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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

POLITICO
Trump pardons soldiers implicated in war crimes
The move drew a swift outcry about potential harm to the military justice system.
Navy chief petty officer Edward Gallagher. | Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
By BRYAN BENDER and WESLEY MORGAN
11/16/2019 2:32 AM GMT+1
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dress More Professional vs. This Was €5
A black graphic tee with two images of an obnoxious strutting mouth with the text, in pink and green, “don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk”
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I see we’ve temporarily abandoned the incoherent theory that “crime stats are fake.”
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
•••
Crime stats in big blue cities are fake. The real rates of crime, chaos & dysfunction are orders of magnitude higher.
Everyone who lives in these areas knows this. They program their entire lives around it.
Democrats are trying to unravel civilization. Pres
Trump will save it.
2:06 PM • Aug 12, 2025 • 3M Views
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vanity Fair headline with photo of Glenn Beck in hat: WARREN REPORT
Glenn Beck Is Very, Very Sorry for Donald Trump
The reformed paranoiac apologizes for unleashing forces that aided Trump's rise. (A version of this column originally appeared on Poynter. org.)
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I read these things just to make sure they are vapid as I think they will be. And they are! This piece argues Democrats shouldn't view the world via the prism of "oppressor" and "oppressed"; that this is woke gone wild. His example of a bad target: Billionaires. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
When every problem is described through the prism of a struggle between oppressors and the oppressed, populism rarely comes with a big tent. Signs of an adversarial turn are easy to find. As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani, now New York City's mayor, said flatly, "I don't think we should have billionaires." Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put it more sharply: "You can't earn a billion dollars ... You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sort of things. You can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they're worth, but you can't earn that."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's incredible how you can say "the working class" was "once" part of the Democratic coalition even when a clear majority of the working class votes for Democrats. It's just accepted that we obviously mean "white."
Wide income gap in partisanship among voters without bachelor's degrees 

Among registered voters in each income tier, % who are ... 

Among some college or less ... 
Lower/Lower-middle 54/40 Dem/Rep

Source: 2023 American Trends Panel annual profile survey conducted Aug. 7-27, 2023. PEW RESEARCH CENTER



Dem/ Lean Dem 54 42 36 58 56 55

Middle Middle
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So I bought a train pass that lets me travel across Austria and to neighboring countries for free, for a year (after cost of said pass). Now I just get on the train, write and end up Wherever. Today I’m in Bavaria (Passau).
Laptop on a wooden table at an outdoor cafe on cobblestone street Outside of cafe with lounge chairs and traditional Bavarian architectureWalkway by river with large tree on left and fence-like metal sculpture on rightStreet with hanging lanterns in red, white and green.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🌈 🇦🇹
Rainbow in gray sky over urban landscape, including a tram and a pedestrian do not walk signal
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Previously, the FBI was widely condemned for observing in a memo that — paraphrasing — "some tradcaths might be nuts." Here's the sort of ranting that prompted that document, which was formally retracted following right-wing outrage. www.commonwealmagazine.org/anti-catholi...
"All that needs to be done is for us to truly unite in Christ Jesus and make total war

against the Satanic occultist government and the Zionist devil worshiping bankers who control it, and the Lord God will give us victory," he wrote to his aunt, adding: "Jews,

liberals, communists, degenerates, Zionists, progressives, capitalists, globalists, and Green Party PETA-type environmentalists are the greatest enemies of God and the primary representatives of the devil himself in the spotlight and everyday life. Learn to spot them and how to destroy them."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Subscription fatigue makes intuitive sense, as a contributor to the death of journalism and the newsletter economy. But I'm not so sure: that's definitely not the reason most people give, and the vast majority of people never paid for news in the first place. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
pie chart showing "Yes-16," "No-83," "No answer-1": Most Americans do not pay for news
% of U.S. adults who say they have directly paid or given money to any news sources by subscribing, donating or becoming a member in the last 12 months

Source: Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Dec. 8-14, 2025.
“Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News”
PEW-KNIGHT INITIATIVE
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You just know who this guy voted for three times.
"This guy, I think, is just an in-your-face type of guy that — for lack of a better word — enjoys this kind of controversy.
I'm just not in favor of him being around, so if he didn't come, I'd say great, we would go. But if he's going to come, I would venture to say a lot of people might not go," said Hughes, who is now retired and lives on Long Island.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Kid dressed as journalist, writing on pad while wearing hat that says press
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Found possibly the worst branding decision in the history of hair salons.
Storefront with signs that say “Virus” with the tagline: “Get infected”
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Once more, we see the narrative of "Israeli global control" used to absolve others — the Tate brothers, George W. Bush, America — of responsibility for their own crimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
The conservative media star Tucker Carlson, who has conducted sympathetic interviews of the Tates, told The Times, without evidence, that he believed their arrests were related to their outspoken criticism of Israel.

