Christopher Marcisz

Someone on staff who had been around a while explained his title was “corrector,” a vestigial job from Soviet times who was the official censor.

Anyway, who says there’s no growth in journalism jobs?

When I worked at a Russian newspaper in 2008, there was a guy who had a desk with us editors. He was friendly, quiet, and most of the week just took naps. Except at close, when he was the only person on staff who could actually send the pages to the printer

Just an hour ago passed this memorial to the 96 opposition members of Parliament Germany’s fascists murdered

I’m in Berlin, and every one of these stupid stories really hits

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

It was a very hard day: had to say goodbye to our pup, Poe. Here he is on our favorite walk along the Green River on the morning Mila graduated, just two weeks ago

Red Meat: Is It Still There??

When I was a teenager I found this to be the funniest comic strip in existence. No one agreed. Has its time finally come www.flickr.com/photos/eknat...

Oh, is that his focus? Cool story bro

Have been on the road and only periodically checking in, but what is with “what can he be thinking” coverage? this is Reality TV reveal bullshit. The man has no legal authority to start another f-ing war, my god.

Stacy Schiff’s book about Samuel Adams a few years ago

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

Full facts? Beside what everyone saw with their own eyes? Come on man

• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31] • The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291 • Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32] • Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded "I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]

RIP big dog

As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

This an absolute insane and irresponsible way to frame a military crackdown on the freedom to protest.

Really hate seeing @neal.house.gov on this list. This is as basic a test as there can be

Taking a break to celebrate my daughter’s high school graduation this weekend.

Bummer. I’d have expected Simmons to wrap it up first

Imperial boomerang is guys like this showing up to raid a restaurant to abduct everyday workers

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

a very reliable tell

Not going to lie, there a few successful writers I really admire who insist on sticking with Substack, and it suuuucks.

I chose not to launch my newsletter with Substack, and some days I wonder why I insist on doing things on hard mode. But most days, I take it as a win that at least I’m doing the right thing.

Anyway, please subscribe!
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Works for me!

So what do you think, can I restain the deck next week?

Text from linked article that notes the waves of layoffs at the Sun-Times that likely necessitated this baloney

Cool. 😑
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Trump's ICE Used a Woman's Kids and Grandchild as 'Bait' To Arrest Her Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used a woman's children and grandchild as "bait' to arrest her in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week.

Maura Healey evaded having to comment on this story last week because “we don’t know all the details.”

Well, here are the details. And they make it even worse. Abolish ICE and salt the earth of the office after.

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laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

Strongly agree. What rich folk do with what they value most (their money) is pretty much the foundation of reality in our system

A Fading Light, Extinguished: A Letter from the Editors To our readers, As journalists, it is our duty to keep ourselves out of the stories we write as much as possible. We have done our best work when an article carries no trace of the author beyond their...

No lack of ominous stories in higher education lately, and here’s another: student journalists at MCLA say their newspaper and website are going on “an indefinite hiatus, or even permanent closure.” Signs of pretty depressing mismanagement by the administration

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