Le mot du jour

une motte de terre

[ mɔt də tɛʀ ]

a clod of earth

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L’expression du jour d’Alphonse tALK

être l’apanage de

[ ɛtʀ apanaʒ də ]

to be the prerogative/privilege of

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Les 4 fautes

Pouvez-vous m’aider à corriger les quatre fautes dans ma phrase ?

Can you help me correct the four mistakes in my sentence?

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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

One day you're living in a constitutional republic, the next day the president is calling for the arrest of governors and mayors

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee threatens rural schools and hospitals reliant on immigrant workers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The Oregon GOP just got caught using fake protest photos to make Portland look like it’s on fire. Their post about Trump sending National Guard troops featured stock and foreign images, not Oregon, not even America.

Manufactured chaos, wrapped in a lie to rile their base.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

"Any honest writer,journalist,or historian in Russia must always be ready for prison"

Russian food historian Pavel Syutkin was detained today on charges of allegedly spreading "false information about the army."Moscow's branch of the Investigative Committee said the reason was his posts on Telegram

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mob Boss Politics 101: Deploying the National Guard to yet another an American city and then threatening to jail your political opponents.

This isn’t keeping us safe. We have to reject Trump’s mob boss tactics of threats and intimidation.

‘Industries’, which rely on theft, are better known as criminal concerns. Fortunately this form of lawlessness is illegal in the EU. Companies indulging in it should be putting many billions aside for the fines. Copyright theft is illegal & artists’ bodies are tracking it.

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/tuc-...

I would be opposed to mass deportations however they were done, but I think the extreme violence ICE & DHS more broadly are using is totally unnecessary to the goal of radically increasing deportations. The goal is to scare the hell out of people and make Trump look "strong"

Had my flu jab today! 💉

We are now entering the flu season and it’s really important that those eligible get their jabs.

In particular, if you work in Health or Social Care, please ensure that you do this to protect yourself and the people you care for.

phw.nhs.wales/topics/immun...

Former Tanzanian ambassador and outspoken government critic Humphrey Polepole has been abducted by unknown individuals, his family says. https://bbc.in/4mVyQrG

Tanzania should put a stop to deepening repression of media and government critics.

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

"Bondi’s contemptuousness was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us.

Refusal to even entertain the questions of committee Democrats should have been cause for bipartisan scandal. But committee Republicans seemed perfectly uninterested..."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Yes, everyone lived in houses like this, although mainly because they had an iron camp bed in the basement for their hour off when not cleaning aristocratic shit out of the bed pans.

Reading a book on Auschwitz and Nazis and just came across a bit discussing how the Nazis first planned to ship millions of Jews to Africa and how that idea, in 2004 when the book was written, seems 'far fetched today'.

20 years later, how many people did the Tories want to send to Rwanda?