staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Anne Applebaum
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We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Molly White
From @edwardluce.bsky.social: how Trump is becoming...Jimmy Carter
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"The rule of law is no abstraction. It is the foundation on which every investment rests. You can’t drill a well, build a factory, or extend credit without certainty that your contract will be honored and what you own today will be yours tomorrow"
from Leopoldo Lopez:
www.wsj.com/opinion/delc...
on the return of racism to the US military
On Jared Kushner's trillion dollar conflicts of interest, from
Casey Michel: "His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the diplomatic hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf"
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Shocking and offensive, also for the fact that FIFA doesn't protest
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
"The front line is not a line at all, but rather a broad no-go zone, some 20 miles wide. Everything inside this zone is visible to drones, which means that any Russian truck, tank, or infantryman...is instantly identified and can easily be hit"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"The front line is not a line at all, but rather a broad no-go zone, some 20 miles wide. Everything inside this zone is visible to drones, which means that any Russian truck, tank, or infantryman...is instantly identified and can easily be hit"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Like the 39th US president, the current occupant of the White House has handed control of the narrative to Iran
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
