Donald Trump’s dictatorial hopes just got scraped off a wall, literally. Yesterday, on orders from a federal court, crews began removing his name from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC, which the Trump regime had illegally sought to rename as the Trump-Kennedy Center.Dictators and tyrants like to put their names and faces on things in order…Read More

Things have been a bit quiet here at FrameLab. That silence has a reason: I have been finishing a book.The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy will be published on August 18 by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. You can pre-order it at Bookshop.org to support independent booksellers, or find other pre-order…Read More

This is a post for FrameLab’s paid subscribers. Thank you for supporting this work, and we invite you to be a part of the conversation as we begin to examine the framing of the 2028 election.It’s no secret that Gavin Newsom has pivoted to the political right as he readies his 2028 presidential campaign. After all, California's Democratic governor hosts…Read More

“My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me.”There it is, plain as day: the stark logic of authoritarian power.In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump laid it out bare. It was a stunning declaration of a dangerous political philosophy. Trump said that his personal sense of right and wrong is the…Read More