Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Among the topics we'll cover is this: yet another huge increase in the military budget for Raytheon, Boeing and Northrup Grumman supported by the leadership of both parties. It's only a question of time before we reach the first "trillion dollar budget": https://t.co/N23ehByWN6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Tonight, live at 7 pm ET on @SystemUpdate, we'll examine the massive expansion of the War Machine by both parties' establishment wings - Dems' support for FBI and CIA - plus: @MirandaDevine on Dems' ongoing building of Big Tech's censorship regime: https://t.co/sQR9x6ryWC — PolitiTweet.org

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AOC and the CIA: https://t.co/7QM59YtcDY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

AOC and the CIA: https://t.co/EIsdO7KKrq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RW_Bert @AOC AOC's tweets are complaints that the FBI is doing too little to investigate the American Right, not complaints that it has too much power and is interfering in domestic politics for ideological ends or partnering with Big Tech to censor the internet. She wants FBI doing more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PerthshireMags The reason is there's no domestic terrorism law. This is AOC arguing for *more* FBI power, more FBI investigation, more FBI attacks on her ideological opponents. There isn't a complaint that FBI has too much power or is abusing its power: it's the opposite. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PerthshireMags LOL, those are complaints by her that the FBI doesn't investigate the American right enough. She has nothing to say about its and Homeland's Security key partnership with Big Tech to censor because she likes that. Of course she wants FBI to investigate the GOP and the Right more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RW_Bert If you have any examples of Bernie or AOC doing so, please provide them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tedlieu @jwellingtonpeev @Mike_Pence You trust the FBI to determine what is and is not information? Do you think this is an agency with a history of chronic lying and lawbreaking? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Could anyone imagine Bernie or AOC ever utter a criticism of the FBI of this sort? It's inconceivable. The chances are far higher they'll defend the FBI from this reporting than criticize it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The former FBI General Counsel implanted at Twitter pressured Twitter to censor pre-election reporting about Joe Biden by insisting the documents were "hacked" -- a total lie that never had any evidence and that came from the CIA. Liberals: "nothing burger." Leave the FBI alone. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SteveKrak: Most important tweet in a very newsy Twitter Files thread… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In fact, the major problem for the US weapons manufacturers is that bipartisan demand is so high to buy more and more weapons for Ukraine and elsewhere -- Congress just approved a raise of $45b beyond what Biden wanted -- that they can't make them all. https://t.co/2ZfI1cvUch — PolitiTweet.org

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While stock market indexes overall are down in the US, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman have enjoyed a 35% boon in its stock prices due to relentless and seemingly endless Pentagon demand for the war in Ukraine. For 3 seconds, they were worried about their market after Afghanistan. https://t.co/wfsIcbO5Od — PolitiTweet.org

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@victorlaszlo_us Yes, the way the left and right parts of media caricature the other side often obscures nuances and realities, but the establishment wing of the Dem Party has long been fully aligned with AIPAC and so is the NYT. They'll criticize Netanyahu but support full US aid to Israel. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkASzczygiel @zrahul2020 @NathanJRobinson @jacobin Yeah, I was clearly supportive of Bernie in 2016 (and even 2020, though less so) and explicitly supportive of AOC in her 2018 primary challenge but have no trouble acknowledging they they've morphed into DNC foot soldiers and servants of the Pentagon and CIA. We all get fooled. — PolitiTweet.org

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The NYT and their owners, the Sulzbergers, have always been and still are outspoken defenders of US aid to Israel and anti-Semitism opponents. The notion that they're deliberately inserting swastikas into their crossword puzzles to subliminally promote Nazism is a bit irrational. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ascottmess @NathanJRobinson @jacobin Why am I interacting with stupid people? That was the second tweet of my response. The first was this one: https://t.co/aodrrUShfz — PolitiTweet.org

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@DiligentDenizen The issue isn't the mic; it's a few acoustical issues that still need improvement in the studio we use. It's not as easy to fix as one might thinj but they have the problems identified and are working on them. Thanks for watching and nudging! — PolitiTweet.org

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@zrahul2020 @NathanJRobinson @jacobin The leaders of the mainstream Bernie/AOC left are Bernie and AOC. Notice how they want to act like they don't exist for these purposes. Or the far more influential streamers, YouTube shows and podcasts. And parts of DSA are good on this, others parts aren't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanJRobinson @jacobin I know it sucks that the politicians you follow and around whom you built your political identity are little more than foot soldiers for the Dem Party, unanimously voting to send $40b to Raytheon and CIA "for Ukraine," rarely if ever attacking FBI/DHS/CIA. Blame them, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanJRobinson @jacobin In 2002, The American Conservative and Cato Institute were vocal opponents of the War in Iraq and War on Terror, so by your reasoning, "the right was against it." Political leaders are a movement's defining voice. And Jacobin is nowhere near the most popular AOC-left platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterpetersonSC @f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC The very same poll shows that, during the Trump and Biden years, only a minority of Republicans favored having Big Tech or the state censor the internet. Even under Trump, Dems favored that in larger numbers - ie the data shows the exact opposite of your partisan excuse. — PolitiTweet.org

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(For those who missed the news or forgot: the reason Liz Cheney is leaving the House is her own constituents voted against her, in favor of her primary challenger, by more tha 35 points, one of the most humiliating defeats a House incumbent ever suffered in US history). — PolitiTweet.org

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This might be your last chance to see the extraordinary, heroic, noble, inspiring High Priestess of Ethics and Democratic Values, Elizabeth Cheney, speak in the august Committee rooms of the House! Who would want to miss this? — PolitiTweet.org

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@BMarchetich There are left-liberal YT shows with a million subscribers or more, Twitch streamers with even larger audiences, left-liberal podcasts. Then there's the more mainstream, media world of MotherJones/HuffPost. But one more time: the most important are *the politicians themselves*. https://t.co/vDV8IqmGbF — PolitiTweet.org

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@BMarchetich I just had this whole conversation with Adam. I've often noted Jacobin and the DSA as exceptions. But this isn't the mainstream Bernie/AOC left. Those would be those politicians and other elected officials, the largest YT shows, streamers, podcasts build on that brand, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vcbd100 @f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC That you trust the US Govt and the US Security State and tech billionaires to determine "truth" and "falsity" and then censor the internet on that basis -- as 2/3 Dem does -- while seeing yourself as a left-liberal, illustrates the point I'm making. — PolitiTweet.org

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@f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC If you're referring to Elon, far more conservative journalists denounced his latest spate of bans than liberal journalists ever denounced Big Tech for its years of ideological censorship. They cheered it and demanded more. But again, polling data tells the very vivid truth: https://t.co/WvQsFjUGGW — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC I use polling data to show that Democrats are far more favorable to the CIA and FBI than Republicans, and far more in favor of having both oligarchical billionaires and the US Government censor the internet, not anecdotal episodes. But I'll try to be nicer to Bernie and AOC. — PolitiTweet.org