Samer
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Samer
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Managing Editor at Defector
Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...
Let's Check In With People Who Threatened To Leave Zohran Mamdani's NYC | Defector
When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist h...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…
defector.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’ve been browsing the grids everyone’s making and really enjoying it. This one looks like a captcha where you have to select all the nu-metal band members to prove you’re a human
September 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Somehow, getting on TV was the least eventful part of my Mets experience last night: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector
It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...
defector.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Concerning: During Tuesday’s MLB broadcast, TNT Sports gave airtime to a Palestinian with radical views. Read more here: defector.com/tnt-sports-a...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn't Defector | Defector
It wasn’t my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations about how it’d be great to catch some baseball, and eventually...
defector.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If the WNBA in fact provides no value to its owners and can't work as a business, why don't they just shut the league down?
WNBA Players Want To Share In The League's "Hypergrowth" | Defector
What money are WNBA players owed? The league’s biggest names got people asking this question Saturday night, when they all wore “Pay Us What You Owe Us” warmup T-shirts before the All-Star Game in Ind...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This week, the Defector staff was mentally Bill. Catch up with all the posts here: defector.com/category/bil...
Bills Week Archives | Defector
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July 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Today, we’re happy to share that Press Forward, a coalition of funders committed to strengthening local newsrooms, has awarded our group a grant to build shared services for independent, worker-friendly local media organizations. defector.com/we-won-a-grant
We Won A Grant | Defector
Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over the years to help other emerging worker-owned publications find their footing.…
defector.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The New York Times had to work with a eugenicist so they didn’t get scooped by a bigot: defector.com/the-new-york...
The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn't Get Scooped By A Bigot | Defector
On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 years ago, in an application form for a college that ultimately did not accep...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...
Kirsten Gillibrand Has A Racist Meltdown Over Zohran Mamdani On Public Radio | Defector
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary has led to a lot of vile reactions from across the political spectrum. That’d be expected from any Republican, but plenty of liberals are ...
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June 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Christine Brennan won’t rest until Caitlin Clark’s muscle strain is treated as a national crisis: defector.com/christine-br...
Christine Brennan Won't Rest Until Caitlin Clark's Muscle Strain Is Treated As A National Crisis | Defector
Credit where credit is due: USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan has tried very hard to establish herself as the nation’s foremost Caitlin Clark alarmist. Whenever something routine for a pro ...
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May 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The New York Times really asked Ms. Rachel if she’s paid by Hamas: defector.com/the-new-york...
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are…
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May 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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✨🏀 The (fifth!) annual Defector WNBA preview is up today! always fun to work on these…last year a player’s dad emailed me to complain about something I wrote lol defector.com/2025-wnba-se...
An Old Grudge, A New Team, A Swole Caitlin: The 2025 WNBA Season Preview | Defector
When the 2025 WNBA season tips off tonight, so much will be new: a new team, eight new head coaches, veterans in new places, and legions of new fans who saw the stupid fights we had online last year a...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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How the Japanese-American basketball leagues built Natalie Nakase: defector.com/how-the-japa...
May 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In an interview with Hell Gate, the woman who was attacked by a pro-Israel mob in Crown Heights last Thursday, including being repeatedly kicked and spat-on, says she's now afraid to walk in her own neighborhood, and blames the NYPD for failing to intervene.
Woman Attacked by Pro-Israel Mob: 'I'm Afraid to Walk Around My Own Neighborhood Now'
In an interview with Hell Gate, the woman blamed the NYPD for failing to intervene.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM