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Defector @defector.com · 6h

This time on Make It Nice: Where do you get nice curtains? defector.com/make-it-nice...

Make It Nice: Windows And Floors | Defector

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today we have a search for cool and cooling window treatments, a rehabbed Man Apartment, and a lecture about rugs. Noe…

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Defector @defector.com · 8h

How did Kelsey and Chris handle Chocolate Week? defector.com/the-not-so-g...

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Loses Its Cool For Chocolate Week | Defector

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home…

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Defector @defector.com · 10h

The pleasures of reading Jane Ellen Harrison defector.com/the-pleasure...

The Pleasures Of Reading Jane Ellen Harrison | Defector

When I was a child, I was a happy Catholic, not so much convinced of the truth of its theology as just swimming in waters in which I found myself born. Then, as an adolescent, I learned to put…

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Defector @defector.com · 10h

I can't stop thinking about this salted Vietnamese coffee: defector.com/i-cant-stop-...

I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Salted Vietnamese Coffee | Defector

Yes that’s a clickbait headline, but I wouldn’t go vintage Buzzfeed on you if I wasn’t being earnest. So let me tell you about this coffee I had the other night. I’m eating out at a fancy Vietnamese j...

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Defector @defector.com · 11h

Everybody hates Mike Lombardi: defector.com/everybody-ha...

Everybody Hates Mike Lombardi | Defector

Before I get to America’s leading football moron, here is a quick assessment of the college football landscape after Saturday’s games. Every team is horrible except for Ohio State, which crushed 17th-...

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Defector @defector.com · 12h

JAMBOROO: defector.com/how-slow-hor...

How 'Slow Horses' Explains The World | 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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Defector @defector.com · 13h

The season of the prayer face is upon us: defector.com/the-season-o...

The Season Of The Prayer Face Is Upon Us | Defector

October is the time when baseball becomes a test of fan endurance. It’s easy to spend a lazy July afternoon at your team’s ballpark with all of your worst drinking buddies. That’s entry-level baseball...

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Defector @defector.com · 14h

Get over here! It's crossword time: defector.com/the-crosswor...

The Crossword, Oct. 6: I'm A Dead Man | Defector

Get over here! It’s time to solve the Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Erica Wojcik, Chandi Deitmer, and Kate Hawkins, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Defector crosswords, launched…

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

"What a rare happiness, in this terrible year, to win a few stupid baseball games. I loved every second of the regular season." defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling…

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to its knees, the rest of the cycling world has picked up where Spanish protestors left off. defector.com/the-protests...

The Protests Against Israel–Premier Tech Worked | Defector

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to its knees, the rest of the cycling world has picked up where Spanish…

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

Is it finally time to give Johnny Cash his due? defector.com/breaking-som...

Here is a good test for any "it's finally time to" blog formulation. Simply insert the phrase "for me" in between "time" and "to." If this makes the headline a better representation of the blog's contents, or a more reasonable description of the overall situation, simply delete the blog and do a different blog about a whole other subject. Alternatively, paste the blog's headline into your personal calendar, so that you remember to do whatever the thing was. Hey, Jon Fasman, don't forget to give Johnny Cash his due today! You haven't taken care of that yet. All of the rest of us have already completed that task, collectively.

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

The Aces made their season from the muck: defector.com/the-aces-mad...

The Aces Made Their Season From The Muck | Defector

PHOENIX — Now they were just showing off, treating the crowd to an encore. Jackie Young zigged and zagged to the rim. Chelsea Gray’s strange-looking heaves swished in. NaLyssa Smith pulled down all th...

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

FUNBAG: defector.com/warning-the-...

Chuck:

If you could make your farts smell like one thing, what would it be? I think I'd go for Fruit Loops, or another cereal.

A: Fresh baked bread. Pleasant but not overpowering. Grocery stores would hire me to fart in their bakery section all day long. It’d be cool.

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

Kelsey McKinney on Taylor Swift: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

Prep for the day with the Defector College Football Watch Guide: defector.com/things-can-a...

Things Can Always Get Worse | Defector

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Only a few…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Who's afraid of the big Bad Bunny, and why? defector.com/whos-afraid-...

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Bunny, And Why? | Defector

When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the world, because Benito Martínez Ocasio is probably the single most versatile…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Here's everything you need to know about the NHL season: defector.com/whos-hot-and...

Who's Hot And Who's Not? A 2025–26 NHL Preview | Defector

[Ear-shaking siren noise] It’s time for the NHL season preview! Drop the needle on Stompin’ Tom. You probably get how most of this works by now, but I’ve got a new method of organizing the teams. I’m…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Eagles fans can go ahead and freak out now: defector.com/eagles-fans-...

Eagles Fans Can Go Ahead And Freak Out Now | Defector

In the immortal words of Comrade Xu, “There’s no need to overcomplicate things.” In discussing how the Philadelphia Phillies failed to beat the Los Angeles Thanos, that simple sentence explained in…

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2d

It is finally time for somebody to say CITIZEN KANE is a good movie: defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundred...

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 2d

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

What I'll remember about the Phillies: defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

The protests against Israel–Premier Tech worked: defector.com/the-protests...

The Protests Against Israel–Premier Tech Worked | Defector

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to its knees, the rest of the cycling world has picked up where Spanish…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

The zippy Brewers appear to have misplaced their magic: defector.com/the-zippy-br...

The Zippy Brewers Appear To Have Misplaced Their Magic | Defector

For the second game in a row, the Milwaukee Brewers allowed a handful of first-inning runs en route to a loss. Unlike in Wednesday’s close and competitive 4-3 defeat in Game 3, the Brewers in Game 4…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many…

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

How could the Free Press be worth a reported $150 million, and why is its oafish founder about to oversee a huge press operation? Respectively: It isn't, and she shouldn't. defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor…

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