Edward Snowden

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

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1Dec 19, '22I take payment in Bitcoin.17.9×13.8M102k8.8k411
2Dec 25, '22He 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 acti16.7×12.9M134k16k2.8k
3Jan 29, '23View post on X15.9×12.2M147k34k1.9k
4Jan 2, '23Free Julian Assange.13.5×10.4M153k30k352
5Jan 28, '23You 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 clean13.4×10.4M165k28k1.9k
6Feb 13, '23it'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 b12.8×9.9M145k30k1.9k
7Feb 9, '23The 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.12.1×9.4M111k28k2.5k
8Sep 17, '24What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in th12×9.3M81k23k5.1k
9Sep 17, '24As information comes in about the exploding beepers in Lebanon, it seems now more likely than not to be implanted explosives, not a hack. Why? Too many consistent, very serious inj11.7×9M43k7.5k3.1k
10Sep 17, '24If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Not10.5×8.1M132k33k5.5k
11Dec 20, '22The 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 $1,700,000,0010.5×8.1M102k22k685
12Dec 25, '22Can 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 9.4×7.3M44k2.9k587
13Jan 11, '23Worth 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 on9.0×6.9M43k7.4k340
14Mar 21, '24Everyone 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 woun8.7×6.8M87k43k8.3k
15Sep 15, '24We know little so far, but w alleged Trump shooter's personal and public participation in military activity in Ukraine, it is hard to imagine this White House's agencies can claim 6.6×5.1M72k20k5.5k
16Jun 14, '24They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a w6.5×5.1M69k24k8.5k
17Jan 13, '23Man, I should have thought of that one.6.5×5.1M56k7.9k405
18Nov 7, '22The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.5.6×0127k52k25k
19Jan 31, '25It's quite simple, Senator: if you're more upset at the whistleblower than you are at the lawbreaking they revealed, you're not in a position to be questioning anybody's judgment.5.6×4.3M144k22k2.9k
20Oct 7, '23Netanyahu 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 s5.5×4.2M44k13k2.8k
21Aug 25, '24First they came for Tiktok, and I did not speak out— Because I was not twelve years old. Then they came for the Telegram, and I did not speak out— Because I was using some other ap5.2×4M84k22k3.6k
22Aug 25, '24The arrest of @Durov is an assault on the basic human rights of speech and association. I am surprised and deeply saddened that Macron has descended to the level of taking hostages5.2×4M88k24k2.6k
23Feb 16, '23Everything Going Great5.1×4M41k5.4k362
24Jan 18, '23Julian Assange is a political prisoner.5.0×3.8M66k12k145
25Jan 28, '22Nobody has stronger opinions about Joe Rogan than people who have never listened to Joe Rogan.4.9×0196k26k1.1k
26Feb 18, '24Unpopular 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 yo4.9×3.8M46k9.8k2.7k
27Sep 29, '15Can you hear me now?4.7×087k77k22
28Aug 31, '24The tides of Brasil's VPNs are about to teach King Canute a very important lesson.4.6×3.6M45k5.4k1k
29Nov 7, '23the masculine urge to complain about the cost of living from your gold chair while wearing meemaw's snow-leopard snuggie and egg-sized diamond hat4.5×3.5M41k8k928
30Sep 1, '24Behold, dear reader, what the New York Times describes as "the politics of joy."4.4×3.4M56k17k3k
31Feb 28, '24Prediction: 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.4.3×3.4M41k8k2.6k
32Jan 13, '24No 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 Gaza4.3×3.4M51k20k1.7k
33Dec 3, '20Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life. @realDonaldTrump4.0×0138k29k461
34Apr 10, '18And they call me a criminal.4.0×0111k48k184
35Sep 2, '20Seven 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 as3.8×0129k33k1k
36Oct 4, '21Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place. #facebookdown3.8×0140k26k587
37Jun 1, '24Julian Assange is locked in a dungeon as a political prisoner for the "crime" of publishing award-winning stories nearly fifteen years ago, and yet there are people on here claimin3.6×2.8M52k14k1.5k
38Dec 15, '20When 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 unconstitutional3.6×0123k25k2.3k
39Sep 18, '24Looking at the reaction to Israel's Unabomber-style booby trap campaign from people who actually live in the region, it has created a hundred times more enemies than Hezbollah coul3.3×2.6M55k11k2.2k
40Jul 4, '24darkly amusing to watch panicked dems suddenly searching under the couch cushions for a candidate when kennedy is literally standing right there3.3×2.6M41k5.1k835
41Jun 1, '21I've been working from home since the Obama administration. 🤔3.1×0133k12k444
43Nov 7, '23Julian Assange is a political prisoner, and the sole reason he remains a political prisoner is because the White House remains afraid of his voice.2.9×2.2M50k13k575
