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Daniel Hale was charged under the Espionage Act for the "crime" of exposing the classified fact that nearly 90% of those the government kills via drone are innocents and bystanders. 90%.
Hale should be pardoned. Reality Winner should be pardoned. End the war on whistleblowers. twitter.com/democracynow/s…
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Democracy depends on factual consensus, which requires access to information--especially the sort some would rather not hear. What you see before you is the path to a world without witnesses, and it is our lawmakers who will decide if we continue down it--as we have for decades. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Because Windows collects and reports information about your computer and how you use it, and this behavior cannot be fully disabled.
If we had a single functioning major government on this planet, that would be illegal. twitter.com/sequitur_broke…
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@iamtestr Please don't take medical advice from Joe Rogan.
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Today, an "anti-fake news" outlet (@InsiderEng) falsely claimed that I lived in a KGB safehouse. They even know which floor I'm on! What a scoop!
The problem? It's a lie. I don't cooperate with spies or live in a safe house, much less 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘺! 🤦
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tesla stock price is too high imo twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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1) The consensus of the infosec community is that Telegram is significantly less secure than @signalapp.
2) Signal is an independent non-profit with a $50m endowment—they can't be meaningfully influenced by money for a very long time. Telegram is a standard private company. twitter.com/matthewloop/st…
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A Seattle hospital just fired a 17-year ER doctor for exposing its refusal to implement crucial nCoV safety measures, risking community health. "Several" staffers just tested positive for #COVID19, but the hospital denies liability, claiming coincidence.
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…
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It is a federal crime to open a piece of junk mail addressed to someone else. Listening to a phone call without a court order can also be a federal crime.
But an increasing number of companies are warrantlessly tracking—and recording—your every movement. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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If there are any lessons to be learned from this tragic sequel to Saigon, you can be assured, we will not learn them.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
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Glenn Greenwald broke the story that freed Lula from prison. For that same reporting, Bolsonaro sought to put Greenwald *IN* prison—he actually brought charges!
Today on this site: "Glenn must be sad Bolsonaro lost and Lula won." twitter.com/figgityfigs/st…
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Every iPhone will search itself for whatever Apple wants, or for whatever Apple is directed to want. They are inventing a world in which every product you purchase owes its highest loyalty to someone other than its owner.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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This has happened year after year since the program began. twitter.com/CNN/status/148…
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twenty years of war and we're back where we started.
at least the politicians & military-industrial complex that forced it on us for personal profit will be forced to give back most of the public's $6,400,000,000,000 to avoid jail time—right?
...right?
brown.edu/news/2019-11-1…
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Yeah, sure. I denounce drowning children in the river or burning them in huts. Glad you took time out of everyone's day to establish that. What a victory we've won for truth and justice! What scintillating courage we've displayed!
This is the problem with Twitter—and politics. twitter.com/McFaul/status/…
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Each of us has a Creator.
call your mother
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This is an industry that should not exist: they don't make vaccines—the only thing they sell is the virus.
theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/…
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On a website for people with a four-second attention span, that's a lot of folks who stopped to watch a four-minute video from forty year years ago. Real numbers. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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The FBI assigned so many agents to search for ways to deplatform accounts they didn't like (by gaming Twitter's Terms of Service) that it was even making the FBI's former top lawyer uncomfortable. The FBI's former top lawyer **who had left to go work at Twitter.** twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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Did you imagine "prison ships in the Bronx" in your cyberpunk dystopia? This should not be real, but it is: a floating black hole in the biggest of cities. Watch it. twitter.com/ava/status/139…
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1) Combined share of total US wealth held by everybody except the richest 10%, 1990-2020.
2) The share of US wealth held by *just* the top 1%, 1990-2020.
What it means: 10% of Americans control *70%* of national wealth. And the top 1% own more than the bottom 90% COMBINED.
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So now that we know who it wasn't, anyone care to venture a guess as to who it was?
"The explosions may never be definitively attributed" sounds a bit like the groundwork being laid to let an "ally" off the hook for dynamiting Europe's energy policy. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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please can we just get through the week without a war or anyth—
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