Can't Tell

Rowling's woman through and through.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

He will be executed tomorrow he will be hanged. He’s just a child. Please help me to get the leaders to call the Islamic Republic to stop the execution.
My heart broke when I just watched the forced confession of this young boy on Iran’s state TV.
They tell him: “You are Mohareb.”

He asks: “What does that mean?”

He was so young, he didn’t understand that it means one thing in Islamic Republic:
execution

A 17-year-old boy, Shervin Bagherian, was arrested in Iran’s recent protest. Now in the middle of a war they are preparing to execute him.

His only crime was wanting a normal life. There is still time to speak up. Will you stand with me and be his voice before it’s too late?

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

Having seen the infamous 47-minute compilation of the 7 Oct atrocities with my own eyes (not publicly available), I can attest that the Silenced No More report, which is freely available online, is even worse. It's just words on a page, but it leaves enough to the imagination to be even more horrific than the video. At least for me.

In the 47-minute compilation, there is some evidence of sexual sadism, but not much. Probably for two reasons: proud though Hamas was of massacring Jews, they were less keen on broadcasting scenes of sexual depravity. And the Israeli government likely declined to include the most horrific footage out of respect for the victims.

The report is exhaustively documented, horror story after horror story. I've read it only once, and I won't do so again. Especially the sections about the Nova festival are extremely disturbing. So I asked Claude to summarize the documented patterns in the report:

- Rape and gang rape, with victims passed between attackers in sequence, witnesses describing laughter throughout
- Targeted gunshots to groin, abdomen, buttocks and face; genital mutilation of both women and men
- Rape followed by execution—victims shot or stabbed immediately afterward, some shot in the head during the assault
- Rape continuing after victims were dead
- Sexual mutilation—breasts severed, genitals cut off or shot
- Burning, including deliberate burning of the groin; bodies set alight with accelerants
- - Hands bound behind backs; bodies tied to trees and poles along the road
- Sharp objects inserted into victims' genitals
- Women raped in view of their desperate partners, who were then killed
- Male victims gang-raped, beaten, and threatened with castration
- Dismemberment and decapitation

These findings of systematic sexual violence and torture are corroborated by the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict (2024) and the UN Commission of Inquiry (2024).

Just one quote from a survivor:

"I heard one rape where they were passing her around. She was probably injured, judging by her screams—screams you have never heard anywhere. It's between silence and screams, between pain and wanting to die. These are screams... it's something I have never heard in my life, and I have no way to explain to you what it sounds like. But it's screams. It's screams. It was simply horrific. And after one finished, he told another to go up 'Ta'al' [in Arabic], like to the next one. And apparently there was a round... And after they finished, they shot her." She continued: "You hear the screams, and then you hear silence. You hear a bang—and silence. And then there's a kind of calm. And then you say: okay, it's over at least. She's done with it. And like that with each person they abused—you heard. The moment they were killed, I said, 'Oh my God, finally, it's over.'"

You privileged Westerners have no idea how you would react if this happened to you and your loved ones—if a group committed these atrocities, vowed to repeat them again and again, and openly declared that it would not stop until your country no longer existed. You have no idea.

https://t.co/wzWytLLkUz

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Every morning I write about someone Iran just executed, within minutes, a message arrives a mother, a sister, a friend, begging me to write about their loved one who is on the death row. Before it's too late.

This is why I want to write before the execution of this young woman, not after. Arghavan Fallahi. 24 years old. Evin Prison. Sentenced to death.

Judge Salavati one of Iran's most notorious hanging judges, sentenced her under "Baghi," armed rebellion.

During months in solitary confinement, she was subjected to severe psychological torture and pressure to make forced confessions. But she refused. So they sentenced her to death anyway.

Fellow female prisoners who were with Arghavan inside Evin say her situation is urgent. The torture has left her with severe psychological trauma and physical illness. She is not just facing the death sentence, she is suffering right now, inside that cell. But is still alive and is still time to save her life.

Please join me and help us Iranians to say her name now and demand international community and the leader leaders of the world to put pressure on these that republic to stop them from executing her and other political prisoners.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@LisaSelinDavis I'm an Israeli living in NYC, and even as an adult I'm hesitant to tell new people where I'm from. In some cases I actively hide it for my (physical) safety. I'm glad you showed the kid that not everyone is hostile, but it's so upsetting that we're in this situation.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@nicolelampert Unfortunately, the ideology underlying the "progress" flag is already there, and it's extremely politicized. Most Israelis are unaware of it due to other pressing concerns. And if you support liberal values and object the messianic right, there is no way to vote away from this.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@BradfemlyWalsh I'm not an American and I cannot comprehend this. To be fair, there are a lot of things in American cuisine that I cannot comprehend as well.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@thepeacepoet99 😂
Alternatively, your muscles are strong so that you can find balance on one leg, but you need to train your brain (and muscles) to find balance with your eyes closed.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can kill driveway and sidewalk weeds with boiling water. No roundup, no runoff, no dead bees. Boiling water works as a contact herbicide. The heat ruptures the plant's cell walls on contact, and you'll see the weed wilt within minutes. Pour it straight from a kettle onto the weed and into the crack around its base.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@elicalebon Right back at you.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@ItsGoneAwry I'm also about to DM you with some other thoughts - it's been a long road for us trying to deal with her noise phobia.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@ItsGoneAwry My dog responds best to valium - she gets less than the required dosage to her size and calms down within half an hour. We can't give her other meds due to adverse reactions (in her case). You can also try Sileo, which is specifically for noise phobia and acts quickly.

[Romina @allefuerallee]

🆘 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🆘

The Islamic regime is going to hang Diana Taherabadi because she participated in the January protests.

She’s only 16.
This is pure barbarism.
Share this before they kill her.

#IranMassacre
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@ninapaley @JamieWhistle @LGBCourage Every time I see this card I feel both amused and disgusted. It is so very accurate.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

#IStandWithSallGrover

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

I am absolutely devastated
Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.
It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

According to Australian law if you can accurately identify who is male and who is female in these photos you’re in trouble.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@ninapaley A - it's legible enough and looks great.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@thepeacepoet99 I would try to see a really excellent physical therapist - ask someone you know and trust in your area if they know of someone who is really good.

[Can't Tell @TruthIsKindness]

@fem_mb As an Israeli I'm all for giving Israel credit where it's due, but I don't think that this picture is real. I google searched pictures of this border in Hebrew and found nothing that looks remotely like this. I suspect it may be AI generated.