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Best of 2020: Pandemic Journal

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:December 17, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Everybody has their best-of lists, so let me be humility-free and offer Pandemic Journal for consideration. It compresses the ridiculousness of 2020 into an hour of reading/guilty pleasure that generated…

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Reader Update: The Fox-Con

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 14, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Grifters often have a blind spot when it comes to detecting one of their own kind, so we shouldn't be surprised to see the latest chapter of the Wisconsin-Foxconn saga…

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Pandemic Journal Shares Favorite Holiday Recipes

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 12, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Columbus Day finds the Pandemic Journal staff gathering in the lunchroom to raise a toast to a few hundred years of unfettered genocide. As is our custom, staff members are…

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A Pandemic Journal Edition Completely Free of Bad Words

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 9, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

I'm feeling chastened to think that maybe my use of salty language is getting out of hand. So I've sworn-without-actually-swearing to tone it down a bit and only use words…

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I Am Governor Whitmer’s ASL Interpreter, and I Am Sick of America’s Bullshit

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 9, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Hello America, that's me standing behind Big Gretch's left shoulder, translating her words while communicating righteous anger. I am woman–I can fucking multitask. And I am sick of America's bullshit.…

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Stephen Miller, who found pleasure in putting children in cages

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 8, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Editor's note: Pandemic Journal staff has found it challenging to keep pace with the news. But some stories demand coverage, and word that White House Advisor Stephen Miller contracted Covid-19…

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I Was a Candy Striper at Walter Reed and Now I Have the Nuclear Football. AMA.

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 6, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

I became at volunteer Candy Striper at Walter Reed Hospital in 2019 because of my love of humankind and unflinching belief that I can make a positive difference in this…

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A Reader’s Guide to Interpreting White House Reports

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 2, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Amidst the turmoil of this news cycle I had a sit-down with Pandemic Journal's White House reporter to get the skinny on how she plans to cover what will be,…

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A Brief Statement from Pandemic Journal About the Welfare of Our Editorial Staff

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:October 2, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

Readers have faxed and telegraphed messages of concern about our editorial staff's well-being after news of an outbreak of COVID-19 among the flat earthers who run this once-proud nation. Our…

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Pandemic Journal Answers Readers’ Questions About Last Night’s Debate

  • Post author:Ian
  • Post published:September 30, 2020
  • Post category:Pandemic Journal

An outbreak of alcohol poisoning and melancholy sidelined everyone on Pandemic Journal's political beat after last night's hootenanny in Cleveland. So I've turned to other sage voices to offer royalty-free…

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