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@Snowden

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I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public.

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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 days
America lost something important today, and hardly anyone heard. The headlines of state-aligned media screech and crow about the nefarious designs of your fellow citizens and the necessity of foreign wars without end, but find few words for a crime against the Constitution.
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Elizabeth Goitein
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It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Section 702 has been reauthorized, not just without any meaningful reforms… 1/10
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Nobody has stronger opinions about Joe Rogan than people who have never listened to Joe Rogan.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
You want to fix policing? Remove their immunity so that they can be sued, and if you win, damages come out of the department's pension fund instead of from taxpayers. They'll clean house on their own. Quickly.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Free Julian Assange.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life. @realDonaldTrump
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Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden
1 year
it's not aliens i wish it were aliens but it's not aliens it's just the ol' engineered panic, an attractive nuisance ensuring natsec reporters get assigned to investigate balloon bullshit rather than budgets or bombings (à la nordstream) until next time
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place. #facebookdown
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Edward Snowden
4 years
Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. And yet that day has arrived.
@ACLU
ACLU
4 years
BREAKING: A federal appeals court just ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records was illegal. This ruling, which confirms what we have always known, is a victory for our privacy rights.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance. He should be in jail.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
I've been working from home since the Obama administration. 🤔
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
turns out kanye is not gonna be president
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
I would rather be without a state than without a voice.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
6 years
And they call me a criminal.
@arappeport
Alan Rappeport
6 years
Zuckerberg is not able to give a straight answer about whether Facebook tracks browsing activity after users log off.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
The whole system revolves around the idea that the majority can be made to believe 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, so long as it is repeated loudly and often. And it works.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
sure laugh at zuckerberg's stock crash but remember that in five years he's gonna own your eyeballs and pause the ads every time you blink
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
I take payment in Bitcoin.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
@WholeMarsBlog The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible. A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money. And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it. Sounds legit.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Coinbase spending $16,000,000 on a Superbowl ad to direct people to their website and $0 to make sure that website doesn't crash 10 seconds after the ad starts is so very internet.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
When a crooked politician calls me traitor, ask yourself: who did I betray? The courts have ruled repeatedly that the programs I revealed were unlawful, and likely unconstitutional—a violation of your rights. If this is treason, what they call loyalty is a crime.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
9 years
Can you hear me now?
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
7 years
Speak not because it is safe, but because it is right.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
The fact that is considered legal for a corporation to compile perfect records of your private life simply because you had to "click OK to continue" to make your phone work is a perfect expression of who holds the power in society and why they should be cast into the sea.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 month
Everyone in the world needs to see this. Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel.
@RamAbdu
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
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Graphic scenes: An Israeli army drone pursued four civilian youths who attempted to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles in Khan Younis at the start of last February.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Assange & I were charged under a law designed to prevent fair trials—a law originally aimed at suppressing an old anti-war movement. Defendants are forbidden from mounting a public interest defense, juries prohibited from hearing⁠ it. Whatever your politics, that's an injustice
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
I am not expressing an opinion, but did promise to conduct this poll. Should Assange and Snowden be pardoned?
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Edward Snowden
1 year
I'm in Russia because the White House intentionally canceled my passport to trap me here. They *downed the President of Bolivia's diplomatic aircraft* to prevent me from leaving, and continue to interfere with my freedom of movement to this day. In case that was unclear.
@maxseddon
max seddon
11 years
Standing next to Edward Snowden's seat on flight to Cuba. He ain't here. http://t.co/NVRH3Pzved
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
Julian Assange is a political prisoner.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
I have seen more calls for pardon this year than in all others combined. No other issue in our time unites left, right, and center like the struggle to end governments' abuse of mass surveillance and secrecy, and that would not be true without you -- and your advocacy. Thank you.
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Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Julian Assange is a political prisoner.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
5 years
I am neither Democrat nor Republican, but Sanders is in my opinion the most fundamentally decent man in politics. His life-long struggle for a more equitable society is a reminder of how far we have come—and a challenge to complete the journey. #GetWellBernie
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
After this clip, Assange was forced into asylum. Today he is locked in a dungeon -- and kept incommunicado. Listen to this, then ask yourself why it was so important that he be silenced.
@wikileaks
WikiLeaks
3 years
Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Let me get this straight: you *want* governments and corporations to more tightly control the flow of information? Because someone said something problematic? All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
7 years
This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you.
