Meredith Clark
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
Deputy Editor at Truthdig. I love movies, good gossip, and the Midwest. Looking for people who know what I mean when I call something “a Saturday afternoon WGN movie”
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BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
If I can figure out the mystical incantation required to get my health insurance to reimburse me for out of network expenses, I'm spending that money on [redacted] so I can [redacted]
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If I can figure out the mystical incantation required to get my health insurance to reimburse me for out of network expenses, I'm spending that money on [redacted] so I can [redacted]
BRING ON THE YULE LADS
Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
BRING ON THE YULE LADS
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A teenager who unknowingly reveled for years in radioactive waste is fighting for justice and change.
West Virginia's Radioactive Party Zone - Truthdig
A teenager who unknowingly reveled for years in radioactive waste is fighting for justice and change.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A teenager who unknowingly reveled for years in radioactive waste is fighting for justice and change.
This is a time you snitch. “No snitching” does not apply to monsters.
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is a time you snitch. “No snitching” does not apply to monsters.
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If I were a celebrity chef, one thing I'd do is leave a knife and cutting board in the kitchen that I used solely for hot dogs and my dog's medication. I would not mark this in any way and fly into a rage at new employees if they used it—a terrifying rite of passage. I would also do lots of cocaine.
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If I were a celebrity chef, one thing I'd do is leave a knife and cutting board in the kitchen that I used solely for hot dogs and my dog's medication. I would not mark this in any way and fly into a rage at new employees if they used it—a terrifying rite of passage. I would also do lots of cocaine.
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Good on you Iceland.
a man wearing a lanyard with the letter g on it waves his hand
ALT: a man wearing a lanyard with the letter g on it waves his hand
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December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good on you Iceland.
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
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Stopping data centers is anti-fascist activism. You heard it from me; now go and spread the good word. We can and must stop them or slow them from being built.
The Fight to Stop Data Center Creep - Truthdig
Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Stopping data centers is anti-fascist activism. You heard it from me; now go and spread the good word. We can and must stop them or slow them from being built.
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
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Today we open with a minor meltdown about how AI and Netflix are destroying art before seamlessly segueing into reviews of…
Hamnet
No Other Choice
It Was Just An Accident
Jay Kelly
Train Dreams
Listen 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Hamnet
No Other Choice
It Was Just An Accident
Jay Kelly
Train Dreams
Listen 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
@allisonkilkenny.bsky.social
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Today we open with a minor meltdown about how AI and Netflix are destroying art before seamlessly segueing into reviews of…
Hamnet
No Other Choice
It Was Just An Accident
Jay Kelly
Train Dreams
Listen 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
@allisonkilkenny.bsky.social
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
Hamnet
No Other Choice
It Was Just An Accident
Jay Kelly
Train Dreams
Listen 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
@allisonkilkenny.bsky.social
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
I have learned something this year: Winter fucking rules. Real winter. COLD winter. Warm weather year-round may be fine for some people, but if you need me I’ll be tearing my clothes off and making snow angels, Dyatlov Pass-style
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have learned something this year: Winter fucking rules. Real winter. COLD winter. Warm weather year-round may be fine for some people, but if you need me I’ll be tearing my clothes off and making snow angels, Dyatlov Pass-style
Almost cruel of the FIFA draw to give the hardest reading assignment to the least literate celebrity who also has the most concussions
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Almost cruel of the FIFA draw to give the hardest reading assignment to the least literate celebrity who also has the most concussions
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Love that this event dedicated to a global sport, with tons of players and stars who don't speak English, does not appear to have anyone translating for people at home
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Love that this event dedicated to a global sport, with tons of players and stars who don't speak English, does not appear to have anyone translating for people at home
If you're not watching the World Cup final draw right now, you're missing some truly shambolic television. Just profoundly humiliating for the United States. And for soccer. Also for whoever is doing the lighting inside the Kennedy Center.
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If you're not watching the World Cup final draw right now, you're missing some truly shambolic television. Just profoundly humiliating for the United States. And for soccer. Also for whoever is doing the lighting inside the Kennedy Center.
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The Trump economy has been a disaster for working people. But in exposing the moral rot permeating our ruling elite, it offers Democrats an opening.
The Gilded Mirage - Truthdig
The Trump economy has been a disaster for working people. But in exposing the moral rot permeating our ruling elite, it offers Democrats an opening.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Trump economy has been a disaster for working people. But in exposing the moral rot permeating our ruling elite, it offers Democrats an opening.
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Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
I love it when the thought “SHIT I FORGOT _____” ends with “to eat some potato salad before I go to bed”
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I love it when the thought “SHIT I FORGOT _____” ends with “to eat some potato salad before I go to bed”
Time to make my MIL watch Logan’s Run.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Time to make my MIL watch Logan’s Run.
My sister and I got our dad a subscription for his birthday. We grew up on the free copies he and my mom would bring home. Times change, but our house still has The Onion.
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My sister and I got our dad a subscription for his birthday. We grew up on the free copies he and my mom would bring home. Times change, but our house still has The Onion.
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Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" is a Christmas song because it is canonically about the thirteen (13) Icelandic Yule Lads (the titular "boys") that will start arriving ("back in town") as of December 12.
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town" is a Christmas song because it is canonically about the thirteen (13) Icelandic Yule Lads (the titular "boys") that will start arriving ("back in town") as of December 12.
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It’s really coming down out there youtu.be/0u3XWri8BoU
Trip Shakespeare 03 - Snow Days
YouTube video by Louis Cyphre
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November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It’s really coming down out there youtu.be/0u3XWri8BoU
My most old person complaint is that The Children don’t appreciate Patrick Swayze enough
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My most old person complaint is that The Children don’t appreciate Patrick Swayze enough