Notices by Anne Applebaum (anneapplebaum@journa.host), page 3

at POLITICS AND PROSE, DC's great bookstore
watch the event here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/s-73jkAwyOo?feature=shared

Some $1.5 billion in Russian assets, frozen at the beginning of the war, are finally being transferred to Ukraine.
This is interest on the $192 million that are held by Euroclear, in Brussels. Now it's time to move the rest of it
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-finally-sends-e1-5b-from-russian-assets-to-ukraine/

AUTOCRACY INC
published today!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385549938?tag=randohouseinc7986-20

"Now the Republicans are the ones saddled with a candidate who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-looks-older-and-more-deranged/679186/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK30QMG1fywUquOuGp_YU0tp4

It's not just Project 2025. This, from @NewYorker , describes a whole constellation of organizations that want to capture and politicize the US government

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/inside-the-trump-plan-for-2025

AUTOCRACY INC reviewed by the BBC's John Simpson, who remembers "disagreeing with me genteelly at editorial meetings in the early 1990s"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/17/autocracy-inc-by-anne-applebaum-review-the-devil-you-know?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

David Lammy: "You cannot get distracted by social media, cancel culture, and culture wars that I’m afraid are totally tangential to most people’s day-to-day lives.”

"Instead of fighting ideological battles, [Keir] Starmer wanted the party to talk about ordinary people’s problems—advice that Democrats in the United States, and centrists around the world, could also stand to hear"

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/07/uk-elections-2024-labour-party/678892/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31abmbxjdxLaV1lC4mwbV_g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The tabloidization of everything is all around us already. That market is saturated. We don’t need The Washington Post to join in as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/washington-post-will-lewis-publisher/678755/

The Russians, unable to move forward on the ground, are now destroying Ukrainian cities from the air.
"The strategy seems to be to terrorize the cities enough that people will leave,”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-bombs-airfields-scorched-earth-58380b8625df7ed52a3b5472326559b8

In which I talk to Bill Kristol about Ukraine, EU elections, US politics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTSjuTxUe_Y

My new book, Autocracy Inc, is published in five weeks. Read the introduction here:
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/autocracy-inc?r=177tk

Trump is not America's Le Pen: He's worse

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/06/european-union-2024-parliamentary-election/678654/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK346nBXmZX1-dunz6R7fNlow&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

35 years ago today, June 4, 1989, Poles ousted the communist party in the first partly free elections since WW2. The election set off a chain of events that led to the opening of the Berlin wall. The USSR's European empire had collapsed by the end of the year.
Also on June 4, 1989, the Chinese army fired on Tianamen Square protesters, ending any hope of political change. The massacre helped inspire the Chinese communist party to create the total surveillance state they are completing today.

Russia's tactics are terrorist tactics, by any legal or moral definition. I wrote this in July, 2022, but after the deliberate targeting of a shopping center and a book warehouse in Kharkiv, it needs to be repeated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/russia-war-crimes-terrorism-definition/670500/

“There is a battle going on between two worldviews, but the divisions aren’t geographical. They’re in people’s heads.”

I talked to Hannah Rosin about the war in Ukraine, Russian propaganda and more, for Radio Atlantic. Listen here: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/05/russias-psychological-warfare-against-ukraine/678459/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Everyone should read Project Over Zero's report on LGBTQ scapegoating - it's an analysis of how this tactic has been used in authoritarian campaigns around the world

https://www.projectoverzero.org/media-and-publications/decoding-lgbtq-scapegoating

In her new book, PLURALITY, Audrey Tang, one of the world's most interesting thinkers, argues we can harness digital technology to confront authoritarianism.

Video description here:

https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/announcements/plurality-launch/

Georgians are protesting a law on "foreign agents." Abigail Skalka explains where this law came from, and how it resembles laws in Russia and other autocracies: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/a-bout-of-whataboutism/

Huge protests in Tbilisi tonight against a law that would copy a Russian law against "foreign agents." But they are happening for a more serious reason: Georgians don't want to become part of the Russian world