Thomas Becker
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If the government wanted to spy on Bluesky users they wouldn't need official accounts to do that, those are only here to get people in trouble for posting dumb shit at them
October 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the government wanted to spy on Bluesky users they wouldn't need official accounts to do that, those are only here to get people in trouble for posting dumb shit at them
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Now the Bill of Rights just reads “If you can read this the bitch fell off.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Now the Bill of Rights just reads “If you can read this the bitch fell off.”
Reposted by Thomas Becker
Excellent 🧵 thread. One thing that I find striking is that they told these lies without any foresight. Yes, they're authoritarians, but they're also painfully inept because they don't realize how contemporary surveillance culture undercuts their own narratives.
Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Now the official line is crumbling. 1/
(link)
newrepublic.com/article/2019...
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.
As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?
newrepublic.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Excellent 🧵 thread. One thing that I find striking is that they told these lies without any foresight. Yes, they're authoritarians, but they're also painfully inept because they don't realize how contemporary surveillance culture undercuts their own narratives.