Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
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 https://www.youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
It is a GENIUS messaging strategy to link AI and data centers to dick swinging toxic masculinity and I want more of it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h agoEl-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."
I believe in a better future. I believe that it can happen. I believe, actually, that come hell or high water, it will not be denied.
Only liberation is a shared liberation.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h agoEl-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
This is so messed up. We need Medicare for All, including home health care. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.
The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.
nytimes.com
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
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The Biggest Lies That Keep You From Fighting Back Against Fascism
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This. It has definitely taken a toll this year (and every year prior, but this year feels especially noxious).
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h agoThis is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left. The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
nbcnews.com
Feeling glad this morning that I didn’t try to stay up to wait for the returns.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 10h ago
We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
theguardian.com
State Sen. Jeremy Moss wins Dem primary for safely blue #MI11, Haley Stevens' seat. He'd be Michigan's first LGBTQ member of Congress.
NEW: Missouri voters have rejected Amendment 4, which Republicans had passed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments effectively impossible. It would have required initiatives to pass in every congressional district—not just statewide—giving the overwhelmingly red districts a veto
NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections
Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.
Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
El Sayed is up 16 points right now. Let’s hope it sticks.
Whatever the reason, I’ll take it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/n...
Ronald Lauder, a Billionaire G.O.P. Backer, Closes His Wallet (Gift Article)
Ronald S. Lauder, a major funder of conservative political causes, has not given a single dollar this year to Republicans in his home state, and his super PAC has gone idle.
nytimes.com
“I will not let his story be unheard,” said Edwin Jovanny López Cornejo’s 12-year-old daughter. Justice for Edwin Jovanny López Cornejo. 🎥 via Daysi Calavia-Robertson (@ presspassdaysi on IG)
Still thinking about that moment in Spiderman #BrandNewDay when the whole audience applauded and then two seconds later was like OHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO. 🤣🤣🤣
They claimed they were going to do this at polling places in majority Latino precincts in New Jersey and then no one showed up. Don’t be afraid. VOTE.
Rebekah Jones@georebekah.bsky.social · yesterdayWe told you so. Trump deploying agents to voting stations in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing, & East Lansing. Keep these numbers on you in case you observe any interference, intimidation, or other bullshit. Election protection hotline (non-profit, non-partisan): 866-687-8683
