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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h

Yesterday in Harrison NJ. THIS is what ICE is doing to babies. Get trained in rapid response and fucking vote for progressive and DSA candidates. THIS MUST END.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is nothing that will remedy the harm this nation continues to do to human beings and their families. FREE THEM ALL.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And to learn more about the Paris 3-- those incredibly brave fourteen year old girls who sat down at a lunch counter, were arrested, and led the fight to integrate main street Paris-- and to learn about the planned museum, click here. All honor to the Paris 3. www.thedifferenceyoucanmake.com

A photo of the "Paris 3," three beautiful older Black women, on the steps of a building.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Proud to share another incredibly moving & important project from one of our members inside The Ripple Effect Institute. This past Friday, the WE ARE mural commemorating the Paris 3- three Black teenage girls who fought segregation in Paris, Kentucky in 1961 at the height of Jim Crow- was unveiled.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh look, a rape apologist. PS. This is entirely false. She was brought to the frat when already wasted by a “friend” who then raped her and set her up to be gang raped. There is a reason why the bar that served her is a named defendant and it’s not that she had just a couple of drinks.

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Except what you stated didn't happen, she walked in on her own power, and danced, then agreed to a threesome with a stranger, but then you knew that, didn't you?
So what could go wrong, right?

This is false. She could barely walk when she entered the frat and was brought there by a “friend” who then proceeded to set her up to be raped.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another: Cracking jokes about gang rape to dunk on Trump is still cracking jokes about gang rape.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here are some examples of things that men should not be saying right now, even though I get that in your own head you somehow ***quite wrongly*** think that saying these things is ok. You are perpetuating rape culture and you are part of the problem.

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Anyone want to bet that she thinks because the girl agreed to the first threesome, everything after that is her own fault?

Elizabeth Cronise McLa... O @ecmcl... • 13s I'm sorry, you think being so inebrieated that she couldn't walk into the frat on her own means that she consented to
*anything*?!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The NYT reporting on the Cornell case continues to be inflected with bias and victim blaming. Someone explain to me how this reporter reached the conclusion that Jane Doe was just upset that she was being “used” when in fact she had already told the Cornell police she had been raped.

In her lawsuit, she said that she was
"incapable of consenting" to even that initial sexual encounter because of severe inebriation. She asserted that the two men had forced sex on her and called it an assault.
In the transcript of the police interview, she had a more complicated reaction. She said that she was upset and hurt that a man she liked was using her.
She added: "I was a sex doll for all intents and purposes, which is sad."
Maia Coleman contributed reporting.
Sharon Otterman is a Times reporter covering higher education, public health and other issues facing New York City.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My Instagram feed is full of millennial and Gen Z men expressing this level of outrage at the Cornell rape case. NGL I’m finding it more than a little disturbing that the Gen X men on here seem to have not taken a single minute to express outrage in their own posts. This kind of shit is HEALING. ⬇️

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Text from a friend. HEADS UP TEXAS. CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION ASAP. This is a family with a Latino last name.

Texts from my friend: I wanted to share with you a message from Texas I thought would be a good fact or call to action for your audience.
I wanted to share something that happened to my 76-year-old mom in Texas yesterday because I immediately thought of you and the reach of your mic.
My mom, Margaret, has been a voter since she was 18 and has always voted. She went to a voter-registration event in Bexar County and, when they suggested she check her registration, her record couldn’t be found. She immediately filled out a new registration application.
Then she checked her husbands, and his record couldn’t be found either.
Regardless of why any individual registration has an issue, this feels like an important public-service message: Texans should check their voter registration now, while there’s still time to fix a problem, not discover it when they go to vote.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just put this up on my Insta but it might as well be here too.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you are a person who writes this under someone’s joyous announcement of a pregnancy, you deserve every block you are about to get. Everyone’s choices are not your choices. And people are conscious, particularly the woman under whose post you wrote this.

Screengrab: WildlifeGardener @millicentlake.bsk... •4m
Nary a thought for the environment, other species, climate change.
Just your own "wants" and what taxpayer funded dole will support your personal lifestyle choices.
Not cute, not admirable. At all.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every once in a while I am struck by the absolutely miraculous nature of the fact that we all exist, the complexity of the unfathomable twists and turns of luck that brought us all here, and how stupid it is that we don’t live in such a way that appreciates our shared humanity. This is one.

