Jake Atkinson

Health & wealth inequality. Campaigns Manager @TaxJusticeUK. Prev @STOPAIDS, @youth4tpnw SC. DMs open. Views own. RTs/likes ≠ agree. He/him. Also on BlueSky 🦋

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

Billions of us (mainly young people) have been denied a future after decades of inaction. Fossil fuel giants, lobbyists, aligned vested interests & the right have enriched the wealthy whilst killing any meaningful climate action.
Ahead of us: higher prices, conflict, famine. Or…

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The UK has recorded its hottest day of the year after temperatures hit 38.1°C in Kew Gardens

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

Banking levy is pathetic in ambition.

UK govt injected £137 billion of public money in loans & capital to rescue banks during '07–09 crisis. The net long-term cost to the public is £23bn (OBR).

Today's announcement will raise less than £2bn at a time of excessive bank profits.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Hannah Peaker from the @NEF explains that if you equalise capital gains tax with income tax so you tax wealth at the same rate as work, along with sorting out some of the problems with CGT, some estimates say you could raise £19.7 billion a year.

[james and the giant pigeon @twinkpummeler]

chatgpt killed another person

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

The Ministry for the Future.

[IGI ?🇵🇱? ¿🇮🇩¿ ‽🇬🇱‽ @Igi_POLCOM]

Oh to be armed soldier of environmental task forces and bombing illegal logging companies equipment.

There's a dream job for everyone

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

New from @VerdantThinking: we estimate 1 in 9 UK households can't afford the government's recommended food stockpile - 6.4m people, 2.2m of them children.

Link below...

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

@SusanPearson50 @TaxJusticeUK @faizashaheen But together we’ve already taken ideas like a wealth tax into the mainstream, and seen some progress towards tax justice - fairer rates of capital gains tax, taxes on private jets, and defending our big tech tax as well.

Thanks for your support in this endeavour!

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

@SusanPearson50 @TaxJusticeUK @faizashaheen Thanks Susan, through our newsletter we share various actions people can take (including online) as well resources people can use or share in conversations with their community. Please do sign up and let us know what you think! It may seem small… (1/2)

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

He’s still got it.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

Bernie in Eau Claire, WI: What should be the tenet of a rational healthcare system?

Audience member: Medicare for All

Bernie: Why are you a communist?

[🐚 Nayo ⚢ @aquaticsheepie]

“If they arrest me, I become a hero. If they kill me, I become a martyr. And if they let me go free, I become president again”

[camila @vcamilaag]

ahora estoy dopada con la peor de las drogas: la esperanza

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Lula victory speech:

"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate.

We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."

[a-u-ê @cantodabaleia]

nada absolutamente nada explica luis inacio lula da silva

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

If Lula wins I will cry with joy.

[Andrade @AndradeRNegro2]

O bolsonarismo é a maior organização criminosa do mundo.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇧🇷 The Supreme Court of Brazil has recognized Bolsonaro’s widespread effort to suppress the popular vote by shutting down public transit – and extended the vote by 2 hours. But scores of stations have already closed – and cannot now reopen to the public.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

This is a coup attempt. They’re turning off traffic lights and canceling bus routes and flights and ferries on election day. The world needs to be paying attention

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

Great to see. Every UK billionaire or billionaire with a UK tax footprint being supported to ensure they are paying their fair share like every PAYE or small business.

Clamping down on tax abuse in this way is good for all of us.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: HMRC's letter to wealthy Britons demanding detailed information about their financial arrangements has been revealed

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

@Thelma_DWalker Shame these days the pharma lobby has more fingerprints than ever over Labour medicines policy; so many necessary, well-evidenced policies in the MFTM paper:

https://t.co/2C05VcmIV9

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

“There is no point in trying to end my ideas, they are already lingering in the air and you can't arrest them.
…
There is no point in thinking that everything will stop when I have a heart attack…because my heart shall beat through your hearts, and they are millions of hearts.”

[Paulo Mendes @maulopendes]

o discurso dele quando foi preso

[CUBS WORLD @CubsWorld80]

Israel First Mike Rogers’ career is cooked after this Abdul El Sayed ad. This is brilliant.