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@doyourweb You can't trust anything anyone says from anywhere. Don't trust: check the facts.
1202
@stacksacker Yeah they're probably just one big kitten shelter now.
1203
@bengalgod Are you high? The lesson isn't to pick a different charlatan to worship, it is to stop worshipping charlatans.
1204
Yes, Trump and Biden and Hillary all mishandled classified documents. You could argue "who did it worse," or you can question if we really need a system that crushes ordinary workers who fall afoul of it while excusing the same "crimes" if done by elites.
cbsnews.com/news/biden-cen…
1205
i want off mr. bones' wild ride twitter.com/historyinmemes…
1206
Going to be a big week. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
1207
I'm doing a special charity auction with @DanielEllsberg tomorrow @ 3pm ET. @PleasrDAO set up an amazingly slick website for it (seriously, just look!). You can watch live for free and submit questions.
Bring ETH in your hot wallet, and you can bid!
pleasr.house
1208
If you're not into charity NFTs, but you still want to support the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace & Democracy (@TheEIPAD), you can find out more about how to help at this link: umass.edu/ellsberg/initi…
Thank you! twitter.com/Snowden/status…
1209
Have you ever wanted to ask one of us a question? Here's your chance. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
1210
Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.
Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
1211
@AngryCaliLib Petraeus literally traded his for sex.
1212
The real scandal isn't that Biden had classified documents coming out of his socks, because sadly they've all been doing it.
The scandal is that the DOJ found out about it a week prior to the midterm elections and chose to suppress the story, conferring a partisan advantage. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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@elonmusk There's a selective blindness in for-profit, or for-state news. Most paid very little attention to her case, despite her receiving the widest sentence for the narrowest (most curated) disclosure.
Hard to excuse, because her mother campaigned relentlessly to make sure they knew.
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@elonmusk There are many other names, too. Did you know Daniel Hale is still in prison for revealing 9 out of 10 drone casualties were bystanders rather than targets? He did a remarkable and heroic thing.
When did you last hear his name on TV? It's a real problem.
theintercept.com/2021/07/27/dan…
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@elonmusk There is also, of course, Julian Assange. Most know the name, but have no idea what he really did. He has been detained or in prison since 2012. Kept under maximum-security conditions today for the "crime" of publishing true information -- despite having never been convicted.
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Today at 3PM ET, the legendary @DanielEllsberg and I will be having a live conversation for charity, and you're invited. You can join us at pleasr.house. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
1217
Wow, even *I* handled classified documents more securely. At least I kept them encrypted!
(Via @nytimes)
1218
We're live in half an hour. twitter.com/PleasrDAO/stat…
1219
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex (MIC).” — President Eisenhower
How did we do?
1220
You have to give @SubstackInc credit: they really do have all the most interesting writers. twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…
1221
Man, I should have thought of that one. twitter.com/Breaking911/st…
1222
One way of resolving all these secret-document scandals is to acknowledge that after 75 years of experimentation, the chief accomplishment of the "classification system" has been to make our government less trustworthy and our country less free.
Abolish and reform it. All of it.
1223
The truly secret was kept long before the passage of a "National Security Act"—and would be kept again after abolition—because the necessity is obvious.
If you can't rely on kindred to keep your ᴛᴏᴘ ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ without the force of threats, it's not "obvious"—it's omerta. twitter.com/B_Morrows/stat…
1224
Whether you're the President or a pizza guy, you take a risk by trusting your secret to another in a free society, because what is truly "secret" is established by consensus, not law. The concept is encoded in our very language: "to share a secret."
We've been made to forget.
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The rigid communities of belief formed today on all sides of every issue are a symbol of where we went wrong. Fractious, incurious, and all too certain. twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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