Lorraine Hallowell

just being me :-)

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨OMG TRUMP IS GOING TO SHIT HIMSELF

Michelle Obama just got even with Trump by honoring all his achievements INCLUDING WINNING A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

This is absolutely epic.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly speaking facts:

"Africans can’t have their people" at the World Cup because of US travel bans.

Every other team gets their fans. But Global South teams like Senegal get blocked while the West lectures everyone about "inclusion" and "human rights".

This is the same empire that bombs, exploits, and restricts — then cries when others resist.

Football should unite people, not separate them with racist visa policies and double standards.

Stand with Koulibaly. Stand with the fans. Stand with the Global South.

No bows. Just raw truth. 💪🏿🇸🇳

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

83% of British people are white

87% of MPs are white

92% of Police officers are white

94% of the House of Lords are white

85% of Britains richest families are white

The notion that Britain experiences systemic anti-white racism is absurd

It’s a far-right conspiracy

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

EVERYONE:
This young woman, who lives in Belfast, really wants her truth to be heard. Please take the time to listen to her very wise & powerful speech about what is ‘really’ going on, despite what some parties & people are portraying. Please share after so her message gets out.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.

Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. 

It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”

It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.

[RNB RADAR @rnbradar]

Joe finally blessed the Tiny Desk

The setlist:
▪️ Faded Pictures
▪️ More & More
▪️ The Love Scene
▪️ Good Girls
▪️ All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)
▪️ I Wanna Know

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

Disinformation about London has become a global industry.

The new “outrage economy” is growing - and it’s eating away at the bonds that hold our society together.

That's why I'm calling for urgent action from social media companies and government.

https://t.co/moPcAqSWdK

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

Carnival born to bring unity to neighbourhood torn apart by racism. 60 years later it generates £400m to the economy.

@MayorofLondon is investing £5m to make it safer. Tories against 🙄

Joy isn't frivolous. It's part of the resistance. Bringing people together. Hope not Hate.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

“Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime … and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

This is how you do it.

Call them all out, @ZackPolanski.

Well done.

[Tanekalouit-Touraouet ⵜⵏⴽⵍⵡⴷⵜ ⵜⵡⵔⵡⵜ @AishaDaughter]

Well argued Richie Brave..
And the reason why white people have not been able to understand this because as a collective they are self centred/narcissistic and considers black people as inferior to analyse/see this situation and others from the black perspectives.

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

The @BBC had a 2-hour delay, yet a racial slur was broadcast to millions. We need answers.

This isn’t about blaming people with Tourette's.

It’s about editorial accountability, failure of duty of care for all and how Black pain is often minimised. ✍🏾

https://t.co/tVCm7JD75X

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Raheem Sterling: “You know … it’s sad that I even have to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway. There’s a perception in certain parts of the media that I love ‘bling.’ I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don’t understand where that comes from. Even when I bought my mum a house, it was unbelievable what some people were saying about me. I think it’s really sad that people do that. They hate me and they don’t even know me.

A few years ago, I would let it get to me. I’d be saying to my mum, ‘Why are they picking on me?’

But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don’t have any stress, I’m good.

If people want to write about my mum’s bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it’s my mum. She came to this country with nothing and put herself through school cleaning bathrooms and changing bed sheets, now she’s the director of a nursing home and her son plays for England.”

[Miss ADEL🦋🦚🌹 @a_derll]

Big respect to Thierry Henry for saying this

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight

"Your position is utterly incoherent"

"You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

"And when it comes to the wider issue of taking your word on anything you've said, it seems to be a muddled message"

"When you said something about Robert Jenrick a few years ago, we are not to take it seriously, whereas now we are to take you seriously"

"We've got Reform UK's Suella Braverman ripping up the Equalities Act"

"We've got Richard Tice suggesting people will end up with far more expensive energy bills because he wants to go drilling in the north sea rather than using renewable energy"

"Reform UK pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment anti elite party, yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads"

"It just doesn't add up"

"People looking at this press conference this afternoon are going to feel that Reform UK doesn't know what its doing"

"The interesting thing of course was Nigel Farage was trying to present the other spokespeople as a way of saying that it's no longer just about me, its' about all of us"

"All of you were asked by the press 25 questions, and Nigel Farage answered all of them"

[Lorraine Hallowell @lorraine100]

@Numma_won_dad @Q4quise I wouldn’t say a 16yr old is a grown woman..

[Ish Sankara @100kara305]

This is what a black person sounds like when they’re well educated well informed and not ignorant.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Leopold of Belgium ruled Congo as his private property for 23 years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation. At the end of his rule, he had killed 15million Congolese people. But we are taught only about Hitler. 😭😭