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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Feb 2017
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    Speak not because it is safe, but because it is right.

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  2. Jun 28

    "According to the secret court that reviews surveillance... it didn’t matter whether the government was looking for the records of 300 million people or just one. But after Friday... the government may have to rethink mass surveillance altogether."

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  3. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    Secret documents show how AT&T is helping the NSA spy on a massive scale. The company needs to make clear to the public how it responds to government requests for surveillance assistance.

    At the AT&T facility in New York City, the NSA appears to primarily collect emails, online chats, and data from internet browsing sessions.
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    Jun 28

    This is tragic & untenable - and adds to numbers that are already bad. 13 journalists have been physically attacked in US in 2018, and 45 were physically attacked in US in 2017, per , which documents press-freedom violations nationwide.

    Safety of journalists is precondition of democracy and the meaningful exercise of press rights. Violence against journalists is not only tragic & intolerable but offensive to promise of an enlightened public. Journalists must be able to work w/o fear of violence.
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  5. Jun 28

    To fight words with weapons is more than violence, it is a crime against the Constitution. Those who justify such attacks are no patriots.

    We are currently looking into reports that journalists have been shot in the Capital-Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland.
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  6. Jun 26

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    Jun 25

    .lightbringer. |

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    The Espionage Act, passed in 1917, was originally intended to be used against foreign spies who stole sensitive military information. But almost immediately, it was used to prosecute anti-war protesters. Later, it was used against whistleblowers.

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  9. Jun 26

    The war on whistleblowers continues under a new White House: the first journalistic source prosecuted under Trump, Reality Winner, was denied a defense, jailed over 5 years. Her "crime"? Showing us suspected Russia of hacking an election vendor.

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    Jun 26

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  11. Jun 26

    TL;DR on the decision: The President can abuse the "national security" exception, and even openly says they are abusing it, so long as the actual written order pretends it is not abusing it. Even if you're pro-Trump, you should worry where this precedent leads.

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  12. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    The NSA values AT&T not only because it “has access to information that transits the nation,” but also because it maintains unique relationships with other phone and internet providers, according to the NSA’s documents.

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    Jun 25

    Important context as AT&T begins building out its targeted ad biz: “The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.””

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  14. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    AT&T engineers have long been suspicious about the facilities, particularly given certain routing orders from above. "We thought the government was listening," said one.

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    New Snowden leak: The NSA is operating hidden spy hubs inside AT&T facilities in 8 U.S. cities

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  16. Jun 25

    This thread has some great behind-the-scenes details about how a couple reporters just managed to confirm a story people have been trying to nail since 2005: how and where and are tapping into America's internet communications.

    This new piece by and I has been underway for a long time. I I'm immensely happy to share it with you:
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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    It doesn't complicate things at all. It's an outrage the Justice Dept would secretly access a journalist's email and phone records. Full stop.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    And now we know.

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    Jun 25

    “It’s eye-opening & ominous the extent to which this is happening right here on American soil,” said the Brennan Center's . “It puts a face on surveillance that we could never think of before in terms of actual buildings...in our own cities, in our own backyards.”

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    The buildings are in: Atlanta Chicago Dallas LA NYC San Francisco Seattle DC

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    Jun 25

    The NSA monitors what it calls "peering circuits" inside the eight buildings, which one former AT&T technician said "are liable to carry everybody’s [internet] traffic at one point or another during the day, or the week, or the year.”

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