Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

upshot being that these are all lonely people who are broken in radically different ways, and that bruce was a very imperfect father — but by giving them one another, he actually did succeed in making sure nobody else had to live a life as completely isolated as his — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

when DC runs out of people to write new franchise movies and are forced to let me write a batman movie, batman will be a very background presence and the film will be about the three sons (drakeno re: damian) managing their relationships with each other and him, a la karamazov — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

bizarre thing is he's not even expressing concern about humans' experience of alleged human overpopulation, but rather about the size of the human population's impact on animal populations. why not simply hope to be reincarnated as a cool extinct animal, such as a stegosaurus — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@MattZeitlin sure, even moral judgments aside, it's just a difficult genre constraint to overcome — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

you're inherently going to be telling a story that goes: i was involved with someone who was really nice to me and now through no fault of their own, i have deprived them of a relationship. hard to sell readers on the value of your personal growth after that arc! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

the "i had it all but gave it up to do something cooler and/or more interesting" form really works against the personal essayist in that to establish having it all one has to explain how awesome the ex-partner/friend/relationship was, which pits readers against the author — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @as_per_ushe: @ebruenig NEWS: The US now averaging 3M vaccine doses per day. ME: That's it boys. Keep poundin' em. https://t.co/rZxPk3w… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@btrubvxr well it's just a joke! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ragelift because of me (do not fact check this) — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i am going to make FURY (2014) memes happen on here — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@nick_rumproast thats what im sayin — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@KevinWerner127 it's cool if you cry while you're zoomin with the boys — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

mfw people cry on zoom and leave their mic and camera on for some reason https://t.co/UqUDpiIQWZ — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ByYourLogic rting so i can be contacted by black market otter dealers and surprise my kids with an otter in a kiddie pool over memorial day weeked — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @ByYourLogic: Japan question: why are pet otters so prevalent on IG? are there looser laws? is this a community of animal professionals?… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@ancientspacebab henry go to bed — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@lukaske evan, hello...dm please. thank you — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

sorry about this, i could not get this string of words out of my head and had to exorcise it from my brain using the app — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

"political football" is a great metaphor because politics, like football, is soccer — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

repurposed some leftover chocolate easter bunnies! some were white chocolate -- i caramelized them in the oven, creating toasty butterscotch chocolate. threw in some milk chocolate bunnies et voila: malted milk chocolate bunny cookies sprinkled with smoked sea salt https://t.co/t803C74kE3 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@MattBruenig @lastpositivist man i can just email people and ask to see their manuscripts when i see the titles roll through the upcoming catalogues........godlike experience......no one person should have all this power — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @lastpositivist: In an effort to Make A Point my darling partner Yuzi just sent me this graph re my spending. I have removed the Y axis… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

[sitting at the table coloring with my two beloved children] 4.5 y/o: mama what letters are in your name? i'm gonna write it for you me: awww! well, E...L..I...Z...A...B... 4.5 y/o: that's too many. me: oh. uh...clare, what're you coloring? :) 18 m/o: shhh. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

classy! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

if you're worried about whether you'll be able to go back to the way things were precovid, don't fret: you won't. nobody ever goes back to the way things were before anything. people change every day and we don't get to choose what changes us. you'll be someone new and that's ok — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @MattBruenig: Fresh podcast content with a very special guest: my dad https://t.co/jz0cC5q2Yy https://t.co/S3o6bJuBrM — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @MattBruenig: Clip from my dad's appearance on the podcast. Full show here: https://t.co/ikITKaGkG4 https://t.co/oeN0vElPdO — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@MrIosity @mattyglesias ha check out 'distributism' — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@mattyglesias one day everyone will be part of the ownership class. we'll all own our own means of production and will operate our small family farms subsisting on their produce. the working class will finally be no more. the snag here is that for some reason this makes everyone catholic — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@mattyglesias looks more like an attempted marxism to me — PolitiTweet.org