Charlie Reece ✅
@charliereece.com
Husband. Father. Homemaker. North Carolinian. Parisian.
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Charlie Reece ✅
@charliereece.com
· Nov 15
Given the new influx of folks here, I thought it might make sense to drop an introduction!
I'm a husband and father of two amazing kids currently living with my family in Paris, France. I'm a lawyer by training who spent seven years as a local elected official in Durham, North Carolina. 1/2
I'm a husband and father of two amazing kids currently living with my family in Paris, France. I'm a lawyer by training who spent seven years as a local elected official in Durham, North Carolina. 1/2
High quality thread here.
Know hope. ❤️❤️❤️
Know hope. ❤️❤️❤️
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
High quality thread here.
Know hope. ❤️❤️❤️
Know hope. ❤️❤️❤️
I encourage folks to click through and read this story because the reporting raises more questions than it answers about this situation. 👀👀👀
Barron Trump may have saved woman’s life with police call, London court hears
Barron Trump may have saved woman’s life with police call, London court hears
Youngest son of US president raised alarm after woman was allegedly attacked during video call last January
Barron Trump, the youngest son of the US president, alerted police in London after witnessing a woman allegedly being attacked by a former boyfriend, possibly saving her life, a court has heard.
Trump was on a video call a year ago with the woman, who cannot be named, when he saw Matvei Rumiantsev, a Russian citizen, repeatedly punch her, Snaresbrook crown court was told on Wednesday, according to reports. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I encourage folks to click through and read this story because the reporting raises more questions than it answers about this situation. 👀👀👀
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I’d add that even if there powers were appropriately restricted, the culture that had obviously developed within the agency is so heinously toxic and abusive that it’s beyond realistic remedy by ANY policy reform in the short term. You’ve got to fumigate and start over.
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 AM
I’d add that even if there powers were appropriately restricted, the culture that had obviously developed within the agency is so heinously toxic and abusive that it’s beyond realistic remedy by ANY policy reform in the short term. You’ve got to fumigate and start over.
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I wrote about the 18 year old tattooless sorority girl I was in 2016, and why I think we’re all nostalgic for a decade ago.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Our 2016 nostalgia makes sense. But are we worse off now? | Opinion
I'm still happier being who I am in 2026 – and that was only because of the emotional rollercoaster that was 2016.
www.usatoday.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I wrote about the 18 year old tattooless sorority girl I was in 2016, and why I think we’re all nostalgic for a decade ago.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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I think we're very habituated to imagining and planning to exist within a form of political economy that exists much less than it used to: one in which institutions are responsive to and reflect democratic pressure and in which businesses succeed by making products that succeed on the marketplace
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
I think we're very habituated to imagining and planning to exist within a form of political economy that exists much less than it used to: one in which institutions are responsive to and reflect democratic pressure and in which businesses succeed by making products that succeed on the marketplace
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You know it’s good policy when they hide the memos and disseminate it via word of mouth
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:38 PM
You know it’s good policy when they hide the memos and disseminate it via word of mouth
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Measles cases are increasing, and so is misinformation. Vitamins and supplements will not prevent measles and can hurt your health if used in large doses. Measles vaccines are 97% effective at preventing measles. Learn more about preventing measles: www.healthychildren.org/english/heal...
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Measles cases are increasing, and so is misinformation. Vitamins and supplements will not prevent measles and can hurt your health if used in large doses. Measles vaccines are 97% effective at preventing measles. Learn more about preventing measles: www.healthychildren.org/english/heal...
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The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
When European politicians counsel caution and urge the EU not to engage in economic retaliation against the US as a result of Trump’s toddler tantrums, they run the risk of getting left behind by public opinion as their constituents react very differently.
51% of French consider the USA as a military threat and 41% as an enemy. Source LCI
January 20, 2026 at 12:32 PM
When European politicians counsel caution and urge the EU not to engage in economic retaliation against the US as a result of Trump’s toddler tantrums, they run the risk of getting left behind by public opinion as their constituents react very differently.
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The guy who cares more about the Nobel Peace Prize than anything seriously said "I don't care about the Nobel Prize."
He is a daily parody of himself.🤣
He is a daily parody of himself.🤣
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM
The guy who cares more about the Nobel Peace Prize than anything seriously said "I don't care about the Nobel Prize."
He is a daily parody of himself.🤣
He is a daily parody of himself.🤣
Kind of a big day!! 😂
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Kind of a big day!! 😂
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It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
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Parton has used her fortune and fame “to build medical centers, offer relief when floods and fires ravaged Tennessee, and support scientific research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine.“
Happy 80th birthday to humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton 🦋 www.salon.com/2026/01/19/a...
At 80, Dolly Parton remains our most unlikely national unifier
Parton offers a model for how Americans might better live together.
www.salon.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Parton has used her fortune and fame “to build medical centers, offer relief when floods and fires ravaged Tennessee, and support scientific research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine.“
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It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
Sapporo in midtown Manhattan (49th & 7th).
It was an amazing ramen joint, practically perfect in every way. I came to NYC for a job interview in 1995 and ate there the night before my interview. When I moved there, I went back many times.
Gyoza, tantanmen, large Sapporo.
🥟🍜🍺
❤️❤️❤️
🪦🪦🪦
It was an amazing ramen joint, practically perfect in every way. I came to NYC for a job interview in 1995 and ate there the night before my interview. When I moved there, I went back many times.
Gyoza, tantanmen, large Sapporo.
🥟🍜🍺
❤️❤️❤️
🪦🪦🪦
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Sapporo in midtown Manhattan (49th & 7th).
It was an amazing ramen joint, practically perfect in every way. I came to NYC for a job interview in 1995 and ate there the night before my interview. When I moved there, I went back many times.
Gyoza, tantanmen, large Sapporo.
🥟🍜🍺
❤️❤️❤️
🪦🪦🪦
It was an amazing ramen joint, practically perfect in every way. I came to NYC for a job interview in 1995 and ate there the night before my interview. When I moved there, I went back many times.
Gyoza, tantanmen, large Sapporo.
🥟🍜🍺
❤️❤️❤️
🪦🪦🪦
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
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Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
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I agree with you, but also think this bromide often deserves the harsh responses it gets, because it’s not much aspirational as it is disingenuous bullshit.
January 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I agree with you, but also think this bromide often deserves the harsh responses it gets, because it’s not much aspirational as it is disingenuous bullshit.
Dems need a new Senate Majority Leader. This is outrageous. 😡😡😡
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
January 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Dems need a new Senate Majority Leader. This is outrageous. 😡😡😡
Gail A. Curley
⭐️🏛️🇺🇸
save us plz
(this is a deep cut)
⭐️🏛️🇺🇸
save us plz
(this is a deep cut)
January 15, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Gail A. Curley
⭐️🏛️🇺🇸
save us plz
(this is a deep cut)
⭐️🏛️🇺🇸
save us plz
(this is a deep cut)
Fucking incandescent.
If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Fucking incandescent.
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If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
If I was taking my six month old to the hospital because some fucking mall cop reject detonated a flashbang near her and my city leadership was talking about "not taking the bait" I would be incandescent with rage.
One of the many reasons we need @nidaallam.bsky.social in Congress.
state and local political leadership at this time requires a willingness to be in the streets facing agents of the federal government. don't know what else to say but that
January 15, 2026 at 7:07 AM
One of the many reasons we need @nidaallam.bsky.social in Congress.