Charles Meyer
chazercise.bsky.social
Charles Meyer
@chazercise.bsky.social
Former broadcast reporter. Poli Sci guy. Make mine a double-espresso; Dylan, Dead, and all Dogs, too. Really miss Eugene Debs.
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Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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"Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of their homes.'"
www.koin.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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The FBI's raid on a WaPo reporter’s home was based on a lie.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind rules protecting journalists are being used as a cudgel to attack the First Amendment.

Read more from FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social in @theintercept.com.
FBI Raid on WaPo Reporter’s Home Was Based on Sham Pretext
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind rules protecting journalists are being used as a cudgel to attack the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News, there's a development.

@brianstelter.bsky.social says the Inside CECOT report is to air tonight, "according to sources at CBS."

view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...

This part interested me most: "The promised interview did not materialize."
January 18, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate “The Promised Land” to the memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good,
Bruce Springsteen Dedicates ‘Promised Land’ to Renee Good, Decries ‘Gestapo Tactics’ Leading to Citizens Being ‘Murdered’: ‘ICE Should Get the F— Out of Minneapolis’
Bruce Springsteen dedicated 'The Promised Land' to Renee Good, decried 'Gestapo tactics' and said 'ICE should get the f--- out of Minneapolis.'
variety.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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The only two people to have ever been gifted a secondhand Nobel Prize are Joseph Goebbels and Donald Trump.
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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"I Won't Back Down" (1989) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efK...
I Won't Back Down
YouTube video by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gangs of masked white supremacists roam our streets indiscriminately killing civilians. But at least I don't have to hear Kamala Harris's cackle.
January 14, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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This keeps happening every day. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/est...
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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From a @columjournreview.bsky.social interview with actor and free press activist John Cusack. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

"...not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important."

Very important. Too often Ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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FYI:

In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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Read former special counsel Jack Smith’s transcript before the House Committee on the Judiciary here:

judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM