Charles Я. Davis
@charliearchy.bsky.social
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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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.
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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...
Overnight train from Vienna to Amsterdam in the new cocoon “mini cabins” felt like being on a spaceship, and it took me a little longer to realize it felt, specifically, like being in a prison on a spaceship.
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Overnight train from Vienna to Amsterdam in the new cocoon “mini cabins” felt like being on a spaceship, and it took me a little longer to realize it felt, specifically, like being in a prison on a spaceship.
Bro they’re serving horse at the Hauptbahnhof.
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bro they’re serving horse at the Hauptbahnhof.
Judging by this sound, I’m going to have to figure out how to install a new hard drive in my eBay Thinkpad with Linux, officially making me a Hacker.
December 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Judging by this sound, I’m going to have to figure out how to install a new hard drive in my eBay Thinkpad with Linux, officially making me a Hacker.
Take a step back and think about where we are, as a society, when someone can argue (plausibility, if not convincingly) that a president’s threat to invade and conquer his neighbors is a “distraction” from him being a pedophile.
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Take a step back and think about where we are, as a society, when someone can argue (plausibility, if not convincingly) that a president’s threat to invade and conquer his neighbors is a “distraction” from him being a pedophile.
Landry vowed to “make Greenland a part of the U.S.”
Donald Trump names special envoy for Greenland ft.trib.al/gLS8dTw
Donald Trump names special envoy for Greenland
Role for Louisiana governor Jeff Landry underlines US president’s determination to control Arctic island
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December 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Landry vowed to “make Greenland a part of the U.S.”
The thing about working as both an editor and a writer is I've now been on both sides of "ask for/be asked for 900 words" and "getting/delivering 2,500 words instead."
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The thing about working as both an editor and a writer is I've now been on both sides of "ask for/be asked for 900 words" and "getting/delivering 2,500 words instead."
Reposted by Charles Я. Davis
How Project 2025 could impact mass surveillance of Trump’s enemies in Europe: the defenders of liberal democracy. www.theredoubt.net/project-2025...
Project 2025 and the specter of mass surveillance in Europe
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems says U.S. espionage could have a chilling effect on civil society.
www.theredoubt.net
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How Project 2025 could impact mass surveillance of Trump’s enemies in Europe: the defenders of liberal democracy. www.theredoubt.net/project-2025...
I think you could argue that Jacobin publishing a Twitter DM-based interview with someone pretending to be Ammon Bundy was one sign we’d end up where we are now.
Man I remember Malheur so well. Such a clear signal of what was to come. Some of the most privileged & entitled white men in the f'ing world engaging in open lawlessness in the name of their own imagined victimhood ...
... and getting away with it.
That's the true American template.
... and getting away with it.
That's the true American template.
The Takeover of Malheur Kicked Off a Decade of Lawlessness
The wildlife refuge occupation set the stage for Trump, January 6, and so much more.
www.pdxmonthly.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I think you could argue that Jacobin publishing a Twitter DM-based interview with someone pretending to be Ammon Bundy was one sign we’d end up where we are now.
How Project 2025 could impact mass surveillance of Trump’s enemies in Europe: the defenders of liberal democracy. www.theredoubt.net/project-2025...
Project 2025 and the specter of mass surveillance in Europe
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems says U.S. espionage could have a chilling effect on civil society.
www.theredoubt.net
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How Project 2025 could impact mass surveillance of Trump’s enemies in Europe: the defenders of liberal democracy. www.theredoubt.net/project-2025...
I spoke to Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems about the threat US mass surveillance poses to Europe in the age of Donald Trump: www.theredoubt.net/project-2025... @theredoubt.net
Project 2025 and the specter of mass surveillance in Europe
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems says U.S. espionage could have a chilling effect on civil society.
www.theredoubt.net
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I spoke to Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems about the threat US mass surveillance poses to Europe in the age of Donald Trump: www.theredoubt.net/project-2025... @theredoubt.net
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I’m sure he did….
Check out my first Substack post: What is a Peasant?
www.angrypeasants.com/p/what-is-a-...
Check out my first Substack post: What is a Peasant?
www.angrypeasants.com/p/what-is-a-...
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I’m sure he did….
Check out my first Substack post: What is a Peasant?
www.angrypeasants.com/p/what-is-a-...
Check out my first Substack post: What is a Peasant?
www.angrypeasants.com/p/what-is-a-...
