Ali

Rest In Peace my handsome little king. Thanks for all the love and support the last 12 years. I didn’t always deserve it but thank you for rescuing me.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

@BriannaWu I'm so glad you survived the horror fantasy you made up in your head. And no, absolutely no one in Palestine would recognize you.

When I was Israel, I didn’t go to Hebron, which is a city controlled by Palestinians. My fear was that I’m just famous enough to get recognized and that a Palestinian mob would murder me for being trans. It is mind blowing to me that trans people cannot recognize the people that fought with us for LGBT rights are our friends and the terrorists that throw trans women off roofs are not.

@richard_clock1 @admcrlsn This is exactly it. I would go a step further and say that the democratic establishment is just behind the times. They're using 90s and early 2000s playbook in 2026 and it's just not the same. They refuse to acknowledge both the discontent and the voting power of under 40s.

@admcrlsn The electability argument for Stevens and McMorrow was always hogwash. What was electable 15 years ago is not the same as today. Abdul represents a way forward out of the politics of perpetually unpopular incumbents losing in change elections

Two things are true here: 1) People claiming this poll as evidence that El-Sayed is more electable than McMorrow & Stevens are telling on themselves (the differences in margin are not statistically meaningful) 2) It’s not a great poll for McMorrow & Stevens given that GE electability are big parts of their arguments

@AaronRegunberg @_iamblakeley And the whole "we're gonna sue the New York times" thing is them spazzing out because of the frustration that they can't just kill him like they would Lebanese and Palestinian journalists reporting on this.

Wild to think about how if Kristof lived in Gaza or the West Bank, the Israeli military would likely by now have just announced he was aiding terrorism and blown him up with guided missiles, as they’ve done to countless Palestinian journalists over the last three years.

@ShacklefordTed @ericadamsfornyc Oh no please stay

@ericadamsfornyc I’m not paying that bill. I’ll be moving my family to Texas. Wake up NY. They don’t want you here. They want to make NYC a Muslim commune.

There was never a $12 billion hole in the budget. That fairy tale was cooked up to justify reckless spending and political theater. I left the incoming administration with $8 billion in reserves, not a financial apocalypse. Albany election-year bailouts are not a long-term economic strategy. The free money dries up after Election Day, but the bloated “free” programs stay forever. And here’s the part the socialists in City Hall never want to admit: the millionaires and billionaires they love demonizing already pay roughly 40% of NYC’s taxes. Keep demonizing the people creating jobs, investing in this city, and carrying the tax base, and eventually they’ll stop investing here altogether. Facts are stubborn things. Even when some politicians aren’t.

@missdaisyfdoo @LibyaLiberty I'm with you but who tf are they

These two women claim to be feminists, yet can’t bear to hear about mass rape & sexual violence when it’s committed by Israelis. Morally bankrupt, certainly not feminist, they are just blind ideologues shilling for Israel & the Right. Deplorable.

@MosheELavi @NickKristof 1) the state is currently unable to investigate such things due to public pressure, as we saw with the "heroic fighters." 2) in the absence of said investigation, the only evidence journalists and HR groups can gather is eye witness and victim testimony.

Much has been written about @NickKristof's latest NYT opinion column over the past 24 hours, most of it focusing on the specific claims and their sourcing, but what I think deserves most attention is something broader: how this kind of journalism, whatever its intentions, ultimately makes accountability harder to achieve rather than easier, and harms the very people it claims to champion. The principle that Israeli abuses should be investigated and condemned is not in dispute, and nobody serious is arguing otherwise. Israel is not above scrutiny, and in fact it operates under more intense international scrutiny than almost any country on earth, routinely held to standards applied nowhere else. The problem here is something different entirely: the complete collapse of evidentiary standards the moment Israel is the subject. This piece reads less like rigorous reporting and more like a catalogue of hearsay, unverifiable allegations, and activist claims stitched together into a sweeping moral indictment. Its sourcing leans heavily on Euro Med Human Rights Monitor, an organisation repeatedly criticised over extremist ties, disinformation, and deeply questionable methodology, yet treated throughout as a credible authority while its leadership openly engages in pro Hamas propaganda on X. Worse, the same ecosystem of activists and self appointed “experts” that amplifies Euro Med’s claims online increasingly feeds narratives into more established organisations and media outlets, laundering deeply contested allegations into the appearance of institutional credibility. The most severe claims are anonymous, uncorroborated, and presented in the emotional register of established fact rather than allegation, despite lacking meaningful evidentiary backing. Yet Kristof largely adopts them without serious scrutiny, publishing the piece in the Opinion section because even the already diminished evidentiary standards often applied to reporting on the Israeli Palestinian conflict would likely not suffice for it to pass as straight news reporting. This approach doesn't strengthen accountability, it actively destroys it. When every allegation is immediately inflated into systematic rape and "standard operating procedure" before any serious verification, genuine investigation becomes harder rather than easier. Real abuses, if they occurred, get buried beneath maximalist narratives so extreme that large portions of the public simply stop trusting any of it, and the people who actually suffered pay that price. It also alienates the vast majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide, including the many who are perfectly capable of criticising Israeli policy and supporting investigations into misconduct, but who understandably recoil when accusations begin resembling modernised blood libels dressed up as human rights reporting. The framing matters enormously, and so does proportionality, and so does evidence. Nor does any of this serve Palestinians. Atrocity inflation entrenches both sides deeper into defensive tribalism, and every dubious claim amplified by a prestigious outlet makes legitimate criticism easier to dismiss when it actually matters. The timing compounds everything. On a day when documented reporting on Hamas sexual violence was again circulating, the NYT chose to run an opinion column built substantially on unverifiable anonymous testimony asserting that Israelis are conducting systemic rape campaigns, not as a rigorously evidenced investigative report but as an opinion piece with the imprimatur of the paper of record. Kristof is not a naive bystander in any of this. In 2014 he used the full credibility of the NYT to repeatedly platform Somaly Mam, a Cambodian anti-trafficking activist whose harrowing personal story he championed across multiple columns, until it emerged that her backstory was substantially fabricated and he was forced to issue a public correction. When challenged this time around on his sourcing, corroboration, and methodology, he defaulted to bad faith engagement on social media rather than addressing the underlying concerns seriously. It is the same pattern, playing out again in a different context. Real journalism requires skepticism, corroboration, and restraint applied consistently regardless of the subject, and when those standards disappear the moment Israel is involved, what remains is not human rights reporting but narrative activism wearing a journalist's costume that does far more harm than good to everyone it claims to serve.

