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Marisa Kabas
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Marisa Kabas writes LEFT SUBSTACK—FIND ME AT WWW.THEHANDBASKET.CO, a personal blog at thehandbasket.substack.com about politics and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for an interview with the editor of a Kansas paper raided by police. It covers the paper's investigation of the police chief and the raid's fallout.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Handbasket is 100% independent journalism by writer and reporter Marisa Kabas. It can now be found at https://www.thehandbasket.co/. Click to read LEFT SUBSTACK—FIND ME AT WWW.THEHANDBASKET.CO, by Marisa Kabas,
Most-linked posts?
- Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-08-12
What Hacker News says?
Here's a conversation [0] with the editor of the paper by an indie journalist. She originally broke the story about the editor investigating the police chief. [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...
Comment linking /p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
on “Marion County atty withdraws search warrant against Kansas paper, returns items”Submitted Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis article: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the... contains a detailed interview with editor of the raided newsroom. When asked about pulbic support, the publisher said he had a lot of support from out of town, but the locals... well: "They're afraid. They're really afraid that the police power is unchecked, and that they can be punished like this."
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on “Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom”There's been some interesting updates to the story. The Marion Record was in the process of investigating the Marion police chief. He used to work for the Kansas City (MO) PD. Allegedly, he was demoted for "sexual misconduct" before he quit and came to work for Marion. This reveal comes in an interview of the Marion Record's publisher. It's an interesting read and he's an interesting guy. One of the old school repor…
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on “Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom”CBS neglects to mention that the editor of the paper also said that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody was also being investigated by the paper for claims of sexual harassment. "EM: So the backstory that we haven't told, because we don't wanna get in trouble, is that we've been investigating the police chief [Gideon Cody]. When he was named Chief just two months ago, we got an outpouring of calls from his former co-wor…
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on “Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid”It's even worse than that. The newspaper was also investigating the police chief who ordered the raid on the paper. [0] [0] https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the...
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on “Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper”