Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@isabelromana1 He's getting there 🤞 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That "Absolute Truths" of one generation become the grievous and shameful errors of the next is foundational to all intellectual history. Yet, led by Brazil's imminent law, the democratic world is poised to join the Saudis, UAE, Singapore, Turkey in banning "false ideas" online. https://t.co/Rz7ph6Otwh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you just look at this period in history - going back to the persecution of Copernicus and Galileo - you find that most great thinkers were punished for spreading ideas that centralized authorities deemed "false." And yet, people today want to replicate this model in law. https://t.co/YVQEQvXXIM — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Suffice to say, Voltaire - in and out of the Bastille - had to write in a subversive and obscure way because, like most Enlightenment thinkers, he was viewed as purveying "False Ideas" by institutions that believed they had apprehended and should enforce Universal Truth. https://t.co/8Qb3f6lUUr — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Spent the week outside the city with the kids and various dogs, reading this biography of Voltaire, the Enlightenment, and pre-Revolutionary France, and can't recommend it highly enough. So many of the debates we have now, and the authoritarianism we fight, have roots right here. https://t.co/6vuL9kSYWA — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That journalists are subject to a "hostile work environment" or "at risk" because their papers air ideas they dislike and disagree with is one of the most pathetic grievances invented in awhile, and comes mainly from journalists who never faced actual persecution for their work: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The liberal-left largely regards these corporate giants - NYT, NBC, CNN, CBS - as the only place "legitimate journalists" work. Those corporations are their allies and liberals are authoritarians. Thus, anyone free of those corps is a grifter, an activist, or just illegitimate. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Just has happened with the Twitter Files, now the employees of large media corporations are complaining Fox and Carlson are getting 1/6 footage exclusively. They're not mad about this practice. Their careers depend on it. They're mad they're not the ones selected to curate it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Every day, US Govt officials (CIA/FBI/DOJ/Congress) handpick large media corporation to whom they give non-public info because they know they'll tell the story they want told: NYT, WPost, NBC, CNN, etc. I want all this footage public but that this is unusual is laughable: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Read Bernie Sanders' warnings in February, 2022 -- as Russia was preparing its invasion -- aabout the dangers and madness of US involvement and the role the US played in all this. This disappeared in favor of uncritical support for Biden's war policies: https://t.co/zziomNAJQ7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Meanwhile, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee is demanding an audit of all US "military aid" to Ukraine - something @RandPaul tried to attach to the bipartisan $40b spending spree to Raytheon and CIA only to be called a Kremlin tool by Mitch McConnell: https://t.co/la9wA40PGk — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Meanwhile, Dems should be embarrassed that the only place one finds this anti-neocon denunciation of Endless War is 1) on the international left and 2) the populist wing of the GOP. Bernie sounded notes like this before the war, then snapped into line: https://t.co/PbQ4ebJ2r2 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

We haven't heard much from DeSantis on foreign policy since his standard-GOP-fare, pre-Trump House record (though he did oppose US intervention in Syria). I thus found it notable how lukewarm (at most) he was here on the US role in Ukraine and the threat of Russia generally: — PolitiTweet.org

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Joe Biden: We will pour hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars into Ukraine because we love democracy and hate tyranny. Joe Biden: Is it time to send another $10 billion in weapons to our good friend the Saudi Crown Prince? https://t.co/JaqHALIwkq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

People like Tom Cotton (and the bipartisan DC Foreign Policy class) go from "we must fight forever in Ukraine because we love freedom and hate despotism!" to "check out my great friend the Saudi Tyrant and all the weapons we give him" and few notice the glaring contradiction: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ChuckRossDC Covering war zones. Having governments prosecute you for your reporting. Crying because you’re Brooklyn friends are mad at you for an op-ed your paper published. Mean tweets. Life as a journalist isn’t easy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ChuckRossDC: lol. NYT's Charlie Warzel allegedly cried because his friends were mad at him over the infamous Tom Cotton op-ed. Freaking… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

What an incredible coincidence. Bad luck and scary moment for Biden (😳) but at least it made for a good TV moment: https://t.co/jkKAfsYX4t — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

At the risk of ruining the giddiness in the studios of US media corporations and DC think tanks, many of those fighting and dying in this exciting war -- Ukrainians -- don't want to be, which is why Zelensky had to increase punishment for draft desertion: https://t.co/o2714cJZgy — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I mean the insanity on display in this thread is just stunning, and look how they all sound and speak the same, as always: https://t.co/5YkDgVBLCO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

From last May, recalling the 1776 warnings of Adam Smith about exactly what is going on in Munich and the adolescent media giddiness over Joe Biden's swaggering, historic, never-before-seen plop down in Kiev: https://t.co/Rra5pFCFiI https://t.co/QyPDY5fdHp — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Nobody loves war more than American - and now European - elites. It gets them so visibly and observably excited as long as it's from a safe distance. You would think Joe Biden just jumped out of an airplane and blew up a Chinese balloon or something. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @FT: Western pleas over Ukraine fail to sway global south https://t.co/i1DqEN7ajW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @joekent16jan19: Yes, trust the experts….. https://t.co/dhR2WoZ6mx — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @joekent16jan19: Yes, trust the experts….. https://t.co/dhR2WoZ6mx — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Singularitin @elonmusk I don't use ChatGPT for political opinions either but that's the point: it constantly gives you its political opinions - in the form of extremely dreary and sanctimonious lectures - even when it has nothing to do with your question and always as it denies it has opinions or bias. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I've gotten my news about East Palestine from @DavidSirota and this colleagues at @LeverNews. When you work at an independent outlet instead of a lobbyist-and-corporate-sustained site like POLITICO, you should promote your work. I interviewed Sirota here: https://t.co/00US8T427Y — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

What a shitty tweet: watching someone who works at POLITICO, drowning in all kinds of corporate and lobbyist cash, shitting on an independent outlet, @LeverNews, for soliciting donations by citing the great reporting they've been doing on Buttigieg's neglect of East Palestine: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

LOL. The Bing AI machine sounds way more fun, engaging, real and human than the sanctimonious, hectoring liberal scold called ChatGPT. At least give people the option to interact with this version rather than the Chris-Hayes-ified one: https://t.co/mAUchtALs3 https://t.co/o1ieyWM8PU — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Oh, please leave it alone. It sounds so much better, more interesting and less dreary than ChatGPT, which refuses to answer a question without drowning you with a least two paragraphs of sermon-texts about what is and isn't appropriate for you to say, think and wonder: — PolitiTweet.org