Charles Я. Davis
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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
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...
I know Europeans can be condescending towards America, and the continent has its own problems, but when your country has made Donald Trump its head of state for a second time you gotta take the “L” and eat shit for a while.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I know Europeans can be condescending towards America, and the continent has its own problems, but when your country has made Donald Trump its head of state for a second time you gotta take the “L” and eat shit for a while.
I always thought this headline would happen but I also thought the "Syrian president" would be Bashar al-Assad.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I always thought this headline would happen but I also thought the "Syrian president" would be Bashar al-Assad.
Platner “praised Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine … for working to protect working-class voters in his state, as well as Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for his effort to bar congressional stock trading.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Graham Platner says he's no John Fetterman. But he gets the concerns.
The Democratic Senate candidate said he understands why some may compare him to the Pennsylvania senator, but he told NBC News he's different — and wants to earn voters' trust.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Platner “praised Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine … for working to protect working-class voters in his state, as well as Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for his effort to bar congressional stock trading.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
We’re in this absurd space where the president has already pardoned every person who ransacked the Capitol as he watched on TV but only he is allowed to admit “that’s what I wanted.”
🇬🇧 The BBC is expected to apologise for editing a speech that suggested Donald Trump had directly instigated an attack on the US Capitol, resulting in the dramatic resignations of the broadcaster's top brass.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We’re in this absurd space where the president has already pardoned every person who ransacked the Capitol as he watched on TV but only he is allowed to admit “that’s what I wanted.”
“Democrats have no power.”
“Democrats shut down the government.”
Observing some tensions.
“Democrats shut down the government.”
Observing some tensions.
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“Democrats have no power.”
“Democrats shut down the government.”
Observing some tensions.
“Democrats shut down the government.”
Observing some tensions.
The difference between this and prior shutdowns is that there’s a fascist government.
The PR was fine. The polling was good. The ask was targeted. And it still didn't matter. You can't win real concessions so the question is whether the base likes a long fight with little to show for it or if it just angers them more because you caved in the end.
Shutting down is the easy part, starting up on your terms very hard. Maybe a lost shutdown fight would bring catharsis, but last time (DACA in 2018) it angered base & public because it was fruitless. Ask would need to be something Rep lawmakers want, not stop all Trump is doing
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The difference between this and prior shutdowns is that there’s a fascist government.
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One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."
Put “It’s just Axios” on the gravestone.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Put “It’s just Axios” on the gravestone.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
“The notion on the kinetic strikes, without actually interdicting and demonstrating to the American public that these are carrying drugs and they’re full of bad guys, I think, is a huge mistake and undermines the confidence in the administration’s actions,” Warner said.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p... It looks like it's the kind of Democratic criticism of a Republican administration that goes "We support awful thing, but we'd do it better if we were in charge of it."
Top Democrat expresses confidence in US intel on boat strikes, but calls for more transparency from Trump administration | CNN Politics
Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner expressed confidence in the intelligence used by the Pentagon to strike alleged drug traffickers in the Pacific Ocean, but urged the Trump administration ...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“The notion on the kinetic strikes, without actually interdicting and demonstrating to the American public that these are carrying drugs and they’re full of bad guys, I think, is a huge mistake and undermines the confidence in the administration’s actions,” Warner said.
Scholars (and students) have to trust that their institutions will not abandon them out of political expediency. Many of the country's elite institutions have shown that they will — even as they “affirm the importance of and their support for academic freedom.”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Scholars (and students) have to trust that their institutions will not abandon them out of political expediency. Many of the country's elite institutions have shown that they will — even as they “affirm the importance of and their support for academic freedom.”
Jason Stanley is a weird guy, but a lot of people are dunking on him with variations on how they’re not scared of these clowns in Washington — and, well, with kids getting zip-tied in military-style, nighttime raids on their home, that seems privileged too.
Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Jason Stanley is a weird guy, but a lot of people are dunking on him with variations on how they’re not scared of these clowns in Washington — and, well, with kids getting zip-tied in military-style, nighttime raids on their home, that seems privileged too.
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The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
The right did this after Biden won — "The Regime is going to execute me because I love America." — and then we got Merrick Garland: www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Inspiring RW terror may be one angle, with Bannon; but at some point, Dems will have to show the threat of accountability is real.
Inspiring RW terror may be one angle, with Bannon; but at some point, Dems will have to show the threat of accountability is real.
I'd be careful of too much Schadenfreude over a Bannon narrative that would encourage many among the MAGA Trump hard core towards pursuing more violently radical action before they run out of time
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The right did this after Biden won — "The Regime is going to execute me because I love America." — and then we got Merrick Garland: www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Inspiring RW terror may be one angle, with Bannon; but at some point, Dems will have to show the threat of accountability is real.
Inspiring RW terror may be one angle, with Bannon; but at some point, Dems will have to show the threat of accountability is real.
Allow yourself to believe in hell today, as a treat.
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Allow yourself to believe in hell today, as a treat.
RWers OUT OF POWER: The Nazis were socialists. And liberals. Obama and my ex-wife are Nazis.
IN POWER: I saw your post and reported you to the government. You sir are an enemy of the state. My friend Adolf Hitler would know what to do here.
IN POWER: I saw your post and reported you to the government. You sir are an enemy of the state. My friend Adolf Hitler would know what to do here.
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
RWers OUT OF POWER: The Nazis were socialists. And liberals. Obama and my ex-wife are Nazis.
IN POWER: I saw your post and reported you to the government. You sir are an enemy of the state. My friend Adolf Hitler would know what to do here.
IN POWER: I saw your post and reported you to the government. You sir are an enemy of the state. My friend Adolf Hitler would know what to do here.
I know the NYT is trying to make "Ross Douthat as an on-screen presence" a "thing," but I just don't think he has "it."
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I know the NYT is trying to make "Ross Douthat as an on-screen presence" a "thing," but I just don't think he has "it."
I still can’t walk by litter without feeling guilty if I don’t pick it up. First grade teacher really got to me.
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I still can’t walk by litter without feeling guilty if I don’t pick it up. First grade teacher really got to me.
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Pledging to deport your own colleague is how you get people like Nick Fuentes
These two tweets in a row, one right after another, show that this guy does not actually care about taking a principled stance against bigotry; he just wants it not to be directed against him.
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pledging to deport your own colleague is how you get people like Nick Fuentes
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“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“The driver’s family identified him as Carlos Jimenez, 24, a U.S. citizen, and said he was on his way to work at a food bank when the shooting occurred.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Nothing fires up voters quite like "we will create a fund to support lead mitigation efforts."
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Nothing fires up voters quite like "we will create a fund to support lead mitigation efforts."
“These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.” apnews.com/article/un-u...
UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop.
apnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“These attacks and their mounting human cost are unacceptable. The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.” apnews.com/article/un-u...
I think the problem is clicks, not subscriptions. Whether staff or freelance, writers are judged and rewarded by the number of views they receive. The incentive to cater — to go viral by appealing to the lowest common denominator — is there either way. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News
Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think the problem is clicks, not subscriptions. Whether staff or freelance, writers are judged and rewarded by the number of views they receive. The incentive to cater — to go viral by appealing to the lowest common denominator — is there either way. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
I would prefer that we not preface our criticism of murder with “I’m sympathetic.” You can nix that bit of throat-clearing and just say it’s wrong to kill civilians without charge or trial.
Sen. Slotkin: “The president and Secretary Hegseth are refusing to tell the American people who we are fighting…I think it's safe to say that the American people deserve to know who we are at war with, especially if people are being killed in our name.”
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I would prefer that we not preface our criticism of murder with “I’m sympathetic.” You can nix that bit of throat-clearing and just say it’s wrong to kill civilians without charge or trial.
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this is evil
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
this is evil