Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@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, just anecdotal episodes. But I'll try to be nicer to Bernie and AOC. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@adamjohnsonNYC Bernie has almost completely renounced attempts to separate himself from the Biden Admin and DNC. AOC sounds like 9 or 10 dozen House members with constant, banal anti-GOP messaging and little else, and their media followers have followed suit. It's a lost, unmoored movement. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@adamjohnsonNYC I don't even know what ITT is. The number of liberals who read FAIR is tiny. The Nation hasn't build their brand around AOC/Bernie. I'm talking about large streamers, YouTube shows, and especially the Bernie-Squad politicians themselves: those have far larger audiences than FAIR. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@adamjohnsonNYC If you really want to deny that there is now far, far less emphasis on and concern about the US Security State in mainstream left circles, go ahead, but I don't think the case can be made credibly. Post-2016, many even see them as allies because they were/are so anti-Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@adamjohnsonNYC I said mainstream. I can quibble with some examples but I've always credited Jacobin as an outlier in upholding left principles. While I'm glad FAIR and you have raised this, I said "virtually": sadly, those are not mainstream voices -- like, say, AOC, Bernie, large "left" media. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@oringordon @DennisCurry007 Just *a decade ago*, every beloved Dem -- Obama, Hillary, Biden -- opposed marriage quality. Their view was gay couples should be excluded from legal marriage. Obama said it was because "God is in the mix." Now Republicans who think this are literal Nazis. The issue is settled. https://t.co/GCM4exYxEN — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@oringordon @DennisCurry007 25% of the GOP in Congress also voted to enshrine marriage quality nationally. Obviously Dems generally are closer to my views on SSM than many in the GOP but marriage equality has been the law since 2015 and - though I'm gay - I still can have other priorities beyond 🌈 issues. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@GeraldNellson @DennisCurry007 I've been an advocate of marriage equality my whole life. I've explained that there are reasons Republican politicians like Gaetz - who worked hard in Flordia to overturn anti-gay laws - might be against it besides that they're Hitler, but partisan brains can't reason that way. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DennisCurry007 I think the Biden DOJ doesn't want to bring Assange to the US and is looking for a way out, including having the Australian government agree to take him with restrictions. The one chance Snowden had - Trump's pardon - is gone for now, but his situation is far better. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DennisCurry007 I don't live in the US because my husband is a member of the Brazilian Congress, our children are Brazilian, and when my husband and I met, the Defense of Marriage Act signed by Bill Clinton barred same-sex couples from receiving spousal immigration rights while Brazil gave them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Polling data -- beyond showing that Dems overwhelmingly favor corporate *and state* censorship of the internet -- also show that it's Dems who, by a large margin, hold both FBI and CIA in far higher regard than Republicans. https://t.co/w4mIyDNZWN — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Needless to say, it's a Democratic Congressman from California who has decided to undertake the role of most vehemently and forcefully defending the FBI, insisting they did nothing wrong, and instead relentlessly attacking the integrity of the reporter who exposes FBI's abuses: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@crappytalism I've never been a "contributor" to any news outlet, including Fox. When I appear, it's almost always to criticize the same institutions I've always criticized: the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, large media corporations, the corporatized and militarized wings of both parties, Big Tech. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LiberalFathers I'm an American, not a Brazilian. I'm a US citizen and have always been, never had citizenship in any other country. You're just a liberal jingoist who thinks the 10 million Americans who live abroad aren't real citizens. And I explicitly said Fox is a large corporation. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There's virtually no discussions now in the mainstream Bernie/AOC left about the US Security State or the nefarious actions of CIA/FBI/NSA. The only real enemies they see are the Trump movement and GOP. That's why I use "left-liberal": their core worldviews have merged. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @SonofHas: Taylor Lorenz, then vs now https://t.co/VGaRDXO49G — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @bonchieredstate: Local man discovers how Twitter has always been. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@heen123 @mtaibbi If I posted clips of myself with Wolf Blitzer and Joe Scarborough, could I be credible then? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@realDennisLynch @elonmusk "Lefty media" - lol. I want Elon to succeed in restoring free speech to Twitter, using the standard of "free speech absolutism" he defended when deciding to buy it. My critiques are to encourage consistent rules and universal applications in order to achieve that. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@kantwistaye Listen to what I said starting at 0:38 and tell my in your own words how dumb you are. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KyleYSpencer @FoxNews @bariweiss @mtaibbi @WHaaaaa I say in that very clip that Fox is a large corporate media outlet. It's not even at the end of the clip but at the beginning. How can your brain not be able to process simple declarative sentences, causing you to assert that I said the opposite of what I said? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

People's brains are so drowning in partisan muck that the Bernie/AOC left -- which still pretends to find the CIA and FBI nefarious if you force them to take a stance -- refuses to care about the grave dangers in what @mtaibbi reported about FBI's role: https://t.co/rvjK3Wk29L — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

As @mirandadevine notes, the sudden spate of "free speech" flags waved by the same wannabe despots who built this regime is solely for themselves. @RepAdamSchiff continues to threaten tech companies with punishment if they don't censors how Dems want: https://t.co/WhSeOULUIY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Finally: even now, as Dems and their favorite media employees whine about censorship - a censorship regime they built and cheered - they continue to campaign for more repression, call anyone "far right" who opposes it. It just needs to be against their enemies, not against them: https://t.co/Yp8yLRnQDR — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On the spate of Twitter bans: the problem with the old Twitter regime - which left-liberals and media corporations *cheered - was vague, arbitrary rules allowed ideology-based censorship. To avoid that, new Twitter needs clear rules, consistently applied, which we don't have yet: https://t.co/q5nCWBMkGC — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Spoke to @HowardKurtz for Sunday's show about the Twitter Files and Twitter's latest bans. First: corporate media outlets won't cover key revelations because (like their liberal viewers) they think being a "legitimate journalist" requires working for a big media corporation: https://t.co/gGpDlfxoB2 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And this exchange reflects so much about the radical changes in US politics in the Trump era: The GOP (and only it) expresses skepticism about the FBI and its abuse of power. Dems like @ericswalwell angrily insist that doing so is unpatriotic and anti-police: https://t.co/nCXFBB6qmU — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

An obviously major story about major FBI abuse of power in our domestic politics that, predictably, corporate media outlets decided to ignore in part due to: a) jealously over who got this scoop; b) imprisoning themselves in the "nothingburger" narrative; c) reverence for FBI: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's no secret I love talking to the ladies. But my motive for doing this episode was to maintain my perch as the guest with the most (or second-most) appearances since Red Scare's inception. It turned into a great discussion of the Twitter Files, the US Security State and more: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Precisely. And this is the reason why free speech is the first value and the first right attacked by every authoritarian and despot in history, including today's modern-day Western tyrants: — PolitiTweet.org