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Meredith Shiner

@meredithshiner.com

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current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl. let’s work together! ⬇️ meredithshiner.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · Feb 3

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”

If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

Primary Every Democrat

It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

newrepublic.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Stay back!

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

I have Georgia-Auburn on now but was in bed watching baseball because I also got my Covid and flu shots today when clearly some very insane shit went down and I’m looking forward to being briefed by the Dawgs fan who has been watching this the whole time in the other room

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Dan a few days where you do nothing but veg out and watch tv, maybe do a little cleaning around this house, is the dream all of us have but none of us achieve

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

I honestly don’t know! I feel as long as the Dodgers don’t make the World Series, this would be a repeat of the 2015 World Series, which was the first and only championship in any sport of my lifetime when I genuinely enjoyed both teams (the Royals and Mets) and was happy with the outcome.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

Good for Andrew Vaughn. Everyone who has done time with the recent White Sox deserves some fun in the end.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers and also to the reporter who gets what I’ve been waiting almost a month for: the Cubs end-of-season tick tock that includes everyone’s anonymous thoughts on Matt Shaw’s whole thing.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17h

AMA

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17h

It’s baseball time again!!

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18h

Solidarity!

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

I’m sorry there’s nothing funnier than losing to Northwestern

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19h

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19h

JIMMY TWO TIMES WHAT DID YOU DOOOOOO

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

Love to meet elected officials personally hustling to get their names on the ballot.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

ran into @replilianjimenez.bsky.social who was trying to get signatures in Humboldt and she was saying how eager she was to get back to Springfield to vote on a transit package (I’m not in that district but I did get to throw shade about a special session not getting called earlier for this!)

Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 1d

💪 Our amazing volunteers have already reached 5,000 Chicagoland residents to contact 71 different legislators THIS WEEK — so we had to go get more materials!

Yes, there’s more in the suitcase. 👀

Help us run out again and sign up for a canvassing shift ➡️ mobilize.us/s/W7IiV4

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

another classic whoopsie daisy!!!

also if this were a mistake (I don’t believe that) don’t you think you would try to prove it was a mistake by firing the person who did the mistaking???

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

Here’s the permalink! www.virtuforyou.com/products/box...

Box of Snowbirds, set of 8 cards and envelopes

A box of birds for your holiday sentiments? We love this as a gift for the collector, the birder, the naturalist and just because. Artist, poet, actor, writer Tony Fitzpatrick is, perhaps, Chicago's g...

www.virtuforyou.com

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

Why did no one warn me!!!

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

FYI now one of our neighborhood stores is selling an exclusive collection of snow bird note cards (scroll to the bottom of the homepage). They just came in last week! My MiL loves birds so I already have a package. www.virtuforyou.com

VIRTU - jewelry + gift shop

Wide-ranging gift boutique with handmade jewelry & artisan ceramics, wood, textiles, paper & metal.

www.virtuforyou.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

Anyway I’ve never left a review on a retail website before but I do feel like I should save other moms from this fate.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

I feel like I need to crack open a beer to do this job but I also got my flu and Covid shots today so somehow that feels like compounding my bad life decisions into something worse

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

I do not get paid enough for my job as (checks notes) … mom to do this. I think I must have been the worst person in the world in a previous life to have done this to myself.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20h

Ok I know there are very serious problems in the world but I need you guys to know I ordered this cute lil paper curtains kit online and told the kid we could hang it from his door and they failed to note ALL THE ASSEMBLY IS REQUIRED INCLUDING PUNCHING OUT FOLDING AND GLUING ALL THE LIL FACE PIECES

Screenshot of the paper source website showing cute Halloween string curtains with stars, bats and jack-o-laterns

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1,000,000 pieces of this so-called “kit” on my kid’s bedroom floor

The faces of the so-called “3D pumpkins,” all pieces for which I had to punch out of sheets, fold and glue. This is a 10-day project.

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 21h

Tony Fitzpatrick has died. Read our 2024 interview with the Chicago artist, actor, and poet here: buff.ly/5hv2CCN

Tony Fitzpatrick

The artist, actor, and poet, 65, on surviving a heart attack and being a rebel.

www.chicagomag.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23h

Bucktown has been covered in sidewalk chalk for Tony for weeks. Michele, his wife, is so lovely and a small business owner central to the neighborhood. She’s the second small business owner here to lose a husband in the past year. I know that because living in Chicago is knowing your community.

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 23h

Well, shit.

Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago artist in many realms, has died at 66

He had recently published a new book, “The Sun at the End of the Road,” filled with his distinctive art, poetry and prose. Some consider it a memoir.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23h

you do not have to be a parent to fully appreciate the horrors of this but also it is so hard to be a parent and to know that other people who have the same role and love as you do are going through this needless, random and permanently damaging terror

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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