Blake Wood

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

The vision set forth here by Evan is the reason I joined State Affairs!

[Brady Evan Burns @evanburns]

More Americans believe we’ll colonize the moon before we fix K-12 education. This is a policy problem.

We have been building a solution that’s already trusted by many of the Fortune 500 as well as 1/3 of federal and state elected officials in the United States.

Organizations are more impacted by policy than by financial markets. Yet financial markets have been real-time for decades, and policy markets are still nearly impossible to follow.

@StateAffairsUS has raised over $70M from @rabois, @khoslaventures, @foundersfund and others to fix that.

We are creating the world’s first real-time knowledge graph for policy and regulatory markets. This platform is foundationally built on non-partisan journalism and the collection of on-the-ground data that isn’t digitally accessible.

In the future, we believe every executive will watch policy markets the way they watch financial markets. Instead of reacting to regulation, they’ll navigate it proactively.

Policy should iterate at the speed of our most innovative industries.

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

@WajahatAli Pretty sure that's a satire account lol

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

@WajahatAli Late in life? The man is a failed broadway producer and obsessed with show tunes. The signs have always been there!

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The Trump administration claims that Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was armed and a threat when agents shot him in the back and killed him. In fact, as best we can tell at this stage from the multiple videos, he was: a.) a Good Samaritan trying to help a small woman with a backpack whom agents had thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed; b.) unarmed, his legally licensed weapon already having been removed by another agent and taken away from the scene seconds earlier; c.) on his knees, pinned by agents and no threat to anyone at the moment two agents shot him approximately ten times in the back. As with Renee Good, it's disgusting not only that the authorities execute a person in cold blood but also that they lie about it to defame their victim and then block an investigation by local police that might establish the facts.

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

@PoPville

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

Major accident on 16th St NW, just a few blocks from the White House. At least 6 vehicles and possibly a bike involved.

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

This is gross. Trump has actual neo nazis who have gone through senate approval. But this is what this org is continuing to perpetuate - after a historic night when a large percentage of Jewish New Yorkers actually supported Zohran Mamdani. Just gross.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

TURN 📣 THE 📣 VOLUME 📣 UP

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

@Metrorailinfo what's the cause for delay on silver line at Farragut West right now?

[MPAC @mpac_national]

This week’s Senate hearing on TSA’s Quiet Skies and Open Skies programs confirmed what many feared: secret watchlists and outsourced surveillance have been weaponized against law-abiding Americans.

We welcome Senator Rand Paul’s call for oversight, transparency, and accountability, and recognize this is only the beginning. Programs that penalize people for their faith, politics, or peaceful assembly have no place in a constitutional republic.

That’s why we are calling for:
🔎 A full investigation of DHS, TSA, and the “Program on Extremism” at GWU
📜 Congressional safeguards to protect First Amendment rights
🚫 An end to blacklist politics and surveillance-by-proxy

MPAC and @adc will continue to demand transparency, independent oversight, and constitutional guardrails to ensure that security never comes at the expense of freedom.

#CivilRights #Accountability #ConstitutionalRights

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

Just 30 minutes before this Loonie Loomer called the DNC "demons", but sure keep blaming the left and Muslims.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

During the FBI Press conference just now, Governor Cox said one of the bullets found in the gun Tyler Robinson used to murder Charlie Kirk had the words “Hey fascist” written on it.

Another lunatic inspired by the Left’s dehumanization of conservatives.

Sickening.

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

He loved New York so much he moved away!

[Rep. Elise Stefanik @RepStefanik]

I was honored to join President @realDonaldTrump at tonight’s @Yankees game to commemorate the 24th anniversary of 9/11.

President Trump loves NY and America! Proud to cheer on the Yankees for an amazing game with my NY colleagues, many friends, and our President! 🇺🇸

[MPAC @mpac_national]

We showed up to yesterday's @EdWorkforceCmte hearing on The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 school because every child, every family, and every voice deserves protection.

What we saw instead was the silencing of dissent and attacks on education and unions under the guise of addressing antisemitism. @RepFine @RepKiley @RepWalberg

[dork @arachno_commie]

By the way I can pinpoint the exact moment political violence began to be normalized again in the United States

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

Hypocritical Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Horrific Murder to Cynically Smear the Left

Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed and attacked both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president?

@mehdirhasan writes:
https://t.co/hMtX8JcsIL

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is pretty sickening and dangerous rhetoric in the wake of the Kirk killing.

Trust Fox and Watters to ratchet up the extremism and violence dials. Shameful from the Murdoch media empire.

[MPAC @mpac_national]

At the Unmasking Union Antisemitism hearing in the @EdWorkforceCmte today, Ranking Member Congressman @MarkDeSaulnier highlighted the imbalance in focus, noting:

“While we have had many hearings on antisemitism. We have not had one addressing racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia, or similar harms confronting workers and student groups.”

[Blake Wood @BWoodDC]

What's insane is how many insane escalations we've seen just this week with no response.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

This is absolutely insane. Israel just launched an attack on the capital of a major non-NATO US ally in the midst of US-supported negotiations against officials who were originally hosted there *at the US's request.*

[MPAC @mpac_national]

Ret. Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar witnessed the horrors of Gaza firsthand while working with the @GHFUpdates . What he saw was not aid, but a broken, militarized system riddled with controversy, one that has cost nearly 1,000 Palestinian civilians their lives.