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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

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Senior editor at Reason, covering sex, speech, tech, justice, prohibition & panic. Cofounder of Feminists for Liberty. Professional affiliate at the University of Cincinnati journalism school. Current lifestyle iteration: nice Midwestern mom

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Every day there's another headline about Mississippi, I think back to the time I called it a "deeply messed up place" on Twitter (I think after news broke about a vicious cop gang), and a local editor was like, "uhhh miss me with that regional privilege."

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AI was so much more interesting when it didn't exist

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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Sentencing for Michael Lacey and the other Backpage defendants has now been postponed from next week until the last week of August, so prosecutors can file a new pre-sentencing report

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IANAL, but how the hell was it even a question. Shouldn't the answer have been "social media isn't the government, why are we even being asked this question"?

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Not a total blow to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but still a pretty crushing Supreme Court rebuke of the idea that telling tech companies how to moderate content doesn't implicate the First Amendment reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

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I'm sure you'll be shocked to know that Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey's pre-sentencing report is riddled with misleading statements & outright errors reason.com/wp-content/u...

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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Meanwhile, KOSA is getting marked up tomorrow, like no big deal.

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"Over the first four months of 2024, the national party spent $10,350 on the bread-and-butter line item of securing ballot access while shelling out $24,807 in legal expenses." reason.com/2024/06/25/h...

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A widely cited study on weed and heart problems "commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science" reason.com/video/2024/0...

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Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a Tennessee law that bans certain medical care for transgender minors violates the Constitution.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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Still light out here at 9:30 pm. I love living near the western edge of a time zone

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Dobbs shifted the focus of the abortion debate back to *women's* lives, not just the lives of fetuses. 2 years after Dobbs decision, Americans seem increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect the physical health of women—including women with wanted pregnancies reason.com/2024/06/24/d...

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The American family needs a vibe shift. But it won't happen through big government programs or national interventions reason.com/2024/06/14/f...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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"If we’re not fighting for the liberty of people who look differently or who live differently or who worship differently or who love differently, then we are not fighting for our liberty, because when one person is not free, we are not free"

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"Libertarianism to me has always meant the freedom for peaceful people to make their own decisions about their own lives without government interference." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...

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Wanting a drug to be less available "does not establish standing to sue," wrote Brett Kavanaugh in the court’s unanimous decision reason.com/2024/06/13/u...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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Can you shoot me an email so I can get in touch?

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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Looking to interview people who are personally opposed to abortion but think banning it is a bad idea. If this is you, or you know anyone like this who might talk to me, comment here or email me at elizabeth.brown@reason.com, please.

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The 50s. When men were men and never left the house without their shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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I’ve been basically absent from digital life for a couple weeks because: moving. But we moved! We’re done! We own a house! A chaos house, at the moment, but our very own chaos house, with a sunroom off the back and daisies growing out front

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. @enbrown.bsky.social and I are gonna be adjunct professors for the first time at the University of Cincinnati this upcoming semester and we are so pumped, Go Bearcats 🐻 🐱

So from now on if you address me here, it is Illegal for you to not refer to me directly as Professor Swin

ILLEGAL.

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In case you thought we were done with really bad Section 230 bills… NOPE

This one would simply “sunset” Section 230 after next year reason.com/2024/05/15/t...

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I had some *thoughts* on the new "bipartisan" bill to "sunset Section 230" and the accompanying WSJ oped its authors released with the bill. You would not believe how many swear words I had to remove from the original draft. www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/b...

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Newsradio (with and without Phil Hartman) was basically a harbinger for journalism in 2024. It’s nonsense, there’s an efficiency expert, Joe Rogan is there for some reason

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Reading between the lines, it seems the company wants to avoid being puritanical about sex and nudity but is skittish about the backlash and worried about becomimg robot-powered OnlyFans

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We ate some today!

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"We didn't arrest and imprison our way out of drug addiction. And we're not going to arrest and imprison our way out of sexual abuse and exploitation, or out of young people in desperate circumstances turning to sex work to get by," writes @enbrown.bsky.social.

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BREAKING: Federal judge rebukes Alabama AG's threat to prosecute providing help for out-of-state abortions.

A judge on Monday denied the AG's request to have lawsuits challenging his threatened prosecutions dismissed. www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-ri...

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“We condemn the national Libertarian Party for inviting Trump to speak at its convention ….”

Yes.

“Trump did lots of things that should offend any liberty-minded person …”

Yes!

“For example, approving the COVID vaccine”

GODDAMMIT YOU IDIOTS

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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That might sound OK at first blush, until you realize who actually gets prosecuted for sex trafficking

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It's the war on drugs all over again, folks…

A new Alabama law ups the penalty for certain sex trafficking offenses to *mandatory* life in prison reason.com/2024/05/06/a...

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown 's avatar Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social
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Plotting new house decor. Japandi meets Golden Girls meets French Country will surely be a style choice that works out, right?

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