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Charles Я. Davis
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Founder, @TheRedoubt.net

Previously seen at: The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon and Business Insider

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NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson
The parent company of Facebook is helping a right-wing influencer promote conspiracy theories about 9/11.
www.theredoubt.net
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Eventually a generation will come to power — maybe mine; maybe the next — that will wipe away everything that these fascists thought they had achieved. All they’ll leave behind, in terms of legacy, are graves to piss on.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Louisvillians: Imagine this happening on the part of Bardstown Road after you pass Trevilian Way

Madisonians: Imagine this happening on State Street

Philadelphians: Imagine this happening in Passyunk

Houstonians: Imagine this happening in Montrose
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 AM
No they haven’t? fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 AM
“I’m just following my orders,” the employee repeatedly said.
President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.
The slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been removed following Trump administration push
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Josh Shapiro lowered his state’s flags for three days after Charlie Kirk was killed. He’s trying to win over cable TV pundits, not Democrats, and will never be president.
I remain perplexed by Shapiro's apparent belief that attacking Kamala Harris, and on an issue where Shapiro is incredibly out of step with his party's base, will somehow catapult him to the presidency.
January 22, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Key thing is that the man is a coward and pushover one-on-one; let’s see what happens after he talks to Stephen Miller.
Checking in on EU officials who definitely buy Trump’s supposed pivot on Greenland… www.ft.com/content/fb90...
January 22, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections” www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...
Bondi states they arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong for the church protest the other day
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"I did not go to law school, go to Quantico and work counterterrorism operations overseas to be doing traffic control for arrest-a-brown-person day," one special agent said about FBI resources being diverted to "immigration enforcement." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 PM
"Delcy was communicating 'Maduro needs to go,'" one American source told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez assured US of cooperation before Maduro’s capture
Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly pledged US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Urbanist. IKEA.
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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“I think we are past Munich now,” said one, referring to a 1938 meeting where Britain, France and Italy appeased Adolf Hitler by allowing him to annex Czechoslovakia. “We realize that appeasement is not the right policy anymore.”

Appeasement is never a policy. At best it's a delaying tactic.
European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now.

As leaders of the EU’s 27 countries assemble in Brussels for an emergency summit, that assessment is predominant across almost all capitals in Europe.
‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side
The crisis summit in Brussels goes ahead despite U.S. president’s about-face on Greenland tariff threats.
www.politico.eu
January 22, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Recent history suggests that polls alone are not a good basis upon which to base a campaign — or to assess what will be popular by the next election. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 AM
“Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family has an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 AM
One year in: immigrants are being murdered at remote detention camps on US military bases. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Even if you rebuild it, how do you assure anyone looking to start a lab that we won’t just do this — destroy everything — in another 4 years?
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
What do we want?

DHS spending maintained at or near present levels.
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Increasing defense spending at the very moment Trump is threatening Europe with war.
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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I don't think we'd be acting as if this were so normal if so many us hadn't grown up around abusers.
10/10. No notes.
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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The problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.
You want to know why Chuck Schumer is talking about affordability & not Trump being a fascist? It's because we already tried talking about him being a fascist *& everyone ignored us*.
A big part of why we are at where we are is that much of the world, the press, foreign leaders, a big hunk of US voters, simply refused to believe it when Democrats said Trump would be as bad as he is.
January 19, 2026 at 9:44 PM