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.

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.”

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."

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.

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

I’m sure he did…. 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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

MAGA relatives will look you straight in the eye and go, “Well, Obama…”

Last Week at The Redoubt: Sex, socialism and democratic decline www.theredoubt.net/sex-socialis...

They never ask this about the people hawking ivermectin and lion's mane supplements. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Voted to strip undocumented immigrants of due process the moment Trump returned to power 👇

An yglesias flashback

And remember this comes as Meta accepts millions of dollars to promote far-right content, including 9/11 conspiracy theories, from Tucker Carlson: www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...

In the USA, for comparison, immigrants are ~15% of the population.

One of my post-9/11 memories is wearing an antiwar shirt to high school and someone in the hall telling me "you're not an American" and then my math teacher saying we should kill every man, woman and child in Afghanistan.

“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

46 Democrats in the House and 12 in the Senate voted to give Donald Trump the power to indefinitely detain tens of thousands of immigrants: www.theredoubt.net/congress-kil...

On my way to a talk with Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist who keeps suing US tech companies, and winning. apnews.com/article/face...

Some young people in Europe are still in denial about what’s happening in America, but probably not for much longer.

What happens in America reverberates abroad.

If this pace keeps up, I will have 4.2 billion subscribers by this time next year.

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...

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?

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...

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

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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: 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.