44Jan 20, '21I would rather be without a state than without a voice.2.8×0115k15k413
45Dec 1, '22turns out kanye is not gonna be president2.8×0128k6.5k504
46Feb 11, '22There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.2.7×093k19k472
47Oct 27, '22sure 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 blink2.7×0106k13k1.8k
48Aug 6, '21View post on X2.6×0103k16k1.4k
49Jan 30, '25Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers as a condition of confirmation today. I encourage her to do so. Tell them I harmed national security a2.6×2M45k7.8k2k
50Jan 30, '25The Senate Intel Committee spent nearly the entirety of its session today furiously demanding that DNI nominee Gabbard condemn me personally, a position now opposed by something li2.5×1.9M54k11k1.2k
51Jun 29, '22The 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 pe2.4×085k18k1.1k
52May 9, '17This FBI Director has sought for years to jail me on account of my political activities. If I can oppose his firing, so can you.2.3×055k32k4
53Jul 18, '21Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: )2.3×060k25k3.3k
54Feb 14, '22Coinbase 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.2.3×097k9.2k663
55Mar 31, '24"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 20.2.2×1.7M39k9.8k2.4k
56Oct 16, '22After 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 sil2.1×062k20k3.7k
57Jun 20, '22Julian Assange is a political prisoner.2.1×070k18k299
58Mar 17, '18Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" i2.1×053k26k277
59Aug 16, '20View post on X2.0×068k18k801
60Dec 4, '22Assange & 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 pu2.0×077k13k744
61Jun 23, '16No matter the outcome, #Brexit polls demonstrate how quickly half of any population can be convinced to vote against itself. Quite a lesson.2.0×039k31k2
62Apr 11, '19Images 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 en2.0×042k25k326
63Apr 30, '24okay so the plan is to force everybody to plow their entire life's earnings into real estate but then nobody can afford to have kids so when the boomers disappear like the elves wi1.9×1.5M40k6.5k2.2k
64May 18, '18Note: 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 1.9×038k27k365
65Jul 27, '19Watch 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 ballo1.8×036k21k1.9k
66Dec 2, '22I'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, a1.8×070k9.5k1.3k
67Nov 15, '22It begins.1.8×055k16k1.3k
68Dec 10, '22Let 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, p1.7×062k11k469
69Jan 7, '21Facebook 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.1.6×048k14k665
70Oct 2, '19I 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 1.6×060k10k279
71Nov 26, '20I 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 ma1.6×065k7.6k192
72Sep 7, '21"Why Aren't Millennials Buying New Homes?" truly a mystery 🤔1.6×057k10k1.5k
73Oct 15, '17Don't stay safe. Stay free.1.5×044k17k36
74Jan 19, '22Beware those who water the gardens of hatred and war.1.5×056k9.7k424
75Oct 29, '21Facebook 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.1.5×057k9.4k258
76Dec 16, '20One word: Bitcoin.1.5×056k7.5k333
77Jun 11, '22Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet.1.4×053k7.2k598
78Sep 26, '19gee i wonder1.4×056k9k158
79Oct 4, '21Facebook-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-s1.4×046k12k615
80Oct 4, '21Facebook, 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 a1.4×053k9.9k349
81Oct 29, '22Vote na esperança. Vote na história. Vote no futuro.1.4×059k6.4k172
82Feb 16, '22Got some bad news, Jimbo.1.4×060k6.2k236
83Oct 22, '21Sometimes 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 p1.4×053k8.1k788
84Nov 14, '21triggered1.3×057k5k463
85Nov 24, '22I'm thankful for the Internet. One day it will be free and open, edge to edge.1.3×053k5.5k198
86Oct 31, '22View post on X1.3×042k8.2k3.8k
87Oct 26, '22You 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 podi1.3×041k11k441
88Oct 2, '22Lula.1.3×049k5.9k194
89Dec 5, '22That is a very big number.1.2×054k4.1k229
90May 19, '20If 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.1.2×041k11k335
91Dec 4, '22One, 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, regardl1.2×045k7.3k412
92Dec 4, '22You 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 archive1.2×051k4.7k420
93Nov 4, '21Imagine 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 1.2×039k10k462
94Oct 21, '21دیوار موش داره و موش گوش داره1.2×042k4.4k599
95May 28, '21Six trillion dollars? This is good for Bitcoin.1.1×044k6.4k240
96Nov 4, '22View post on X1.1×039k6.5k642
97Oct 19, '19Crowd looks bigger than some inaugurations.1.0×041k5k108
98Oct 22, '19Whoa.1.0×040k5.4k144
99Oct 29, '22ok sure but hear me out: auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username1.0×041k2.8k276
100Oct 28, '20You made me believe in happy endings. I love you, darlin.0.9×040k1.8k202

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