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And yet you are demanding a sham prosecution of Julian Assange for specific act of journalism that won awards around the world. twitter.com/StateDept/stat…
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Whether you're for or against Biden, this thread is an important look into the troubling histories of some of those he has chosen to reshape agencies that have a tremendous influence over your life -- no matter where you live. twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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Whoever you are, whatever your values, recognize the historic importance of this: it is second time the US government's retaliation against *the same whistleblower* has been found equivalent to torture. Telling the truth has become the greatest of crimes. twitter.com/NPR/status/121…
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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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You have no idea what you're talking about. Even the United States Government doesn't allege this. It literally never happened, and it *couldn't* happen, because I gave the archive to journalists. Those journalists' reporting, by the way, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service twitter.com/DrinkDonJulio/…
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It's time to talk about shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. It was always a mistake, a costly artifact of the hysteric post-9/11 authoritarianism that left us no more safe, but much less free.
Its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw.
Shut it down. twitter.com/ACLU/status/15…
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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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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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Ordinary Americans are hurting, but it looks like Congress is doing just fine. twitter.com/CryptoWhale/st…
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Look, I'm just going to say it:
At a certain point, our corrupt and moribund political culture has no hope of solving humanity's problems. You either bet on science and technology, or you bet on extinction.
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You're seeking a 175-year long sentence for an internationally award-winning publisher of news—despite protests from the United Nations, Amnesty International, the ACLU, the world's leading newspapers: nytimes.com/2021/02/12/us/… twitter.com/VP/status/1389…
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🚨🚨 It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites. 🚨🚨
theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429…
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people are like "I'm not going to eat the crickets."
oh you're gonna eat the crickets, brother. they're gonna be everywhere. they're gonna put em in Hot Pockets. your kids are gonna be like "mom! i want the pizza crickets!"
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"Bug," or "undocumented feature?" twitter.com/BreitbartNews/…
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So, uh, I guess the military poisoned a major Hawaiian water supply, lied about it, and then downplayed the harm. Now a whistleblower seems to have revealed a video of the leak to a local paper. Wow.
Locals would be justified in booting the military off the island over this. twitter.com/SDonziger/stat…
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Israel has the right to defend itself against several dozen AP journalists and freelancers. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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afghanistan fell in like 10 days and here we are having used up our national quota of the word "insurrection"
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I'm told by the reporting team this is the biggest offshore-finance leak—and journalistic collaboration—*ever.*
They expose the intentionally concealed finances of 35 world leaders and 300+ other public officials in 90+ countries.
...and they aren't finished. twitter.com/PaulLewis/stat…
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We probably stopped, right? That doesn't sound like us. We're the Good Guys. twitter.com/BankerWeimar/s…
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Citizens would rise up in outrage if the government mandated that every person carry a tracking device revealing their location and identity 24 hours a day. Yet in the last decade we have become, app by app, subject to just such a system. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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If truth is the first casualty of war, humanity is the second. It is depressing to witness how readily people—and states—embrace the cultivation of ethnic and nationalist hatreds for political advantage. Rather than hastening peace, these strategies forbid it.
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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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The recitation of facts is increasingly viewed as political, and even offensive. That is a grim omen.
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