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3 weeks ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
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3 weeks ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
If anyone had been placing bets back in 1989, trying to guess which Warsaw Pact state would emerge most rapidly and successfully from communism, most of the money would have been on Hungary.
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3 weeks ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
Hegseth - Dismissed, court martial and jail (committed perjury) Waltz - Dismissed and jail JD Vance - Dismissed and jail Gabbard - Dismissed (committed perjury at House Intelligence Committee ?) Ratcliffe - Dismissed (committed perjury at House Intelligence Committee ?) Rubio - Dismissed Kent - Dismissed Witkoff - Dismissed Miller - Dismissed Bessent - Dismissed Wiles - Dismissed This is a list of people I feel should suffer some consequences for what happened re the illegal & improper use of...
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3 weeks ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
As readers will doubtless be aware, the Atlantic magazine on Monday published an extraordinary story. It was the result of a mistake: earlier this month, our editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally put into a Signal chat group with the Vice President, the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State and several others.
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
There are many Jewish people who abhor Netanyahu’s treatment of the Palestinian people, that does not mean they support Hammas. This is not antisemitism. Vance has drawn on the antisemitic and racist Great Replacement Theory in numerous instances. Now that’s antisemitism. Musk/Trump/oligarchs want an uneducated populace without the privilege of freedom of speech because they are easier to control. I too have to believe that the opposition to Trump are the seeds of change to build a better union.
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
Consider this post to be a placeholder, a warning in advance: universities in America are about to be put under pressure of a kind that no one who studies or teaches in America has ever experienced before. As the Harvard Crimson has just written (and I have borrowed their headline, for which they deserve full credit) this is not an accident. Autocrats — both left-wing and right-wing — always attack universities. The public rationale varies.
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
I’m now a retired US history teacher, but I remember quite clearly in 2016, the year I retired, when, worried about blowback from parents, my school head told us that we shouldn’t get involved in discussions about Trump with our kids. What Anne’s correspondent writes is as chilling as anything emanating from the former Soviet Union or Mao’s Great Cultural Revolution. There is a great sickness overshadowing our nation, and its name is Donald Trump.
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
A few days ago, I received an unusual letter from a reader who had read my article in the Atlantic, There’s a Term for what Trump and Musk are Doing: How Regime Change Happens in America, and who found it both troubling and accurate. The original letter was signed with a real name, and contained details of the writer’s education and career. I checked this information and it matched publicly available records, including university and other scientific research websites.
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
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1 month ago | 
anneapplebaum.substack.com | Anne Applebaum
I’ve been in several different European cities over the past few days - Warsaw, Vilnius, Berlin - and talked to many different kinds of people, from book publishers to politicians. Everyone I met, whatever their background, wanted to talk about Trump, Vance, and their performance in the Oval Office last week.