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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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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 25/06/2026

Doesn't this interpretation logically mean every border patrol officer blocking the path of these immigrants is technically standing in another country, and therefore, like, an invading army?

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

So, a wizard is in the game, I think.

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 03/06/2026

You've already seized the means of production, kids.

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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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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 08/05/2026

Robust is a pretty weird word to use

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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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Beth Macy

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 · 18/04/2026

I wish it weren't all so relatable!

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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 08/04/2026

"Just hangin' around" - a Constitutional injury since 1787.

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

This is how the democratic minority stays the democratic minority.

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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 · 04/04/2026

This was so much fun! Hope it was as much of a blast to make it.

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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 · 17/03/2026

I want the podcaster guy to ask him if he believes other people really exist; I think there's like a 60% chance he says "well obviously I can't actually prove other people are real." In which case I think we can just lock him in a room with an LLM for a decade and use his money to build some schools

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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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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 12/03/2026

Every accusation they make about someone else is a confession about themselves.

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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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Justin Weinberger @justinweinberger.com · 20/02/2026

The "Uno Reverse" is this guy's one move.

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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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