Tony McJagger

☮️ contrarian | social/libertarian | 🌍geopolitics follower | ⚽🔴MUFC | ❤️nature lover 🍻

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a sentence that almost never appears in Western coverage:

Under international law, a people under military occupation have the right to resist that occupation.

This is not a controversial claim.

It is in the United Nations Charter.

It is in the Geneva Conventions.

It has been affirmed repeatedly by the UN General Assembly, explicitly referring to "all available means, including armed struggle."

It is the same principle invoked to describe French resistance to Nazi occupation as heroic rather than terrorist.

It is so uncontroversial that it doesn't need to be stated when applied to almost any other occupied people in history.

When applied to Palestinians, it disappears.

Not because it became false.

Because the people who control which sentences appear in the news made a decision about which populations are permitted to have legally recognized rights that are spoken aloud in prime time.

That decision is political.

The silence around it is also political.

The pretense that both are journalistic is the lie inside the lie.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The next time some clown in the EU talks to you about "Carbon credits" or "Carbon tax" or "Global warming"

Ask them why they are paying for the Ukrainian Dictators crime syndicate in Kiev to do this to the black sea, one of the most sensitive ecosystems on earth.

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@ProletariatRis1 @anthonyzenkus @peterbakernyt @brett_mcgurk No problem. It's from 2008

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@ProletariatRis1 @anthonyzenkus @peterbakernyt @brett_mcgurk

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

It's not exactly Oscar material, but it might merit a Golden Globe.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The tell was always what both parties agreed on.

Not what they fought about.

What they agreed on.

They fought about abortion.
They agreed on the military budget.

They fought about immigration.
They agreed on Wall Street deregulation.

They fought about trans athletes.
They agreed on not taxing unrealized capital gains.

They fought about Dr. Seuss.
They agreed on drone warfare.

They fought about cancel culture.
They agreed on the surveillance architecture built after 2001 that has never been dismantled.

The fights were loud, personal, morally charged, identity-coded, and covered wall to wall.

The agreements were made in committee, in legislative language nobody reads, in budget line items, in appointments to regulatory agencies whose names most voters couldn't name.

Democracy, in this arrangement, is the performance of disagreement about the things that don't threaten the arrangement.

The things that threaten the arrangement are handled through the bipartisan consensus that the performance is specifically designed to make invisible.

Watch what they agree on.

Everything else is theater with a very large production budget.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Trump and Netanyahu's repugnant displays at the UN, in which they boasted of war crimes and threatened genocide, would not have been possible without ostensibly liberal accomplices like Canada's Mark Carney

They are all cut from the same cloth

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@alancross https://t.co/8VKjyqBdI9

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Casey Wasserman’s booking agency represents Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar, and Ed Sheeran.

He is featured in the Epstein Files and has been thanked publicly by Benjamin Netanyahu for his support of Israel.

This is far bigger than Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and one tour.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Casey Wasserman’s booking agency represents Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar, and Ed Sheeran.

He is featured in the Epstein Files and has been thanked publicly by Benjamin Netanyahu for his support of Israel.

This is far bigger than Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and one tour.

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@chudcostanza @RaniaKhalek

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

The solidarity on display is genuinely moving. Imagine what we could do if we all always stood together.

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@alancross https://t.co/8nOd47ZNyh

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Guerrilla artists VJayBombs are putting up projections of Ed Sheeran giving massages to Zionist billionaire Robert Kraft in Los Angeles. Ed is about to find out that the streets and the people are with Palestine!

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@alancross https://t.co/Z6xsjW9svQ

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Free Palestine...

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Guerrilla artists VJayBombs are putting up projections of Ed Sheeran giving massages to Zionist billionaire Robert Kraft in Los Angeles. Ed is about to find out that the streets and the people are with Palestine!

[Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Jesus 😭 So fucking proud to be Irish. A young lad starting off his career. Integrity and solidarity are as beautiful as cowardice is ugly.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Make him famous. Put him behind bars before he kills somebody @rcmpgrcpolice

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

I searched CTV News, CBC News, Global News and the Globe and Mail for any coverage of Shopify's CEO in the last 24 hours.

Nothing (except business reporting from the Globe, nothing to do with the CEO suggesting poor people should have less of a say in our democracy)

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina:

“I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing,

Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul.

The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence.

If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”

[Tony McJagger @TMcjagger]

@Fx1Jonny Fingers crossed 🤞