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Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website. We write about sports, politics, TV, movies, science, weird shit that happens on the internet, and anything else that catches our attention, because we believe that a good publication is one that reflects the genuine interests and obsessions of its staff. We started this company because media […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Las Vegas Raiders - Defector
Aug 8, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Raiders, and we’ll deal with you later. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Raiders. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here Your Team: The Las Vegas Raiders. AhhhhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Your 2023 record: 8-9, and that’s […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Chicago Bears - Defector
Aug 2, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Chicago Bears. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Chicago Bears. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Chicago Bears. Please don’t do the “Da Bears” thing. Society moved on long ago. […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: New Orleans Saints - Defector
Aug 9, 2024 · Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: New Orleans Saints. Your 2023 record: 9-8. I swear! This team actually […]
Books You Can Read Tonight To Distract Yourself From Whatever …
Nov 5, 2024 · No one knows anything. Everyone claiming to know something is lying. The odds are 50-50, always, even if they say the odds are different. And though it can be a delicious hell to watch cable news and scroll on your phone all night, it does not make actually the election get decided any faster. In […]
Can Someone Please Write Normally About This Fascinating …
Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid-1970s, she was a pistol-packing Arizona refugee from her own abusive family and any number of atrocious foster homes. She met the novelist Cormac McCarthy by a motel […]
Your Luck's About To Change | Defector
Nov 14, 2024 · Free Fire, a nasty little movie I didn’t even know existed until a friend directed me to it a few months ago.Free Fire stars Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, and a pre-cancellation Armie Hammer as low-level gangsters in 1970s Boston (I’ll allow it) who meet up in a warehouse for an arms deal, only to have everything go to shit. A 90-minute firefight ensues.
Marc Caputo Leaves NBC News One Week After Gloating About …
Feb 1, 2023 · Politics reporter Marc Caputo announced on Tuesday that he is leaving his job at NBC News. This sudden career change comes one week after Caputo spent a day chronicling on Instagram his recent eviction of a tenant renting a home Caputo owns in Key West, through screenshots of text conversations with the tenant and property manager.
Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom
Aug 21, 2024 · Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly hesitant to identify as a fan of any living artist. There are plenty of artists whose work I like, or even love, but the entire concept of being a fan, and what the act of fandom entails, has shifted in ways I …
Normal Gossip - Defector
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers.