Carol Russell

TV writer, traditional storyteller and consultant. Enjoy telling tales. Love watching tv, talking about it and good company. she/her

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

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A man with *STAGE 4* Incurable Brain Tumour is being forced to move onto the 15th floor of a Tower block or make himself intentionally homeless.

He has mobility issues from chemo and his doctors have previously written to Thurrock council.

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

@cind3rella1213 @allenanalysis No one’s going now. Price of tickets and hotels too expensive.

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

I’m screaming!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

He's actually better than the best models in the world.

[Carla Vidal @Oceanlvr13]

@IRanMediaco "On the verge...?"

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

I’m not saying one is better cos male gymnastics seems to be more about demonstrating strength and women’s seems to be about demonstrating strength that is hidden by flexibility and elegance. Interesting!

[Shweta @Shhhwetta]

@usanewshq Male gymnasts attempting women’s gymnastics

[Nature & Animals🌴 @naturelife_ok]

Little Black girl taps into her magic /& guides a seal into performing tricks for her! 🐬🤣

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump cronies were just busted putting $1.5 BILLION stock market bets right before key Trump announcement in jaw-dropping show of corruption!

A massive and highly unusual trade hit the futures market just five minutes before Donald Trump posted that he was suspending strikes on Iranian power plants.
In one coordinated move, someone bought $1.5 billion worth of S&P 500 futures contracts, while simultaneously selling $192 million in oil futures.

A futures bet is essentially a high-stakes wager on where the market is headed. These orders were four to six times larger than anything else trading at that exact moment, and the trader appears to have made enormous profits when markets surged on Trump’s announcement.

Sen. Chris Murphy immediately called it out: “$1.5 BILLION. Let me say it again — a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures purchases made at the time. Five minutes before Trump’s post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House staffer? This is corruption. Mind-blowing corruption.”

This comes as Trump has repeatedly used his Truth Social posts to move markets, and his administration has faced accusations of benefiting insiders while ordinary Americans suffer from the war’s economic fallout: gas prices surging, wild stock swings, and the Strait of Hormuz laden with mines and buzzing with drones.

If a $1.5 billion bet placed just minutes before Trump’s Iran announcement smells like insider trading and corruption to you, like and share to demand answers.

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

@RealPLankford @FurkanGozukara Not until he’s served his sentence for being a pedo!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Congressman Gomez just put Tulsi Gabbard in a corner she couldn’t escape.
The exchange:

“Last year you testified Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by that?”

Gabbard dodged. Gomez reclaimed his time.

“Trump said you were wrong. Were you lying or not?”

“I stand by the intelligence community’s complete assessment.”

“Were they weeks away from a nuclear weapon — yes or no?”

Gabbard dodged again.

Gomez: “Why do you even have a job? Why do you even advise them?”

Then the kill shot:

“You’re saying the President can declare any country an imminent threat — China tomorrow if he wants — and act regardless of what the intelligence says?”
Ratcliffe: “The president is commander in chief.”

Gomez: “So what’s the point of intelligence?”

18 agencies confirmed Iran had no nuclear capacity.

Israel said ten bombs in two weeks.
Trump chose Israel.

Gabbard couldn’t say Iran was weeks away.

Ratcliffe confirmed the president can ignore intelligence entirely.

Joe Kent resigned over it.

They just said the quiet part out loud under oath.

The president can start any war he wants.
Intelligence is optional.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

@SamanthaTaghoy Less than 5% of Britons go to church & most of those are of African & African Caribbean heritage. White Britain is a Christian nation in name only. Their churches are empty. They don’t know or care about why they eat chocolate eggs till they’re sick. So don’t waste your outrage.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wholesome moment.

Mom giving her daughter one of the best experiences — memories that last forever, not just a day.

[Carol Russell @Voices4Real]

Unlike our pathetic excuse of a Prime Minister.
#KeirStarmerIsTrumpsBitch

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : Italian 🇮🇹 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has given shock to US & Israel

"Italy will withdraw the army from US led adventure in Middle East and will not participate in the war against Iran" 🔥

Leaders with spine and courage are standing for humanity. Mad Respect 🫡

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

The tragedy of this moment is not simply that a Supreme Court justice is defending a powerful political ally. The tragedy is that a man who sits in a seat once occupied by Thorogood Marshall, one of the greatest champions of civil rights, has always used that power to undermine the very freedoms that made his own ascent possible.

