Ed Overbeek

He continues to be a-ok when countries interfere with our elections to help Trump

This is an issue with our system that we don't have an "opposition leader" to coalesce around. The Internet wants to pin that on Schumer and Jeffries but that's not really their role. What we need now is to speak with one voice on one message and absent such a figure its very difficult to do

The US occupation of Haiti that he wishes he’d been part of included forced labor camps

Classic you 🤦‍♂️

violent christofascist white supremacy

Never forget who did this. Republicans did this. MAGA did this.

We beat this disease. One of our GREATEST scientific achievements in human history. And racist fearmongering lying Republicans are undoing it to where we will lose our herd immunity threshold within a year.

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CNN, and HBO. In a statement, Netflix co-CEO…

This Netflix/Paramount news cycle is yet another opportunity to point out that the U.S. press can't be honest about itself, fails constantly at explaining corruption, and is consistently complicit in its own destruction at the hands of autocrats.

“He’s an impressive person, kind of a [former Sen. Joe] Manchin, [Sen. John] Fetterman type, in that kind of category”

Well if you put it like that

Also without a legal warrant it is not an "arrest"

It is a kidnapping

Oh NOW you tell me

Mirror Mirror on the wall: show me the stupidest thing on Earth

They turned ICE into what CBP always was.

I’m somewhere along this process (literally got a countertop dishwasher a month ago and confirm the life-changing) and I really appreciate you sharing where you’ve been and what you’ve done about it

According to my Euphemism-to-English dictionary, “MAGA-friendly”, “America-centric” and “middle of the country” all translate to “white bigots”

Multiple judges, and reps like Joaquin Castro, have been saying this

So basically any war where he could mutilate and kill Black and Brown people. Got it.

Your hair looks a little different than usual in the thumbnail. Fantastic, just different

Even IF the accusation was false, there’s no legitimate reason for the DOJ to withhold this material. It’s an illegal coverup regardless.

I still can’t get over the idea of someone (who isn’t hardcore maga) starting off their list of good wars with “The Indian Wars”

Then he throws in our brutal occupation of Haiti and helping out Central American death squads in the 80s

just for shits and giggles the next 24 hours, take a look at media coverage of the Paramount/Warner/Netflix triangle and see how many outlets clearly acknowledge Trump corruption and influence played any role in the outcome

or how many acknowledge Ellison's goal is autocrat-friendly agitprop

This guy is a creep, folks. Quit his fanclub.

I am so tired of reactionaries pretending to be leftists.

Fwiw, Platner apparently has a thing for bad wars. This list is GRIM.

Democrats, Sanders, Jacobin defend Maine’s Graham Platner following Nazi tattoo revelation Self-identified “progressive” Democrats and <em>Jacobin</em> magazine are defending the longtime soldier for US imperialism even as more information emerges confirming his pro-war politics.

“In a 2010 thread titled “What American wars would you have volunteered to fight in?”

Platner replied: ‘The Indian Wars, the Philippines, Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920’s, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador again in the 80’s.’”

A reminder that when the NYPD killed Eric Garner with an illegal chokehold, they called it medical compression

Painfully accurate

“Harris didn’t earn my vote.”

Did trans kids earn your vote? Did immigrant families earn your vote? Did kids vulnerable to measles earn your vote? What about the millions of people USAID was helping keep alive?

Because that’s who you hurt.

Yes, and absolutely it relates to party affiliation. But there’s still racism, sexism, anti-semitism, transphobia etc on the “left”, that unites people who are nominally progressive with nominal centrists and outright fascists. Which muddies the waters and obstructs the fight against fascism.

This whole thing is reinforcing my belief that people’s attitude towards bigotry is more fundamental to politics than Dem vs R. The answer to “how ok are you with some bigotry?” tells me a lot more than “how do you feel about the Democratic Party?”

I think this is exactly right, and it’s leading some anti-establishment lefties to engage in the same maga-boosting that Gavin Newsom does on his pod.

The relevant thing here isn’t party affiliation, it’s bigotry.