Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions... The Trump administration has arrested a mayor, a judge, a member of Congress, and beaten a United States Senator to the ground. They've deployed the military, over the objections of the governor and mayor, into a major American city. We just experienced a political assassination. The nation's chief law-enforcement officer, DHS Secretary Noem, asserted: "We are staying here to liberate the city [of Los Angeles] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." The president demanded a military parade for his birthday and is threatening to revoke broadcast licenses from television networks. The Trump regime is ignoring court orders, including one from the Supreme Court, and Trump's press secretary says: "The courts should have no role here. There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision-making process." What does all this mean?

Why America must confront the corrosive force that Trump is trying to use to tear us apart... Yesterday, I spoke with you about the importance of our government embracing free speech and not trying to stifle it or intimidate (or deport) people for unpopular political writings. Today, let's examine the flip side of that argument: hate speech, the power and danger of hate itself, and how we defeat it as Trump tries to use it to manipulate us. Hate is poison; it never makes anything better. It's corrosive like an acid, eats away at our empathy and reason, and eventually destroys our very humanity. When nations are consumed by hate — like Germany was in the 1930s, or the American South was during Jim Crow — the result is invariably the destruction of civil society and its replacement with political, economic, and legal systems based in and dependent upon violence.

We stand at the tipping point — one decision will define our future… House Speaker Mike Johnson says that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be "tarred and feathered" because he's going along with protestors who object to Trump's fascist behavior. The vast majority of political violence over the past 15 years has been committed by rightwing goons and assassins, culminating in Minneapolis last weekend. Trump is inserting Marines into an American city against the will and wishes of the mayor and that state's governor and just rolled out a North Korea-style military parade. Next, he wants to give billionaires another $5 trillion tax gift funded by borrowed money you and your children will have to pay back. And now he's changed the veterans administration rules so doctors and nurses can refuse to provide services to veterans who are registered as Democrats. Seriously, not making that up. How did we get here?

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Today is No Kings Day — Federal District Judge Charles Breyer (the brother of former SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer) just ruled Trump's deployment of the National Guard to LA illegal. — Trump's border czar says, "We'll flood liberal cities with ICE raids." — The FBI took down Senator Padilla when he tried to ask a question of Cosplay Kristi, but the FBI had escorted him into the room with her in the first place. — Speaking of the press, it appears that police in LA are intentionally targeting reporters with "non-lethal" rounds that can cause severe and permanent damage. — Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman reports on the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) evaluation of the GOP's "Big Beautiful" tax cut for billionaires and it's shocking. — California Governor Gavin Newsom takes down Trump. — Hegseth has apparently come up with a plan to invade Greenland