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Liz Wolfe
@LizWolfeReason
reason | mom / journalist / sea creature
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Jul 28, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"Readiness" is, for the most part, a myth. Marriage & children are not capstone, they're foundational, the core of everything. The experiences you are accumulating will mean less to you someday than you think because they were not shared. They mattered less than what came after. Endless self-discovery & indulgent pleasure is nice (and I did some of that!) but it's all just diminishing marginal returns after a certain point, ime. What you discover about your self when it's engaged in service is a lot more revealing––sometimes harder to confront––than when it's engaged in experience-collecting.
May 22, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I wish I could convey to non-New Yorkers how unpersuasive empathy-based arguments become when you live in a city filled with so much erratic behavior, violence, and squalor––human tragedy but also human risk that you encounter on a daily basis, and have to guard yourself against For example, just this morning, I was trying to enter the grocery store with my toddler and some man who was panhandling got physically between us and the door, close to my child (who was in a stroller in front of me). Now I'm sure this man has a much harder life than I do
Apr 23, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It remains shocking to me how many MAGA types are just actively disinterested in evidence-gathering, disinterested in whether allegations are true or false. It shows callous disregard to both the plights of innocent people wrongly imprisoned AND to the cause of public safety. I want safer communities. I want actual gang members to be identified, imprisoned, deported. People like me are not served by...an administration that's lying about who's a gang member and who's not to artificially boost their numbers. That is actively unhelpful.
Feb 12, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why is this goddamn city so obsessed with padlocking playgrounds Image going 2 go all scandinavian on their asses Image
Jan 28, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
I totally agree with this: that having done something "prosocial" for society––raising kids!––is a significant factor in the overall fulfillment rewards reaped by parents, but in a profoundly self-centered, choice-optimizing society, how do we convince people that doing something lightly sacrificial, and surely a bit daunting, for the common good actually makes you feel extremely nice deep within your soul, uniquely at peace?Image FWIW, I think there are major cultural fixes that really need to be in place to make parenthood seem more appealing, at least in big-city environments (the ones with which I'm most familiar): the cordoning off of certain spaces as either explicitly or implicitly kid-free makes it very hard to be a primary caregiver and to integrate children into normal life. (Restaurant policies that say children are not welcome, post-COVID or just broadly anti-child hospital policies that tightened visitor allowances, the Park Slope Food Co-op which implied to my friend she couldn't bring her son in the other day? Groceries stores don't allow kids anymore WHAT)
Jan 8, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Call me crazy but I think the gay sex car of the Mexico City subway is actually a bad thing, and that public transit should not be a place for public sex. No amount of "our human rights are being violated" will change my mind. Image
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Dec 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What are the people in a subway car supposed to do while he is threatening them? How should they know he is unarmed? Is "unarmed" synonymous with "not a threat"? What sort of "support" should they have given him, and how many times, and for how long? I believe Neely had agreed to 15 months of mental health treatment following a guilty plea after his 2021 assault of a 67-year-old woman in the subway system. He needed support and care, sure. It was offered to him; he refused it! Image
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Feb 24, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Because it's the most libertarian city in America, it's fucking fun, and it's the best place for you if you like food and density. People loooooooveee to get riled up about this take, forgetting that lots of human interaction happens outside of the realm of laws (many of which get openly flouted in NYC!) & politics
Sep 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I am getting very tired of being told untrue things by major media outlets, especially on the topic of gender Me, 37 weeks pregnant, trying to sign up to be in a male wrestling league: "But The Atlantic told me there were no real differences between my body and a dude's, I simply need more people to believe in me and then I can reach my full potential."
Aug 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I keep seeing tweets from conservative journos saying, basically, "I sacrificed to make ends meet & will now bear the economic costs of Biden's decision to subsidize the less-prudent choices other ppl made" which is portrayed by the left as "conservatives are jealous & mean" I don't see how the left is getting this from that. Conservatives & libertarians sharing their accounts are saying, IMO, a) paying for college is in many cases doable, with hard work & b) many of us gave up a lot because we understood the consequences, which have now been changed
Aug 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Two most offensive things your college tuition is used for:
1) administrative bloat (DEI this & that...look up those administrators' salaries, it'll make you sob)
2) fancy facility-building
Over the last decade, undergrad public school prices have risen by ~28%. Is it worth it? (Using '09-'19 data, since pandemic made things a little funky, FWIW).

Private school prices over same pd rose a bit less, roughly 20%. We see tuition raised by 2-5% each year, depending on institution. (We're not seeing professors paid a ton more, mind you.)
