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“Three pro-Israel Democrats have been given key roles on a powerful congressional body overseeing U.S. foreign policy in a move rounding sharply counter to popular sentiment within the party and likely to anger leftwing activists,” The Guardian reports.

“House GOP leaders are aiming to put a Senate-passed stopgap spending bill on the floor early next week, in the first days back in session after a five-week recess,” Politico reports. “The quick vote, coming almost a full month before the government funding deadline, underscores how Republican leaders are intent on avoiding a government shutdown […]

Willem de Kooning, Untitled, 1948 #contemporaryart #willemdekooning

It’s a rite of passage to get your ideals smashed in your early twenties, just in the normal course of trying to get your feet under you. It doesn’t seem to matter what exactly you care about, either. Whether you’re voting and then watching election results, or you’re trying to make a college relationship last beyond graduation, or you believe that with enough energy and grit, you and your ideals can save the trees, you’re in for a few bruises. 

But every bright-eyed youth loses innocence in their own way. Today’s friend of a friend is out to solve the affordable housing crisis, but she’s about to learn that all of us, however committed to “the work” we may seem, have a greater aptitude for mess than for the revolution. 

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In observance of Reds Week at Defector, Lauren and Alex decided to try a red lip, as modeled in this brief tutorial. Here, in the style of The Not-So-Great Defector Bake-Off, are their results. Lauren: Hi Alex! So as we start with moisturizer, I wanted to ask right up top, ...

The competition for the much-coveted Who Won The Offseason Prize is nearly over. Despite a late rally from the Cleveland Browns, who became the first team to eliminate themselves from the regular season by quintupling down on the disaster that has been, is, and seems he...

This week on Nothing But Respect, we spent the entire episode talking through the last 13 years of Los Angeles Lakers ownership drama. Our guest Harrison Faigen is a longtime Lakers media guy, and he joined us for a lengthy discussion on Mark Walter, Joshua Kushner, and Johnny, Jimmy, Jeanie, Janie, Joey, and Jesse Buss. It's crazy they're all named that. The tie-in to Reds Week is that my name is Patrick Redford.

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The most awe-inspiring thing in music is when an artist takes over the world. At least back when there was a monoculture, it was possible for a single person to dominate collective attention, at least for awhile. And 1998 should always be remembered as the year DMX did just ...

On Newsmax, Republican Scott Perry responded to the latest polling that shows only 31% of the US support the Iran war by claiming it's not Trump's fault for these numbers -- you gotta blame Iran. Wait, I'm confused. Did Iran send in its bomber jets and destroyed Washingto...

Will England is the CEO of Walleye Capital, a hedge fund managing nearly $10 billion in assets. An engineer by training with a math background from Oxford, he has spent his career at the intersection of machines and markets—and has made AI fluency mandatory for all 400 emplo...

Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+, to then cut off its live streams a day later. The shutdown is expected to be completed by the end of next week. Why the operation is shutting down remains a mystery, but the signs don't point to a deal with rightsholders.

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Federal immigration agents in Minneapolis secretly surveilled Minnesotans for months, infiltrating churches, schools, and libraries.

Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.

“State and cities nationwide are rebelling against the White House’s push to withhold millions of dollars in police and anti-terrorism funding unless they impose new voting rules,” Axios reports. “President Trump’s effort to impose election policies that he hasn’t been able to get through Congress has now drawn two lawsuits from state and local governments […]

President Donald Trump said he has “no time schedule” for when he expects Iran to return to the negotiating table to end the conflict the U.S. began months ago, Al Jazeera reports. Said Trump: “I have no time schedule, none. I’m not in a hurry. I have no time schedule at all.” He added: “We […]

“A federal judge in Texas struck down a 2023 state law Tuesday that sought to restrict drag shows, ruling it was unconstitutional,” NBC News reports. Wrote U.S. District Judge David Hittner, a Reagan appointee, had advice for those opposed: “The solution is relatively simple… just don’t go.”

New York Times: “Dean Roy is not eligible to vote, not even close. He cannot legally drink alcohol, and on looks alone, is at risk of being booted from an R-rated movie theater. He must drive with an adult in the passenger seat.” “He is, however, running for governor in his home state of Vermont […]

It Just Keeps Happening I’m keenly aware that at a certain point the numerous wrongful deportations by the Trump administration...

“Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting in this year’s midterm elections,” the Associated Press reports. “The action, filed by about two dozen states against the U.S. Postal Service, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation just two days after the Supreme Court […]

“President Trump said that country music star Dolly Parton ‘really liked me,’ but stayed out of politics to avoid losing fans,” the New York Post reports.