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Laura Friedrich Merton

@worldlady.bsky.social
3.6K followers 1.1K following 1.6K posts

🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 +! 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 · 06/10/2026
This guy is sick
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is great . Wish we’d been friends 40+ years ago. Never had anyone - brother or friend - stick up for me when I got sexually bullied at school. Glad to know things might have changed.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. Self-deception, credulity, and charlatanism are somehow linked together.
—Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism Nº 83 (1955)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All this is obvious, true and but for a couple of very brave pieces in WSJ, not reported or discussed in US corporate media, which are afraid of him.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funny not funny
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let this be the pre-October surprise that wipes out DT’s October surprise
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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 · 08/09/2026
In other words JD’s real religious and moral leader is an obscenely rich selfish atheist megalomaniac crackpot. Make Excommunication Great Again!
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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 · 10/08/2026
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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
Poor girl, my sympathies. The system was set up to be hard for girls in the 70s and 80s too, but at least there was no Andrew Tate.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
😁 and why am I suddenly glad not to be young anymore?
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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
Will do. It might take a while though - I have quite a pile!
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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 · 21/07/2026
Because I’ll lose the job God gave me.
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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
According to CNN - it’s only the naughty Iranians doing this.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please, oh please…
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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
He likes drugs.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Send a damn thank-you message
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
😂
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Omg 😱
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why am I not surprised at how maga-y he looks?
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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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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