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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
But I do hope that a quote from Casino applies here ... and that "guys ..never are given [access] to anything that valuable again". 12/12
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
While they contemplate jail and hopefully never see another "productive" job offer ever again, I hope they wonder if it's worth it for the insignificantly small to no cost savings they achieved. Was that fleeting nothingness worth their souls? Maybe for MAGA dudes? 11/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is why I chose the opening QT; because it shows Hannah Arendt's banality of evil so sharply. These were young, stupid, enthusiastic MAGA dudes, who didn't care about the law or what made sense, and are going to be the fall guys. And that is well deserved. 10/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's not that the DOGE "staff" are being deposed. It's that they look like clownish simpletons, & it paints the entire DOGE exercise as coming out of a clown car. This is bad for the far-right, as they want MORE of DOGE like cutting. But it won't happen if there is consequences for stupidity. 9/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
No, this is Rufo doing reverse duty. If someone on the left commits an infraction, they should be fired. But if someone on the right/far-right slips up, there should be NO consequences at all. Because this is actually what he (and his cohorts) are mad at. 8/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Moving back to the present day, it's rich for someone who hasn't done anything productive to claim that anyone else is or isn't doing this. But, more to the point -- it isn't about whether the "kids" at DOGE were productive at all. Because, they weren't - their work was about destruction. 7/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Faculty has left, students are trying to leave, and even building changes have gone amok. Rufo and his board tried to move student housing, but the new digs were not up to snuff and the plan for the existing residence was called into question. Again, nothing productive here. 6/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Rufo did manage to get DeSantis to listen to him & try to turn one of Florida's top colleges into a "conservative education institution", modelled on Hillsdale. Unfortunately, this has been a disaster. Rufo isn't much of an admin, & largely the plan seems to have been "fire who we don't like". 5/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, first, let's talk about Rufo's projection that *HE* is "productive". While he's excellent and stirring up fake outrage and "collecting scalps" on the left, his main product is to generate backlash and to destroy and get people fired. I don't count this as "productive" in any way. 4/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Link to original post: (not sure how I got the thumbnail to stay in the first post in this thread, but want the full URL here so...) 3/ x.com/JeremyKonynd...
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Jeremy Konyndyk on X: "The DOGE kids are getting deposed because there were useful idiots who ignored the law." / X
The DOGE kids are getting deposed because there were useful idiots who ignored the law.
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
[QT cont..] christopherrufo: The DOGE kids are getting deposed because the Left knows how to impose costs. The ACLU harassed me for years, ran up my legal bills, because of my work eliminating woke with DeSantis. They have a whole playbook for punishing productive right-wing people. 2/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, the "DOGE kids" are getting deposed, and the far-right are mad about it. Our bud Rufo is mad, as is evidenced in this quote tweet: JeremyKonyndyk The DOGE kids are getting deposed because there were useful idiots who ignored the law. QT christopherrufo: The DOGE kids are getting deposed[..] 1/
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Jeremy Konyndyk on X: "The DOGE kids are getting deposed because there were useful idiots who ignored the law." / X
The DOGE kids are getting deposed because there were useful idiots who ignored the law.
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I'm actually going to write something right away, but there is so much to catch up on!
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, I took an unexpected break from socials, nothing important happened during the month and a half I haven't been paying attention, right? (facepalm)
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
In the end, Benz is like most of the right/far-right nowadays; just cheerleading whoever will seem to help them make a single point in a discussion, not actually trying to have a coherent approach or strategy, forget morals or ethics. 5/5
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
And of course he seems to forget THIS hilarity, where Russia fined Google *more money then is currently on Earth*, because that's what his heroes do. 4/ x.com/mobbs_mental...
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Meaghan Mobbs on X: "If you spend more tweets highlighting this than you do Roskomnadzor - the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian mass media - maybe you should meditate on that. https://t.co/74ONSDRMwh" / X
If you spend more tweets highlighting this than you do Roskomnadzor - the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian mass media - maybe you should meditate on that. https://t.co/74ONSDRMwh
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Now, Mike loves to complain about *censorship*, but doesn't want anyone to even moderate anything -- all firehose, all the time. He just wants there to be a huge din of noise cancelling out honest reporting and hard work. 3/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Link to original post: x.com/MikeBenzCybe... 2/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
So, we have this take from Benz... @MikeBenzCyber: Putin didn’t impose $140 million of fines on X to impose censorship on Americans. If you’re more authoritarian than Putin, maybe you should meditate on that. [QT of a critique of the US travel admission policy] 1/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
So, it seems in the run up to the Holiday season, I've myeself scarce. I've got some bits to post and things to go over, so I'll get at least partially caught up. Not on my radar: Heritage Foundation coming apart at the seams. It's a good development, but weird in the way it happened.
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It seems picking incompetent people to do things that require all the i's to be dotted and the t's to be crossed isn't such a brilliant move after all; but they can't ever admit their wrong, and will whine on about something else instead. 7/7
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The cherry on top is not to acknowledge that she messed up and was wrong, but it is being mad that they aren't supporting her and calling it right, and are thus "hanging her out to dry". Everything is a political sports game to these people. 6/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
She didn't do that; she made up her own process as she went along, and it was found out. We have rules and procedures in court for a reason, but if it suits them, they think they can do whatever they want. Now they are mad that making it up instead of following the rules has consequences. 5/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
[Ed. note: Why are they all such windbags?] Okay, lots to consider here, and most of it is amusing. First, nothing was *done* to Halligan at all -- it is what *she did* that is under scrutiny. There is a way the Grand Jury works, and what she should have done was get the FULL GJ to revote. 4/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
[..cont] And by the way, where are the people who should be standing with her right now instead of leaving her out to dry? === Link do original post: x.com/HansMahncke/... 3/
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Hans Mahncke on X: "What they’re doing to Lindsey Halligan is absolutely despicable. There were three indictments, two were approved, so she set aside the one that wasn’t, got the foreperson’s signature, and moved forward. That’s it. And yet they’re all acting like she committed some kind of" / X
What they’re doing to Lindsey Halligan is absolutely despicable. There were three indictments, two were approved, so she set aside the one that wasn’t, got the foreperson’s signature, and moved forward. That’s it. And yet they’re all acting like she committed some kind of
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
[..cont] And yet they’re all acting like she committed some kind of monstrous offense, which is exactly what happens to any Trump appointee who actually tries to carry out the mandate they were elected to deliver instead of playing it safe, mouthing platitudes, and accomplishing nothing. [cont..] 2/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ah, what's some court fraud among friends... HansMahncke: What they’re doing to Lindsey Halligan is absolutely despicable. There were three indictments, two were approved, so she set aside the one that wasn’t, got the foreperson’s signature, and moved forward. That’s it. [cont...] 1/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sacks should be ashamed to amplify such bad takes; but if he had shame, he wouldn't be where he is now, right? 6/6
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Except that CEOs and tech leaders have been talking all about them not needing "juniors" anymore, as AI can fulfill that role. And it's not like Sacks isn't aware of this; he's definitely adjacent to the Silicon Valley tech bros that champion this; it's the same crypto positive dudes too. 5/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So, the technology that does best in knowledge industries hasn't "disrupted" things like blue collar work? I'm super surprised. This isn't a serious study, it's something for AI boosters to use to say "see, AI isn't replacing humans". 4/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This would be some heavy-hitting info, except it goes against what we actually know -- That the IT industry has been shedding workers like CRAZY. But buried in the text, it clearly states that this trend has not affected "the broader labor market". 3/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Link to original post: x.com/DavidSacks/s... 2/
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David Sacks on X: "According to a new study from the Yale Budget Lab, AI has caused no discernible disruption in the labor market based on 33 months of data since ChatGPT’s release. https://t.co/wPcPclGAlm" / X
According to a new study from the Yale Budget Lab, AI has caused no discernible disruption in the labor market based on 33 months of data since ChatGPT’s release. https://t.co/wPcPclGAlm
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This piece of brilliance was from a few days back... DavidSacks: According to a new study from the Yale Budget Lab, AI has caused no discernible disruption in the labor market based on 33 months of data since ChatGPT’s release.
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is why stunts like this are dumb -- because without being curious, and knowing the WHOLE story, you can come up with hot takes that seem smart but are actual hurtful in ways you didn't even understand. Par for the course for influencers on the right, unfortunately. 6/6
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Those people employ a lot of people, and ALL of those people are voters. From a practical standpoint, they'd all take big haircuts, and that won't play well. It does a general good as well, of course -- but even if recipients vote, they are someplace else, so don't figure in as much. 5/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Now, I'm sure he got lots of cute soundbites and it plays up the MAGA base -- get those FREELOADERS off my dime! But the issue is that the money being spent goes into the hands of food producers and distributors, giving them a healthy base income. 4/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Now, a lot of the way these far-right influencers make money is by rage-baiting people to react to their dumb insanity. That's what this is, for sure. Not even the most hardcore GOP elected official would suggest ending SNAP full stop. It's political suicide. 3/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
[...cont] But he draws the line at hungry kids [QT of Crowder at his table saying "we should end all SNAP benefits"] === Link to original post: x.com/jlarkytweets... 2/
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Josh Larky on X: "Steven Crowder took out $70,000 in PPP loans during Covid and didn’t repay any of it, even though he was already a millionaire Put another way, he was happy to pocket the equivalent of 33 years (!!) worth of SNAP benefits from the government But he draws the line at hungry kids" / X
Steven Crowder took out $70,000 in PPP loans during Covid and didn’t repay any of it, even though he was already a millionaire Put another way, he was happy to pocket the equivalent of 33 years (!!) worth of SNAP benefits from the government But he draws the line at hungry kids
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Post takes Crowder to task... jlarkytweets: Steven Crowder took out $70,000 in PPP loans during Covid and didn’t repay any of it, even though he was already a millionaire Put another way, he was happy to pocket the equivalent of 33 years (!!) worth of SNAP benefits from the government [cont...] 1/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
So, my thought is that NO ONE should feel SHAME for having something to eat, no matter HOW it is provided. Mike and the douche nozzles want people without to feel indebted to them, like THEY personally were ponying up the money. Just an awful take. 4/4
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
So, let's talk about shame. Trump has no shame, his various cabinet secretaries have no shame, his comms staff have no shame and neither do his talking heads. But all of a sudden this dude wants to talk about shame? Sure, uh huh. 3/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Link to original: x.com/mrddmia/stat... 2/
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 on X: "We must bring back shame to welfare." / X
We must bring back shame to welfare.
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Ah, far right influencer Mike Davis has safety net thoughts... mrddmia: We must bring back shame to welfare. [QT of EBT of TikTok showing someone stocking up now that EBT is back] 1/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
He COULD try, you know, to become a clergy member and work through the ranks -- but it's easier to be a crappy pundit and shout what you want from the sidelines. Deep down, Matt isn't deeply committed to religion, he's deeply committed to his crappy opinions. Just sad. 7/7
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I'll pause here to mention that the stuff under Biden was regarding a DIFFERENT Pope first, and then also mention that because you advocate for humane treatment for undocumented people doesn't mean you can't do other advocacy. But, Matt's a goon, so he wants to curate what is done by the church. 6/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Now, Matt's long winded whine here isn't a post as much as it is a complaint essay, lashing out at *how* the Church does it's thing. Clearly he feels that the strong advocacy that the Church has done against abortion isn't enough, and he's offended they are pushing back on the immigration push. 5/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
[...cont] Deportations certainly do not. And yet the bishops suddenly find their voice and their courage for this issue. Very strange indeed. [QT of US bishop talking] === Original post: x.com/MattWalshBlo... 4/
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Matt Walsh on X: "I don’t recall the bishops making any sort of video like this to condemn the Biden White House for supporting, funding, and facilitating the mass slaughter of children in the womb. I also can’t remember seeing any video with solemn condemnations of the Biden White House and its" / X
I don’t recall the bishops making any sort of video like this to condemn the Biden White House for supporting, funding, and facilitating the mass slaughter of children in the womb. I also can’t remember seeing any video with solemn condemnations of the Biden White House and its
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
[...cont] That’s in spite of the fact that Biden is actually “Catholic” and he was actively engaged in activities that are explicitly condemned as mortally sinful by the Church. Trump is neither Catholic nor is he doing anything, policy wise, that contradicts Church teaching. [cont...] 3/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
[...cont] I also can’t remember seeing any video with solemn condemnations of the Biden White House and its support for the castration and sexual mutilation of children. [cont...] 2/
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Frame Change @framechange.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Oh look, Matt has opinions about religious stuff... MattWalshBlog: I don’t recall the bishops making any sort of video like this to condemn the Biden White House for supporting, funding, and facilitating the mass slaughter of children in the womb. [cont...] 1/
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