Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
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@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on the blue site
Warsaw, London, Washington
Joined May 2011
300,000+ are over there now, and engagement is much greater than here. Please join
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RT @JeremyKonyndyk: OK, time to bust another @USAID myth. Stephen Miller said on Fox today that USAID is a rogue slush fund. Trump & Elon…
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RT @DavidPepper: 🚨 🚨 The View of a Tech Insider A 🧵 you’ll want to read Amid all this talk of DOGE and tech and data and access, I th…
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RT @washingtonweek: "If USAID is destroyed, if it's not blocked by the courts, USAID is about 40% of all the humanitarian aid given in the…
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An account of a milestone in military history: The first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine
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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.
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RT @TheAtlantic: Four government IT employees tell @ibogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be w…
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RT @kajakallas: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid tomorrow. Russia can no longer use ene…
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The world's richest man takes food and medicine from the world's poorest children
Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days... The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @Knibbs reports
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RT @Atul_Gawande: One emblematic example: The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental…
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RT @Atul_Gawande: This is shameful. And the utter indifference to loss of life, our people abroad, America's standing, and American securit…
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RT @Atul_Gawande: These people worked selflessly for their country in some of earth's most impoverished or dangerous places under GOP and D…
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RT @Atul_Gawande: Communications in one mission overseas: "I'm sorry to say that all of us will be on administrative leave -- perhaps even…
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RT @Atul_Gawande: We already see the shutdown's cost. Kids with drug-resistant TB, turned away from clinics, are not just dying - they're s…
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RT @Atul_Gawande: Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communi…
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RT @DPAQreport: The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their…
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RT @RonFilipkowski: House Oversight Republicans spent two years subpoenaing and deposing every person who ever had a cup of coffee with Hun…
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Kleptocrats welcomed back to the USA
🚨 BREAKING: Trump's DOJ just killed its elite anti-corruption unit, our sources say. The Kleptocracy Initiative - famous for seizing Russian oligarchs' yachts and prosecuting the $4.5B 1MDB fraud - was quietly disbanded last night.
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RT @bradleyhope: The message to the world's kleptocrats? America's doors are now wide open for business. Read our full report at https://t.…
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