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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 · 19m

Lolololololol

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

Look I’m not saying anything specific but the first time I ever saw Fenway Park was summer of 2004 and the first time I saw T-Mobile was 2025

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 7h

WE’RE FREE

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

Mariners never in doubt

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

If polanco hits into a double play here so help me god

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

I’ve dozed off at least a half dozen times since 9 PM CT

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

are you fucking kidding me

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

This week has been too long for this game to go this long I’m sorry

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

You gotta double steal here, you guys!!!!

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

The later this goes the more aggressive AJ’s delirious takes are I love it

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

I’m stressed and also why are all these bats breaking

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8h

Baseball is the best

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13h

Hi Senator have you changed your mind since Wednesday?

Eric Michael Garcia • @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a
precondition to rein in the government says "can't do that. It's gotta be health care all the way."
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM @ Everybody can reply

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 17h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13h

Went to an elementary school in Humboldt for dismissal today—made it a coffee date and CPS watch. A few other neighbors came out, too, and it was just an incredibly easy way to be a bystander in your neighborhood or others impacted. Best case scenario is nothing happens and you meet neighbors!

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 16h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

ICE claims it’s going after “the worst of the worst” and good people are being hit incidentally. What’s incidental about going after tamale vendors? Where’s the “worst of the worst” there?

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 17h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 17h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 16h

ICYMI: @eisendrath.net hosted @meredithshiner.com to discuss the government shutdown and how the Democrats need to stop pretending that the normal way of doing politics is possible during abnormal times.

Subscribe and watch, now:

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-foreve...

The Forever Shutdown? | It's the Democracy, Stupid Edwin Eisendrath & Meredith Shiner

This is not your normal government shutdown.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18h

people are gonna start thinking we're the same person

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 22h

ok counterpoint maybe bari is gonna learn how reporting works

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 18h

hey guys the rumors are true @eisendrath.net is the best

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

But JB did such a cute video for Jimmy Kimmel last night

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

Lololol

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 22h

ISP really wants to get an elevated look here but they’ve been struggling to figure this out for almost ten minutes.

One protesters yells, “I’m certified if you need help.”

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

Yeah I don’t think anyone will except for Tony Dokoupil.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21h

Tonight! One dollar from every item sold at Bungalow by Middlebrow will go to the Chicago Abortion Fund. Next up will be @icirr.bsky.social and the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.

More details here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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