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Some people are fans of the Atlanta Falcons. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Atlanta Falcons. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: Atlanta Falcons

Your 2025 record: 8-9, which is less of a win-loss record than it is a manifestation of the spirit of mediocrity that inhabits this franchise. It's been almost 10 years since 28-3 happened, and the Falcons have gone a combined 65-84 with zero playoff appearances since. This team's never good enough to care about or bad enough to pity, and therefore it is something much worse: a team that might as well not even exist.

As we approach the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it has created an opportunity to reflect on what's happened in the quarter-century since that fateful day, but more importantly, it has created an opportunity to get angry at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for bein...

“Ukraine’s military attacked the large Taneco oil refinery and the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical plant deep inside Russia on Monday, adding to the pressure on the country’s downstream industry,” Bloomberg reports.

Last week I ran into an old pal at a party who asked me what I thought of the “SaaSpocalypse” – the AI-driven correction that hit nearly all software stocks over the past few quarters.  My friend has bought and sold software companies for most of his career and is a sophisticated player in private … Continue reading "AI Is Just (Currently Bad) Software"

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan crashed his Tesla Model S on July 14 while the car was running on Autopilot. He was reaching for a phone that had dropped out of reach, and he took his eyes off the road.

The crash left him with a concussion, a broken nose, three broken ribs, a broken left hand, and 40 stitches over his right eye. And to his credit, he isn’t blaming the car.

Ford’s new electric pickup will go on sale in the US early next year, starting at $28,350. Buyers in Canada won’t have to wait much longer, with pre-orders also set to open in early 2027.

Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform over the weekend with a less-than-humble brag about his "great poll numbers" -- which certainly isn't unusual for the Narcissist-In-Chief, if it weren't for the fact that these particular poll numbers are apparently i...

Here’s everything you can’t bring to the New York State Fair this year. Continue reading…

An off-duty police officer is accused of crashing his car in Upstate New York with three young children in the car. Continue reading…