Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The last Gallup poll shows 70% of Americans (a majority of GOP) support gay marriage. Blake Masters said in the WP today he "teared up" at Peter Thiel's wedding. The vital (and politically risky) role Gaetz played in rescinding the Florida ban is ignored. People aren't cartoons. https://t.co/dnO2XqTIf5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yesterday, Gaetz was one of the House Republicans to vote against codification of Obergefell (same-sex marriages). That NO vote wasn't due to opposition to marriage equality but to his view that individual states have always regulated marriage, not the federal government. — PolitiTweet.org

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In 2015, Florida banned adoptions by same-sex couples. The bill in the lower house to rescind that ban was sponsored by then-State Rep. @mattgaetz. It passed the Senate only because he convinced his father, a powerful GOP Senator, that the ban was wrong. https://t.co/tQgu8RpCZC — PolitiTweet.org

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This article covers the obscenity of the new military budget but the bulk of it describes how progressive rhetoric and sloganeering have been adeptly re-purposed over the last decade to convert millennial Democrats into full-scale supporters of the neocon project: — PolitiTweet.org

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Crime, Incarceration, and "Reform" Prosecutors: a Debate Our ongoing exchange between @BenSpielberg and @lwoodhouse on America's massive rate of incarceration and how it should, and should not be, addressed: https://t.co/z7SuD4HNdU — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheRamb04617528 I know. It's just a sore spot for me because I hate when people say "the Ukraine" -- a comedian I really like says it every time he mentions this war and it drives me insane -- and I noticed the mistake after I posted it and was hoping nobody would notice: totally realistic 😂. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nothng2sumthng That's not really what politicians do, and it's not really what they should do -- otherwise we would just have referenda on everything -- but polls show Americans overwhelmingly support same-sex marriage: up to 70% last year. https://t.co/6sYokGh1Nu — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jon44444444 What I find notable is some on the right insist - often validly - that accusations of racism and other forms of bigotry are overblown or invented, yet have the most sensitive hair-trigger regarding Israel, where any criticisms, no matter how mild, are proof of anti-Semitism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tristradamus Yep: it's rare to find people at such high levels of politics as honest and decent as he is just from a human perspective, regardless of how vehemently one might disagree with his ideology and politics. And sadly, that's what made it even easier to malign him the way they did. — PolitiTweet.org

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@childofeternity There is nothing and nobody that could ever get me to vote for or otherwise support the Labour scumbags and their media allies who did that to him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MDFfigy Corbyn is about 1,000 times more principled than Bernie. When Bernie thought he had no chance of winning in 2016, he said what he believed; when he thought he could win in 2020, he morphed every day. The only time I saw Corbyn do that was on Brexit, but that was complicated. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a coward reply from Rubio. It doesn't take any more time or less time to vote yes or no. It's one thing to oppose this bill being brought to the floor, but since it is being brought to the floor for a vote, Rubio should either vote yes or no and then explain his vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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I know many people, especially outside the UK, will be confused by this, but Corbyn was the victim of one of the most dishonest, manipulative, and sustained campaigns of defamation and demonization I've ever seen. It will take awhile to realize, but he's not who you think he is. — PolitiTweet.org

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The report also documents what was even more obvious: British centrists cynically weaponized accusations of anti-Semitism for cheap advantage. Can't count how many times I watched non-Jew Blairites smear Jewish leftists as anti-Semites: behavior as dangerous as it is immoral. — PolitiTweet.org

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Centrists and Blairites in the Labour Party spent years purposely undermining their own party because they preferred to lose to the Tories than win with Corbyn. It was obvious in real-time and this new report adds to that. Yet the left will keep pledging its loyalty to Labour.🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

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I love that Mother Jones believes this video it "unearthed" of Blake Masters as a college senior in a talent show is both scandalous and damaging. It's also ironic given that one of the magazine's heroes formally and falsely claimed Native American status well into adulthood: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Julio_Rosas11: DC journalists getting scared over elderly people waving American flags is peak DC journalists. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmirandario ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheRamb04617528 I originally wrote "the war in Ukraine" but removed it because I didn't have space for the tweet and accidentally left in "the". I've tweeted about Ukraine thousands of times in the last year and never once called it "the Ukraine." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ItsSixthSamurai Ask a friend to explain to you what a proxy war is. — PolitiTweet.org

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And again, whatever your views on the Ukraine, you should be extremely disturbed at the genuinely unprecedented censorship regime imposed to prevent Westerners from hearing these claims. It serves nobody (except Western elites) to have its populations banned from hearing dissent. https://t.co/CfbJDA1bR8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Though the US has become largely bored of this war, it not only grinds on but continues to escalate. This is precisely what makes this war the US's most dangerous one in many years. It's stunning how little debate there is in liberal circles about the US role: barely mentioned. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of Karaganov's key points is the one Obama made for years: the US and the West will sacrifice Ukrainian lives but not their own citizens, because Ukraine is not and never will be a vital interest to the US/Europe. But Ukraine is vital to Russia, which will do anything to win — PolitiTweet.org

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As the article notes, "Karaganov warned for years about a potential conflict in Ukraine over NATO expansion." His primary claim is the US/NATO have been heavily active in Ukraine for years, and deliberately converted Russia back into an enemy of the West to serve elite interests. https://t.co/QY0evNl0Zc — PolitiTweet.org

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The New York Times, to its credit, today published a short but illuminating interview by former Moscow Bureau Chief Serge Schmemann with Russian political scientist Sergey Karaganov, who supports the war and explains Russia's thinking. Well worth reading: https://t.co/CYNLjPbEbJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@jimearl666 No, from the start, I said the riot was disturbing and bad because, as I said the day after, it's always bad when political violence is introduced into disputes. But the idea that this got anywhere near overthrowing the most militarized, powerful government in history was a joke. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chesterBirdbath It's not exactly new that Democrats tell anyone in marginalized groups who don't support them that there's something psychologically wrong with them: self-hating, etc. Biden told Charlamagne that any reluctance to vote Dem meant he wasn't really black. This is a common view. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jimearl666 So you're appreciative when I see the world in precisely the manner that you see it? — PolitiTweet.org

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@sambcoltrane Totally. If you don't believe that 1,000 old Trump supporters from Facebook were a couple seconds away from overthrowing the world's most militarized, weaponized and powerful government in history, then you're a fascist. Any questioning of Dem/CNN narratives means you're Hitler. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FisherBurton @chesterBirdbath @scottjblair @Jacobrhymen If you're gay, Dems think you're not allowed to care about any of that. They 100% believe: you're gay, so homosexual issues are the only thing that should guide your political choices, and if not, you're mentally ill. Same message they tell all people in marginalized groups. — PolitiTweet.org