sex, speech, tech, justice, parenting, politics, & panic ✨ senior editor @reason ✨ adjunct journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati ✨ Midwestern mom
Cincinnati, Ohio
Joined April 2007
- Tweets77.9K
- Following4.3K
- Followers47.4K
- Likes96.8K
Pinned Tweet
icymi last week: I've got a new @reason newsletter! It's part digest of Reason content, part new commentary, focused more on culture & pop culture than hard news. Might be fun? That's the idea at least. Please subscribe so they don't send me back to the short-form video mines!
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Most Americans wanted a return to normalcy, not a different flavor of culture war reason.com/2026/11/04/the-vi…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Across the country, voters rejected data centers, Flock cameras, and the idea of letting transgender girls play on girls' sports teams in schools. reason.com/2026/11/04/midter…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
I've been saying it for years, this place is a silo, like most text-based social platforms. there is no "repeal the 19th" cohort. there is no "100 million deportations" cohort. there is no "everyone hates Indian Americans" cohort. people on this website have been "yes and"ing themselves into fake golden ages and meme wars and none of it is real. None of it.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
One issue doesn’t explain a loss this catastrophic. There isn’t anything off the table in a post-mortem. War, tariffs, the performative cruelty — it’s all in the mix.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
We are about to witness the most embarrassing presidential temper tantrum in American history.
As an Ohioan, I'm glad that Ramaswamy didn't win ... without being happy that Acton did reason.com/2026/11/03/amy-ac…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Acton beats Ramaswamy reason.com/2026/11/03/amy-ac…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
If the voters aren’t happy about pretend conquering Greenland well I don’t know what they want
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Seriously, no one deserves his defeat tonight more than Ken Paxton. He ran the year's most despicable campaign, making every real issue secondary to gay-baiting and trans-baiting. And it failed, because most voters are not obsessively bigoted dipshits. Take that lesson to heart.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
👨💻 THREAD on how data center-related ballot measures are faring tonight
data centers are on the ballot in ~40 localities across 13 states, including proposed bans, votes on specific projects, and recalls of pro-data center politicians
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘latinx’ and ‘unhoused’ without the fear of getting cancelled…it’s a new dawn.”
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Virginia voters enshrine abortion access in state constitution vpm.org/elections/2026-11-03… @myVPM
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
NBC exit polls have MEN splitting 49-48 between R and D
GOP is cooked if that's real (Trump won men by 12 points)
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
seriously excited for the court judgments to drop about this. wanna see how the sc keeps a straight face when talking about this dumb shit.
Got a weird 'well, actually...' for you guys: the UK did not specifically ban 'BBW face sitting' videos & a host of other highly specific sex acts. There was, alas, no Parliamentary debate over the the merits of 'foot smother' vs 'breast smother' content. This is a list of categories a specific adult site has now nixed reason.com/2026/11/02/u-k-ba…
BUT, the UK did nix adult content featuring "strangulation" and "suffocation," which could include these things. Hence, this site's takedown of particular categories. The law doesn't actually define either term, leaving it up to people to figure it out for themselves — with 2-3 years prison time on the line if they get it wrong 🫤
Got a weird 'well, actually...' for you guys: the UK did not specifically ban 'BBW face sitting' videos & a host of other highly specific sex acts. There was, alas, no Parliamentary debate over the the merits of 'foot smother' vs 'breast smother' content. This is a list of categories a specific adult site has now nixed reason.com/2026/11/02/u-k-ba…
BUT, the UK did nix adult content featuring "strangulation" and "suffocation," which could include these things. Hence, this site's takedown of particular categories. The law doesn't actually define either term, leaving it up to people to figure it out for themselves — with 2-3 years prison time on the line if they get it wrong 🫤
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Americans should really be grateful to the U.K. for so frequently reminding us to value the First Amendment. The latest British contribution comes courtesy of the Crime and Policing Act of 2026. reason.com/2026/11/02/u-k-ba…
Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
You know, the world really isn’t as bad as you want it to be. Joy is everywhere. Beauty is everywhere. People are mostly pretty good. You don’t have to cling desperately to your own misery.
