Mitts

40 arrived and I'm still wondering why time goes so damn fast.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just to be clear:

I don't get intimidated by this sort of stuff.

I didn't get intimidated when a neo-Nazi beat me up.

Fascism has been defeated before - and we will defeat it all over again if we have to.

[TaniaSaidWhat @TaniaSaidWhat]

Soooo the list of Israeli atrocities that we moved on from way too quickly-

-Dogs rape Palestinians
-Children buried alive in Gaza
-A lil 7 month baby shot in the head
-Palestinians’ skin and organs used by Israel for trafficking
-Burning villages and trees in West Bank
-use of white phosphorus on civilian populations
-starvation and torture of hostages in Israeli prisons.

[💫🩵☁️Shilay☁️🩵💫🦋 @allyzuki]

These people who are pushing "age verification" (Surveillance), child protection that is actually just a cover up for predators and trying to kill art that speaks the truth are extremely pathetic yet still dangers to us all.
Please fight against KOSA and copies of KOSA bills.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

"It used to be a respectable paper of the sensible right. Now the Telegraph’s descent into journalistic oblivion is all but complete."

https://t.co/CZCmw3FuKc

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Yes, I’m a radical leftist. I believe all humans should have access to food, housing, healthcare, and education without fear of ever losing them. I call that being a moral person.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

From Southport to Belfast, we keep seeing the same pattern: a terrible crime, followed by racist mobs attacking black and brown people who had nothing to do with it.

These are pogroms.

The politicians and media figures who spent years demonising migrants and inflaming racial hatred have blood on their hands.

We must stand together against this hatred and organise against this fascism.

[Mitts @Onemorelizard]

@MrBrendanCox No. If one site gets banned then it sets precedent and anything the government doesn't want us to see gets banned as well. Plus don't act like you haven't used her death to your advantage. And we can't forget your history of sexual assault.

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

Elon Musk is not just a Nazi. He is actively trying to start a race war in Europe. He is using this platform to deliberately stoke violence because he is genocidally racist.

The *entire system* that elevated him to be the first trillionaire needs cleansing, eternal fire.

[Mannie Quinn & The Dolly Liberation Army @DollidarityArmy]

Let's tell it how it is:
"AI brainwashing tool to be tested on the poor."

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Where is the proof that Iran killed 40k of their own people?

I can prove that Israel wiped Gaza off the map and slaughtered 80,000 women and children.

[Mac n Cheese 🧀 @stealyoredbull]

Zionist does not in fact just mean “Jew.” For example, some of the very worst Zionists on earth are evangelical Christians.

[Mitts @Onemorelizard]

@Autistic_Lauren I like mine to be ignored but I'll celebrate those of my friends.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead.

RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.

[usaama @yoUsaama]

it's always the same pattern:

Palestinian: "Israel did something"

more Palestinians: "Israel did this to me and 30 people i know"

Zionists: "antisemitic blood libel. where's the video showing exactly what you said"

human rights NGOS and the UN: "we looked at 15 months of evidence and it turns out Israel does this routinely. it's standard operating procedure"

Zionists: "blood libel"

video: Israeli soldier shoots and kills a 7 month old baby from 10 meters away

IDF: "oopsie. we will take a look at this"

Zionists: "doesn't count, IDF said oopsie"

Israeli prime minister, the next day: uploads a video of the IDF blowing up an entire village

[The Future of Free Speech @SpeechFuture]

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran.

Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A popular backlash cornered the High Court into declaring the proscription of Palestine Action unlawful – a decision the government is appealing.

That has led to another unprecedented situation: police are still arresting people for holding placards in support of the group, despite the courts ruling that the basis for such arrests is unlawful.

The law has never looked more of an ass.

Which is why Starmer’s government is pinning its hopes on the judge in the so-called Filton trial riding to the rescue – making an example of four activists who targeted an Israeli factory in the UK making killer drones for use in Gaza.

This coming Friday, Judge Jeremy Johnson will pass sentence on the activists, who were convicted by a jury of the relatively minor offence of criminal damage in the second of two trials the judge so carefully rigged.

Judge Johnson has not been shy about showing where his loyalties lie. Not to the law, but to the British security state.

Which should hardly come as a surprise, given his background.

Judge Johnson made it to the bench after years serving as the most favoured barrister of the “secret state”, representing the intelligence services, the ministry of defence and the police. His working environment of choice as a lawyer was behind-closed-doors prosecutions held out of view of the public or proper legal scrutiny.

There were many extraordinary, anomalous moments in the two trials. But perhaps the most glaring was Judge Johnson’s efforts to get the main defence barrister in the first trial, Rajiv Menon KC, jailed for contempt of court simply for noting to the jury in his summing up speech that they had a hundreds-of-years-old right in law to acquit.

Judge Johnson’s behaviour was so unprecedented and certain to have a chilling effect on the ability of defence barristers to represent their clients – the Filton defendants dismissed their barristers from summing up in their second trial to avoid their lawyers facing prison for doing their job and defending them – that the Court of Appeal had no choice but to overrule Judge Johnson’s contempt proceedings against Menon.

Former British ambassador Craig Murray has rightly observed: “Many people will surely conclude, it is Judge Johnson who should be in jail."

But even with the convictions for criminal damage secured under these rigged conditions, Judge Johnson is still in a position to cause more harm to the rule of law in Friday’s sentencing hearing.

He has reserved to himself the right to sentence the four anti-genocide activists not just for the criminal damage charge they were convicted of after his rigged trial, but – once again in an unprecedented move – to treat those criminal convictions as if they were for terrorism offences.

That means he can impose a longer sentence, more draconian prison conditions and more onerous, life-long parole conditions after their release.

The jury knew none of this when they were considering whether to convict. Judge Johnson placed a gagging order on his decision during the trial which meant the information was withheld from the jury and could not be reported until after the verdict. The gag was broken only by foreign media and Zarah Sultana, who used her parliamentary privilege to reveal Judge Johnson’s government-friendly, anti-justice machinations.

In yet another unprecedented feature to the trial, this will be the first time in British history that someone accused of criminal damage is sentenced as a terrorist. Judges were only given these extraordinary powers in a highly controversial amendment in 2021 to counter-terrorism legislation.

Judge Johnson’s logic for taking advantage of his extra powers in this case is quite extraordinary too. He argues that, in destroying Elbit’s killer drones, the activists were seeking to “influence” the Israeli government to change its policy in Gaza – that is, to stop committing a genocide.

Putting pressure on governments is what terrorists try to do, he argues, so this must mean the anti-genocide activists are terrorists.

Opposition to the genocide, in Judge Johnson’s view, has to be treated as an aggravating factor, not a mitigating one.

It is all the more astounding that Judge Johnson is using this argument when he refused to allow the jury to hear any evidence of the activists’ larger political motivations: that they wanted to stop British complicity in Israel’s genocide by targeting a factory that made the drones for use in that genocide.

Remember, all this is happening as Starmer’s government makes unprecedented moves to end many jury trials in Britain, leaving us to the mercy of judges like Jeremy Johnson.

As Defend Our Juries notes, the government is looking to create “an extraordinary and deeply authoritarian precedent, allowing countless more protesters to be tried for an ordinary offence, but secretly sentenced as terrorists, without juries knowing this when they convict”.

This is an extract from my latest article Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel's genocide. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

In America they will send you to the Infinite R@pe Factory if you do self-defense but you're trans.

[Just.A.Thought 💭 @e_galv]

Do you know how much PROPAGANDA it takes to convince a whole country of people that their military exists solely to keep them safe, and not to keep people around the world under their rule by destroying their homes and infrastructure while stealing their resources?

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.