Elizabeth Spiers

I wrote about JD Vance and his new memoir, which is somehow worse than his earlier one: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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.

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...

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

Also just thinking about different Mitch McConnell’s legacy would be if he’d voted for impeachment and conviction. Had a chance to have a right side of history last roll of the dice and chickened out

Re my point about no one doing oppo on platner: just randomly I have a very old and outdated oppo book on Mitch McConnell. All the good stuff you’ve already seen. And it was done before you could do everything on the internet

A money in politics issue people don’t talk about enough: young full time campaign staffers are rarely the 20’somethings juggling student loans or multiple jobs and that’s how most political operatives cut their teeth

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Along these lines, a lot of politics knowers kept yelling at me that there was no one else they could run. Which tells you they’ve never personally seen the party money get behind a candidate they picked. There are people they could have recruited

One minor thing that annoys me personally about this shit is that some people romanticize a blue collar white boy aesthetic but can’t tell an actual working class backwoodser from a rich aspiring dirtbag who went to Hotchkiss

I have a personal essay workshop this Sunday! (There's a less expensive audit-only option, too.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

Me, ever since the Nazi tattoo: this guy sucks so bad Every Pod Save-aligned bro in my feed: every candidate has flaws! Me, person with tattoos and siblings who are veterans who knows he didn’t just fall onto a tattoo needle for 8 hours and end up with something he didn’t know was a Nazi symbol: 😐

Oh it’s probably fine www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

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