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Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This detail: "In 2017, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association paid at least $397,602 to the Washington hotel...during its four-day World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians."
How does $400k spent at a Trump hotel benefit persecuted Christians?
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
here's another one: "Together, nine Trump entities have written off at least $95,464 paid to a favorite hair and makeup artist of Ivanka Trump." It can't be easy to rack up nearly $100k in hair and makeup bills...
and another: "$1.9 million" plus "$259,684" used to pay for lawyers defending Don Jr during the Russia investigation and Trump during the investigation into his crooked charity were counted as... "business expenses"
the rich are different from you and I

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Dec 26, 2024
Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist france24.com/en/live-news/2… france24.com/en/live-news/2…
An example of a Russian project exposed in Africa
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Here's a covert Kremlin Latin American campaign that the Global Engagement Center exposed too. state.gov/the-kremlins-e…
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Nov 11, 2024
Once again, more comprehensively: I wrote what I think about this election before it happened, will put it all together here.
My book Autocracy Inc, described the background, the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, everywhere penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/a…
My podcast, Autocracy in America, described the ways in which American democracy was already weakening podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aut…
Several years ago I wrote another book, Twilight of Democracy, about why people who live in democracies, including people I know, are attracted to the far-right
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Nov 7, 2024
Here's what I think.
1. We are living in an incredibly dangerous world. A network of autocracies is now working actively to undermine the democratic world. I wrote about this in my book, Autocracy Inc. Will we fight back?
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/a…
American democracy is already failing, in multiple ways. Autocratic tactics are already visible. @peterpomeranzev and I described some of them in our podcast, Autocracy in America. theatlantic.com/podcasts/autoc…
This episode, on kleptocracy, is especially relevant
theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…
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Sep 25, 2024
In which @sikorskiradek notes that the Russians are now kidnapping Ukrainian children just as the Nazis once abducted Polish and Soviet children
If you want to know more: Here is the ICC arrest warrant for Putin "for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"
icc-cpi.int/news/situation…
Here is the Ukrainian ombudsman's report on the deportations: ombudsman.gov.ua/storage/app/me…
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Jul 23, 2024
AUTOCRACY INC
published today!
amazon.com/gp/product/038…
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Here's a review in the Guardian

theguardian.com/books/article/…
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Jun 18, 2024
Five weeks from now, my new book will be published: Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World. It’s a short book, an argument, really, about the way the world now works...Read the introduction here:
anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/autocracy-inc
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At the center of the book is a network (not an axis, alliance or bloc) of dictatorships. They are not united ideologically. They do not meet either openly or secretly to make policy. They have many conflicts with one another.
The only thing that brings them together is their dislike of the democratic world, whose language and ideals are a threat to their power. The book focuses on what they have in common: kleptocracy, information war tactics, diplomatic/military ties and a common approach to dissent.
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