The DOJ is weaponized. The FBI is weaponized. Take care with what you say online, even if you’re just joking or letting off steam. - ThreadSky

leahmcelrath.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The DOJ is weaponized.
The FBI is weaponized.

Take care with what you say online, even if you’re just joking or letting off steam.

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raymondgibson.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s counter-intuitive, but isn’t self-censorship ceding ground that will take forever to get back?

ligernull.bsky.social•1 day ago

It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're planning serious action, keep your mouth shut. I choose to act as a decoy

mariposa17.bsky.social•2 days ago

This probably needs to be a daily PSA

sea-geo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Speak the truth that you’re prepared to defend. The more that speak up the better. Hiding in fear empowers them, and making careless jokes can give them excuses to instil more fear by going after the tangentially legally vulnerable and thereby encouraging others to hide. Defend your values strongly.

ricva73.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes; no violence talk

But still go hard in the paint

stillthinking.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's what they want. Obeyance.

Fuck that. Make them take you. They can't arrest us all. They can't make us all disappear.

ligernull.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep fuck with the signal to noise ratio.

tankbag.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surveillance Self-Defense from the EFF…
https://ssd.eff.org/

articulateautistic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will not comply in advance

lecarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

What will they do? Ruin an old man’s retirement? Have at it, it’s well past that anyway.

torekeland.bsky.social•2 days ago

Always has been.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, and we’re about to see that reality accelerated and expanded.

torekeland.bsky.social•1 day ago

Some of us have argued for awhile that it was a mistake to have these institutions in the first place because they are instruments for tyranny, only to be told the views of the Framers were quaint. No one gets to say they weren’t warned. This is nothing new either, it’s just table turning.

dvdbutler.bsky.social•2 days ago

Meh, they can fck themselves and I hope Trump gets strangled by his personal guard.

k-e-v-i-n-d.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fuck these fascists

everydaygood.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly, that's good advice even in sunnier times.

lesliemac.com•2 days ago

They were always weaponized though - and this is the point I think too many people fail to take note of. The difference is WHO they are being weaponized against. We do our movements and the future a disservice by portraying the issues with those institutions as simple victims of this regime.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•2 days ago

I agree.

sororperegrina.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly. I've discarded more drafts before posting because I knew I could pull serious consequences down on my head.

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•1 day ago

And the thing is, it’s a matter of what words to pull off the shelf. You can still say F U without resorting to violent metaphors

sweetwater26.bsky.social•1 day ago

Take care when even talking on the phone.

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•1 day ago

Avoid violence talk, even metaphorically

They *will* be coming after people

People are going to lose their careers and go bankrupt due to civil forfeiture. The FBI and DOJ have *remarkable* powers to disrupt the lives of individuals

catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com•1 day ago

Which is why I say they are part and parcel of this coup. They could have shut it all down years ago, but instead protected key insurrectionists

ligernull.bsky.social•1 day ago

They can't arrest all of us

6thface.bsky.social•1 day ago

The 1st Amendment does not protect threatening speech. However, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are shitstained facist Nazi fuckholes is still acceptable. #ComeAtMeFascists

colemarie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do not comply in advance.

ginatrbo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Isn’t that obeying in advance?

scribblegurl.bsky.social•2 days ago

No, it is choosing your words very carefully with the knowledge that anything you say may be used against you in court.

robb.doering.ai•1 day ago

Well, it depends. If your speech is part of a strategic effort to bring about change, then carry on. If you're just venting, then... well, it's at least good to be aware of the potential consequences.

soldadguy.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is.

narcchronicles.bsky.social•2 days ago

...and on the phone and in public places, and when talking to strangers. Now everybody gets to learn what living in a police state is all about

joanaduartesilva.bsky.social•2 days ago

I still remember when I was little, and we lived under Salazar's dictatorship in Portugal, the fear that my parents had that I would repeat the conversations they had at home on the street. Someone listening meant being arrested by the police and never coming back.

narcchronicles.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah. I'm sure a lot of people are thinking 'it can't get THAT bad' to which I have to say, yes it can, it's happening every day, as we watch. This administration's objectives are ENTIRELY evil

joanaduartesilva.bsky.social•2 days ago

Google
April 25, 1974
Portugal
carnation revolution

ckpr.bsky.social•1 day ago

mrdickpound69.bsky.social•13 hours ago

So much for the “land of the free, home of the brave”. Reality is the exact opposite of that.

rockshrimp.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know you're right but I also feel like it's too late to delete 30 years of being online.

maraleia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why I'm glad I never used my real name on Twitter or here.

gmacdonell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never too early for a weakling American liberal to surrender

langwoodj.bsky.social•2 days ago

That is exactly how they will control us and stay in power.

tashawashaisnogood.bsky.social•2 days ago

“People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spiders' webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles and the grit of cobblestone in her hair”

I will go down fighting!

jordanwcole.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’ll repeat it slowly for them if they ever show up at my doorstep. That or blame the cat.

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