@Snowden
Edward Snowden
7 years
Set aside politics: every American should condemn such political interference in the Bureau's work.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
5 years
gee i wonder
@PreetBharara
Preet Bharara
5 years
How is it that there has been just one whistleblower?
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Got some bad news, Jimbo.
@Jim_Jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan
2 years
If they can spy on a sitting United States President, they can spy on anyone.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: )
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
Vote na esperança. Vote na história. Vote no futuro.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Lula.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
triggered
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
Facebook is Facebook. Don't write about the name, write about what they do, because that's what matters. Paperwork doesn't change the nature of a thing.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
"Why Aren't Millennials Buying New Homes?" truly a mystery 🤔
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Beware those who water the gardens of hatred and war.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
One word: Bitcoin.
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Edward Snowden
6 years
Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
It begins.
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Watcher.Guru
1 year
JUST IN: Mastercard, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and others, launch a 12-week experimental digital dollar pilot with the New York Fed.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Man, I should have thought of that one.
@Breaking911
Breaking911
1 year
KJP: "We are confident that a thorough review will show that these documents were inadvertently misplaced."
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Edward Snowden
1 year
That is a very big number.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
I am not expressing an opinion, but did promise to conduct this poll. Should Assange and Snowden be pardoned?
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Edward Snowden
1 year
I'm thankful for the Internet. One day it will be free and open, edge to edge.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea. Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
Sometimes I try to imagine a world where scientific young minds enjoyed greater rewards for revolutionizing, like, farming methods, manufacturing, or energy, rather than the dark patterns used to optimize ad-clicks at Google and Facebook. How did we get here?
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 months
No matter your politics, it should appall you that the media outlets which claim to care the most about "misinformation" suppressed coverage of South Africa's case against the Gaza genocide, but fully covered Israel's defense the next day—intentionally denying you the full story.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
You have no idea what you're talking about. Even the United States Government doesn't allege this. It literally never happened, and it *couldn't* happen, because I gave the archive to journalists. Those journalists' reporting, by the way, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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Edward Snowden
3 years
Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech.
@Kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz
3 years
BREAKING: Facebook blocks Trump from accessing his accounts indefinitely, per Zuckerberg. "We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great."
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
6 months
Julian Assange is a political prisoner, and the sole reason he remains a political prisoner is because the White House remains afraid of his voice.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Lula.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
Facebook-owned Whatsapp being down is a reminder that you and your friends should probably be using a more private, non-profit alternative like @Signalapp anyway (or another open-source app of your choice). It's just as free, and takes like 30 seconds to switch. #facebookdown
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
7 years
Don't stay safe. Stay free.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
One, I didn't "steal" anything. I created a copy. Two, that "thing" was **evidence of crimes** (our courts agreed: see link). Three, exposing a crime should not be a crime, regardless of whether those crimes were committed by a Mafia or a State.
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@Roomtofit
onlinelittleguy
1 year
@Snowden You stole data that wasn’t yours. It’s rather black and white no matter your motives.
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Edward Snowden
5 years
Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the UK's secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of--like it or not--award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books. Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom.
@Ruptly
Ruptly
5 years
BREAKING: #Assange removed from embassy - video
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 months
Unpopular but true: Bitcoin is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage. If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Can you name one? Just one? Because even the government admits nobody died as a result of the 2013 revelations of Global Mass Surveillance. However, US courts *did* rule that they show the NSA broke the law. That reporting also won the Pulitzer Prize.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
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Netanyahu nurtured a zillion-dollar industry selling spying tools to despots that use them to break into the iPhones of critics, elected opponents, human rights lawyers, and even students (these are all real examples). Turns out they're not very useful for spying on Hamas, tho.…
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Edward Snowden
5 years
Crowd looks bigger than some inaugurations.
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
5 years
We're not only going to win. We're going to transform the country. Thank you to the more than 25,000 people in Queens who made this an incredible day. #BerniesBack
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
Six trillion dollars? This is good for Bitcoin.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document. Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
5 years
Whoa.
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
5 years
Bernie Sanders pledges to end practice of prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act
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Edward Snowden
4 years
If you ever wonder where we're at on the dystopia scale, consider that it's normal to believe the government is spying on you, and crazy to believe that they're not.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
ok sure but hear me out: auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username
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Edward Snowden
1 year
You are holding Julian Assange in a dungeon for exercising the freedom of expression you so ardently claim to defend. How about decriminalizing it at home before you take to a podium and point your finger abroad?
