This absolute piece of shit claims that he's "taking out fraudsters" and "saving the American people money" when his boss is running about half a dozen pay-to-play schemes in public view, the deficit is at record highs, and Vance has us ferrying his 9 year old to golf lessons in a helicopter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

again I need to point out that Chuck Schumer is not only wrong on the substance but getting annihilated on the politics. He’s failing at the thing he (so wrongly) says is his top job. His leadership is unsustainable. That’s just simple fact at this point.

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · last yr.

Chuck Schumer to Bret Stephens, March 2025: “My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.”

Frame: these African women soccer players aren't really women Negation: actually they were all assigned female at birth Kirby: TRANSPHOBES ARE ALWAYS RACISTS. They are trying to define whose bodies are acceptable. The league must reject that project, not claim to meet its standards

Danny Page@danny.page · 9mo ago

The @nwslsoccer.com & @nwslplayers.bsky.social statements accept the frame of the right wing and it sucks! They are bad faith attacks from bigoted folks who don’t care about women’s sports at all. Stop justifying their “concerns”. No Murdoch-owned org actually cares about the NWSL.

Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

Seeing all the content focused on centering all the people who need help who aren’t “fat, ghetto asses” and we can already see how the deserving/undeserving rhetorical lines are going to fall.

Frame: this public service costs too much, it isn't making money Negation: it's actually very efficient and it could make more money Kirby: they are attacking the very idea of public services

Thomas P@tpshea.eurosky.social · 10mo ago

And yet here we are. The Postal Workers union needs to Kirby the frame they're being trapped in. They don't need to make the case that there is a path to profitability.

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Burn it down and salt the earth.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h ago

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

TOUGH GUY IN R&B DUO: Type 1 HIGH-VOICED GUY: Separate hard pelll-lletts [90 seconds later] TOUGH GUY: yeah, Type 7 HIGH-VOICED GUY [absolutely going nuts] watery, nooooooooooooo solid piecesssessyesssyessnononoo

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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the modern job market

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS ARE VANISHING: NO-EXPERIENCE HIRING PLUNGES 73% IN JUST 4 YEARS

Sure, but it was never a question of whether she was right or wrong. All the MPs and the press knew very well she was correct, because they see it all the time. The point was that some insolent upstart tree-hugger had no business running her big yapping mouth, where the public can hear. The end.

no amnesty

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

PODCAST: Todd Blanche went from Wall Street lawyer to Trump crony. And now, he’s about to lose his dream job as attorney general. I explain what makes Blanche so dangerous and how he torpedoed his Senate confirmation to protect Trump’s slush fund. youtu.be/X-NBQW2yi7I?...

Todd Blanche Is About to Lose His Dream Job. This Is Why.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Five years ago, I left a partnership at a large, prestigious law firm because I wanted to more fully engage in representing clients in the political process at this unique moment in history. newsletters.democracydocket.com/paul-weiss-f...

Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs

Trump wants to sue people who call him a pedophile, but he can’t because the discovery process would expose him as a pedophile. Conclusion: he is a pedophile. Period.

Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.

I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.

Another data center approved on public lands. This 86-acre Townsite data center is next to Lake Mead, which supplies 90% of the water used by 2.3 million people in Nevada. Not only does it threaten to contaminate the existing water, but will also drain the falling water table that has dropped 160 ft

Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 BLM fast tracked putting private data center on public land in Nevada 🚨 Skylar Capital Mgt's 167-megawatt data center approved by the Bureau of Land Mgt in June through an unorthodox procedure avoiding any environmental review or public comment. It's the 1st data center ever on public lands

This is basically a Democratic campaign ad. Air it as is with no changes.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

Last time Dr Bae and I went to the Humane Society to get a new cat we ended up getting four

“Sure, you can’t afford to eat, get an education, or have healthcare. BUT I NEED MORE BILLIONS!!!” -Trump’s oligarchs