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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

Ten Minute Quarters comedy show at 3:2 ratio

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Live Event

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David Roth

Paige Bueckers exults in a basket under the basket against the USC Trojans during the Elite Eight round of the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament held at Spokane Arena on March 31, 2025.

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament – Elite Eight – Spokane

Podcasts

Where’d She Go To College? With Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Willson Contreras On Eating Grip Tape: “It Was Disgusting. It Was A Bad Taste.”

Elon Musk chats with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as they walk with White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and White House deputy chief of staff for policy and US homeland security advisor Stephen Miller on the south lawn of the White House. Everyone absolutely looks like shit.

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Politics

Kingdom Of The Biters

Left to right, Jason Narducy, Bob Mould, and Jon Wurster playing a set at Riot Fest in Chicago in 2019.

Riot Fest 2019

Catching The Rain, With Bob Mould

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Ray Ratto

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Tom Ley

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Maitreyi Anantharaman

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Kelsey McKinney

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Lauren Theisen

Studio portrait of members of the Syracuse Star baseball team, Syracuse, New York , 1877 .

Portrait Of The Syracuse Star Baseball Team

An MLB Preview Containing All The Information One Could Possibly Hope To Ascertain About The 2025 Season

Bruce Pearl yelling with his hand cupped around his mouth, looking pretty insane, during a game against Texas A&M on March 4, 2025.

Auburn v Texas A&M

Through The Transfer Portal, With Ken Pomeroy

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Israel Daramola

Dave McKenna

John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page from rock group Led Zeppelin perform live on stage at Earls Court in London on 24th May 1975. The image is in black and white; the Defector Music Club badge, at upper right, is not.

Led Zeppelin Live In London

Music

Defector Music Club Is Getting The Led Out

New York Jets running back Zonovan Knight (27) catches a pass from New York Jets quarterback Mike White (5) during the NFL game between the New York Jets and the Minnesota Vikings on December 4th, 2022.

NFL: DEC 04 Jets at Vikings

Yearning For The Mike White Era, With Jasper Wang

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on March 5, 2025 in Eagle Pass, Texas. His eyes are closed and he looks like he's singing. Beard looks like shit.

Vice President JD Vance Visits The Border In Eagle Pass, Texas

Live From The Bad Times, With Denny Carter

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy attends TwitchCon 2024 San Diego on September 20, 2024 in San Diego, California.

TwitchCon 2024 San Diego

Streams And Nightmares, With Nathan Grayson

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Rachelle Hampton

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Brandy Jensen

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A woman walks in front of a mural depicting writer Octavia Butler in Nairobi, Kenya. The Defector Reads A Book badge is at upper right.

A woman walks in front of a mural depicting writer Octavia Butl

Defector Reads A Book

Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable Of The Sower’ Confronts What Comes After The End

he Colorado Rockies mascot performs before the MLB Spring Training baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies on February 22, 2025 at Salt River Fields.

MLB: FEB 22 Spring Training Diamondbacks at Rockies

There Is Something Like Baseball On

Klay Thompson making the stink-face after hitting a three, being congratulated by an erased visual vacuum shaped exactly like Luka Doncic and with a Mavs logo where his head should be, in a frame from a since-deleted Mavericks hype video.

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Dallas Mavericks Oafishly Edit Hype Video, Then Delete Hype Video

A general view of the atmosphere at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on April 24, 2016 in New Orleans, with a fried crab po'boy front and center.

2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Day 3

Some Basketball, Some Sandwich, With Rohan Nadkarni

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Ricky Jay, with his hair balding halfway up his head but black and tall, and a large black beard, in a black suit with a black tie and a dark purple shirt, looking at the camera holding a cut-in-half watermelon with two playing cards into the inside.

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Someone Has To Save The Film And TV That Studios Won’t

Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs tries to avoid a sack by DE Brandon Graham #55 of the Philadelphia Eagles during Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday February 9, 2025.

NFL: FEB 09 Super Bowl LIX – Eagles vs Chiefs

How To Describe An Ass-Kicking

A farmer prepares seeds for planting on the agricultural land as farmers who harvested crops in the summer replanted wheat, barley and canola seeds. Honestly kind of hard to do a visual that matches the content of The Parable Of The Sower, the cover of which is superimposed on the seed image at upper right.

19 year old twin brothers, who are farmers in Istanbul, cultivate a field of 5 thousand acres

Defector Reads A Book Is Going To Reap What Octavia Butler Sowed

US President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump (L) watch the pre-game show before Super Bowl LIX on February 9, 2025. His hair looks all fucked up; there's a huge American flag on the field.

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Confused Brits Cause Severe Damage At The Donald Trump Propaganda Factory

Nick Sirianni, head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, is escorted off the field by thirsty-ass Dom DiSandro following the NFC Championship Game against the Washington Commanders at Lincoln Financial Field on January 26, 2025.

NFC Championship Game: Washington Commanders v Philadelphia Eagles

The Eagles Fan Version Of Personal Growth, With Dan McQuade

People organize a rally and demonstration against Elon Musk outside the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington D.C., United States on February 03, 2025.

Protesters rally against Elon Musk outside U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington D.C.

Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government

Reed Hastings attends the Netflix and Mediaset Partnership Announcement in Rome, in 2019.

Netflix & Mediaset Partnership Announcement

The Movie Studio At The End Of The World, With Will Tavlin

An Ai Me robot from Chinese company TCL is displayed during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

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Capital

The Future Is Too Easy

Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki wearing #11 which was Miguel Rojas number is introduced as the newest Dodger during a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki is introduced as the newest Los Angeles Dodger.

Bop It In The Go Bag, With Justin Halpern

An Enchanted Tools robot called the Mirokai is displayed during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

The Future Feels Like The Raiders, With Ed Zitron

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin walks out of the tunnel before a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on December 15, 2024 in Philadelphia

Pittsburgh Steelers v Philadelphia Eagles

Los Angeles Is A Football Town, With Diana Moskovitz