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Brandy Jensen
@brandyjensen.bsky.social
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This is the best thing I've ever done, could not recommend more that people apply!
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
defector.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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loved this
Spectrum of Desire
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November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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frankly i'd rather buy the cursed chapbook of rfk jr's felching poetry than subscribe to ryan lizza's substack
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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not defending rfk here but neither am I in a position to critique the leaked erotic missives of anyone else on earth lol
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Today is Free Friday at Defector! Everything we post on Bluesky all through the weekend will be a gift link. 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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naming the voice actors in a new Ken Burns doc
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph. "The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I'm honored to have written a blog for @defector.com that generated an outsized number of pageviews or new registrations in the past year.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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loved @redford.bsky.social on Shadow Ticket
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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A lovely review!
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector
We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Olivia Nuzzi addresses the worm: defector.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm | Defector
On Monday, Vanity Fair published the first excerpt of Olivia Nuzzi’s monograph to sexting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a book titled American Canto. The book, as Nuzzi claimed in a glamorized profile…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
Dear [Professor’s Name], I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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90s rapper voice: the bullet theoretical
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
"I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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internet is crazy
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM