jonathan sayles neale

writer, editor One Million Climate Jobs, trade unionist, socialist, feminist, historian, covid activist, revolutionary. Believes in transforming power of love

[Chelsea E. Manning @xychelsea]

thank you so very much for your love and support this year 🎂💕🌈 wasnt sure if i was gonna make it to 33 😻 its been a hard year but we made it together

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

The government loves league tables. Especially in education. Why don't they keep publishing the league tables of different countries' relative success and failure with handling Covid? Once a week would do.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Jacinda Ardern chose a Covid elimination strategy. It is a choice, and she made the right one. Our government chose not to eliminate Covid. It was the wrong choice, and the toll been been enormous.

We could have had a #ZeroCovid policy. We still can.

https://t.co/zHsxxnMumY

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Heard Alan Gibbons has been suspended. Alan is a hard working, principled socialist, who wins respect for the party for the work he does in the community. He hasn’t heard what he’s suspended for but let me warn the bureaucracy, they’ve a fight on & I’m with Alan in it. @mygibbo

[Sunrise Movement Staff Union @smvmtworkers]

We’re proud to announce that Sunrise workers are unionizing with @cwa1180. With 96% of eligible workers signed onto cards, we have been voluntarily recognized!

[Hasan Patel @CorbynistaTeen]

Eton closed down last Friday and we’ve had virtual lessons since. It's the right thing to do. But if it's good enough for Etonians, then my friends in East London deserve nothing less. Shame on this government.

[jonathan sayles neale @NealeSayles]

Time of a global mass movement

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Global South countries, led by South Africa and India, have requested a suspension of the WTO's patent rules to enable them to manufacture or import affordable generic versions of the COVID-19 vaccine. Shockingly, Britain and other rich countries have refused.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Brandon Bernard. Sentenced to death at 18 as an accomplice. Attorneys declined opening statements. Called no witnesses at penalty stage. 11 of 12 jurors were white. 5 of them now don't want death. His prosecutor has called for mercy. Bill Barr wants him executed on Dec. 10. More:

[Media Lens @medialens]

The Guardian continues to self-destruct:

'Spiked because it made someone at the Guardian "feel uncomfortable". This is the first time that a cartoon has been spiked by the paper because it didn't toe a particular editorial line. A sad day.'
https://t.co/za2XBOE0Me

[Brendan May @bmay]

Why are western media not covering the catastrophic #ClimateEmergency #Wildfires raging in #Argentina? 🇦🇷

Is it because it’s not #California?

Utter devastation. Been going on for months. A million acres gone in central & northern areas.
#ClimateAction 

[Mohsin Dawar @mjdawar]

A heartfelt thanks to the people of my hometown for coming out in such large numbers. This was a referendum that demanded justice for all past incidents of state terrorism & announced a refusal to be used as cannon fodder in State's future war projects #PashtunLongMarch2MiranShah

[jonathan sayles neale @NealeSayles]

Here's my guess why Boris fired Cummings. When Biden won, Boris knew he had to accept the EU negotiating position on the Irish border, the single market and obeying European courts. Total U turn. Cummings leads the hard Brexit faction. So he had to go. Every bit of which is fun.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I'm just stupidly happy about this. I know it's not perfect. I know about neoliberalism and capitalism and immigration and the military etc etc. I know there is still so much to be done. But I just feel joy, senseless joy, at this victory of democracy and decency.

[The Hill @thehill]

Sen. Bernie Sanders congratulates President-elect Joe Biden and VP-elect Kamala Harris: "We have accomplished something that... our future generations will look back upon and say to us: thank you." #Election2020

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Some progressives w huge platforms + zero involvement in organizing tell us socialism is dead. Meanwhile @DemSocialists on track w 100k recruitment drive, won 28 endorsed races including US Congress & 8/9 ballot measures we campaigned for. Tl;dr nihilism only ever helps the boss.

[jonathan sayles neale @NealeSayles]

@benwerd all the other students will have been distracted. the teachers even more so. breathe easy

[jonathan sayles neale @NealeSayles]

follow the thread. wise

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I'm sorry to deflate the mood, but I think it's now time to face some cold realities.
1. It's brilliant that Trump lost, but Biden epitomises the reasons why Trump came to power: the neoliberal consensus that killed people's faith in politics.
https://t.co/oz0OmwjmIw
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[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election.

Every.👏🏽 Single.👏🏽 One.👏🏽

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

How can we have a press briefing about a national lockdown with not a word on reform of the hopeless find, test, trace and isolate programme? Not even a question. Shameful.

[jonathan sayles neale @NealeSayles]

Here is an article by me for Resurgence and Ecologist, on the background to the US election. https://t.co/rb7nEU9Mjh