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Imagine using all those capital letters and still nobody hears you.
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Whether you're for or against Biden, this thread is an important look into the troubling histories of some of those he has chosen to reshape agencies that have a tremendous influence over your life -- no matter where you live. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people's iris scans (for "fairness"), and waves away the implications by saying "we deleted the scans!"
Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans.
Don't catalogue eyeballs. twitter.com/sama/status/14…
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Politicians take note: smearing whistleblowers and publishers with obvious bullshit no longer gets you showered in likes, it gets you ratioed by a furious public.
It is time to end the war on whistleblowers.
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"‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ He did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest." twitter.com/alfredmalmros/…
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"What you have is a government inside a government, an undemocratic apparatus making all of the decisions beneath a shell of democracy—something that looks like a democracy and is called a democracy, but has almost none of the properties a democracy is defined by." twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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After so many years on the internet, it should not surprise me to see people dismissing Dwight D. Eisenhower's criticisms of the Military-Industrial Complex as merely the uninformed opinion of some guy who obviously doesn't understand war, but here we are.
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Check the temperature in Moscow today before you tell me climate change is a hoax. A couple more years of this and they'll be planting palm trees.
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Intolerance and the ruthless self-interest of political parties have so damaged the foundation of nationhood—the willingness to cooperate with one's neighbor—that I fear we have already witnessed the failure of some the greatest states of our era.
We just don't realize it.
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Well, I guess now we know where the student debt relief funds went. twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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The man who oversaw the Top Secret investigation into my work in exposing the NSA's unconstitutional system of mass surveillance now believes "we are in a better place" because I came forward. He disputes the methods, but admits it was net-good.
In another decade, I'll be home. twitter.com/shanvav/status…
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anyone who questions a statement delivered from a podium is a tool of the russians, the islamic state, or both
sorry, you know the rules
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I'm afraid I have some bad news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_su… twitter.com/MichLKosinski/…
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If Assange goes unpardoned because he didn't bribe somebody, it will say everything that needs to be said about this broken age. nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/…
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It is because I love my country that I seek to reform its government. twitter.com/CerarMilos/sta…
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Imagine a Cheney inviting people to compare body counts. Facts:
* Despite 7 years of investigation, the US has never identified a single casualty of my whistleblowing (there are none).
* The Cheneys' wars caused more than 50,000 US casualties since 2000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St… twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/sta…
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🚨🚨 It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites. 🚨🚨
theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429…
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It's alarming to see the term "liberal" has become a pejorative in multiple languages. "Conservative," too, has become a meaningless epithet.
People now hiss at philosophies they can't even describe, collapsing flexible systems of belief into rigid markers of identity.
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It doesn't really matter how you feel about the Jan. 6th stuff: bureaucrats destroying government records to keep them out of the public's hands should land every single person involved in jail. It is a crime against the public's right to know.
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"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
Any effort by the state to claim a mission or authority regulating speech—especially speech it dislikes—is a willful violation of the limits imposed by the First Amendment, and it must be resisted. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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You can't routinely take classified material home (itself a crime):
…from 1973-2009 ("docs dating from his time as a Senator"),
…again from the WH (2009-2017),
…report it only after somebody ELSE stumbles across your stash
…and claim it's OK bc 𝙣𝙤𝙬 you're "cooperating"
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