Charles Я. Davis

It’s so obvious, his intentions, but it’s gauche to point them out. I would like to remind folks that it’s been less than a year and we’re already executing Latin Americans without trial to generate content for X.

What I argued in October: www.salon.com/2025/10/16/f...

Authoritarian regimes often work by co-opting people into their crimes and thus giving them a vested interest in maintaining the regime lest crimes get punished. Old as the hills. Do none of you study history?

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

Trump's dismantling of USAID threatens to kill millions. But it has also aided attacks on civil society, Ine Van Severen, a researcher with CIVICUS, told @theredoubt.net.

Around the globe, would-be autocrats are citing the American president's conspiracy theories. www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

The Trump administration's dismantling of USAID, and the ensuing loss of humanitarian aid in the developing world, could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.

Elizabeth Tsurkov speaks to the BBC about her experience being tortured and held in solitary confinement for more than 2 years in Iraq. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

Few issues have been as muddied and mystified as Trump’s (ongoing) damage to free speech, freedom of information and a free press www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star... @charliearchy.bsky.social on new @civicusalliance.bsky.social report

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A human rights monitor says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

Earlier this month, Pam Bondi issued a memo directing federal law enforcement to target organizations that promote “open borders” and other extreme views, like anti-capitalism: www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

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'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

But it's not just America and the usual suspects who are backsliding when it comes to civic freedoms.

"All the countries that like to portray themselves as democratic are actually slipping down," Van Severen said. www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

What makes today different, Makari noted, is the broad range of groups that are under threat. It's no longer just pro-Palestine organizations that face the specter of "material support" charges, but anyone accused of aiding "Antifa."

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

Trump's dismantling of USAID threatens to kill millions. But it has also aided attacks on civil society, Ine Van Severen, a researcher with CIVICUS, told @theredoubt.net.

Around the globe, would-be autocrats are citing the American president's conspiracy theories. www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

Deborah Makari, an advocate with the Charity & Security Network, said the increased threat of "terror" charges from the Trump DOJ is a "new and startling" threat to progressive organizing. www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

'New and startling': Trump's return drives global decline in civic freedoms A new report says dismantling USAID helped fuel an international assault on free expression.

NEW: A report released Tuesday says Trump's return to power has accompanied — and in some cases, directly aided — a global slide toward repression. www.theredoubt.net/new-and-star...

Good article on Meta taking millions from Tucker to promote debunked conspiracies. Knowledge Fight has some great episodes on Tucker interviewing Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, and Milo Yiannopoulos, all of whom are seeking audiences further to the extreme/Nazi (especially anti-Semitic) Right than ever.

Sex and equal rights in Eastern Europe: What socialism did for women At work and in the bedroom, socialism achieved results for 51% of the population, argues Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Speaking in Vienna, Prof. Kristen Ghodsee expanded on her 2017 NYT OpEd — "Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism" — and argued that Eastern Europe delivered real gains for 51% of the population.

My latest for @theredoubt.net: www.theredoubt.net/sex-and-equa...

At first I thought this was about Sednaya and the fall of the Assad regime.

“It took Putin…”

Do you know how long right-wing billionaires have been plotting the takeover of America? It was a decades-long project that has won a majority on the Supreme Court. It’s not just Donald Trump and it didn’t start in January.

Going viral for being racist is the new American dream.

“They consolidated power too fast” and “autocrats need to be popular” is, I’m afraid to say, a recurring form of cope. Don’t despair, but do be accurate.

These two tweets from the world’s richest man are only 2 weeks apart.

Sex and equal rights in Eastern Europe: What socialism did for women At work and in the bedroom, socialism achieved results for 51% of the population, argues Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ghodsee said when she wrote that piece, she wasn't prepared for the backlash, including accusations that she was an apologist for tyranny.

But for all its flaws, she insists that state socialism did more — for more women — than "Lean In"-style "liberal feminism." www.theredoubt.net/sex-and-equa...

Sex and equal rights in Eastern Europe: What socialism did for women At work and in the bedroom, socialism achieved results for 51% of the population, argues Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Speaking in Vienna, Prof. Kristen Ghodsee expanded on her 2017 NYT OpEd — "Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism" — and argued that Eastern Europe delivered real gains for 51% of the population.

My latest for @theredoubt.net: www.theredoubt.net/sex-and-equa...

Seeing discourse on the timeline about whether writers should be paid for their work. What do you think?

Link unrelated.

Letting Costco know that by giving me a free sample I am now morally entitled to 20 pounds of the product.

Congress killed due process, then Trump went even further The Laken Riley Act stripped undocumented immigrants of a fundamental right, but even that has not been radical enough for this White House.

How bipartisanship enabled mass detention by ICE — and why it still wasn’t enough for the Trump administration: www.theredoubt.net/congress-kil...

For comparison, Aruba has a refugee per capita burden of 16%, and Curaçao, 14%. These have the highest numbers in the world, alongside Lebanon and Jordan. Aruba has a population of just over 100.000 and received an estimated 17000 refugees from Venezuela.

Kinda forgot this happened / how much everything’s been b.s. this last decade or so.

The time I emailed Sy Hersh.