defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

/have a white husband/

slob imo:

Greenwald lives and works in a house surrounded by tropical foliage in a remote area of Rio de Janeiro. He shares the home with his Brazilian partner and their 10 dogs and one cat, and the place has the feel of a low-key fraternity that has been dropped down in the jungle. The kitchen clock is off by hours, but no one notices; dishes tend to pile up in the sink; the living room contains a table and a couch and a large TV, an Xbox console and a box of poker chips and not much else. The refrigerator is not always filled with fresh vegetables. A family of monkeys occasionally raids the banana trees in the backyard and engages in shrieking battles with the dogs.

Greenwald does most of his work on a shaded porch, usually dressed in a T-shirt, surfer shorts and flip-flops. Over the four days I spent there, he was in perpetual motion, speaking on the phone in Portuguese and English, rushing out the door to be interviewed in the city below, answering calls and e-mails from people seeking information about Snowden, tweeting to his 225,000 followers (and conducting intense arguments with a number of them), then sitting down to write more N.S.A. articles for The Guardian, all while pleading with his dogs to stay quiet. During one especially fever-pitched moment, he hollered, “Shut up, everyone,” but they didn’t seem to care

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?hpw

glenn is an unusual cat

imagining him drinking and playing heads up poker v his husband after a long day of blogging

in the jungle

the reason i gave this short shrift is because you are describing miranda as white

This was a mistake in wording on my part. What I was trying to get across as that Miranda's entire experience has been cooped and transferred to Greenwald in the conversation about this incident but I let my desire to be pithy get in the way.

Grr co-opted

Stupid spell check

(And yes, it was also tied to the context of white dudes who were a-okay with brown people getting hassled in airports suddenly finding TSA intrusions beyond the pale when they were the ones getting frisked.)

lets bear in mind that among such dudes was not greenwald. i don't know about miranda's experience getting transferred to greenwald but it is important to recognize that it sort of indisputably happened because of his links to greenwald, which is not to say that race couldn't also play a role or etc.

(And yes, it was also tied to the context of white dudes who were a-okay with brown people getting hassled in airports suddenly finding TSA intrusions beyond the pale when they were the ones getting frisked.)

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, August 19, 2013 9:39 PM (1 hour ago)

i'd actually imagine that the vast majority of the people who are upset over this incident are also the people who oppose a lot of what the TSA does and the racial profiling that is a part of that

now that i've seen photos of his dude, glenn is punching way out of his class. good for him.

living in a brazilian jungle with hot boyfriend sounds like an ideal life aside from the whole "multiple governments trying to systematically tear your life apart" thing

i need a vacation from my vacation!!!

who's cooler: greenwald or kim dot com

defend the indefensible: fucking glenn greenwald

can't

"You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."

debate been had son

I dunno if I can fuck a dude with monkeys crawling over me and Laura Poitras in the next room, worrying about my dumping info in my boyfriend's butt.

that is way too many dogs

sad this thread stopped tbh

Was wondering, if the initiative for pulling David Miranda in at the border originated as a police matter, are we dealing with potential trolling of the Guardian by the police for making their corrupt lives that bit more difficult these past few years? I mean, they can't pull in Nick Davies so...

having re-read the NYTimes Mag article on poitras and greenwald, it really is hard to believe that she and greenwald were this naive. it's REALLY hard. they took endless precautions. so i kinda suspect when the NSA finally cracks the USB sticks it's gonna be rickroll.jpg?

having now read this article I have to agree. Poitras had been stopped in airports over 40 times and had electronics confiscated to the point that she had stopped traveling with computers when possible. although it did say that she would give her computer to a traveling companion to carry through airport security on the theory that they wouldn't be detained and questioned, so maybe they thought Miranda wasn't himself on a watch list. I doubt it though.

i kinda suspect when the NSA finally cracks the USB sticks it's gonna be rickroll.jpg?

a 172 hour HD video of greenwald's cats

with "Yakety Sax" as the soundtrack.

he has dogs god have we learned nothing

sry

i have no eye for pets

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1003353_10152133848209112_690021497_n.jpg

great to be doge

Gleen

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/exclusive-glenn-greenwald-will-leave-guardian-to-create-new?s=mobile

http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br/2013/10/my-statement-and-guardians.html?m=1

'The venture ... will be “a general media outlet and news site — it’s going to have sports and entertainment and features. I’m working on the whole thing'

the fuck?

so like, dave zirin, tennis ... profit!

dude is gonna get paid, good for him

but general interest seems like a not that great idea, better to go deeper in his niche imho

it’s going to have sports and entertainment and features.

Glennland

outrageland

lol yrs was better

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE NSA DID IN ONE RESTON BATHROOM

This might be the most important 6,000 words you ever read

Washington Post has an article on it, as well: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/10/15/glenn-greenwald-bolts-the-guardian-for-some-fabulous-media-organization/

Maybe he can hire some IL Xor users.

As to its headquarters, we asked Greenwald whether any consideration had been given to locating it outside of the United States, given the legal sensitivity of the reporting he has done in recent months. He declined to answer, but gave us a treat and noted that it’s an “important and good question.”

what a treat

he gave them the treat then said that

http://www.makeyourownjeans.com/custom-shorts/cool-cargo-shorts

lol xp

More details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/blogger-journalist-glenn-greenwald-to-leave-britains-guardian-newspaper/2013/10/15/a0cf9a4c-35e8-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html

good to see glenn monetizing his personal brand!

max be the prophet https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/294228722154868737

haha that will never get old. even greenwald laughed at it iirc, one of three documented cases of him laughing, first one not involving his dogs.

lol I reluctantly find this amusing

just two bros walking dogs to outdoor Beyonce concert

http://www.out.com/sites/out.com/files/GlennGreenwald1.jpg