@hoodfarquaad That aquarium is about to hire howard schultz as a consultant

this video is actually funny to me because how the fuck are penguins better than humans at organising strikes?

@MarioNawfal The photoshopped picture of him in the suit killed me

🇲🇽 A Mexican company rescued a stray cat off the street and gave him an official job title: Emotional Support Director. His name is Engineer Miauricio, and he's fully on the payroll. Good to see whiskers at work!

@JeremiahDJohns Oh is that right? Who among the centrist Dems was demanding apologies from Cuomo and Adams for all their disgusting islamophobia? Cuomo agreeing with someone saying Mamdani would cheer 9/11? Adams saying he wants to prevent an islamist takeover like Europe? They apologize?

One of the worst things Donald Trump ingrained into American politics is the idea that if your base likes you enough, you never have to back down or apologize for anything. Does it matter whether Abdul ever got his medical license, or treated patients, or had a residency? In the context of a Senate run, not especially, if we're being real. But it seems indisputable that he was deliberately deceptive about using titles like 'physician', playing up his doctor credentials, talking about how he 'healed people', etc. And even if you want to say that's a gray area rather than a straight up lie, people used to be embarrassed by that kind of deception. It used to be normal for politicians to apologize for things, scandals used to matter. Trump has taught everyone that you never need to apologize, ever. Double down. Triple down. Caught lying, or doing something immoral or shady? Mock the people criticizing you. Rally the base around you, attack rather than defend. You're actually PROUD of whatever they're mad at. Trump proved that as long as your base is rabid enough, this tactic works. And I hate to use overly dramatic cliches, but this kind of thing is poisonous to the soul of the country.

@AlexMLeo @LinkofSunshine Similar stories have been around for a long while. More than one Palestinian former prisoner has described this. I suppose it's possible they're all making it up. But usually when Palestinians report horrors and no one believes them they almost always end up vindicated.

@LinkofSunshine I have no doubt that Palestinian prisoners have faced horrifying treatment, including sexual abuse, but the insane inclusion of “trained dog rapists” based on a single source & the word of least-reliable-man-alive Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, is so irresponsible it’s hard to fathom.

Things that objectively happened: 1) Palestinian prisoners were raped at Sde Teiman detention center by soldiers on video 2) Israeli far-right politicians protested the arrest of these soldiers 3) Israel dropped the charges against them This was state sanctioned assault

@Tony14308191402 @ZaidJilani I mean, this guy is clearly a prisoner in distress so obviously it's the less credible testimony. Especially given Israel's tendencies to rape people in prison and what not.

@ZaidJilani As a journalist, which is more credible to you? The nyt * OP ED * of dog rape or this actual admission?? Miraculously you only believe the former. Do you think you might have brain worms?

The Israeli government had an easy out after Kristof's story. They could've said: "Israel is a modern democracy based on the rule of law. Now that these allegations have come to light, we will not rest until they are fully investigated." Wonder why they didn't do that?

@magi_jay Just to make sure I'm not crazy I had AI draw a graph for a visual representation. Can you explain to me (like I'm five) how El Sayed shows no trend?

I said the MI race is "stagnant" with a "possible vague hint" of emerging weakness for McMorrow. Here's why I say this. There are A LOT of undecideds across polls. We see about 60% of voters with a preference, though the shape of the distribution between candidates changes, albeit in very small ways. In terms of "trends:" -El Sayed: I don't see a trend. You can't argue he's grown from the two polls showing him at 16% (November, January), because polls prior to those estimates that showed him above 20%. No trend. -McMorrow: Pretty stable numbers, but then we have those three polls in a row showing lower numbers. So there's a hint of a possible trend, but more data are needed. Especially given the small percentages we're dealing with. -Stevens: No trend; her numbers are too variable. She hits a low point; then goes back to where she was before.

