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Searching for a sane take. Also a football fan. Yes, I realize those two things are usually at odds.
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tawnimarshall.bsky.social
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
The Free Press I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling. by Jamie Reed Jamie Reed: The Courage to Admit You’re Wrong When I blew the whistle on a transgender clinic, some suggested I had been ‘brainwashed by the right.’ No. I’m a progressive who follows science. by Jamie Reed I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning. When Jamie Reed revealed the dangers of gender-affirming care for minors, I felt threatened. That’s because she was right. by Roxanne Reed Why I Hope the Supreme Court Upholds the Ban on Child Transition Today, the top legal minds in the country will consider whether there’s a constitutional right to harm children. Jamie Reed asks: How did we get to this point? by Jamie Reed
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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kalynkahler.bsky.social
#prospectx 2024 Levi Drake Rodriguez gets his first SNF reference !!! LFG
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...
When we started Defector, we set out to make a sustainable business out of providing people things to read during their workday. Thanks to the efforts of my colleagues and the support of our subscribers, we have achieved that goal. It didn’t even take that long to find ourselves standing on solid ground. Within a year, it was clear this was going to work—we would write blogs intended to entertain, inform, clarify and challenge, and people would pay us a few bucks a month to read them. The simplicity of all this has had something of a deprogramming effect on me. I got into this business during the hothouse days of the 2010s, when it was taken for granted that the true purpose of every media company was to achieve a nine-figure valuation. The collapse of that industry demanded a new way of thinking about what a media company can and should be, and my hope is that Defector has provided a useful example of just one way of doing things.
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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codifybaseball.bsky.social
HU'S ON FIRST
August 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Eagles getting a key catch from a first round bust WR?
February 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Political Wire is now posting on Bluesky as
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November 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us I hope you have a copy of the Fox broadcast coming back from halftime of Lions Packers. Brady had on an extra-terrestrial smile you might want to capture. In the booth before 2nd half kick.
November 3, 2024 at 11:03 PM
@joshtpm.bsky.social curious if you saw this and the claim by Lewandowski midway through that LaCivita and Wiles had made a decision to spend “tens of millions of dollars” in direct mail outreach.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign
“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2024 at 9:46 PM
@drewmagary.bsky.social I wonder when the Cowboys defense from “this generation” will internalize the lessons Mike Zimmer has red faced imparted to them since August? Should be any day now I’d think.
October 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Via Matthew Gertz on Twitter

www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Trump official Karoline Leavitt criticized the media for talking “about Project 2025, which has nothing to do with our campaign.” She worked on Project 2025.
www.mediamatters.org
August 15, 2024 at 5:38 PM
@joshtpm.bsky.social

Can't vouch for the source or the writer, but perhaps more data on what changed for Mike Johnson.

www.salon.com/2024/04/19/e...
April 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
@drewmagary.bsky.social Clearest sign yet the Vikes should draft Maye. t.co/RhE8VWjceM
April 7, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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johnalight.bsky.social
TPM, where I work, is doing its annual membership drive. We’re almost entirely reader-supported (less than 10% of our revenue comes from ads) and so this drive is a big deal. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships
March 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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March 20, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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sabs.bsky.social
I wrote about an itty-bitty parasitic copepod that is the lovechild of a cretaceous hell ant and a booger 💘
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This Parasite Has Become A Full-Time Booger | Defector
We humans are fortunate to have many defenses against clogged nostrils. Our body contains all the tools we need to rid ourselves from boogers, such as a sneeze or finger, not to mention newfangled dev...
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March 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Someone bump Bobby Slowik’s turntable. He’s stuck.
January 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Annually, this is the finest bit of journalism on the tubes.

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December 25, 2023 at 2:51 PM
I need 20 minutes on a podcast to cover the absolute cowardice the signings of Flacco and Wentz represent? Just mind boggling name brand capitulation. At least the Vikings signed Dobbs.
November 20, 2023 at 1:47 AM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
Welp, that gross bastard Elon Musk finally forced me over here. Guess I will do the labor history thing here now.
November 17, 2023 at 8:58 PM
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inafallsaway.bsky.social
Drawing time!
November 15, 2023 at 12:09 AM
Cannot believe they remade the ‘Chefs’ ad without the great googly moogly guy. Andy Reid is fun but it’s not the same.
October 29, 2023 at 5:25 PM
@emptywheel.bsky.social Have an new regurgitation of misleading claims about who was objecting to what based on the Election Integrity Project. If you read the article down through the Biden admins requests for removals, it seems like only Dem's are making no requests. No mention of Trumps requests.
October 22, 2023 at 4:23 PM
@drewmagary.bsky.social Bill signed a new contract last offseason. No idea if it gives either side an out. twitter.com/RapSheet/sta...
October 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM