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every time i acknowledge someone to the left of dick cheney may have made a point, i—the guy hired by both the CIA *and* NSA—get accused of being a communist
like, really? the first question they ask on the polygraph is, on a scale of 9 to 10, how much do you love billionaires
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Submitted without comment:
"...Executive Order 12333 rules permit bulk, indiscriminate collection without a warrant. That has long raised privacy and civil liberties concerns about what the government may do with Americans’ private messages."
nytimes.com/2021/06/29/us/…
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The sharpest part of the humiliation comes from acknowledging how easy this transformation was, and how readily I welcomed it. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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"Women couldn't own property, they couldn't sign contracts, couldn't get a mortage, couldn't testify in court, they couldn't vote. It wasn't until [1974], after decades of women's struggles, that they could have credit cards... They are not going to be forced back into the home." twitter.com/EmpireFiles/st…
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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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竹帛烟销帝业虚，
关河空锁祖龙居。
坑灰未冷山东乱，
刘项原来不读书。
a.temporaryrecord.com/Permanent_Reco…
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I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of the kid graduating high school this year, after missing years of class time, and realizing they're about to step into the world with the difficulty slider locked on Nightmare Mode.
How are you handling it? twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"The internet of things — our things — is coming alive around us, digitally frisking us as we walk by to see if we’re carrying anything of interest."
nytimes.com/2022/02/11/tec…
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some days it feels like the future of social media is every word you type being autocorrected by ronald mcdonald
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people seriously discussing the footwear of candy mascots
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corruption in congress? land sakes alive, can you imagine? twitter.com/RobertFaturech…
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Beginning with an increase in paper notes, continuing with the cancellation of the right to exchange them for the more precious coin, and culminating in the debasement of the coin itself, the State finally achieved “sovereign currency:” a handsome napkin.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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Lindsay and I will remain Americans, raising our son with all the values of the America we love—including the freedom to speak his mind. And I look forward to the day I can return to the States, so the whole family can be reunited.
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Quinnipiac national poll on the job Biden is doing:
Independents: Only 29% approve, 56% disapprove.
Democrats: 87% approve, and just 7% disapprove.
Fairly astonishing disconnect. What explains it?
793
you remember when the science teacher terrified all the children by saying the sun will eat the earth and nothing will remain? yeah they forgot to tell you we can just pack up the whole planet and drive it down the road like a van.
galaxy brains right here: twitter.com/DavidSHolz/sta…
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September 12th was the first day of a new era, which America faced with a unified resolve, strengthened by the goodwill and sympathy of the world. In retrospect, my country could have done so much with this opportunity.
Instead, it went to war.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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Just as we cannot trust governments to decide what can and cannot be said, we must not empower them to determine the things we can or cannot install.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02
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sometimes i still think about how twitter spent a whole week being mad at a mom for writing an article on mother's day about being glad she had kids
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Remarkable that the Washington takeaway from Leahy's anecdote is
"Wow! The CIA is stalking Senators to whisper tips in their ears! How cinematic!"
and not
"How could Leahy sit on classified information he knew could stop a war?"
It decided his vote! twitter.com/vermontgmg/sta…
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Whistleblowers might be protected, if only they would submit themselves to “proper channels,” which is code for standing on a very particular part of the floor suspended above a tank labeled: DANGER! PIRANHAS.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/assange01
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