Meredith Shiner
@meredithshiner.bsky.social
starting over #onhere? bylines on politics and sports across the internet; running a communications consulting business and raising a toddler irl.
let’s work together! ⬇️
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Literally this is how Republicans do it, working the media to get the outcome they want, even as they’re working with so much less than this! Ask Claudine Gay about it.
@jbendery.bsky.social is consistently so good in very important ways
.@jbendery.bsky.social shows how something very basic is done: A context ¶ describing the crimes that Trump was convicted of.
Tons of reports on political response simply ignoring what the crime are -- real basic Who What When Where Why failure.
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Sorry Tommy Tuberville is not the average American he’s the lowest common denominator American we all had to take civics tests you pretentious dolt
Ron Elving on NPR just now solemnly intoning that it makes sense for voters to be confused about Biden having nothing to do with a New York district court because "average Americans" have never had any reason to learn about the separation of powers until now.
What a time to be alive.
Would just like to tap my favorite sign and state for the record that if Chris Coons had 1/1000th of the bravery of Stormy Daniels, he wouldn’t have gone home for Valentine’s Day instead of calling witnesses (which the Senate already voted to do!) in the second Trump impeachment trial
These are literally the people who said Joe Biden was too busy “working” to pay attention or care about the second impeachment trial, which was literally about Trump trying to steal the White House, and the government is less safe from being stolen than it was then. They imbue seriousness to things!
I am actually not giddy about this result at all. A convicted felon could inhabit the White House in seven months.
Like this guy was found guilty on THIRTY FOUR FELONY COUNTS AND YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY. GROW A FUCKING PAIR YOU COWARDS
The Biden White House is an absolute embarassment
“We respect the rule of law, and have no additional comment.” - White House Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams
The perfect photo. Kudos to the pool photographer, Mark Peterson.
@jzembik.bsky.social: “so now what?”
me: “he becomes president.”
It honestly makes me feel old af that I have three more years of age than Donald Trump has felony convictions
Also possibly the first future president convicted of a million federal felonies jfc
Breaking news: Donald Trump is found guilty in his N.Y. hush money trial, becoming the first ex-president convicted of a crime.
Follow live updates: wapo.st/3X1Mu2Y
would be cool if Dick Durbin could find a spine
this sort of abject baffoonery only exists in people who literally do nothing but fuck around and never find out
BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.
"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...
the "pivot to video" on crack
WHAT IF THESE NEWS OUTLETS JUST PAID REPORTERS
OpenAI announced deals with Vox Media and the Atlantic on Wednesday, adding to the growing number of news organizations taking money from the artificial-intelligence company in exchange for sharing their content.
OpenAI’s news deals continue, with Vox and the Atlantic signing on
The artificial-intelligence company is paying dozens of news organizations for access to their fresh content, sparking a debate in the publishing world.
www.washingtonpost.comPrivate equity and early childcare education — what could go wrong other than literally everything?
“The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It’s Not a Child”: How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care - Early Learning Nation
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unpreced...
earlylearningnation.comthe worst HAGS and KITs of all time
Nikki Haley, the former Republican presidential candidate, wrote “Finish them” on an artillery shell during her visit to Israel this week. Haley finished her inscription with a note that “America loves Israel always,” using a heart emoji for “loves.”
Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them’ on Artillery Shell in Israel
Her visit came just days after Israel drew international condemnation for a strike that killed dozens of Gazan civilians in a camp for displaced Palestinians.
www.nytimes.comjesus
The mother of Michael Fanone was swatted yesterday, hours after Fanone called Trump "an authoritarian" with "a violence fetish" in a Biden campaign press conference at the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is on trial.
Someone also sent out a fake manifesto claiming Fanone had murdered his mother.
Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'
Fanone was abducted by the mob on Jan. 6 and nearly killed when a MAGA-hatted rioter who believed Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election drove a stun gun into his neck.
www.nbcnews.comwould be cool if Boeing were as bad at making bombs as they are at making planes that don’t have doors that blow out
The bomb used by Israel in the tent city attack in Rafah was made by Boeing:
Big-time yikes for the Biden people.
Don't worry, though, the ADL will come out and label J-Street as an antisemitic hate group and John Kirby will say they don't understand the Middle East. Problem solved!!!
J Street, a liberal pro-Israel nonprofit that has been largely supportive of Biden since Oct. 7th, just sent out an email demanding an end to the war.
