Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The overwhelming majority of employees of large media corporations with the HR job title "journalist" -- at the largest non-Murdoch papers and TV outlets -- are Democrats and, on cultural war issues, with the liberal-left. They'd have more credibility if they just admitted it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zei_squirrel: when you have a track record like this maybe you should shut the fuck up https://t.co/pr4ZglSizY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Twitter: * Banned reporting about Joe Biden right before the 2020 election. * Banned the sitting elected GOP President. * Banned countless of the most popular right-wing voices. * Allows you to say the 2016 election was stolen but not 2020. And yet: https://t.co/NhgBkVgeDs — PolitiTweet.org

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It's always instructive when corporate journalists leave their jobs and don't have to pretend any more, no longer need to hide what they are and how they think. This one left the WPost and now he gets to call censorship opponents "whiny free speech piss-babies." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The Azov militia, a small subset...within Ukraine’s military, often sport Nazi imagery on their clothing and flags....Gebert, who is Jewish, announced his resignation Thursday." That's the world in which @IAPonomarenko, "brother in arms" of Azov, is a beloved Western celebrity. — PolitiTweet.org

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"One of Poland’s most prominent journalists, Konstanty Gebert, said he is quitting what many regard as the country’s newspaper of record after it demanded that he describe Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion as 'far-right' instead of 'neo Nazi.'" https://t.co/JAvbzD7N5l — PolitiTweet.org

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@mongoosenewyork @RLSandack https://t.co/zPGde5flRK — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonezinWidJonez No, that's an incredibly primitive and stupid synopsis of what Chomsky is saying, as any literate person would instantly realize if they read the full interview. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RLSandack He defends free speech more than 98% of people in both parties, at least, so I'd start there was my refutation of your attempt to imply he's some sort of repressive tyrant who deserves no hearing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrBrainMD What principle? Chomsky does apply this principle to Palestine. He's against BDS and the right of return on realism/power grounds: it will never happen. He says Palestinians will have to give up land in Jerusalem & WB that they should have. Right or wrong, he's consistent on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeffreyatucker @curaffairs If someone lives to 93 and speaks as a dissident on the most controversial matters for 7 decades, they're eventually going to say bad things. True for all of us. His COVID comments were horrific but we shouldn't judge people by their worst moments. He's not a god but not a demon. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's easy to say: it's Ukraine's decision to make! That sounds strong, but does nothing to end the war. And key: Ukraine is dependent on US aid and US weapons, which means the US Govt should have primary loyalty to the interests of US citizens. So this debate matters a lot. — PolitiTweet.org

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I realize the Chomsky view is a small minority and that the neocon mindset dominates mainstream followers of both the GOP and Dem Party -- on Ukraine and foreign policy generally, where there is bipartisan lockstep consensus. All the more reason to read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're angry about the snippet from the Chomsky interview in @curaffairs about Ukraine making the Twitter rounds, I strongly recommended reading the whole interview. There is a worldview and mindset accompanying that paragraph, rarely heard: https://t.co/xVG8708XAD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @redsteeze: https://t.co/lMb6q873TC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @caitoz: One aspect of this latest surge of online censorship we don't talk about enough is the fact that this is the first time Silicon… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mtracey: Wow, what a scoop. Brought to you by the guy who said Saddam would give Al Qaeda WMDs, and the lady who was one of the origina… — PolitiTweet.org

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Who was in greater pain during this amazing 1:02 of television? The thousands of employees who work at CNN or the hundreds of people in the audience watching? https://t.co/Mrqr8VU7np — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @robertwrighter: This @WarOnTheRocks podcast is the clearest evidence I've seen that the US made no serious diplomatic effort to prevent… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @diegoescosteguy: Torcendo pela recuperação dele e para que as autoridades capturem prontamente os autores do crime. 🙏 https://t.co/QDPw… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ComfortablySmug: Journos at Bloomberg and the Washington Post upset about a billionaire controlling information are a perfect example o… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @matthewstoller: Substack has helped move 1M+ people into paying for news and commentary. That's pretty amazing. A better way to frame S… — PolitiTweet.org

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Remember the mass shooting at the Brooklyn subway station? — PolitiTweet.org

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Really can't remember a more mask-dropping moment for how employees of large media corporations think. She's really saying, earnestly, there would be global catastrophe if the peasants and serfs were "allowed to run wild" on Twitter: meaning, speak without political censorship: — PolitiTweet.org

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@portmantoenail Far more planning of 1/6 took place on YouTube and Facebook than Parler, but Google and FB are huge donors to the Democratic Party, so AOC would never have the courage to demand that they be shut down. So she picked on Parler instead, because it won't censor at the whims of Dems. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MaxAbrahms: The fact that journalists are so opposed to Elon Musk buying Twitter because it would promote free speech and challenge Dem… — PolitiTweet.org

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Canada's Trudeau *froze the bank accounts* of people "associated with" a peaceful protest which the government disliked -- all with no due process! This didn't bother Western liberals for the same reason: all tactics are justified against our enemies. https://t.co/1nN24fLJ49 — PolitiTweet.org

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People who hate @jessesingal's writings on trans issues are using Twitter to share fantasies about violently raping him, but not only won't they be banned but no cable show will do a segment on his trauma. "Abuse" and "harassment" are terms to justify political censorship. — PolitiTweet.org

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Liberals don't believe they're authoritarians and in favor of censorship. Nobody wants to believe this about themselves. All authoritarians tell themselves: what we're fighting is so dangerous, all our tactics are inherently just. That's what liberals believe about themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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To underscore how crucial it is to US power centers that no free speech be allowed: Parler became *the most-downloaded app* in the US. The next day, AOC demanded Apple & Google ban them. Other Dems demanded Amazon do the same. One day later, it was gone. https://t.co/6xtzztorzm — PolitiTweet.org