Notices by Anne Applebaum (anneapplebaum@journa.host)

Yes. He's a crank.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/rfk-jr-hhs-sanewashing/680663/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-z8QcWNs4NTh20aH6uhb2U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

And until then? Biden should send all of the allocated weapons, let the Ukrainians hit targets in Russia with American and European missiles, and above all pressure the Europeans, finally, to release the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. No time to lose. Gift link, from the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

“Land for peace” sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting to destroy Ukraine as a nation. When the next U.S. president takes office he will therefore face the same choices : help Putin win, or help him lose.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

OK, this is funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qI0LTmSr38

One final thing to read today, from @Noupside: why we are going into this election ill-prepared to counter bogus narratives about voter fraud

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-maga-propaganda-machine-has-successfully

On Vermin. Some closing thoughts

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/on-vermin?r=177tk

With five days to go before the election, take the time to listen to my five-part podcast series, Autocracy in America. There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States - and we can stop them.
Also on Spotify, Apple, YouTube

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/

"He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head spending.” He mixed up Iran with North Korea and strained to pronounce United Arab Emirates. He marveled at Hurricane Helene coming so late in the storm season, which typically runs through November. He falsely claimed government agencies can’t name the U.S. population, and he compared the conflict between Israel and Iran to “two kids fighting in the schoolyard.”

how is this not dementia?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/trump-wisconsin-swerves-subjects/

The fifth and final episode of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA has dropped! The subject: Freedom, a word that is fundamental to democracy - but which also, in American history, has sometimes meant freedom for some people and the repression of others.

Apple podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocracy-in-america/id1763234285

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0ujIGO5bvCO6NkevvgsWTL

The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/10/the-danger-of-politicizing-freedom/680117/

Meet the Ukrainians who want to win the war - a war that cannot end until the *Russians* stop fighting.

Putin, not Zelensky, must be persuaded that the war was a mistake, the price is too high and Ukraine is not Russia.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/ukraine-war-negotiated-peace/680100/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33lUCee9tAv7KdPmZPneEjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Dark money, anonymous companies, and secretive elites with hidden wealth aren’t limited to distant dictatorships on palm-fringed islands. They’re here in America, already.
Episode 4 of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA, my podcast with Peter Pomerantsev, explains

listen here, via the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/kleptocracy-club/680022/

or here, on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KVYfujQpYFOOZhlHSCpNS?si=pFexTY-ASsqYA1urSLjQMw

or here, on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-kleptocracy/id1763234285?i=1000670920978

or anywhere else you get your podcasts...

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, changes their identities and their names. The Polish foreign minister asks: How does that differ from the Nazis who kidnapped Russian and Polish children for the same purpose?

https://www.threads.net/@polandmfa/post/DAVqCpRug4B?xmt=AQGzYBrGsY48nUagk_qkrZv0VT6GBuaYrDDX9FnO5XKjhA

I watched what happened in Poland when a legitimate, democratically elected government tried to curb judicial independence. Could it happen in the US too?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/judicial-independence-judge-aileen-cannon-trump/679561/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wT8mMlv9SBR61mcCYYk8O0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Russians who pay to launder and promote authoritarian narratives in America succeed because there is already an audience for them. We inspire them, not vice versa
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/right-wing-influencers-working-autocracy-inc/679793/

Truly ominous account of how Musk, just by himself, has created false hysteria about the reliability of the US electoral system - hysteria that could well be used by Trump if he loses https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/10/elon-musk-illegal-immigrant-voting-misinformation/

Let Ukraine strike back

https://www.letukrainestrikeback.com/

From me and Peter Pomerantsev, a new narrative podcast drops today: AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA

the first episode is here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/start-with-a-lie/679625/

On the "pro-Constitution, no-nonsense backlash in the Democratic Party, a movement in favor of patriotism, concerned about national security, and convinced that only a democracy that delivers practical results can stay safe"

gift link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/national-security-democrats-patriotism/679697/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-QeodXAQ9Z7_pzxS8JTjLM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

On the Kursk offensive
https://youtu.be/wc_TudS0nko?feature=shared

The brilliant Ethan Zuckerman wants you to be able to control what you see on social media, and he's found legal arguments to help make that happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/technology/meta-section-230-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk4.ELZ_.lmsONXHeKVEz&smid=url-share