Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

@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 Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
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Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger@jaynordlinger·
A president should not put his name on another man's memorial. He should not hang a banner of himself on the Justice Department. And he should not put his face on a coin. This is un-American.
Charlie Savage@charlie_savage

The Treasury Department is hurtling forward with minting what will now be three different coins with Trump's picture on them -- a $1 that will circulate and two commemorative 24k gold ones nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…

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Rep. Jason Crow
Rep. Jason Crow@RepJasonCrow·
It’s clear there’s no strategy in Iran. Even Tulsi Gabbard admitted we replaced one Khamenei with another—and the new one is even worse. Trump’s war of choice is making us less safe.
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Rep. Mike Levin
Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·
A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan. The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind. What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million+ to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee. In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.
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Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺
W obliczu kształtującego się globalnego (nie)porządku Europa nie musi naśladować wielkich mocarstw, które opierają się na dominacji lub przymusie, ani stać się bezwzględnym drapieżnikiem w świecie drapieżnych hegemonów. Może stać się bezpieczną przystanią w burzliwym świecie, opierając się na następujących ideałach:
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Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺
Wciąż mamy wybór. Możemy się podzielić, angażować w drobne spory między narodami i pozwolić, by o naszej przyszłości decydowały siły zewnętrzne. Albo możemy podążać w przeciwnym kierunku – ku większej jedności, głębszej współpracy i silniejszym instytucjom. Tylko krocząc tą ścieżką, mamy szansę sukces. 📍Wykład w Europejskim Instytucie Uniwersyteckim we Florencji
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
U.S. allies haven’t forgotten about Trump’s tariffs, his threats against NATO, and his curtailing of aid to Ukraine—so he shouldn’t be surprised that they’re unwilling to help him in Iran, @anneapplebaum argues.
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Szabolcs Panyi
Szabolcs Panyi@panyiszabolcs·
🇭🇺 EXCLUSIVE: An in-depth look at how Viktor Orbán and Fidesz underestimated Péter Magyar until it was too late. @Direkt36 reveals how Orbán’s spring offensive against him backfired—fueling internal tensions and exposing cracks inside the government. direkt36.hu/en/kielezett-a…
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Jesse Lee
Jesse Lee@JesseCharlesLee·
Trump weighing spending $1 billion in *tax dollars* to bribe wind companies not to lower energy costs for New York and North Carolina. All so their oil & gas donors can keep gouging their customers. Unbelievable corruption.
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NBC News
NBC News@NBCNews·
A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output. nbcnews.com/business/econo…
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Joni Askola
Joni Askola@joni_askola·
You couldn’t make this up
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Nikolaus von Twickel  🇪🇺
Interesting explanation by Russian pundit Nikolai Mitrokhin on the sudden outages of mobile internet in Moscow: #Putin got so afraid after #Khamenei was fatally targeted apparently via signals intel that he ordered to turn off all radiowaves that might allow himself to be traced.
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines. It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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