. Maybe you would like to, however!

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Millennial Careers are Breaking Down: ‘I’m Just Trying to Survive’

Stalled careers, rising costs and the quiet calculation of how long this still works in part two of The Disappearing Ladder

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

RIP, Eric Overmyer. Wrote on The Wire. Co-created Treme. Created Bosch. One of the few writer/producers, both working with David Simon and on his own, who actually knew how to make the "every season of our show is a Novel For Television" structure work.

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 13/03/2026

What your employer tells you when you ask when you get health insurance.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 23/02/2026

Was this the greatest figure skating event in my lifetime? Right now I would say yes

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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 23/02/2026

Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models

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sean @snkhn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

subscribe to defector: defector.beehiiv.com/p/journalism...

Have you seen the news? Or, not the news, but the press releases? “Prediction markets,” which are fundamentally gambling companies that benefit from preferential regulatory treatment, are shacking up with putative “news organizations.”

In December, CNN and CNBC signed “multi-year exclusive partnerships with prediction market platform Kalshi to integrate event-based probabilities across its TV, digital, and subscription products from 2026.” Polymarket has cut similar deals with Dow Jones, Yahoo, and Substack.

This is a familiar playbook. Outside of Defector and a few other oases, contemporary sports media primarily functions as the top of the funnel for gambling interests. There is an addled, soulless logic to running this scheme back with the political and financial press.

To their credit (?), Polymarket has put a fresh coat of heavily leaded paint on the approach: The post announcing their Substack deal highlights an anti-vaccine and pro-Ghislaine-Maxwell influencer linking to the odds that the US government confirms that aliens are real. They expect you to regard this as the future of journalism; it is followed by a disclaimer that none of this “financial, investment, legal or any other type of professional advice.”

I’ll grant that this is one possible future of journalism. But Defector is another, better future. We don’t feed our readers to gambling companies; we don’t use generative AI; we don’t have outside investors to please. Subscribers enable our critical, independent stance. If you’re as sick of this shit as I am, please consider becoming one.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Like, this is no different than the video of the guy telling the person in the car that it was their one warning to stop. It’s not rogue officers. It’s the whole mindset.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It’s not a contest to see how much grief you can consume in one sitting. You know enough about what’s happening to understand that it’s evil & wrong. You don’t have to inflict more harm on yourself. Find the small things you can do—& do them as you can, with care. Support others doing the same.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026

Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 03/01/2026

250 years feels a lot more like an expiration date than it does like a birthday...

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I can't even be outraged by this guy anymore. If Congress wasn't a joke, with roughly half its members consistently putting party over country, he never would've made it to a second term.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“Don’t play games.” - Marco Rubio, after participating in a lawless invasion of another country and the decapitation of its government

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm not a historian but my analysis is it's "Not good" when a government constantly commits crimes and tells the legislature, courts, and general public "What are you gonna do about it"

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 04/12/2025

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Said it before and I'll say it again - if you look at every awful Rogansphere inspired "comedy" trend of recent years and think "I kind of want the exact opposite of that", Josh is pretty much your guy. Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 17/12/2025

@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder. Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Until one of these guys faces serious prison time they’re going to keep leaning into their atrocities and asking with a smirk if we’re triggered

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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