"After decades of ignoring grooming gangs and covering for Jeffrey Epstein, the British and American governments seemed to have lost interest in prosecuting sex crimes," Mr. Carlson said. "Then the Tate brothers criticized Israel, and I was reminded that under certain circumstances they're willing to act."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's possible that the Trump admin. was blindsided by Israeli action and just spinning when it claimed otherwise. But before any bombs were dropped, the Trump White House was saying this — Israel being seen as attacking Iran first — was exactly what it wanted. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump went along with Netanyahu. In June, 2025, the Israelis conducted an extended assault that appeared partly aimed at overturning the Iranian government. After about a week, Trump directed the U.S. military to join in a night of air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, perhaps because he feared missing out on a chance to take credit for the blow. But when Trump and Netanyahu launched a surprise attack eight months later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that, this time, the President had decided to strike Iran "preëmptively," because "there was going to be an Israeli action" that "would precipitate an attack against American forces." Trump later claimed, unconvincingly, that he'd taken the lead with the Israelis and might even "have forced their hand"; Rubio's account more credibly suggested that the Trump Administration had believed it couldn't stop Israel from launching an attack but would nonetheless shoulder any backlash—a pattern painfully familiar to the Biden White House.Politico headline, 02/25/2026: "White House officials believe 'the politics are a lot better' if Israel strikes Iran first"
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tried to share an article on the immigration subreddit but couldn't because the source is not approved/as credible as uh Zero Hedge.
• These US news sites are: ABC News, AP News, Axios, Bloomberg, Businessinsider, CBS News, CNN,

Fortune, Fox Business (not Fox News), Just The News, Market Watch, National Review, NBC News, News Nation Now, Newsweek, NPR, New York Times, Politico, ProPublic, Real Clear Politics, Reason, Reuters, SAN, Semafor, Tampa Bay Times, The Dispatch, The Free Press, The Hill, SCOTUS Blog, Time Magazine, Upward News, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Washington Times, Yahoo News, Zero Hedge
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
crypto-fascist noun

cryp•to-fascist Ikrip(,)tö+ : one who has secret fascist sympathies but is not an avowed fascist
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Europe, please: appeasement doesn’t work. You of all continents should know that. apnews.com/article/nato...
In an attempt last month to mollify the U.S. leader, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte went to Washington to hail the "Trump Trillion" - the $1.2 trillion that European allies and Canada have added to defense spending since Trump came to power in 2017.
As leaders converged on Ankara, Rutte hosted a
"big reveal" event to showcase the many deals planned for that money — much of it to be spent on U.S. companies, creating thousands of jobs for Americans.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The MAGA line was that the 2020 election was hacked by Venezuela, Italy and China. So it’s weird to cut every part of the government focused on election security and foreign influence, isn’t it? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Graphic: Cutting election security
At least 6 actions

Disbanded F.B.I. task force tracking foreign influence operations
Froze election cybersecurity work
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Learning practical German.
X
Review
I have understood almost nothing.
Ich habe fast nichts verstanden.
Did you get it right?
Yes
No
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey so we invented this new form of conservative socialism that's just for the white people. In Germany.
Wagenknecht founded BSW in 2024 after breaking away from the far-left Die Linke party to launch what she described as a movement of "left

conservatism" that blurred the traditional left-right divide. While advocating traditionally left-wing policies such as an expansive welfare state, she also embraced some anti-immigration positions and pursued a Moscow-friendly foreign policy, echoing the AfD's positions.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Communist campaign literature, 2026: "For a friendlier Graz."
squirrel on a branch holding a nut, with flowers to its right. text in top right says 'KPO'. under squirrel it says: "Für ein freundliches Graz."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Communists have held on to the mayor's office in Austria's second largest city, increasing their vote margin by ~7% since 2021.
bar chart from top to bottom:

FPO -- 12.2%
OVP -- 25.35%
SPO -- 5.63%
NEOS -- 4.83%
KPO -- 35.63%

minor parties with <1%
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...
Blanche wrote that without the ballroom,
"the President cannot safely conduct the business of the United States."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We can laugh, but federal law enforcement kicking into War on Terror mode over the president's lies about a reflecting pool is not very funny.


