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The consensus is wrong.
A painful part of aging is coming to realize how often this is true not due to a universal and honest ignorance, but rather a collaborationist submission to the fangs of popular opinion. For fear of ostracism, the human tribe will eat years of bitterness.
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For people who don't actually click through to news stories, this is the best thread summarizing today's biggest story, on the government's secret plans to kill or kidnap a journalist whose reporting they dislike: twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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I don't think you should miss this one.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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Important to understand that the court isn't pushing this on the White House, the White House is pushing it on the court.
As @AP notes, when he needed your vote, Biden swore he'd make a “pariah” of the same despot he's now gifting an extraordinary special immunity.
Despicable. twitter.com/AP/status/1593…
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The good news: We're all going to be billionaires.
The bad news: A gallon of milk costs 2.6 trillion dollars.
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This is the best news I've heard in a long, long time. It would not have possible without the generosity of so many of you who made this happen.
We need to bring one more home before we can say we're done, but I cannot thank you enough for bringing us this far. Together, we win! twitter.com/4TheRefugees/s…
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Trump and Biden both demanded Google turn over the private emails of reporters in a bid to hunt down their sources. The new administration went so far as to seek a gag order on the Times to keep the public from learning about it.
It didn't work:
nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/…
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people seriously discussing the footwear of candy mascots
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The Assange NFT is doing real numbers. Very much looks like a protest vote against the White House's abuse of the Espionage Act. twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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@anshelsag On the off-chance you were genuinely misled by some garbage headline, I am in fact still an American citizen. As it turns out, you can collect citizenships like Pokemon cards.
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Three days ago you sentenced Daniel Hale, one of the most important whistleblowers in the history of American Intelligence, to nearly four years in prison. commondreams.org/news/2021/07/2… twitter.com/ODNIgov/status…
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“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble."
― President Harry Truman, who created the CIA
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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In a decade or two, this won't require bulky cameras and high-friction QR-code scanning.
Everyone, everywhere, always.
It's closer than you think. twitter.com/EP_Lawrence/st…
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In a just society, there are no prisons except for people that make kitchenware demand an internet connection.
twitter.com/isislovecruft/…
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I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Proper Handling of Classified Material" with your host, Edward Snowden. See you next time.
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@Dr_CSWright That's the point, brother.
Remember two weeks ago when the court affirmed that @hodlonaut calling you a “pathetic scammer,” “cringe,” “clearly mentally ill,” and (repeatedly) a “fraud” was A-OK? And ordered you to pay like $348,257?
lmao welcome to law
bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/hodlonau…
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Biden is well-prepared to answer for this when he soon visits Europe since, of course, he was deeply involved in this scandal the first time around.
There should be an explicit requirement for full public disclosure not only from Denmark, but their senior partner as well. twitter.com/dwnews/status/…
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CNN says the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans—by paying private companies to infiltrate and report on the private social media groups of those it categorizes as "suspected extremists." edition.cnn.com/2021/05/03/pol…
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You too can get access to the "100s of petabytes of data"—perfect records of our private lives—that the NSA routinely ingests about people who have never been suspected of any wrongdoing. They'll tell you this is legal. They'll say it's constitutional.
But you'll know better. twitter.com/NSAGov/status/…
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If you're a reporter and following the Assange Espionage Act extradition case--and you should be, since it's possibly the biggest press freedoms case in a generation--it's worth reading this thread on the defense's first arguments, which really blow a hole in the govt's case. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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extremely strong feelings on this site about the color of cans of interchangeable sugar-waters
advertising works
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This is the unvarnished truth: the establishment of an institution charged with breaking the law within a nation of laws has mortally wounded its founding precept.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…
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If Biden continues to seek the extradition of a publisher under an indictment poisoned top-to-bottom with false testimony admitted by its own star witness, the damage to the United States' reputation on press freedom would last for a generation. It's unavoidable. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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