Charles Я. Davis

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

Pedophile rapists? Working for the president?

In conversations I’ve had with academics and a government minister here in Vienna, the USA is discussed in the same terms as Russia.

What would a trans genocide look like? A Tucson Holocaust educator says we’re already seeing it. | Q&A Arizona lawmakers are advancing bills that regulate how trans people live, and even exist. Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center executive director Lori Shepard explains why genocide scholars find...

www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

The Holocaust educators are talking about trans genocide as something happening, present tense, in the US.

There is no "undo the 2024 election" button that Democrats can hit, sure, but with soldiers already patrolling U.S. streets and the threat of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, or worse: Why sign off, without qualification, on fully funding Pete Hegseth's Pentagon for the rest of the year?

In light of a war crime spree in the Caribbean, the kidnapping of a foreign head of state and repeated threats directed at NATO allies, it's semi-curious that there is no real discussion of using Congress' funding leverage to force changes at the Pentagon.

Mood: Just saw the tech industry described as "the innovation community."

I might actually hate Bluesky film discourse more than Bluesky political discourse. Developing…

Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent

NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:

“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”

"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Ilhan Omar about to punch a slime bucket of a man, just an absolute potato sack looking motherfucker.

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

Ecuador says ICE agent tried to enter consulate in Minneapolis A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to get into Ecuador's consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday but was prevented from entering the premises by consulate staffers, the country's Forei...

surprise, the ICE thugs don't even care about the most basic and well-respected rules of international law: the inviolability of consular premises

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Every Hitlerlite pundit looks like someone you'd cross the street to avoid.

"Fears about the U.S. president’s health are 'rapidly becoming a more conversed topic at all levels,' said an EU official."

The prime minister said Trump was "out of his mind," according to one EU diplomat. Another described the Slovak PM as being "traumatized" by the encounter.

European leader spoke of shock at Trump’s state of mind after Mar-a-Lago meeting The Slovak PM, a Trump ally, told leaders at last week’s EU summit he was concerned about the way the U.S. president spoke to him, European diplomats said.

The prime minister of Slovakia — a Trump ally — told EU leaders that he's worried about the U.S. president's "psychological state," describing him as "dangerous" after a meeting at Mar-a-Lago. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger The US federal agency says it will not play an immigration role at February's event in Milan-Cortina.

“Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, in a bid to cool tensions, told reporters ‘it's not like the [Nazi] SS are coming.’” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."

In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Why Is the Trump Administration Demanding Minnesota’s Voter Rolls?

“Though I’m not necessarily predicting direct federal interference with elections, I am planning for it,” said Minnesota’s secretary of state, “and it would be irresponsible to not do that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

A large black dog sitting on the road with trolley tracks visible.

New: Dog waiting for trolley.

What a stunning statement from @wsj.com Editorial Board:

"Pretti attempted, foolishly, to assist a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by agents."

When did it become foolish to come to the aid of another? If anything it is a human instinct, especially for those in the nursing profession.

I sent screenshots of the Good video showing her being denied medical aid, frame by frame; MAGA relatives haven’t talked to me since. They’re warm and cozy in the bubble and they don’t want to leave.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

Eventually a generation will come to power — maybe mine; maybe the next — that will wipe away everything that these fascists thought they had achieved. All they’ll leave behind, in terms of legacy, are graves to piss on.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Louisvillians: Imagine this happening on the part of Bardstown Road after you pass Trevilian Way

Madisonians: Imagine this happening on State Street

Philadelphians: Imagine this happening in Passyunk

Houstonians: Imagine this happening in Montrose

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

MOUNT VERNON TO PHILADELPHIA: A Path to Freedom-For Some The nine enslaved men and women of the President's House were chosen by Washington to accompany him to Philadelphia. They were separated from their families back in Mount Vernon and rotated out of state regularly to prevent them from gaining freedom under Pennsylvania law. CHARACTERS Christopher Sheels, enslaved attendant to Washington Hercules. enslaved cook Richmond, Hercules' enslaved son Giles, enslaved stable hand Oney Judge, enslaved maid and seamstress to Martha Austin, Ona's enslaved half brother, house servant Paris. enslaved stable hand Moll, enslaved maid to Martha Joe Richardson, enslaved postillion for the presidential coach [Floor plan] SERVANTS' EATING HALL

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

No they haven’t? fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...

“I’m just following my orders,” the employee repeatedly said.