Potter Wickware

novelist; science writer (Pathology Dept UCSF); Alaska memoirist; ex-pipeline welder; cell biology; honeybees; parasites; UC Berkeley, SF State

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stanch a hemorrhage; staunch-hearted men

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@BunkongTuon what is CNF?

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@steve_hanke oh just go away

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@steve_hanke why don't you go away Steve

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July 4, 2023
“Separate and equal.” Tom Jefferson’s 1776 phrase in the ringing language of the Declaration's opening lines was co-opted and transmogrified by the segregationists in the language of the 1896 Plessy-Ferguson decision to justify the separation of the races in the US.

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@RobertKennedyJr oh shut up

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@paulkrugman ?

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@MilenaMayorga como esperas

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@bowlga But your example is not conditional; conditional is "if --- then" eg, If he gives me a ride I would be grateful. "I would be " is the conditional clause.

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@bowlga it's an example of the somewhat rare (in English) and beginning to disappear subjunctive mood. If hypothetical/unlikely say were; if actual/likely say was. If I were you; be that as it may ...

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Billionaires captured the court, just like 19th-century railroad barons captured the railroad commission that set their rates.

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The problem is not that the Supreme Court is just conservative. The problem is that it is corrupt.

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We must restore justice and balance to the rogue, radical Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court is a cesspool of corruption devastating our communities.

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@Meg_Ringler @HillaryClinton phase ≠ faze

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@marcorubio @nayibbukele police state down there Marco

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@steve_hanke what's yer point Steve?

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@davidcinema Apolyptico, Mel Gibson

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@steve_hanke you're so wrong steve

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@steve_hanke wrong again Steve