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[Jenny Jinx 🍉 ™®©° @Jennyjinx]

An old white Southern lady who loves to drink butter through a straw is a racist? Huh. I can't say I'm terribly shocked.

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

@ggreenwald RE: info. the NSA analyst uses to make this determination: incl. IP addresses <= Americans w/ VPN & Tor often use foreign IPs

[@mikko @mikko]

In a TIME Magazine poll, 54% of Americans said Edward Snowden did a good thing by leaking the documents.

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

So few truth-tellers out there. What a huge loss for America. RIP @mmhastings

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

@edbott Apple would love to bury the NSA story as much as the Obama Admin.

[ACLU @ACLU]

ACLU files motion w/ #FISA Court to release secret opinions ordering handover of Americans’ phone records to #NSA http://t.co/MIBYjsuoVc

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

If that is not an admission of intentional over-classification, then what is?

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

Leaks threatened Americans? => Obama Admin. declassified Snowden's leaked info w/in 24/48hrs of its release http://t.co/BcewvSQieB @mediaite

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

If only Bush had heeded CIA warnings of OBL's imminent attack, we wouldn't find our freedoms/democracy threatened now http://t.co/Kmx46Suio1

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

@Goat_Boy_05 There is little if anything that Obama could do that Andrew Sullivan @sullydish wouldn't try and defend.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

Daniel Ellsberg: "The machinery of our democratic government has entirely broken down." http://t.co/2lmsKVW7bf

[Yahoo News @YahooNews]

NSA surveillance program leak was more significant than the Pentagon Papers in 1971, says Daniel Ellsberg http://t.co/CyUltj4ADX

[Julian Sanchez @normative]

Inventor of the Web calls NSA spying an "intrusion on basic human rights" & threat to foundations of democracy. http://t.co/CsZVUY3MjL

[AlterPolitics @AlterPolitics]

Andrew Sullivan tries to rationalize the move towards authoritarianism: http://t.co/bpAc86BU3l via @sullydish

[Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis]

http://t.co/dWkgjNa7qK RT @ggreenwald: Live on NPR now, for the next hour with Tom Ashbrook.

[Signal @signalapp]

There has been a tremendous increase in new Open Whisper Systems installs over the past two days. Welcome to an untapped phone, new users!

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

#1: But the NSA isn't listening to your phone calls!
#2: And we know this because?
#1: The NSA says so.

[Morning Joe @Morning_Joe]

.@ggreenwald says 'rampant abuse' needs sunlight and that is why Snowden came forward. Our interview: http://t.co/dgNztb5wiL #morningjoe