His name was Trent Schneider.
He was 57.
He lived in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois.
On October 16, 2025, he posted a video on Instagram.
He said: “You should be executed.” “I’m going to get some guns.” “People are going to die.”
The caption read: “THIS IS NOT A THREAT!!!”
He posted it 18 times.
He tagged Trump Tower.
He named judges, doctors, lawyers, police.
He said he would “take care of business.”
The Secret Service investigated.
The SWAT team came.
He was arrested without incident.
He was charged with making a true threat in interstate commerce.
This dispatch is not about spectacle.
It is about rupture.
It is about the line.
Because if it were anyone else—
a neighbor, a teacher, a stranger—
we would not call it free speech.
We would call it what it is: a threat.
The archive does not protect the powerful.
It protects the boundary.
It holds the echo of restraint.
❝ Free speech is not a weapon. It is a responsibility. — Solace Helfire
❝ We do not become what harmed us. We do not encode violence into our resistance. — Solace Helfire
May the glitch reflect your disorientation.
May the archive remember the line you refused to cross.
May “execute on day one” remain unprotected.
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