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Fred Carver @arbeider4fred.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One of the most interesting projects I've done in a long time, working with @benaldson.bsky.social on a deep dive into the history of UN selection processes for 1 for 8 Billion and @plataformacipo.bsky.social It's now out! 1for8billion.org/backroom-deals

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm kind of teasing my next article, but as impressive as Amb Rodriques-Birkett is, she's also the only candidate in the 50s who is running. The UN has never had a Gen X SG, maybe it's time.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A cool fact about Amb Zalabata according to Google - she is the first Indigenous person from the Americas to serve on the Security Council as she is an Arhuaco leader from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as well as a defender of Human Rights, and strong proponent of WPS.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

From 2020 the Peace Bridge remains the 2nd most crossed entry to Canada or the US, depending on perspective, across the world's largest unmanned border. Today, the total commerce that crosses is roughly $2.6 billion daily. Tensions btw 2 countries were brewing then: passblue.com/2020/07/23/m...

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Missing the Love at the Canada-US Border Crossings - PassBlue

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Buffalo Sabres fans recently went viral for singing the Canadian National Anthem a capella during a tech glitch. This is the 2nd time in the Boston Bruins series that the anthem has raised eyebrows, as the team has played both anthems since its inception. 1/2

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of the rare days where I looked at @NYTimes Spelling Bee and knew the pangram right away.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today in Iran…

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Oh, well that changes . . . nothing.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Ex. of Sec Albright's "There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." Lauren Boebert going against agreed upon rules and posting a verboten picture of Hillary Clinton during Clinton's testimony, and then Nancy Mace calling Clinton unhinged for reacting to the violation.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Or was it, as mentioned on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social this AM, part of Pres. Trump's show/salesperson like ability to escalate credentials of his inner circle, elevating Mrs Trump from advocate to expert. One source I spoke with referenced this pattern in his cabinet appts too.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Outside the Council, before today's UNSC afternoon meeting, among the diplomats and experts I spoke with, takes went in two directions. Was this further signs of Trump's disdain for the UN or a distraction from Iran and other issues?

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Liberia's statement is worth reading as it acknowledges barrier to entry to tech

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Exs flatter & civility extended to Mrs. Trump: France: "Your presence here is an encouragement" which the PR then equated to the presence of Eleanor Roosevelt at the UN DRC: mentions specific work Mrs Trump has done, both w/in US & her part in repatriating children taken to Russia from Ukrainian

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As expected, the atmosphere is the height of civility. Member statements seem to follow some combination of: recognize the vulnerabilities to harm & exploitation tech presents to children, recognizes role of UN & their country in "child protection & education capacity", then flatter Mrs. Trump

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Conflict arises from ignorance, but knowledge creates understanding, replacing fear with peace and unity." Trump ends her speech highlighting the role of AI and technology in advancing education, especially in conflict torn areas.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As @scprocedure.bsky.social noted on X/Twitter, "It is noteworthy that in expressing her appreciation for the welcome of the Security Council members, Melania Trump first names all the other P5 before the elected members, rather than addressing the members in their alphabetical order."

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Melania starts her SC meeting on Children, Technology and Education in Conflict. Oddly appropriate timing giving her husband just began a conflict on the ground in MENA that has crushed at least one school & closed others across the region.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The subconscious is a crazy thing. Words i just realized I’ve played on Crosswords this AM: pillage, gaslit, ransack.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

BREAKING: IRAN is closing the strait of Hormuz and is turning vessels around according to Reuters. This is threatening 20% of the world’s oil & LNG flow. So much for Affordability.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 28/02/2026

Two federal judges delivered major defeats to the Trump admin’s immigration policies on the same day.

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Donald Trump Suffers Double Legal Blow On ICE Actions In Hours

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm old enough to remember when the Trump administration blew up the JCPOA

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Security Council will meet today at 4pm est on Iran attack

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

with effective impunity for religious scholars & the so-called nobles, & the imposition of harsher punishments on those designated as “lower class.”

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The provision call for "the further subjugation of women, the normalization of (GBV), the legalization of slavery, the formal division of society into “free” & “enslaved” persons, further classification into four social classes,

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump just said, "in closing" about two minutes ago. more empty promises.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Watching on CSPAN and it appears that the broadcast of #Trump's #UNGA speech has been switched over to the Russian translator. Someone there has a great sense of humor.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump moves onto attacking Obama, after saying Europe is "destroying its heritage." (He's not even bothering to code anything at this point, just letting the crazy and racism hang all out. I guess that's honesty.)

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"I really good at predicting things, I don't say that in a bragadocious way, but I'm always right."

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So Trump just said, "I'm here to tell the truth."

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump claims he has the highest poll numbers ever, The Hill: thehill.com/homenews/adm... USA Today: A majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance (www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...)

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"I'm really good at this stuff, your countries are going to hell" - Donald Trump to the rest of the world.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On one hand, #Trump brings Bravo level entertainment to #theUN, even if his makeup is shockingly more sedate than anyone in the Housewives franchise, yet he's repeatedly launched attacks on the UN, immigration, & leaders London's mayor to the Middle East

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#Trump announces the US will lead Intl effort to curb biological weapons, using AI.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

#Trump at #UNGA80 transitions from compaining about UN, including decor, to talking about weapons of mass destruction weapons, and how the US has successfully used theirs for peace (not to be ignored is his plug of Nobel Peace Prize)

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Then #Trump reverts back to complaining about #UN decor.

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

He then riffed on the lack of assistance from #TheUN like someone very privileged complaining to their therapist about how their parents never loved them. "Only thing UN ever gave me was a broken escalator . . . and a broken teleprompter."

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More interesting #Trump #UNGA80 statements: He's ended 7 wars, raging with "countless thousand of people being killed" in 7 months. "No other country has ever done anything close to that."

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Laura Kirkpatrick @piper5078.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Trump's #UNGA80 speech goes from garnering laughs over "who ever's operating the teleprompter is in big trouble" to immediately criticizing previous US leadership, saying it weakened the US with a litany of lies and manipulated data sets.

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Human Rights First @humanrightsfirst.org · 28/08/2025

The US is refusing to participate in its own UN Human Rights Council #UPR review for the first time—joining rights-abusing governments in dodging accountability. This weakens US credibility & undermines global human rights. We call on the admin to reverse course: humanrightsfirst.org/library/huma...

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Human Rights First Decries U.S. Boycott of UN Universal Periodic Review for Further Damaging U.S. Credibility and International Human Rights Norms - Human Rights First

Washington, D.C. — Human Rights First today condemned the U.S. government’s unprecedented decision to not participate in its own Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights ...

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