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Kirk Becker

@cepheus.us

Husband, Father, IT Security, Curmudgeon Geek, & ranter. Everything I say is my own thoughts & not of my employer Fediverse: @cepheuskb@infosec.exchange, Xitter - cepheuskb - the rest of my socials & website found @ https://linktr.ee/cepheuskb

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The Weekly Farce - A Masterclass in Human Folly — Becker Journal A Masterclass in Human Folly — Covering: The Killing, The Hustle, The Shield, and Why Your Gas Costs More Than Your Dignity By The Management  ·  Estimated reading time: the length of your ...

Another look at the week that was...irreverent, snarky, and just a bit of truth.

floridabeckers.us/cepheus/2026...

07.03.2026 22:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@techmeme.com on Bluesky Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

#privacy #AI #authoriantism

01.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

Your "free speech" administration, folks.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

23.02.2026 00:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Supreme Court Axes Tariffs; Trump Responds With New Global Rate President Donald Trump rushed to salvage his signature tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his global duties, pledging he would use different tools to work around the ruling and preserve import taxes he has cast as essential to his economic and foreign policy.

We are now fully into tax and grift economic policy by the GOP. apple.news/AHBFwP3vLRny...

#economics #uspolitixs

20.02.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think we can all agree is that there must be a Constitutional Amendment to set a max age of the US Presidency.

#politics #uspolitics #returningsanity

20.02.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@craigtimes.bsky.social on Bluesky Legislature is trying to criminalize dissent in the "Free" State of #Florida https://floridatrident.org/criminalizing-dissent-in-the-free-state-of-florida/ via @floridatrident.bsky.social

Free state my ass

20.02.2026 19:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well...duh...The Supremes can read the Constitution

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

20.02.2026 15:27 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Foot fungus

19.02.2026 20:32 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@masnick.com on Bluesky Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
17.02.2026 01:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is absurd. Prasad's FDA is simply refusing to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, which seems to work pretty well. He says it wasn't compared to the right vaccine but per the article it was so...

11.02.2026 01:04 👍 68 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 1

Spin

03.02.2026 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@masnick.com on Bluesky This is so well done and the fact that many people are missing what's being done here is just... [contains quote post or other embedded content]
01.02.2026 22:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@techdirt.com.web.brid.gy on Bluesky https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/30/journalists-don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrested-for-covering-mn-pop-up-church-protest/
31.01.2026 13:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

25.01.2026 03:09 👍 5407 🔁 1519 💬 39 📌 49
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@nocoguy.bsky.social on Bluesky Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.

No comment necessary

25.01.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@leahmcelrath.bsky.social on Bluesky There we go: “It should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear… That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.” Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.nLRc.cVu5sod8lPQm&smid=url-share

No comment needed

25.01.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@jeffrueter.bsky.social on Bluesky Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
25.01.2026 00:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#deletetiktok

Original post: m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11595...

25.01.2026 00:52 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

24.01.2026 21:35 👍 9955 🔁 3929 💬 264 📌 215
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24.01.2026 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jarring to see the footage of this video juxtaposed with the narration describing "rising tensions" and other milquetoast expressions. The violence in the clips is only coming from one direction: ICE.

16.01.2026 14:19 👍 449 🔁 116 💬 4 📌 4
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@snipe.lol on Bluesky Same.

Couldn’t be worse.

12.01.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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https://media0.giphy.com/media/3o6fJ9Oi4zEBLjzCow/200.gif Seth Meyers saying “That guy is a moron”

To attack your own citizens, threaten decades old alliances, and try to destabilize the Federal Reserve in less than a week takes a special type of idiocy. #25thAmendmentNow

12.01.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@anthonymkreis.bsky.social on Bluesky President regrets not being a dictator. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
12.01.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The caviar station is back at Mar-a-Lago as Trump’s cuts defund Meals on Wheels

11.01.2026 20:40 👍 1798 🔁 736 💬 146 📌 51
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Age verification laws after privacy of legal users…

Original post: mastodon.social/@mtec/115874...

11.01.2026 03:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Most Loyal and Obedient Reconsideration of Grievances; or, The People’s Guide to Appreciating Their Betters (Now in Expanded, Algorithm‑Approved Form) — Becker Journal It has become a most regrettable trend—indeed, a national pastime—for citizens to compare the present governance of our Republic to the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence. These ...

floridabeckers.us/cepheus/2026...

10.01.2026 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

17.12.2025 04:14 👍 5876 🔁 2976 💬 428 📌 328
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Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.

"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...

14.12.2025 15:23 👍 374 🔁 138 💬 18 📌 12

It's been nearly a month (due to work projects), but #TheWeeklyFarce is back for another round. floridabeckers.us/cepheus/2025...

13.12.2025 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0