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"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc. Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

A lot of folks have allowed their actual enemies to encourage them to view their allies as their imaginary enemies.

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this is my favorite kind of account. always show me posts from this kind of account

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I am wearing a “Protect Trans Kids” shirt and my companion is wearing a “Fight like Ukrainians” shirt and we have been getting comments on them everywhere we’ve gone today.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Some of you would do well to remember who the actual enemies are. #subtweet

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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We need *mass* mobilization in the U.S. right now, and I think that people who are somehow still focused on sneering at Perfidious Wine Mom Liberals are profoundly unserious

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

I hate this, all of it. And I hate living with all this hatred.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"Left wing," too. There are an awful lot of definitions of these terms, depending on who's speaking, who's listening, and who's confused.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Every time they cross a line without consequence, that is another line that ceases to exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am very very tired of watching members of Congress talk a big game and then do nothing. Put up or shut up.

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That's true, we shouldn't tolerate it. Which makes me wonder why ALL OF CONGRESS IS TOLERATING IT. You people, @booker.senate.gov, in the House and Senate - and not us, your constituents - have the tools to to end this. If you can't be bothered to use them we are lost. Gloves off or nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Keep telling me that you just can’t use your impeachment powers, House Democrats. The Constitution tells you exactly what to do in this situation. It even uses the word “shall,” to tell you that the procedure isn’t optional under these circumstances. @neguse.house.gov

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is end-of-the-republic language.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

My Senator being tackled and detained by Trump's gestapo. Full fascism. Full stop.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

See: Star Trek Voyager, Season 7, Episode 5, “Critical Care”

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DHS goons just manhandled and removed A DULY ELECTED UNITED STATES SENATOR from a DHS press conference. Things are degenerating, or if you prefer accelerating, fast

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In a time of bad news, this is the best news. Thank you, Mel Brooks!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The average X user has an opinion of Bluesky users formed by articles intent on portraying Bluesky in a negative light to those users.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

this is how you make sure you only get the biggest psychos onto the police force “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less lethal rounds and gas munitions through windows, gables, cameras, and at fleeing suspects?”

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Endorse all of this. Bluesky is great.

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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

submitted 2 days ago • 722 comments

I think I'm going to stay in Boulder for this Saturday's protest. I feel like things are less likely to get out of hand here, protesters less likely to do dumb shit. There's room for people to protest without blocking anything or being dumb in other ways. At least that's what I've seen previously.

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