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Niamh
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1st-generation Irish 🇮🇪 woman 🙋🏻‍♀️ in Berlin. Historian, literature graduate 📚, digital marketer 👩🏻‍💻, Remainer & 4th-wave Feminist 💪🏻. She/her for pronouns. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Niamh @niamhberlin.bsky.social · Jun 27
#ProductAtHeart conference kicks off with 1st 2 speakers @martycagan.bsky.social & Henrik Kniberg

2 really inspiring talks about founder-style leadership and AI agents.

#Founders #FounderMode #AI #AIAgents

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d
Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer
The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11d
the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
New Flare-Up of Violence Strains Gaza Cease-Fire
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18d
The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 20d
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21d
How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 24d
The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...
Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · Sep 26
Ai and plastics have so much in common
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 27d
If you can find this wee gem of a documentary, made 35 years ago, focusing on that in-between time after the Wall fell and before reunification on Oct. 3:

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Berlin Prenzlauer Berg: Encounters between 1st of May and 1st of July 1990 (1990) | MUBI
A cinematic ramble through an East Berlin neighbourhood in the weeks before the monetary and economic unification of East and West Germany. A pastiche of everyday scenes and encounters during the “sho...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 26d
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 29
exactly like the Chinese surveillance state
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 27
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · Sep 28
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 27
"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children."

from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 26
Essential reading
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · Sep 24
Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump’s fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 22
On political violence. With my colleagues George Packer, Adam Serwer and @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

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Jeffrey Goldberg on the Political-Violence Crisis | The Atlantic Festival 2025
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 22
Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 13
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 14
Kyiv at night
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 10
Here we go?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 8
This is the best advice for the Democrats that I have read

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 8
On the meeting of Xi, Putin, Kim, Modi, Lukashenko and others
with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/w...
On GPS: Anne Applebaum on the growing ties between autocracies | CNN
Fareed speaks with Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum about this week’s meeting between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — and the growing ties between autoc...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 7
"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap."
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 4
The Bad Guys are Winning, from 2021
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 3
Even the world's most surveilled state can't control the thoughts and dreams of its citizens
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State
www.nytimes.com
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