Elizabeth Nolan Brown
@ENBrown
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Senior editor @reason. Journalism adjunct @uofcincy. Not on here much anymore.
Joined April 2007
Here’s my 1st piece on the trial of orgasmic meditation leaders Nicole Daedone & Rachel Cherwitz, & how the ideas the prosecutors are pushing are antithetical to free speech and free will I’ll thread future updates about the trial here.
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Literally the first thing I encountered in the vicinity of the Cruz/Trump rally was Alex Jones screaming at a pile of shit
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this is such upper-class progressive bullshit.
Unjust Deserts: Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets. via @cjstevem
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Facebook is censoring a vintage recipe for homemade baby formula 🙃
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While charges against Robert Kraft were dismissed, an immigrant masseuse accused of giving him a handjob has to pay $31,573 and spend a year on probation
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This thread about the tyranny of packed lunches is amazing
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So our political future now is just presidents writing 4 years of executive orders to be immediately revoked and replaced by new executive orders while Congress spends 85% of its time finding ways to kick each other off the internet and 15% of the time attacking sex workers, huh?.
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Florida drops prostitution case against Robert Kraft, while still pursuing charges against the women he paid
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Oh most glorious of glorious mornings!, the baby slept through the night for the first time last night
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Good morning, Twitter 🤗Since a bunch of sex-trafficking conspiracy theorists (and some well-meaning but misinformed folks) are demanding that I explain myself. Good news: I already have (at length!). This is probably the best place to start
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A lot of people are missing the big picture on the baby formula shortage. This isn’t just about potentially tainted formula & its recall. .
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Really interesting study on sex work laws & rape rates in Europe . The gist: rates of sexual assault decrease when countries liberalize their prostitution law but rise when prostitution is criminalized
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It’s been a momentous week in the Brown/Suebsaeng household. The kid got on my good side w/a blessedly short labor & won me over with faces like these
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From "international human trafficking ring busted" to "uh, we made some men take classes about how paying for sex is icky"
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Looks like the only ones who will be criminally punished in Florida's big 2019 "rescue operation" at Orchids of Asia will be the "trafficking victims" police say they were there to save
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Don’t say I didn’t bring you any scoops from this thing 😏.
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Elite media is really gonna do this, huh?.
Beware the Russian bots and their promotion of Tulsi Gabbard and sowing racial dischord, especially around Kamala Harris.
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In a truly Orwellian new executive order, @realdonaldtrump defines gov’t regulation of Americans’ speech as “free speech” and private questioning of government authority as “censorship”
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Kids with smartphones are less depressed, less anxious, more social, get more exercise, & experience less cyberbullying than kids w/out smartphones . Funny how this new study got a fraction of the coverage that fear-mongering "phones are ruining our kids!!!!" surveys & screeds do
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You guys we could all just ignore that piss-obsessed gun girl with the mall hair.
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dictatorship's favorability rating creeping up mighty fast among Republicans 😬.
The share of Republicans who say presidents could operate more effectively if they did not have to worry so much about Congress and the courts increased 16 percentage points over the past year, from 27% in March 2018 to 43% this past July.
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So. it's not actually false information, it's just not government approved information. And that deserves obscuring, per Facebook. Got it. 😒.
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Got a letter telling me that if I don’t vote, this group will … report to other Elizabeth’s in the state that an Elizabeth didn’t vote? . (How is this a real thing???)
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I've seen Eli Lake partying w/Israel lobbyists & literally laughing about dead Arabs. Stop pretending he's some neutral dude on Israel.
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Only caught a few minutes of the ‘white ladies for Harris’ call before the Zoom cut out but it is basically everything you imagined it could be.
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@pattonoswalt Deal. And thank you, truly, for this thoughtful & temperate response. You’re a much better person than I gave you credit for. And I’m not a good enough person to have made my point in a less antagonistic & abrasive way. Sincerest apologies.
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Because no one ever took a job that paid less than they thought they were worth before our generation 🙄🙄🙄
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No one was ever charged with human trafficking. In fact, women providing massages & sex acts—the group authorities said they were in it to rescue—faced the most severe charges & were the only ones ultimately convicted in this "human trafficking" bust
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Crucial context: Backpage's founders were the first ones to expose Cindy McCain stealing & taking drugs that were supposed to go to poor children.
“We shut down the biggest perpetrator of all, that was an organization called backpage.”- @cindymccain on the bipartisan fight to stop one of the internet’s worst human trafficking enablers. #stateoftheworld2020 #EndTrafficking
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Pro Tip: every time you see “human trafficking at massage parlors” that’s code for “we wanted an excuse to send ICE into majority female immigrant communities”.
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How can I be so sure the government has been lying about Backpage for years? Here, let me show you:
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It's been easy to forget how bad Kamala Harris is. But I'm here to remind you .
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Partly, we can blame tariffs & quotas. But another major reason is that the US gov't *doesn’t like the way foreign formula is labeled* 😔. Officials apparently think formula with labels that don’t conform to their every whim are so dangerous it would be better if kids starve.
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This is super disingenuous. People called because they were worried about accidental exposure, not because they had deliberately injected disinfectant after Trump’s comments.
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Mike Tyson can't sell his bitten-ear shaped marijuana gummies (Mike Bites) in Colorado b/c of a law against selling human-shaped edibles
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No, no, no, it wasn't *tear gas*, it was just a gaseous substance that causes tears!
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pro-tip from woke twitter: if you add the word "white" in there, dudes telling women to shut up becomes progressive
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The CDC "has not been able to confirm a case of transmission on a plane"
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Hello to all my new hate followers! . You should know that I’ve been writing about sex online for more than a decade. I promise you there’s nothing you can call me that I haven’t heard before. But please keep tagging in the FBI! I agree more people there *should* read my work 😘.
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The EU arguably has stricter nutritional standards for formula than the US does. It requires baby formula to be made w/the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (which we don’t). It bans some forms of added sugars.
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So, the FDA is preventing perfectly good—perhaps better than American— baby formula from coming here bc of things like labels not explicitly stating that it contains less than 1 milligram of iron per 100 calories or not listing all ingredients (which can be found elsewhere).
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Jude took this whole *labor* day weekend thing very literally
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Many American parents praise baby formula imported from the EU. But they have to buy it on the black market. The FDA won’t allow European formulas to be sold here because of inane labeling concerns (something @EricBoehm87 delves into here .
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I tried to keep an open mind about the LP under new leadership, but I think, uh, endorsing McCarthyism is officially where I sign off
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Facebook labeled the 1960 recipe for homemade baby formula "false information" because its not up to today's nutritional standards + the recipe hasn't been "evaluated by governing authorities," per the attached fact check.
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Anyway, it's funny that a big part of the fact-check hinges on 1 of the ingredients in the homemade formula recipe, Karo syrup, being "a debated ingredient to be administered to babies." . Karo is a type of corn syrup. Lots of commercial formula today is still made w/corn syrup
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No one is helped by you tweeting like a 14-yr-old girl . No one is helped by you tweeting like a 14-yr-old girl . No one is helped by you tweeting like a 14-yr-old girl . No one is helped by you tweeting like a 14-yr-old girl . Please stop.
SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT. SEEKING ASYLUM IS A LEGAL RIGHT.
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“Trying to fight educational inequality by getting rid of the SAT is like trying to fight climate change by getting rid of thermometers.”
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This is disgraceful. All single women guests monitored by Marriott to make sure they’re not “sex trafficked”.
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Maybe this will turn out true, but 😂😂😂 that we should put any stock in a 22-year-old’s claim that something they did a month ago was “the best decision I ever made”
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European baby formula is also more likely to be organic, derived from grass-fed cows, & made w/milk fat (as opposed to plant-based fats). There are also more goat-milk based and “gentle” options sold there than there are here.
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a whole lotta “Ron Paul libertarians” were never libertarian in the first place 😓.
Ron Paul libertarians prefer Trump.
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Can’t believe how many of you terrible folks want Twitter to be just like every other awful social network. Go back to Facebook & Tumblr with that safe space shit.
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I lost someone very special to me this week. Have been hesitant to post about it, because everything I write seems cheap, and somehow both overly sentimental & not (words could never be) sentimental enough. But I will try my best
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Rand Paul Wants Whistleblower Outed. Libertarians Want the Old Rand Paul Back.
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A feminist journalist in Russia just died "after falling from an eighth-floor apartment window in a tragic accident that does not appear suspicious" funny how adding "does not appear suspicious" in this sentence makes it sound 1000 times more suspicious.
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It’s adorable how much Americans want to believe we only elected Trump bc of sneaky meddling foreigners. Who says fairy tales are only for kids?.
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"Politically for them it might be great for their base, for their fundraising, for things like that but, nationally, it's horrific" says @repriggleman of Josh Hawley's latest reality-challenged, conspiracy-pandering antics. "It's nuts."
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A good rule for 30-somethings is probably don't date someone who needs their mom's permission to go on dates
Moore said something like he would always ask the mother's permission when taking out girls back then. W. T. F.
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Girls buying packaged brownies and bottled water at 7-11, holding signs saying "Capitalism Must Go".
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Alternate headline: violence against marginalized woman downplayed for cheap traffic; soulless cops collude with media ghouls to blame victim for her own shooting
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I actually didn't know this^ until recently. I looked at that “karo syrup" baby formula recipe & shook my head like, 'silly 20th Century, giving babies added sugars for no reason!' And yet… . Here's the label for Enfamil's gentle ready-to-feed formula. Note the 2nd ingredient:
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The part of this that's truly gut-wrenching is knowing it won't change anything. Republicans who egged this on will suffer no consequences, and they'll keep acting like people protesting against police violence are worse than those attempting to overturn election results.
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A study published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition in 2019 found that 15 of 16 European formulas it looked at MET FDA NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS. But “none met all FDA label requirements”. So they're illegal here.
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Don’t let @voxdotcom corporate get away with the “unintended consequences” line now. We all knew what this law would do. Vox pushed for it.
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Our president can't stop portraying every new COVID-19 horror here as either a conspiracy against him or somebody else's problem
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It’s seldom been leftists or liberals who tag in or email my employer when they’re mad at my words. But piss off Ben Shapiro or Slate Star Codex fans or other types with old-statue avis & “free speech” in their bios and oooh boy.
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Kellyanne Conway: "I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy [Ivanka's line] today, everybody." Um.
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Kentucky is trying to make it illegal to taunt police officers 🥺
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How-Is-This-Site-Free, Extreme Libertarian Edition
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"Every now and then, the modern world produces a trend so ghastly you can’t help but sit back and think, would a global Islamic Caliphate really be that bad? One such fad is the sudden growth of OnlyFans. " . American conservatism in 2020, folks 🤗
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As Lincicome points out, concerns about EU baby formula safety ring especially hollow considering that “it was an unsanitary American factory that fueled our current crisis, and the FDA may have even ignored a whistleblower’s complaints about the situation".
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"170 arrested in human trafficking operation!" . <police report shows nothing but prostitution arrests> .
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40 arrests for prostitution. No arrests for sex trafficking.
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If you sign up for the new "unbiased social media" network Parler, here are first accounts-to-follow suggestions it gives you 😏
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As a native of Cincinnati, I feel it is my duty to advise anyone throwing a Super Bowl party this year that they must serve Skyline dip.
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Elizabeth Warren: Protecting women's rights to choose what they do w/their bodies is what we stand for as Democrats . Also Warren: if you do sex work, you can't have a bank account.
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What a weird society we live in where failure to disclose a happy, consensual relationship is reason to lose your job.
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This Monday has already been too long so here’s a video of my cats confused by a box
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