Angry Swan*

LFC, prostate cancer survivor, rescue dogs, coffee snob, atheist, randonneur, twitcher

#YNWA #ProstateCancer

[Angry Swan* @AngrySwans]

It doesn't look like I'll be cycling for a couple of weeks as my bike and cycle helmet are now being used as a robins nursery @ChrisGPackham

Time to get fat and lazy.
#Springwatch #robin #Cyclists #bird @CarnacCycling @planetxbikes

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Jürgen 🎂

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

So apparently this IS terrorism…but arming a genocide isn’t???

Do they think we are stupid?

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Egyptian King 👑

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

A fundamental principle being lost here - is that if you are charged with terrorism - you can defend yourself by explaining why you are not.

As the Filton 4 were never charged or found guilty of terrorism - the judge who sentenced them as terrorists -has denied them this right.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.

Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.

A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Setting fire to houses with families inside them: legitimate concerns

Criminal damage to an arms company supplying a genocide: terrorism

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four.

They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent.

Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine.

But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway.

Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided.

The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action.

By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet.

Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway.

The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.

If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide.

Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Alan Hansen 🎂

Liverpool legend. ❤️

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The sentences handed to four young activists for taking direct action at an Israeli arms factory are completely disproportionate and wrong.

They've been sentenced for a "terrorist connection" they were never charged with.

A clear miscarriage of justice and dangerous precedent.

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

Iran is more than 5000 years old. The US 250. Israel 78. Please stop lecturing us on culture, history, and tradition.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

🚨🇮🇱 Thomas Massie CONFIRMS Israel used NAPALM on the USS Liberty.

34 Americans were burned alive, skin boiling from their bodies, after the IDF dropped Napalm on the unarmed ship.

He confirmed this yesterday in the U.S. Congress.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool's Greatest - No.72: Joel Matip �Liverpool's Greatest - No.72: Joel Matip 🙌

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

It's a good time to remind everyone that FIFA is ass.

[CJ☔️ @samwakinsvv]

Banning Russia was completely fine?
Looks like hypocrisy to me.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Gianni Infantino knocked down all the reporting over visa concerns for this World Cup in August 2025: “I think it’s important to clarify this. 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…

“We want to unite the world and we will unite the world next year. The world needs occasions of unity, of bringing teams together, of bringing people together, of bringing fans together... So again everyone will be welcome, be positive and you will see it will be a great, great celebration of the greatest FIFA World Cup ever.”

No, again we are just meant to look the other way and allow this thing we love so much, that we want to enjoy, that we can map our whole lives around, to be used and abused.

Again we are told about unity and inclusion when division, disparity and denial is the reality.

It is a great, great celebration of getting more money whatever it takes, no matter who has to pay the price. The greatest showpiece of allowing - unopposed! - the man who is meant to protect and grow the people’s game into playing celebrity, massaging his own ego and that of heads of state.

The biggest, most expensive, least accessible World Cup ever. The thing we love and all the beautiful pieces of it we’ve lost.

[Javier Mascherano @Mascherano]

Thanks very much @LFC 🙌🙌

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Iran realizing the entire world has no problem with them bombing Israel

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

they been tellin me to hate this girl since i was 15 n to this day ive only ever seen her advocatin for generally good shit

[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.