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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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Defector's 5th Birthday Party Is On Sept. 10 In Brooklyn

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


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Nicholas Russell

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

The Harvard Book Store

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What Comes After The Post-Crisis Reading List?

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Samer Kalaf

Palestinians carry a list of Gaza victims during a rally amid a general strike in the occupied West Bank.

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Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual

Premature babies are moved from their incubators to another location at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

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Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be

Palestinians in Gaza carry bodies through the street

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Bearing Witness To Gaza’s Grief Shouldn’t Feel Like A Radical Act


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People carry injured and dead Palestinians from the rubbles of buildings as civil defense teams and civilians conduct search and rescue operations after Israeli attacks on Al-Shati refugee camp of Gaza City, Gaza on October 27, 2023 as Israeli attacks continue on the 21st day on Gaza

Israeli attacks continue on the 21st day in Gaza

Science

Who Is Allowed To Do Science?

A man carries a child, wounded by Israeli airstrikes, into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-GAZA-CONFLICT

Subjugation And Dehumanization Lead To Only One Result

A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed house in Beit Hanun town northern Gaza Strip,on May 24, 2021 in Gaza City, Gaza

Gaza Residents Clean Up As Ceasefire Holds

What A Ceasefire Really Means

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