The resemblance between Uncle Ruckus, a fictional, satirical, anti-Black character from ‘The Boondocks,’ who believes he is a white man suffering from "revitiligo," and Clarence Thomas is painfully familiar: a man so eager to defend the very systems that harm his own people that he becomes their most enthusiastic spokesperson, echoing white supremacist talking points while dismissing the lived realities of the community he comes from.

Uncle Thomas sits where a legal giant once sat, a man who argued for the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act and devoted his life to expanding democracy for people who had been locked out of it. The legacy of Thurgood Marshall was built through sacrifice, courage, and the blood, sweat, and tears of generations who fought segregation, voter suppression, and white supremacy.

Yet time and again, Thomas has positioned himself on the opposite side of that struggle.

In my view, he has been one of the most dangerous Black figures in modern American politics since the day he was confirmed, not because he holds conservative views, but because his judicial philosophy has repeatedly aligned with efforts to dismantle civil rights protections, weaken voting rights, and roll back the legal gains our ancestors fought and died to secure.

History is filled with painful archetypes. Thomas‘ career is eerily reminiscent of the loyal servant who protects the master’s house even when it burns the village around him. The character Stephen in ‘Django Unchained’ captured that tragic role perfectly: fiercely protective of a system that was never designed for his freedom.

What makes this moment so bitter is the contrast. The seat once used to expand justice has been used for the past three decades to shrink it.

And when a Black man uses one of the most powerful legal positions in the nation to rationalize the erosion of the very rights that lifted generations of Black Americans toward equality, the criticism should not be muted.

It should be brutally honest.

Clarence Thomas has betrayed the struggle of Black people. He’s been a defender of white supremacy, an enabler of injustice, an apologist for oppression, a turncoat on civil rights, a beneficiary of the movement he now undermines, and a man who was helped up the ladder and pulled it up behind him.

And when history is written in full, the question will not simply be whether Clarence Thomas was conservative.

The question will be whether he used the power entrusted to him to advance justice or to help dismantle it.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A black woman from Kenya disappeared in the UK and was found dead in a body of water.

Barely anyone reported on it.

No one is saying her name.

She’s being forgotten.

Melissa is doing incredible work to raise awareness about cases no one else will report on.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump is dealt a massive political black eye as a top United Nations panel condemns him for his relentless hate speech and deeply cruel immigration policies.

The entire world is starting to stand up to this bully...

"The Committee was deeply disturbed by the growing use of derogatory and dehumanizing language, and the dissemination of negative and harmful stereotypes targeting migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers," wrote the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a group of 18 independent experts.

They stated that hate speech from leaders like Trump, in tandem with his brutal immigrations crackdowns around places like schools and churches, has led to "grave human rights violations.” This has long been apparent to the American people, who have been forced to watch as masked federal thugs flood our streets, terrorizing and murdering people at will.

The panel further stated that leaders like Trump have pushed stereotypes about migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (which Trump regularly does to excite his racist MAGA base) by "portraying them as criminals or as a burden.” Such language, the panel concluded, leads to discrimination and even hate crimes.

They also specifically called out Trump's ICE and Customs and Border Protection for implementing discriminatory policies like racial profiling and "random" identity checks to target people of color.

The panel further wrote that they are "deeply concerned" about the skyrocketing number of detainees imprisoned in detention facilities — pointing out that it spiked from 40,000 in 2024 to 73,000 in 2026.

The panel experts are also “alarmed by the death of detained refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants in migration detention facilities, particularly the deaths of at least 29 migrants in 2025 and six in January 2026.”

They urged the White House to begin complying with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

This is what Trump has done to America. The entire world can see that we're being controlled by a deeply racist fascist regime. We commend them for speaking out and adding their voices to ours!

Please ❤️ and share to spread Trump's shame!

[Then/Now @xThen_Now]

Swans have one of the coolest water landing techniques ever

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Former ICE Employee: I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

Mike Johnson has denied the request from Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family and Democrats in Congress to allow his body to lie at the U.S. Capitol, saying this honor is reserved for presidents and certain top federal officials. In contrast, Congress previously approved a special resolution allowing conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s body to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, even though he was not a president or federal officeholder.

That contrast sends a painful message about whose lives and sacrifices are deemed worthy of our highest public tributes and highest public honors. This is not about protocol, it is about power and disrespect, a deliberate choice to minimize the legacy of a man who bled for this country’s promise of equality. We will not quietly accept this insult to Rev. Jackson, his family, or the movement he helped build.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Linda was minutes away from the school where she taught a special education class when ICE agents rammed their vehicles into her car while chasing a US citizen.
They struck her car, and left her to bleed out without offering any type of first aid until the paramedics arrived.