UNITED STATES PARK POLICE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS - MAJOR CRIMES UNIT

INFORMATION BULLETIN

The United States Park Police (USPP) is seeking assistance in identifying the individual depicted above in connection with a Destruction of Government Property investigation. The incident occurred on June 19, 2026, at approximately 3:36 p.m. at the Reflecting Pool on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Anyone with information regarding the identity of this individual is asked to contact the United States Park Police Tip Line.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Interpol got woke. Love to see it. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
"Interpol didn't used to write political songs (few people did, at the time). "I don't like politics, I like the human spirit," says Banks.
The absurdity of today's political landscape changed that. "We live in a world where all of these arguments come down to how you can shape the hearts and minds of people who are susceptible to rhetoric," he continues. "I feel bad for people who give the benefit of the doubt to evil men because they can't fathom that someone could be so evil. They're good people, and it couldn't even enter into their consciousness that a person could be so damaged that they will actually hurt history.
That someone would lie so much about an election. Because he's the president."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I wish it were posted here, but credit to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan.
X post:

These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How did "shut up and do as your told" work out the last time?
Jaime Harrison X post from July 8, 2024: 
•..

Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime

We have our marching orders from the President, the Commander in Chief, the Head of the Table win this thing! #Biden2024
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Meta promoting fascist content like this in my Facebook feed does at least drive home the exterminationist agenda of the modern right. This is a guy saying the EU is "f**cked" because it won't engage in the mass murder of asylum-seekers.
post from Peter Boghossian.

"You're totally f**ked."

screenshot of video: "You're not willing to shoot down the boats."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Oh, academia: The quote on the left is so thoroughly plagiarized by the author on the right (writing 30 years later) that it comes up when you try searching for the original.
two papers highlighted.

left: This reconfirms Stuart Hall’s argument that the radical right does not invent itself out of whole cloth: it “takes the elements which are already constructed into place, dismantles them, reconstitutes them into a new logic, and articulates the space in a new way, polarizing it to the right.”

right: ALM emerges in this moment and draws on elements which are already constructed into place dismantles them and reconstitutes them into a new neolib-eral logic.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
—
Matthew Arnold and his weird sideburns
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Flyer from @WeHeep_UsSafe with masked police:
REJECT THE DEPORTATION REGULATION
NO EU ICE!
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
At a protest in Vienna over the EU’s new asylum regime — effective today — that fast-tracks deportations and allows people to be sent to third countries.
Banner on side of truck with red fist:

KEIMENSCH IST ILLEGAL
Stop deportations
Breiberecht überall!
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A glimpse at the intellectual standards and alternative reality of right-wing media, where the pope saying it should be "legal" to immigrate is spun as him all but embracing mass deportations.
Breitbart headline with photo of pope: 
NOLTE: POPE LEO EDGES CLOSER TO MAGA ON IMMIGRATION 
by JOHN NOLTE 
11 Jun 2026 

Something appears to have red-pilled Pope Leo XIV, who used a whole bunch of words today to nearly go full-MAGA about the issue of immigration.

Human dignity, he said, "requires legal and safe routes, rescue and assistance, real cooperation against traffickers, effective protection for victims, serious processes of

welcome and integration, and policies that allow each person to live with dignity in his or her own land."

