Ed Overbeek
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Brett Kavanaugh And The GOP’s Politics Of Abuse - Rantt Media
As the Republican Party stands by alleged abusers, their policies inflict a form of abuse on vulnerable Americans.
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So much about politics can be summed up by the answers to two questions:
Who is allowed to be a bully?
And who is allowed to defend themselves?
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Who is allowed to be a bully?
And who is allowed to defend themselves?
rantt.com/brett-kavana...
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A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
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When you’ve lost Ed Whelan – a man of such principle that, when he was working to get Kavanaugh confirmed, he tweeted a ridiculous conspiracy theory involving Zillow floor plans, in an attempt to frame someone else and give GOP senators an excuse to vote yes
Even Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center—where SCOTUS “whisperer” Leonard Leo sits on the board—says that Judge Currie’s dismissals of the criminal cases against Comey and Letitia James are legally sound. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
When you’ve lost Ed Whelan – a man of such principle that, when he was working to get Kavanaugh confirmed, he tweeted a ridiculous conspiracy theory involving Zillow floor plans, in an attempt to frame someone else and give GOP senators an excuse to vote yes
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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RIP JIMMY www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWd...
Jimmy Cliff - Wanted Man / Rehearsal in Strudio 1977 Jamaica
YouTube video by JahNesta
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
RIP JIMMY www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWd...
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After one of the worst acts of racial terror in our history, *we erased it.*
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
After one of the worst acts of racial terror in our history, *we erased it.*
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
We didn't teach it.
We didn't take anyone to trial.
Police records disappeared.
So did newspaper archives.
The silence continued until 2020, when people, you could say, woke up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Fantastic video, especially if you’re into geeking out on a physics joke deep dive while laughing at Sam Altman for being a completely unserious person
Did you see Angela Collier's excellent YouTube video about the Dyson sphere joke?
youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM?...
youtu.be/fLzEX1TPBFM?...
dyson spheres are a joke
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Fantastic video, especially if you’re into geeking out on a physics joke deep dive while laughing at Sam Altman for being a completely unserious person
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Rep. Lauren Underwood is there and reporting on what they showed her, and she describes how horrible it is in the detention center, and they didn't even show it to her with detainees in the holding cells. Thank you for telling us this tonight, and for going there to see it for yourself, too!! 💙
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Rep. Lauren Underwood is there and reporting on what they showed her, and she describes how horrible it is in the detention center, and they didn't even show it to her with detainees in the holding cells. Thank you for telling us this tonight, and for going there to see it for yourself, too!! 💙
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I’m really tired of ppl talking about “social” & “economic” issues as if they’re distinct categories.
Almost every “social” issue you can think of has a related economic consequence, & yet the narrative of distinction persists to keep vulnerable groups marginalized.
We should stop accepting it.
Almost every “social” issue you can think of has a related economic consequence, & yet the narrative of distinction persists to keep vulnerable groups marginalized.
We should stop accepting it.
The article is called "Out With Woke". He specifically calls for sacrificing all marginalized communities upon the altar of the revered white male. Is that how desperate liberals have gotten for any sort of hollow "win"?
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m really tired of ppl talking about “social” & “economic” issues as if they’re distinct categories.
Almost every “social” issue you can think of has a related economic consequence, & yet the narrative of distinction persists to keep vulnerable groups marginalized.
We should stop accepting it.
Almost every “social” issue you can think of has a related economic consequence, & yet the narrative of distinction persists to keep vulnerable groups marginalized.
We should stop accepting it.
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
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white people will have to learn how to stop voting for republicans
Following the release of the Epstein Files:
How will we hold accountable those that are in powerful positions and were either complicit or participated in the crime?
How will we hold accountable those that are in powerful positions and were either complicit or participated in the crime?
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
white people will have to learn how to stop voting for republicans
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Thrilling!
George Packer on Furious Minds: "The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues."
George Packer on Furious Minds: "The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues."
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. George Packer on Laura Field’s new book, “Furious Minds,” and the rot of the MAGA mind:
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Thrilling!
George Packer on Furious Minds: "The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues."
George Packer on Furious Minds: "The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues."
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Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Handing power to transphobes is handing power to abusers. Always.
Under new NHS puberty blocker trial protocols, trans youth are being subjected to more than 50 assessments, intrusive exams, and over 13 hours of intrusive testing - just to access lifesaving healthcare
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
It demands young people re-live distress & undergo intimate examinations
#ConversionPractices
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Handing power to transphobes is handing power to abusers. Always.
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Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
www.wfla.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
Since RFK Jr is “challenging science orthodoxy”, here are a few more suggestions for the NYT:
Trump is a “governance disruptor”
Linda McMahon is an “education renegade”
Greg Bovino is a “perjury maverick”
Authoritarianism is “neo-democracy”
The New York Times can “go fuck itself”
Trump is a “governance disruptor”
Linda McMahon is an “education renegade”
Greg Bovino is a “perjury maverick”
Authoritarianism is “neo-democracy”
The New York Times can “go fuck itself”
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Since RFK Jr is “challenging science orthodoxy”, here are a few more suggestions for the NYT:
Trump is a “governance disruptor”
Linda McMahon is an “education renegade”
Greg Bovino is a “perjury maverick”
Authoritarianism is “neo-democracy”
The New York Times can “go fuck itself”
Trump is a “governance disruptor”
Linda McMahon is an “education renegade”
Greg Bovino is a “perjury maverick”
Authoritarianism is “neo-democracy”
The New York Times can “go fuck itself”
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He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
everyone who spent the 90s laboriously and lovingly making mixtapes just dissolved into ancient dust
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Like, I'm split between amazement, "bravo Mamdani", and "holy goddamn fucking hell I'm so mad that none of this grace was given to anyone besides the left's favorite purity test holy shit".
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Like, I'm split between amazement, "bravo Mamdani", and "holy goddamn fucking hell I'm so mad that none of this grace was given to anyone besides the left's favorite purity test holy shit".
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Well ok except for that one time
Q: Trump accused Democrats of seditious behavior punishable by death. Does the president want to execute members of Congress?
LEAVITT: No
LEAVITT: No
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well ok except for that one time
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
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Hegseth gave the game away in the Oval Office a few weeks ago. With no contradiction from Trump he said the administration was done with “tepid legality.” We’re now officially living in a post-rule of law era.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hegseth gave the game away in the Oval Office a few weeks ago. With no contradiction from Trump he said the administration was done with “tepid legality.” We’re now officially living in a post-rule of law era.