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]

Keep singing it: we should ALL be access to medicines advocates.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Merck is charging $200,000 for the life-saving cancer drug Keytruda.

They’re making a fortune off it. But it was developed using tax-payer dollars.

That means the federal government has the little-known power to lower the price by taking Merck’s patent and giving it away.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

Love @mehdirhasan holding his look at Wilfred Frost as he babbles through nonsense to deflect his outlet's complicity.

They both know it's not just indefensible, but also obvious. By standing with the truth, Mehdi gets to keep his integrity whilst watching Frost throw his away.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@mehdirhasan: ".. we shouldnt pretend that impartiality means you must take a middle position between two sides. Take the genocide.. the number of times that Sky & the BBC have given Israel a pass or taken an Israeli denial as fact when we know its not"

Frost didn't like that

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

Love all the Americans in Kansas welcoming the Algerian team and supporters to their state.

We really are all made to love each other, it can be so easy!

[Johnny’s Tavern @JohnnysTaverns]

@AlgerianFooty

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Infantino last year: "There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year... There is a process to go through to get visas and so on. This process will be smooth."

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.

We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

So burning stuff down works?

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Israel killed 7 months old infant Sam Abu Haikal.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Palestinian baby killed by Israeli gunfire in West Bank, health ministry says https://t.co/ajPzM7n4PF

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Ireland issues travel bans for two Israeli ministers https://t.co/CFTvAWjDPg

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Incredible. @Reuters got ratio’d into acknowledging international law.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"

https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

https://t.co/wW3350CrIK

[Jake Atkinson @JacobLAtkinson]

@AaronBastani Some of the right wing themselves are making arguments (inc. on oligarchy & corruption) and moving to deliver: Magyar is set to introduce a wealth tax in Hungary, as many of the wealthiest Hungarians acquired their wealth under Orbán off of public tenders.
https://t.co/Rdxh6tLEFz

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Many see as illegal”

BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL. The West Bank is Palestinian territory OCCUPIED by Israel. Every settlement is illegal.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

nyt can you please have some decency about a decorated war veteran combat surgeon who saved tammy duckworth's life, who treated 9/11 first responders and was in gaza during the genocide. i get that he's muslim and antizionist but this is a shameful and racist subheader!

[Disenchanted @disnenchanted]

Data Centres in the UK. How much of our electricity are they taking and is the grid resilient enough to cope? Centres in Ireland use 22% of electricity.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

these guys are so stupid. ofc i think the dem governor of nj sending the state troopers on protestors is collaborating with the trump admin. i’m willing to bet many voters agree with me. they certainly did in minneapolis.

also right wingers defend uk speech laws now? cattle.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

ironic because a year ago, i delivered a speech at oxford union about the dangers of conflating judaism and zionism & how this foments antisemitism. since then the government has arrested pensioners for protesting against israel and let iof war criminals roam free!

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough.
https://t.co/GqUMVB5bqj