iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.

20441261608

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h

Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.com

A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

45640242

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

Tim Snyder on Trump's fixation with Putin: If you believe in countries, the United States is a much more powerful country than Russia. But if you just believe that it’s gangster on gangster, well then sure, Putin is a much better gangster than Trump.

181011315

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Putin’s fascination with the medieval takes the next step. www.newsweek.com/suspected-pl...

newsweek.com

Suspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown

21623206

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

This is the 2nd of the 10 meditations I recorded not long ago in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They are thoughts that came to mind in a place which has been under constant attack by missiles and drones for more than four years. The topic this time is small acts of courage. snyder.substack.com/p/small-cour...

snyder.substack.com

Small Courage (Kharkiv Meditations, 2/10)

Kharkiv Meditations 2/10

10481147

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just made donations to three Ohio campaigns I care about. If you can, please pick some candidates in close races and do the same.

17544137

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Of course Trump flatters AI. It flattered him first.

12403102

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026

“Fascist imperial Russia has not seen and does not see Western companies as partners for mutual benefit, only as targets for weaponization, manipulation, and confiscation," write Bennett Freeman and Nataliia Popovych in this op-ed.

kyivindependent.com

After Nestle and Auchan seizures, Russia is coming for others

The recent Russian seizure of assets belonging to corporate giants Nestle and Auchan made headlines, all the more striking given the companies' years of loyalty to the Kremlin regime, including throug...

17377122

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got your Super Intelligence right here at the origins of the Iran War. AI also implicated in the signature war crime the US committed.

16545195

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.

401547564

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us live now! snyder.substack.com

012136

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us live now! snyder.substack.com

216436

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the first of ten video meditations I recorded at night in Kharkiv, a frontline city in northeastern Ukraine. They concern matters that came to mind in the general setting of a long and terrible war. snyder.substack.com/p/cowardice

snyder.substack.com

On Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)

Kharkiv Meditations 1/10

7522180

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Useful reporting but would be worth more firmly stressing Hegseth’s achievement in overseeing a calamitous decline in US power and prestige, which was absolutely predictable and was presumably always the point. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

nytimes.com

In Hegseth’s Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle Turmoil

Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.

29695248

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s been 6 months since I sold all of my individual stocks and a week since I called on my opponent to do the same, but he has refused.

301762476

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A propos the effort of David Sachs to kill us all with totally unregulated AI, I repost this from two years ago. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

snyder.substack.com

Oligarchs' Island

A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment

4319101

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"One thing I see on this train is that Ukrainians choose to keep going. I don’t want to romanticize; the suffering and the grief are under the eyes, and in the public memorials, and everywhere. Every attack by the enemy hurts, as does every betrayal by an ally." snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...

snyder.substack.com

A Meditation on Train Stations

On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2

10746219

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The kind of 'hallucination' that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.” edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

edition.cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

31564246

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Driving east from Kyiv to Kharkiv, there was no place to get gas from Poltava eastwards, because all of the stations had been destroyed by distant Russian drone operators. The Russians send drones at the pumps, causing explosions, killing attendants and customers. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...

snyder.substack.com

A Meditation on Gas Stations

On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)

11523184

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dad can’t pay for wedding but Dad’s Daddy can

441134261

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2)

322311675

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Publiczna rozmowa z Sławkiem Sierakowskim o Ukrainie i Polsce, 17’ego września, 18:00, Plac Konstitucji 6, Warszawa.

320235

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow's the big day. Celebrate democracy by helping us get your eligible friends and neighbors registered for their next trip to the ballot box! Go to www.vote.org and visit handsoffourvote.net to learn more about how to make sure the will of the people prevails in November. #handsoffourvote

vote.org

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

10535262

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Commemoration is a chance to reflect. Americans in power will try to use this anniversary to say that everything happened exactly as it had to, and that we should bow our heads rather than use them. We went along twenty-five years ago. We should not do so again. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...

snyder.substack.com

Helping the Terrorists to Win

A Quarter Century after 9/11

22588236

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 03/09/2026

Have questions about our midterms? We have answers. Check out our Election FAQ page for straightforward answers to things like: 🤔 Can Trump legally “nationalize” our elections? 🤔 How is voter fraud properly addressed? protectdemocracy.org/election-faqs

A graphic with the text: "The president has no power over elections. The Constitution gives states—not the president—authority over elections." It includes "I Voted" stickers and a link: protectdemocracy.org/election-faqs.

13335142

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kicked off Labor Day Weekend by honoring Ohio’s workers at the Akron RubberDucks’ Celebration of Labor Night! Looking forward to a weekend dedicated to our brothers and sisters in the Ohio labor movement.

1634580

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks to @jimswift.bsky.social for joining Dayton-area reporters in covering this terrible news from Springfield. I wrote about the fascist backdrop here: snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle... www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...

thebulwark.com

The Cruelty Comes to Springfield

And the city’s faithful are coming together in opposition.

10441202

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s.

151263392

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes, they were. We were. In the Orwellian way — the courage to see the absolutely obvious. But the most important way they were right was in the insistence on speaking out, on showing up, on organizing. (1/2)

221579423

Reposted by Timothy Snyder

Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There are people in Ohio who don’t like what’s going on. I’m with them— and so many others from Ohio and elsewhere—to be in solidarity with the Haitian community of Springfield.

540269

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...

snyder.substack.com

Our Trade War Against Ourselves

Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way

14814267