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Meg Reid

@meg-it-happen.bsky.social
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Contributor at The New Yorker, The Onion, Reductress, McSweeney's, Points in Case, The Weekly Humorist, etc. A pretty impossible lady to be with. megreid.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/09/2026
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Get more from McSweeney's Internet Tendency on Patreon
Become a member of McSweeney's Internet Tendency on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $3/month. Since our start in 1998, McSweeney’s…
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I truly don't know what to say about this timeline anymore. "Her demands could be unusual, requiring aides to feed live crickets to her family’s pet chameleon, Meatball." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs
Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.
A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is why i only bring sunnyd hard seltzer to job interviews
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if a narcissist bloviates in the white house and there's no one there to record it does he lose his mind?
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
whispering to myself in the sixth grade bathroom: 🎶To the left To the left To the right To the right To the front To the front To the back To the back Now dip, baby, dip 🎶
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"You are not the only ones at fault. Physicians should have screened young women like me for early risk factors, such as teaching themselves the Tootsee Roll in a middle school bathroom stall during lunch to impress the cool girls." buff.ly/Sy3G5KT
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An Open Letter to Juvenile, Snoop Dogg, and Lil Jon Regarding My Recently Diagnosed Degenerative Knee Condition
“Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/09/2026
"I guess I have no one to blame but myself that your certified dance floor bangers still get me to drop it like it’s lukewarm at bars with people half my age while grinding down my remaining articular cartilage." buff.ly/Sy3G5KT
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An Open Letter to Juvenile, Snoop Dogg, and Lil Jon Regarding My Recently Diagnosed Degenerative Knee Condition
“Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/09/2026
"I've returned from an orthopedist and concluded that my newly diagnosed degenerative knee could only have been caused by the numerous demands you and your colleagues made of my generation to do some variation of dropping it like it was hot, backing it up, and/or getting low." buff.ly/Sy3G5KT
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An Open Letter to Juvenile, Snoop Dogg, and Lil Jon Regarding My Recently Diagnosed Degenerative Knee Condition
“Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in...
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Check out my latest in @mcsweeneys.net especially if you like to back it up, get low, and/or drop it like it's hot but also have an orthopedist!!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/09/2026
"Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in the crib, but why did we also have to drop it when the pigs tried to get at us?" buff.ly/Sy3G5KT
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An Open Letter to Juvenile, Snoop Dogg, and Lil Jon Regarding My Recently Diagnosed Degenerative Knee Condition
“Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in...
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm in @mcsweeneys.net today drawing attention to the human cost of backing it up/dropping it like it's hot/getting low to geriatric millennials: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Open Letter to Juvenile, Snoop Dogg, and Lil Jon Regarding My Recently Diagnosed Degenerative Knee Condition
“Getting low is one thing, but did we have to go all the way from the window to the wall each time? I understand dropping it like it’s hot when the pimp’s in...
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
when you take sociology 101 but don't do the reading
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to unsubscribe
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
killing the vibe by singing the verse from hakuna matata in bed
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
lowering my cartoon eyeballs to half awooga 🫤
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
nooooooooooo
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/08/2026
In New Yorker Humor, all the important texts and notifications that you’ll miss while your phone is off at the movie theatre. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
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Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre
In New Yorker Humor, all the important texts and notifications that you’ll miss while your phone is off at the movie theatre.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm thrilled to be making my debut in @newyorker.com today with a humor piece about two of my favorite things: movies and anxiety!! www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
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Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre
In New Yorker Humor, all the important texts and notifications that you’ll miss while your phone is off at the movie theatre.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm thrilled to be making my debut in @newyorker.com today with a humor piece about two of my favorite things: movies and anxiety!! www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
newyorker.com
Everything That Will Happen After I Silence My Phone at the Movie Theatre
In New Yorker Humor, all the important texts and notifications that you’ll miss while your phone is off at the movie theatre.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
you guys i'm in the @newyorker.com today!!!!?!
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
what if we do that thing where we all stand up and say "i did it" "no i did it" etc and then they have to let all of us go
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
karoline leavitt finally living up to her name
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
wait "gubernatorial" is fucking crazy like come on guys
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pretty cool that processed food and fresh food both have an equal chance of killing me now
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
scooby doo ass president
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
jimothy spoke in class today
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm in @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social today with a monologue from a surprised Lindsey Graham! medium.com/thebelladonn...
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I Knew I’d End Up In Hell But I Thought It Would Be For a Different Reason
Don’t pretend you’re not on Twitter — you’re the devil for Godsakes!
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The Belladonna Comedy @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Don’t pretend you’re not on Twitter — you’re the devil for Godsakes!” By @meg-it-happen.bsky.social Full piece: medium.com/thebelladonn...
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
just told my mom about jimothy and she was like okay who named him and i said HIS PARENTS obviously geez mom would you ask that about a human
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Check out my latest piece in @defenestrationmag.bsky.social! Your move Al Gore!!
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Andrew Kaye @andrewkaye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Today on Defenestration: Meg Reid gives us a look at what Al Gore's been up to lately. Apparently he's become a modern-day Frankenstein, lamenting his greatest creation.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
RIP mitch mcconnell, you may still technically be alive but you're already dead to me
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Check out my latest piece in @defenestrationmag.bsky.social! Your move Al Gore!!
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
since when has someone not letting him have it stopped him
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
RIP mitch mcconnell, you may still technically be alive but you're already dead to me
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/07/2026
"Upon opening the can, you’re immediately hit with an odor that’s somehow both putrid and medicinal, uniquely representative of the American healthcare system."
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Reviews of New Food: Bush’s Rocket Pop Flavored Baked Beans
“In honor of the semiquincentennial, Bush’s bravely posed an important question: What if a saccharine, icy dessert were also beans?”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026
Just in time for the fourteenth consecutive Most Important Election of Our Lifetime™, @ginnyhogan.bsky.social and @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social’s Obey in Advance: How to Survive (and Thrive) Under Authoritarianism. Coming to you from McSweeney’s books this fall. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/obe...
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In the print edition (!!) of the @BostonGlobe today with @alicemphillips.bsky.social and our White House UCF Freedom 250 satire!
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Alice M. Phillips @alicemphillips.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An absolute honor!!! UFC UFC UFC UFC UFC!!! PATRIOTISM OOOOAHH 🇺🇸 ❤️🤍💙💪🏻 Murrica!
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm in the @bostonglobe.com today with @alicemphillips.bsky.social making a passionate and definitely serious defense of this weekend's UFC fights at the White House!! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/12/o...
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Welcome to the fight house - The Boston Globe
The UFC event on the South Lawn promises chokeholds and trash talk.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
i will give zohran $10000000 to boo trump tonight
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
help real life is moving faster than the speed of satire
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
okay who's the vegan now
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Meg Reid @meg-it-happen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton may be running for Senate, but he's also running from his past. My latest (semi?!) satire here: megreid.substack.com/p/things-ken...
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Things Ken Paxton is Running From
Let's just say it's a lot
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