Mark Pöpsel

Finally, a united nation.

Marc Maron & Jim Gaffigan hit the 92NY stage for an unfiltered convo after a screening of Maron’s HBO special Panicked—on politics, aging, anxiety & the end of WTF. Presented with support from @craignewmark.bsky.social Civic Life Series. Comedy meets civic truth.

45 minutes of callbacks

Halfanus or Mitad de Culo if you prefer

And they discuss why schwarma is bad for America

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Covering the events that happened between memoirs 2 & 3

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Allison Perlman (UC Irvine) and I are still writing the official "History of Public Broadcasting" update for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Current, public media's trade journal. Current will print it. Prescient project.

Pro tip: Don't write stupid stuff about how great the economy is the day before a jobs report.

It is horrendous.

Which way to get your message straight to power: Do one of these resolutions

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

Averaged out, a journalist has been killed every 3 days since the conflict began.

Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.

In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.

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Donald Trump’s connections to people accused of child sex abuse go well beyond Jeffrey Epstein. In this thread I note other cases in which people tied to Trump were accused of committing or enabling child molestation. 1/

Artist to withdraw exhibit from National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.

An artist known for her portrait of Michelle Obama withdrew her upcoming exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, claiming the institution considered removing a painting depicting a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty.

If I wanted to research this (heterodoxy as feature rather then racist bug) as an academic, which pundits would be the best to look at?

Listening to this interview of this whistleblower and it’s about as clearcut as you can ask for. Trump officials wanted him to lie to judges, claiming an immigrant was a gang member. He refused to. Then he was fired. This is why civil service protections, now being ignored, matter.

Opinion | 11 tips for becoming a columnist Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.

Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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Possibly flak bots in high gear after the Trump Epstein latest. Trussians working overtime (?)

US attorney general told Trump his name is among many in Epstein files, Wall Street Journal reports Newspaper’s report threatens to expand what has become a political crisis for US president

US attorney general told Trump his name is among many in Epstein files, Wall Street Journal reports

Millions of us first listened to classical, opera, and other music genres via PBS and NPR.

The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.

Let's not waste a minute. Let's remind people what a piece of 5&*7 President Vance is starting...

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

The thing about jokes is that they require a shared base of knowledge. A shared reality. If I tell a joke about a commercial and you've never seen that commercial, the joke isn't going to go over very well. Losing late night shows is one more step toward losing a shared reality, and that to me is terrifying. There's a moment every New Yorker knows. It happens when you're on the subway and someone does something particularly insane: an 83-year-old white lady raps, or a man in a three-piece suit publicly clips his toenails. And then you catch the eye of someone across the train - they raise their eyebrows and you raise your eyebrows back. And then you feel a little better because someone else saw what you saw and they can confirm that it's something. Late night hosts like Stephen Colbert do that on a larger scale. They're our way of saying "Hey this is crazy right? RIGHT?" In this world of algorithmic bubbles and blatant lies and deepfakes, late night television is a place you can gather at night and say: "Yes, this happened and it's fucking weird"

I wrote about Colbert for the Guardian. It started out talking about the politics, but then it just became a sort of love letter for late night television.