Meg Lakin

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Eid Fitr Mubarak from the capital of Palestine

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

There have been many attempts to put a 'humane' face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism's history and its present, writes @ZarahSultana. https://t.co/GeGuveCUxF

[Ferhat Gurini @FerhatGurini]

I give my take on what the Biden administration will mean for the growing tensions in the East Med, in this excellent series of short essays on what impact the new American presidency will have on the region.

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

Migrant crossings in the Channel have been described as a 'national crisis,' but the real crisis is the war and persecution that forces families to flee their homes – and the border regimes that brutalise them. https://t.co/5sDEFIQwAf

[Amad Rasho @RashAmadid]

Thread:

I was an asylum-seeker, I’m a refugee now! I find it very disturbing, disheartening and difficult to keep reading, watching and listening to peopel dehumasing peopel like me! I try to keep positive as much as I can but sometime it’s just too much...

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

We should know as much about the atrocities committed by British governments in the 20th Century as the Germans do about theirs. But most people in the UK would have no idea what I’m referring to.
In this week’s column I try to put that right.
https://t.co/Fp10BBTGPP

[Emma Watson @EmmaWatson]

Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

Angrier at the drowning of a slavetrader’s statue than at the drowning of actual Africans in the Mediterranean, we see you.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

You can’t understand Racism and how it operates without understanding Capitalism @GaryYounge

Watch full film: https://t.co/t4ygsVJFnc

[Gareth Noble @GarNob]

The strongest minute of current affairs TV since #Corona19 started. Well done @maitlis and all at #Newsnight

[Meg Lakin @meg_lakin]

@mirza_mo Mo wtf

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

.@AOC: Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?

Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.

[New Economy Organisers Network @NEON_UK]

'If we close off all the legal routes for people to move across borders all that is going to happen is we empower the smugglers.

'If you make illegal that which is inevitable all that will happen is illegality sets in.'

-@SatbirLSingh on @Channel4News tonight

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

'As Muslim legislators we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to.' — Watch @IlhanMN shut down this biased, 'appalling' question

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

A week after the #Christchurch mosque shooting, there are some things I can’t get out of my head...

[Meg Lakin @meg_lakin]

That episode of blue planet was the most mind blowing thing I've ever seen