I know this sounds extreme. It is. I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am. Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever. But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

Step 5 of the plan: Rig the rules and the information. Tilt the election playing field your way and destroy the idea of truth.

Step 4 of the plan: Seize control of Congress's spending and tax powers to use those powers to reward loyalists and punish opponents.

Step 3 of the plan: Use the military to perform political intimidation in places with high levels of opposition to the regime.

Step 2 of the plan: Use government power to compel the media to tell only the regime's narrative and to silence critics.

Step 1 of the plan: Turn the justice system into a political witch hunt operation that punishes critics for free speech and immunizes loyalists for actual criminality.

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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"We fought a Revolutionary War not to have kings, a Civil War not to have slavery, and a World War not to have fascism." -Joel P. Friedman ANTIFA

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.

We must all stand up and speak out.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Humor and ridicule are powerful resistance weapons!!

It's a failed fucking profession, three-quarters of it bought and paid for by fascist billionaires, and most of the other quarter fearfully clinging to their precious "objectivity" in the hope that they won't catch a figurative (or literal) stray bullet.

Seriously. Coverage like this from the New York Times and other "mainstream" outlets are going to get people murdered. People are going to be shot and beaten to death in the streets. They're going to be dragged out of their homes and disappeared, citizens and non-citizens alike.

"Democratic strongholds" in this militaristic context makes it sound like we're terrorists or insurrections or warlords. I cannot express how angry I am at American journalism for enabling this moment.

"In keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and is sending red state National Guard troops into blue states. Colorado Dems passed a law that's unlikely to stop that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZs...

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Judge April Perry just set oral arguments for the National Guard lawsuit for Thursday. Illinois v. Trump.

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Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him. (…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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“The memos classify huge swaths of political advocacy and belief as potentially contributing to political violence and domestic terrorism, directing law enforcement and federal agencies to investigate and possibly charge advocacy groups and their funders.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...

These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood. Unacceptable in America.

This is what freedom looks like.

“Newsom declared that the state of California will pull funding from any university that caves to Trump’s extortion gambit. This is the right path for Democrats. Where they control levers of power, they should use them to create counterincentives.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Monsters

Don’t worry about the paywall. No need to actually read the article. The point is clear. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Economist cartoon. The world sees what Trump is doing.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

First Monday of October. Happy First Day of the Supreme Court's 2025 Term to all who commemorate.

Gift 🎁 Article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m... "In the eyes of almost all our survey respondents, this post-Watergate structure is collapsing. “I still think we get through it,” said the former official who served in several administrations, “but I’m less certain of that each passing day.”

So many talented liars.

I see the possible arson attack at a judge's home over the weekend (that nearly killed members of her family) has not impacted Matt Walsh's incendiary rhetoric about judges....

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kamala said he'd try to use the military against the US population. News outlets called her "hysterical".

MAGA say the evil is on left. True that Stalin and Mao were on left. I hate Stalin and Mao. Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini were on right. They were the purest evil to ever exist. On left, we have a few tankies here and there. Not my fav people and I call them out. MAGA however is doing heil hitlers.

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

Trump has so transformed and degraded the machinery of American government that it isn't enough to just beat him or his successor. Someone has to rebuild the liberal democratic state.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”