Anne Applebaum

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staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.[bsky.social](http://bsky.social ). author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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2026-04-28 17:52:52 UTC

Remember, this was the party of "patriots"
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lafbr3dznxdyvgup2umwssht/post/3mkk3f4flk22c
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2026-04-28 07:39:51 UTC

Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations
[giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...](https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b702a94a-c207-459d-b8da-e8647d29d745 ) via @FT
[Hungary’s business elite pivot...](https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b702a94a-c207-459d-b8da-e8647d29d745 )

2026-04-26 05:18:51 UTC

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia.
Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources.
[www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/health/pepfar-hiv-aids-zambia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.IkUh.U9Jpudo4m25h&smid=url-share )
[AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Z...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/health/pepfar-hiv-aids-zambia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.IkUh.U9Jpudo4m25h&smid=url-share )

2026-03-18 04:43:40 UTC

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31dWsRj9tVhI4YolO-4zzIE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Everyone but Trump Understands...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31dWsRj9tVhI4YolO-4zzIE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2026-03-14 16:40:37 UTC

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments
[www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/jared-kushner-affinity-mideast-funds.html )
[Jared Kushner Solicits Funds f...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/jared-kushner-affinity-mideast-funds.html )

2026-02-24 09:58:54 UTC

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

2026-02-21 06:54:11 UTC

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
[www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )
[‘Don’t go to the US – not with...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

2026-01-25 14:43:44 UTC

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
[www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26505743-tinchersealedwitnessdec012426pdf/ )
[TincherSealedWitnessDec012426....](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26505743-tinchersealedwitnessdec012426pdf/ )

2026-01-24 16:22:36 UTC

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

2026-01-21 07:29:45 UTC

Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case
[www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-military-models-canadian-response-to-hypothetical-american-invasion/ )
[Military models Canadian respo...](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-military-models-canadian-response-to-hypothetical-american-invasion/ )

2026-01-20 12:47:50 UTC

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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2026-01-20 07:58:31 UTC

The true purpose of the masked men terrorizing Minnesota, writes [@polgreen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:xbhy2z2mcdo7y6nxy7s7foam ), is "to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance against Trump’s dark vision of America."
[www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.Bjs3.3fsHPQoQJTg6&smid=url-share )
[Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Gl...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.Bjs3.3fsHPQoQJTg6&smid=url-share )

2026-01-18 14:08:25 UTC

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

2026-01-14 13:36:14 UTC

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

2026-01-10 16:09:46 UTC

A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July
[www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...](https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601?st=BHxAQs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink )
[Videos Show How ICE Vehicle St...](https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601?st=BHxAQs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink )

2026-01-10 09:15:28 UTC

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

2026-01-09 05:56:55 UTC

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
[www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.LO9D.IC67zgUZCYSE&smid=url-share )
[Trump Lays Out a Vision of Pow...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.LO9D.IC67zgUZCYSE&smid=url-share )

2026-01-03 10:44:14 UTC

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

2025-12-12 12:24:20 UTC

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
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2025-12-10 10:30:26 UTC

An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
[www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...](https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/ )
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2025-12-10 01:54:51 UTC

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then?
[www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/usaid-mike-benz-cia/685195/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-PBBtI0DtncGhdtYTfrzTQ )
[USAID Hired the Right-Wing Inf...](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/usaid-mike-benz-cia/685195/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-PBBtI0DtncGhdtYTfrzTQ )

2025-12-08 10:59:08 UTC

'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
[www.theatlantic.com/internationa...](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33X0lgpfLuVN_3VQ2IrzF5k )
[Trumpian Corruption Is Worse T...](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33X0lgpfLuVN_3VQ2IrzF5k )

2025-12-04 20:06:19 UTC

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
[www.france24.com/en/live-news...](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251204-trump-envoys-press-plan-with-ukraine-as-sanctions-eased-on-russia )
[Trump envoys press plan with U...](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251204-trump-envoys-press-plan-with-ukraine-as-sanctions-eased-on-russia )

2025-11-30 14:37:56 UTC

Meanwhile, Ukrainian sea drones disabled two of the "shadow fleet" tankers carrying Russian oil. No doubt the start of a campaign
[kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-na...](https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-naval-drones-behind-successful-strike-on-2-russian-shadow-fleet-tankers/ )
['Successful' Ukrainian naval d...](https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-naval-drones-behind-successful-strike-on-2-russian-shadow-fleet-tankers/ )

2025-11-27 11:55:36 UTC

"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.pefQ.PQriW2SdMdDg&smid=url-share )
[Green Card Interviews End in H...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.pefQ.PQriW2SdMdDg&smid=url-share )

2025-11-27 01:49:10 UTC

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

2025-11-25 19:31:34 UTC

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
[siepr.stanford.edu/publications...](https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit )
[The Economic Impact of Brexit](https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit )

2025-11-23 10:48:19 UTC

The Polish prime minister reacts
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2025-11-22 11:11:38 UTC

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3x5H8-x30wTOq6lDtv0xjW4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Trump Has a Recipe for War and...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3x5H8-x30wTOq6lDtv0xjW4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-11-08 17:52:51 UTC

In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
[www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31MX2F6gqyt2wSWzta6tlto&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[America’s Future Is Hungary](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31MX2F6gqyt2wSWzta6tlto&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-11-01 07:14:26 UTC

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC-Jf2V2g )
[Sudanese survivors of el-Fashe...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC-Jf2V2g )

2025-10-10 09:59:41 UTC

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
[www.theatlantic.com/internationa...](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/venezuela-opposition-machado-optimism/681148/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38KY3Uqxr13917mBQZoDdrY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[The ‘Anthropological Change’ H...](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/venezuela-opposition-machado-optimism/681148/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38KY3Uqxr13917mBQZoDdrY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-10-06 08:06:16 UTC

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
[www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-shoot-woman-broadview-ice-facility/ )
[Federal agents shoot woman in ...](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-shoot-woman-broadview-ice-facility/ )

2025-09-10 07:51:27 UTC

At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.

2025-09-06 12:38:22 UTC

There is a global information war, and America is unilaterally disarming: The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to help autocratic governments manipulate and suppress information.
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35Nr_JauYgnRS_6rVtJZscM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[America Surrenders in the Glob...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35Nr_JauYgnRS_6rVtJZscM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-08-28 15:10:09 UTC

What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-strikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hk8.XlgC.xpx_TTqA69_6&smid=url-share )
[2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Rus...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/world/europe/ukraine-russia-strikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hk8.XlgC.xpx_TTqA69_6&smid=url-share )

2025-08-24 03:36:29 UTC

The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
[www.wsj.com/politics/nat...](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-has-quietly-blocked-ukraines-long-range-missile-strikes-on-russia-432a12e1?st=aGsahz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink )
[Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quiet...](https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-has-quietly-blocked-ukraines-long-range-missile-strikes-on-russia-432a12e1?st=aGsahz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink )

2025-08-19 08:18:03 UTC

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

2025-08-18 11:12:47 UTC

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
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2025-08-16 04:12:52 UTC

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

2025-08-07 07:10:31 UTC

Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax"
From @npub1980…wz3h
[www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from-russian-interference-to-revisionist-innuendo--what-the-gabbard-files-actually-say )
[From Russian Interference to R...](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from-russian-interference-to-revisionist-innuendo--what-the-gabbard-files-actually-say )

2025-07-20 15:34:00 UTC

History lesson
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2025-07-03 13:12:47 UTC

I had to read this twice to believe it...Meloni, who ran for office on an anti-immigration platform, has now announced plans to let in hundreds of thousands of immigrants, in order to deal with the Italian labor shortage
[www.reuters.com/world/italy-...](https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-issue-half-million-non-eu-work-visas-over-next-three-years-2025-06-30/ )
[Italy to issue half million no...](https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-issue-half-million-non-eu-work-visas-over-next-three-years-2025-06-30/ )

2025-07-02 11:29:34 UTC

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
[www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/trump-russia-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.Ws2y.fRC0JkjyS7Sx&smid=url-share )
[Lack of New U.S. Sanctions All...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/trump-russia-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.Ws2y.fRC0JkjyS7Sx&smid=url-share )

2025-06-09 16:37:09 UTC

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

2025-06-03 13:53:42 UTC

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite.
[www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/ )
[Trump official who shut down c...](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/ )

2025-06-01 14:16:22 UTC

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lafbr3dznxdyvgup2umwssht/post/3lqk7j73si22n
#note1y5e…ccd6

2025-06-01 11:58:41 UTC

More than 40 Russian warplanes are burning after a mass Ukrainian drone attack
[kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...](https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/ )
['Russian bombers are burning e...](https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/ )

2025-05-11 12:51:18 UTC

"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"
- U.S. constitution
[abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511 )
[Trump administration poised to...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511 )

2025-04-07 00:56:59 UTC

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

2025-04-04 11:21:02 UTC

"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order"
from [@jvl.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/jvl.bsky.social )
[www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over )
[The American Age Is Over](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over )

2025-03-29 13:03:43 UTC

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland [open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...](https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/vance-in-greenland?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=177tk )
[The Imperialism Has no Clothes](https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/vance-in-greenland?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=177tk )

2025-03-26 20:36:52 UTC

In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
[www.spiegel.de/internationa...](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7 )
[Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Priva...](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7 )

2025-03-13 11:42:16 UTC

Surprise! The Russians, who have repeatedly said they don't want a ceasefire, have once again said they don't want a ceasefire

2025-03-07 12:13:42 UTC

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38OD13Rx0lhyd5fWjR1YAEk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[There’s a Term for What Trump ...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38OD13Rx0lhyd5fWjR1YAEk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-03-07 11:04:05 UTC

US technology, provided by private companies, just ceased to be reliable
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2025-02-28 20:00:00 UTC

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

2025-02-23 07:47:10 UTC

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
[understandingwar.org/backgrounder...](https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-fact-sheet-february-21-2025 )
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2025-02-17 21:55:36 UTC

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation:
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK340fqCcgarrtnJIjRC-oEI4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[There’s a Term for What Trump ...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK340fqCcgarrtnJIjRC-oEI4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-02-17 10:08:21 UTC

America's image has changed, says the Singapore Minister of Defense, "from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent"
[www.mindef.gov.sg/news-and-eve...](https://www.mindef.gov.sg/news-and-events/latest-releases/15feb25_speech )
[Remarks By Minister For Defenc...](https://www.mindef.gov.sg/news-and-events/latest-releases/15feb25_speech )

2025-02-13 12:17:35 UTC

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

2025-02-08 12:02:14 UTC

The US government has now gutted all of the tools created to fight kleptocracy. It's going to be up to other democracies to save their political and financial systems from anonymous flows of cash.
[www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/w...](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/washington-has-given-up-the-fight-against-kleptocrats-heres-what-democracies-should-do-a87912 )
[Washington Has Given Up the Fi...](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/washington-has-given-up-the-fight-against-kleptocrats-heres-what-democracies-should-do-a87912 )

2025-02-07 15:56:50 UTC

"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history”
[www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-security/681600/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_E3ROZITJvw2e5knM_TJfE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[The Government’s Computing Exp...](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-security/681600/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_E3ROZITJvw2e5knM_TJfE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-02-06 20:27:51 UTC

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
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2025-02-03 09:24:35 UTC

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
[nymag.com/intelligence...](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html )
[Elon Musk May Have Your Social...](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-doge-treasury-access-federal-payments.html )

2025-01-27 13:45:44 UTC

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
[www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34_jHWNsAU1mvPsKLSJcYGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34_jHWNsAU1mvPsKLSJcYGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-01-10 05:02:46 UTC

Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
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2024-12-19 15:15:27 UTC

Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.

2024-12-13 19:05:54 UTC

If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists

2024-12-03 06:59:20 UTC

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.