Elizabeth Spiers

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

Me three months ago:

The poster isn’t on bluesky so screenshotting but this is definitely one of the more evil UHC stories I’ve seen.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

It is really fun to live in NYC right now. The Knicks won and our mayor is basically a Disney character who just jumped into a pool with a bunch of kids and we had a ridiculously good pride and it’s hot and humid and that sucks …

I made an excellent, maybe all time best, beef stew last night and made lots of it so I would have delicious leftovers. Then I forgot to put it in the fridge after dinner. Please hold space for my period of mourning.

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

I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

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Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service."

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Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard

We don’t talk enough about how straight up creepy Elon is to women. Like, if you saw him in a bar you’d reflexively put your hand over your drink.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social

AOC says we should pass campaign finance reform so everyone can “stop being so scared of what a billionaire man child thinks”. Elon responds with a picture he generated by asking Grok for “images of AOC as sexy Pepe”. We’re reaching levels of divorced dad misogyny previously unknown to science

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you.

I do believe we’re facing a generational problem. We have Dems who’ve been in office so long that they think their job is just to get elected in the next cycle and not to govern and wield power. They worry too much about what Rs might weaponize and as a result they refuse to fight.

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country

MAHA.

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

I keep seeing this Trump where he says the Elon/Vivek vanity advisory committee will be “the Manhattan Project of its era” and I think it raises the question of what, exactly, Trump thinks the Manhattan Project did.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

It is gonna be so funny watching the NYC bajillionaires scramble to get appointments with Mayor Mamdani after they all insisted they were gonna move to Florida if he won. First of all, most of you already have places in FL and claim it as your primary resident so you don’t have to pay NYC taxes

I would care more about Charlie Kirk’s family’s pain if he had ever given a fuck about mine, which includes a ten year old who has to deal with active shooter drills, a 1st Gen Mexican immigrant mother, and the few progressives in my family who he’s been happy to suggest meet violent ends.