Meredith Beredith
@merrieberrie.bsky.social
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trump stealing my one family Christmas tradition, launching a series of air strikes against Nigeria, is a step too far even for him
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
trump stealing my one family Christmas tradition, launching a series of air strikes against Nigeria, is a step too far even for him
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thank you, Mr. President
December 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
thank you, Mr. President
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Thread and quoted thread. People will tell us we're going to hell for not agreeing with them and we're expected to take it as a kindness but if we merely assert we don't agree then we're forcing our beliefs on them.
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thread and quoted thread. People will tell us we're going to hell for not agreeing with them and we're expected to take it as a kindness but if we merely assert we don't agree then we're forcing our beliefs on them.
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Simultaneously more and less terrifying than the Times Square characters, and I saw a Times Square Elmo try to abduct a small child once - presumably to turn it into one of them, but maybe also for food?
Today I learned that Red Square in Moscow is like Hollywood Boulevard, with guys walking around dressed as Lenin and Stalin posing for photos.
December 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Simultaneously more and less terrifying than the Times Square characters, and I saw a Times Square Elmo try to abduct a small child once - presumably to turn it into one of them, but maybe also for food?
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love when the “i’m all ears” types immediately develop a severe case of can’t read posts or look anything up-itis
It's so funny that a billionaire was on here *this week* being like, "Well if there are any *good ideas* on how to implement universal healthcare I would love to entertain them!" but also hasn't just uhh checked to see how every other country in the so-called developed world has done it in some form
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
love when the “i’m all ears” types immediately develop a severe case of can’t read posts or look anything up-itis
Today is an excellent day to have already blocked Mark Cuban.
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Today is an excellent day to have already blocked Mark Cuban.
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Once, when I was in college, I was walking to a class, and a small group of students walking passed me stopped and asked, "Have you heard about Jesus?"
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
“But I’m just sharing the good news about Jesus that you may not have heard.” Really? You think I’ve lived here in America and have never encountered Christianity?
December 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Once, when I was in college, I was walking to a class, and a small group of students walking passed me stopped and asked, "Have you heard about Jesus?"
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
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It’s kind of incredible that he’s asking furries on a niche microblogging site to explain UHC instead of like, texting Elizabeth Warren for a reading list.
Mark Cuban is so annoying here asking random social media people for their universal healthcare plan instead of the bountiful amounts of policy papers and numerous proposals that exist on the subject
December 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It’s kind of incredible that he’s asking furries on a niche microblogging site to explain UHC instead of like, texting Elizabeth Warren for a reading list.
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When a Christian Nationalist hears someone say “You believe what you want, but I don’t agree with you” what they generally hear is “I think you’re evil and should be silenced.” This is what they call “projection.”
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
When a Christian Nationalist hears someone say “You believe what you want, but I don’t agree with you” what they generally hear is “I think you’re evil and should be silenced.” This is what they call “projection.”
this parrrrrrrt
“But I’m just sharing the good news about Jesus that you may not have heard.” Really? You think I’ve lived here in America and have never encountered Christianity?
December 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
this parrrrrrrt
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Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
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To everyone who's Christmas looks like just hanging around the house, not really doing anything "festive", for whatever reason whether it be due to not celebrating or disability or illness or ptsd related things?
You're valid, and your Christmas is not sad. It's relaxing and cozy.
You're valid, and your Christmas is not sad. It's relaxing and cozy.
December 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
To everyone who's Christmas looks like just hanging around the house, not really doing anything "festive", for whatever reason whether it be due to not celebrating or disability or illness or ptsd related things?
You're valid, and your Christmas is not sad. It's relaxing and cozy.
You're valid, and your Christmas is not sad. It's relaxing and cozy.
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I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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and brown communities to power their attempt to turn the collective knowledge of all of humanity into a machine they control. We are fighting a war for the future of this earth, a war that will decide whether we are ruled by these fucking fascists until they burn
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
and brown communities to power their attempt to turn the collective knowledge of all of humanity into a machine they control. We are fighting a war for the future of this earth, a war that will decide whether we are ruled by these fucking fascists until they burn
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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The court document below is NOT new. I reprinted it in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT when discussing Trump's history with Epstein. Others also covered it. It was publicly available. Garland of course knew too and protected Trump. And Dems protected and defended Garland. Why pretend otherwise?
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
December 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The court document below is NOT new. I reprinted it in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT when discussing Trump's history with Epstein. Others also covered it. It was publicly available. Garland of course knew too and protected Trump. And Dems protected and defended Garland. Why pretend otherwise?
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The next time someone tells you Coca-Cola invented modern Santa, you can lay one helluva WELL ACTUALLY on them.
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
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December 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The next time someone tells you Coca-Cola invented modern Santa, you can lay one helluva WELL ACTUALLY on them.
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my family has a really long relationship with Bethlehem University, a Catholic college in the West Bank that was really important to my mother. they’re running a December donor drive for their nursing & midwifery programs if you want to get me a Christmas gift I’ll love 💕
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December 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
my family has a really long relationship with Bethlehem University, a Catholic college in the West Bank that was really important to my mother. they’re running a December donor drive for their nursing & midwifery programs if you want to get me a Christmas gift I’ll love 💕
bufusa.org/2025christma...
bufusa.org/2025christma...
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
12:32 am on Christmas… trans rights
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something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
something i learned when a fact checker hired by @swordsjew.bsky.social called me is that books only have fact checkers if the author insists on it or even hires one themselves. you can put anything in a book. that was the only fact checker i’ve ever talked to but i’ve been quoted in other books
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I’ll give Michael Caine this though: he is totally committed to acting against Muppets as if they are respectable human thespians
nothing demonstrates how good people are at missing the blindingly obvious anti-capitalist message of “A Christmas Carol” than the fact that Michael Caine starred in the iconic “Muppet Christmas Carol” and is STILL a loathsome Tory
December 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I’ll give Michael Caine this though: he is totally committed to acting against Muppets as if they are respectable human thespians
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This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.
debi mazar punch me in the stomach for $15 challenge
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is how I want people to be posting on Christmas. Do not try to convince Mark Cuban's goofy ass that universal healthcare is right. I want to see pleas for character actors to cleave them in twain with a broadsword. I want people volunteering to get kicked down the Exorcist steps by Alicia Witt.
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The problem is that British people think American English is a corruption of British English (it's not) and American people think British English is a deliberate affectation intended to signal cultural superiority (it's not).
Someone in America on Substack Notes saw this and corrected my spelling of mum to "mom" and although I think - despite everything we find out, every day - there remain innumerable fantastic things about America, that probably tells you quite a bit about America, and none of it is very good.
First time my mum went to my dad's parents house she noticed my granddad had a party hat on. Seemed odd as there was no party.
"Why is he wearing that?" she asked my dad later.
"It's because he's so forgetful," said my dad. "My mum makes him wear it every time he's switched the immersion heater on."
"Why is he wearing that?" she asked my dad later.
"It's because he's so forgetful," said my dad. "My mum makes him wear it every time he's switched the immersion heater on."
December 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The problem is that British people think American English is a corruption of British English (it's not) and American people think British English is a deliberate affectation intended to signal cultural superiority (it's not).