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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

And his promise to hold the phone companies to account for their complicity in the NSA's mass domestic surveillance: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... He stepped up secret drone warfare: www.cfr.org/articles/oba... And unconstitutional domestic surveillance: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Whenever I raise this, Obama's apologists come out of the woodwork to tell me that "the president isn't the Green Lantern," and that Obama couldn't act without help from Congress and the Senate, who wouldn't back his plays.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

I think that Trump's presidency has shown us how much power the president really has even when the legislature won't play ball.

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