Bill Mauer
queous.bsky.social
Bill Mauer
@queous.bsky.social
Dad, husband, hockey goalie, and disc golf player. I dabble in software.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"You may want to share some of these stories with the normies in your life to underscore the damage being done to the US's reputation, and to prompt them to think about what the US might be doing to people from less “acceptable” countries." balloon-juice.com/2025/04/12/w...
Balloon Juice - "We're Doing Things the Way We Should Always Have Been Doing Them"
CBP continues to upend the lives of tourists and legal immigrants traveling to and from the US. This time, an Australian man, going by the name “Jonathan”, tells the Guardian how his work visa was can...
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April 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
How serious are we about getting out of Texas? I just threw away all of those pieces of wood which might be useful some day. You don't get more serious than that.
March 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is an actual breaking of the first amendment. Visa's and Greencards grant the holders full rights as US citizens. As long as they haven't broken the law, there is no lawful way the Visa or Greencard can be revoked.
March 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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1. A new Texas bill outright criminalizes being transgender as felony fraud. It is one of the most alarming bills that I have ever seen.

Though it stands little chance of passage, its rationale is already being used in other places and by the trump admin.

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March 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Do we call DOGE a stable of stable geniuses? Or genii for the Latin purists?
February 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I run a podcast that's taking on classic lit in (rough) chronological order. It's covered 19th-century archaeologist spats, why knowing Homer used to be part of college admission requirements, and how most cultures have a story about cutting off a god's junk: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
October 30, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Trying this out, see if I go here.
November 14, 2024 at 8:24 PM