Chris Thompson
Blogger, Defector co-founder, enjoyer of flowers and birds.
defector.com/author/chris-thompson
chris.thompson@defector.com
- good blog
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonThe entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances
- Reposted by Chris Thompsonagain we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonPlease don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonSixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonDan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...
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- Reposted by Chris Thompson(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
- Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this." Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
- this rules defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
- Vikings play-by-play doofus forgets that anti-ICE protesters are "domestic terrorists" now: defector.com/oops-vikings...
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonYears from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonThis must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
- laughed so hard at this blog that my throat now hurts defector.com/let-the-reco...
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- Reposted by Chris Thompsonhard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.
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- Reposted by Chris Thompsonyowzers, what a blog www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- hell yeah www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
- we ALL KNOW that eight bucks is 10 bucks defector.com/how-much-is-...
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- pretty good website in my opinion defector.com
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonInsecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement theonion.com/insecure-frustrated…
- what a blog, man defector.com/ice-is-model...
- this is a blast: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
- righteous blogging defector.com/how-hard-is-...
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- Reposted by Chris Thompsonthis is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier
- sustaining a thought more complicated than "do we have any bread" for more than a few minutes at a time while being the parent of a four-year-old is the hardest possible thing that a human can attempt
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- Reposted by Chris ThompsonI think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
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- christ, that was this year??
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonYour power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonI don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
- Reposted by Chris Thompsonbari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonThe Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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- christmas elves are the last genetic descendants of noldor elves, now the slaves of tom bombadil, who is santa
- Reposted by Chris ThompsonMerry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...
- whew, today is a good blog day defector.com/american-can...
- a great goddamn blog, here www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/abominatio...
- speaking from long personal experience: Black and Tan Coonhounds are the sweetest dogs on the planet
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