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As a computer programmer, Aaron Swartz changed the internet forever and fiercely fought against the privatization of knowledge. The federal government persecuted him for it until his death by suicide in 2013. 🧵 1/6
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Former CIA analyst and whistleblower @raymcgovern was dragged out of the confirmation hearing today for #GinaHaspel , calling her one of "the thugs that torture people."
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Hey, folks, @maximillian_alv here, thought you should see these photos a railroad worker sent me today: ONE day after Congress preemptively broke railroaders' strike & did nothing to stop rail carriers' destructive business practices, 2 Norfolk Southern trains derailed in PA & WV
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"Not only that, but he was present for beatings, present for force feedings and other forms of torture. As Mansoor describes, not only was he present and observing them, but seemed to take great pleasure in them happening."
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When @Kaepernick7 took a knee during the national anthem in 2016, he wasn’t alone. He was carrying on a proud tradition of athletic protest, and his courage has inspired a new generation of athletes who are expanding that tradition today. W/ @EdgeofSports
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The Democratic chair of the House Ways and Means Committee killed a bill to stop excessive out of network health bills after receiving $54,000 in donations from health care and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists.
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When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in 2016, he wasn’t alone. He was carrying on a proud tradition of athletic protest, and his courage has inspired a new generation of athletes who are expanding that tradition today.
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13 years ago, @wikileaks published leaked US gov't documents detailing a range of criminal and unethical acts, from the slaughter of civilians to acts of espionage against foreign heads of state. Since then, the persecution of Julian Assange has not ceased
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Tax returns show that the Home Depot Foundation is a funder of the Atlanta Police Foundation, the private entity driving the fiercely opposed plan to build a $90 million police training center
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Ilhan Omar introduced 7 bills that would steer US foreign policy towards international norms and remove support for human rights violators. While the chances are slim that these bills will pass, they outline a progressive foreign policy. #PathwayToPeace
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Swartz. He had a prolific career as a computer programmer: At the age of 12 he created The Info Network, a user-generated encyclopedia widely credited as a precursor to Wikipedia. 2/6
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Hey @CNN when were you guys going to report on the Ferguson protest at your Atlanta headquarters yesterday? http://t.co/7FKUjPG0BD
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"Chelsea Manning is hauled in because they want to see if she can give information about Julian Assange soliciting the leaks from her, and enticing her to provide information. She’s refused." - Kevin Gosztola #ChelseaResists
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Ilhan Omar introduced 7 bills that would steer US foreign policy towards international norms and remove support for human rights violators. While the chances are slim that these bills will pass, they outline a progressive foreign policy. #PathwayToPeace
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"Netflix and Amazon, and, of course, all the corporate media, they do not allow the truth about Palestine to be put out there." - @AbbyMartin
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A year later, prosecutors added an additional nine felony counts against Swartz, ultimately threatening him with a million dollars in fines and up to 35 years in prison. Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment from suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. 5/6
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When Colin @Kaepernick7 took a knee during the national anthem in 2016, he wasn’t alone. He was carrying on a proud tradition of athletic protest, and his courage has inspired a new generation of athletes who are expanding that tradition today.
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For someone with such an immense public persona, DeSantis has been curiously tight-lipped about his military past. A bombshell new report from @MikePrysner now reveals why.
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Workers at a @Target in Pikesville, Maryland are on strike, saying managers have been abusive. They are calling for a boycott of the store. #targetworkersunite @TGTWorkersUnite
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House Democrats passed legislation to boost the fortunes of the oil industry as one of their last acts before going to recess until after Election Day.
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#BernieSanders supporters chanting "not for sale" as they march down pennsylvania ave in #baltimore
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The Video that Chelsea Manning says Pushed Her to Upload to Wikileaks
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"Running against [Nancy Pelosi] is easier than it sounds, if only because she does such an effective job of advancing Republican interests." - @ShahidForChange #shahidvspelosi
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"She is being attacked by members of her own party for anti-Semitism that she never expressed; for supposed anti-Jewish prejudice that she never held; and for hatred of Jews that she doesn’t hold and never said" - @PhyllisBennis #IStandWithIlhan
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The Western narrative about Chinese “debt trap diplomacy” is designed to distract from the IMF and World Bank’s own practice of pushing predatory loans with exorbitantly high interest rates onto countries in the Global South. - @catcontentonly
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If you want a stark example of how corporate billionaires and Wall Street greed have wrecked the supply chain (and everything else), look no further than the freight railroads, as @mel_buer wrote in July
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Before the persecution of Julian Assange, before the FBI assassination of Fred Hampton and Malcolm X, before the murder of Martin Luther King, there was the relentless campaign to silence the activist, actor, and singer Paul Robeson.
