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For this week’s JAMBOROO, you get a serving of blue meat braised in some earned cynicism defector.com/a-blue-wave-...

Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:

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"This is a full-blown PR crisis, which Kraft is handling the only way a billionaire knows how: throwing the barest fraction of his wealth at the problem, and issuing a statement more empty than the feeling inside Drake Maye’s stomach after throwing 3 picks in Seattle." defector.com/everybody-ha...

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this.

“I found myself defending a religion I was not particularly attached to but one that was persistently attached to me. So, for the first time in my life, I was defined by what I was not more than by what I was.” - @arif.bsky.social wideleft.football/p/9-11-and-h...

Thank you, guys, for consuming our reporting. Here's our new episode reacting to the NBA ruling: www.youtube.com/live/ENBv21u...

And so we’ve reached the end… here is the final episode of The Distraction, featuring original cohost @timmarchman.bsky.social. Thanks for listening, everybody. art19.com/shows/the-di...

Easily one of hardest images of the 21st century. Instantly iconic.

Edit of Spider-Man fighting fascism during Jake Lang’s very short protest in front of Minneapolis city hall today

ALT version.

For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.

I tried not to be too mawkish in the blog or the episode, but this is the second-to-last ep of The Distraction and I have had some sentimental feelings about it. Mostly I am very grateful to have gotten to do stuff this dumb and call it work for so many years. BUT [1/2] defector.com/the-sun-is-s...

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

“I’ve learned the hard way that a person who’s honest is never going to be a match for someone who lies for a living.” My extensive conversation with Craig Newmark. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

“Our piece of shit failson owner hosted Charlie Kirk’s funeral at State Farm Stadium, yet somehow the Cardinals’ collapse against the Titans in Week 5 is still the worst thing I saw in that place last year.” HEAR IT FROM CARDINALS FANS! defector.com/why-your-tea...

And so it begins. Why Your Team Sucks 2026 kicks off, fittingly, with the sorryass RAIDERS. Happy football season, everyone. defector.com/why-your-tea...

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

“I spent every USMNT game waiting for this man to do something cool with the ball, and then focusing my attention on players like Balogun instead. And not because Balogun was newer than Pulisic but because he was better.” www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

“My daughter asked me which Beatle would be Darth's favorite. 48 hours of thinking, and I'm not sure. Who ya got?” FUNBAG. defector.com/a-clueless-s...

“The NFL serves as perhaps our most visible proving ground for what Americans say they won’t tolerate versus what they actually won’t tolerate. There isn’t a set of hard criteria for this,l. If there were, SCOTUS would already be a pile of ashes by now. Oh, to dream.” www.sfgate.com/49ers/articl...

Gift link ;) www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

Students for Trump co-founder Ryan Fournier arrested on domestic violence charges, allegedly yelled “Do you want to die today?” defector.com/students-for...

This one's a Defector exclusive.

All the Stephon Castle dunk replays + Wemby's reaction

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

BREAKING! Today the UCP not only voted to circumvent the Chief Justice of Alberta, but they also voted to hide the letter the Chief Justice wrote raising concerns about the UCP's boundary process! We have the text of the letter in our new Substack! #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

The good news is that Alberta's Chief Justices refuse to provide any judicial sanction to Premier Smith's efforts to undermine the ordinary process for the review of electoral boundaries. This is now way too political for any judge, sitting or retired, to accept such an appointment. #ableg #abpoli

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

They are playing for all the marbles. This is their last chance to create the Confederacy. They'll burn it all down.

InfoWars chief Tim Heidecker talks to UNHINGED caller “AJ”. Check out theonion.info for this and more urgent news.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

HOLY SHIT @pablo.show CONGRATS!!!

I think this may be a lucid dream tbh

Tony Kornheiser & Mike Wilbon shoutout @pablo.show for winning the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting

The most coveted free agent in American politics is "The Genocide Ogre."

RJ BARRETT HITS THE GO-AHEAD 3 IN OT TO WIN IT FOR THE RAPTORS AND FORCE GAME 7 🚨 WHAT A SHOT WITH THE SEASON ON THE LINE 😲

RJ BARRETT "CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?"

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

In advance tonight's Game 3 between the Spurs and Blazers, please enjoy this Hater's Guide To Tom Dundon that I wrote. www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."