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Aaron Parnas: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
… A new transparency feature on Twitter is revealing that many loud, “patriotic” voices in the MAGA ecosystem aren’t actually located in the United States at all. Instead, a surprising number are operating from places like Russia, Nigeria, India, Thailand, and other countries.
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The tool, called “about this account,” became available to users on Friday. It shows key information about any profile, including where the account is based, when it was created, how often its username has changed, and how the X app was originally downloaded. Within hours of its launch, users began uncovering major right-wing accounts that appear to have misrepresented their origins.
I have reviewed dozens of accounts, and it confirmed long-held suspicions that some of the most aggressive MAGA voices were actually foreign-run. The tool has now exposed that many of the accounts pushing some of the most prominent MAGA propaganda are actually simply foreign actors. As a result, what you have is an ecosystem on Twitter where Republican politicians in the United States, including the President of the United States, are unknowingly sharing foreign propaganda.
(Aaron Parnas more…)
Verge: About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem
X confirms what we already knew: That many of the loudest MAGA accounts aren’t actually American.
Jess Piper: Let the Bots Squeal
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Intercept: The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 23, 2025
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But as scholar of strategic studies Phillips P. OBrien noted in Phillips’s Newsletter, once it became widely known that the plan was written by the Russians, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to back away from it, posting on social media on Wednesday that “[e]nding a complex and deadly war such as the one in Ukraine requires an extensive exchange of serious and realistic ideas. And achieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions. That is why we are and will continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input from both sides of this conflict.”And yet, by Friday, Trump said he expected Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to sign onto the plan by Thanksgiving: next Thursday, November 27. Former senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said: “Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Verge: DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
The race to succeed Musk ended with Reuters being told the agency “doesn’t exist.”
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Allison Gill: More Evidence Submitted to Dismiss the Charges Against Kilmar Abrego
Friday night, we learned that the DOJ lied about the door being closed to Costa Rica. Mr. Abrego’s lawyers feel that’s enough to immediately dismiss on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds.
…In a statement to the Washington Post, Costa Rican Minister of Public Security Mario Zamora Cordero reiterated that his country would receive Mr. Abrego “under humanitarian conditions that guarantee the full respect for his rights and liberties” and “[t]hat position that we have expressed in the past remains valid and unchanged to this day.”
(Allison Gill more…)
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LAWdork: Multiple judges call out DOJ’s methods of defending its invasive trans care subpoenas
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: COVID & Health News, 11/23/25
Your Local Epidemiologist: Thanksgiving guide to viruses, family conversations, and public health updates
Borowitz: Trump Refuses to Pardon Turkey After it Fails to Bribe Him
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