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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 5d

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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1h

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.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 50m

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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.

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

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 · 11h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

The American-Patriotic Catholic-Evangelical Church of No Libs

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

“Actually, you don’t have to listen to the pope when he says all the lib stuff. For some moral authority, watch this clip of Steve Bannon coming off a bender:”

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

America is such that if I sent the literal Pope’s remarks to some self-styled devout Catholics in my family they would be upset with me.

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

American schism when? www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

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

Note the shift. Earlier, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said “no law enforcement officers were seriously injured."

"Seriously" injured.

The NYT reports, "No law enforcement officers were injured in the incident" at all.

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

"Mr. Ruiz’s mother, Elizabeth Ruiz, said her son told her on the phone in the morning that he had been rammed by federal agents and that they were shooting." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Federal Agent in Chicago Shot Motorist in Confrontation, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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

If you wanna shit-talk America you gotta put on a red hat.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 3d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 4d

“Vedam has resided in the U.S. since he entered the country as a 9-month-old in 1962,” per his defense attorney, and had been a legal permanent resident.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 4d

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested is becoming more and more common in America.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 4d

"They cling their whole life long painfully to the irrevocable past, to the dream of a lost paradise, the worst and most deadly of all dreams." — Hermann Hesse, "Demian"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

this is more awful then you think but also i'm basically fascinated by how so much of this is a social compact to essentially make it your childhood again