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Drew Magary

Life Lessons

A Bit Of Church

Ray Ratto

The Detroit Lions Can Ruin Any Holiday If You Let Them

Matt Ufford is the head of video and audio at Yahoo Sports.

Matt Ufford

Reginald Owen, playing Scrooge, confronts the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Lionel Braham, in the 1938 MGM production of "A Christmas Carol." Undated movie still.

Jamboroo

You Can’t Defeat Christmas, But You Can Survive It

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

The Bills’ Hallmark Christmas Movie Is An Infomercial For A Health Insurer

The 2024 Williams Sonoma Haters Guide title graphic, featuring a man in a blue apron holding a baking dish with Williams Sonoma digitally written on it. 'Embroidered' on the apron it says 2024 Williams Sonoma Haters Guide. He's in front of a marble background.

Hater's Guide

The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

Automobile in a winter landscape with a man coming from Christmas shopping trip with packages, Christmas Tree, etc. Undated photograph circa 1911.

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Luis Paez-Pumar

Alex Sujong Laughlin

charismatic megafauna (they/them)

Sabrina Imbler

Lindsay Lohan sitting on a chair opening a book that reads "Construction Proposal Lifestyle Complex"

Arts And Culture

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘Our Little Secret’

Dave McKenna

A still from a movie. a white woman in a red coat and a red beanie stands in front of a dilapidated house that needs fixing up.

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘’Tis The Season To Be Irish’

Kelsey McKinney

Drew 'Gonzo' Gonville is at the bottom of the steps of a private jet, dressed in a Santa suit. The beard is pulled down. Bowyn Sykes is dressed in a sleeveless sweater top and a kilt-like skirt. She is on the top step of the airstairs into the private jet. They are looking at each other.

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘Christmas In The Spotlight’

David Roth

A traveler is reflected in a pane of glass with a paper snowman behind it during travel on Christmas Day at Frankfurt Airport.

Podcasts

Emergency Christmas Protocols And Underwater Hotels, With Sabrina Imbler

Patrick Redford

a still for the netflix movie hot frosty: lacey chabert in a beanie stands in front of a sexy snowman, holding a scarf

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘Hot Frosty’

Barry Petchesky

A Marcus Rashford kit that says "Rahford."

Capital

Fanatics Ruined Christmas

CLEVELAND, OHIO - DECEMBER 17: A fan dressed as Santa Claus cheers during the second half between the Chicago Bears and the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Browns Stadium on December 17, 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Santa Claus

The NFL Wants To Be The Reason For The Season

The 2023 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

An abundance of Christmas decorations in front of a house in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 24, 2009. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)

Funbag

Have We Reached Peak Inflatable Christmas Decoration Inflation?

The 2022 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

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You Can’t Trust A Teen, But You Can Follow Their Gossip

The 2021 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sings with Carol Singers from across the country during a reception at the Chancellery in Berlin on January 7, 2020. - Traditionally, children dressed as the Three Kings go from house to house after Christmas and before Epiphany to collect money for charitable projects of the Roman Catholic church. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

The Five Worst Christmas Songs

Screenshot of reindeer running hella fast

Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is: Fast Reindeer

MELKSHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 01: Children look at the Christmas lights displayed on a house on December 1, 2008 in Melksham, England. The householder Alex Goodwind - who says he does it to raise money for charity after his mother died a few years ago - starts planning lights in July and has spent 3,000 GBP this year alone on the lights that are now estimated to be worth 30,000 GBP. Last year the bill for electricity was 700 GBP and the house had to have an uprated electricity supply installed to cope with the additional power needed. Donations from visitors to the spectacle raised over 2,000 GBP to local hospice Dorothy House. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

This Thanksgiving, I Am A Christmas Guy

Tom Ley

Here Is Your NBA Christmas Day Open Thread

O Tannenbaum translates roughly to "whoa, a tree."

Simply Having Whatever The Hell This Is

an artist's rendering of a house nestled in the blue ridge mountains