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Laura Friedrich Merton

@worldlady.bsky.social
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🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 +! Writing a book about my Topgun Vietnam fighter pilot dad, and my mother coping on her own in California. And how the Vietnam war forever messed with the USA. Including what’s happening now.

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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So grateful for Canadian leadership - and sanity
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ooh interesting twist Junior
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes. True. What has happened to us? We can’t blame machines.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Beth [REDACTED]!! @realbeth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is awesome!! youtube.com/shorts/zYk2F...
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There is usually a floor, but this dipshit found the basement.
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🧠 Great Peter Thiel primer for anyone out of the loop or hasn’t connected the JD Vance dots together yet.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes our oafish Ontario premier comes up with the right words.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Would love this.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Stand with Canada
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Commies - it’s so 1960s, this phony throwback, only now people don’t know what it means.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And low birth rate
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026
++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Interesting… 😳
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/07/2026
Mad call I it, for to define true madness, What is’t but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Really interesting. Just bought the book - from Blackwell’s, not the other place 😁
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/07/2026
Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
These creeps sum up the problem in the GOP and all its misogynistic supporters.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’ve just been writing about my naval aviator father, assigned to educate sailors how to behave like gentleman ambassadors of the US on port calls during the Vietnam War. These people would literally make him sick.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Don’t know what’s worse, the lies or the stupidity.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
😱
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Omg 😱
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Most Americans are still unaware of the fact that the only Trumps who fought in World War II fought for the Wehrmacht. But Trump knows this. And it shapes his perception of the world. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Only the other day someone told me they didn’t like Farage but they’d vote for Reform “just to shake things up”. No thanks, shaken up enough already
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.
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Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN
Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican’s concerns could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained wh...
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Teddy Roosevelt, maga hero - because they don’t know beyond the first line
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Unfortunately, true, thanks Melville
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Interesting post, interesting comments.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s true - so many American friends stuck in some corner of right-wing agenda ignorance, repeating scripts to do with a tiny fraction of the issues we face.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My school took me to see 1776 at Radio City Music Hall, and I haven’t watched it since. Now I know what I’ll be doing next weekend.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Fascinating but tragic thread.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Not forgetting this atrocity…
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A lamentable reversal of patterns… Wish we could have Carney back but he seems to be busy.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Larry for PM. He’s done a great job.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Fascinating
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I made Reflecting Pool Soup last night. Dee-lish
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
😱 Really worth a look. This is where we are.
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