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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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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

This. Is. Fascism.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 5h

Well, bloody HURRAH! Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan

Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

www.theguardian.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 1d

Joining the Republican Party in 2025 remains the most enticing prospect for people who strive to say extremely racist shit in a zero consequence environment www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 1d

Blatant murder.

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Cuchulainn @cuchulainn999.bsky.social · 1d

Pedophilius' stats read like his INDICTMENTS!

Wax Chicken @waxchicken.bsky.social · May 25

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 1d

A certain ignorant writer won't be listening, but "debate about violence against women, framed in a way that restricts the human rights...of trans people, risks undermining the comprehensive, evidence-based approach needed". Cis men do this shit, not trans people. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

Council of Europe commissioner voices concerns after April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman

www.theguardian.com

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 2d

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 2d

#SavingSight: we’re launching a fundraiser to help Ukrainians recover their eyesight❤️‍🩹

Our goal is $1,500,000 for 6 sets of ophthalmic equipment, each serving as a doctor's eye and hand, working together.

Let's help people experience the world’s beauty again:
u24.gov.ua/saving-sight...

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Sky @skylara.bsky.social · 2d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 2d

This shite is barrelling towards us. We must call out Reform on every level, every single day.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

So, Reform would rocket-boost austerity, slash welfare *but not taxes*, cancel net zero progress, do mass deportations, huff out of the ECHR (torching the Brexit deal and our human rights)…
And to top it all off, there’d be this gem of US-funded christofascist authoritarianism on offer too.
Grim AF.

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2d

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 2d

Wtf???? 🐧☹️ act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 2d

HE…IS…THIRTEEN

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

preferred pronouns are still me/my/mine

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

It is taking the PIP. My son got 0 the first time we applied. We pointed out in the appeal they'd actually ignored ALL of the medical evidence. He got it on appeal. The system is set up to refuse you. And for info, that the process itself makes you ill is telling. Use your worst day as baseline.

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

If you know anyone refused the COVID vaccine or if you just care about the clinically vulnerable being refused a simple vaccine that could save their health if not their life, please email your MP. Thank you.

Liz Meddings @lzmddings.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve written to my MP. Please consider writing to yours to extend the covid 19 booster to all who get the flu vaccine, as per previous years.

Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for your urgent support! 🙏

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

We all knew the Brexit project was intended to ruin Britain, and weaken Europe, so absolutely no surprises here.

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 3d

“a major figure in the Brexit movement will now go to jail for accepting bribes for acting as an agent of influence for Russian interests.” #ReformRussianBribes national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...

The Lead Untangles: The Reform leader’s Russian influence scandal

Not unreported, but certainly not given much spotlight, what do the Russian bribes taken by a former Reform UK leader tell us?

national.thelead.uk

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 8d

The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

This. Is. Fascism.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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Trans Woman Support @tws-website.com · 3d

This regime is dangerous

#riseup #standup #resist #revolt #respect #support #change #together #love #nomorehate #transgender #lgbtqiap2s

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BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely worse. Who'd have thought we'd get worse than Tories knocking at Number 10.

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Take heed, and make sure it's pointed out all the time. All. The. Time. #Farage=TrumpDOGE

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 3d

Reform doesn’t have many policies. But it has one :

to cut public spending by £274bn.

That’s more than five times Liz Truss's unfunded tax measures.

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

Slava Ukraine 💙🇺🇦💛

Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 3d

Some things remain clearly visible — with or without electricity.

BabelBrunning @ribblebabel.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. And for good measure, the autumn vaccination season is allowing even fewer people to have a booster as they've "tightened the rules". Absolutely appalling, and if it's intended to save the NHS money, some idiot needs to compare the cost of vaccination with hospital beds (let alone sick leave).

Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 3d

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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 5d

The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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