Anne Applebaum

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“Where is the money? There is no transparency and the US government does not inform us.”

FT Exclusive: The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money. ft.trib.al/1K9B0QT

I don’t think the otherwise impressive BYD 🇨🇳 car company did a particularly clever move hiring a guy who is downright poisonous throughout Europe. He would certainly be received in Moscow 🇷🇺 - but nowhere else.

Antyzachodnia i antyukraińska narracja to broń Putina. Nie dajmy się na tę propagandę nabrać.

Nietzsche said a lot of contradictory stuff but one of his most consistent ideas is that archaic western culture used to value brute strength for its own sake but Judeo-Christianity inverted the relationship between strength and goodness and encouraged the strong to feel guilt and pity for the weak. He revered Homer's Odysseus much more than a contemporary Christian priest. So it's funny that Nolan made The Odyssey kinda Christian—accentuating the main character's guilt, trauma—and then many Christian conservatives, who decided that they were going to hate the movie because it had a Black actress in the wrong role, instead have to twist themselves into the pretzel of arguing that making the Odyssey Christian is "woke" and they just really wanted to see a movie and hero that properly embodied the very same archaic and anti-Christian values that in any other context they would consider abhorrent.

@ChiquiOliver @Jose_deCordoba what makes you think I was talking about "open borders"? This website is one endless series of rorschach tests

@anneapplebaum @Jose_deCordoba What people like you are reading as “open borders” is absolutely wrong. El principio de hospitalidad “xenia”, también implicaba que el huésped debía comportarse con respeto, no abusar de la hospitalidad y, eventualmente, corresponder cuando fuera posible.

Loved the Odyssey, what an incredible work of imagination. Many ideas to ponder, but this one stands out: Don't break the deepest rules of your civilization, or else it might collapse and burn around you...

also enjoying the duelling classics scholars

Humanitarian catastrophe in the Russian-occupied Kherson region. Latest reports from Oleshky: No electricity or water; no food or meds delivery. People die of starvation and untreated diseases. Burial crisis. Video by Ksenia Arkhipova.

250,000 books. That is how many my Ukrainian publisher, Knygolove knigolove.ua lost on 19 July after three Russian Iskander missiles struck the warehouse outside Kyiv. Among them were my books, too. This is war, and war inevitably brings human and material losses. But when books burn, it is not just paper that burns. Culture, memory, and identity burn with them. So does a nation’s right to grow and shape its own future. That is why burning books has always meant far more than destroying merchandise. I have waived my royalties for the next year to help support my publisher. I encourage you to buy Ukrainian books—as a gesture of solidarity with Ukrainians fighting, among other things, for the right to read books in their own language. Books survive as long as there are people to print them and people to read them.

Yes. Must be weird for you to see a country where leaders leave office peacefully and don’t try to become an emperor.

The Pentagon hasn’t held a press briefing in two and a half months. Pete Hegseth hasn't explained the military strategy behind the renewed air strikes. His department hasn't revealed the circumstances that led to the recent deaths of US service members. cnn.com/2026/07/20/med…

Here's how this looks in percentages, for some states which confirmed OR identified possible noncitizen voters: - Alabama: 0.0007% - Arkansas: 0.002% - Florida: 0.001% - Georgia: 0.0001% - Indiana: 0.0004% - Louisiana: 0.003% - Michigan: 0.0001% - Ohio: 0.0001% - Texas: 0.0002%