Did he say "legal?" I think he did.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In 1920s Austria, the center-left also proved incapable of standing up for itself in the face of ascendant fascism, demonstrating what one writer has described as social democracy's "serial failure of nerve." (from "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World" by Richard Cockett)
For certain Viennese on the left, the rot set in as early as July 1927, when the Social Democrat city council had apparently allowed the police to gun down eighty-nine of their own supporters. These people had been protesting against a court verdict releasing three right-wing paramilitaries who had killed two of their own in an ambush. In retaliation, the protestors stormed and set fire to the city's Palace of Justice, provoking the police into their murderous assault. As well as the dead, another 500 or so were injured. The Social Democrat mayor, Karl Seitz, had tried to persuade the demon- strators to disperse before the police charged in, but to no avail.Even at the time, the bloody events of 15 July appeared to many to be a fork in the road. Take Ilona Duczynska, for instance, the wife of the socialist journalist and economist Karl Polanyi. Born near Vienna to Hungarian and Polish parents, up to that point she was a fervent supporter of the Social Democrats. Holidaying at a Danubian resort on the day, she hurried back to the city as news of the massacre spread. Using a press pass to cross police lines, Duczynska was appalled by the devastating scenes, akin to the Peterloo Massacre, and was equally dismayed by the 'total irrelevance' at this vital juncture of the social democrat leadership and their failure to immediately mobilise the Schutzbund and issue arms to protect the working class. For Duczynska the debacle set an unhappy precedent of constant retreat by the Social Democrats before the more ruthless and determined forces of the right. "The powerful potential of the Austrian workers' movement,' she argued, was 'frittered away in a long drawn-out process of yielding one position after the other 42 One modern writer has called this process social democracy's 'serial failure of nerve'.43
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
First ride on my new bike and I literally found @theredoubt.net
Biker with big ol’ sunglasses taking selfie with river and fortress in the hill behind himFortress in the Hills
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Mood.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
At least President Trump would ground the drones

Simon Jenkins

After the ham-fisted military antics of the Obama years, the rest of the world could do with a jolt of good old-fashioned Republican isolationism
Fri 22 Jul 2016 11.15 CEST
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A photo shared by organizers shows AfD-affiliated outlet Deutschland Kurier is at the summit, one of their hacks seen speaking to AfD lawmaker Lena Kotré. AfD, now leading in German opinion polls, previously tried to distance itself from the extremists here. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...
Woman with black hair holding a white microphone, speaks to woman with blonde hair
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The “remigration”/ethnic cleansing summit looks to be ~98% men. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...
Photo from the back of a conference room, showing a bunch of seated men
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Bovino has landed in Portugal. The photo shows him flanked by Martin Sellner, the Austrian extremist behind the “great replacement” conspiracy, and Reconquista founder Afonso Gonçalves. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...
Gregory Bovino has arrived at
RESUM26. The interest around him is enormous.
This is where theory meets practice.
Now comes the real question:
How do we turn remigration into reality?
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This morning organizers announced the event with Bovino, et al., is taking place south of Porto at the Salmanha Residence hotel. maps.app.goo.gl/Diw97qiA8L8n...
Flyer with aryan lady in the alps

WE ARE SOLD OUT!
THE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT:
SALMANHA RESIDENCE
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here is the announcement on Telegram (cc @marisakabas.bsky.social): www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...
Greg Bovino with far-right activists giving a thumbs up in a photo above text:

Special guest announcement! Joining us on the RESUM26 stage will be none other than retired Chief Patrol Agent of the US Border Patrol, Mr. Gregory Bovino, to talk about his experience. The event is sold out, but livestream tickets are still available! 7 https://remigrationsummit.com/

25

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* • 250 16:45
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm sorry, but why are saying this and not "we want the guy out of office"? www.nokings.org
Authoritarians want fear, silence, and isolation. We choose joy. We choose community. We choose people power.

Rise Up, Sing Out is about reclaiming patriotism as something inclusive, participatory, and rooted in care for one another - not power, pageantry, or one person's spotlight.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I need to address a controversy: the backwards R in my display has nothing to do with the Russian language.
Toys "R" Us sign with backwards R and an orange giraffe
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🤔
Red baseball cap with white text: The Redoubt
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There is a major protest in Vienna today, with thousands of students and faculty opposing a proposed 15-20% cut in Austria’s funding for universities and scientific research.
Densely packed crowd on a sunny day in a broad street
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I get the feeling we are at this stage in the cycle.
OPINION If He Loses, Trump Will Concede Gracefully He'll fight hard to make sure the results are fair, and in the end he'll accept the result whatever it is. By Mick Mulvaney Nov. 7, 2020 1:01 pm ET

COMMENTARY
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I kept hearing about how there was a post-covid glut of bikes and now that I need a bike there are no bikes.
screenshot showing that every size bike from 2xs to 2xl is "coming soon: jun 8 - jun 19, 2026"
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🌈
Rainbow in blue sky above walkway
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