Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026My reaction to this is simultaneously holy shit this is so bad and also, of course he is. 1216969 169
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 11/01/2026If you have the capacity (and mental/spiritual fortitude, cuz this is not for the faint of heart) I heavily urge you to read Sascha Barros’ testimony of his sexual abuse under Trump and Epstein. We need more reporters and voices calling for the release of the files. This needs to be corroborated.open.substack.com"Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Part 1 o2Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR 414880 148
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Meanwhile: 98524 85
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...independent.co.ukRussell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assaultThe alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said 30669812425 7K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025They're drowning. Throw these assholes an anchor. Share the letter everywhere. 115133 151
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025It's true that this is wild to watch. DOJ's social account — and, likely, DOJ — is being run no differently than an online-sleuthing account. (Or, more accurately, an online grift account cannibalizing others' online-sleuthing.) 41217250 1.2K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Yes… yes we would like you to leave the Presidency. Once you leave the Presidency you can host whatever the fuck your want - from prison. 139121 91
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialCarolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Jessica Tarlov just detonated the narrative: “The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no proof they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had evidence, they’d face a court — not a drone.” Seven strikes. Thirty-two dead. Zero charges. This #BlueSky #NewsSky 702377835 2.4K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025This is a hell of a piece. Thirty years ago, when I was a law student, I helped to organize a tiny protest to free Mumia. Thirty years later, he is still in prison, and still sharing wisdom, and still awaiting release. 05511 55
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025For everyone who is out here saying “I don’t know what to do,” let me break it down here like I did this morning in my newsletter because it really is this simple: 210434 104
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025FOLKS. 922942 229
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Ethnic cleansing and forced relocation meet the UN definitions of genocide. 17932 79
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialMark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.” 11765544832 6.6K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal. 1961489049136 48.9K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Morning Bluesky. The UK is preparing to evacuate British nationals and their dependants out of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 2440193 401
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Exactly. bsky.app/profile/mama... 2522 52
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success. 453139214247 13.9K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025This whooole thread. 26013 60
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com 38783263368 8.3K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I’m watching additional video and the woman in the red jacket at the ICE facility in Newark who tried to stop ICE from arresting Ras Baraka and was shoved and pushed and assaulted is my rep, LaMonica McIver. Abominable. 301117261 1.1K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 04/05/2025At leat seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump took office, including three in April: Brayan Garzón-Rayo, a 27-year-old man from Colombia who lived with his family in St. Louis. Nhon Nguc Nguyen, 55, from Vietnam. Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti.truthout.org3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration JailsAt least seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump’s term began. 23946656 946
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 375165284193 16.5K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025This is an astounding security breach — and one reason why you don’t use insecure apps! 423458 234
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com. 572310557 2.3K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/05/2025“First they came for…” 901206456 1.2K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY 27247801762 4.8K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/05/2025FED WATCH: “.. tourism arrivals are falling sharply, especially from China and Japan in reaction to tariffs, and that is already affecting tourism jobs, which in turn affect leisure and hospitality, one of the most significant engines of job growth since 2020.” 481296369 1.3K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025my god i'm hard to shock but holy fuck 1593952895 4K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 02/05/2025The maritime shipping industry is seeing a rise in “blank sailings,” a shift that one expert calls a “canary in the coal mine.” www.wired.com/story/mariti...wired.comThe Slowdown at Ports Is a Warning of Rough Economic Seas AheadThe maritime shipping industry is seeing a rise in “blank sailings,” a shift that one expert calls a “canary in the coal mine.” 10488164 488
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025ICE detention camps are death camps. The entire system has to be eradicated. 17724 77
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025OH COME ON. 7567 56
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Like watching a car accident happened in slow motion 26539621290 4K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 02/05/2025wait, in the *palantir alum slack* 28751132 751
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Some grantees had their funds *clawed back* directly out of their own bank accounts, *after* those funds had already been disbursed and allocated. The devastation to the future of American innovation and research by EVERYTHING that DOGE and Trump have done is gobsmacking. Lives will be lost. 37810 78
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Had a call this am with my friend @joannapenabickley.bsky.social, who is running this research. She had a $1.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the feds for 2025 for her non-profit team to pursue this critical work. On 1/23/2025, all grants from SBIR were frozen. ALL. 25516 55
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months 972533429778 53.3K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/04/2025💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success." 432238154968 23.8K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025JFC. 1408 40
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025The eventual tribunal for crimes against humanity is going to be easy. 612635 126
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025This is incredibly well pitched. 46715 67
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I know nothing should surprise us any longer, but this is shocking. 79323 93
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Paging @aclu.org -- Gerlent needs to know about this ASAP. 116436 64
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialAlberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 18/04/2025Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025. 9748541416 4.9K
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/04/2025DISMANTLING CFPB: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has called a 10am hearing on whether the Trump administration violated her order against large-scale dismantling of the agency. She is seeking details of a purported reduction in force and the order to implement it. 4389123 389
Reposted by @butterflgl.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025GAH. 54618 46