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A victim of the sex-for-repairs scandal in Baltimore's public housing comes forward to tell her story #MeToo
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“It’s all make believe. It’s John Bolton make believe. It’s Mike Pompeo make believe. And the fact that Donald Trump goes along with it makes him an idiot” - Col. Larry Wilkerson #NoWarWithIran #Iran
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. @ninaturner : #DNC Chooses Not to Be the Party of Everyday People
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WORLD PREMIERE! #TheNinaTurnerShow premieres tomorrow from the #PPLSummit with special guest #BernieSanders Watch @
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According to former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mansoor Adayfi, DeSantis oversaw torture in Guantánamo, approving everything from beatings to forced feedings of hunger-striking detainees. @MikePrysner joins @maximillian_alv to discuss DeSantis' military past.
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It’s been five years since then-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick (in)famously kneeled during the national anthem in protest of the systemic oppression of Black people and people of color in the US.
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Today is the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, when US Army soldiers slaughtered 300 Lakota men, women and children. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, @natphilbrick breaks down the genocidal history of Manifest Destiny
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. @EmpireFiles : on the eve of another US war for oil, @AbbyMartin debunks the most repeated myths about #Venezuela and uncovers US sanctions as crimes against humanity #HandsOffVenezuela #VenezuelaCoup @Alfreddezayas
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A $4.2 billion IMF loan, submission to the US, and vengeance appear to have been President Moreno's true motives for revoking #Assange 's asylum, says @GuillaumeLong #wikileaks #JulianAssange
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A new study shows that Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run was unprecedented in U.S. history: for the first time, a candidate was competitive despite “essentially zero” support from big business. And because of small donations, it can be done again. w/ @aaronjmate
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For those of us watching the Democratic Primary debate this evening here's a handy bingo card to keep track of the red-baiting anti-Bernie language that will surely be used by his opponents.... #Democrats #DemDebate
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"Why is that we have journalist @Greg_Palast raising money to try to sue the state governors to try to get these voter purge lists? I mean, where the hell is the Democratic Party helping out on this?" - @AbbyMartin #Election2018 #VoterSuppresion
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When @maximillian_alv spoke with longtime train dispatcher "Jay," he described in painfully accurate detail why derailments like the ones that happened today are happening more frequently—and how they put all of us at risk for the sake of corporate profits
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When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in 2016, he wasn’t alone. He was carrying on a proud tradition of athletic protest, and his courage has inspired a new generation of athletes who are expanding that tradition today.
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Incarcerated workers at all major prison facilities in Alabama are on strike against poor living conditions, violence from guards, and draconian state parole and sentencing laws. W/ @msainat1
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Recent viral images of Southwest agents getting yelled at demonstrate the deliberate ways corporate “customer service” is set up to not only shield those on the top of the ladder, but pit low-wage workers against each other. @adamjohnsonNYC writes
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"We are calling for an immediate ceasefire, we are calling for an end to US military aid to Israel, & we are calling to lift the siege on Gaza." Tens of thousands participated in the Free Palestine March on Washington today. @maximillian_alv & @jaisalnoor were on the ground…
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The photos above are from the Norfolk Southern train derailment that happened this morning on the famous Rockville Bridge in Marysville, PA. The same day, this Norfolk Southern train derailed in Hanover, West Virginia:
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Over 5 million children are facing starvation and a cholera outbreak is raging in #Yemen , the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, yet the US continues to support the Saudi bombing and destruction of the country, says Rep. @TulsiGabbard #YemenCantWait #YemenGenocide
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"We live in a society where black children are not allowed to be children, and that is something that is bigger than law enforcement. It is about racism that is in the DNA of this country." - @NinaTurner on #TamirRice
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"It is not just that the one tenth of 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%. They don’t put their wealth underneath their mattresses, right. They use that wealth to perpetrate, perpetuate their power. And they do that politically" - @BernieSanders
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Meet the activists fighting Zionism with direct action - @Pal_action , an affinity network with chapters in the US and UK, is waging an international campaign against Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest drone supplier—and they want you to get involved.
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As @KaminkowRon of @railroadworkers told us in May, "If the rail industry’s prime motivation... is delivering wealth on a grand scale to those who already are rich, we really have to start questioning, 'Is this the kind of rail industry that we want?'"
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NEW EPISODE of @EmpireFiles w/ @AbbyMartin : The global expanse of US military bases is well-known; but it's actual territorial empire is largely hidden. The true map of America is not taught in our schools.
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“This is a major escalation — they’re arresting those who defend the arrested,” wrote Atlanta organizer Micah Herskind. “The implications of these arrests is that not only can you not protest, but you cannot defend those who are arrested for protesting."
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Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother, speaks to @ChrisLynnHedges about his new film that pits Assange and his family against the monolithic power of nation states, and the intelligence services that have long sought to silence and crush him
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A group of more than 300 medical professionals warned that extraditing the WikiLeaks founder to the US would make the British government complicit in his “slow-motion execution.”
