Bebe

Writer. Artist. Knitter. People watcher. Swimmer. She/her. Peace. “If love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.” James Baldwin

[Jennifer Denise 🍑💙 @JenniferD_MUA]

@YNB @KamalaHQ GA just launched a website that allows you to cancel someone’s voter registration with someone’s name and the last 4 digits of their SSN OR their DL#. My information was posted online by the city clerk for collecting #stopcopcity signatures, so I will be checking mine weekly

[Nicholas Nichols @MaruneBoy]

I desperately want a roundtable conversation on memory between Kiese Laymon + Jesmyn Ward + Raven Jackson + Ava DuVernay + Andrew Haigh. It would bring me such delight.

[Michael Sulu @michaelsulu]

What she would want (and I haven’t asked her) is for those who can to consider those less fortunate and donate to @crisis_uk and @TrussellTrust
Times are tough and you are all kind.

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

Wow! Home Secretary has agreed to accept my new law to prevent registered sex offenders changing their name to avoid detection. Would have liked some notice, & him not to have nicked it, but a big win regardless!

[Bebe @BebeHappyJoy]

@mummax4 @RachelCurtis82 @THFC77777 @Lizzypop15 Why are you equating alcoholism and substance abuse with laziness? There are no benefits provisions for laziness. If there were you’d be in receipt of them for your lack of research and bleating a divisive narrative.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

NEWS

🔹Tories create MORE economic misery

🔹Govt Net Borrowing October - £14.9 billion

🔹2nd highest October extra borrowing since records began.

🔹 National debt
2010. £950 billion
2023. £2,600 billion

🔹Just the interest on our debt in October was £7.5 billion

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

'If you can work, you should work'

Dear Tory scumbags,

I think if you can pay tax, you should pay tax.

https://t.co/skhJA5oax4

[Jon Jones @JonJonesSnr]

Rishi Sunak: "Those who break the law should feel the full force of it."

Start with Michelle Mone and work your way from there.

[Shareefa Energy @ShareefaEnergy]

If anyone knows any Arabic speaking therapists in Leicester, please let me know asap for a family who’ve just arrived from Gaza with small children too who are very traumatised. The mum is pregnant and the dad is stuck in Gaza. Anyone able to support financially too let me know

[Nadia Stewart @nadiast33789209]

@lorrainemking I dealt with a case very similar to this. Housing association had been adamant that the tenancy couldn't be passed down. Family were worried sick. Had a 5 minute meeting with housing manager and we got it sorted. Surely the local Cllrs/MP can sort this.

[Bardot @theknowledge_RN]

@lunaluvvy I've been doing this for approx.5yrs now, once I fully understood what was happening in the Congo. Hi-spec smartphones in excellent condition from your fave brands are all available also. It's a win win! #FreeCongo

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Chomsky destroys a "journalist" desperately trying to defend the genocidal crimes of the US and Israel

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

"Paying our respect to the fallen"

[Esheru @Eshprojet1]

This is the baby of the Tory government. I expect this sort of thing to continue to get worse.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Little known fact:

Although much has been written about America's PAST treatment of Black veterans, few people are aware that tens of thousands of Black people who served in the US Armed Forces are technically and legally excluded from Veterans Day.

A thread (and a story)

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

A historic day in London, all over the U.K. and the world 🇵🇸✊🏽

[Noo Saro-Wiwa @noosarowiwa]

28 years ago today, my father Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were murdered for protesting against oil spills in the Niger Delta. We will never forget. ❤️ #ogoni9 #kensarowiwa #Nigeria

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

There's nothing wrong with criticizing ANY political party. But when someone says the Democratic Party is "just as bad as the GOP..." what does that mean?

"Why Both Parties Are Not the Same, Explained" @theGrio

https://t.co/rmGH3pclS0

[Doubleday @doubledaybooks]

"Percival Everett is a genre.” – Kiese Laymon⁠
⁠
That’s it. That’s the post.

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

This open letter from Jewish students just arrested at Brown made me actually cry.

These are my Jews.

So many of us.

I'm so proud of them for standing up and sitting in.

https://t.co/7E0bIfPQ8Q