Charles Я. Davis

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I can't believe my Heritage Foundation-brokered meeting at the White House on the eve of an election was exploited for political purposes!

Only thing is, if you think elected Republicans are racist just wait until you meet their voters.

Bad news: AI may destroy the internet as we know it. Good news: AI may destroy the internet as we know it.

At some point, half the cities in the world looked at their prime waterfront real estate and decided: this should be a fucking shitty road.

Post from GOP nominee for Florida state House seat, calling for “Remigration” (ethnic cleansing) & touting protests against “Sharia.” He was active w/ white supremacist group; marched at infamous Nazi rally in Charlottesville; advocated executing LGBTQ people No pushback from GOP. Expected to win

"Zelenskyy said Russia launched its attack 'almost immediately' after talks between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended Wednesday." www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Taps the sign:

A reminder that this war starts and stops at the discretion of Donald Trump.

Do you ever think about how the top right-wing American influencers were found to be on the Russian payroll — hundreds of thousands of dollars each — and nothing ever happened to them, and they all got to keep the money?

Seeing a post from someone ~excited to announce their new position at The Free Press~ has made me decide to be a bit meaner, on LinkedIn.

America turned out to be far dumber than even I thought as an anti-American teenager. A monstrously stupid place.

It’s so nice to be in Budapest for the first time and to know that neither Viktor Orbán nor Rod Dreher are here.

"When Vance labels someone an ingrate, it’s almost always a person of color." www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...

“All he’s doing is making the world oil price higher,” Trump said. “Well, I think that’s a disgrace.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I think about the Laken Riley Act — the very first bill Trump signed after campaigning on mass deportations, stripping undocumented immigrants of due process — every time I see a Jon Ossoff clip. www.theredoubt.net/congress-kil...

Fortunately, “my opponent is a queer” only works on like 40 percent of eligible American voters.

Sternenko is a former defence ministry advisor, and his account adds to growing indications that the Trump administration is restricting satellite information to Ukraine—despite denials from Trump that “intelligence cooperation” is being wound down.

People will log on with one goal: to convince you that statement from Hakeem Jeffries was adequate.

Impeachment may be implausible, but passing a major ethics reform package, through a Fetterman-controlled Senate, that the president won’t sign? The latter is more modest, but I’m not convinced it’s all that more pragmatic.

Our story: www.theredoubt.net/trump-admini...

The Redoubt's original reporting — on the State Dept. funding right-wing content creators in Europe — is cited by @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/davi...

Dress More Professional vs. This Was €5

"I believe the contemporary far right is a cross-class phenomenon ... a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation ... and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer." www.equator.org/articles/bra...

U.S. tax dollars at work: “This is nothing less than aiding and abetting the escape of a wanted war criminal.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

RESOLVED: "Are Brazilians 'Americans'?"

Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein both have beards now and they went from "dude's annoying" to "I honestly think they might be evil."

I’m spiritually ready for Reddit Atheism II

"It’s hard to admit this from a modern perspective, but historical fascism’s lust for violence didn’t make it repulsive but extremely attractive to a lot of German voters." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.

NEW: The Census Bureau has acquired more commercial voter data, weeks after using such data to falsely claim thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. www.theredoubt.net/us-census-bu...