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Blair Forlaw

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Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship. Quaker SPICES from generations back. Docent at NMAAHC. Big on family.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h
This National Voter Education Week, let’s make these midterms too big to rig together! Text at least three of your friends to make a plan to vote, and make sure you’re registered and ready to vote at nationalvotereducationweek.org
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 1h
Gone way over the edge …
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 13h
The best way to be sure your vote counts is to vote early and in person. www.vote.org
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Everything that Trump Touches Dies
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We are 30 days from the election ending! Please make sure your voter registration has not been purged and make a plan to vote. Our freedoms and our democracy are counting on us!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sen. Kennedy looked Jack Smith straight in the eye during the recent Senate committee hearing and said "You make me want to vomit in my microphone." Listen to the recording; you will hear it. So why would any reporter (or anyone else) ever ask Kennedy to comment on "character"?
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. to.pbs.org/4zgbIuz
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, less than a mile from the White House on World Day of Migrants: “We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” He told Catholics to fight every dimension of Trump’s war on immigrants.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cheap bribe. Trump thinks the American people are really stupid -- and transactional like he is. That's partly how he's gotten where he is today and hopefully he has run out of luck.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree, but we can't take anything for granted. I'm writing 100 postcards to NC voters now, urging them to remember to vote and to remind friends and family to do the same. Spread the word!
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I never thought I’d see the U.S. government try to whitewash Richard Nixon’s crimes & defend his profound abuse of the presidency. But here we are. Crooks protecting crooks.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The death penalty has no place in any society."
https://x.com/UNHumanRights/status/2105639407030059371
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So when a sincere person expresses a perspective you don't like, the right response is to walk out on them? Or better yet, sue them? Or maybe threaten them? So much for civil dialogue.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What I can't get over from that clip is the sound of Sen Kennedy's voice, looking Jack Smith straight in the face, saying, "you make me want to vomit in my microphone!" That was one of the most revolting things I've ever heard come out a an elected official's mouth. What is wrong with these people?
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The American people beg to differ — bigly.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
We are joining the calls for a commutation for Christa so she never experiences this torture again, and we continue asking for the same for Tony Carruthers, who experienced the same suffering and remains at risk of another execution attempt.
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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Black Fact: Students may not have been old enough to vote, but they still fought for voting rights. In 1960, college students organized sit-ins with SNCC, helping bring attention to voter registration and the fight for civil rights. Never underestimate the youth. They’ll clap back.
A group of people sitting at a lunch counter during the civil rights sit-in at a Woolworth's store. They are holding cameras and documents, with salt and pepper shakers on the counter. Others are visible in the background.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026
The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026
NEW: A nonpartisan watchdog asked a court to force the Trump administration to hand over records on its claims that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states. The request comes after Trump alleged that his administration found 278k noncitizens on the rolls.
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would love to see someone diagram that sentence. I don't think people even do that anymore, but it would be fun to see it anyway.
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LM @marylander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith is an American Hero💪
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just forced a vote on my legislation to get immediate guardrails in place and stop a crisis before it happens – while it was blocked, I remain determined to work with Democrats and Republicans alike on securing strong testing, incident reporting, and safety requirements on AI systems. (2/2)
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
Trump asserts he has solved the potential threat from AI: Renames AI "superintelligence" Said the accord on superintelligence is “morally binding” “There’s going to be a tremendous self-policing aspect.” Mission accomplished?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grandiose delusions of narcissism so severe they're implausible. He thinks his name change of a Great Lake gives him power over 🇨🇦. 
Trump’s executive functioning, which was never great, has now deteriorated to the point where we get unchecked narcissistic/grandiose absurdity.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump is stealing your taxpayer dollars to pay for campaign ads. It’s illegal, shameful, and wrong. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone should make a Bingo game to help us watch out for these points. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100%
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Fuel prices are surging. Trump’s Iran war has spread to Yemen and the Red Sea. Russia is engaging in so-called gray-zone attacks in Europe,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “Yet for many of these problems, the United Nations is becoming almost irrelevant.”
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Opinion | The U.N. Is Terrible. We Need the U.N.
Trump’s attack on global institutions leaves us helpless before a growing array of challenges.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday. At a migrant house before Mass , he said the history of humanity “is not written by those who give the impression of winning by imposing themselves and ‘dominating the room,’ but by those who ‘make room.’”
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Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor
“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before Mass, the pope sat with migrants and told catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Picture worth a thousand words, if you ask me.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not yet clear about how unregulated AI can kill billions of people? Read this! Speak up! wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Learn more here: www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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LDF Decries U.S. Department of Justice Dismissal of Over Fifty Federal School Desegregation Cases
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a misleading announcement, claiming that it had “ended” more than 50 federal school desegregation cases. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) decried the...
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And on Sunday, these public servants ask "what would Jesus do?" and then on Monday they go back to this. The hypocrisy is astounding. The cruelty cannot be named.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DHS used a hastily-built "citizenship verification tool" to declare that over 14,000 Nevada voters are not citizens. Later, they revised that down to 185. This week, Nevada announced that they had contacted every person flagged by DHS and proved that they are ALL citizens. That's a 100% error rate.
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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 25/09/2026
The Supreme Court allowed the use of the flawed SAVE system, but mass voter purges before an election remain illegal. If officials try to disenfranchise voters, Common Cause will take them to court. 🗳️ Check your registration & save 866-OUR-VOTE for assistance.
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Following SCOTUS Ruling, Common Cause Vows Immediate Legal Action Against Any Attempts to Disenfranchise Voters Using Flawed System
The flawed DHS system has always been part of the Trump administration's campaign to interfere in our elections.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026
If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???
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