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The Hill
1 year
. @StateDeptSpox : "We've made consistently clear to Saudi authorities that freedom of expression should never be criminalized. The exercise of the universal right like freedom of expression should never be criminalized."
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
دیوار موش داره و موش گوش داره
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
Everything Going Great
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
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No matter the outcome, #Brexit polls demonstrate how quickly half of any population can be convinced to vote against itself. Quite a lesson.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
You made me believe in happy endings. I love you, darlin.
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Lsjourney
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A long time in the making: our greatest collaboration is coming soon.
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Edward Snowden
5 years
Watch the voting machine used in US swing states get hacked to rig an election. @Jhalderm , @UMich , and @nytimes demonstrate why every voting district needs an auditable paper ballot. Voting machines are *known* to be insecure.
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Edward Snowden
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Edward Snowden
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the masculine urge to complain about the cost of living from your gold chair while wearing meemaw's snow-leopard snuggie and egg-sized diamond hat
@economics
Bloomberg Economics
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King Charles announces that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government will "continue to take action... to ease the cost of living for families"
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Edward Snowden
6 years
Note: Gina Haspel participated in a torture program that involved beating an (innocent) pregnant woman's stomach, anally raping a man with meals he tried to refuse, and freezing a shackled prisoner until he died. She personally wrote the order to destroy 92 tapes of CIA torture.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Congratulations to our new CIA Director, Gina Haspel!
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Edward Snowden
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
Imagine killing an aid worker. Imagine killing his family too. Imagine seven of them were actually children, smiling little tots. Then just rising from your chair to grab a coffee and saying, "mistakes were made." This is absolutely unforgivable.
@AP
The Associated Press
2 years
BREAKING: A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and doesn't recommend disciplinary action, @AP learns.
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Edward Snowden
2 months
Prediction: A national government will be revealed this year to have been buying Bitcoin—the modern replacement for monetary gold—without having disclosed that fact publicly.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
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"Warren Buffett, the billionaire head of Berkshire Hathaway, will probably go down as the greatest investor in history... Berkshire shares have seen an average annual return of 20.0%..." Meanwhile:
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
7 years
Want to see a politician clearly? Remove emotional words from their statements. "If human rights laws get in the way, we will change them."
@theresa_may
Theresa May
7 years
I'm clear: if human rights laws get in the way of tackling extremism and terrorism, we will change those laws to keep British people safe.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
There has been one constant across twenty years of occupation: the government lying to the people.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
Don't mess with Greta.
@GretaThunberg
Greta Thunberg
1 year
this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
1 year
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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Edward Snowden
1 year
I've never understood the political fear of Libertarians. "Sure, they're not in power now, but someday they might take over and... uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that's kind of their whole deal." It's like being afraid of cats.
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Edward Snowden
2 years
separation of money and state
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Edward Snowden
1 year
I'm significantly more sympathetic to @ElonMusk 's concern about crazy people showing up at the door than the average person because, well, look at my life, but c'mon, man. You're a public figure in a position of power in a world where even normal people are constantly tracked.
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Edward Snowden
1 year
Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
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Edward Snowden
2 months
It's all so fucking senseless.
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Edward Snowden
3 years
"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." — @JoeBiden , July 2021
@StefSimanowitz
Stefan Simanowitz
3 years
PHOTO 1: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the #Taliban enter #Kabul from all sides. #Afghanistan (2021) PHOTO 2: US diplomat evacuate US from embassy via helicopter as the PAVN & Viet Cong capture of Saigon, Vietnam (1975)
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Edward Snowden
2 years
Somebody sounds nervous.
@AFP
AFP News Agency
2 years
#BREAKING IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
6 years
Facebook: "This is their information. They own it" BBC: "And you won’t sell it?" FB: "No! Of course not." Please help this 2009 interview of Facebook's CEO get seen by people who don't use Twitter. Here's a download link so you can pull and repost it:
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
2 years
I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
There is something miserable in the figure who enjoyed in their youth the freedom of speech, but from the comfort of age seeks to deny it to others; some deformity of the soul.
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@Snowden
Edward Snowden
3 years
Taking a Twitter sabbatical. Stay free.
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