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Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
This is why we should never have based policy on time-trend graphs like those in The Anxious Generation. Psych 101 stuff, but so many people fell for it.
U.S. teens saw notable declines in self-reported sadness and suicidal ideation from 2021 to 2025.
Relative to 2021, they were also more likely in 2025 to:
1) play sports (49% to 58%)
2) do strength training (45% to 51%)
2) eat fruit >=twice/day (19% to 28%)
3) eat at least one veg
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown retweeted
Inbox: @SenJudiciaryGOP will hold a hearing entitled, “Roblox and Online Gaming: Digital Playgrounds Endangering America's Children” a week from today
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All of the previous rationalizations (porn, social media) were just bald faced lies.
This is about forcing adults to identify themselves to use the entire internet.
Everything else is a Trojan horse.
This is about forcing adults to identify themselves to use the entire internet.
Everything else is a Trojan horse.
It's just adult websites, do you want kids watching porn?
It's just social media, do you want kids being bullied?
It's just ... ebay and depop?
Yeah. Age verification was obviously never going to stop at the "bad" stuff and soon we're all going to be carded to buy used books
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Ordered an Amazon grocery delivery to be dropped off tomorrow morning and for some reason an Amazon delivery guy just came by and dropped off a single pear
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It's just adult websites, do you want kids watching porn?
It's just social media, do you want kids being bullied?
It's just ... ebay and depop?
Yeah. Age verification was obviously never going to stop at the "bad" stuff and soon we're all going to be carded to buy used books
It's just social media, do you want kids being bullied?
It's just ... ebay and depop?
Yeah. Age verification was obviously never going to stop at the "bad" stuff and soon we're all going to be carded to buy used books
Carded before shopping on eBay? That could be a reality in the U.K. reason.com/2026/11/09/u-k…
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California has passed a new wave of laws restricting how children use social media and AI. @nicole_shekh writes that CA is replacing parental consent and basic safeguards with stricter mandates before even determining if earlier laws worked. @ReasonFdn reason.org/commentary/cal…
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I thought Hatchet was the book with the boy trapped under ice, but apparently it’s not. What’s that one?
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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Election lesson: men are mars, women are… also from mars. And everyone on Mars hates Republicans and data centers.
The vibe shift wasn’t real. The gender-gap apocalypse wasn’t real. (Is anything in political discourse real???) reasonmagazine.substack.com/p/the-election…
Also in Unregulated this y Brits. The return of quaaludes. John “Buttman” Stagliano on a certain Trump fixation. And more...
The vibe shift wasn’t real. The gender-gap apocalypse wasn’t real. (Is anything in political discourse real???) reasonmagazine.substack.com/p/the-election…
Also in Unregulated this y Brits. The return of quaaludes. John “Buttman” Stagliano on a certain Trump fixation. And more...
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Anybody know why the outskirts of Philly look like Mad Max? Like crossing the bridge from the airport to downtown, it’s just… muddy wasteland with some vague signs of industrial life
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In Philly for @TheFIREorg’s Soapbox conference? Join me, @ENBrown, @PNikmand, and Brendan O’Neill tomorrow for a conversation about the global fight for free speech. Hope to see you there!
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Trying to dress on theme for my travel to the @TheFIREorg Soapbox conference in Philly
Next week, about 550 free speech advocates and thought leaders will descend on Philadelphia for @TheFIREorg's first-ever Soapbox conference.
Believe it or not, in FIRE's 27-year history, we've never hosted a general-audience free speech conference. We've hosted student and faculty conferences, but nothing like this. We figured the 250th anniversary of American independence was as fitting a time as any to give it a try.
We had no idea what to expect. Would anyone buy tickets? Conference experts told us most tickets are sold in the weeks leading up to an event. Instead, we sold out two months in advance!
America's free speech movement is growing, and its members are eager to meet one another.
I'll deliver the opening keynote, "The Fight for Free Speech," a nod to the title of the ACLU's first annual report in 1921. The talk will summarize the story I tell in my forthcoming book: how civil libertarians fought to make the promise of the First Amendment a reality.
Other speakers include @nickgillespie, @LarryLessig, @prestonjbyrne, @ENBrown, @CaseyMattox_, @chrisbest, @RosenJeffrey, @FreeRangeKids, @sapinker, @Musa_alGharbi, @marcorandazza, @AdamThierer, @DavidAFrench, @whignewtons, the @wethefifth guys, @ishapiro, @noam_dworman, @JohnHMcWhorter, @mtaibbi, and many, many more.
I can't wait to see you all next week. And if you can't make it, I hope to see you at the next one. Just be sure to get your tickets early!
soapbox.fire.org/soapbox/110133…
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The piece my entire 30-plus-year career was building toward: Why is Donald Trump suddenly obsessed with men's bodies, especially their butts?: I talked with John Stagliano, the adult filmmaker known as Buttman. @EvilAngelVideo @reason
reason.com/2026/11/03/why…
reason.com/2026/11/03/why…
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Most Americans wanted a return to normalcy, not a different flavor of culture war reason.com/2026/11/04/the…
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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/mid…
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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 lden ages and meme wars and none of it is real. None of it.
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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.
National GOP operative tells me: "People will try to overcomplicate this, but its really simple: This is 100% because of Iran. It's all in the data and has been since a week after the war started. The economic anxiety is directly correlated with the war. We got our asses kicked because of it."
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We are about to witness the most embarrassing presidential temper tantrum in American history.
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As an Ohioan, I'm glad that Ramaswamy didn't win ... without being happy that Acton did reason.com/2026/11/03/amy…
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