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I have been waiting for this for a very long time: signal.org/blog/group-cal…
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You will not find this level of attention paid to the biggest press freedom case in a generation on TV, because of the neocorporate omertà that regulates Access Journalism. It's a rare event.
The United Nation's Special Rapporteur on Torture is among those speaking. twitter.com/kthalps/status…
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Each of us has a Creator.
call your mother
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"I am not violating my bail agreement," says man violating his bail agreement. twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status…
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Member of Congress: twitter.com/justinamash/st…
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普通的中文读者和翻译员团结起来，帮助我从第一本书《永久记录》的大陆版中删除了所有的审查制度。 现在，我们将其免费提供给全世界。 请下载并在任何地方共享。a.temporaryrecord.com twitter.com/aiww/status/12…
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"The Drug Enforcement Administration is secretly deploying spyware from an Israeli firm," writes the @nytimes.
"The United States has played both arsonist and firefighter" in terms of digital security, funding a deadly bazaar for state hackers.
nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/…
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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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“The history of military conflict in Afghanistan [has] been one of initial success, followed by long years of floundering and ultimate failure. We’re not going to repeat that mistake.”
— George W. Bush
April 17th, 2002 twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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Setting aside for a moment the politics of it, officials in many countries (see article) clearly fear the spread of working-class bridge blockades as a new protest tactic. There is genuine alarm at the idea a group of laborers can shut a city down.
apnews.com/article/corona…
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Shamefully, it took me a very long time, peering down from my technocratic perch at the CIA and later the NSA, to apprehend the nature of my work: transforming the internet—a liberating, democratizing tool—into an architecture of oppression.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/kabul
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Powerful: "For us to cede to governments and corporations the legal right to invade and take over our phones is to voluntarily submit ourselves to being violated." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Hell of an endorsement:
"Substack means reporting is back . . . unfiltered and unprogrammed—just the way I like it."
—Seymour M. Hersh
seymourhersh.substack.com/p/why-substack
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"No other candidate specifically aims to make the United States more closely resemble a freer country." Provocative article from the last cycle. niskanencenter.org/is-there-a-lib…
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And so you just let it go? You, the President of the United States, say you believe the guy is *personally responsible* for murdering a Washington Post columnist and US resident, and you just let it go for a smile and a fist bump?
Super. twitter.com/DeItaone/statu…
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The state will never be better than we require it to be.
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Upon arriving in Saudi Arabia, Biden mimes holding up his half of a ceremonial saw—to bury the memory of murdered Washington Post columnist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi.
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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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Read this. "It is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies." twitter.com/normative/stat…
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I mean, it's one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Sixty-five dollars?
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"A US appellate court in September ruled the NSA’s mass domestic surveillance was illegal, as well as likely a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The court knew about this program only because of one of this generation’s most consequential whistleblowers..." twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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new season just dropped twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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