Meredith Shiner
@meredithshiner.com
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! ⬇️
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Meredith Shiner
@meredithshiner.com
· Feb 3
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.
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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.
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.
Chicago and LA were somewhat buffered by their sheer geographic size. The Minneapolis situation (alongside the seemingly permanent national guard occupation of DC) necessarily creates this different feeling and dynamic for residents.
It's 10am in Minneapolis and rapid response is underwater, reports of chemicals deployed already.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
January 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Chicago and LA were somewhat buffered by their sheer geographic size. The Minneapolis situation (alongside the seemingly permanent national guard occupation of DC) necessarily creates this different feeling and dynamic for residents.
unironically some of the best Project 2025 coverage in 2024 was in People Magazine and I've just been wondering about this outlet and the energy behind the people running it. They also were ahead of pretty much everyone on the Reiner story.
January 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
unironically some of the best Project 2025 coverage in 2024 was in People Magazine and I've just been wondering about this outlet and the energy behind the people running it. They also were ahead of pretty much everyone on the Reiner story.
I had so many Farside anthology books
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I had so many Farside anthology books
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Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
gourmetmagazine.net
January 13, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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It’s so good you gotta smash that notify button. Added bonus is that when I would wear it to preschool pickup I just had a few kids tell me “oh I love ICEEs!”
January 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
It’s so good you gotta smash that notify button. Added bonus is that when I would wear it to preschool pickup I just had a few kids tell me “oh I love ICEEs!”
and by "people" I mean Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
and by "people" I mean Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
again I need people to know that this fall, North side Chicago yoga pants moms who for all I know voted for Paul Vallas in 2023 all came up to me at a Lil Kickers soccer practice for toddlers asking where they could buy my shirt. IN SEPTEMBER. BEFORE THEY SHOT A WHITE MOM LIKE THEM IN THE FACE.
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
again I need people to know that this fall, North side Chicago yoga pants moms who for all I know voted for Paul Vallas in 2023 all came up to me at a Lil Kickers soccer practice for toddlers asking where they could buy my shirt. IN SEPTEMBER. BEFORE THEY SHOT A WHITE MOM LIKE THEM IN THE FACE.
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Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.
The Case for the Forever Shutdown
Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.
if @jzembik.bsky.social wrote something this patently bad I would simply not declare to no one that he is "the funniest writer in America," and I hope someone, ~anyone~, would force me to consume actual comedic content.
Little peek under the hood at Weiss’s first weeks in charge of CBS. 📺 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
January 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
if @jzembik.bsky.social wrote something this patently bad I would simply not declare to no one that he is "the funniest writer in America," and I hope someone, ~anyone~, would force me to consume actual comedic content.
Ok but also the amazing thing in this analogy is Whitlock never even got to launch the site! He had no idea how or what to do! Kevin Merida, an actual newspaper man, swooped in and made it real (and good).
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Ok but also the amazing thing in this analogy is Whitlock never even got to launch the site! He had no idea how or what to do! Kevin Merida, an actual newspaper man, swooped in and made it real (and good).
Lololololololololol
Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times)
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January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Lololololololololol
I’m exactly “my most desired splurge in life is a Carepod and I’m hoping it really works because you need a humidifier in Chicago winter but will never clean your humidifier diligently enough” years old. It arrived off backorder today and I will report to you all, who are also all exactly my age.
January 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
I’m exactly “my most desired splurge in life is a Carepod and I’m hoping it really works because you need a humidifier in Chicago winter but will never clean your humidifier diligently enough” years old. It arrived off backorder today and I will report to you all, who are also all exactly my age.
I also used to make the really fat swirly ones but did not grow into a crafting adult :(
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I also used to make the really fat swirly ones but did not grow into a crafting adult :(
I’m not ok with this intrusive thought 🙃🫠
January 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I’m not ok with this intrusive thought 🙃🫠
Thank you as always to @ericmgarcia.bsky.social for asking Durbin about my essay so I can keep posting his deeply bad answer until the end of time.
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Thank you as always to @ericmgarcia.bsky.social for asking Durbin about my essay so I can keep posting his deeply bad answer until the end of time.
Oh interesting maybe someone show this clip to @durbin.senate.gov
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to [reopen] the government says "can't do that. It's gotta be health care all the way."
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January 13, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Oh interesting maybe someone show this clip to @durbin.senate.gov
*ICE and CBP
anyway, this happened here and our senators didn't care to tie "immigration enforcement" funding to opening the government and our state didn't try the shooters for murder or attempted murder. there were no real consequences before they took their big show somewhere else.
anyway, this happened here and our senators didn't care to tie "immigration enforcement" funding to opening the government and our state didn't try the shooters for murder or attempted murder. there were no real consequences before they took their big show somewhere else.
Before Feds Killed Minnesota Mom, They Killed A Man And Shot A Woman 5 Times In Chicago
Federal immigration agents' killing of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis mirrors two shootings that happened this fall in Chicago.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
*ICE and CBP
anyway, this happened here and our senators didn't care to tie "immigration enforcement" funding to opening the government and our state didn't try the shooters for murder or attempted murder. there were no real consequences before they took their big show somewhere else.
anyway, this happened here and our senators didn't care to tie "immigration enforcement" funding to opening the government and our state didn't try the shooters for murder or attempted murder. there were no real consequences before they took their big show somewhere else.
we'll never know if Illinois elected officials taking a stronger stance against ICE would have prevented the same movie we saw here from playing in Minnesota but I wish they had tried harder.
An all too familiar scene: tossing some more gas canisters at residents as they flee.
January 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
we'll never know if Illinois elected officials taking a stronger stance against ICE would have prevented the same movie we saw here from playing in Minnesota but I wish they had tried harder.
posing for portraits for this piece always was wild to me
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
posing for portraits for this piece always was wild to me
also for me this is in large part causation not correlation I would love for network execs to consider this
January 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
also for me this is in large part causation not correlation I would love for network execs to consider this
there are not more of them than us.
January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
there are not more of them than us.
turns out Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years because we've never before had an Eric Adams crypto token to "fight antisemitism."
Eric Adams has apparently been in Congo in addition to Dubai this month, he said on Fox Business this morning.
He's back in NYC today to announce "New York City Coin," a crypto token, the proceeds of which he says will be used to fight antisemitism and "anti-Americanism."
He's back in NYC today to announce "New York City Coin," a crypto token, the proceeds of which he says will be used to fight antisemitism and "anti-Americanism."
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
turns out Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years because we've never before had an Eric Adams crypto token to "fight antisemitism."
THIS ISN'T EVEN THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE TAKEN A PARENT OF A TEENAGER DYING OF CANCER
“A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.” www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/12/t...
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.kkco11news.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
THIS ISN'T EVEN THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE TAKEN A PARENT OF A TEENAGER DYING OF CANCER
not to diminish the point but I think they knew exactly who he was and what he was doing at the time (we all saw it with our own eyes!), they just chose not to care or were somehow afraid of the wrath of the unelected shadow president who was bulldozing the government.
The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
not to diminish the point but I think they knew exactly who he was and what he was doing at the time (we all saw it with our own eyes!), they just chose not to care or were somehow afraid of the wrath of the unelected shadow president who was bulldozing the government.