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LeBron's agent openly suggests a trade for the Lakers on his podcast: defector.com/lebrons-agent-o…

LeBron's Agent Openly Suggests A Trade For The Lakers On His Podcast | Defector

The podcast medium is, among other things, an effective technology for getting people to say extremely ill-advised stuff in public. Ultra-powerful sports agents are no exception. Rich Paul, CEO of...

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What it's like when ICE invades your city: defector.com/what-its-like-w…

What It's Like When ICE Invades Your City, With Arif Hasan | Defector

It is one of the rules of podcasting: If you can avoid it, which you generally can, you should avoid the “A Truly Sad Week In America, Plus The 2005 NBA Redraftables” trap. This trap’s extremely...

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The deadline to apply for Defector's editorial internship is TOMORROW: defector.com/would-you-like-…

Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector

Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector...

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Fuck the fourth-down bluff: defector.com/fuck-the-fourth…

Fuck The Fourth-Down Bluff | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at...

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The three words that best describe the New York Rangers are as follows: Stink, stank, stunk. defector.com/the-three-words…

The Three Words That Best Describe The New York Rangers Are As Follows: Stink, Stank, Stunk |...

They say that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. The way they played on Wednesday night, the Rangers couldn’t make it in a beer league rink in Binghamton. Facing the Ottawa...

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CBS News is the Trump administration's new laundromat: defector.com/cbs-news-is-the…

CBS News Is The Trump Administration's New Laundromat | Defector

Back in December, CBS News chief Bari Weiss intervened to spike a deeply reported and extensively documented 60 Minutes story about conditions faced by captives sent by the Trump administration to El...

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Fascists are pathetic: defector.com/fascists-are-pa…

Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector

Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on Twitter. “Why did...

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This worm is a Millennial: defector.com/this-worm-is-a-…

This Worm Is A Millennial | Defector

Sometime in the late 1990s, an adult ribbon worm was scooped up from the murk in the waters off the San Juan Islands, in the Pacific Northwest. He was moved to a tank along with a smattering of other...

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The operating principle of JD Vance's life in politics seems to be as follows: How can I serve every powerful person while appealing to literally no normal person? defector.com/jd-vance-is-a-h…

JD Vance Is A Hog That'll Eat Any Slop | Defector

The operating principle of JD Vance’s life in politics seems to be as follows: How can I serve every powerful person while appealing to literally no normal person? There is no boot he won’t lick, no...

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FUNBAG: defector.com/a-belated-revie…

A Belated Review Of 'Stranger Things' Season 5 (Which Sucked A Fat One) | Defector

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking...

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Is eight dollars five dollars? Or is eight dollars 10 dollars? defector.com/how-much-is-eig…

How Much Is Eight Dollars? | Defector

You heard me. Is eight dollars five dollars? Or is eight dollars 10 dollars? Why are you making that face right now? Stop making faces and answer the question: How much is eight bucks? Stephen...

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The Blue Jackets are the fun kind of bad team: defector.com/the-blue-jacket…

The Blue Jackets Are The Fun Kind Of Bad Team | Defector

The Columbus Blue Jackets play hockey like they’re skating on some sort of ice treadmill: You see a lot of effort, but they don’t actually go anywhere. This is a squad that always listens to those...

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Stephen A. Smith attributes outstanding NFL performance to the late Charlie Kirk: defector.com/stephen-a-smith…

Stephen A. Smith Attributes Outstanding NFL Performance To The Late Charlie Kirk | Defector

On Tuesday’s edition of ESPN’s First Take, Stephen A. Smith described a football game that could not have occurred in our earthly realm. “We saw Charlie Kirk catch eight receptions for 144 yards,” he...

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Let your buyers become your criers when you pull the rug out from beneath the table of success: defector.com/let-your-buyers…

Let Your Buyers Become Your Criers When You Pull The Rug Out From Beneath The Table Of Success |...

I have some unsurprising news: Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched a memecoin to combat antisemitism, and someone connected to the coin’s launch appears to have executed a clean rug pull...

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CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil is stuck in an endless loop of humiliation: defector.com/cbs-anchor-tony…

CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil Is Stuck In An Endless Loop Of Humiliation | Defector

The new era of CBS Evening News, under the editorial direction of Bari Weiss and featuring new anchor Tony Dokoupil, is off to a rough start. Weiss is meddling and pouting, Dokoupil is not ready for...

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How Michigan's man on the inside got caught: defector.com/how-michigans-m…

How Michigan's Man On The Inside Got Caught | Defector

The 2023-24 Michigan Wolverines season was a campaign of maximalism. Not only because they went 15-0 and won the National Championship, but because they did so while packing a decade’s worth of...

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Giannis Antetokounmpo is curdling: defector.com/giannis-antetok…

Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Curdling | Defector

Giannis Antetokounmpo is having a bad time. He opened the second half of Tuesday’s home game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with a baseline spin into a tough contested layup over Julius Randle,...

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‘The Disintegration Loops’ are music’s loveliest death: defector.com/the-disintegrat…

'The Disintegration Loops' Are Music's Loveliest Death | Defector

It is hard to say what mood I need to be in to have the urge to put on The Disintegration Loops, because it is hard to say what mood they express. The same five- or 10-second loop, so obviously...

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Real Madrid cuts down its fall guy: defector.com/real-madrid-cut…
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If Bari Weiss is exceptional, it's only in her knack for making a spectacle of the sort of things that slicker operators in media say and do all the time without causing too much of a fuss. defector.com/bari-weiss-is-t…

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom | Defector

Who says Bari Weiss doesn’t know how to run a newsroom? “My general view here,” the CBS News editor-in-chief wrote in a memo before shelving the now-infamous 60 Minutes report on El Salvador’s CECOT...

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