Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@wesleysmorgan “well ok, but I’m putting another one in my purse just in case. honey do you have your inhaler? ok ill carry it, it’ll just be right here in my purse.” i’m born 2 kill — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @wesleysmorgan: “Everybody got their piss bottle? You sure that little Gatorade bottle is going to be big enough, private? Maybe grab an… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@09mshatraw writing everyone’s name on the inside collar of their fatigues and using hearts and stars for the dots on the i’s — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

me commanding troops: ok fellas, has everybody used the bathroom? let’s just make sure before we get going here. ok? okie doke. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @EdmondShami: This comes to mind each time I read Dominion by @holland_tom https://t.co/XbfQ3ZTlo4 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

it would be good bc i'm afraid of everything 10x the amount i should be and matt is either never afraid, like it just isn't a sensation he experiences, or has no apparent response to fear. he barely has a startle reflex unless you wake him up when he fell asleep on the couch — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@gWinbags s c r e m — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @gabrielroth: I sometimes do good tweets, but then on other occasions I do bad tweets. I am truly a land of contradictions — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@AlecMacGillis important to be of one mind on these matters before you embark on the whole ordeal — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

some tricks for taking care of little girl hair: >divide the hair into sections, vertical and horizontal. think of pinhead from hellraiser. >detangle starting at the *ends* of the hair, not the roots >hold the section tight at the root, then brush, to minimize pull >always braid — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

my two lil goth gfs https://t.co/MkJjOspZf9 — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@jcook793 @fivetanley oh absolutely not — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@heyadiana SAME — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

[i am tucking my 4.5 y/o in] me: alright angel, sleep good, jane: did you know in our house there's a secret door? me: no jane: you can only see it at night, in the dark me: nope. not interested jane: and it has a big big big room inside me: i am begging you to stop, — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @lib_crusher: Oh hell yes https://t.co/3LCRLUo66W — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@watsonclint i'm just talking about my husband getting canned for a tweet in 2016 bc of today's senate confirmation hearings lol — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

which isn't to say twitter is altogether bad; it's not, or it doesn't have to be. it's just to say that we've got to contextualize it properly in order to use it properly, and right now we seem to be doing neither of those things. anyway back to shitposting — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

if we're trying to figure out what formula best produces justice in the world, that one doesn't seem like it to me, which is why i mainly just post jokes and pics and the inane nonsense floating through my head on here: to do otherwise is to incur risk. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

so the formula we have here is: take a platform optimized to elicit people's most ill-considered gut reactions in the shortest possible form, and premise totalizing evaluations of character upon those dumb utterances, with consequences to match — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

i generally err toward the idea that, for a number of reasons, tweets should be given a relatively wide latitude. the platform isn't designed to provoke a person's most considered, deeply held ideas; on the contrary, it's designed for superficial, abrupt, reactive thoughts. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

you don't just feel the way you feel; you learn how to feel, in part, from society. you're startled when a stranger says the eff word because you've been taught that word is startling coming from a stranger. nobody tells you this; you learn from observation. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

firing people for tweets creates perverse incentives, in that it signals to onlookers both that tweets are things that should produce dramatic reactions and that they can project those reactions to affect further dramatic reactions. it's teaching people the wrong lesson — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @bshelburne: From autopsy report of 81 y/o man who died in prison: pressure ulcers on heels, feet, shoulder & hip, which had gone into n… — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

RT @EFMememacher: @ebruenig @CaseyCho1942 Senator Baudrillard (R-TX) — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@bartbarber What winter, you're in Texas! — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

it's macbeth but w/e the point is that cruz has accidentally observed something accurate: about 90% of signifiers have no referent whatsoever. that's what hyperreality is — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

not good — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@MattBruenig lol don't you have an infant to cuddle tough guy https://t.co/plsvy9OyyM — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

we need more openly hegelian congressmen...chuck grassley i'm looking at you, — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

folks we love the dialectic around here — PolitiTweet.org