Molly McKew
@mollymckew.bsky.social
Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
I mean at this point — knowing how long and how deep this effort was, leveraging massive networks of fake accounts — the real question is:
How much of MAGA was ever a native idea versus a coercive influence op preying on bias and weakness?
How much of MAGA was ever a native idea versus a coercive influence op preying on bias and weakness?
A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I mean at this point — knowing how long and how deep this effort was, leveraging massive networks of fake accounts — the real question is:
How much of MAGA was ever a native idea versus a coercive influence op preying on bias and weakness?
How much of MAGA was ever a native idea versus a coercive influence op preying on bias and weakness?
Yeah basically it’s: “Keep sudentenland and send us a cut of the stuff you stole from the people being sent to the camps”
Tom Friedman’s piece in the NYT today again brings up the specter of Neville Chamberlain in ‘39. I disagree.
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
A better analogy is saying to Hitler: “keep the Sudetenland, don’t worry about the Holocaust, & we’ll give you a few years to rearm to attack into Belgium again. Let’s sign that!”
@nicollewallace.bsky.social @mcfaulmike.bsky.social @benrhodes.bsky.social @markhertling.bsky.social have we lost all ability to put oneself in someone else’s shoes? If not, then why is this hard? We’d never consider a proposal like the one we/Putin (gross) offered Ukraine
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yeah basically it’s: “Keep sudentenland and send us a cut of the stuff you stole from the people being sent to the camps”
“The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley who have helped build, invest in, or cheerlead for these companies have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word.”
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley who have helped build, invest in, or cheerlead for these companies have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word.”
Made some bacon fat scones with toasted walnuts and herb goat cheese and they are a g*****n delight
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Made some bacon fat scones with toasted walnuts and herb goat cheese and they are a g*****n delight
We did all this work and then decided, nah, we’ll just stick the fork back in our brains because liberty!
Get off twitter.
Get off twitter.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
We did all this work and then decided, nah, we’ll just stick the fork back in our brains because liberty!
Get off twitter.
Get off twitter.
I know it is now very controversial to say “go read the senate reports on Russian election interference” — but — go read the reports!
For sh*ts and giggles, break out the Mueller report too!
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
For sh*ts and giggles, break out the Mueller report too!
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
www.intelligence.senate.gov
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I know it is now very controversial to say “go read the senate reports on Russian election interference” — but — go read the reports!
For sh*ts and giggles, break out the Mueller report too!
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
For sh*ts and giggles, break out the Mueller report too!
www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...
A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A reminder that this pattern of activity including the stupid handles and bio lines and emojis was catalogued in the Senate reports on Russia’s election interference in 2016 — a thing which actually happened!
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Pretend Americans 🦅🇺🇸⭐️2A has been the game all along
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
The current European counter proposal on Ukraine:
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The current European counter proposal on Ukraine:
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The current European counter proposal on Ukraine:
The dud hand of starburst
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The dud hand of starburst
Russia is not winning the war in Ukraine, and — as the aggressor — should not be treated as a victor at the negotiating table
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Russia is not winning the war in Ukraine, and — as the aggressor — should not be treated as a victor at the negotiating table
Reposted by Molly McKew
Russia is not winning its war in Ukraine
But Steve Witkoff has agreed to treat them as a victor
It’s a long Russian con to make America complicit — and it makes America weak, and corrupt
But Steve Witkoff has agreed to treat them as a victor
It’s a long Russian con to make America complicit — and it makes America weak, and corrupt
The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes
Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine
A point by point analysis of the shambles:
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine
A point by point analysis of the shambles:
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Russia is not winning its war in Ukraine
But Steve Witkoff has agreed to treat them as a victor
It’s a long Russian con to make America complicit — and it makes America weak, and corrupt
But Steve Witkoff has agreed to treat them as a victor
It’s a long Russian con to make America complicit — and it makes America weak, and corrupt
Reposted by Molly McKew
In which the brilliant @mollymckew.bsky.social dismantles the "peace plan" proposed by Trump's overmatched emissary, which, go figure, is nothing more than capitulation to the Kremlin.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In which the brilliant @mollymckew.bsky.social dismantles the "peace plan" proposed by Trump's overmatched emissary, which, go figure, is nothing more than capitulation to the Kremlin.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
Thank you, Greg 🙏
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Thank you, Greg 🙏
Reposted by Molly McKew
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.
It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
I was out front weeding and one guy goes by walking his dog and listening to a misogynist brocast (of course on speaker, no headset), and then two gen-Z ladies out for a walk talking about how they “aren’t anti-vaxxers but” and that’s it, I quit.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was out front weeding and one guy goes by walking his dog and listening to a misogynist brocast (of course on speaker, no headset), and then two gen-Z ladies out for a walk talking about how they “aren’t anti-vaxxers but” and that’s it, I quit.
I do a love a late rosemary flower
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I do a love a late rosemary flower
I will post a very rare link out to twitter because this is a very useful analysis of all the ways the 28-point Ukraine plan is illegal under current treaties and obligations:
twitter.com/eeriknkross/...
twitter.com/eeriknkross/...
twitter.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I will post a very rare link out to twitter because this is a very useful analysis of all the ways the 28-point Ukraine plan is illegal under current treaties and obligations:
twitter.com/eeriknkross/...
twitter.com/eeriknkross/...
Reposted by Molly McKew
Really enjoyed this, @mollymckew.bsky.social blends her deep knowledge and humour to eviscerate the "28 peace points" that Russia got US to accept.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Really enjoyed this, @mollymckew.bsky.social blends her deep knowledge and humour to eviscerate the "28 peace points" that Russia got US to accept.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...