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lara3000.bsky.social
@lara3000.bsky.social
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A 🇺🇸 expat living in England with my spouse who is 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 (in order of receipt). Retired from corporate life, micropreneur, cheering on 🇺🇸 resisters from across the pond.
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
lara3000.bsky.social
Here’s your good news for the day …

Jake Tapper Tapped Out: Anti-Biden Book First Week Sales A Bust After Non Stop CNN Shilling - Showbiz411
Jake Tapper Tapped Out: Anti-Biden Book First Week Sales A Bust After Non Stop CNN Shilling - Showbiz411
*************EXCLUSIVE********* Jake Tapper has been yapping about Joe Biden for two solid weeks. CNN has allowed him to excoriate Biden 24/7, carrying on incessantly with few quoted sources that Bide...
www.showbiz411.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
open chart, keep scrolling down

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
May 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge

Day 4:
May 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
These headlines kill me … how can a journal as respected as the Economist intimate that tRumps reluctance to sanction Putin is “strange”. It is his friggin calling card.

Donald Trump’s strange reluctance to get tough with Putin
economist.com/europe/2025/...
from The Economist
Donald Trump’s strange reluctance to get tough with Putin
America’s president shies away from sanctions on Russia, and opts for more talks
economist.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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dailybeanspod.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Excellent first step.

The Britain-EU deal is welcome, but just a start
economist.com/britain/2025...
from The Economist
The Britain-EU deal is welcome, but just a start
The process of rejigging the relationship will be a long one
economist.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
This has been going on for several years. Every time I have reported it to Meta, I got a “no problem here” response. One of the reasons (among many) I dropped all my meta accounts.

www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...
Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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nytimes.com
Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.

Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma
ALT: A large, framed, yellowing document. Text reads: "Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original." Photo credit: Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School
May 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
lara3000.bsky.social
American exceptionalism 🤭
Chart with life expectancy at birth in US vs other countries from 1980 to 2024 (US performs poorly).
May 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Worth watching.

Trump trying to shame Secretary Clinton to return $1million gift from Qatar to Clinton Foundation.

Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
May 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
In Starmers attempt to look like Farage – he is pillaging the people who will ultimately help this island of aging people survive.

#ukimmigration
May 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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maidmerry.bsky.social
In case you ever think your single vote doesn't matter...
May 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
lara3000.bsky.social
There is a reason why the steel industry in the UK is on life support. Having a trade agreement that includes steel is next to worthless

This is clutching at straws.

One should focus more on the EU than the US dump-you-in-a-NY-minute regime.
May 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
This preferable to the EU?

Seriously?

A deal with a country that has torn up every trade deal they have over the last 2 months and thrown the world into economic chaos?

This is the best you can do 🇬🇧

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to make statement on US trade talks after reports of deal
No 10 says prime minister will give update later after Donald Trump said he was ready to announce ‘major trade deal’
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
lara3000.bsky.social
This ongoing picking on other country’s industries, in order to destroy everything, is getting ridiculous.
Trump film tariffs to be part of UK-US trade talks
It comes as moviemakers worry the UK's thriving film industry could be hit by the new tariff threat.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Perfect clap back from Germany...
From the GermanCitizenship community on Reddit: What a clap back from Germany.
Posted by Ice_Ice11 - 4,898 votes and 329 comments
www.reddit.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Off to the big city today to take my UK citizenship test 🤓

Wish me luck 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧
May 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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goodboy.bsky.social
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions. "What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
64 times around the sun today

24 year survivor of ovarian cancer

So happy to still be here —
April 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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elsa-meowse.bsky.social
Applause at the Pope's funeral could only be inspired by an extraordinary person. It was.
Photo of Zelensky and his quote about uniting the whole world
April 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge

Day 3:
Book cover for Exodus by Leon Uris
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥 Wow — attorneys with Donati Law just withdrew from the Tennessee Bar Association after 40 years because of the TBA’s silence in the face of Trump’s “full-blown assault on the rule of law”
April 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
lara3000.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

Day 2:
April 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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shashj.bsky.social
Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM