Dan Gleesack (ron/swanson)
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I love this move, despite the obvious jurisdictional hurdles it will face. The strategic value of Israel's NYT lawsuit has nothing to do with winning. It's about discovery, if they can somehow get to that point — the NYT's internal emails about how this piece was vetted, what they knew about Euro-Med's Hamas ties, and what doubts existed internally. All of that becomes potentially public. The lawsuit is just how you get there.
Thomas Massie did more to take down pedophiles than the whole Republican Party. That is why they hate him.
“In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. nyti.ms/4ue9mtV
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…
I share @megankstack's exasperation, but to those who say that canine rape is impossible, despite the many Palestinians who have described it, I'd note that at least three different medical journal articles discuss rectal injuries in humans from anal penetration by dogs. Sigh.
⚜️ Attention Kentucky District 4 ⚜️ Are you sickened by the way Mitch McConnell has treated President Trump & MAGA? Well, you can thank Thomas Massie for him getting re-elected, since he campaigned & even rallied for him! Ever notice he never has ANYTHING remotely critical to say about Mitch, but has everything bad to say about our President? Now you know why! Thomas Massie is a Mitch McConnell bootlicker behind the scenes! Vote for Ed Gallrein to end the McConnell curse once & for all!
1/ The @nytimes just published one of the most serious sets of allegations imaginable against Israel – claims of systematic sexual violence, including a bizarre story about carrots and trained rape dogs. We checked the sources. What we found is journalistic malpractice. 🧵
