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Meredith Clark
@meredithlclark.bsky.social
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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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meredithlclark.bsky.social
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
meredithlclark.bsky.social
Time to make my MIL watch Logan’s Run.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
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.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d
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.
Hey there Onion members, This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™. I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you. Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.” In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out. But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important. You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized. We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse. Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post. We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor. Due to your patronage in the last year, we have: Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half. Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving. Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools. Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off. And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool. Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon. So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats. Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Are you? If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it. Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es, Ben Collins CEO | The Onion
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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benmsmith.com
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
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billcorbett.bsky.social
It’s really coming down out there youtu.be/0u3XWri8BoU
Trip Shakespeare 03 - Snow Days
YouTube video by Louis Cyphre
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
My most old person complaint is that The Children don’t appreciate Patrick Swayze enough
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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katzish.bsky.social
Dude, this is so cool. A canoe from circa 3200 BCE just chillin in the dirt in Wisconsin
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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matineemode.bsky.social
The definition of a murderer’s row
May 1981 cover of TV Guide featuring the cast of Second City TV (Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Catherine O'Hara)
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
Founded in WI, currently based in Chicago, accidentally or not, The Onion is doing right by the NFC North.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d
Whoops, The Onion has accidentally torn apart the Detroit Lions fanbase.
Tate Ratledge said he got sent The Onion article about him by "so many people." Said he heard from a team employee that someone called into a local radio bitching about it as if it were real. Good to know if 2025 people still don't understand satire. The Onion: Detroit Lions Rookie Asks for Thanksgiving Off
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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lilianasegura.bsky.social
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Want to know how little women's health matters in this country?

Just ask Wisconsin's Assembly Speaker, who blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill that would have extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to one year.

www.wmtv15news.com/2025/11/20/v...
Vos blocks vote on expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage
The bill would extend Medicaid coverage for mothers to one year after giving birth, up from the current 60 days.
www.wmtv15news.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
Deeply grateful that the worst stray I’ve ever caught in someone else’s memoir was being called a “mousy blonde,” and that didn’t survive from the ARC to the final published version.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
some people in the news business really didn't get an early enough exposure to semiotext(e)
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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theonion.com
From The Archives: ‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River https://theonion.com/we-will-never-speak-of-this-again-says-trump-to-moha-1830547181/
‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
timeline cleanse
Kimberly Guilfoyle and her then-husband, Gavin Newsom, sprawl on Ann Getty's rug in San Francisco in 2004 for a photo with a story in Harper's Bazaar.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rikergoogling.bsky.social
darmok and jalad comic books
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
NYT: And you take an oath, right? There's a series of binding ethics you swear to.
Doctor: We do.
NYT: What's the first part of it?
Doctor: "First, do no harm."
NYT: And what did you do?
Doctor: Harm.

Narrator: But what victims didn't know was how much love was involved.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
weird how you never see this going in the opposite direction on bluesky, like there's not someone here posting "my cows are in a herd for collectivist reasons. i think they're becoming more ironic, one of them ran out to some grass and then stood there not eating it to own me"
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
Finally looked at my insurance costs: From $308/month to $720/month, so I guess I'm getting off easy?
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
What better way to celebrate my last months of being able to afford health insurance than begging for reimbursement for out of network urgent care visits?
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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truthdig.com
Which of These Endangers Jews?
By @elivalley.bsky.social
Which of These Endangers Jews?
An Independent, Progressive Journal of News and Opinion.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
meredithlclark.bsky.social
Currently fancasting Saw VI (the health insurance one) with only Democratic senators
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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jules.su
THE FOLLOWING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS VOTE “YES” ON THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION IN EXCHANGE FOR NOTHING:

MAGGIE HASSAN (NH)

CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO (NV)

JEANNE SHAHEEN (NH)

JACKY ROSEN (NV)

DICK DURBIN (IL)

TIM KAINE (VA)

ANGUS KING (ME)

JOHN FETTERMAN (PA)

ITS OVER
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM