Film/media production - @lifechangerfilm, @clapboardjungle. Run @RMLittleTerrors, program for @TADFilmFest, and acquisitions for @IndieCanEnt, am @cathoderaid
Toronto, Canada
Joined April 2009
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If you’ve noticed I rarely post personal stuff on this account, and mostly just retweet news, I’m doing this consciously. Instead of leaving this toxic platform run by one of the worst people out there, I’ve chosen to stay strictly to help stem the tide of toxic rhetoric 1/
Justin McConnell retweeted
‘Just a cold’
Al Pacino says he passed out with COVID in his apartment, woke up to five paramedics in his living room, and was told his pulse had stopped
"I felt I left the Earth when I passed out."
"Next thing I know, I open my eyes and there's five paramedics in my living room."
"And they were my doctors, but I couldn't recognize them from head to toe."
"But they said, my pulse had stopped."
The last thing he remembers is asking the name of the guy filling him up with fluids. Then he wakes up to two doctors in what looked like space suits, and his first thought is that it looks like a film set. Fifty years in front of cameras will do that.
ft: @60Mins 60 Minutes Australia on youtube
Justin McConnell retweeted
A HUGE congrats to all the trade unionists who organized for years to secure this win ✊🏼🇵🇸
Canada's unions passed a resolution calling on workers to refuse to handle weapons and military equipment destined for Israel.
We stand with Palestinian workers in their fight for peace, justice, and respect for international law.
canadianlabour.ca/clc-calls-…
Justin McConnell retweeted
Jasper Nathaniel is an American citizen. He just got beat up by Israeli settler terrorists and arrested. Who knows what will happen to him next. He is risking his life. Please repost and if any journalists who follow me see this, can you please write about it or pass it along?
@ChrisVanHollen @JDiamond1 @zeteo_news @DropSiteNews @prem_thakker
@infinite_jaz was arrested after getting attacked
Jasper is shouting: "I just got beat up!"
Justin McConnell retweeted
This is human trafficking.
ICE deports 10 Cuban refugees—to African country they've never been to.
"This is a kidnapping," woman said.
"Tricked us saying we were going to Miami—ended up in Africa.
Hands & feet shackled entire 25 hour flight.
"They hit me, pulled my hair, threw me against plane windows," said another woman.
"It was horrible! They forced me down among men."
Several women showed marks and bruises on their arms—and swollen feet that made it hard to walk after being shackled.
Their passports and phones were confiscated or destroyed by ICE agents.
Leaving them without identification or a way to contact anyone.
Now worry about being detained by local police in Bangui, Central African Republic—because they have no documents or legal status.
Posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
Justin McConnell retweeted
Just so we're all clear on this, the Trump administration is harboring a fugitive illegal immigrant after they tried to steal an election with help from his billionaire donors.
Again.
Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend loss to President Lula, a senior U.S official says. apnews.com/article/brazil-fl…
Justin McConnell retweeted
The war crimes of the terror state of Israel are endless.
Today, 48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon are mostly levelled, a NYT analysis has found. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Justin McConnell retweeted
I'm just glad I don't live in a dictatorship but a free democracy where every few years I can vote for a different banker or lawyer or landlord that represents the vast network of powerful corporate interests that controls every aspect of my life from cradle to grave
Justin McConnell retweeted
You live at the center of a global military empire with ~1,000 overseas bases, strangling countries w/ sanctions, coups & war for refusing to submit to US dictates. Thinking Americans shouldn’t care about elections abroad is brain dead imperial chauvinism
Justin McConnell retweeted
how are you supposed to explain that the Deptartment of Education is posting nods to alt-right pedophilic gender-swapping fanfic without sounding like an insane person
Justin McConnell retweeted
.@RepRashida's parents were born in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which means her relatives there have lived for almost 60 years without citizenship or the right to vote for the government that controls their lives. Of course it was never about Netanyahu. It's about Palestinian freedom.
Justin McConnell retweeted
Yes it was always about the apartheid, the occupation, and the genocide.
This isn’t rocket science.
Justin McConnell retweeted
This Trump-supporting pos bought Stelco knowing he was going to shut it down. It should be taken over and nationalized by the Canadian govt asap.
Justin McConnell retweeted
A new parliamentarian has been elected in Israel.
His name is Moshe Feiglin.
His views?
"Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. We need to conquer Gaza and colonise it. And not leave a single child there. There is no other victory."
Read that again.
Worse than a Nazi.
Justin McConnell retweeted
One of the dumbest things we are asked to believe about Iran is that it keeps taking time away from defending itself against US-Israeli aggressions to orchestrate random acts of arson and vandalism in mid-power western states for no discernible benefit to its strategic interests.
Today CBC published an article with the headline: “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran.”
I was intrigued, as there has been almost 0 evidence offered for this claim thus far.
Unfortunately this article doesn’t offer any either, adding nothing new. CBC says they spent weeks on the investigation, so these are pretty pitiful results, at least in terms of finding evidence of who paid for the shootings.
I’m not sure why they feel comfortable with such a declarative headline given the lack of evidence (other than journalistic standards going out the window when the subject is an Official Enemy country).
Also, CBC and other journalists continue platforming police claims that they need backdoor access to messaging apps to solve these shootings, with no push back or critique about how these powers can be abused, including against journalists.
cbc.ca/news/investigates/ira…
Justin McConnell retweeted
Meet Israel's new Knesset members🧵
Moshe Feiglin: "As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza"
"Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy"
Justin McConnell retweeted
Good News: Canada is joining Eurovision!
Bad News: Canada is only joining Eurovision because people are leaving in protest over Israel and they needed scab countries to fill spaces!
Canada is going to Eurovision 2027. It’s up to you to decide who takes the stage.
Cast your vote by November 5.
cbc.ca/eurovision
Justin McConnell retweeted
Due to Covid, my kid has an aortic aneurysm, my other kid has life-altering complications and is disabled, I almost died, my cat did die. I DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY!
People who say they "don't care where it came from" 🤨 I assume they're shills or bots for the coverup.
Justin McConnell retweeted
It feels so fucking good to see Brazil beat back US imperialism and tech oligarchy after the staggering crimes these parasites have committed against humanity and the planet. And students are winning in Serbia and France! The tide is turning :)
Justin McConnell retweeted
Back in the day this would obliterate a sitting president, today it’s just another silly ol day
Trump Accused of Brutally Raping Former Miss Switzerland at Plaza Hotel in 1993, He Denies
tmz.com/2026/10/27/beatrice-…
Justin McConnell retweeted
Regardless of which war criminal becomes prime minister, Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid will continue to face genocide, land theft, and erasure.
We cannot accept lies, excuses, or half-measures from our leaders. We must impose a full arms embargo and sanctions until Palestine is free.