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From the reporter who won the Pulitzer for uncovering the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, broke stories on Watergate and Abu Ghraib:
seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-…
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But sure, blame the magic, third-eye radio man for the decline of basic trust in institutions.
Throw him in the volcano and we'll have world peace by Monday.
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Almost six million people watched this. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Daniel Hale, one of the great American Whistleblowers, was just moments ago sentenced to four years in prison. His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by US drones are bystanders, not the intended targets.
He should have been given a medal. twitter.com/FreedomofPress…
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This is wild.
The State Department's spokesman can't comprehend why the Associated Press feels the need to distinguish between a claim and a fact, and becomes visibly offended—and then angered—by the suggestion that his claims may require evidence to be accepted as credible. twitter.com/thehill/status…
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You are about to witness an enormous political debate in which the spy agencies and their apologists on TV tell you this is normal and OK and the CIA doesn't know how many Americans are in the database or even how they got there anyway.
But it is not ok.
washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
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After years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our son. That's why, in this era of pandemics and closed borders, we're applying for dual US-Russian citizenship. twitter.com/lsjourneys/sta…
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This is going to cause controversy, but platform censorship had clearly gone too far. Content moderation should be an individual decision, not a corporate prison.
Let people make their own choices—and not just on Twitter. twitter.com/unusual_whales…
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We went in to Afghanistan with clear goals? We were not there for nation-building?
This speech is already not going well.
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Ordinary Americans are hurting, but it looks like Congress is doing just fine. twitter.com/CryptoWhale/st…
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Today Bitcoin was formally recognized as legal tender in its first country.
Beyond the headlines, there is now pressure on competing nations to acquire Bitcoin—even if only as a reserve asset—as its design massively incentivizes early adoption.
Latecomers may regret hesitating twitter.com/AaronvanW/stat…
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Julian Assange is a prisoner of conscience. Free the man, and free the press.
theguardian.com/media/2022/nov…
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No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Huge:
CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." twitter.com/ACLU/status/14…
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Biden before he had your vote: “I would make it very clear we were going to make [the Saudi government] pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”
Biden after he had your vote:
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Bitcoin is the continuation of politics by other means.
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This is the first time in a while I've felt like buying bitcoin. That drop was too much panic and too little reason.
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man who revealed government violated your rights mad that government again violating your rights
yes yes very suspicious i hope everyone can see through that twitter.com/atrupar/status…
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Printing the truth is not a crime. twitter.com/thehill/status…
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Never forget that the Freedom of the Press is the very first part of the Bill of Rights. If you're out on the street claiming to defend the Constitution, the way you do that is by protecting reporters, not attacking them. Even if you hate the media, anything less is un-American. twitter.com/ellievhall/sta…
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Neither a law nor a court can truly justify the revocation of a human right; the most fundamental of our freedoms are inabrogable. The repression of such an essential liberty may be effective, for a time, but it cannot be legitimate.
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The two decades since 9/11 have been a litany of American destruction by way of American self-destruction, with secret policies, secret laws, secret courts, and secret wars the US government has repeatedly denied, disclaimed, and distorted.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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