Tom Cropper

Hack for Hire specialising in finance, social enterprise and technology.

[Tax Justice UK @TaxJusticeUK]

Maybe Jeff was right, doubling his taxes wouldn’t help… because he doesn’t seem to pay any.

New accounts show Amazon UK Services pulled in £8.2bn revenue and £355m profit last year & still paid £0 in corporation tax.

What’s double nothing again?
https://t.co/GtoY6xxnR2

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Exactly correct. The billionaire class is an economic tumor that has metastasized to every major organ in civilization in search of growth at all costs. The primary characteristic they share is psychopathy—they see humans as disposable objects. They are eating us alive.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Bari Weiss instructed reporters to falsely claim Renée Good drove toward the officer who murdered her, and to depict pro-Palestine protestors as “more violent.”

Corporate media is doing the bidding of Donald Trump and the ruling class.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I faced massive official harassment when I gave a talk on Palestine at Leeds University approximately 6 years ago.
University officials on the door insisted on taking the names of every student who attended, leading many overseas students to walk away.
The female Palestinian student who had organised the meeting was so intimidated she did not come.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Strangely, I haven't seen the op-eds and pearl clutching from the Western media about the U.S. hosting the World Cup that I did when Qatar hosted it.

[Dante Raimundo 🇻🇪 @RaimundoDante]

Vcs já pararam pra pensar que o atleta negro americano Jesse Owens entrou mais fácil na Alemanha Nazista para disputar as Olimpíadas de 1936 do que o atacante iraquiano Aymen Hussein para disputar a Copa de 2026 nos EUA?

[Tom Cropper @cropp77]

@AMP86793444 Ronnie Irani?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport.

But the USA still refuses to let him in.

The USA need to be disqualified

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The Private Finance Initiative was supposed to be buried. Instead, it’s being exhumed, and this time it will be applied not to individual hospitals or schools, but to entire cities.

https://t.co/F4aiFLf0js

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Excl w/@lara_spirit

Matthew Doyle attended leaving drinks with No10 and party staff at Labour HQ last week — despite being suspended over links with paedophile

Peer remains under investigation but was welcomed at event the same week as Mandelson release
https://t.co/21HUYWYJr2

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

The filthy rich get their grasping, uncaring, fingers into every pie

This is a nature-obliterating obscenity that cannot be allowed to happen

Scrap tree tax breaks now

https://t.co/gNptsals3G

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is very very bad.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Judge Johnson has been a total disgrace. If you put together the list of all of his different actions to try to fix the Filton trial, it is astonishing.
https://t.co/pvt02fqxHg

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide says in order to carry out a genocide, the US, Israel, and liberal media “needed to make a ceasefire with Hamas politically toxic… politically ‘unserious.’”

To achieve that, he explains, “it became so central [that Hamas and Palestinian resistance] are removed from history. And their grievances are [portrayed as] not secular or political but as instead driven entirely by hatred of Jews.”

“Then a ceasefire becomes not only impossible, it becomes immoral… and then genocide was inevitable.”

@adamjohnsonCHI | @PlutoPress

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

New article where I propose we make corporations issue 1.5% new shares each year into a public wealth fund and then sell it all off slowly over the course of the year in order to convert it to cash and issue a $365 monthly dividend to everyone as the Great American Dividend.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[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