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. @ninaturner tells host Paul Jay that Democrats & progressives need to stand up & challenge establishment Democrats
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A $4.2 billion IMF loan, submission to the US, and vengeance appear to have been President Moreno's true motives for revoking #Assange 's asylum, says @GuillaumeLong #Ecuador @wikileaks #FreeJulian
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#Assange is in grave danger as a result of many nations seeking to have him silenced and see him imprisoned; UN Special Rapporteur on Torture @NilsMelzer & TRNN’s @marcsteiner discuss #FreeJulian
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The 'Resistance' Forgets George W. Bush is a War Criminal
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The Border Patrol partnered with the Israeli military technology company Elbit Systems to build and maintain monitoring technologies, that could potentially surveil 2/3 of the US population
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As police budgets take up greater and greater shares of municipal spending, cops are spending vast sums of money on media campaigns to improve their image: by @equalityAlec
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"It is not just that the one tenth of 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%. They don’t put their wealth underneath their mattresses, right. They use that wealth to perpetrate, perpetuate their power. And they do that politically" - @BernieSanders
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"[Obama's] job... is to crush social movements, to delegitimize ideas especially ideas that are threatening to the US structure, US imperialism, US capitalism." - @SankofaBrown
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"Most Americans, when they talk about thanking troops for their service, I think they have this idea that we’re defending the country...the fact is that what many of us are doing...we’re terrorizing desperate populations" - Former Marine Lyle Jeremy Rubin
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's lead in the presidential race has been growing steadily, despite receiving attacks from Mexico's entire establishment, explains @JohnMAckerman of @IIJUNAM #AMLO #Mexico
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Actor and activist @Kendrick38 speaking in Baltimore at the @BernieSanders rally:
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@NewsOnPictures @realDonaldTrump We have a new documentary all about the Mercer/Bannon/Trump connection
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On a new Economic Update w/ @profwolff : McDonald’s workers strike in 10 cities against employer’s failure to stop sexual harassment, and an interview with Z and Sean, two leaders of the new @BlackSocialists of America
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"There are millions of Americans who don't give a dam about democracy" - @esglaude speaking with @CornelWest and @ProfTriciaRose #election2020
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In the wake of the attack on Israel and the genocidal response that followed, Fetterman quickly staked out a position that went beyond the normal pro-Isael liberal clichés and into the realm of sadistic glee and indifference toward the suffering of Gazans.
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Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to end the US role in the devastating Saudi war in Yemen, which has created the largest humanitarian catastrophe on the planet: by @BenjaminNorton w/ @codepink & @MarkRuffalo #YemenCrisis
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As one of the many calculated cruelties that define the US prison-industrial complex, the long assault on prisoners’ ability to read books while incarcerated is sinister, inhumane, and must be stopped.
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"My vision is that we have got to have the guts to take on Wall Street, take on the pharmaceutical industry, take on the insurance industry, take on the 1%, create an economy that works for all" - Sen. @BernieSanders
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"When George Bush died last week it was depressing to see the encomiums thrown at him, as if he were some kind of great hero. I mean, we’ve really gone to the right in America. Ever since Reagan it’s gotten worse and worse and worse" - @TheOliverStone
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Over 1,100 union coal miners in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on an unfair labor practices strike against Warrior Met Coal for over five months. And for five months, the mainstream media has barely made a peep about the strike.
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Just like in the dark days after 9/11, corporate media have responded to the war in Ukraine with a craven ‘bloodlust’ that is making all of us less safe. W/ @AbbyMartin of @EmpireFiles
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When @SMaurizi first received a call from @wikileaks she had little clue how drastically her life was about to change. 14 years later the revelations from WikiLeaks about the extent of US surveillance, espionage and corruption have rippled across the world
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"Every obstacle has been put in the way of Assange getting a fair hearing. And I can only repeat, this is a publisher and a journalist convicted of nothing, charged with nothing in Britain, whose only crime is journalism" - John Pilger #FreeAssange
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In May, roughly 2.7 million hectares of forest — an area equal to about five million football fields — were burned to the ground in Canada…Over the last 10 years, the average number of hectares burned in the same month was just 150,000.
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"Every obstacle has been put in the way of Assange getting a fair hearing. And I can only repeat, this is a publisher and a journalist convicted of nothing, charged with nothing in Britain, whose only crime is journalism" - John Pilger #FreeAssange
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"I implore you to listen to any railroader out there. Talk to us, even just for a few minutes. You’ll see who the real villains in this story are, and you’ll understand why we were, and are still, prepared to strike." #Railroadstrike
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“[Assange's] prosecution, would set a dangerous precedent that could be applied to any media outlet that published stories based on leaked information, or indeed any journalist, publisher, or source anywhere in the world. “
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