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part of me understands where Kenny, Shaq and EJ are coming from in deferring to the TNT PR team, but truly what is the point of toeing the company line for a company whose chief executive has said on the record you and your work don't matter? I'm on Team Charles here. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/b...
this is so bleak. I sadly can say from experience that nurses who help patients through perinatal loss are incredible. Also, NYU: the thing that endangers medical professionals and patients in maternity wards are the right-wing extremists who want to criminalize care—not saying the word "genocide."
Appalling by NYU-Langone Hospital. A nurse at NYU given an award for her work with bereaved mothers briefly mentioned Palestine in her remarks at the awards ceremony.
She was promptly fired.
link:
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I mean this was never in doubt. Anything for a lower corporate tax rate.
After announcing a commitment to their employees’ rights to access abortion, Comcast, Boeing, Chevron, JP Morgan Chase and Deloitte are funding the Florida officials seeking to limit or end abortion access.
These corporations publicly supported abortion access, then donated to anti-abortion lawmakers in Florida - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Many of the same companies professing a commitment to their employees’ rights to access abortion are funding the elected officials seeking to limit or end abortion access.
www.citizensforethics.orgdefinitely the behavior of a totally innocent, not-genocide-conducting state actor
The Guardian reports that the head of Mossad tried to intimidate an ICC prosecutor.
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say
www.theguardian.comCollege protesters are good, even historically righteous, actually.
Also I made the mistake of going on Twitter to see what Benetti posted and to share a personal story about what this 2019 broadcast meant to me (it aired five days after I lost my first pregnancy at 23 weeks) and some bot replied with a photo of a naked woman. Things are going great on “X!”
Bill Walton was iconic on every level and I’m going to miss him in the booth, being ridiculous, so fucking much. Bill and Jason Benetti in the booth for a White Sox game was a highlight of life.
The Best of Bill Walton’s amazing calls in the booth
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www.youtube.comBill Walton was iconic on every level and I’m going to miss him in the booth, being ridiculous, so fucking much. Bill and Jason Benetti in the booth for a White Sox game was a highlight of life.
The Best of Bill Walton’s amazing calls in the booth
Legend Bill Walton calls the game between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles AngelsDon't forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/mlbFollow us els...
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I do not know who needs to hear this but you can make a difference in people's lives just by being you. I've had a challenging few months but these past few weeks I've gotten needed reminders that things that I have done have stuck with others and it honestly helps to keep that in my pocket.
Like old enough to remember when the Washington Post was the gold standard of daily sports sections and then they just stopped caring about that
Good reporters and writers bring audiences and the Washington Post bled theirs out at best forced them out at worst
Staggering numbers from Dylan Byers interview with the CEO of the Washington Post, Will Lewis.
Cool that Penny Pritzker knows more/better than Harvard’s literal faculty on the question of who among Harvard’s students should be allowed to graduate
Corporation overrules faculty vote
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/harvard-corporation-overrides-faculty-vote-disciplined-seniors/
oh golly gee turns out these ghouls who don't believe in functioning democracy love flying their freak flags
Breaking News: A second provocative flag linked to Jan. 6 was flown at a home of the Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito. nyti.ms/3Vaf3Kd
it's about damn time
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“Mindful” about what
Reporter on Air Force One just asked Karine Jean-Pierre if the White House condemns Israel shutting down AP cameras and seizing equipment.
“I wanna be really mindful… obviously we’re looking into it… and this is concerning…”
Imagine what they’d say if it was Russia, China, or any other country.
Call this dumb dumb before Congress
Gordon Gee, who has presided over the destruction of West Virginia University, calls humanities programs “sort of irrelevant.”
www.post-gazette.com/news/educati...
“There is no conflict that should be excluded from the reach of the law; no child’s life valued less than another’s. The law we apply is humanity’s law, not the law of any given side. It must protect all the victims of this conflict; and all civilians in conflicts to come.”
Why we support ICC prosecutions for crimes in Israel and Gaza
From Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC
www.ft.comHere in NYC just saw my first anti-Democrat AIPAC ad — against Jamaal Bowman. On the very pertinent-to-Israel topic of… Social Security.
It’s wild how these people want to totally destroy and/or overthrow the county but don’t want anyone being “mean” to them about it.
More details on the Alitos vs. the neighbors story, none of which actually explain the upside-down flag
“Made in the USA, Lockheed Martin.”
American doctors in Gaza see up-close toll of war weapons on children
Trapped volunteers call on the U.S. to stop sending weapons to Israel, as the closure of the Rafah border crossing cuts the flow of food and medical supplies.
www.washingtonpost.comI love landing at LaGuardia it is like the one place in the whole wide world that makes me believe change is still possible