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Elizabeth Spiers

@espiers.bsky.social

NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, 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 · 8h ago

It’s like Stephen Miller just writes memos everyday of new ways they can be as openly racist as possible and also incredibly stupid and petty

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 9h ago

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... it’s 2026 & for the first time, the UN voted to allow Africa to be accurately scaled.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

In response to this story, a DHS spokesperson who looks like a literal child (and whose sole prior experience is working for Republicans) provided a deeply offensive and bigoted statement claiming that ICE was providing "the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives"

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Chandler Rebel said in a statement that detainees still have access to a wide range of medical services, including on-site care, emergency transportation, emergency room treatment, hospital admissions and off-site specialty care. “Specialist appointments are not immediate and may take time to secure,” Rebel said, adding it is “not uncommon” for some specialty appointments to be booked weeks or months out and that the timing was not under ICE’s control. “If specialty medical care is required and there is no access to that care, the facility will notify ICE and request a transfer of the alien to a facility that can provide access to that care,” Rebel said. “This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives,” he added.The DHS spokesperson, who graduated from college in 2022 and is now the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at DHS.The resume of the guy, showing how he graduated college in 2022 with a degree in journalism, worked on Herschel Walker's campaign that fall, then in 2023 joined Mike Collins' staff as a press assistant for a few months before being hired as deputy press secretary for Ron Johnson fora year, then a communications advisor for Senator Mullin, then after Mullin joined DHS, became Principal Deputy Press Secretary at DHS in March and in August became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3d ago

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

David Manning@photodave219.fightins.online · 2d ago

You're Underselling it. He was one of the prime conflict photographers during the uprisings in 1994 South Africa. Wrote "The Bang Bang Club" alongside fellow Pulitzer winner Greg Marinovich. One of the premier Conflict Photographers of our time.

The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots From A Hidden War - Marinovich, Greg; Silva, Joao: 9780465044122 - AbeBooks

The Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photographs of the period. In this stunning new book, the group's...

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Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have bought prints of conflict photography from photojournalists for a few years because an ex of mine told me how hard it was for them to get insured and how badly they’re supported

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2d ago

One thing that has undermined the public’s understanding of what is happening is how much media headlines have been what defines what’s happening. People read the headline and not the story

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d ago

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

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