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Followers
443.8K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$2.5K – $4K / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
4K
Avg engagement / post
0.9%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the ele · 29.4K likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
6.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
797×
Follows 557 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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"Power is the ability to shape the world to your advantage. This should not be confused with constantly declaring how powerful you are"
From Edward Luce, @financialtimes.com
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A gift link to an @theatlantic.com article on the warning signs the White House wants to erect outside one of the most beloved museums in America, warning people away
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
This is another step towards a one-party state: only give government grants to your political friends
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
This is an outrageous attack on the Smithsonian, on the professionals who work there and the Americans who love it. Like the Bolsheviks deliberately destroying churches
www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
“Where is the money? There is no transparency and the US government does not inform us.”
From @financialtimes.com, on Venezuela
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Loved the Odyssey, what a triumph of imagination. The main message: don't break the rules of your civilization or it may crash and burn around you
Congrats to Spain!
"if we lose it can only be because someone has cheated"
Listen to Hannah Rosin: the election deniers are in charge
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
my colleague Simon Shuster has done a deep dive into Ukraine's most succesful drone and missile designer, and it is quite a story
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally…
The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet …
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
The handle is the domain anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Oct 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 4K views per post.
📤Posts about 6.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated90/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
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