Ed Overbeek

I wrote this in 2017. I don’t think I’d word it exactly the same now, but it lays out my thoughts on American apartheid pretty succinctly.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory decor joke is going to continue to get far more play in the media, days after it happened, than RFK Jr being openly racist. Draw your own conclusions about the press based on that.

This is a hell of a study ( though it won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s read The American Voter). Thanks @mike10010100.com for pointing me to it. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

it's not okay to murder me like this while I'm just sitting here eating my grilled chicken

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

I read the NYT piece earlier, and I had no idea there was a new rape allegation against the president until I saw this thread. The closest the Times got to saying there’s a new allegation was “it largely cites allegations that have already been public.”

A new low for whiteness

nothing in the world feels better than just fucking crushing republicans. do everything you can to ensure that’s the outcome in 10 days

When people tell you both parties are the same, ask them why all the oligarch money goes to the GOP

The degree to which stigma over mental health issues, neurodivergence, sexual orientation and a range of other issues/experiences/identities has been decreased. There's a reason they're going after empathy, and it's because people/society really did become more tolerant over the past 50 years.

Very telling every other reporter actually stayed quiet while Trump berated at the NBC lady

This is not an unfortunate byproduct of MAGA politics. This is the entire goal.

5. The instinct that lets you look the other way and/or encourage putting Kushner in charge of Middle East negotiations is the same that puts Betancourt in the middle of the theft of Venezuelan oil. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Oh, Vivek, you poor bastard.

Can't believe this adjudicated sexual assaulter who is hiding the evidence about his relationship to the world's most notorious child sex trafficker is praising the woman who sided with her child's rapist to abandon her own kid

America has always been an argument between a wealthy few, who rule over, enslave, exclude & exploit others & a "we the people" who have dreamed, died, struck & protested to make the promise of "liberty & justice" be for all, no exceptions. The many can take on the money when we unite.

So-called meritocracies (like the neoliberal university) will always struggle to produce equity. Because privileged groups can determine the definition of merit and control the means by which such merit is achieved.

We knew this onslaught was coming. We're seeing a tsunami of spending from tech and capital in general, aimed at saving the Senate. To confront this, we need to turn it against the donors. That's why I've been begging all Dems to do what WisDems did & Talarico has been forced to do: Torch Elon.

when you get to the afterlife and the first guy you meet fathered a child with his 14 year old slave who was also his half-sister-in-law

Grateful that this didn't come out until after my Hegseth piece, thus sparing me the temptation of overusing the most on-the-nose metaphor in the history of both metaphors and noses

ok, if you live in California and need info on voting on our crazy ass ballot... a friend from high school sent me this website. It lets you compare various voter guides! www.openballot.app/elections/ca...

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

Jesus, Steph

The U.S. President is an Epstein File main character and the entire GOP is covering it up via help from the conveniently incurious white male-owned news media. @cnn.com @msnowreports.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @smerconish.bsky.social ALL complicit enabling pedophilia, murder and much more.

This is such a fundamental misreading of the Republican Party. It pains me to see “uniparty” bullshit somehow become more common precisely when the GOP has gone mask-off fascist.

it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

cynicism is hemlock to democracy. vote!

SNL did it first

Abolitionist and physician, Sarah Parker Remond, granddaughter of a Black Revolutionary War veteran, ended segregation in a Boston theater with a lawsuit in 1853. She actively championed democracy throughout her life and career in the US, England, and Italy.

Today is Carrie Fisher's Birthday. So I celebrate as I always do. We miss you, Space Mom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoe...

I’d love to see a major news outlet tackle the fact that Republicans keep taking the side of men who rape children

Me coming home from kindergarten

@donmoyn.bsky.social with an absolute vital piece re DOGE. DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup.

Let this inspire and also enrage. When we prevail in this election & deal a blow to MAGA's fascist forces, let us not declare that "the institutions held" & it was a "free & fair election." We will prevail DESPITE the authoritarian conditions in which the election is being held.

there shouldve been wall-to-wall coverage during the '24 campaign that mass deportation (to madagascar) was the nazi's initial plan for the elimination of jews it should still be made emphatically, incessantly clear that "remigration" is the same bloodless euphemism for genocide as final solution

probably a coincidence

Reading this thread I can’t help but think of the @markjacob.bsky.social/Patrick Healy vid where Healy insists it’s good not to call a thing a thing

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…