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10 Nov, 3 tweets, 2 min read
another SKDK person who’s taking a “leave” for an “advisor” position instead of accepting an actual job so that they don’t have to disclose SKDK’s clients and therefore potential conflicts in the government role. @waltshaub
we truly still do not know if an SKDK person who took a “leave” to accept an “advisor” position at the EPA supported the firm’s work on behalf of TRANSCANADA to advocate for the Keystone Pipeline.
There are plenty of talented people willing to leave their jobs (and pay) and go through the vetting process to take these government positions on a full-time basis because public service means more to them than the #congrats tweets, but this admin is just gonna keep at this.

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9 Nov
I had a .5% chance of losing our first baby and that happened six months before the pandemic began, so, you know, when you experience improbable loss like that, it makes the risk of going to say, a bar, feel less worthwhile for the baby you're grateful to have alive, for example.
I respect that everyone has different risk tolerances, and at this point in the pandemic, I spend a lot of time weighing my mental health against risk of the behavior I think would contribute positively to my mental health.
Must be nice to hypothesize that you would have felt totally cool with having an unvaccinated kid out in the world, though. I wish I could live in that brain.
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25 Oct
honestly it's extra rage-inducing that this "debate" between a few old men about whether parental leave should be guaranteed and paid in this country is happening simultaneously with Roe no longer being law of the land.
The government is reaffirming its position that women should have babies no matter what but that also the act of having a baby or parenting is so devoid of value that you should not be entitled to guaranteed paid leave for three months or even one (!).
FMLA, as it stands, doesn't even protect all workers from just not being fired for having a baby, but sure, man, let's just telegraph to the world how much we don't value women.
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15 Oct
A few thoughts on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day—one, is I am adamant on using "pregnancy loss" as opposed to "miscarriage." "Miscarriage" imbues blame, like the birthing parent did something wrong. But maybe more subtlety, "loss" makes grief more inclusive.
People who do not get recognized nearly enough, imho, in pregnancy and infant loss are non-birthing partners. I've heard from a lot of them over the past two years. Their bodies don't do the thing, so they feel less connected to and entitled to grief, which is simply not true.
The culture of shame and silence around pregnancy and infant loss—created and perpetuated by people who have politicized pregnancy itself—makes this particular grief challenging for everyone, but non-birthing partners especially who can feel helpless through the process.
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6 Oct
These incompetent old white men love using Christmas as a deadline to pressure legislative action even though they all also know they don’t actually care about being home and it only punishes staff. Just get rid of the debt limit already!
Love, Meredith, pointlessly on the floor of the Capitol because of the “fiscal cliff,” New Years Eve 2013 Image
I wish I could remember who took this picture of me, likely on a BlackBerry. BUT EVERYONE HAD A GREAT TIME and I got in a serious fight with a photographer, putting my body between him and a colleague after a Biden scrum. To think it only got infinitely more broken from there!
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29 Sep
I don’t often if ever grant on-the-record interviews to other reporters. But after being contacted for this story, I spoke at length in defense of @feliciasonmez and put my name to it. Lived experience should not be disqualifying and you cannot “both-sides” sexual assault.
As @carter_sherman bravely shows through her disclosure here, her personal experience made her reporting better and more sensitive, not worse. Part of why political news is so broken is because privileged white men who have never needed govt protection or support guide coverage.
One anecdote I shared was how in 2009, when I was a new reporter on the Hill covering the ACA debate, I did not get employer insurance and was uninsurable because of a preexisting condition. A colleague chastised me for saying this aloud because people might think I was “biased.”
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17 Sep
Joe Biden's press staff circulating Jennifer Rubin columns to "allies" to tweet and Politico covering this as if it's some big scandal instead of merely dopey behavior is why everyone in DC should get the f out of it every once in a while.
literal white nationalists attacked the Capitol and wanted to murder members of Congress THIS YEAR, but the last thing published before the apocalypse/end of the republic will just be "Look who got snubbed from Ron Klain's birthday party!"
anyway, I hate you all sometimes and I think you should know that or likely already do!
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