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Erin Overbey

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Writer, Archivist, Editor Archive Editor, The New Yorker Journalist, whistleblower & media gal in NYC

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So the fact that we bombed a girls elementary school, while likely using AI for targeting, is going to be a major headline story dominating American news coverage when exactly?

06.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 3857 πŸ” 1162 πŸ’¬ 136 πŸ“Œ 33
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Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

06.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 11759 πŸ” 2577 πŸ’¬ 665 πŸ“Œ 166

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

06.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 5493 πŸ” 320 πŸ’¬ 292 πŸ“Œ 95
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Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

06.03.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 4170 πŸ” 1647 πŸ’¬ 219 πŸ“Œ 105
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 4051 πŸ” 1424 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 46

We shouldn’t be so concerned that Mullin doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree

Plenty of smart, successful people never went to college

We should be concerned that Mullin is unqualified, particularly stupid and ridiculously arrogant-a dangerous combination which is unfortunately very common among MAGA

06.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 700 πŸ” 209 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 16
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Met this fine chap on my morning walk

06.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 682 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 3

My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.

06.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 986 πŸ” 270 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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M MacroEdge @ @MacroEdgeRes X.com "We are experiencing the largest loss of oil supply in history (3X bigger than the 1973 Arab oil embargo)" - @ericnuttall #MacroEdge 11:09 AM β€’ 3/5/26 β€’ 137K Views

There is a saying that when plans for war are made, the enemy has a say. Well, in this case, so do allies who are disproportionately affected.

Energy market analysts say the impact of the Iran War on supply could be bigger than the 1973 oil embargo.

06.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 19

"Anger is real, and so is resolve."

05.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 651 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom.

This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

05.03.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 2796 πŸ” 420 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 33
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

05.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1748 πŸ” 715 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 83
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 7008 πŸ” 2016 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 61

frankly, i think all of the celebrating over Kristi Noem’s departure is premature & not just because she’s in there for the rest of the monthπŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

05.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Secretary Markwayne

05.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 2106 πŸ” 474 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 50

The new head of the Department of Homeland Security, everyone.

(He also previously confused Ayatollah Khomeini with Ayatollah Khamenei, so he has his finger on the pulse. We’re clearly in good hands.)

05.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

This is a big win. Kristi Noem was a disaster, and people speaking up got her fired.

But Kristi Noem is not the architect of Trump's dangerous mass deportation policies, and we can't let up the pressure.

Fire Stephen Miller.

05.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 884 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 12
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Proving yet again one of my basic rules on navigating Trumpism: He will always replace an incompetent person with someone more incompetent.

05.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 7859 πŸ” 2066 πŸ’¬ 788 πŸ“Œ 186

🎯🎯

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How to win in November

04.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 10910 πŸ” 3028 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 39

Because Chinese food is delicious and eating it is one of the great pleasures of life

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Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - TΓΌrkiye Today Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately
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Different angle, showing the lead-up:

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[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

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Nancy Youssef X post: The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.

Nancy Youssef X post: The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.

US war with Iran = $1B a day

Eliminating homelessness = 30 days of Iran war

Universal child care (3-4) = 20 days of Iran War

Universal free college = 58 days of Iran war

Ending world hunger = 93 days of Iran war

We’ve always had the meansβ€”we must demand that the priorities change

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Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

04.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 1967 πŸ” 668 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 39

Everybody gets hit with Body Stuff, but white women and the thinness thing is just diabolical. Like…they want y’all to look you’ve been surviving off cotton balls soaked in milk and roach carcasses.

04.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 2143 πŸ” 210 πŸ’¬ 115 πŸ“Œ 47
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β€œYou have turned the United States government against its own residents… You need to resign, be fired, or be impeached.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Detaining U.S. citizens without charges is not enforcement. It is a constitutional crisis.

#SheShed #Voices4Victory

04.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 757 πŸ” 314 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10
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Trump: "If we didn't do it first, they would've done it to Israel"

04.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 489 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 75
Jesse Singal tweet: Yada yada. Someone i know & trust at the New Yorket says she has this right. The people who mindlessly amplified Overbey should rethink stuff

Jesse Singal tweet: Yada yada. Someone i know & trust at the New Yorket says she has this right. The people who mindlessly amplified Overbey should rethink stuff

lmao, this was a badge of honor. Weird transphobe Jesse Singal attacking me because I dared to publicly reveal the New Yorker’s awful diversity & equal pay data and Gawker claimed I did it because I lacked β€œjoie de vivre” (I’m literally not making that up). Ppl always think they can come for meβ€¦πŸ€”

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