Christopher Marcisz
@cwmarc.bsky.social
Writes, edits, walks the dog, jams econo. Lives in Western Mass, written for The Shoestring, Popula, Hyperallergic, the Berkshire Eagle, and others.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
Our Spectrum Internet service has been blinking between 3 and 15 Mbps for hours. Their website has a speed test tool that claims we are getting 150 - and offers us to pay $10 for an upgrade to 'advanced' service.
The crappy service is bad enough, but the gaslighting is really another level
The crappy service is bad enough, but the gaslighting is really another level
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Our Spectrum Internet service has been blinking between 3 and 15 Mbps for hours. Their website has a speed test tool that claims we are getting 150 - and offers us to pay $10 for an upgrade to 'advanced' service.
The crappy service is bad enough, but the gaslighting is really another level
The crappy service is bad enough, but the gaslighting is really another level
Ah, that explains this curious email Monday
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ah, that explains this curious email Monday
You think he’s hit bottom and bam, he always finds another level
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
You think he’s hit bottom and bam, he always finds another level
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Where "exile" is "chilling in a house in Malibu for a while, hiking & writing, until I'm ready to return as editor of Vanity Fair."
God people are embarrassing themselves around this. It's so fucking gross.
God people are embarrassing themselves around this. It's so fucking gross.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Where "exile" is "chilling in a house in Malibu for a while, hiking & writing, until I'm ready to return as editor of Vanity Fair."
God people are embarrassing themselves around this. It's so fucking gross.
God people are embarrassing themselves around this. It's so fucking gross.
The shameless lying makes it much worse
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The shameless lying makes it much worse
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"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
October 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
A perfect pick for 2025, to be honest
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A perfect pick for 2025, to be honest
Everything he touches
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Everything he touches
Come on
BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE
🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...
🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Come on
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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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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
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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.
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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."
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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."
And yet, these two still haven’t given up the effort to find Bipartisan Solutions for the Kitchen Table Problems facing American Working Families
September 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And yet, these two still haven’t given up the effort to find Bipartisan Solutions for the Kitchen Table Problems facing American Working Families
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Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"
September 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"
Surely some countries on earth have enough self-respect left to start talking about moving the UN from the US?
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Surely some countries on earth have enough self-respect left to start talking about moving the UN from the US?
Repulsed to see @neal.house.gov voted for this crap. Unacceptable.
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...
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...
clerk.house.gov
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Repulsed to see @neal.house.gov voted for this crap. Unacceptable.
I'm old enough to remember when Russian t.v. shows could make fun of their leaders
www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000)
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Russian t.v. shows could make fun of their leaders
www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
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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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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.
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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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Pretty much every mass shooting, particularly ones involving kids, people try to dig for some hidden motive, message, or ideology in a cesspool of edgelord internet shit. But the vast majority of the times, there just isn’t one.
August 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Pretty much every mass shooting, particularly ones involving kids, people try to dig for some hidden motive, message, or ideology in a cesspool of edgelord internet shit. But the vast majority of the times, there just isn’t one.
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Day three of the media pretending that Charlie Kirk believed in free speech and failing to note that his signature political project was the creation of McCarthyite watchlists of college professors to harass out of their jobs and out of society.
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
The last person to speak to Charlie Kirk before his assassination was a liberal TikToker, Hunter Kozak, with a small audience who disagreed with Kirk on just about everything — except for their shared belief in free speech and raw political debate.
The Last Person to Question Charlie Kirk
Millions of people saw the brief exchange between the right-wing political activist and a liberal TikToker after footage of the assassination spread like wildfire across social media.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Day three of the media pretending that Charlie Kirk believed in free speech and failing to note that his signature political project was the creation of McCarthyite watchlists of college professors to harass out of their jobs and out of society.
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
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No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors