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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The result is in… Reform won the by-election in Bromley Common. ➡️ RFM: 34.0% (New) 🌳 CON: 29.4% (-11.8) 🌹 LAB: 18.2% (-10.4) 🔶 LDM: 13.7% (-2.2) 🌍 GRN: 4.7% (-9.7) 🔶On the positive side, Lib Dems lost less share of vote than the other parties. It has been an honour to serve as your candidate!!!

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Big 🙏 to Luke Taylor MP Sutton & Cheam for canvassing with us today in Bromley Common & Holwood. Tomorrow is the big day… 24th July! Don’t miss your chance to vote Laura McCracken & Lib Dems! 💛🔶 Also, see our eve of polling day newsletter here: prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/LIB…

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

What a great day of canvassing in Bromley Common & Holwood! Huge shout out to Bobby Dean MP for rolling up his sleeves to campaign with us… and the amazing volunteers from near and far! 🙏🙏🙏

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Russia is NOT winning the war. They’ve barely moved over the 3 years. When Trump says Ukraine has no cards, he doesn’t understand the will of the people to retain sovereignty and defeat a foreign invader. Look at US in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. They didn’t have cards either…

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Ukraine minerals JV signed between US and Ukraine with equal Board members from both countries. Payback clause from previous Biden aide and other onerous restrictions removed. Looks better than the previous extortionate deal. youtu.be/g6CLlNfjoew?...

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Trump's 'failure' in Ukraine risks war with Russia 'in three years'

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Watching UK news coverage over the last 24 hours, one would think Farage's Reform party had taken over the Conservatives as the 2nd largest party in local government. In reality, Reform are 5th, coming some distance behind the Greens. Lib Dems gained over 160 Councillor seats… 370 total! 💛💛💛

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Can you identify the “Real Americans” vs Immigrants? Quick funny clip that makes a point. 😜 youtube.com/shorts/9SU41...

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Why This Billy on the Street Clip Still Hits Hard Today

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Bravo to Singapore’s new Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong, for his thoughtful insights and strategic global vision. His remarks were reminiscent of the past 80 years and hopeful of the future with a mix of empathy, humility, pragmatism and confidence. youtu.be/ZZbJbOA_uY8

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Singapore PM Full Speech | Lawrence Wong's Message To US Amid Trump's Tariff War With China

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Behold ye good people of the world… the 2025 Easter message from the President of the United States. 🇺🇸 (We’re so proud… 😜!)

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Good question by Dr. Fiona Hill regarding China’s involvement in the Ukraine war going forward now that US is siding with Putin. China was one of the largest investors in Ukraine and only a supported Russia as a proxy war against the US. youtu.be/O3KaFk1_QXI?...

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Fiona Hill and Lucian Kim, Unfair Triangle: Ukraine-U.S-Russia

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump just announced tariffs of 245% on Chinese imports, a dramatic escalation to the ongoing trade war. Might as well make it 1000% at this point as trade is definitely now dead between US and China. This is a childish move that does nothing to improve the global economy, stability or security.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Is Trump creating concentration camps in El Salvador? Trump told the President of El Salvador that he’s gonna need to build about 5 new prisons in El Salvador… because the “homegrown” criminals from US are next. Is that with or without due process?

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

How many MAGA loyalists does is take to change a lightbulb? None. Donald Trump tells them how amazing the new lightbulb is shining, while the MAGA loyalists applaud in the dark.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Economic security and national security are intertwined. By declaring a an ill-considered trade war on allies and adversaries alike, Trump is undermining the delicate balance of trade. I’d like to see UK, EU, Canada, Australia and NZ be more ambitious. Carney, Merz and Macron are leading the way.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is scary. Being ‘disappeared’ to an El Salvador prison without ANY due process is cruel and unjust. 75% of these men have no criminal record and several were cases of mistaken identity. Kristi Noem is using this to send a signal… it’s a slippery slope, America. youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw?...

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What records show about the migrants sent to Salvadoran mega-prison

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Stop trying to explain Trump’s strategy on tariffs. It’s just a power play. Trump is giving himself “cards” so that individuals, oligarchs, companies, states and countries will ‘kiss the ring’ and give some pro quo for tariff relief. Creating a global kleptocracy and system of patronage.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Loved this quote from an economist from JP Morgan: "The stock market cannot be bullied, intimidated, deported, 'primaried' in the next election, or otherwise censored...." So the stock and bond markets are serving as "the adults in the room"! :)

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

After seeing $6.6 trillion in stock market value wiped out, Trump walked back his erratic tariff policy with a "90-day pause" and implemented 10% global tariffs, 25% auto, and 25% aluminium/ steel... except China. China retaliated from 34% to 84% tariffs and Trump doubled down with 125% tariffs.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Our goal is to bring manufacturing jobs back to America! So let's be patient with Trump's trade war with Asia. With short-term sacrifice, our children could have this to look forward to - the good old days of textile manufacturing in the USA!!! Make America Great Again! youtu.be/9ozRXax8wTo?...

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Sweatshops and Home Work in the Dress Industry 1938 The Women's Bureau

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hardest hit markets are the US and Japan (-18%) and the least hit is China (-4%). That’s partly because China is not nearly as reliant upon the US as the US is reliant upon China. China has 1.3B population that doesn’t need to buy US goods. So China has an advantage in a trade war.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The stock market is the only thing willing to speak truth to power. 🤔 Next we’ll see inflation rise, global demand / GDP decline, profit margins squeezed, and jobs eliminated… ultimately stagflation.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Is Joe Rogan turning on Trump? Rogan (with 70M subscribers) was a major supporter in the ‘manosphere’, yet even Rogan finds snatching men off the street and shipping them to El Salvador without any due process (not even a single phone call to the spouse)… to be un-American. youtu.be/dBehCSOMhgY

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Why Joe Rogan Is DONE With Trump!

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

10% Tariffs on the Heard & McDonald Islands (which are only inhabited by Penguins)!

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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Trump does NOT have a mandate to shred our institutions. His margin of victory (pop vote + electoral college) is the third smallest since 1888. (Only JFK in '60 and Nixon in '68 were smaller.) If 238k votes in the blue wall states had been different, he would have lost. 49.8% vs 48.3% NOT a mandate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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MarkMan @madmanmark84.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"Russia shares a land border with 14 countries. Only one has constantly remained an independent democracy through WWII and Cold War, and that is Finland. History has taught us that Russia respects only strength, and resolve."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

💯 Couldn’t agree more! This comes 68 years after Strom Thurmond’s shameful record filibuster of 24 hours and 18 minutes in protest of the civil rights legislation in 1957. Delighted it was Cory Booker who beat this record!!! 💙

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Randy Fine (R) won the special election in Florida’s 6th district vs Josh Weil (D), 54% to 46%. This seat was vacated by Mike Waltz, now Trump’s national security adviser. Fine’s 8-point margin was notably narrower than Waltz’s previous 33-point win, despite the district’s deep Republican leanings.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

CNN has just called the Wisconsin Supreme Court election for Susan Crawford (liberal) 55.9% over Brad Schimel (cons) 44.1%.🥂 This race broke records for spending and voter turnout and became a proxy fight for the nation’s political battles. Trump backed Schimel, with Musk handing out $1M checks.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If Trump can run for a third term, can we have Obama run against him? Thank would be fun! 😜

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Wow, the US Fed is now expecting a nosedive in GDP: 8 weeks ago it was +3.9% 4 weeks ago it was 2.3% Last week it was -2.8% Today it stands at -3.7% Trump is driving the US into recession.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It’s telling that countries SEEK to join the EU and NATO (resulting in expansion of both)… while Putin must resort to coercive tactics and military invasion to expand. Perhaps Putin should make it more appealing to join the Russian family?

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Did you know that BlueSky started as a project at Twitter under Jack Dorsey with a vision to transforming the platform into an open protocol of the future? The idea is to give ownership and control to the user and enable customisation and portability. www.youtube.com/live/B7OwcXC...

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Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

How long can the MAGA crowd continue pointing the fingers of blame at the “deep state”… until they realise that they ARE the “deep state’?

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Wow! Investors are shifting funds from US equities into European equities at the highest rate since 1999! This is driven partly from an expected increase in EU defense spending from 1.9% to 3%. And due to Trump’s hostile posturing, EU will manufacture domestically rather than contracting with US.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Elon Musk blames the backlash against DOGE and the radical left for Tesla’s fall… but his problems are much bigger and global. Keep in mind 65% of Teslas are sold OUTSISE of the US, particularly to the Chinese, Europeans, Canadians, and Australians. 10 Reasons for the fall of Tesla (aka Musk):

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Powerful speech by Calum Miller MP @calummillerld.bsky.social regarding UK’s support of Ukraine, as well as the Lib Dem response to Trump and Vance’s dangerous rhetoric and reckless actions. Trump is an unreliable partner; UK and EU must be prepared to secure our own national defense.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’m a LOVER & a FIGHTER… vote Lib Dem! 💛💙❤️

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Laura McCracken @lauramccracken.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” China partly backed Russia as a proxy war against the US. Will be interesting to see how China plays the new geopolitical landscape now that Trump is cozying up to Putin and hostile to former friends. Will China successfully build ties with EU, UK & Canada?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just sell cars and love everyone!

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