Aug 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I don't get the sense that people are just angry due to unfairness, I think there's a palpable anger/frustration, stemming from fact that people made choices to minimize debt burdens & now realize, since the terms of the deal were changed, they could've had an easier go of it Not to mention a sense that this is the federal government intervening, trying to look like motherfucking Santa Claus by handing out free money, doing little to nothing to fix the actual problems that got us these bloated, utterly unreasonable price tags in the first place
Jul 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For the record: an arrest was made, this ended up being legit. I don't think journalists (myself included) were wrong to question the single-source reliance & weird timing, but adding this here & at end of thread in interest of full accuracy. Tragic story. dispatch.com/story/news/202… How is this being ratioed? Journalists SHOULD be skeptical of stories that rely on single sources like this. Then when more facts emerge, they should note them. I didn't even publish on this, I just tweeted about it & the best way to handle seemed to be to add context/correction.
Jul 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The "questioning gender ideology will get trans people killed" thing has always struck me as bizarre. 1) High suicide rates are worth treating on their own, not acting like it's all Josh Hawley's fault (your mental state shouldn't be contingent on his approval of your choices) 2) It's such a tenuous and flimsy connection, such an escalation to pretend that questioning, curiosity, confusion, or skepticism have the power to take otherwise mentally stable people to horrific places of suicidal ideation. It strikes reasonable people as...false.
Jul 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
As this tweet was getting ratioed by idiots who didn't listen to the pod, the angry hordes were like "this bitch needs to get out of NYC and see real America." Joke's on them, I didn't even see their responses until now because I was offline in Montana & Wyoming. Yellowstone!!! ImageImageImage
Jul 1, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
ICYMI yesterday, I covered the bodega bro saga for @reason (& tracked down quite the response from the company). Shades of West Elm Caleb & Emma Sarley in all of this. reason.com/2022/06/30/cri… What bothers me most about this is the expectation––and I'm not sure whether it's top-down or bottom-up––that companies be moral arbiters; this idea that there are "shared values" to conform to, but nobody can quite say what they are other than...feel-good Current Thingism.
Jun 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW from me at @reason. I spoke with bodega bro Griffin Green (and the company that fired him after the mob went after his TikToks). If only he'd phrased it as concern for food deserts in the South Bronx, then maybe he'd be lauded as a social justice hero. reason.com/2022/06/30/cri… "All I ask is for a chance to explain myself," Green wrote in his email to HR asking for a second chance. "This is my dream job and I don't want it to get taken away because of a stupid tik tok video."
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Jun 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I have made this point elsewhere and in fact made it this afternoon on @mattklewis's podcast (out tmrw/Fri): Guttmacher research from 2014 indicates some 51% of abortion-obtainers used some form of contraceptive in the month they became pregnant; 49% did not. I have long been in favor of getting the government (FDA especially) out of women's way so they have access to telemedicine, over-the-counter hormonal contraceptives, easier & cheaper IUD access, etc. More orgs should focus on reducing cost barrier to IUDs, imo.
Jun 29, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Stunned by how frequently I see journalists whose work I trust, who I personally like & fully respect, getting abortion statistics totally wrong. There's a lot of confusion right now about what percentage of abortions take place at which times during a pregnancy, for example. 93% take place AT OR BEFORE 13 wks, so within the first trimester. 6% take place between wks 14-20. 1% post-week 20. (Per CDC data)

Put differently: 79% of total U.S. abortions are within first 9 weeks; 13% are between 10-13 wks. 4% are at 16 weeks or more.
May 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A reminder that the vast majority of Americans are quite moderate on the issue of abortion; most are in favor of abortion super early in a pregnancy, then oppose it in the second trimester, and are broadly morally uncomfortable w it, and w what the procedure entails. If you showed the "Shout Your Abortion" book even to your average pro-choice American, they would probably consider it excessive, cruel, despicable. Note that many blue American states have even more lenient abortion laws than most European countries!
Mar 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
From @bendreyfuss. And, to be frank, screw the fancy n professional media people who, in 2022, can't figure out what the problem is. Willful ignorance. Heads in the sand. They look around at people getting fired from their jobs for bad tweets & old costumes & say "what firing?" "People don't ACTUALLY get fired because of cancel-happy online or workplace mobs. This isn't ACTUALLY a thing." Maybe your memory is short, because this happens frequently & too many of us don't care to follow up and see the destruction, the fallout, left in a mob's wake!