Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Before, and after
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Before, and after
“I just sort of Michael Wolffed it”
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“I just sort of Michael Wolffed it”
Watching my favorite movie about why it’s important to guard your sensitive shit
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Watching my favorite movie about why it’s important to guard your sensitive shit
If you don’t read the tagline or recognize Nicole Wallace this looks a pharmaceutical ad where a woman has just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If you don’t read the tagline or recognize Nicole Wallace this looks a pharmaceutical ad where a woman has just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
I tend to doodle when I’m in meetings or thinking about something in conversations and periodically, the 10 year old swipes my office supplies including my scratch pads. Stole this one and was like WHAT IS THIS
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I tend to doodle when I’m in meetings or thinking about something in conversations and periodically, the 10 year old swipes my office supplies including my scratch pads. Stole this one and was like WHAT IS THIS
Barro’s argument would suggest that the primary purpose of timed testing is to measure whether someone is good at taking timed tests. If it’s to measure knowledge, a time limit is fairly arbitrary
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Barro’s argument would suggest that the primary purpose of timed testing is to measure whether someone is good at taking timed tests. If it’s to measure knowledge, a time limit is fairly arbitrary
Any time a dude makes a straw man distortion of something I said and uses it to QT me, I click on the bio and he always looks like this
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Any time a dude makes a straw man distortion of something I said and uses it to QT me, I click on the bio and he always looks like this
Unlike a lot of the men in my replies, when I learn a thing I did not know I try to incorporate it into what i do and think! So welcome to my new header:
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Unlike a lot of the men in my replies, when I learn a thing I did not know I try to incorporate it into what i do and think! So welcome to my new header:
If I can only contribute one thing today’s discourse to non-newsroom people who work in corporate environments it would be this and it comes from my background as an equity analyst, not as a journo
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If I can only contribute one thing today’s discourse to non-newsroom people who work in corporate environments it would be this and it comes from my background as an equity analyst, not as a journo
My day today in a nutshell
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My day today in a nutshell
If you have MAGA people in your socials maintaining that the Epstein files will never be fully released because Dems want to protect Bill Clinton, here's what I keep on hand to reply with:
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If you have MAGA people in your socials maintaining that the Epstein files will never be fully released because Dems want to protect Bill Clinton, here's what I keep on hand to reply with:
Also also, the last creative workshop of the year is in a few weeks and the last one was pretty big so I may limit attendance to a seminar sized group. (And this one is $65 so more accessible than my op-ed workshop.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Also also, the last creative workshop of the year is in a few weeks and the last one was pretty big so I may limit attendance to a seminar sized group. (And this one is $65 so more accessible than my op-ed workshop.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
I’m being forced to screenshot this because i can’t respond to it. But this has nothing to do with my point, which is not that no one will subscribe (a total straw man), but that consumer spending is pulling back. That is just a fact.
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m being forced to screenshot this because i can’t respond to it. But this has nothing to do with my point, which is not that no one will subscribe (a total straw man), but that consumer spending is pulling back. That is just a fact.
I was gonna dress as a witch with a fuckton of eye makeup and wear a name tag that said “Kristi Noem” but the 10 year old voted for dead cheerleader—a.k.a. the first person to die in any teenage horror movie
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was gonna dress as a witch with a fuckton of eye makeup and wear a name tag that said “Kristi Noem” but the 10 year old voted for dead cheerleader—a.k.a. the first person to die in any teenage horror movie
Kid and I are thinking about making a meme zine that explains things like six seven and brainrot to adults. I make crappy illustrations per the below and he writes explanations. So what do you need explained? We’re taking requests.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Kid and I are thinking about making a meme zine that explains things like six seven and brainrot to adults. I make crappy illustrations per the below and he writes explanations. So what do you need explained? We’re taking requests.
The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The first session of my workshop on creativity and developing a writing practice went well, so I'm doing it again in December. I raised the price a bit to $65 because I'm thinking of adding a snail mail component, but it's the same workshop. Registration is here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
He liked it after a buncha kids recognized it and is now wearing it around the house. And now he matches our library and when he sits on the couch it looks like he cannibalized it and now has a face made of couch
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
He liked it after a buncha kids recognized it and is now wearing it around the house. And now he matches our library and when he sits on the couch it looks like he cannibalized it and now has a face made of couch
Me, two hours later, splattered in paint: here you go
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Me, two hours later, splattered in paint: here you go
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Tiny art critic: could use more yellowish tint there
Me: you get what you get and you’re gonna wear that pea coat we just got from Target for $50 again
Ford, 3 hours before Halloween party: can I be Mono from Little Nightmares?
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ford, 3 hours before Halloween party: can I be Mono from Little Nightmares?
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
Me, overconfident: sure I can probably do that with a cardboard box and some paint
The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.
Just ridding the TL of trolls
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just ridding the TL of trolls
What is this headline? Someone got eaten alive, but it wasn’t Mamdani!
October 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What is this headline? Someone got eaten alive, but it wasn’t Mamdani!