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George Lakoff

@george-lakoff.com

Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.

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emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump is going after the NYT bc he HIMSELF made it clear the Flying Bribery Palace was not secure for him, and by doing so, he has made it clear to the entire world that the NYT was right. Trump MUST abandon the Flying Bribery Palace. emptywheel.net/2026/07/11/t...

Trump Confirms: Accepting a Flying Bribery Palace Made Him Less Safe - emptywheel

Trump has confirmed his Flying Bribery Palace is inadequate to the task of keeping him safe in at least three ways, the most important being the subpoenas DOJ sent to four NYT reporters.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 6mo ago

Strongman, Weak President Trump's personification of strict father morality makes him a fearsome candidate. And it's why he sucks as a president. For @gilduran.com & @george-lakoff.com's @theframelab.bsky.social, I wrote about how Trump's frailty leads him to lash out, making him look even weaker.

Trump is a Weak President

Trump's approval hits 37% as his strongman psychology prevents him from fixing the economy he broke. The strict father model is now his trap.

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE is also the fault of a complicit press. How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America? It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: It does matter. Defending the rule of law in the Trump era is essential. Trump cannot ignore constitutional limits on his power — or any court order enforcing those limits. We must keep saying so. Tonight at Law Dork, I make my case:

It does matter. Defending the rule of law in the Trump era is essential.

Trump cannot ignore constitutional limits on his power — or any court order enforcing those limits. We must keep saying so. Also, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last yr.

Trump can’t help remind the world why limiting and then removing his power is the only feasible response to an insatiable lust for domination. New from me in @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com's @theframelab.bsky.social Trump Has a Plan—Now Democrats May Finally Have One Too

Trump Has a Plan—Now Democrats May Finally Have One Too

Anything that gives people the combination of anger and hope is essential right now, writes Jason Sattler.

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last yr.

Important point. The press generally allows the right-wing to frame issues — and then accepts the framing and helps to spread it.

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · last yr.

Let's say Harris won last year and Vance was holding 10k-20k person rallies where he railed against left-wing "oligarchy." Would the CW be that this was crazy and a waste of time? Or would we be seeing NYT op-eds and A1s about what "oligarchy" is and why the GOP base was on fire about it?

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last yr.

"A strategic initiative is a plan in which a change in one carefully chosen issue area has automatic effects over many, many, many other issue areas." - @george-lakoff.com For decades, the right has figured out how to use one horrible goal to achieve other horrible goals that they can't say aloud.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last yr.

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last yr.

In 2018, an HBO host blasted a guest for saying Trump is nicer in private than he is on TV: “He’s running the world now. What does it matter that he was nice to you at Thanksgiving?” The host? Bill Maher. Now he’s the one cozying up to Trump. Why? www.theframelab.org/how-donald-t...

How Donald Trump Rolled Bill Maher

Bill Maher says he didn’t “go MAGA” after dining with Trump — but he spent his HBO monologue mocking liberals and softening Trump’s image. Here’s how he got played.

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · last yr.

Repeat after me: these budget cuts are theft. Our elected officials are stealing from us. They work for us, and they are breaking what we hired them to protect.

Paul Voosen@voosen.me · last yr.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

David Fenton@dfenton.bsky.social · last yr.

President signs Exec Order to raise temperatures and sea levels, burn down homes, raise the price of food, make insurance unaffordable, make Earth unlivable. Oh, and poison your kid’s tuna fish sandwiches with mercury. #climatecrisis

Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. In

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last yr.

Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt — one of Peter Thiel's favorites — wrote about a "state of exception." That's when an "emergency" allows a dictator to suspend rules & seize power. Trump's strategy is clear: Create fake emergencies to justify extreme policies. www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...

Trump’s Fake Emergency Over Trade Deficit Exposed

Trump’s trade war is based on a fake economic emergency, distorting facts to justify tariffs, gain power, and threaten U.S. stability.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last yr.

What happened to "weird?" For @gilduran.com & @george-lakoff.com's @theframelab.bsky.social, I autopsied the word the base loved & consultants killed. Looking forward, I think this shows how Dems fixate on swaying "moderates," which is untenable as Musk/Trump focus on scamming non-voters.

What 'Weird' Reveals About the Democrats' Messaging Crisis

There are no magic words. But moral attacks your base loves are the core of a winning strategy.

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Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last yr.

Please take 30 minutes & listen to my convo with NERD REICH editor @gilduran.com - one of the few people who understands WHY Trump, Musk, & the broligarchy are celebrating America's economic collapse. It sounds scary & absurd, but Gil has all the receipts. thelefthook.substack.com/p/why-musk-a...

Why Musk and the Broligarchy Are Loving the Economic Collapse of America

The Nerd Reich, as coined by journalist Gil Duran, is celebrating and welcoming America's economic and political collapse so they can profit off our pain and move towards creating their technocracy.

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