A medical chart of all the intricacies of the human brain from numerous angles. Awestuck.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really feel like more people should read this part of Macklemore’s statement.

“And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.”

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel this so hard. Colbert on Kimmel last night, on why he is happier and healthier since the end of his show.

"Part of the job is — the old gig, as I remember it, was that, was to be lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day, and then to be pulled out and put in front of a camera, and to irradiate it back at the audience at a nonlethal rad level." — STEPHEN COLBERT

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore has put out an incredible statement about being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour. His removal was engineered by Trump’s bestie Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots and Foxborough stadium who rallied other owners to silence Macklemore for speaking out about Palestine.

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Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’re in or near Newark, and you want to join a series of teach-ins on liberation, this series started last week and is running weekly.

A flyer for Liberation School. Community Building, Organizing, Political Education. For more info or to Host, text 908-477-1111.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Jon was 33. voicescenter.org/living-memor...

A photo of Jonathan Uman, who perished in Tower One. A pale skinned man with brown wavy hair and a big smile.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Welcome to my Hinge timeline, 24/7. Being single and over 50 is WILD. 🤣🤣🤣

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is still going on. I know I don't need to say it to those who were with me thru it, but I worked to stop trans minor forced outing and to defeat an effort to ban the pride flag in a public school system in CA (and WON), and moved cross country to protect my NB kid. Anyway. Peace to all.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also today in an only very mildly tongue in cheek piece:

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Photo of Road Runner
Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There are still a few good people at the Times but this morning is another real WTF moment.

Screengrab from the NYT: Opinion
Erika Kirk: What I've Learned About Grief
4 MIN READ

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A stranger took this insane shot of me and my kid last night at the concert, and walked down six rows to ask if she could text it to me. Thanks, kind person.

Me and my kid with our arms around eachother, backs to the camera, in white tshirts, standing in MetLife arena at the Ed Sheeran show.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hearts don’t break around here. (my kid is so happy)

Ed Sheeran in a white t-shirt singing on stage at Met Life Stadium.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s my kid’s first stadium show and I am having a Gen X moment.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HUGE APPLAUSE for the anti-AI statement on my kid’s ninth grade English syllabus. This is how it’s done. Grade of zero if you turn in AI work, and by the way it’s killing the environment.

Screengrab: Plagiarism / Chat GPT (Al Use)
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. All work submitted including essays, annotations, projects, etc. must be the student's original work. atations and references to other texts (including WebSites, song lyrics, movies, and magazine articles) must be documented grade of zero (0) will be assigned to any plagiarized or Al generated work with no alternative assignment to make up the grade.
Al data centers cause drastic environmental harm through massive electricity consumption, heavy water usage, and carbon pollution. For this reason alone, consider your use of Al carefully. In terms of the assignments and the specific context of this class, I would much rather you submit something unfinished, flawed, or below standard than outsource to a robot the very things that make us human - the messy, never-finished work of learning, thinking, feeling, and trying to express ourselves to others. The mind and heart are muscles, humble, imperfect, and forever growing, and you must let them struggle if you expect them to grow.
Cell Phone Policy
Cell phones should be placed in the numbered cell phone pouches when students enter the room. Phones should never be left og your desk unless the teacher states otherwise. Failure to leave a phone in the pouches can result in the phone being confiscated

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here’s another fun thing that can happen to you when you’re a human rights lawyer who worked on actual Nazi slave labor reparations cases on behalf of slave laborers, just for pointing out that human rights are universal.

A Screengrab of a list notification reading: “@aureliaorange.bsky.social has added you to the "Nazi Sympathizers" custom feed list”

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy National Dog Day from this perfectly priceless lunatic.

A brown French bulldog with a black muzzle snoozed on a large cream colored chair.

A brown French bulldog with a black muzzle lies upside down and twisted looking at the camera with his front paws in the air.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And now Tim Curry. It's just a jump to the left . . . Rest in peace.

A photo of Tim Curry in full makeup from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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