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Ollie

@olliemeyer.bsky.social

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LFC YNWA 20🏆 Wrexham and Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NYR 🏒 Music and audio fanatic. Vinyl is king. 🎶 Love baking and cooking Love Lego

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Adam Smith @adamlsmith.bsky.social · 7h

Worth reading, but I think this is the key paragraph for me.

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“How do you replace somebody like Diogo? It’s not about the player himself, it’s the guy he was,” he said. “I can’t imagine the dressing room without him in it, that’s so hard. I still cannot speak properly about it. It was an incredible shock for all the boys as well. Nobody at Liverpool will ever use it as an excuse but it is the situation. You walk in a dressing room where he was omnipresent. Dealing with that on a personal level is not easy. Impossible.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2d

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

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Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 22h

I live on the states and my wife and kids are American but they love British food

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

No oxtail needs to be slow cooked or put in the pressure cooker for a good while. It will fall off the bone.

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

😆

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

I make those as well 😉

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Missed an open goal now

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

When you think we’ve hit rock bottom this season another void opens up.

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Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

I give up. What a shambles.

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

GO FOR THE THROAT

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Why for the love of god will we not go to the byline and cross it

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

No yellow for another bad tackle then?

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Another dive

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

We absolutely have to win this. Not good enough.

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Shocking shocking reffing

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow all day long. Oliver is a disgrace

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Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

We need to run at them more

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

This all to slow and predictable

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Jo @krugashlfc.bsky.social · 1d

That Amad kid just gets whatever he asks for from this ref doesn't he? Should have had a pen but he said no and that wasn't even out of play but he said it was.

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Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Happens in our box and he gives that without hesitation

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Got to play against 12 again

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Oliver’s head has gone

Ollie @olliemeyer.bsky.social · 1d

He was looking right at it