@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! ⬇️
@meredithshiner.comit was so obvious this guy was a plant from the outset also (I guess to anyone but Jan Crawford)
@meredithshiner.comOne of my friends who is a few years older than me lived through the Laurie Dann school shooting in the Chicago suburbs and now has an elementary schooler and I see how she experiences the world and it sucks.
@meredithshiner.comMichael Morse was discussed in this convo last night.
@meredithshiner.comLook I do not know if this man will win but boy can he read a room! The Chicks “represent, first and foremost, Texas excellence. We are *so* proud the Chicks are from Texas.” In front of an audience of elder millennial women forged in the fire of the W Bush Era and hating it here is 11/10 no notes.
@meredithshiner.comJan Crawford is so incredibly broken. And the current CBS regime has given her the permission structure to let her freak flag fly in ways that were previously unimaginable. You decide whether it’s better or worse that these people no longer have to keep it to themselves.
@meredithshiner.comBecause Trump said it
@meredithshiner.comThis is very good and also I feel like Tommy was not sentient for the “freedom fries” era of post-9/11 America. Millennials have seen this tired Islamophobic shit before. Abdul El-Sayed came of age in this.
@isthisbloodweek.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithshiner.comYes
@meredithshiner.comnLOLtre dame
@meredithshiner.comThe dream is to have a walk-up song that the whole stadium wants to break out in every time
@meredithshiner.comThe husband is now trying to explain this Georgia loss to the six year old
@meredithshiner.comThe sad thing is that a bunch of Dems are absolutely deferential to this dork whose whole fortune was built off the genius idea he stole from others of ranking girls hotness online 20-some-odd years ago.
@abdulelsayed.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithshiner.comGive us a couple honks if you see us :)
@meredithshiner.coma one-half Scaramucci!!!
@jasonbotelho.bsky.socialReposted by @meredithshiner.comI worked alongside Laura for four years, on the radio and television side of the Senate and everything Meredith says in this thread is spot on. Laura was an authentic, kind person who worked in an environment that was often overrun with the opposite kind of person. This world needs more Lauras.
@meredithshiner.comlook I’m not talking credit for the Brewers current run but I did purchase this Bob Uecker prayer candle this summer when I was in Milwaukee for Summerfest so
@meredithshiner.comRoll Call is the kind of place where you (and by you I mean "me" here) can write an obituary for a sandwich maker in the Capitol Carryout because the man who fed staff and senators every day deserved to be remembered as essential to the Capitol.
@meredithshiner.comok last thing on this and then I am done: @rollcall.com forever. Laura deserved to be remembered and Roll Call is the only outlet in Washington truly committed to covering the Capitol as a place filled with real people.
@meredithshiner.comoh I am going to the taproom today let’s goooooooo
@meredithshiner.comI won't say who but a Chicago reporter (because local outlets don't have DC bureaus anymore) needed what otherwise would have been available Capitol press contact information for an important story. I sent a note to one of my favorite still-working gallery staff and got the contacts within 24 hours.
