Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive

@InnateOptimist

Rust Belt essayist (read in Current Affairs, Matter News, The Drift), aspiring muse, clinically enigmatic renaissance soul, DSA, 18+

Central Ohio innateoptimist.neocities.org Joined February 2009

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Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive @InnateOptimist Jul 21

Out today! My first for @curaffairs, "What I Learned Debating Fascists on a Phone Sex Hotline" ☎️👄

(incredible illustration by Chelsea Saunders)

Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive @InnateOptimist 8h

Going live on Twitch to read the intro + chapter 1 of Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas to chat in my Debs 2024 shirt because I am a VARIETY STREAMER!! Or something.

twitch.tv/InnateOptimist

Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive @InnateOptimist 8h

This is also one of the best depictions I've seen of what it's like to commute by car versus by bicycle.

kenzie @wongkarwasian 16h

Right it's not helpful to childhood development or independence to be able to navigate the world without relying on an adult at all

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Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive @InnateOptimist 10h

Go read this incredible piece by Emily Topping!

Current Affairs @curaffairs 12h

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Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽 corn-fed subversive @InnateOptimist 14h

love this for us

Andrew Tobias @AndrewJTobias 15h

The Ohio House just approved a bill that removes legal barriers to ownign sawed-off firearms and suppressors.

Four Democrats - Reps. Bride Sweeney, Chris Glassburn, Mark Sigrist and Joe Miller - joined Republicans in voting "yes."

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