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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"! buttondown.com/cwmarc/archive

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The Shoestring @theshoestring.bsky.social · 7h
Emails @jongerhardson.bsky.social obtained show that for more than two years, Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s office routinely sent ICE agents the personal information of people held in its custody. It has discontinued the practice after the PROTECT Act took effect, but it's continuing a partnership with HSI:
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Records: Hampden sheriff’s office regularly shared data with ICE
An attorney for the department said it has discontinued the practice after the PROTECT Act took effect last month, but that it will continue its partnership with Homeland Security Investigations.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's a column I wrote for last weekend's @berkshireeagle.com about the Connecticut Sun's "Sunset Season." It's about getting to the party late, but also what happens in a media/sports/entertainment world geared only for those who already have a lot www.berkshireeagle.com/sportscolumn...
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Goodnight, Sun: A fan mourns Connecticut’s WNBA farewell
As the Sun head to Houston, a late-arriving fan reflects on the community, memories and loss left behind.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s astonishing how hard some centrists work to not understand wealth polarization This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm ready for the ultimate NYT higher-ed think piece: "I'm a College Professor. Thinking Isn't as Important as We Think."
Screenshot of latest annoying NYT op-ed: "Opinion | I'm a College Professor. Writing Isn't as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to..."
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My journey with this story as gone from bemused recognition through regional pride to just plain queasiness. This story punches down, and puts a small community minding its own business on display for the amusement of people that don't know them or wish them well
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Autunno,' Marcantonio Franceschini, 1717. At the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
Men and women hard at work with the grape harvest. In the bottom right corner two cherubs fight over a pile of apples. In the rear, a man leads an ox to the field
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A preview I wrote:
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Hoosic, in a distant corner of the commonwealth
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My former student Shubhanga wrote for the @lrb.co.uk about the catastrophe in Nepal
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To pay for my unpaid internship at my hometown newspaper, I worked doing cold-call phone interviews about mutual funds because I needed money and thought it might improve my “interview skills.” I completed one (1) over the summer.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Absolutely pathetic
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote something about watching Frederick Wiseman's CANAL ZONE, and what it says about performance patriotism and how we pay attention buttondown.com/cwmarc/archi...
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Frederick Wiseman and the Patriotic Moment - #13
Remembering the late master documentarian's subtle 1977 masterpiece about patriotic performance and how we pay attention
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/08/2026
I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You would think these Nazis has heard of Ernst Röhm, but I guess they really don’t read
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
kind of wonderful to read all these stories about someone who inspires such an outpouring of joy tbh
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.
Truth social post where Trump threatens to call Lake Ontario, Lake America
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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The Shoestring @theshoestring.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tara Jacobs has built a progressive reputation for herself in her time on the Governor's Council. On Sept. 1, she faces a rematch with former Springfield City Council President Michael Fenton in "the most important race no one's heard of". By Dylan Vrins: theshoestring.org/2026/08/19/w...
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Who will represent western Massachusetts on the influential Governor’s Council?
Tara Jacobs, a progressive who has made her mark on the Governor's Council over the last four years, faces a rematch from Michael Fenton, Springfield's former City Council President.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bro, I am struggling all of the time.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A little late to the discourse but have been thinking about it a lot while on vacation… Seems much of the criticism of Emily Wilson’s criticism of Nolan’s Odyssey is just fighting with a plain fact: there are layers of depth and meaning available in language that aren’t there in images and video
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ohhhhhh this is so completely my scene!
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Spill the (functional) tea
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some hailstones that landed on us earlier this week
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
At least one interesting outfit on Croatian tv for last night’s final. Couldn’t really follow along, but definitely preferred listening to them than Alexei Lalas
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They lie about everything, but nothing sticks out like the idea the US is more “respected” now…. Everyone on earth sees this and is laughing at us
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can’t believe there are people that read this and don’t understand this entire agency needs to be dismantled
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham won't see you calling him a spineless ass-kisser who sold his soul to a con man, but all the other Republicans will.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
No better argument that we are not a serious soccer nation than that this guy became a metonym for “good soccer guy” and is in like 3/4 of World Cup ads.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Government-subsidized grocery stores = Communism Government run gas stations = Freedom Got it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(via @belgiumtouch.bsky.social) 🇧🇪
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I was worried some of you wouldn’t snap out of it until Kash showed up in the locker room
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😑
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
True! Switched to Sun-Wings and half the game has looked like this
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very happy our membership dollars are helping to do great things like this!
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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A (very rare) appeal to readers of my journalism work! For those who appreciate in-depth reporting in Massachusetts (and beyond) -- and, going forward, a host of creative, funny, and interesting excursions into other topics -- I hope you'll consider supporting this independent work. Thanks!
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Six Months of Reporting No One Else Did
Here’s what RGM has produced this year—and your opportunity to support essential, in-depth storytelling.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is shaping up to be one of those Scandals in Journalism that no one learns anything from
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Amazing that the party would throw out bold, high-quality leadership like this! So inspiring!
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
30 years for moving a box of zines. Des Sanchez Estrada was not even at the noise demo that led to this. The state is attempting to make an example of these anti-fascist political prisoners. We can expect the crackdowns to continue & escalate. Take this seriously. Don't back down
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DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MOVING A BOX OF ANTIFASCIST ZINES
Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms - including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There I am
An image of Saint Christopher from early 1400s Bologna. He’s wearing a red tunic and light blue shawl, and the Baby Jesus is unusually chill and correctly sized on his shoulders
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sorry to miss Isaac Fitzgerald's book talk at Mass MoCA last weekend. Looking forward to reading his latest this summer massmoca.org/event/americ...
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American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny AppleseedIsaac Fitzgerald in Conversation with Amanda Lovelee | MASS MoCA
Join writer Isaac Fitzgerald in conversation with artist Amanda Lovelee as they discuss Fitzgerald’s American Rambler and Lovelee’s newly opened MASS MoCA exhibition Homecoming “An immersive walk thro...
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great work by Jon and the Shoestring, and so glad to see them getting the recognition they deserve. Lots of good things happening out there!
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy Bloomsday everyone! A day to celebrate how the art we love travels with us our whole lives. Reminder that the legendary RTE production from 1982, which was a mythic rumor when I first read the book in college, is right there as a podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
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Ulysses - James Joyce
Books Podcast · James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is one of the most important works of modernist literature. The book chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A trillion dollars is too much for one human.
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Yea I guess I’m glad all the Brooklyn-based writers I like, Jim Dolan, David Zaslav, and certain celebs are having a great time but whatever, the World Cup is on
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I have a sinking feeling that the kind of New York sports fan that can afford this isn’t really the kind that will rise to the occasion (on any level). Hope I’m wrong!
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Christopher Marcisz @cwmarc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Rock’s co-author can go eat shit
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.
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