Glenn Greenwald

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[Unlocked]: The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes https://t.co/gUKgo8t0W6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Again: it is bizarre -- surreal -- that the people who have convinced themselves they are fighting fascism in the US vehemently demand a union of state and corporate power to silence their enemies. A fanatic, by definition, believes all their tactics are inherently just. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's all independent of the legal inanities in Apatow's demand as it pertains to the FCC's powers and the like. That's just standard ignorance. Most notable is how common it is among Dems to crave a union of state and corporate power brute censor one's political adversaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wanting the state to silence one's adversaries is pervasive across time and culture -- that's why the 1st Am banned it -- but until recently, people were embarrassed to explicitly advocate it. But in US liberal culture, censorship is now so normalized that this is no longer odd: — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jamie_Maz Did vaccine mandates that resulted in the firing of many health care professionals perhaps play a role in these mass nationwide hospital shortages? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidSegalRI: Wow - incredibly concerning conception of the purpose of House Intel Comm as described in this Politico article. The foun… — PolitiTweet.org

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The confirmed death toll from that boulder falling in the above video is now 5, with 20 more people declared missing (via @MidiaNINJA). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @walterkirn: The idiocy and ignorance on display at the Supreme Court today caught even me, a cynic, by surprise. It breached a reservoi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeanneNoble18: CDC is reporting increasing pediatric COVID hospitalizations, but critical to break numbers down. Between our 2 pediatr… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Law4FreedomUSA @Slate @mtracey Read my tweet. I'm agreeing with Michael Tracey's critique of the Slate article. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dingustron5000 A Rumble link to a video produced by a reporter who has broken more major stories than any of the TV personalities you worship. Either way, a rational person judges a claim by the evidence, not the person making it. It's also on YouTube if you only believe things Google allows. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MillennialAtty https://t.co/vR6inLUV70 — PolitiTweet.org

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One very encouraging sign: the part of the media ecosystem thriving and growing most is the *independent* part, where journalists and others can speak and report freely without corporate control. Call it Roganism: more and more people trust only independent voices and platforms. — PolitiTweet.org

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The article notes the standard media attack on Rumble is false. It was founded in 2013 by an apolitical Canadian to support small content creators. Its explosion isn't due to any ideology but being a *free speech platform*: its growth is fueled by hatred for Big Tech control. https://t.co/bfdhBWjOLZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Canada's largest paper, @globeandmail, reports Rumble's massive growth: "Two years ago, Rumble was lucky to crack a million average monthly users. In the third quarter of last year, it hit 36 million." Now, "Rumble’s valuation surged to $2.1 billion." https://t.co/WRdf67a95m — PolitiTweet.org

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@UnwokePeasant @CheesersDurden He's a Democrat who knows I'm gay, so he's implying my interest in this story is due to some secret "weird fetish" I have for Hunter Biden. I can't tell you how frequently these themes are used against me by Democrats and liberals, who think they're too enlightened to be bigots. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MLKisMyHero I work fast; it's a story I've covered extensively; and it really infuriates me that these scummy media outlets all know that they spread a CIA lie and just unite to ensure that, by agreeing in unison to ignore it, none ever has to admit what they did. — PolitiTweet.org

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All editors and reporters at these "prestige" outlets know they spread a CIA-concocted lie right before the election. They know there is dispositive proof the docs are real. But they never mentioned the book or retracted because it's a pact of silence. https://t.co/fdcqV0jesy — PolitiTweet.org

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This episode shows how these corporate outlets work. All their editors know about @SchreckReports's book confirming the docs' authenticity. But since the only two constituencies they care about ignored it - other outlets and liberals on Twitter - there was no need to retract it. — PolitiTweet.org

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To this day, you can go to most major outlets -- NBC News, NYT, CNN, Atlantic, almost all of them -- and find the CIA lie that the Biden docs were Russian disinformation. Even once a book by a POLITICO reporter proved they were real, those outlets ignored that and left that lie. — PolitiTweet.org

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But the most overlooked component of this scandal the media role. They all enabled this censorship by spreading and ratifying the outright lie from CIA and other intel officials that these docs were "Russian disinformation." Once that was disproven, they never acknowledged it. — PolitiTweet.org

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That 2 of the US's largest social media giants actively censored reporting about the Biden family based on genuine documents 3 weeks before the election is one of the most alarming cases in years, but most media outlets *supported* the censorship because it helped Biden. If not: — PolitiTweet.org

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Read this thread to see how @Slate radically distorted Alito's comments into their exact opposite. I'm certain Slate has seen this critique - it's been in many places - but they'll never correct/retract it because *you're allowed to lie in liberal outlets about liberal enemies." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lwoodhouse: I once proudly wrote for The Intercept, before it became a scam to pilfer old people out of their social security money. ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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The second tweet in this thread contained a viral video that its creator now says was satirical. It's been deleted to prevent any re-tweeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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An absolutely horrific scene today in Brazil as a giant rock became detached and fell on three boats of tourists in Minas Gerais, a state in Southern Brazil. Deaths are confirmed but the number is unclear. At least a couple dozen injured. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @neontaster: Unmasked "important people" next to masked "unimportant people" is the enduring image of how covid has stratified society.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazing: for the first year of the pandemic, it was absolutely taboo even to reference distinctions between people "hospitalized WITH COVID" and "hospitalized FOR COVID." With Trump gone & blue states having surges, the distinction is now in official reports: "Incidental COVID" — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope Dick Cheney was courteous enough to give all the House Dems waiting in line to greet him and heap praise on him the chance to have their moment. Or, at the very least, I hope he arranged autographed copies of his torture memos be sent to those who had to be turned away. — PolitiTweet.org

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Citigroup's headquarters are in NYC. For those cheering its new policy of firing all workers in the middle of a pandemic who are unvaccinated, who is it exactly who will be left unemployed as a result of this decision by this banking giant. Is that really something to cheer? — PolitiTweet.org