I've updated my tracker of noncitizen voting audits done by states since 2021. Alabama. Jan. 2026. 3.7 million registered voters. 186 possible noncitizen registrants. 25 possible noncitizen voters. Arkansas. Oct. 2026. 1.8 million registered voters. 240 possible noncitizen registrants. "30 to 40" possible noncitizen voters. Florida. Jan. 2026. 13.4 million registered voters. 198 "likely noncitizens" registered. 170 referred to law enforcement. Georgia. Oct. 2024. 8.2 million registered voters. 20 possible noncitizens registrants. 9 possible noncitizen voters. 156 for further investigation. Idaho. Oct. 2024. 1 million registered voters. 36 "very likely" noncitizen registrants. "A number of them do have some form of voting history." Indiana. Dec. 2025. 4.8 million registered voters. 165 possible noncitizen registrants. "At least" 21 noncitizen voters. Iowa. Mar. 2025. 2.1 million registered voters. 277 possible noncitizen registrants. 35 possible noncitizen voters in November 2024 election. Louisiana. Mar. 2026. 2.9 million registered voters. 403 noncitizens possibly registered. 83 possibly having voted in at least one election since the 1980s. Montana. Mar. 2026. 800,000 registered voters. 23 possible noncitizens registered. Cast "nearly 150 ballots" in past Montana elections. Michigan. Apr. 2025. 7.2 million registered voters. 15 possible noncitizens who registered and voted in November 2024 general election. Michigan. Jan. 2026. 7.2 million registered voters. Investigation of Macomb County (725,000 registered voters). Four possible noncitizens registered. At least 1 previously voted. Ohio. Sept. 2025. 7.9 million registered voters. 78 possible noncitizen registrants. 9 possible noncitizen voters. Oregon. May 2026. 3 million registered voters. Investigation into 2 possible noncitizen voters. Pennsylvania. Apr. 2026. 8.97 million registered voters. Review of 210,905 unique voter registration forms. 1 noncitizen improperly registered, but had not voted. Tennessee. Fall 2025. 4.3 million registered voters. Referred 42 potential noncitizen voters to the FBI. Texas. June 2025. 18 million registered voters. Referred “33 potential noncitizens who voted in the November 2024 General Election.” Texas. Oct. 2025. 18 million registered voters. 2,724 possible noncitizens registered. Further investigation prompted. Utah. May 2026. 2.1 million registered voters. 27 possible noncitizens registered. 25 warranting further investigation. Wyoming. 271,000 registered voters. Identification of 3 potential noncitizens registered. Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/10w…

Kyiv this morning 💔

The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup

This is so disgusting. Spain is having an official victory photo taken. Trump runs in so that he can be in the photo. The president of FIFA runs over to try and pull him away, but he fails. This is after Trump has verbally attacked the nation of Spain nonstop for the last two months. What a petty child.

Russians have begun targeting the Kyiv metro stations where families shelter amid missile attacks. For Russians, there is no bottom. And when Ukraine has finally had enough and begins to mass slaughter the savages as a last resort to stop the war, some will say its unfair.

World Cup Exit Reactions: 🇰🇷South Korea: immediate national inquiry, special tribunal. Coach canceled from polite society 🇳🇴Norway: Massive rowing party in downtown Oslo. Everyone’s drunk on aquavit and happy 🇺🇸USA: sorry? what is this sport? oh right, it's gay anyway 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England: TUCHEL OUT in 48-point Impact font on the front pages and endless streams of commentators dissecting the 4-2-3-1 formation. Total self-flagellation and promises to never believe that football's ever coming home again 🇧🇷Brazil: 18,000-word philosophical treatises tracing the decline of the Seleção to the rise of neopentecostalism 🇯🇵Japan: Coach performs polite post-match bow; promises to further develop youth academies and do better 🇩🇪Germany: Emergency DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) Summit to analyze what went wrong with soul-searching German efficiency and thoroughness. Already produced tactical white paper titled “Gegenpressing 2.0: Rebuilding the German Soul.” 🇦🇷Argentina:

There is yet again a flood of Russians online asking "why us?" with sad faces because a Wildberries marketplace warehouse burned down. ​After years of bombing Ukrainians, killing people in their homes, workplaces, roads, and hospitals, burying families under rubble, attacking supermarkets, warehouses, businesses, farms, Nova Poshta terminals, murdering their workers, they still don't know why them? Remarkable.