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Ann A

@asburand3.bsky.social

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Financial analyst with strong interest in politics/geopolitics. Here to support Ukraine and all democracies. Free time: reading (📚📚📚), foreign languages (currently Italian and Ukrainian), baking, knitting, walking/running/hiking, cycling. #NAFO #Fella

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

⭐️ If you have served in your country’s military, or have worked or volunteered with people in the armed forces and are fluent in English AND would like to help Ukrainian 🇺🇦defenders practice English...

PLEASE see below and contact [email protected] about ENGin for Defenders.
Слава Україні!

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 5h

You are likely correct!

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! But at least he's showing up now, publicly, and not cowering on a U.S. military base like Rubio

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 6h

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JohnYaya @johnyaya.bsky.social · 6h

I just wish the media would behave like journalists rather than propagandists and doormats

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is an inveterate liar.

How a Billionaire Felon Boosted Trump’s Crypto Company en Route to a Pardon

Binance facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the administration.

www.wsj.com

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 9h

Wow. I would have said Renoir on this one - I've never heard of De Nittis. Every day I am more aware of my ignorance! 🧐

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

My question, too!

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

This was really interesting. Glad to see states other than California are working on it; they have to act fast, though

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

A number of government websites have a line blaming the Democrats - I've seen it on the Medicare site. And look what's on the U.S. Treasury site! 👇 It's really unbelievable.

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

We just renovated our kitchen and I felt like baking a cake today. Still figuring out the new oven.

Tried plant-based cream for the first time, too. Tasty! (Not that I licked the bowl or anything).

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

I like it. DST is awful (for me personally)

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

Ukraine right now

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

Blowing up unconfirmed "drug boats," paying $40 million to influence Argentina's election, and starving Americans is now U.S. public policy.

Please. Interfere.

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

Very unhappy news.
I truly hate russia and russians. And I don't feel the least bit bad about saying it. The video Tim just published (with the dog) shows that cruelty is the norm in their culture rather than the exception.

Make russia small again. Make them pariahs.

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, I am now certain enough to publish that Russia now controls territory in central Pokrovsk.

Syrskyi says he has been there to control the situation too - but the claims of stabilisation look like fantasy.

Founder of the Come Back Alive charity says Ukraine has to retreat, urgently.

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

I shouldn't have watched that.

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

I saved this article from someone's post as TBR. Well, now I've read it - and it's excellent.

Anyone in the US who opposes the Trump/Republican authoritarian onslaught: please read and take note.

See what @governor.ca.gov is doing - let's ALL push back.

Why Democrats Still Play “Normal” — A Guest Post By Matthew Pearce

To create a democratic immune system, NAFO founding member Matthew Pearce does a proper deep dive on the Opposition Dilemma, Newsom, NAFO, and why Democrats must abandon the slow lane

www.bettedangerous.com

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday morning tenner for Zura and the guys 🛻

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Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social · 1d

Overnight, 🇺🇦Ukrainian attack drones conducted a major strike on russia’s Tuapse Black Sea oil export terminal, setting the facility, and 2 tankers onboarding russian oil, ablaze.

Source: x.com/Osinttechnic...

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

What an absolute piece of sewage. May he rot in this life and the next.

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

A friend gave me Orbital for my birthday. It's sitting in the pile on my nightstand. Maybe I should reposition!

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

Behold the il-literati.

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a "boomer" - we have discussed among our friends that the U.S. is losing its collective memory of WWII and its atrocities, as well as its sense of responsibility for preserving democratic institutions both here and abroad. It is a huge problem.

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

Boost!
Help requested to get charging stations for 4 brigades and much-needed car repair.

Bit by bit: $685 needed by 2.11

Drobotun Vitalii @drobotunv.bsky.social · 2d

🚨UPDATE | 01.11 | ONLY 2 DASY LEFT

The charging station and fixing car for Lyut are very needed by the end of this week! Heeelp🙏

Buy patches - one is $150 for saving lives!

✅Raised: $1305
🚨To go by 02.11: $695
🙏To go: $4495

📌Ways to donate on the photo or my pinned post

#donatetoukraine #nafo

Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a little

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Ann A @asburand3.bsky.social · 3d

🇺🇦 💪

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