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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 6h

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 6h

If the SCOTUS back Trump's tariffs, effectively putting the cart before the horse by patching the law to match Trump's actions, how long before he tries setting interest rates?

There's no saying Trump 'can't do' anything he wants anymore. Even SCOTUS must know they'll suffer if they cross him.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting exchange in the comments about a broken defence weakening the attack. Very much believed that last season, and also the reverse - a failing attack weakening the defence, given that Angeball failed when they couldn't press.

Notable that Van de Ven is joint top scorer at the moment!

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 7h

Love how he clinged to the words "clearly" and "obviously" as if they would magically strengthen his excuses.

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 22h

Joint top-scoring team in the league. Unreal, given the concerns about our attack.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 1d

I think Palinha/Bentancur (P/B?) could work quite well today in spoiling Grealish's game. Unless P simply gifts them a lot of free kicks. Oh, as well as gifting Grealish space to shoot from the edge of the box, ofc 🙄

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 2d

If it wasn't for opposition coming out in greater numbers, he'd have been #46 too.

Evil and incompetence do not preclude success.

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 2d

Remember how awful Trump was as #45? Totally incompetent - couldn't do anything right, played more golf than Rory McIlroy, obviously corrupt and killed a lot of people through constant vaccine hesitency and promotion of quack treatment.

As a result, more people voted Republican in 2020 than ever.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no; sorry old chap but the gnome look fits you perfectly. You're gnome-grown.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

"Fosters: Australian for underage drinking"

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Was this what they were so busy with, before they could find time to declare an emergency in Alaska and send FEMA?

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

I guess the most important thing here is that Lam has propelled herself into the Tory leadership race, and the right-wing leadership race. She exemplifies the 'Nasty Party' both in name and intent - she wants them to be nasty. Nasty is her policy offering.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Great read. I've been saying "where d'ya think all the militia have gone?" and this article is the first I've read that offers the answer - ICE.

If I was a journo, I'd be on LinkedIn to see if known militia types have switched jobs to government this year.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Can't believe 30 years have passed since Northern Lights. We've grown older faster than Lyra.

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

One other book to read and then..

...deep, deep joy.

#BookOfDust

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

A better way to stop Farage would be to curtail the MSM organs that happily spread his lies, unquestioned. Do something about off-shore ownership too.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but if you can't pass - run with it! Sarr and Bergvall can do it. I don't like seeing the ball go out to the wings when you just *know* that 50%+ of the time, the ball will get held up and then recycled back to strolling midfielders.

We're predictable. I want some chaos & disruption.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

And yet, the wings seem to prefer to play back to the centre (Xavi) rather than get those crosses in. Those crosses (usually) only come in if the CBs are up for them, as they do for all the setpiece plays.

Monoco showed how I'd like to see Spurs play - runs and 1-2s into the box, finished by BJ!

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

It's annoying. Ange. Ange. Ange. Desperate to get rid of him, but now can't stop referring to him. Worse still, rubbishing the trophy as a fluke or luck.

Can't really be a Spurs fan if you were desperate to win a trophy and now think nothing of one of the most valuable trophies in club football.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

"We'd prepared a ReformUK guest lineup, so here they all are anyway. Other parties? We've heard of them."

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

This series and the last (3rd) series, I've expected to be bored and unsurprised and to be dumping it in short order. Nope. Drawn in, each time.

Try watching the first two eps of the last series and no more, to see what I mean. One of the traitors is a delight. (As is one of the celeb traitors now)

Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Best way to watch it is on iPlayer. There is a lot of filler to skip, including all the naff 'mood-setting' filler and Claudia's filler-to-camera stuff. Some 'triggers' (often red herrings) are found in tasks e.g. shield speculation. Fairly easy to watch in half the actual runtime.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Valuable as ever.

Good to know that Trump's vacillations are as head-spinning to Russian commentators as they are to everyone in the West. One thing they agree on: heads will spin again.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

It was a great exercise in planning for complete unknowns, assessing the plausibility of disaster scenarios etc.

A bit like Covid response, I think many people would now dismiss this sort of work as a waste of time, assuming that problems would somehow fix themselves, AKA winging it.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦 @clarissaoakes.bsky.social · 3d

Terrific (but grim) summation of the depth to which the US had plunged, with hints of how much further there is to go. Well worth a read.

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