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This is absolutely wild. The government is secretly transforming "national security" agencies into a new Narrative Police.
“If a foreign government sent these messages,” said the former ACLU president, “there is no doubt we would call it censorship.”
Read the story: twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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The next time you see somebody trying to revive the long-discredited claims that I was some kind of foreign agent because they don't like what I represent, show them this clip of the NSA's Deputy Director—the man who actually ran that investigation—trash-canning it.
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This is my way of saying that if you're a university student pursuing agricultural science, I wish you a long and happy life. We don't deserve you.
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That's @signalapp, for those who don't speak Elon. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Someone may have put a lot on the line to warn you of this. It doesn't matter who they are or why they did it: their role is complete.
What matters now is how you respond.
apnews.com/article/suprem…
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The human cost of the White House's choice to delay our withdrawal for political purposes is absolutely stunning. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
...again. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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As a measure of journalistic impact, the Pulitzer Prize holds significantly less prestige than the CIA plotting to murder you.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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The reasoning behind the old "I have nothing to hide" defense of surveillance abuses is humiliating, if you think it through.
Essentially:
1) Only those who stand out are targeted
2) I do not stand out
3) I cannot stand out
4) Phew, I'm safe
weird flex but ok
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Even at protests, your phone is emitting a beacon, one that’s invisible to the human eye. This signal is captured and collected, sometimes many times per minute, and keeps broadcasting long after the protesters head to their homes and take off their masks. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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There were two phases of my life: when I was unable to get up in the morning, and when I had kids.
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before you complain about me not citing your random coin with a market cap of $37 that is developed by forest animals in romania, remember that bitcoin is essentially shorthand for cryptocurrency and also your time is better spent making little outfits for the animals to wear
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"I am, as an ex-CIA agent, opposed to the disinformation activities in which I was involved. I admit that I was involved, and I think it served no useful purpose. Propagandizing the American public or Congress is not the CIA's job."
—Frank Snepp twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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they really underestimated how hard we can screech
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every time i see some big name completely furious—just absolutely losing their monocle—over the idea that someone might dare disagree with the white house, it makes me tweet a little harder
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How long do we have left before the iPhone in your pocket begins quietly filing reports about encountering “extremist” political material, or about your presence at a "civil disturbance"? edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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These bastards put Daniel Hale in prison for revealing that nine out of ten people they kill with drone strikes are bystanders, but they won't even slap somebody on the wrist when their criminal negligence buries the full ten perfectly innocent lives.
jacobinmag.com/2021/08/daniel…
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I recall that the Department of Justice was somewhat less generous when I self-reported, even after I went to the trouble of doing so on the front page of every major newspaper in the world.
s m h twitter.com/DailyCaller/st…
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Nine months into parenthood, and I'm beginning to suspect "Why won't you eat your dinner?" is one of the great mysteries in life.
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Ten years ago, the government defended unconstitutional surveillance by saying it was necessary to "balance" your right to liberty against their preference for security. The courts at the time viewed that skeptically.
Under the new Court, lawless spying is no longer questioned. twitter.com/ACLU/status/16…
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Our monetary system is commanded by people who literally believe changing the "one dollar" stamp on a platinum coin to "one trillion dollars" is the solution to running out of money.
Imagine if you tried that with your student loans.
axios.com/trillion-dolla…
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The entire thing is much longer, but *entirely* worth the watch. The government sued Snepp in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled intelligence workers had to submit any statement for censorship, even those unrelated to secrets.
youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZ…
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Omicron sounds like the name of an 80s movie's evil Robot King.
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"Before 9/11, it was the war on drugs. Now it’s corona. It’s ongoing. The so-called security apparatus always produces new narratives of fear conducive to expanding its powers, and 9/11 was one more crisis it tried to exploit."
exberliner.com/features/peopl…
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Lindsay and I will remain Americans, raising our son with all the values of the America we love—including the freedom to speak his mind. And I look forward to the day I can return to the States, so the whole family can be reunited.
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)