Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Tonight on @SystemUpdate_, live at 7pm ET: The extraordinary House hearing on how Fauci deliberately concealed evidence of COVID's origins. Plus: the expulsion of Russell Brand from "the left" reveals how distorted and empty these labels now are. https://t.co/lE8vLLyqxa — PolitiTweet.org

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You're not supposed to make the exploitation of liberal social justice causes as a weapon to foster support for western wars this obvious and transparent. A bit more subtlety is required for efficacy. "This war is urgent for spreading LGBT rights!" = too blunt and obvious.🌈💣💣 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

You're not supposed to make the exploitation of liberal social justice causes as a weapon to foster support for western wars this obvious and transparent. A bit more subtlety is required for efficacy. "This war is urgent for spreading LGBT rights!" = too blunt and obvious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TrueBlackTea @mdrayton Why do you view yourself as having a role in the decision-making process of an adult whom you do not know and who has not solicited your guidance? I'm not asking to be argumentative but, rather, because I genuinely never understand the origins of this impulse. — PolitiTweet.org

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That incredibly brazen, glaringly politicized and complete reversal in "public health advice" was a major turning point for me, as it was for many, in trusting health authorities. What Fauci did in declaring the "lab leak" theory off-limits is way worse. https://t.co/D47sl455Dt — PolitiTweet.org

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- It's your moral duty to stay home. - Leaving home makes you a sociopath willing to murder old people. - Nothing - not visiting a dying loved one nor attending a protest - justifies leaving home. - Oh, look: densely packed street protests we like! Leave home to join it! https://t.co/Ox1hDa1hLs — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, the point is *not* that we now know COVID's origins and there are no reasonable debates over it. The point is that the USG never knew, but pretended it did, and declared off-limits and "debunked" the lab leak theory while knowing full well it was, at least, highly viable. — PolitiTweet.org

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We're going to cover this extraordinary hearing on tonight's @SystemUpdate_, live at 7 pm ET, but please just watch this brief exchange to get a taste for what was revealed. This was yet another major fraud perpetrated by US officials and their corporate media servants: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidzweig: Hmmm... The FTC is asking Twitter to “identify all journalists” who were granted access to company records https://t.co/5… — PolitiTweet.org

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Em 2015, David e eu criamos nossa própria ONG que trabalha no Rio (Maricá), @abrigo_hope, para resgatar animais abandonados e colocá-los em lares, e muitas vezes olhamos para o trabalho incrível que Gabriel faz, com poucos recursos, para resgatar e proteger tantos animais em SP👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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This POLITICO reporter was the first outside of right-wing media to prove -- in his excellent book "The Bidens"-- that the key materials on the Biden laptop were not "Russian disinformation" but fully authentic. Highly worthwhile thread on media claims about COVID's origins: — PolitiTweet.org

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One can speculate -- and one should investigate -- Dr. Fauci's motives for wanting to mislead the public into believing that a leak from a lab in Wuhan that he helped fund had been "debunked." Whatever his motives, he aggressively misled the world and manipulated the debate. — PolitiTweet.org

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For almost two years, Big Tech censored the "lab leak" theory from being discussed even though it was and continues to be at least a viable - if not the most probable - theory for COVID's origins. Corporate media, as always mindlessly obeying authorities, did the same. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's an indisputable fact that Dr. Fauci conspired in secret to marginalize and scorn as "debunked" a theory of COVID's origins (lab leak) that he *knew* was viable and plausible, while simultaneously conspiring to affirm as proven a theory (zoonotic) that he knew lacked proof: — PolitiTweet.org

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@_Mark_Atwood That's a hotly contested view within linguistics, by no means the consensus view. But often people who revolutionize a field are seen by subsequent generations as having erred while still adding insight. That said, this op-ed has 3 authors, only one of who is Chomsky. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TrueBlackTea If the intention it to publicly shame the person or force them to change their behavior through social scorn, then yes. I don't see why adults would assign themselves the power or competency to not just judge but manage and control the choices and lives of other adults. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not endorsing any or all of this, but this NYT op-ed by 2 linguists and an AI specialist (one of whom is Chomsky) is very worth reading. It argues that the current AI model of ChatGPT is and always will be a primitive and inferior form of thought: https://t.co/r6qY6bSTyh — PolitiTweet.org

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I sometimes wonder whether Joseph McCarthy would react with laughter or shame that his "You-work-for-Moscow" progeny ended up being @GovHowardDean, @JoyAnnReid, @MaxBoot, @AdamSchiff, and @Acosta. https://t.co/VJaRSX9Ax0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@kennardmatt Their incuriosity is indeed conspicuous and telling. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kennardmatt: The Nord Stream pipeline bombing was a major terrorist attack in heart of Europe. If it had been blown up by Russia, Bel… — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of this tactic wielded by John Ehrlichman, Hoover and CIA chiefs, it's now the provenance of liberal NBC hosts, WPost columnists, and Dem Party officials. In the US, anyone criticizing US Foreign Policy or exposing their lies is and always has been "working for Moscow." — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a 1973 NYT article on how the US Security State smeared Ellsberg as a Russian agent. This has been the tactic used by the establishment wings of the USG and media for decades: all dissidents and opponents of US foreign policy are Kremlin loyalists: https://t.co/PSlRPqhBOv — PolitiTweet.org

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When Ellsberg revealed to the American people that the USG (under JFK, LBJ and Nixon) were deliberately lying to them about the war in Vietnam, the WH, CIA and FBI smeared him as a Kremlin agent who deserved life in prison. Liberals now perform this role: https://t.co/dEd8NRSXK2 — PolitiTweet.org

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We went from our greatest journalists working subversively within large media outlets designed to serve the CIA and FBI trying instead to expose their worst secrets, to senior millennials at NBC and the WPost becoming journalistic icons by glorifying the traumas from mean tweets. — PolitiTweet.org

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Please take a few minutes to read Seymour Hersh's reflections on @DanielEllsberg, who we just learned has terminal cancer. Beyond Ellsberg's great courage, it reflects a lot about many things, including how radically journalism has changed: https://t.co/Dkoan53lHU — PolitiTweet.org

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Many press secretaries realize that many news outlets only employ, speak to and publish for liberals; that everything they write is based on this model; that nothing they publish is intended to be fair; and that speaking to other outlets is thus smarter: https://t.co/Kpony3wlwL — PolitiTweet.org

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Press secretaries have always picked and chosen which news outlets are deemed worthy and legitimate and which aren't: responding to the former, ignoring the latter. Nobody is angry @JeremyRedfernFL is doing this. Their anger is over his recognition that the lists have changed. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @michaelarria: Progressive favorite Katie Porter pushed for a J Street delegation to meet with Netanyahu. "I was extremely impressed wit… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomselliott: SUPERCUT! Libs: Never mind about being anti-'forever wars' https://t.co/4wbf3aFuwz — PolitiTweet.org

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@KDansky Yes, and Michelle Obama's. I think in the case of both Nancy Reagan & Jill Biden, there's a sense they do wield actual power given their husband's age and infirmities. But that was the point of the question: it's problematic if an elected president needs their spouse to function. — PolitiTweet.org