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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Airwars has taken over the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's project of tracking US airstrikes (including drone warfare) in Yemen.

Obama (2013-2017): 138 airstrikes

Trump (2017-present): 230 airstrikes

Obama laid the foundation, Trump greatly expanded on it. Image
Airwars tallied 194 "non-combatant" deaths from actions under Trump.

At least 86 civilians dead - 28 children, 13 women.

Twenty-three killed by CIA or clandestine actions Image
In March 2019, Trump rolled back the requirement to report civilian deaths from US drone strikes or other actions.

The Pentagon declined to reveal how many strikes it conducted in Yemen during 2019.
I wrote in 2016, "Trump will be judge, jury, and executioner, but it should not be all that much different from what Obama did as president."

In fact, Trump's intervention in Yemen began like Obama's intervention—with "disastrous attack that led to significant civilian harm." Image

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30 Oct
When Glenn Greenwald announced resignation from The Intercept, he mentioned one of episodes contributing to decision involved refusal to "report on daily proceedings of Assange extradition hearing because freelance reporter doing an outstanding job was politically distasteful." Image
At this moment, I do not know if this is me (though I emailed and sent DMs asking Glenn to clarify).

I did ask Glenn multiple times over the past year if The Intercept needed a reporter to cover Julian Assange's case and if they were willing to hire or collaborate with me.
This was a private exchange, but it has become a public issue with Glenn's resignation. So I will add some details. Hopefully, Glenn will confirm at some point who this "freelance reporter" was that individuals at the Intercept found to be "politically distasteful."
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on why New York Post has been locked out of Twitter account for two weeks.

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Dorsey: "...And they can tweet the exact same material to the exact same article and it would go through"

But original enforcement against New York Post was deemed excessive and what was initially shared would be permissible now.

So wildly incoherent and absurd.
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It’s the final day of witness testimony in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition trial.

Court starts soon, and I'll have live updates on Day 18 in this thread. #AssangeTrial
Yesterday, court heard from two former UC Global employees who were involved in US intelligence-backed espionage operation against Assange.

Witness #2 described how security company's director wanted to bug every room in Ecuador embassy. dissenter.substack.com/p/uc-global-em… #AssangeTrial
Announcement: @jlpassarelli and I will be hosting independent media roundtable discussion about #AssangeTrial on 3 October at 8am EST/1pm BST/10pm AEST.

We've assembled eight journalists, including ourselves, to address revelations from proceedings.
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I'll have live updates on Day 17 in this thread. #AssangeTrial
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It’s the final week of witness testimony in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition trial.

Court starts soon, and I'll have live updates on Day 16 in this thread. #AssangeTrial
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Yesterday, Judge Baraitser heard testimony from defense witnesses that exposed this as a terrible lie.

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Court starts soon, and I'll have live updates in this thread. #AssangeTrial
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