Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is a key point. DHS doesn't regret what they did. They don't want to relinquish control over what can and can't be said over the internet through the power they seized to declare Truth and Falsity. Their only mistake was a messaging one. Hence the "pause" to rebrand: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@danieldersch @elonmusk I don't either. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On my @GetCallin podcast tonight, 9pm ET, I'll examine if there are consistent standards for blaming political/media figures for violence carried out by others. Plus: DHS's creepy Truth Ministry is dead. And: the Squad, Ukraine and progressive media: https://t.co/8b5u08F8Tt — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @davidmirandario: Questionei hoje o ministro das Relações Exteriores, Carlos França, sobre alguns pontos críticos da diplomacia brasilei… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattsteinglass 1. It shows people like you are total frauds for deciding that Ukrainian lives are so much more valuable than the Yemeni and other non-white lives your governments routinely extinguish or whose freedom they gleefully crush. 2. Humor me. What's the answer to my stupid question? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ytyukhnin Yes, obviously there are many actual people, who have been on Twitter for a long time, who vehemently disagree with me about Ukraine. While huge numbers in the Global South reject the US/NATO consensus, most in the West fully support it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@vonbrauckmann @rochampbeaux @elonmusk The compliments and expression of support I value most are from those who say they disagree with me on some or even many key issues. That's the type of readership I always tried to cultivate. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattsteinglass Yes, the US supports all kinds of heinous, homophobic despots who engage in wars of aggression and other acts of tyranny, with US/UK support. Putin isn't special. Have you heard of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt? Can you answer my question? I'm genuinely interested to know. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@readonlyfollow @mattyglesias No, I get it. There are left-wing writers who are genuinely opposed to the escalated US role in Ukraine, including at Jacobin. That's what makes the large-scale silence over the Squad's unanimous YES vote for Biden's war package so conspicuous. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattsteinglass Yes, in that regard Putin is very similar to, and in some case better than, many of America's closest and most important allies: regimes that exist only due to US support. But since you feel so strongly about it, why haven't you heeded Zelensky's pleas? https://t.co/y4dcSsA8KT — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@rochampbeaux @elonmusk Yes, it's also true that many people who attack me are those who believe that journalists have a life-long obligation to echo and support each and every one of their opinions, and get sad and disappointed if they don't. I didn't say *all* critics are new accounts. I said many. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Democratic leaders can simultaneously tell their followers they're horrified and enraged by the attempt to outlaw abortion, all while they campaign for an anti-abortion Dem against a viable pro-choice challenger, because they understand the subservient mindset of Dem herd-voters. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I don't know if @ElonMusk is right that there are far more bots and multiple users on Twitter than the company admits, but I know a large percentage of the people who attack me daily about Ukraine are ones who have created their account in the last 4-8 weeks and have 0 followers. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@readonlyfollow @mattyglesias Many writers at Jacobin are indeed vocally opposed to the US role in Ukraine. That's my whole point. Many on the left are opposed to the US proxy war in Ukraine yet few to none have criticized the Squad for their support for it. You just illustrated my point. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TheOneNOnlyWes @readonlyfollow @mattyglesias He has 88k followers and you have 116, showing many people - including me - read his magazine and listen to what he says. Either way, people asked for examples of the category I described and he - along with the others named in that thread - are some of the examples I referenced. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@cameronmattis @mattyglesias Obama long refused to send lethal arms to Ukraine despite bipartisan demands he do so -- even after Russia annexed Crimea and was fighting supporting separatists in Eastern Ukraine -- based on his argument that Ukraine wasn't a vital interest to the US:👇 https://t.co/hCvrjmGt2q — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Tubewayarmy29 @gluonspring @mattyglesias You just claimed I vehemently advocated for the Iraq invasion. I didn't start writing about politics until late 2005: 2 1/2 years after the debate over that invasion. *Can you link to my 2002/2003 advocacy?* I started a blog in Oct 2005 to oppose Bush/Cheney's War on Terror.👇 https://t.co/G0DQnUNzjz — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattyglesias Did you criticize Obama when he spent years refusing to send lethal arms to Ukraine on the ground that Ukraine is and always will be of vital interest to Russia, but never has will be of vital interest to the US, certainly not risking war over with Russia? 2016: https://t.co/tvzlsH1naM — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Tubewayarmy29 @gluonspring @mattyglesias You're confusing me with Hillary, Biden, John Kerry and Matt. I wasn't writing or speaking about politics in 2002 and 2003 during the debate over Iraq. The first time I wrote about it was in my 2006 book - 4 years later - when I described my ambivalence due to being apolitical. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@readonlyfollow @mattyglesias I spent the morning having this discussion with them in which many were named: https://t.co/WC8wj5ZZrz — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mattyglesias Yes, I'm talking about the progressive media figures who insist they are vehemently opposed to the US role in Ukraine in general andBiden's $40b war package in particular who have said nothing about the Squad's unanimous support even though their brand is built around the Squad. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TanaGaneva Nobody wants to risk nuclear war but you and AOC are doing it anyway. AOC voted for this for the same reason Hillary and Biden voted for the Iraq War in 2002: she has aspirations for higher office. Plus, in AOC's case, she's afraid of Pelosi and Dems' punishment for disobedience — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Real_Steve_P https://t.co/rcCaV5bbtO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CuateBoliviano What does that have to do with the Squad's unanimous support for Biden's $40b war package to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the CIA? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SandyMoly They don't want to go on record supporting all of this because they know it will turn into a shit show and they want to pretend they opposed it all along, but they're also not allowed to criticize the Squad, so they just abstain from the single most important US war in decades. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Real_Steve_P My husband is an elected member of Congress in Brazil, so I'd prefer not to abandon him and our children by leaving them to move back to the US in order to prove something to you. I do, however, think David provides an excellent model of how to maintain principles and do deals. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TanaGaneva My plan is to encourage people like you (and AOC) who claim it's worth risking nuclear war over to heed, not ignore, Zelansky's pleas that people like you go to Ukraine and help them fight Russia instead of staying on Twitter posturing like Churchill. https://t.co/y4dcSsA8KT — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CuateBoliviano I answered that, but what does that have to do with the Squad's unanimous support for Biden's $40b war package to Raytheon, Lockheed and the CIA? As I said, cowards like you will try to talk about anything other than the Squad's support - you just showed how it's done. Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mtracey Right, the imbeciles of the Bernie/AOC left concocted ways to fall into line behind Bernie and Maddow in support. Those who thought they were too smart for that postured with ironic, above-it-all detachment. All along, it was used to foster anti-Russian animus & a new Cold War. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

https://t.co/S6gpVh2962 — PolitiTweet.org