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Yesterday Apple, Netflix, and Kanye West dominated our news cycle, so what’s in store for today? Liz Lopatto explains why we’re keeping an eye on Twitter and Elon Musk to see if the deal closes, and this afternoon Tesla will issue its latest quarterly earnings report.

Before that arrives, however, the latest feature story in our Homeland series is going out today, so stay tuned for that.

Just as 9/11 gave the US government cover to start two wars abroad, it became the justification to permanently undermine the civil rights of its people — an undermining of civil freedoms disguised as a big knee-jerk reaction.

The Verge’s “Homeland” project is a series of stories about surveillance, immigration, and technology that attempt to unmask the policies that have shaped the US in the 20 years since.

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