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.

Advice to journalists: find out who made money trading on this deal happening.

Trump just got Letitia James indicted despite insiders leaking that the case against her is incredibly weak. He had to get his handpicked stooge to do it. This only shows how corrupt the whole thing truly is:

BREAKING: Republican Governor of Oklahoma comes out blasting deployment of National Guard from Texas to Illinois. Calls it a violation of States' Rights. MAGA and Trump are increasingly isolated on this -- as they should be. We will not stop until this insanity ends.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

I mean…

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away." Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups. In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king. nokings.org

Really good thread here on SCOTUS’s apparent opposition to Biden and differential treatment of Trump…and how we should respond.

100%!

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?

Just another day…

Yes please Democrats! This is not normal and requires a response that acknowledges that.

In related news, let me know if you or someone you know has any interesting work opportunities!

"This is clearly the mask-off phase of Trump 2.0. Trump is past triangulation. He’s past argumentation and persuasion. He’s in the raw-power business now. Pam Bondi went to Congress yesterday to let them know." www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.” open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

“With Trump provocatively sending troops into blue cities, and using recision and the shutdown to claw back congressionally appropriated funds from blue states, it’s time to turn the tables on him.” By @clarajeffery.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

Wow, @politico.com gets it right with this headline! #climate

This administration wants to punish federal workers. These threats are illegal point blank. We could be working together to end this Republican government shutdown but Russ Vought and POTUS would rather threaten and harass the federal workforce.

Greensboro, NC - TODAY!! Tuesdays with Tillis! Bring your best signs! We know whose shutdown this is and let him know YOU KNOW! #RepublicanShutdown #Tariffs #SavetheACA #HandsOffMedicaid

Residents across the Verde Valley thank Senators Kelly & Gallego for fighting to save their healthcare! #CareNotCuts #TrumpShutdown #AZProtests #VerdeValleyUnited @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov @campverdeindivis.bsky.social

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

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.

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

Almost like they’re worried that what they’re doing isn’t right…

This is the issue. Weiss was one of the "journalists" bestowed with the Twitter Files, which revealed some troubling jawboning, but wildly overstated its case. She's now the beneficiary of an unprecedented, openly censorious government project to purge and remake a media institution.

Headlines like this — "Morale is extremely low at CBS ahead of Bari Weiss taking over" — is, perversely, a key reason Paramount's leadership paid such a ridiculous premium for Free Press. The *point* is to break the real journalists. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Don’t take it lying down.

This doesn’t strike me as a good idea.

All the worst people in the world have the most power right now. Let’s make sure it doesn’t last long…

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

This strikes me as understanding the stakes—at least in a way that Senator Murphy’s colleagues don’t seem to. President Trump is asking for tacit authority to continue is unconstitutional and illegal policy agenda—from impoundment to to tariffs to immigration. Dems must deny him that.

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

This is important. We will have to turn elsewhere and be ready for a massive rebuilding effort once we get this administration out.

From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her tireless advocacy for the environment... Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world! I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago. Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️

This is straight up co-dependent/abuser language. This entire regime is staffed top to bottom with the most sadistic "don't make me hit you" "now look what you made me do" assholes on the planet.

If only there was some way of stopping him. Something a majority party in Congress with a spine and a little humanity could do. Ah well…

Place accountability over placating dictators. Director Tulsi Gabbard, declassify your agency's still-secret assessment about Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder.

American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans." We checked the data. That wasn't true. openmeasures.io/american-eag...

Seems fair.