Elliot Sperber

@elliotsperber.bsky.social

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Lawyer. Human rights. Degrowth. Bylines here and there. He/him

Photo of museum exhibit of books with text of the Declaration of Independence’s first grievance: “He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
Two guys rolling a snowball the size of a large beach ball down a Brooklyn sidewalk this blizzard evening
Photo of a monumentally composed car wheel
Swan in the east river with Manhattan skyline behind it
Picture of the Melania movie poster doctored to read Melena with a description of melena, the black, tarry stool known for its particularly strong, offensive odor.
The east river full of ice with lower Manhattan skyline in background
Figure walking through snowy Brooklyn street this afternoon
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution
General welfare, not general warfare
Photo of nyc mayor zohran mamdani
A worker working in a token booth in a subway station with a white board behind her on which the words Happy Holidays are written
Swan on little strip of beach on New York City’s East River
Crescent moon over Brooklyn
A handball wall painted to cover up graffiti reading NY ♥️ LUIGI
Sculpture of George Washington in Brooklyn near the Williamsburg Bridge. Spray painted on its pedestal are the words Fuck ICE Free Gaza
One hand says 9/11 and one says COVID. Over the clasped hands it reads: Ignoring public health recommendations in order to reopen the economy
The World Trade Center and its reflection in a puddle.
The U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protecting people from unreasonable searches and seizures and First Amendment protecting free speech say fuck I.C.E.
Four people swimming in the east river this evening with the Manhattan skyline behind them
Angry Donald Duck
Photographic reproduction of the U.S. constitution from the National Archives that looks like a piece of matzoh
The New York City skyline blanketed in smoke
Protesters across the street from the United Nations banging drums and holding signs
The ornate grave of harry houdini
Half a dozen Rowboats in Central Park’s lake with Palestinian flags and signs saying end the siege on Gaza and free Palestine
Brick wall in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley with boarded up Windows spray painted with the words: America is bleeding
Leviathan frontispiece
Photo of my shadow on a grate and at the bottom of the surface below the grate
A crowd at Foley Square with courthouse in background. Peoples’ signs read Fuck ICE, among other things
Guy dressed as Luigi at No Kings protest today
Edward Trumbull’s art deco ceiling painting of the Chrysler building in the lobby of the Chrysler building
Andrew cuomo political ad changed to read no mo’ cuomo and “killed as governor and will kill more as mayor”
Pro-Zohran, nyc mayoral candidate, graffiti spray painted on a stucco covered wall
Abolish ICE spray painted on one of the arches of the Williamsburg Bridge
Defaced political ad for Andrew cuomo with the words: “No mo’” written above Cuomo