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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 · 26d

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

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

that looks lovely

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I have heard sermons like that!

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 5h

this is a good thread that finally reckons with the more primordial politics at play. there is a long, rich research tradition in conflict studies about the behavior of and strategy towards influencing audiences - by state security forces, by non-state armed actors. they all apply in the US now.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

No, just my mom, lol

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I said “one of” but yes

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

It’s like if concern trolling were an entire branch of theology. No one is more malicious than someone wearing a cross necklace who’s about to tell you a story about someone whose life took a bad turn and insists they’re not judging

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

One of my least favorite characteristics of Evangelicals is the tendency of some of them to use requests for prayer to spread gossip or make someone else’s problem about them.

Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 15h

Her sister definitely texts like a parent who says CALL ME NOW about something not urgent.

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‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 5h

When you have no argument, create many strawmen, ignore the actual substance of the criticisms, and cry "hit piece" and "derangement syndrome."

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5h

"Weiss is a shameless opportunist and troll whose 'expertise' [...] has largely involved trolling everyone left of center for engagement clicks with culture war dogshit and dangerously shoddy reporting, then crying like a full-diapered toddler when people criticize her for being generally terrible."

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm

It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

Young pregnant women don’t trust Republicans to do shit for them because you already took their reproductive rights away.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 6h

Liberalism is merely a continual search for vulnerable groups to throw under the bus in a sad, failing attempt to prop up dying white privilege. “I’m as liberal as they come!” protests the man asking for dead trans people. Yup, that’s the problem, sir.

Jeff Ryder @jeffryder.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe don’t die on transgender hills when we need to attract independents in order to actually take back the govt.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

driving through the suburbs slowly with shades on, thoroughly checking out every man to make sure he's as heterosexual as i am

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe this is naive of me but I had figured that if the fed gov straight up blew some people up it would *have to* provide an explanation to Congress, statutorily. Is “yeah we did that shit and we won’t answers questions about it” really an option under the law?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

Sweeter, tomato base, sometimes some allspice

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

*”thinking about” … I really so wish bluesky had an edit button because I mentally skip words and entire phrases as I write and only see it on reread of the whole thread

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

I want to learn how to work with it better. So yeah, that’s a thing that isn’t apocalyptic that I’m thinking about!

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

And have written about my dad’s hunting before because we really did use it for food—to such an extent that I can barely eat venison now. But goat reminds me of venison but milder. Not so game-y.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

So I’ve been how to learn how to braise it and make a good curry. My brothers and dad were deer hunters so I ate so much venison growing up and grew tired of it. I had venison burgers, lasagna, steak etc

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

I tried to find a lamb shoulder but local butchers were out of shoulder. But one of the best things about living in NYC is you can always get any ingredient if you have time. I have a local butcher who does a lot of goat and one of my top five dinners ever was a head to tail goat dinner

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

My favorite BBQ sauce is a Carolina gold, which as an Alabamian, is sacrilegious

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

And pairing it, probably badly, with a Kentucky black BBQ dip which is heavily Worcestershire based and has allspice and brown sugar. Designed for lamb but I will shamelessly put a vinegary thing on something that’s too light for it. (And I love pickles of course)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

I made a resolution this mornjng to post at least one thing a day that isn’t about the political apocalypse. Mostly for my sanity but maybe yours, too! So this is another kitchen post but I’m slow cooking a pork shoulder in a West Indian rub.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

Yes lol. I wrote one too: www.elizabethspiers.com/my-new-band-...

My New Band Is: Selectively Fettered Capitalism

On Dr. Seuss, antitrust enforcement, "cancel culture", free markets, and conservation