Anne Applebaum
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY
and now AUTOCRACY INC
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- The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week wapo.st/3F11lnU
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- Biden should never have run, and everyone around him knew it
- If Trump were interested in ending the war, he would pressure Putin now. From Christian Caryl @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/13/t...
- "First, the plane is 13 years old. You read that correctly. A piddling little Middle Eastern autocracy is trying to bribe our president with a used plane" read @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on the Qatari 'gift' www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
- "Qatar, where Trump is scheduled to visit Wednesday, has previously paid his attorney general, FBI director and head of the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, to lobby or consult on behalf of the country and its royal family"
- The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference: "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
- The Qatari "gift" to Trump is actually only one in a long list of the administration's corrupt acts and conflicts of interest. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- A new refugee crisis is exploding on the border between Chad and Sudan. Partly thanks to US cuts, few resources are available to help. Photographs from @lynseyaddario.bsky.social (with my introduction) www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
- Big companies might be able to get exemptions from the tariffs. Small ones will just go bankrupt
- absolutely brutal www.wsj.com/business/ent...
- Hungarian spies were caught in Western Ukraine, looking for defense vulnerabilities. Either they are planning to occupy a piece of territory themselves, or they intend to help Putin edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/w...
- So much for Orban's claims that he wants to stay out of the war
