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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…

Ghoulish stuff, and DEEPLY counterproductive to public safety. The message this sends to undocumented and semi-documented immigrants is clear: “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

Free universal childcare. Free UCs and CSUs. Eliminating income tax for those earning under $100,000. Californians deserve a governor with a plan to make life more affordable.

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/…

I wrote about DOJ’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the iconic civil rights group that broke the Ku Klux Klan. DOJ would have you believe SPLC engaged in material support of domestic terrorism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Learn more here: joycevance.substack.com/p/investigatin…

BREAKING: Red Cross rescues wounded journalist after deadly Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon   🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/70fs10?update=…

@EmilyinChas @dcexaminer You are proof we give way too much grace to the stupids in this country. So willing to sound so stupid so publicly so often in service to a madman. Or you’re a bot or a troll or looking to get in on the RW whacko rage propaganda circuit. Either way just pathetic.

There’s no one else like him and we never will again. He’s a character with a sense of humor and doesn’t apologize for it. And just so we’re straight, the Pope took the first swipe … after meeting with Obamas Jewish henchman. Hmmm.. didn’t see y’all writing about that. And yeah, he talks tough because he knows how to deal with different people.. you know the carrot and the stick. How do you speak with terrorists.. ? The meme.. that was borrowed from another X user, depicting Trump as healing the nation after it was overrun by an open border, etc. Give the man some grace. His mind is sharp and his heart is in the right place. He is my President.

OPINION: Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What would be the reaction? MORE: trib.al/8NOOXa6

Spare me the complaints about Virginia's new districts. This is my new district in Texas. Unlike VA, I wasn't able to vote on it. The blue area is a very diverse part of the Dallas suburbs that was carved out & threw in with a bunch of rural (red) voters as far as 180 miles away!

Alternatively, they could pass a national gerrymandering ban, which ~every Democrat would support. They won't do this though, because as I said, they don't want to stop gerrymandering, they want a monopoly on it x.com/Fritschner/sta…

The big bombshell didn't fall on Iran, but at the U.S. Supreme Court. A stunning leak both exposed the corporate hypocrisy of John Roberts and revealed 9 justices in open warfare They are sending us a 'bat signal.' Democracy is in danger My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

@JudiciaryDems What is farcical is that only the majority can do this. Democrats represent millions of Americans too. These rules and norms you guys still worship w/out realizing trumpublicans gave them up years ago is pathetic.

Stop this farce. Bring in Jack Smith to testify publicly under oath.

Bonta alleges that vendors were cowed by Amazon’s bargaining power and, fearing punishment, agreed to raise prices on competing retail websites. mercurynews.com/2026/04/20/ama…

Trump's blockade of the blockade, which supposedly forced the opening of the Strait of Hormuz—which was open to begin with—is now closed again because of the blockade.

Chuck Schumer was one of 7 Senate Democrats to vote to send bulldozers to Israel. 40 Democratic Senators voted no. Mr. Schumer, you are out of touch with our base and the nation. Step aside.

Fourteen months ago, WIRED introduced the world to a cadre of young, inexperienced technologists who were working with Elon Musk’s DOGE. These workers, many of them between the ages of 19 and 24, were given the keys to the US government. wired.com/story/where-th…

“There are estimates that show that up to 14 million people will die over the next five years alone, unnecessarily, due to the cuts to USAID,” says whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, who worked at the agency under four administrations. “And we're already starting to see the impacts. In fact, 750,000 people have already died, most of those children, according to conservative estimates.”

The accused assailant is a British immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 2022, meaning he got his green card in 2017 or earlier. The idea that Biden or his policies had anything to do with this is purely inflammatory political messaging divorced from any facts.

@damnidc__ Oh please he’s already banging future wife #4.

This is what winning at life looks like.

@ChrisHanov39200 @NadelParis @StephenKing You’re. And Trump is a rapist, Hegseth is a rapist, RFKjr is a rapist, and trumps bff was Epstein. We hear Swalwell is a rapist and we get rid of him. You promote them. Why don’t guys ask him to join your side where you embrace rapists.

@NadelParis @StephenKing I like how you reposted yourself. Your the idiot. Your DAF. And you did know about Eric Swalwell. You just didn't care. Did you?

The Republikican party was aware of Trump's behavior but never said anything, and he's still in the Catturd seat.

My goodness. For a lady whose daddy has done this work himself, this entire thread is fucking hilarious, not JUST bc most of this is normal--victims reporting crimes, prosecutors leaving off jurors who've formed their own opinion. But my goodness is @MaryMargOlohan playacting outrage.