Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RW_Bert If you have any examples of Bernie or AOC doing so, please provide them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@tedlieu @jwellingtonpeev @Mike_Pence You trust the FBI to determine what is and is not information? Do you think this is an agency with a history of chronic lying and lawbreaking? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Could anyone imagine Bernie or AOC ever utter a criticism of the FBI of this sort? It's inconceivable. The chances are far higher they'll defend the FBI from this reporting than criticize it. — PolitiTweet.org

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The former FBI General Counsel implanted at Twitter pressured Twitter to censor pre-election reporting about Joe Biden by insisting the documents were "hacked" -- a total lie that never had any evidence and that came from the CIA. Liberals: "nothing burger." Leave the FBI alone. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SteveKrak: Most important tweet in a very newsy Twitter Files thread… — PolitiTweet.org

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In fact, the major problem for the US weapons manufacturers is that bipartisan demand is so high to buy more and more weapons for Ukraine and elsewhere -- Congress just approved a raise of $45b beyond what Biden wanted -- that they can't make them all. https://t.co/2ZfI1cvUch — PolitiTweet.org

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While stock market indexes overall are down in the US, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman have enjoyed a 35% boon in its stock prices due to relentless and seemingly endless Pentagon demand for the war in Ukraine. For 3 seconds, they were worried about their market after Afghanistan. https://t.co/wfsIcbO5Od — PolitiTweet.org

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@victorlaszlo_us Yes, the way the left and right parts of media caricature the other side often obscures nuances and realities, but the establishment wing of the Dem Party has long been fully aligned with AIPAC and so is the NYT. They'll criticize Netanyahu but support full US aid to Israel. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkASzczygiel @zrahul2020 @NathanJRobinson @jacobin Yeah, I was clearly supportive of Bernie in 2016 (and even 2020, though less so) and explicitly supportive of AOC in her 2018 primary challenge but have no trouble acknowledging they they've morphed into DNC foot soldiers and servants of the Pentagon and CIA. We all get fooled. — PolitiTweet.org

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The NYT and their owners, the Sulzbergers, have always been and still are outspoken defenders of US aid to Israel and anti-Semitism opponents. The notion that they're deliberately inserting swastikas into their crossword puzzles to subliminally promote Nazism is a bit irrational. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ascottmess @NathanJRobinson @jacobin Why am I interacting with stupid people? That was the second tweet of my response. The first was this one: https://t.co/aodrrUShfz — PolitiTweet.org

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@DiligentDenizen The issue isn't the mic; it's a few acoustical issues that still need improvement in the studio we use. It's not as easy to fix as one might thinj but they have the problems identified and are working on them. Thanks for watching and nudging! — PolitiTweet.org

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@zrahul2020 @NathanJRobinson @jacobin The leaders of the mainstream Bernie/AOC left are Bernie and AOC. Notice how they want to act like they don't exist for these purposes. Or the far more influential streamers, YouTube shows and podcasts. And parts of DSA are good on this, others parts aren't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanJRobinson @jacobin I know it sucks that the politicians you follow and around whom you built your political identity are little more than foot soldiers for the Dem Party, unanimously voting to send $40b to Raytheon and CIA "for Ukraine," rarely if ever attacking FBI/DHS/CIA. Blame them, not me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanJRobinson @jacobin In 2002, The American Conservative and Cato Institute were vocal opponents of the War in Iraq and War on Terror, so by your reasoning, "the right was against it." Political leaders are a movement's defining voice. And Jacobin is nowhere near the most popular AOC-left platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterpetersonSC @f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC The very same poll shows that, during the Trump and Biden years, only a minority of Republicans favored having Big Tech or the state censor the internet. Even under Trump, Dems favored that in larger numbers - ie the data shows the exact opposite of your partisan excuse. — PolitiTweet.org

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(For those who missed the news or forgot: the reason Liz Cheney is leaving the House is her own constituents voted against her, in favor of her primary challenger, by more tha 35 points, one of the most humiliating defeats a House incumbent ever suffered in US history). — PolitiTweet.org

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This might be your last chance to see the extraordinary, heroic, noble, inspiring High Priestess of Ethics and Democratic Values, Elizabeth Cheney, speak in the august Committee rooms of the House! Who would want to miss this? — PolitiTweet.org

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@BMarchetich There are left-liberal YT shows with a million subscribers or more, Twitch streamers with even larger audiences, left-liberal podcasts. Then there's the more mainstream, media world of MotherJones/HuffPost. But one more time: the most important are *the politicians themselves*. https://t.co/vDV8IqmGbF — PolitiTweet.org

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@BMarchetich I just had this whole conversation with Adam. I've often noted Jacobin and the DSA as exceptions. But this isn't the mainstream Bernie/AOC left. Those would be those politicians and other elected officials, the largest YT shows, streamers, podcasts build on that brand, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vcbd100 @f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC That you trust the US Govt and the US Security State and tech billionaires to determine "truth" and "falsity" and then censor the internet on that basis -- as 2/3 Dem does -- while seeing yourself as a left-liberal, illustrates the point I'm making. — PolitiTweet.org

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@f_f8008f_f @adamjohnsonNYC If you're referring to Elon, far more conservative journalists denounced his latest spate of bans than liberal journalists ever denounced Big Tech for its years of ideological censorship. They cheered it and demanded more. But again, polling data tells the very vivid truth: https://t.co/WvQsFjUGGW — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC I use polling data to show that Democrats are far more favorable to the CIA and FBI than Republicans, and far more in favor of having both oligarchical billionaires and the US Government censor the internet, not anecdotal episodes. But I'll try to be nicer to Bernie and AOC. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC I use polling data to show that Democrats are far more favorable to the CIA and FBI than Republicans, and far more in favor of having both oligarchical billionaires and the US Government censor the internet, just anecdotal episodes. But I'll try to be nicer to Bernie and AOC. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC Bernie has almost completely renounced attempts to separate himself from the Biden Admin and DNC. AOC sounds like 9 or 10 dozen House members with constant, banal anti-GOP messaging and little else, and their media followers have followed suit. It's a lost, unmoored movement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC I don't even know what ITT is. The number of liberals who read FAIR is tiny. The Nation hasn't build their brand around AOC/Bernie. I'm talking about large streamers, YouTube shows, and especially the Bernie-Squad politicians themselves: those have far larger audiences than FAIR. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC If you really want to deny that there is now far, far less emphasis on and concern about the US Security State in mainstream left circles, go ahead, but I don't think the case can be made credibly. Post-2016, many even see them as allies because they were/are so anti-Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamjohnsonNYC I said mainstream. I can quibble with some examples but I've always credited Jacobin as an outlier in upholding left principles. While I'm glad FAIR and you have raised this, I said "virtually": sadly, those are not mainstream voices -- like, say, AOC, Bernie, large "left" media. — PolitiTweet.org

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@oringordon @DennisCurry007 Just *a decade ago*, every beloved Dem -- Obama, Hillary, Biden -- opposed marriage quality. Their view was gay couples should be excluded from legal marriage. Obama said it was because "God is in the mix." Now Republicans who think this are literal Nazis. The issue is settled. https://t.co/GCM4exYxEN — PolitiTweet.org

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@oringordon @DennisCurry007 25% of the GOP in Congress also voted to enshrine marriage quality nationally. Obviously Dems generally are closer to my views on SSM than many in the GOP but marriage equality has been the law since 2015 and - though I'm gay - I still can have other priorities beyond 🌈 issues. — PolitiTweet.org