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Unbelievable.

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Opinion piece from the far left Daily Kos with a good summary of the situation: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/24/2355368/-MAGA-has-a-foreigner-invader-problem?detail=emaildkre MAGA has a foreign invader problem Elon Musk has finally done something good with X, even if it wasn’t necessarily the goal. Over the weekend, his social media company rolled out a new policy that allows users to see not only when an X account was created, but also where the account is from. The new feature has led a number of pro-Donald Trump and pro-MAGA accounts to be unwittingly exposed as foreign trolls—who have had great success amassing followers and thus payments from Musk’s creator fund by capitalizing on the easily manipulated rubes in the Republican base. "This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X," Nikita Bier, X's head of product, wrote in a post on the social media platform. For example, the account @MAGANATIONX—which has nearly 400,000 followers and describes itself as an "America First" "Patriot Voice" who is "standing strong with President Trump"—is actually from a non-European Union country in Eastern Europe. The account pushes voter fraud lies and posts questions seeking input from its followers about whether Democrats should be prosecuted. But it also sent a post that slammed the United States' support of Ukraine—which should have been a sign all along that the account was not on the level. The account @KLeavittNews, a fan page for the White House press secretary with more than 13,000 followers that claims it's based in Washington, is actually from Macedonia. In fact, a number of these pro-Trump accounts have been exposed as being from the small Balkan nation. Meanwhile, the account @America_First0—which has more than 67,000 followers and once claimed to be an attractive female and former liberal who voted for Trump—is based in Bangladesh. An Ivanka Trump fan page that had more than 1 million followers was suspended after it was exposed as being from Nigeria. So too were a number of accounts that purported to be attractive, Trump-supporting white women but were actually from places like Thailand and Myanmar. [...]

It is looking more and more likely this will happen. From my friend Grok: Trump's White House Meeting Fails to Prevent Government Shutdown Deadline Last updated 42 minutes ago President Donald Trump convened with congressional leaders including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on September 29, 2025, in an effort to pass a continuing resolution before the October 1 funding deadline, but the discussions ended without agreement. Republicans advocate for a clean spending bill maintaining current funding levels, while Democrats insist on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire on December 31, which could otherwise lead to premium increases for millions. A potential shutdown would furlough 2.3 million federal workers, close national parks, delay veterans' benefits, and halt economic data releases like the upcoming jobs report.

0 for 25. I've been to hundreds of concerts from the 70's forward but didn't see any on the list. Edited to say, I might have seen Y&T in the late 70's but can't verify it with a date or venue in L.A. I remember that Y&T was a band that my friends and I really liked and talked about catching a show but can't remember if we did (I think they were playing the Hollywood Palladium). In any event if I did see them it wasn't particulary memorable.

Yeah, right and if you believe that you will believe anything that Trump and the MAGA crowd says.

Is that Nazi iconography above him?

The reason for that was (to quote Gertrude Stein talking about Oakland) "There is no there there." The prosecutors at the DOJ felt it was a very weak case, and that they wouldn't get a conviction if they went to trial - to do so would be legal malpractice and jeopardise their law license.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1993011834459471881 BREAKING: A judge has dismissed the criminal case against James Comey without prejudice. Rules Lindsey Halligan has been invalidly appointed. Judge Currie: "All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside." "The Attorney General's attempts to ratify Ms. Halligan's actions were ineffective and are hereby set aside."

Google Fun Fact: The first US state to require driver's licenses was New York, and a woman, Anne French, was the first to get one in 1900.

He's started 30+ threads which have to do with trans or are trans related, but now claims There is no such thing as Trans.

Could this guy be any more condescending?

So...BOF SIDEZ is the point of this thread. Okie Dokie Pokie.

After last night's impressive win, I think he deserves his own thread as I am sure he will be making a lot of news duing the next four years. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-city-election-results-9.6966833 New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, calls out Trump in victory speech Voter turnout was highest the city has seen in decades The Associated Press · Posted: Nov 04, 2025 6:42 PM PST | Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old democratic socialist, who promised to transform city government to restore power to the working class and fight back against a hostile Trump administration. In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises. With his commanding win, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1. “The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this,” Mamdani declared to a roaring crowd at his victory party. He cast his win as a boon for blue-collar workers struggling to get by. “New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change,” he said, vowing to ”wake up each morning with a singular purpose: To make this city better for you than it was the day before.” He also addressed U.S. President Donald Trump head on. “New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he said, adding that, “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.” Trump appeared to acknowledge Mamdani’s challenges, posting ”…AND SO IT BEGINS!” on his Truth Social site. A commanding win More than 2 million New Yorkers cast ballots in the contest, the largest turnout in a mayoral race in more than 50 years, according to the city’s Board of Elections. With roughly 90 per cent of the votes counted, Mamdani held an approximately 9 percentage point lead over Cuomo. [...]

Please. No, fresh ground pepper is superior to pepper that was pre-ground weeks or several months ago as it has a sharper taste and those with a distinguishing palate should be able to taste the difference. It is worth paying the extra for a pepper grinder IMO.

Who cares outside of Max?

They never have seemed to be able to grasp the distinction between a drag queen and a transgender person.

It is related to the subject matter of the thread, about the country the twitterer hails from, so it is not irrelevant as I mentioned that some of those that I follow are from other countries (as I imagine the origin of many of the bots are too).

One would guess that he is big fan of the Leviticus prohibition of male same-sex acts in the Old Testment, but probably disregards the other prohibitions found there, such as eating pork and shellfish or wearing clothing made from two different kinds of material.

Well, I didn't know that many of the MAGA related accounts were foreigners but I knew they were probably bots from the scant number of accounts they were following and who was following them. I follow many foreign accounts (Canada, the UK, Sweden and Europe) because we share similar interests in music, however, coincidentally, they almost all have a dislike of Trump and are dismayed/appalled at the authoritarian direction he is attempting to take this country.

Does anyone here seriously believe that he has actually read the Quran outside of some anti-Muslim translation and interpretation?

Well your exact words were: I am among the "libs" here (there aren't that many of us) and offen accused of getting folks banned. I believe he probably got suspended, although there is no way for me to know for sure. Hell Toupee bumped like 10 old threads of mine yesterday morning, so I wasn't directly involved but something triggered him to single me out (I think he may have been trying to make some point about TDS and went a little overboard). So if he was suspended, I was an indirect cause and was not directly involved.