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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


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Nicholas Russell

: A COVID face mask dangles from the rear-view mirror of a car

As the omicron variant’s stunning infectiousness¬†sends case counts soaring, some glass-half-full experts opine it may push us more swiftly from pandemic to endemic

Life Lessons

Why I Keep Masking

Capturing A Sperm Whale

Arts And Culture

‘Moby-Dick’ Is Still Too Big For The Opera

On a gradient background going from tan-ish to pink-ish, the front cover of the book Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood. The book is black with a statue of a woman with wings in the center. It also identifies Hood as the author of How to Be A Good Girl.

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Interviews

“Rape Is Political”: Jamie Hood On Trauma Narratives, Writing The Self, And Ethical Obligation

Two hands, a drawing, holding an orange sign with yellow text that reads: MAKE YOUR OWN JOB

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The Power Of Negative Thinking

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‘Nosferatu’ Keeps You Waiting And Waiting

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‘The Village’ Still Has Questions To Ask

A de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in 'Here'

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In ‘Here,’ Robert Zemeckis Is Back On His Computer-Generated Bullshit

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - NOVEMBER 5: A sign points voters where to go for voting at a voting precinct at the Two Towers Condominiums, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 5, 2024.

Presidential election in Minneapolis

Politics

After Tuesday

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Defector At The Movies

‘Rap World’ Remembers The Truth About Suburban Malaise

The new Alchem-E Gold Ex drum set, made by Zildjian.

Drumroll, please: Norwell cymbal maker Zildjian enters the digital age

Tom-Tom C’est Moi

26 March 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Rottweil: Cowslips grow in a wooded area near a stream near Rottweil. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa

Spring in Baden-Württemberg

Science

What Is The Human Composting Industry Trying To Grow?

Aaron Pierre's character in Rebel Ridge, surrounded by police

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‘Rebel Ridge’ Is As Sharp As Revenge Thrillers Get

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves the stage during a commercial break as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with US President Joe Biden at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024.

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‘Know Your Enemy’ Host Matt Sitman Talks About Covering Politics Without Becoming A Hack

Chief Technology Officer of X Elon Musk speaks onstage during the "Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk" session at the Lumiere Theatre during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 - Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France.

Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 – Day Three

Elon Musk Keeps Digging In

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‘Longlegs’ Can’t Quite Carry The Weight Of Expectations

Conner O'Malley performing in his latest stand-up special

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Conner O’Malley’s New Special Exposes The Dark Heart Of Techno-Optimism

End of life petrol and diesel cars and vans are piled on top of one another as they wait to be recycled in a car scrapyard on November 29, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. The UK scraps over one million cars a year and many more petrol and diesel cars will need to be taken off the road if the Government is to reach its target for the number of electric cars to be reached.

End Of Life Vehicles

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I Will Drive This Fucked-Up Car Until One Of Us Dies

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Music

Cindy Lee’s ‘Diamond Jubilee’ Is A Gift Worth Savoring

Wooden and iron spoons lie on the table at the folk museum, Kovpakivka village, Mahdalynivka district, Dnipropetrovsk Region, central Ukraine.

Museum in Kovpakivka village

The Fork And Spoon Method To A Better Life

Englishmen in Paris gathered in Galignani’s library, 1820. English gentlemen read books, newspapers and periodicals. Doctor Syntax discovered by his wife in a bookshop. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from Doctor Syntax in Paris; or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, W. Wright, London, 1820.

Englishmen in Paris gathered in Galignani‚Äôs library, 1820

“It Really Matters If Somebody Has Bad Taste”: An Interview With Book Critic Becca Rothfeld

The Sphere on the Las Vegas Strip is seen displaying Super Bowl LVIII signage ahead of Super Bowl LVIII on February 08, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Super Bowl LVIII – Previews

The Super Bowl Before The Crunch

The main character giving a speech in Origin

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‘Origin’ Fails As Both Homework And Entertainment

The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA on October 25, 2021.

The Harvard Book Store

What Comes After The Post-Crisis Reading List?

Antique print of whalers harpooning a sperm whale off New Bedford, Massachusetts. The print is from 1910.

Whalers Harpooning Sperm Whale

A Year In Pursuit Of Moby Dick

A collection of triangular shapes in Michael Heizer's City installation

Art In The Middle Of Nowhere Is Still Somewhere