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Christopher Marcisz

@cwmarc.bsky.social

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Writes, edits, walks the dog, jams econo. Lives in Western Mass, written for The Shoestring, Popula, Hyperallergic, the Berkshire Eagle, and others. Check out my newsletter "Next County Over"! https://buttondown.com/cwmarc/archive/

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 1d

Who cares

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 3d

A perfect pick for 2025, to be honest

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day! This is one to remember

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 4d

Everything he touches

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 4d

Come on

404 Media @404media.co · 4d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 5d

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 6d

Well put! It's like Quincy Jones said:

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 9d

Not really

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds

www.nytimes.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12d

Bombing my big stand-up special in front of a totally silent room of generals. "What else, what else. Bagram Air Force Base, we're going to do that again, okay? And we're going to do it the right way: through specific types of tattoos, and haircuts."

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 12d

And yet, these two still haven’t given up the effort to find Bipartisan Solutions for the Kitchen Table Problems facing American Working Families

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19d

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 19d

Surely some countries on earth have enough self-respect left to start talking about moving the UN from the US?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 22d

Why don’t you let her pay for her own p.r. work

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 22d

The Mass delegation really oafed this one — out here in the west, no surprise @neal.house.gov voted yes, but even @repmcgovern.bsky.social as well?

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 23d

Why would you vote for this crap?
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 23d

Q&A: Jeromie Whalen, the teacher running against 36-year incumbent Richard Neal

Whalen has launched the latest campaign against Springfield’s influential congressman. The Shoestring asked him about his platform, his chances, and his thoughts on the Democratic Party.

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 23d

Repulsed to see @neal.house.gov voted for this crap. Unacceptable.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23d

Everything wrong with the Democratic Party in a nutshell.

95 House Democrats (including Jeffries!) just voted to honor the life & legacy of Charlie Kirk.

Only 58 voted no.

38 voted present.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24d

Neither will happen. Now what?

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24d

And such a predictable template, don’t even have to look

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24d

He has a whole blog of it, and looks like he’s been at it for a while

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 25d

Spoiler alert: it was the last

Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 25d

I'm old enough to remember when Russian t.v. shows could make fun of their leaders

www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...

TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000)

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 25d

This is it.

Cancel culture, but for real. The Twitter Files, but for real. Actual, unadulterated collusion between the government and media-owning corporations to censor Americans.

Shame on the MAGA libertarians and fake-heterodox civility cops who helped pave this road to authoritarianism.

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