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@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

tRUmp wants arrests first, evidence later. Two prosecutors just walked rather than launder a “conspiracy” chase. That’s not a case—it's a loyalty test. #ProtectDOJ #AuthoritarianPlaybook

November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM

Amy Sommers 李雅美

@amysommers.bsky.social

@slotkin.senate.gov how do you give a speech to the @brookings.edu on Trump & the #authoritarianplaybook youtu.be/fnUO0Plcpbo?...

& 6 days later you teeter on the edge of CAVING to authoritarian Trump on his cruelty in ending ACA support?

How do you not see the connection?

🤷‍♀️

November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM

the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁

@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

Right—authoritarians don’t chase polls, they engineer pain. Flight chaos is leverage: squeeze unions, stoke grievance, then sell “order” as the cure. It’s not incompetence; it’s conditioning. #AuthoritarianPlaybook #UnionBusting #Project2025

November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM

CTina

@ct-indigo.bsky.social

Ein demokratisch gewählter Machthaber droht mit Mittelentzug, falls demokr. gewählt wird.
Wer freie Wahlen erpresserisch manipuliert, agiert autoritär u. prefaschistisch. Demokratie kippt nicht plötzlich– sie wird schleichend ausgehöhlt. #Mamdani
#FascismBeginsSmall #AuthoritarianPlaybook #FCKFCSM

Bürgermeisterwahlen in New York - Trump droht bei Sieg von Favorit Mamdani mit Entzug von Bundesmitteln

In New York wird heute ein neuer Bürgermeister gewählt. Kurz vor der Wahl drohte US-Präsdient Trump mit dem Entzug von Bundesmitteln, sollte der als Favorit geltende Demokrat Mamdani gewinnen. Stattde...

www.deutschlandfunk.de

November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM

DemSocialistGuy

@demsocialistguy.bsky.social

That a U.S. president calls a reformer “a communist” for proposing rent relief and free buses exposes the moral rot at America’s core. Trump’s tantrum isn’t about ideology—it’s about control. When power feels threatened by justice, it calls compassion treason. #AuthoritarianPlaybook

November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM

the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁

@digitalscorpyun.bsky.social

Trump’s 23,500-troop “riot” force + CBP deportation surge = manufactured chaos to justify Insurrection Act & voter suppression. Not safety—subversion. #AuthoritarianPlaybook #ElectionIntegrity

October 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM

Mickey Kuhns

@mickeykuhns.bsky.social

Mike Johnson’s lie isn’t about confusion — it’s cover. ICE shot a priest from a rooftop, and he’s fabricating an “assault” to protect his thugs. This is the new norm: brutality from ICE, denial from leadership, and zero accountability.

#AuthoritarianPlaybook

October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Roger Alan Stone

@theotherrogerstone.bsky.social

First post of my new Substack -- What Is To Be Done:
Authoritarian Playbook: The Final Chapter --
Getting Overthrown Because People Are Hungry and Your Troops Are Unpaid
#authoritarianplaybook #SNAP

October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM

Eddyflower

@eddyflower.bsky.social

The GOP-controlled Congress has abdicated its constitutional oversight and advice-and-consent responsibilities in order to support an Imperial Presidency. Disgraceful. History will remember.

#Congress
#GOPdisgrace
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#Project2025

calandi.bsky.social @calandi.bsky.social · 28d

#thisisthevoughtproject2025
#thisisallproject2025
#trumpisnotincharge
#voughtisincharge
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#thedestructionisintentional
#putinswetdream

Gay in Maine 🩵💙🩵🌈 @michaelwsf.bsky.social · 28d

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/reno...

October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Eddyflower

@eddyflower.bsky.social

This is important. 2/3 of Trump's EOs mirror Project 2025. Trump is building an international authoritarian coalition.

#democracy
#Project2025
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#thedestructionisintentional

www.youtube.com/watch?v=74gd...

Why Bannon's Third Term Talk Isn't Bluster: A Historian's Warning About Constitutional Fragility

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

www.youtube.com

October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Lyn Ettinger-Harwell

@lyneh1.bsky.social

tRump is a 1 man wrecking ball!
Beyond Banana Republic Corruption!
Dystopian acts of crazy!
Are we tracking the rise of Autocracy? A full-on assault on our freedoms, "The People's House, our Constitution... all of it! And we can't afford to stay silent!!!
#UncheckedPower
#AuthoritarianPlaybook

October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM

jaymac66.bsky.social

@jaymac66.bsky.social

#DictatorDon & #PrincessOfDarkness with their #AuthoritarianPlaybook

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17d

Gavin Newsom Knows Chump and
Stephen Miller's Playbook Well......

October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM

Lyn Ettinger-Harwell

@lyneh1.bsky.social

Johnson! Swear Adelita Grijalva in now! A very dangerous time for our #Democracy
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#UncheckedPower
#swearherinnow
#releasethefiles

Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 20d

Precisely!
The Real Reason For The Shutdown!

October 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM

Lyn Ettinger-Harwell

@lyneh1.bsky.social

Johnson is chock full of lie after lie. SOLVE THE SHUTDOWN! SWEAR HER IN!
101 tRump Ugliness!
Dystopian acts of crazy!
What our government & MAGA administration is doing is fundamentally wrong. A very dangerous time for our #Democracy
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#UncheckedPower
#Releasethefiles

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Mike Johnson lies shamelessly on CNN: "We have many ideas on how to bring down the cost of healthcare, to continue to do that, and we've already demonstrated it in the working families tax cut. We had real reforms to Medicaid that have brought down the cost and saved about $185b for taxpayers."

October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM

Jenn🦋Anne💙Miller😷

@jennannemiller.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/welivedi...
Do not let this go by unchallenged
Don't let anything go by unchallenged
#EconomicBoycott #BoycottWithYourWallet #GeneralStrike #PeacefulProtestIsARight #SmashFascism #AuthoritarianPlaybook #AmericaIsNotAChristianNation #SeparationOfChurchAndState

October 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Will Johnson

@billydeltoro.bsky.social

This isn’t chaos — it’s choreography.
The unsworn, the unseen, and the unheard are the foundation of their new order.
Democracy isn’t dying quietly. It’s being edited out, live. #NoKings #AuthoritarianPlaybook

October 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM

Dr Jackie Turvey Tait

@jaxtait.bsky.social

More tactics straight out of the AuthoritarianPlaybook:

"Reward loyalists and punish defectors: Make in-group members fearful to voice dissension"
#TyrantTactics
#NoKings

Trump's Assault on the Justice System Continues

Punish your enemies, protect your friends - Part II

www.sidebarsblog.com

October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM

calandi.bsky.social

@calandi.bsky.social

#thisisthevoughtproject2025
#thisisallproject2025
#trumpisnotincharge
#voughtisincharge
#AuthoritarianPlaybook
#thedestructionisintentional
#putinswetdream

Jack Smith’s Quiet Integrity—and the DOJ’s Loud Collapse
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Jack Smith’s Quiet Integrity—and the DOJ’s Loud Collapse

Jack Smith breaks his silence just as Trump’s DOJ turns the law into a weapon.

open.substack.com

October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein

@scoccoklein.bsky.social

Americans for Public Trust, a harassment outfit run by Republican political operatives, accused CIFF of channeling funds to "radical DEI and climate activist" groups in the US

All part of the #authoritarianplaybook to silence critics in civil society

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...