No. There's no evidence of this. You're making it up.

@Alonso_GD It's actually wild how open they are that this was purely a collective punishment revenge campaign. It's even worse in Hebrew. Don't ever hit the translate button.

It’s scary how clear it is in his mind that no military necessity explained this level of destruction, it was - he has no doubt - pure revenge against civilians

@DomingueJordan Damn we're really doubling down on this huh? This is so desperate it's embarrassing

As someone who worked on both his campaigns and resigned from his senate bid due to his character, the real story is WHY he didn’t complete his residency. His story is too clean, self serving, and reeks of fabrication. Whoever finds out the truth of that why, they will expose his real character to all.

@hannahlindow This makes y'all look so pathetic and desperate. You're using 2006 playbook in 2026. It's embarrassing.

Abdul El-Sayed has made his supposed medical credentials a centerpiece of his campaign, but the truth is he never held a medical license, never did his residency, never passed the boards, and never practiced medicine independently. If Michigan voters can't trust El-Sayed to be honest about something that is so central to his entire rationale for running, how can they trust him to be honest about what he'd do as a United States Senator?

@magi_jay Meh, this is just another pathetic line of attack that won't resonate with voters. They can smell political bullshit and character assassination from a mile away.

The Democratic Party needs to start ignoring the podcasters.

@rpkaplan @afalkhatib True but this is likely due to Israel's history of displacing people and not allowing them to return and taking their land.

@afalkhatib Your suggestion to remove civilians would be seen as “proof” that Israel is going to annex Gaza. Removing civilians from Hamas control would be a logical solution, however, Israel is never viewed through logic lenses.

Multiple reports today indicate that Hamas operatives, using physical force and threats, blocked Palestinian workers and contractors, approved by the Board of Peace and Israeli authorities, from crossing the “Yellow Line” into the southern zone of the Gaza Strip, where Rafah once stood and where new temporary communities are planned. These sites are intended to move displaced Gazans out of rodent‑infested tents and into humane living conditions. The UAE has long backed this effort as an early step toward recovery, offering civilians an alternative to perpetual misery while the larger political and reconstruction questions remain unresolved. Hamas’s fascist leadership has no interest in any improvement in Gaza unless it directly empowers them, allowing them to siphon resources, rebuild capabilities, and maintain their stranglehold over two million Palestinians. This is why I have consistently argued that the only meaningful interim step is relocating civilians gradually, in phases, across the yellow line and out of Hamas’s reach. Doing so strips the terror group of its last remaining leverage: the ability to weaponize Gazans’ suffering to extract Arab, regional, and international concessions that keep it in power. Hamas can be defeated militarily, ideologically, economically, and socially, but none of that is possible while it maintains an unbroken grip over the population. It is astonishing that some in Europe and the broader international community still cling to the same development models that entrenched Hamas’s rule in the first place; promoting projects that ignore Hamas’s absolute control over the red zone west of the “Yellow Line” and indulging the very Band-Aid approaches the group relies on to create a normalcy bias that treats its perpetual rule as inevitable. There’s an alternate strategy: the international coalition’s approach in Mosul and Raqqa to defeat ISIS almost a decade ago. This entailed removing civilians from the terror group’s grip and areas of control first, confronting the militants, then beginning the long, difficult work of stabilization and recovery.

@AleRaza15 @DropSiteNews It was public knowledge in the sense that the Iranians claimed it happened and most people believed them. But now it's basically being confirmed by other sources.

@DropSiteNews It literally wasnt a secret. Everyone reported on it when it happened? Is this a uae fluff piece 🤣🤣🤣

💢 WSJ: UAE was Secretly Striking Iran, Including Attack on Oil Refinery After Ceasefire The United Arab Emirates has carried out military strikes against Iran without public acknowledgment, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The strikes included an attack on a refinery on Iran’s Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf in early April — right after Trump announced a ceasefire — sparking a large fire and knocking much of the facility offline for months. Iran had attributed the strike to the UAE at the time and responded with missile and drone attacks on the UAE and Kuwait. Sources told the Journal the Trump administration was not upset by the strike because the ceasefire had not yet “settled into place.” The UAE’s foreign ministry declined to comment but pointed to previous statements asserting its right to respond militarily to hostile acts. The Pentagon also declined to comment. Iran has launched more than 2,800 missiles and drones at the UAE during the war — more than against any other country except Israel.

@yuhline Notice how they worded it so carefully so it's technically true but misleads the reader. "He has been claiming he's a physician for years but" implies he was lying. But then he says there's overwhelming evidence he didn't practice. He's been open about his decision not to practic

Uhm. He is easily one of the most educated people to ever run for Congress. He has an MD and a PhD…this is weird.