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#IssueFraming is everything. Let me take a stab at it.

Why does the Democratic Party suck at it so bad? If so, what is the remedy?
Why concede “legitimate” when he’s constitutionally ineligible for the office as an insurrectionist?

Why adopt his false nonsense framing of NATO defense spending?

What are we doing here, NYT?
May 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social

"Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."
Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷
May 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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"American democracy is based on empathy — citizens caring about other citizens and working through their government to provide public resources for all, making both decent lives and flourishing markets possible." - George Lakoff

www.theframelab.org/the-war-on-e...
The War on Empathy by Musk, Trump, and Evangelicals
Why do Republicans hate empathy?
www.theframelab.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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"How framing works, how framing has evolved in the past decade, how to speak to people who harbor elements of both progressive and conservative worldviews, how to counter propaganda and slogans, and more."

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
bookshop.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Good morning from New York.

We launched @www.AllRiseNews.com exactly two weeks ago, and we've spent EVERY DAY since in Top 10 "Rising" list for news. We broke stories, racked up citations, and live-streamed with the community.

Quick 🧵 www.allrisenews.com
May 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The billions of federal $ that flow to our universities flow toward 'STEM' programs. These are quite apolitical. Is Caligula not then just unilaterally disarming the nation when he cuts off funding to schools that decline his kind offer to monitor their non-STEM units for ideological purity?
April 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social

"Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."
Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷
May 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Follow the yellow brick road?
#wdyk
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April 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Eff #civility

#wdyk about decorum?
April 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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#WDYK?
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Here’s media malpractice. Chicago’s local NBC affiliate amplified the Illinois Republican Party’s lie about “paid far-left actors” at Saturday’s huge anti-Trump protest. Did Channel 5 ask ILGOP for evidence? Doubtful. Channel 5 may think including that lie is “fairness.” No, it’s complicity
April 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Welcome to the Trump economy.
April 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
That's legislating! Well done Senator Booker!
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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What stage capitalism is this?
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#WeTheANGRYpeople
are for Project 2029
WATCH: Project 2029 needs you

Legal whiz(? - never heard of him) Elie Mystal on how Republicans actually use power, what Democrats can learn from that, and how a pro-democracy Project 2029 might take shape
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WATCH: Project 2029 needs you
Legal whiz Elie Mystal on how Republicans actually use power, what Democrats can learn from that, and how a pro-democracy Project 2029 might take shape
the.ink
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"
March 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat.

"Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."
March 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Elias and some other Democratic-aligned firms have pledged not to bend to Trump. “President Trump’s goal is clear,” Elias said in a statement. “He wants lawyers and law firms to capitulate and cower until there is no one left to oppose his administration in court.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
Donald Trump’s Showdown With the Law Now Goes Beyond Judges
The president isn’t just looking to control the judges who rule against him. He’s now targeting law firms that have fought him in the past.
www.vanityfair.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What’s the difference between the Paul Weiss law firm and a rooster?

A rooster clucks defiance.
Paul Weiss: "Fight for you? Oh, honey, we don't even fight for ourselves!"
March 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM