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...
I searched “maga politics as permission structure to be your worst self” and this is the picture that came up
Russell Brand has been charged with two further offences of rape and sexual assault, the Met Police has confirmed
Russell Brand charged with two further offences of rape and sexual assault
www.thenational.scot
December 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I searched “maga politics as permission structure to be your worst self” and this is the picture that came up
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NYT, Tuesday: everyone is simplifying and exaggerating Christian nationalism!
NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NYT, Tuesday: everyone is simplifying and exaggerating Christian nationalism!
NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
NYT, Thursday: Trump administration seeks to impose state religion through official Christmas messages.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/a...
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
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John Doar is right there in all the histories of the Civil Rights Movement, but not with much about him personally. One main purpose of Lost Cause-type narratives is to erase such figures, so it's particularly fitting to change that in the face of Trump's anti-CRT=>anti-woke revisionist history push
I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.
Well, after eight years of research, writing and revision, I just sent the full manuscript for THE DIVISION: JOHN DOAR, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to my publisher.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
John Doar is right there in all the histories of the Civil Rights Movement, but not with much about him personally. One main purpose of Lost Cause-type narratives is to erase such figures, so it's particularly fitting to change that in the face of Trump's anti-CRT=>anti-woke revisionist history push
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The subject of my next biography, journalist Wallace Terry, covered the civil rights movement for the "Washington Post" during the early 1960s, including Medgar Evers' fight for equality in Mississippi as an NAACP official.
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The subject of my next biography, journalist Wallace Terry, covered the civil rights movement for the "Washington Post" during the early 1960s, including Medgar Evers' fight for equality in Mississippi as an NAACP official.
I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.
Well, after eight years of research, writing and revision, I just sent the full manuscript for THE DIVISION: JOHN DOAR, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT to my publisher.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
This is happening, people. Whether you want it or not.
a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a blue jacket and scarf
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I’d never heard of John Doar before. If you haven’t either, give him a google. People like this, all the allies through history, give the lie to “but those were different times”. There have always been people raised in privilege who still knew right from wrong and took on the status quo.
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abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
Merry Christmas, Barcelona style
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Merry Christmas, Barcelona style
SCOOP:
tiny tim is dead guys
December 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
SCOOP:
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This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
December 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
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Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .
There’s a line about driving I subscribe to: people who drive slower than you are annoying, and people who drive faster are aholes. It’s the same with criticizing Democrats. Too much or too little (a subjective, complicated thing!) and the people around you are just WRONG. I’m as guilty as anyone.
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
There’s a line about driving I subscribe to: people who drive slower than you are annoying, and people who drive faster are aholes. It’s the same with criticizing Democrats. Too much or too little (a subjective, complicated thing!) and the people around you are just WRONG. I’m as guilty as anyone.
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I wrote about the ways propaganda takes root, how attacks against trans people in the US and UK reflect different mythologies of protection, and why combating disinformation at the local level might be a more effective way to dismantle these frameworks than abstract online arguments with strangers.
You're soaking in it
Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I wrote about the ways propaganda takes root, how attacks against trans people in the US and UK reflect different mythologies of protection, and why combating disinformation at the local level might be a more effective way to dismantle these frameworks than abstract online arguments with strangers.
I took several years off social media and I’m still adjusting to the effect of the war and genocide in Gaza on the discourse on here. People I used to agree with on just about everything will randomly post something wildly antisemitic or cruelly indifferent to Palestinians. It just sucks.
December 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I took several years off social media and I’m still adjusting to the effect of the war and genocide in Gaza on the discourse on here. People I used to agree with on just about everything will randomly post something wildly antisemitic or cruelly indifferent to Palestinians. It just sucks.
Bigger picture, Trump is part of a political lineage, from the founders to Calhoun to Pat Buchanan, devoted to rich white male minority rule. Inherently authoritarian and prone to fascism + political violence – esp when most threatened/ least bipartisan (Civil War, civil rights movement, now)
My view is that the fascism thing was absolutely a long-term development, starting in '64 at the latest, but that Trump was a catalyst who accelerated the process by at least a decade
So, true enough that he's an aberration, true enough that he wasn't any kind of inevitable. But...
So, true enough that he's an aberration, true enough that he wasn't any kind of inevitable. But...
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Bigger picture, Trump is part of a political lineage, from the founders to Calhoun to Pat Buchanan, devoted to rich white male minority rule. Inherently authoritarian and prone to fascism + political violence – esp when most threatened/ least bipartisan (Civil War, civil rights movement, now)
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Looked up the author and she converted to evangelicalism because she became a fan of Tim Keller and JD Greear. She's saying not to worry about Christian nationalism while being a fan of people who platform the worst sorts of Christian nationalists.
religionnews.com/2023/06/05/m...
religionnews.com/2023/06/05/m...
December 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Looked up the author and she converted to evangelicalism because she became a fan of Tim Keller and JD Greear. She's saying not to worry about Christian nationalism while being a fan of people who platform the worst sorts of Christian nationalists.
religionnews.com/2023/06/05/m...
religionnews.com/2023/06/05/m...
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Also See this from TWENTY FRIGGING TWELVE 2012 When @sarahposner.bsky.social and I were talking about this!!! OMG I have to tap out, my Blood pressure is going up.
Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate
The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, i...
religiondispatches.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Also See this from TWENTY FRIGGING TWELVE 2012 When @sarahposner.bsky.social and I were talking about this!!! OMG I have to tap out, my Blood pressure is going up.
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Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.
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Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them. by @sambiddle.com
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.
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This administration is animated by abuse
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This administration is animated by abuse
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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"Wait for the more credible allegations"
Bro that motherfucker is on tape criming 100% of the time, it's the Crimes Presidency for Criminals, and despite saying "I'm doing crimes" and then doing crimes, nothing sticks to him. YOU fuckin wait
Bro that motherfucker is on tape criming 100% of the time, it's the Crimes Presidency for Criminals, and despite saying "I'm doing crimes" and then doing crimes, nothing sticks to him. YOU fuckin wait
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"Wait for the more credible allegations"
Bro that motherfucker is on tape criming 100% of the time, it's the Crimes Presidency for Criminals, and despite saying "I'm doing crimes" and then doing crimes, nothing sticks to him. YOU fuckin wait
Bro that motherfucker is on tape criming 100% of the time, it's the Crimes Presidency for Criminals, and despite saying "I'm doing crimes" and then doing crimes, nothing sticks to him. YOU fuckin wait
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Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.
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you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen