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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 7d

American cities, for all their flaws, present an actually existing, multicultural alternative to MAGA's small, hateful and indeed adolescent worldview. And that is why Trump is going to war with them. www.salon.com/2025/10/02/t...

Trump's war on cities is part of his ugly vision for America

The U.S. president is declaring war on cities because they represent a positive, multicultural alternative to MAGA.

www.salon.com

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 17h

When Scholars and Historians won't even visit your country anymore because its as bad as Russia or China...You know you're effed.
www.salon.com/2025/10/09/t...

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 11h

Prodigy Internet. Dial-up that went out whenever my older brother's friends called. No streaming video. Who knew that was the Golden Age?

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 18h

Scholars of America say visiting the US is too risky. In Vienna they likened Trump’s authoritarian turn to Russia and China, citing student detentions, deportation threats, device warnings, and conferences relocating abroad.

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 16h

"The list includes Soros' Open Society Foundations; ActBlue, the funding arm of the Democratic Party; Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to Trump policies and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based group."

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 17h

everything you need to know about the "legal black hole" to which Trump is sending detainees

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 18h

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study in America said it was now "too risky" to visit, comparing it to the likes of China and Russia.

"Thank God for Canada," said one. www.salon.com/2025/10/09/t...

"Too risky": Scholars who study America say they won't visit

At a recent panel in Vienna, academics who study America said the country has become similar to Russia and China.

www.salon.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

American pedant: “I’m not sure, of all historical examples, given our own history of homegrown, right-wing extremism, about comparisons to mid-20th century European fascism, particularly given…”

German guy: “He’s like Hitler”

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

The anti-DEI anti-woke movement has always been transparently white supremacist. Nonetheless, moves like canceling a game about the Klan being the bad guys really drives home the point.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

Google review showing owner on Fox News

text: "The owner went on Fox News to rip into homeless people. Real winner... get your coffee somwhere that serves up a little compassion."

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court further gutting the VRA "would all but guarantee Republican control of Congress," voting-rights advocates fear. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

www.politico.com

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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 2d

Just thinking about this again.

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · Aug 20

"It definitely keeps me up at night," Janessa Goldbeck of the Vet Voice Foundation told me, speaking about the prospect of a deadly incident. But what scares her, long term, is that this is about normalizing troops in the streets — and at polling stations — for the 2026 midterms.

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · Aug 20

With his DC troop deployments, Trump is creating the conditions for another Kent State — and potentially undermining future elections, experts told me. www.salon.com/2025/08/20/v...

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

Incompetent is the confounding part, here: Oh it's a dumb question? Then you should able to knock it out of the park! Pivot to your talking points! Be a professional!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

Any woman in public life is of course going to be subjected to a sexist double standard, and we should be aware of that, but for me 1) the interviewer here is a woman 2) it’s very easy to imagine a man in this scenario because Donald Trump is president

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

My on-the-record Take is that Cruz is trying not to appear as a Huge Free Speech Hypocrite — uhh, the Kimmel thing should make us support Facebook monetizing COVID disinformation — while actually doing nothing to address the present administration’s assault on the 1st Amendment.

Prove me wrong!

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

Thin on details, but this appears to have nothing to with the FCC and Kimmel — Cruz spun his removal as a private business decision — and is more about suing because Facebook took down your post on how MAGAoil cures COVID.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Exclusive: Sen. Ted Cruz wants to make it easier to sue the government for censorship, a move that comes weeks after he criticized the Trump administration’s push to have late-night host Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.

Exclusive | Ted Cruz Wants to Make It Easier to Sue the Government for Censorship

The senator said he hopes the reaction to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension might help his new bill find bipartisan support.

on.wsj.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 1d

Porter’s behavior here is pathetic. And not that it’s perfect, but: 95% of American politicians could not withstand 5 minutes of questioning on the BBC.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 2d

Glenn Greenwald, presently befriending Nick Fuentes, was able to confuse a few too many left-wing podcasters, for a decade, by suggesting he had arrived at "supporting Donald J. Trump on Rumble.com" by reading Noam Chomsky.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 2d

A "contrarian" is a bog-standard reactionary who identifies, for marketing purposes, as "actually pretty liberal."

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 2d

DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin had claimed “one of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.”

In court, prosecutors conceded that no weapon was brandished.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration has sent another 10 people to Eswatini. The government there says they are being held in solitary confinement. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Eswatini accepts 10 deportees from the US despite legal challenge

This is the second group to arrive in the southern Africa state following a deal with the US government.

www.bbc.com

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · Feb 6

This quote from Engels, writing to Marx during the US Civil War, lives in my head: www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

"As far as the relationship, man to man, is concerned, there is no question that physically and morally the people of the North are considerably superior to those of the South. The combativeness of the Southerner is combined to an appreciable extent with the cowardice of the assassin. Every man goes about armed, but only to be able to down his adversary in a quarrel before the latter expects the attack."

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 3d

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

A stock photo of South American police leaning on riot shields with the Spanish word "Policia" written on them

A stock photo of a crowd of young men with red flares and flames from a Brazilian photographer in Sao Paolo

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah it's not like anybody's been grabbed off the streets by masked agents for publishing an op-ed or anything

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 5d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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