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[Jo Kaur @SikhFeminist]

I've been learning more about what happened to Gisele Pelicot and I'm truly just in a state of shock.

Her husband drugged her for 10 years, and then had 70+ neighborhood men rape her, violently, over 200 times. She does not have any memory of this. It was all recorded on videos by her husband.

She of course had weird health issues she couldn't explain. Her psychotic husband went with her to appointments. One morning, the crown on her tooth felt loose when it was fine the day before, and she thought that was weird. Her husband helped remove it - she couldn't go to the dentist, it was the peak of COVID. He told her she must have bitten on something hard.

It turns out the night before, unbeknownst to her, men had been orally raping her, in extremely violent ways. She was unconscious and floppy.

This is her husband of 50 years who did all this to her. They have kids and grandkids together. I don't even know how we live in this world, there's just so much evil. Who can you trust.

[🦢 @ZainabSana2622]

The man who sent “free p*ssy” to the group chat was on a pre-med track. He was going to be a doctor when he sees half the human race as glorified fleshlights.

And if that single fact doesn’t highlight for you how violence against women becomes a systemic societal issue, I don’t know what to tell you.

[𝖓𝖆𝖟 @nazzygirlxx]

you’re on thick ice. i love you

[Isa @isaguedezo]

I’m sorry if you never got to experience one direction in real time. What a time. What a rush. You had to be there

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

[mary @elaine_stritch]

dont you fret
monsieur marius

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

btw

[ryan #RACHELHIVE @ryansreputation]

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[Morgan Hilliker @MorganHilliker]

this is so exciting for me

[Bruno Mars @BrunoMars]

My album is done.

[Bruno Mars @BrunoMars]

My album is done.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg.

Some excerpts from her interview with the Swedish paper Aftonblatet:

"They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me."

"They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me."

"They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time."

In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag.
"The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that."

"They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me."

Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed. "The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. There’s a lot I don’t remember. So much is happening at once. You’re in shock. You’re in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm."

Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says. "It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent."

"It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us."

"When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that."

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Thunberg says the Swedish government greatly downplayed the abuse she and her fellow Sumud Flotilla activists suffered, and wouldn't even bring them water.

"We were together and told them about the treatment we received. About the lack of food, water, about the abuse. The torture. We showed them the physical injuries we had – bruises and scratches. We gave them all our contact details – I gave them my father's number and the number of our contact in the organization. We were clear: everything we say now must be released to the media."

"They didn’t do anything, they just said: ’Our job is to listen to you. We are here and you are entitled to consular support.’"

"We said over and over again: we need water. And they saw that the guards had water bottles. The embassy staff said: ’We’ll make a note of that.’ One of us, Vincent, said: ’Next time we meet you, you must bring water.’

Then it took two days before the embassy staff showed up again.

"They didn't bring any water, except for a small bottle of their own that was half empty. Vincent, who was in the worst shape, got to drink it. We kept asking the guards, 'Can we have some water?' but they just walked around with their water bottles and didn't answer."

"I said, 'Are you going to leave us like this? If you leave now, they will beat us up.' But they just kept walking."

When Aftonbladet compares emails sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to relatives, with what the captives describe telling embassy staff, it becomes clear that the seriousness of the situation has been downplayed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the scene at the port, where Greta Thunberg was beaten for hours, as follows: “She told us about harsh treatment and that she had been sitting on a hard surface for a long time.”

On Saturday, several media outlets published testimonies that Greta had been subjected to torture.

Aftonbladet has spoken to three other members of the flotilla who largely confirm what Greta Thunberg says and who have all experienced various types of abuse and humiliation. We have also spoken to relatives. Everyone is highly critical of how the Swedish embassy staff acted.

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

Saleh was just killed in Gaza. There is no rest, no reprieve. An unbelievably cruel world we live in

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

These are the beautiful kids they’ve been slaughtering for two years.

[Rebecca Powell @DKCSCMadre]

Returning home. On foot. Not knowing what lies ahead. Grieving. In shock. Hungry and exhausted. I weep for you, Gaza, beautiful people.

[🫀BGK the great @frombretoyou]

A cheat code to adulting is to always have something to look forward to, no matter how small or big

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the fact that the people of Gaza get shot at for trying to fish in their own waters, which the IOF actually has no legal right to be in. Can we all just seriously take this in

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Happy 90th birthday to the iconic Julie Andrews!

[Nahed hajjaj @nahed_hajjaj99]

I see many people outside of Gaza saying the flotillas are pointless. I'm here to tell you as a journalist from Gaza that all of us here feel a sense of hope from the 50 ships coming.

We are waiting for you and if they stop you, at least you sacrificed and tried for our children