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Elizabeth Spiers

@espiers.bsky.social

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NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, NYU prof, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

Yiiiiiiiiikes 😬

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 20h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 20h

Decided my Halloween costume is going to be “a soulless hake”

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

And are the Nazis winners now?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

History will look at these masked cowards who agree to do the work of fascism as the neo Nazis they are. This is just ethnic cleansing masquerading as law enforcement.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

If the past few weeks are any indication, he’ll wait till she’s on a boat, blow it up, and then baselessly accuse her of being part of a cartel solely because she’s Venezuelan and he’s a bigot?

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize is going to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado. The question for Norway is how will Trump react?

Norway Braces for Trump Reaction to Nobel Peace Prize Snub

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado is this year’s recipient

bloom.bg

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
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Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
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Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

[user]
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11h
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

[user]
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President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
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Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Or I guess my NYT column where I talked about the problem of the West Wing fantasy?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

So you … did not read the TNR column? Where I explicitly state what I think Dems should do? And you’re asking me to summarize it for you?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN

OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.”

ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Bezos-ism at its finest. The Pope’s “divisive” take is that Christians should take care of the poor and the vulnerable. Which does offend greedy people, I suppose?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Trump out of office and a party that understands and responds to the reality we live in instead of some West Wing fantasy about bipartisanship. And discarding the West Wing fantasy by itself makes the former more likely

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

*death ray stare*

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

lol. Usually a stern LET ME FINISH gets the point across when he talks over me. He would never tell me what to do or what I think tho

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Well then you probably read my TNR column about Zohran where I explicitly articulated what I think Dems should do to both be effective AND get Trump out of office. We cannot do the latter from a posture of helplessness

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

I ain’t afraid to call their mommas after I get done with ‘em, either

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m a little feisty at the moment it’s because I’ve had one too many men tell me what to do, talk over me, or tell me what I think today and my Where Do You Get Off mode is at DEFCON 1.

a black cat is sitting in front of a brick wall holding a pair of scissors in its paws .

Alt: a black cat is sitting in front of a brick wall glaring and filing her claws

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Just like a dude to explain to me, a stranger, what my focus is. The arrogance of some men is astounding. I decide what my priorities are, not you.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. They don’t talk to me because they don’t like to argue about politics. And I when I got death threats very publicly a couple weeks ago I heard not a peep from them. But tell me what you’ve done, sir? Did you make a Bluesky post? Was it hard? Are your fingers sore?

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe for you; the rest of us can walk and chew gum at the same time, thanks.

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