BabelBrunning
@ribblebabel.bsky.social
Antifascist, Librarian, European, Environmentalist, & as Woke as a Wokey thing. Dr of an argumentative persuasion who knows how to use an Oxford comma, rather than the useful, life-saving kind. Trying not to be so sweary but it's effing difficult. 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇺🌈🏳️⚧️🖤💚🏴☠️
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Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK
TV host who came under pressure from Trump government will say: ‘From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Cancelled US comedian Jimmy Kimmel to deliver Christmas message to UK www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Nearly all the victims are seniors — the oldest, an 89 year old woman.
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
December 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nearly all the victims are seniors — the oldest, an 89 year old woman.
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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ICYMI — thousands protested ICE in MINNEAPOLIS…
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ICYMI — thousands protested ICE in MINNEAPOLIS…
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A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.
December 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A win! Thanks to everyone who spoke out. Following public backlash, Mike Lee backtracked on the National Parks proposal, which would have rescinded legislation protecting national parks and maintaining their boundaries as federal lands.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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After years of investigations.
‼️ NATO secretary general considers Putin main obstacle to peace
NATO secretary general considers Putin main obstacle to peace
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said he considers Russian leader Vladimir Putin the main reason why the Russo-Ukrainian war has continued to this day.
www.pravda.com.ua
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
After years of investigations.
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English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Video Published by James O’Keefe
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was secretly recorded discussing the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein in a video published by James O'Keefe.
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember this?
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.”
Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.”
www.mediaite.com/politics/att...
This.
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any gov’t to say who those rights should & should not apply to. If that happens than none of us has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should & should not apply to. Because none of us then has rights, just privileges that can be taken away by those in power
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This.
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Facing an economic spiral and depleted conventional forces, Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation
2025 offered the most generous potential off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. He rejected it.
www.rusi.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Facing an economic spiral and depleted conventional forces, Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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Every move Farage makes is straight out of the Trump/Bannon playbook. He has been well schooled by them.
December 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Every move Farage makes is straight out of the Trump/Bannon playbook. He has been well schooled by them.
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Slava Ukraini 💙🇺🇦💛
The Odesa region and southern Ukraine were hit especially hard. This is an unprecedented number of air targets in a single week.
The terrorist state must pay for its bloody crimes. Help protect the sky over Ukraine:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
The terrorist state must pay for its bloody crimes. Help protect the sky over Ukraine:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Slava Ukraini 💙🇺🇦💛
And on a different note, this is fantastic news to millions of people who have liver disease, which, more often than not, eventually deteriorates to the point of liver-transplant-or-goodbye: NHS to trial potentially life-saving treatment for deadly liver disease www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS to trial potentially life-saving treatment for deadly liver disease
Acute-on-chronic liver failure will be treated with device that cleans patients’ blood corrupted by toxins
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
And on a different note, this is fantastic news to millions of people who have liver disease, which, more often than not, eventually deteriorates to the point of liver-transplant-or-goodbye: NHS to trial potentially life-saving treatment for deadly liver disease www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Fuksake. This is appalling. Another huge step for Big Brother.
Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fuksake. This is appalling. Another huge step for Big Brother.
Here's one: 🖕
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Here's one: 🖕
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Leaving Erasmus 'destroyed and undermined' key relationships in the academic world. It was a ridiculous thing to opt out of the scheme and I'm glad we'll be re-joining it."
#BrexitCarnage
metro.co.uk/2025/12/17/b...
#BrexitCarnage
metro.co.uk/2025/12/17/b...
Erasmus is back - but what made it so good?
Gen Zers are looking forward to 'having the time of their lives' again
metro.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Leaving Erasmus 'destroyed and undermined' key relationships in the academic world. It was a ridiculous thing to opt out of the scheme and I'm glad we'll be re-joining it."
#BrexitCarnage
metro.co.uk/2025/12/17/b...
#BrexitCarnage
metro.co.uk/2025/12/17/b...
Russia cannot be allowed 1 inch of sovereign Ukraine soil. Their wanton murder needs to be stopped, not rewarded. We can also help: u24.gov.ua
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Russia cannot be allowed 1 inch of sovereign Ukraine soil. Their wanton murder needs to be stopped, not rewarded. We can also help: u24.gov.ua
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
I urge all trans allies to please email your MP using the link below. It takes just a minute. Thank you.
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I urge all trans allies to please email your MP using the link below. It takes just a minute. Thank you.
Oh my God. We have our own RFKJnr. Ignorant, wilful, deliberately destructive stupidity: the new science.
For those of you who might not be aware Farage is part of the group AWH - Action on World Health. Populists must stop interfering in Science.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
WHO accuses Nigel Farage of spreading misinformation about pandemic treaty
Draft deal aims to improve global cooperation against outbreaks as rightwingers deny they are making false claims UK will lose decision-making powers
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Oh my God. We have our own RFKJnr. Ignorant, wilful, deliberately destructive stupidity: the new science.
FFS. This is effectively the State-sanctioned murder of millions of US children.
"just protecting children"
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
FFS. This is effectively the State-sanctioned murder of millions of US children.