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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
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Founder, The Gaia Leadership Project & The Ripple Effect Institute; political/leadership consultant; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights atty; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; NYer 4ever; Host, ResistanceLive on YT www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6m
What could Democrats actually do if they win the House and Senate in the midterms? Today at 11 am, we’re breaking down the real powers of a Democratic Congress—from investigations, subpoenas and oversight to legislation and the limits on prosecution— youtube.com/live/icgtxGz...
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If Democrats Win Congress, What Can They ACTUALLY Do to Stop Trump?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 32m
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 1h
IT'S A WRAP ON THOSE MEN.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1h
When I was in law school, every summer associate interview I had was conducted in a hotel room.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1h
Oh look. My alma mater that refused to expel two rapists when I was there just got the largest private donation in US history. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Donor Gives $3 Billion to Carnegie Mellon, the Largest University Gift Ever
The donation by Kenneth Griffin, intended mostly to help build a campus in Miami, was the biggest single gift in the history of U.S. higher education.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1h
Hopeful sign today. Burnham said this morning that the UK returning to the EU was on the table.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h
Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h
When I was in college, there was a group of frat boys who would routinely respond, in response to the use of the word “frat,” “would you call your country a cunt?” “Nah? Then don’t call our fraternity a frat.” Just now processing the layers of that, and what happens when those men rise to power.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h
I have been thinking about this a lot this week.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
Time for this classic again.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h
10. I was walking to a movie in a beach town with my best friend and a car with two men followed us, catcalling.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h
This man continues to victim blame. “Morally wrong, disgusting” but not rising to the level of “a crime” makes it utterly clear that he thinks the victim is a willing participant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence (Gift Article)
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h
Short answer: yes, and it will also make you dumber. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? (Gift Article)
We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12h
1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h
WE LOVE STUDENT JOURNALISTS IN THIS HOUSE
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13h
What could go wrong?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13h
FTR, because I am thinking about this a lot due to my kid’s high school curriculum: private property ownership in America is based on genocidal land theft from indigenous people. It is also at the root of our current housing crisis. How anyone can claim private property ownership is a “benefit” of
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 15h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h
I feel like the right side of his face droops more with every passing day (or TIA)— there’s no hiding now that something quite neurologically serious is happening now.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h
What a lot of folks are missing is that all of these “new” shows are based on really smutty books in the same vein as the Off Campus series. They have (re)discovered that smut sells regardless of gender identity, and often through the lens of the female gaze.
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 17h
Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.
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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any judge--sorry, immigration judge, not real judge--who requires a 2-year-old to represent themself and then deports them deserves to lose their license. And also rot in hell.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h
Many many more than I thought when I went to law school TBH.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h
LOL
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h
My kid is studying capitalism v socialism, and asked me to name two benefits of socialism and I went on for three minutes. Two benefits of capitalism? I got nothing.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h
[laughs bitterly again]
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h
[laughs bitterly]
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h
How the Word is Passed was an incredible book, and this one will be too. Can't wait to read it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20h
Want to make a difference right now—but feel completely stuck about how to be effective in your activism? You don’t need to take on every crisis. You need to find your place in the work. bit.ly/4rDnCvC
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Why You Feel Stuck In Your Activism (And What To Do About It)
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No lies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time I hear this man has taken another position like this on rape, my immediate reaction is that it is a TOTAL tell.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This left me speechless. The layers are so deep. Beautiful.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MOAR
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rape culture in the DA’s office
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the 76,367th time: ME TOO DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH. It was the tiniest tip of the iceberg. A snowman’s tear. The tiniest fractal on a snowflake. Today, I wish for avalanches.
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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am thinking in particular of the group text to the entire fraternity inviting them to participate in gang rape. I am sitting in the ringing, awful, consuming *silence* that followed. No one showed up to the *given location* to help her. No one said a word in her defense. Nothing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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