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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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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Models walk the finale of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

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Arts And Culture

No One Needed The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show To Come Back


<p>Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.</p>


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Dan McQuade

The Mark Jackson 1990-91 NBA Hoops card with the Menendez Brothers courtside in the background

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Why I Own An Unremarkable 1990 Mark Jackson Basketball Card

A woman stands in front of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing at the Venice Biennale in 1976.

Drawing by Sol Lewitt

Who Owns An Idea?

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Rachelle Hampton

Six older gentlemen wearing red jerseys stand on a green field, cheering excitedly.

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‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Is Like A Wildlife Cam But For Old Dudes Who Rock

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Soraya Roberts

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‘The Tall Guy’ Is Richard Curtis At His Pre-Hollywood Best

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Israel Daramola

The Best Films At The 2024 New York Film Festival

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Defector At The Movies

Folie À Poo: Boredom Is A Joker Sequel

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Who’s Trending Up And Trending Down In The ‘Industry’ Season 3 Finale

Sisters Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen pose for photos at the CFDA Fashion Awards, at the Brooklyn Museum in 2019

When Quiet Luxury Gets Loud

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‘Megalopolis’ Is Both Ingeniously Stupid And Stupidly Genius

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In Rumaan Alam’s ‘Entitlement,’ Money Comes At The Expense Of Everything Else

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Luis Paez-Pumar

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Music

Sunset Rubdown’s Spencer Krug Doesn’t Want To Live In The Past Forever

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‘Nightbitch’ Is About A Woman Clawing Back Her Time

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Who’s Trending Up And Trending Down After ‘Industry’ Episodes 4-6

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Kelsey McKinney

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What Exactly Happened With The Fruity Pebbles?

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Billy Haisley

The artist Brunderr (L) performs during the filming of a music video at the Baile Funk of the Heliopolis favela in the south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 20, 2024. Born in the impoverished favelas, Rio de Janeiro funk music has emerged as a global phenomenon, embraced by superstars like Anitta and Beyonce and starring in museum shows, though it still faces stigma in Brazil.

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A Washed American’s Guide To The Boundless Underworld Of Brazilian Funk

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David Roth

Dan and Dave split image on Wildwood boardwalk. In middle are two shirts: Trump as 50 Cent: Many men wish death upon me A shirt that says My favorite people call me pop-pop

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Dan And Dave Hit The Wildwood Boardwalk: A 2024 T-Shirt Report

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Beyoncé Comes Off As Very Real And Human In Email Interview With GQ

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

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‘Rebel Ridge’ Is As Sharp As Revenge Thrillers Get

Rich Homie Quan performs onstage at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on September 01, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Rich Homie Quan Got To The Top Of The Mountain

Portrait of professional road racing cyclist David Millar taken on May 16, 2011. (Photo by Joby Sessions/Procycling Magazine via Getty Images)

David Millar Portrait Shoot

Writing Is An Act, Not An Aesthetic

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Adam Sandler Lets Us Love Him

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Barry Petchesky

Argentina, Patagonia, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de las Manos

Argentina, Patagonia, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de las Manos, cave paintings

The Machines

Whatever AI Looks Like, It’s Not

Visitors examine the exhibition as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presents the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transtlantic Modernism which includes some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera in New York, United States on February 20, 2024.The exhibition opens in Black History Month, is honoring the triumphs and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history.

Exhibition on Harlem Renaissance at the Met Museum

Girl, Uninterrupted

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Lauren Theisen

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Patrick Redford

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Defector Music Club

Defector Music Club Is So Brat