Accidentally signed a professional email “cHARLES.” Next move: a SoundCloud.
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Accidentally signed a professional email “cHARLES.” Next move: a SoundCloud.
I remember hearing this rhetoric about immigrants in the Philadelphia suburbs ("I'm not xenophobic, but... there's too many too fast! It's a surge!") and then you check the numbers and there's actually a dramatic enrollment decline: static1.squarespace.com/static/686e6...
December 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I remember hearing this rhetoric about immigrants in the Philadelphia suburbs ("I'm not xenophobic, but... there's too many too fast! It's a surge!") and then you check the numbers and there's actually a dramatic enrollment decline: static1.squarespace.com/static/686e6...
Dog experience: Yesterday, on a street corner in Vienna, I suddenly felt myself being perceived by a little black terrier. I look down and it's just staring at me, head half-cocked; the elderly owner also seemed to be like "what is my dog doing." So I pet it and said "nice to meet you" in German.
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Dog experience: Yesterday, on a street corner in Vienna, I suddenly felt myself being perceived by a little black terrier. I look down and it's just staring at me, head half-cocked; the elderly owner also seemed to be like "what is my dog doing." So I pet it and said "nice to meet you" in German.
You'd never know from the weak headline and tepid dek that the article is actually solid and fairly clear that this is an unlawful move by a personalist regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
You'd never know from the weak headline and tepid dek that the article is actually solid and fairly clear that this is an unlawful move by a personalist regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Just finished speaking with Eva-Maria Holzleitner, Austria’s minister for Women, Science and Research, about Donald Trump and, well, the threat that he poses to women, science and research (and how Europe’s responding). Story TK! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva-Mar...
Eva-Maria Holzleitner - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Just finished speaking with Eva-Maria Holzleitner, Austria’s minister for Women, Science and Research, about Donald Trump and, well, the threat that he poses to women, science and research (and how Europe’s responding). Story TK! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva-Mar...
Vienna Christmas market in front of City Hall with the traditional seasonal-depression fog.
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Vienna Christmas market in front of City Hall with the traditional seasonal-depression fog.
This is an echo of the Bush era, when Senate Democrats signaled that they would ultimately blink and never deprive The Troops of their funding. The White House rightly interpreted this as meaning: We can ignore their "demands" on Iraq.
Senator Durbin was asked about if he would ever hold up government funding because ICE was invading his own state and he said "of course not!".
It was considered unthinkable for Democrats to shut down the government over ICE. Instead their only problem was ACA subsidies.
It was considered unthinkable for Democrats to shut down the government over ICE. Instead their only problem was ACA subsidies.
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is an echo of the Bush era, when Senate Democrats signaled that they would ultimately blink and never deprive The Troops of their funding. The White House rightly interpreted this as meaning: We can ignore their "demands" on Iraq.
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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95 and counting is the number of murders the US military is willing to commit before refusing to follow unlawful orders.
U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
95 and counting is the number of murders the US military is willing to commit before refusing to follow unlawful orders.
Sometimes it takes a Dutchman to set Britain straight.
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Sometimes it takes a Dutchman to set Britain straight.
I think possibly, maybe, perhaps, an upside of increasingly realistic AI video is that there will be a return to text/literacy as at least some people realize they can no longer trust videos they come across while endlessly scrolling an algorithmic feed.
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I think possibly, maybe, perhaps, an upside of increasingly realistic AI video is that there will be a return to text/literacy as at least some people realize they can no longer trust videos they come across while endlessly scrolling an algorithmic feed.
I bet you didn't know that Chomsky was flying on Epstein's jet because he's a "free speech absolutist." And yeah maybe he was friends with a rich pedophile but, like, he also talked to Ali G.
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I bet you didn't know that Chomsky was flying on Epstein's jet because he's a "free speech absolutist." And yeah maybe he was friends with a rich pedophile but, like, he also talked to Ali G.
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He's not just gloating. He's saying Reiner was "reportedly" murdered by a Trump supporter, which is obviously untrue, and therefore it's good and justified. Even for him, this is overtly calling for people to go murder his critics because it makes him happy. He is literally a terrorist.
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
He's not just gloating. He's saying Reiner was "reportedly" murdered by a Trump supporter, which is obviously untrue, and therefore it's good and justified. Even for him, this is overtly calling for people to go murder his critics because it makes him happy. He is literally a terrorist.