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Posts by BabelBrunning
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
"For every day of this conflict, $2bn is being spent. My entire target for a hyper-prioritised plan to save 87 million lives is $23bn. We could have funded that in less than a fortnight of this reckless war." Tom Fletcher, head of the UN’s humanitarian agency: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The continued easing of sanctions against Russia does not reflect the real situation in the war or in diplomacy and fuels the Russian leadership’s illusion that they can continue the war.
This week alone, Russians launched 2,360 drones, 1,320 bombs, and 60 missiles.
Oh yeah.
It’s here.
Limited copies available to order.
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#graphicnovel #longcovidkids #resources #longcovid
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
'Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?' Looks like the bodies and those who enslaved them are being swept under the carpet - Harvad literally whitewashing their historic profiting from slavery? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
Life comes at you fast
Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.
Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month
I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.
I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when
MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?
These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes
It's definitely not just you.
Well, duh. But worth saying. | Reeves tells Americans Trump’s Iran war is a ‘mistake’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.
Reform are Gilead. Do not let them in. 'Labour claims Reform UK won’t protect women': www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
@uklabour.bsky.social @uklabourparty.bsky.social "needs to think hard about what its priorities are and where we need to change and put extra emphasis." Yes please! | Group of Labour MPs proposes new policies to beat rightwing populism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Funny how Nigel Farage loves to call out
what he considers 'failures' in public life
but never mentions
- Reform policies like scrap ECHR fact-checked into oblivion
- Reform councillors kicked out for racism
- Reform councils near bankrupt
- Reform ex-Tory MPs having learnt no lessons
Tomorrow marks 3 years of senseless war in Sudan.
A country torn apart by greed & violence. Exposed by failure & apathy from international community.
34m people - two thirds - need humanitarian aid: world's largest humanitarian crisis.
My statement: bit.ly/4mqjIUi
Trump's Truth Social post image depicting himself as Jesus.
Trump posted this image on his TS before deleting it. There are no words 😳
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart
BOOM!
South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less.
THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis.
#EnergyRevolution
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
He’s a wanker. Loathed and despised despite all the combined efforts of the mainstream media to normalise his little england fascism. The closer he gets to power the more Farage will be hated
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Yes! 'Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power' www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Some of the many hundreds of Lebanese civilians killed in the U.S.-backed Israeli bombing of Lebanon in recent weeks.
While we still have rights....