Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013. .. more

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 26

Paperback, with new preface, available TODAY
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

Another great description of Georges Borchardt, with more about his escape from the Holocaust
www.economist.com/obituary/202...

Georges Borchardt made a life from a love of reading

The literary agent died on January 18th, aged 97

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."

AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Democracy Under Occupation

What we’ve learned in Minneapolis

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warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile in Russia 👇

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

The historian and Gulag archivist, Yuri Dmitriev, remains in prison in Russia
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« La libération de l’historien Iouri Dmitriev est particulièrement urgente, c’est une question de survie ! »

TRIBUNE. L’un des plus anciens prisonniers politiques de Vladimir Poutine est détenu en raison de son travail sur l’histoire de la terreur stalinienne, au sein de l’association russe Memorial. Dans un...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

How Autocrats Meddle With Elections

The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 5h

EU tech law

EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission preliminarily finds TikTok\'s addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 20h

Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt

Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling after measles outbreak

The majority of the Southeast state’s 876 cases have been in unvaccinated children

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21h

thanks - I have worked for the Atlantic since 2020, in fact...

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Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich , and 2 more Timothy Snyder, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich, Siegfried Hekimi, Charles T. Mathewes

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.