Status Updates From Permanent Record

“I still struggle to accept the sheer magnitude and speed of the change, from an America that sought to define itself by a calculated and performative respect for dissent to a security state whose militarized police demand obedience, drawing their guns and issuing the order for total submission now heard in every city: Stop resisting.”

i feel like i'm learning a lot about the 90s internet but ngl i don't really care that much about snowden's personal life