Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The idea in this tweet is spectacular, and particularly important as the US is about to enter winter: https://t.co/2GtGK4Hq8t — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@michaelbrandorg Yeah, and I could easily give that same speech today word for word - and, in various venues basically do - yet now, in establishment liberal circles, it's read as "far-right." Some people have definitely changed: that part is at least true. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'd like to remind everyone: the last time the US sent $40 billion to Ukraine -- just 7 months ago -- 68 GOP lawmakers (57 in the house, 11 in the Senate) voted NO. Every single last Democrat -- including Bernie, AOC, the Squad -- voted YES. Unanimous. https://t.co/joHvic1mc5 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Sarkosiaunbound I began writing in Oct, 2005 about politics - never did before. And a main theme was that Bush/Cheney had become lawless by adopting radical executive power theories. I still think that, hence my shock/disgust when I see their operatives held up now as beacons of the rule of law. https://t.co/Lebzu0HK2R — PolitiTweet.org

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I just noticed that speech because it was written about today by @StaufferVaughn in the @dcexaminer regarding the Twitter Files. Read what she says about it: all of that appeared in every left-liberal outlet a decade ago, now it rarely does. Instead:👇 https://t.co/Kf2hbgQmUY — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That speech -- and I gave a dozen like it on that same speaking tour at various colleges -- was pre-Trump, and it was therefore before Democrats were taught to revere the CIA, FBI, DOJ and their operatives, and thus before they were taught to interpret such views as "far-right." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The things I write about and talk about today -- the dangers of the US Security State, their authoritarian merger with Big Tech, the way in which it threatens core democratic values -- are what I've been talking about for a decade at least, in the same ways. And yet, every day: https://t.co/oxufklekVL — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not sure why, but this speech I gave at the Univ of Utah in 2015 -- entitled: "Edward Snowden and the Secrets of the National Security State" -- ended up being watched by 14 million people on YouTube. It's about the same themes I talk about today: https://t.co/omyvaCvUX0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@RevGiant The other funny part of that is that how that Anna/Dasha joke - which I dropped in replies thinking there's was a 60% chance it'd get picked up - ended up causing outrage in several countries. I watched as new countries discovered it and the viral outrage cycle started anew. 🤣 — PolitiTweet.org

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@apcsoftwares Yeah, I fucked up the math in favor of McFaul. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Here's Obama's ex-Amb to Russia spreading fake news: 1) The watch is 6m rubles, not dollars - just a difference of $5.2m. 2) Someone tell him about the wealth of Pelosi, Obama, the Clintons and Bushes - and Zelensky! 3) He wants the return of USSR: https://t.co/l0cMN8eV1F — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't worry. I'm sure this $100b is scrupulously accounted for. Ukraine is renowned for its clean and meticulous bookkeeping, as is the US military-industrial complex. That's why they rejected @RandPaul's amendment for oversight: no need! Everyone involved is super trustworthy! — PolitiTweet.org

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Good morning. The US Congress is about to send another $44 billion to Boeing, Raytheon and the CIA "for the war in Ukraine." That's a total of $100 billion sent by the US in 10 months. The entire Russian military budget for the year is $65 billion. https://t.co/wszK7RHFos — PolitiTweet.org

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Starting live, in 5 minutes: we'll take an in-depth look at why it's uniquely dangerous to allow FBI, DHS and CIA to interfere in and manipulate Big Tech's censorship regime and the flow of information. Plus: @ShellenbergerMD on the latest revelations: https://t.co/Aa1AVSB5gG — PolitiTweet.org

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Tonight on @SystemUpdate_, live at 7 pm ET, we'll examine the most significant revelations from the Twitter Files, put the infiltration of FBI and DHS into historical context, and speak with the journalist, @ShellenbergerMD, who reported the latest batch: https://t.co/Aa1AVSB5gG — PolitiTweet.org

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Put another way: any politician demanding the power to dictate who can and can't speak on the internet is infinitely more dangerous than whoever they are trying to censor. A key property of fascism is the union of state and corporate power to control the population. — PolitiTweet.org

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Western politicians now have an obsession with issuing dictates like this about who can and cannot be allowed to speak online, usually accompanied - as here - by threats of legal compulsion. Anyone who says: "freedom of speech is vital, but.." means: "I oppose free speech." — PolitiTweet.org

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@GunnarBj Why would he hand secret files showing pervasive corruption to the very media corporations that were key players in it in the first place? Do you think they would honestly report their own culpability? Do you think Snowden should have given his archive to the NSA to report? — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheMikeOldfield Do you know who Frank Church is? He subjected himself to risk to expose the many ways CIA and FBI were spying domestically on Americans. Then you come along and want to show you're some brave dissident leftist with this "we all knew" Twitter cliché. That clip is about NSA systems — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ByronTau: Twitter in 2017 appears to have assisted in keeping a U.S. backed online psychological operations campaign on the platform ru… — PolitiTweet.org

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CNN: How come Elon Musk didn't choose to hand the Twitter Files -- showing how Twitter censored reporting about Joe Biden based on a CIA lie -- to the same "major credible news organizations" that spread and ratified that CIA lie in the first place? https://t.co/jwvEIC8v2z — PolitiTweet.org

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@DAGMAN5050 There are several reasons I can't work on this right now, but I'm really content with the team of journalists doing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mdrayton @deaner__ @mtaibbi Yeah, they used the same tactic to dismiss our Snowden reporting at first: manically alternating between "you're not showing us anything we didn't already know" to "this is the most dangerous national security leak in history, helping the terrorists evade detection," etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean: granted, Lee Fang is no @PoppyHarlowCNN. But that's an unfair bar: who among us can match her journalistic achievements? But it will be much harder for people like her and @oliverdarcy to snidely claim that no real reporters (like them) are involved in this journalism. https://t.co/3e86hDKIMV — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the nation's best investigative journalists -- who published documents in late October proving Homeland Security is heavily involved in Big Tech's censorship regime -- is now helping to report the Twitter Files. Hard to think of many journalists more credible to do this: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AmericaElige: Mexico, Buendía & Márquez poll: Approval rating of the performance of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Morena, lef… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jossjaffe https://t.co/HHdy4ZOYcY — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, they act as if the version of Twitter they loved -- before Musk purchased it -- was owned and controlled by impoverished homeless activists and indigenous tribal leaders instead of Saudi and American multi-billionaires. https://t.co/zABzFvizy8 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Since Musk bought Twitter, this has been a huge self-awareness failure in corporate media: column after column from The Atlantic (owned by Laurene Powell Jobs), WPost (Bezos), the Intercept (Omidyar) and publicly traded corporate media giants on how billionaire control is bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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I get media outlets have to try to raise funds -- I was always selective about the fund-raising emails I signed at the Intercept but did sign some -- but for someone to say *this* after spending years working solely for Pierre Omidyar really takes some audacity I wouldn't have. https://t.co/2SnnL66scI — PolitiTweet.org