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Charles Я. Davis

@charliearchy.bsky.social
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Founder, @TheRedoubt.net. American journalist in Vienna. Subscribe: TheRedoubt.net/subscribe Cohost, @critical-support.bsky.social Signal: @charlesdavis.13

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RESOLVED: "Are Brazilians 'Americans'?"
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein both have beards now and they went from "dude's annoying" to "I honestly think they might be evil."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m spiritually ready for Reddit Atheism II
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Biden, Republicans held a congressional hearing where a witness alleged that Philly DA Larry Krasner was covering up murders to lower his city’s numbers — a power he did not possess, and a theory that falls apart if you think about it literally at all (morgues, families, cops: all complicit?).
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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.”
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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.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It’s hard to admit this from a modern perspective, but historical fascism’s lust for violence didn’t make it repulsive but extremely attractive to a lot of German voters." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Justice for the Disappeared vs. Bipartisan Farm Bill bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ACCOUNTABILTY vs. I Will Trick Donald Trump Into Believing That USAID Was His Idea
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RECONSTRUCTION II vs. “I would rather move the ball forward to the benefit of the American people.”
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The Redoubt @theredoubt.net · 23/09/2026
NEW: The Census Bureau has acquired more commercial voter data, weeks after using such data to falsely claim thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. www.theredoubt.net/us-census-bu...
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US Census Bureau acquires more commercial voter data
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has promised the bureau will find tens of thousands of "illegal voters."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To "demonstrate capabilities," the Trump admin. asked would-be vendors to submit voter data for Fulton County, Georgia, among a handful of other jurisdictions.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Berlin is going to be getting a government led by die Linke - while the SPD campaigned on continuing to work with the CDU, it’s not mathematically possible even with the support of the Greens
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Among our liberals and moderates there is a distorting emphasis on jus in bello (laws of war, “war crimes,” waging war the right way) and not nearly enough attention to jus ad bellum (the very act aggression, first-order strategic decisions, achievability or not of war aims).
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don’t think it’s the only or greatest evil in the world today, but looking back at 25 years of US military action since 9/11 — tens of thousands of dead, conservatively — does remind me why I’m bothered by the liberal-branded American Exceptionalism you often find on here.
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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is not hyperbole! And this was an attracting at the New Jersey boardwalk 20 years ago.
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Wack The Iraqi Paintball Gun Range - Wildwood, New Jersey 2004
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Wildwood, New Jersey, there was a place on the boardwalk where you could pay to fire a paintball guy at a teenage employee dressed as an Arab caricature. At one point it was billed as a chance to "Shoot an Iraqi."
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“This goes beyond the racism that many of us grew up with in the 1970s. Rather it is a return to the 1930s, where those dressed in blackshirts gathered on the streets under the banner of fascism.”
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Matsu Basho 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @matsubasho.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
« "No one denies the Holocaust," as one whistleblower told Der Standard [un journal autrichien] . "They think it's good and they want to repeat it. »
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know smirking understatement is the House style, but this is just clunky.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Beyond the politics of it, I’m always struck by just how bad NYT headlines are. A whole newsroom — a team of editors making >$200k — and the best you can come up with is “Trump Adds New Claim”?
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In Austria, young fascists are breaking out the calipers and trying to find "Aryan bones" in each other's skulls. And then at least some are getting jobs in parliament, employed by the far-right FPÖ, @derstandard.at reports. www.theredoubt.net/aryan-bones-...
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'Aryan bones': Austria's fascist youth are bringing back weird Nazi pseudo-science
Right-wing extremists are measuring skulls again.
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The Redoubt @theredoubt.net · 08/09/2026
Young fascists in Europe are measuring skulls in search of "Aryan bones" www.theredoubt.net/aryan-bones-...
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'Aryan bones': Austria's fascist youth are bringing back weird Nazi pseudo-science
Right-wing extremists are measuring skulls again.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wearing sunglasses, inside, my face reddening from alcohol. Everyone thinks I'm so cool as I begin to talk about The Jews.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“FPÖ recruits have a measuring device they use to detect each other's racial purity. The pseudo-scientist examines the patient's facial features and side profile, always on the lookout for a dead-giveaway "Aryan bone," said to reside somewhere in the back of a superior man or woman's head.”
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In Austria, young fascists are breaking out the calipers and trying to find "Aryan bones" in each other's skulls. And then at least some are getting jobs in parliament, employed by the far-right FPÖ, @derstandard.at reports. www.theredoubt.net/aryan-bones-...
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'Aryan bones': Austria's fascist youth are bringing back weird Nazi pseudo-science
Right-wing extremists are measuring skulls again.
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Critical Support: History Behind the News @critical-support.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
❇️ NEW Episode ❇️ Germany's AfD just won 43% in Saxony-Anhalt's election then thanked Elon Musk. 🎧Listen as @charliearchy.bsky.social & @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social discuss Europe's latest anti-immigrant Nazi activity, including balaclava-clad intimidators in the UK: pod.link/1893854704/e...
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Critical Support: History Behind the News @critical-support.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
❇️ NEW Episode ❇️ A Brief Primer on Climate Change What does climate change mean? What are data centers? Why are 1000 people missing in Nepal after a sudden rise in river levels? Join Critical Support as we discuss the terms everyone hears but doesn't understand. 🎧 LISTEN pod.link/1893854704/e...
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S2E1: A Brief Climate Change Primer
Listen to S2E1: A Brief Climate Change Primer from Critical Support: Charles x Shirin wherever you get your podcasts!
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/09/2026
AfD media relations: 61-year-old journalist writing for Politico says she was physically assaulted and dragged to police by an AfD security guard after attempting to talk to the AfD’s lead candidate She was told “mainstream” press were not welcome at the AfD event www.politico.eu/article/ulri...
Beyond the conviviality of the sausage line, the mood can sour fast — as I discovered when I sought to speak with Siegmund in Lützen, only to be told "mainstream" press were not welcome. I was roughly jostled aside, my arm twisted by a musclebound heavy flanking Siegmund, who sported an earpiece and a lavishly tattooed neck.
"Move or I will take you to the police," he barked. We had a short, unproductive debate about the constitutionally guaranteed right to report freely in public places.
Another hard arm twist and shove ensued, ending with me stumbling over a curb and being dragged to a police car. No one seemed much bothered by this.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Also, Time: How does it work? In 2020, the "woke" formula — if we're accepting the author's description of the time and its impact on actual politicians — led to Democrats taking the House, Senate and the presidency. As for 2024: Say what you will, but campaigning with Liz Cheney wasn't Peak Woke.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The author claims this is just about winning elections; that billionaires might be bad but that's beyond the purview of this Op-Ed. But the evidence it's bad politics? In NYC, it's that "business leaders ... remain skeptical" of Mamdani. The author doesn't mention voters, 69% of whom approve!
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sure, you can't just run on "billionaires bad," I guess. But no one is, not even — or especially — the cited examples. The author can't even get through the graf without noting that Mamdani campaigned (and won) on affordability.
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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

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Peter Jacobs @pjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Always funny / enraging to look at topics that have nothing to do with science showing the same trends in survey data that op-ed writers use to blame scientists for supposedly causing a loss of public trust. If you disguised this graph as "Public Health" instead of "Canada" they'd rant about Fauci.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The rhetoric is color blind, on its surface, but the assumption is that "white" is society's default setting. Celebrating any "abnormality" — or lamenting any disparity — shatters the mythic unity that comes from everyone knowing their place, and never bringing it up.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In the 1960s, if you heard someone talk like this, you could safely assume they were not a supporter of the civil rights movement.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“In total, three survivors were rescued. None were charged with a crime: two were released, and one remains hospitalised.”
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
227 people In the past year, the U.S. has sunk 69 small boats it accuses of being linked to the drugs trade - killing at least 227 people. Our new report reveals key trends from this campaign - one of the most opaque Airwars has ever researched @airwars.bsky.social airwars.org/boat-strikes...
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Unmarked watery graves
Airwars report analysing the first year of U.S. strikes on alleged 'narco-terrorists' boats in Latin America and elsewhere
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If we’re calling it a “speakeasy” then some laws better be transgressed.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 28/08/2026
Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'
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Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic to be buried with 'state honours'
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia" for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, will be given a funeral with “military and state honours”, Serbian Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said Friday. Mladic died Thursday in The Hague where he was serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/08/2026
Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired.
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts by law enforcement.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i don't think religious impulse has any business being anywhere near government policy but i do nonetheless feel compelled to say that this is the most evil, literally sinful way to behave. a complete betrayal of what it means to be god's children, a value these freaks claim to cleave to above all
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The Kremlin has warned Ukraine that if the country goes ahead with a planned agreement on free trade with the EU, it faces inevitable financial catastrophe and possibly the collapse of the state." www.theguardian.com/world/2013/s...
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Ukraine's EU trade deal will be catastrophic, says Russia
Kremlin claims neighbouring state faces financial ruin and possible collapse if integration agreement goes ahead
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