Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

*required, so fried I can’t type properly.

PS. Since folks have asked: go hang out with @muellershewrote.com and @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social and @itsafronomics.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
while I’m gone if you need a fix of news, analysis, motivation and/or hope. ❤️

That one requires a long bout of recuperation because I was already toast going in. Trying to avoid getting back there.

So I’ll pop in a bit here, but not like usual.

Starting now, I am on vacation for the next ten days.

Gonna try to be less online because I’m truly burnt. My kids pointed out this morning that I hadn’t taken a day off since March.

I’m more fried than I remember being since organizing that mass mobilization against family separation in 2019.

I’d urge people to just let the accounts be. People are starving to death.

They want to make examples out of those who fight so that others won't.

I have learned from this thread that Dean Cain’s grandfather was in a Japanese internment camp.

And yet he has now chosen to put others into camps for a living.

If you see an account from a starving family in Gaza, for gods sake don’t report it as spam. Have some humanity.

This is part of what I find tiresome. People ARE in the streets DAILY and it's not just in L.A. And at this point, folks should just assume that this is true and what's needed is for you to plug in too if protest is important to you.

A friend of mine met @governorwalz.mn.gov today as well as his wife. He was gracious and lovely and the photos are trademark wide smiles.

Good people and good public servants exist.

Trump Is Removing I.R.S. Chief 2 Months After He Was Confirmed

Oh, so Scott Bessent now has two jobs also.

Clown car government.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

The Trump Regime is desperately trying to distract from Epstein by breaking all norms and abusing its power to go after Democrats, judges and now Letitia James.

Still won't work.

Trump is in the Epstein Files.

Cop City on steroids.

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

Oh you gotta be fcking kidding. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

Appeals court tosses judge's contempt finding against Trump administration in prison deportations An appeals court is tossing out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump’s administration in a case over deportations to an El Salvador prison.

Two Trump appointed judges out of three, doing what they were appointed to do.

apnews.com/article/trum...

What to know about Trump’s deployment of federal police in D.C. Republicans paint D.C. as a lawless war zone that only they can fix.

This is very good local news coverage by the @51st.news about Trump sending federal troops to DC...where crime is down, not up.

"Of course, Trump’s sudden emphatic focus on crime in D.C. could well be political. For weeks, he’s been trying to shift the conversation..."
51st.news/explainer-tr...

Call your reps and demand they take action to stop it.

Trump Threatens a FEDERAL TAKEOVER-- Because of BIG BALLS?! YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Join us live or on the replay.

PS. We're on vacation next week, so this is the last live broadcast until 8/20.

youtube.com/live/_roy2du...

Trump Threatens a FEDERAL TAKEOVER-- Because of BIG BALLS?! YouTube video by Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Coming up at 12n ET, we're talking about what happened to Big B*alls in DC and what it made Trump do, the Epstein meeting inside the regime that was and then wasn't and then was, the TRO issued against the Everglades concentration camp, and way more.

youtube.com/live/_roy2du...

Let's see: arrested Ras Baraka, prosecuted LaMonica McIver, investigating Letitia James.

Sounds about white christofascist.

Or if it's your iPad, you can temporarily do all this under Screen Time, Content and Privacy Restrictions, and App Limits, and then turn it all back on when you get it back.

Parental controls on a family account. Set everything to 12 and under.

And if you really want to go scorched earth, no browser access at all, just age appropriate games. You can turn off access to things app by app in family settings by child.

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"The meeting was reportedly relocated from Vance’s D.C. home to the White House. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were said to be in attendance, according to MSNBC."

LOLOL

(Some folks are absolutely wild in their attempts to justify transphobia by Dems. Wild.)

FROM @reuters.com: President Trump’s rhetoric has galvanized a new wave of far-right activists, fueling growth in white supremacist ranks.

"He’s the best thing that’s happened to us," said the leader of the Aryan Freedom Network.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

THANK YOU.

(I just blocked someone who went to bed and got up and came back to my post on this to argue for a second day.)

Germany Says It Will Suspend Military Exports to Israel for Use in Gaza

Germany Says It Will Suspend Military Exports to Israel for Use in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...