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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

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Typing

Sabrina Imbler

a photo of Chuck Sebian-Lander, a fired CFPB web manager. He is wearing a a shirt from my union, NTEU 335, and b) a lapel pin with the CFPB seal that he was given as part of a Director's award

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Interviews

An Interview With A Fired Web Content Manager At The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

A photo of fired EPA program analyst Amanda Cronin holding the text of Executive Order 14096

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An Interview With A Fired EPA Environmental Justice Program Analyst

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An Interview With A Fired Science For Development Fellow At USAID

Claire Sneed, a recently fired US Forest Service hydrologic technician

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An Interview With A Fired U.S. Forest Service Hydrologic Technician

A headshot of Madyson Miller, a fired NOAA program analyst, in a blue sweater and golden light

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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Program Analyst

a photo of matt o'malley, a fired USDA agricultural engineer, smiling in front of mountains

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Agricultural Engineer

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Politics

An Interview With A Fired CDC Health Communications Manager

A photo of a USAID education officer, Joel Runnels, standing in a field

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An Interview With A Fired USAID Education Officer

A photo of Jules Reynolds, a fired USDA program coordinator, sitting near a valley of farmland

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Program Coordinator

a photo of Tara Kerin, an infectious disease epidemiologist who lost her job as a result of the DOGE layoffs

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An Interview With An Epidemiologist Who Lost Her Job Because Of The DOGE Layoffs

a photo of Veronica Correa, a fired EPA public affairs specialist, standing in snowy woods by a stream

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An Interview With A Fired EPA Public Affairs Specialist

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

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

A photo of Sara Hugentobler, a USFWS fish biologist, in the lab extracting DNA

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An Interview With A Fired USFWS Fish Biologist

a photo of Kate Wheeler, a former USDA farm to school specialist. Kate has short brown hair and is smiling in front of several painted planks

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An Interview With A Fired USDA Specialist

a selfie of Sarah Cooley, the former director of NOAA's ocean acidification program, with an orange life vest on a river

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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director

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Mark Asch

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‘Eephus’ Director Carson Lund On Baseball As A Way Of Being

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An Interview With A Fired NOAA Budget Analyst

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An Interview With A Fired USFWS Biologist

Normal Gossip: portraits

Alex Sujong Laughlin

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Animals

An Interview With My Cat About His Most Annoying Behaviors 

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Samer Kalaf

Palestinians walk through the destruction in Gaza.

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Pankaj Mishra On Gaza, The Memory Of The Holocaust, And The “Very Dark World” To Come

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Patrick Redford

Sir John Falstaff On A Visit To His Friend Page, At Windsor. From The Merry Wives Of Windsor, By William Shakespeare. Drawn And Etched By George Cruikshank. From The Illustrated Library Shakspeare, Published London 1890. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Jeremy Gordon On Grief, Connection, And His Novel ‘See Friendship’

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Gossip Queen Kelsey McKinney SPILLS EVERYTHING In This SHOCKING Interview

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The Power Of Negative Thinking

A fire fighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. The Palisades Fire, the largest of the Los Angeles fires, spread toward previously untouched neighborhoods January 11, forcing new evacuations and dimming hopes that the disaster was coming under control. Across the city, at least 11 people have died as multiple fires have ripped through residential areas since January 7, razing thousands of homes in destruction that US President Joe Biden likened to a "war scene." (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

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Climate

The Future Of West Coast Wildfire Is Whiplash

Dennis Young is the news editor at Front Office Sports.

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David Roche sprays a bottle of champagne after winning the Leadville 100

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How David Roche Nearly Ran His Dick Off And Maybe Changed Ultrarunning In The Process