Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on the blue site
Paperback, with new preface, coming next month. Preorder now! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/a…
It's an enigma
What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…
This is interesting because, as everyone knows, “hoax” is Trump jargon for “wholly true” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The 21st century version of the Soviet Gulag. from @OCCRP occrp.org/en/investigati…
To understand why russia is behaving like a colonialist, dictatorship, we have to understand its history. Thats why I spoke to the incredible @anneapplebaum about the axis of autocracies working together to undermine democracy & rule of law youtu.be/1wjeI0WBZwQ?si…
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has reportedly stripped 8 of Brazil’s 11 supreme court judges of their US visas as Trump escalates his campaign to help former president Bolsonaro avoid justice for his alleged attempt to seize power with a military coup. trib.al/eJARewS
BREAKING: More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials news.sky.com/story/gaza-mor…
Okay, here's how this lie works: 1. everyone agreed that Russians did not hack election infrastructure 2. everyone agreed Russia meddled with the election in other ways, such as hacking the DNC and releasing emails from Podesta et al Tulsi intentionally confuses the two.
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the…
People forget that the Russian Government itself boasted of “doing its work” with the 2016 Trump Campaign, shortly after the Election.
It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure’ ahead of the 2016 election, and that it ‘used social…
The Senate Intelligence Committee report is comprehensive and damning. Any reasonable person who reads it should be alarmed both at the extent of Russian efforts and the conduct of Trump's campaign team.
It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure’ ahead of the 2016 election, and that it ‘used social…
Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump welcomed the help. The help made a difference to the election outcome. Some deny those facts because they are motivated to protect Trump. Others deny the facts because they are motivated to protect Russia. But the facts are what they are.
These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate.
CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show is “financial,” but “the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt,” @GrahamDavidA argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
When Trump describes something as a "hoax" - the "Russia hoax"; the "Epstein hoax" - the word "hoax" means in plain English: "that thing I did."
Big Epstein news from Status: WSJ is working on new details about Trump’s relationship with Epstein, and Trump badly wants to stop it from being published. He reportedly called WSJ’s editor in chief to try and kill the story. (Paywall) status.news/p/wall-street-…
“Viktor Orban has turned Hungary into the poorest country in the European Union, and now he's threatening to leave. This threat doesn't scare me because he's been sabotaging the EU for years, in coordination with Putin. I warn you: this is what theft and nationalism lead to.”
Wiktor Orban zrobił z Węgier najbiedniejszy kraj Unii Europejskiej a teraz grozi, że z niej wyjdzie. Nie przeraża mnie ta groźba bo od lat, w koordynacji z Putinem, Unię sabotuje. Przestrzegam: do tego prowadzi złodziejstwo i nacjonalizm.
Wiktor Orban zrobił z Węgier najbiedniejszy kraj Unii Europejskiej a teraz grozi, że z niej wyjdzie. Nie przeraża mnie ta groźba bo od lat, w koordynacji z Putinem, Unię sabotuje. Przestrzegam: do tego prowadzi złodziejstwo i nacjonalizm.
Wychowałem się w komunie, kiedy uważaliśmy Kościół za głos wolnego narodu. Szkoda, że tego się nie udało utrzymać. Ale nie da się utrzymać, gdy Kościół chce być Kościołem tylko połowy Polski.
The rescission bill the House is voting on will cut $100 million for UNICEF's efforts to feed toddlers in emergencies. Meanwhile the recent OBBB included 3x that for Mar-a-lago security.
Among the little-noticed benefits tucked into the One Big Beautiful Bill: $300M to protect Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s homes.
Today, Ukraine and the rest of the world remember the victims of Flight MH17. 11 years ago on this day, Russia shot down a civilian airliner by a deadly BUK missile, killing all 298 people onboard. Moscow worked hard to escape responsibility. Instead of admitting guilt and…
🔥 NATO General: The Alliance could “wipe Kaliningrad off the face of the Earth” The North Atlantic Alliance has developed a plan to “neutralize” Russia’s Kaliningrad region in case of a military threat from Moscow. Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, Christopher Donahue,…