Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10hYes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity. 421121377
Reposted by Timothy SnyderAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13hIf you have a few minutes today, please submit a comment opposing the elimination of the Roadless Rule. Tomorrow, October 6, is the deadline. Tell the Forest Service why protecting our forests matters to you. Submit your comment: www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...regulations.govRegulations.gov 641144626
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19hFor Americans voting from abroad www.votefromabroad.org/request/your...votefromabroad.orgFederal Post Card Application Form | VoteFromAbroad.orgVote from Abroad: Step-by-step instructions to assist a voter to produce a Federal Post Card Application form suitable to send to the Local Election Official. 3260135
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19hOf course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comU.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantinesOfficials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States. 36924303
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19hI spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...snyder.substack.comOn Superpower SuicideAnd the recovery of justice 391198414
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19hTalking with Volodymyr Yermolenko about the layers of Ukrainian history. ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...ukraineworld.orgTimothy Snyder on the Deep Layers of Ukrainian HistoryFrom the early proto-cities to the interplay between settled and nomadic cultures. The conversation opens Ukraine as a vibrant central zone. 221559
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19hThis is the third of the ten video meditations I recorded in Kharkiv, Ukraine, close to the Russian border. The first couple were about courage and cowardice, which led me to the importance of moral categories in general. snyder.substack.com/p/moral-lang...snyder.substack.comMoral Language (Kharkiv Meditations, 3/10)Kharkiv Meditations, 3/10 431479
Reposted by Timothy SnyderMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim 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. 25959652203
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Heartbreak 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.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 751199441
Reposted by Timothy SnyderMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim 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. 221289400
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Putin’s fascination with the medieval takes the next step. www.newsweek.com/suspected-pl...newsweek.comSuspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown 24738254
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 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.comSmall Courage (Kharkiv Meditations, 2/10)Kharkiv Meditations 2/10 11515160
Reposted by Timothy SnyderTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My conversation with @rbreich.bsky.social about Trump, power, and what comes next. snyder.substack.com/p/trump-powe...snyder.substack.comTrump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert ReichA recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation 7465161
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Post-human necropolitics by the numbers www.economist.com/graphic-deta...economist.comIn MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being bornOur analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration 31734235
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Data centers on the gubernatorial ballot in Ohio. Acton against, Ramaswamy for (and personally invested in). www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...dispatch.comRamaswamy is in bed with data center owners. He'll get richer at your expense | Amy ActonAmy Acton: Vivek Ramaswamy is bought and paid for by data center owners. He'll never get everyday Ohioans like I do. 10607258
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just made donations to three Ohio campaigns I care about. If you can, please pick some candidates in close races and do the same. 17558141
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 691378650
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAutopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the backThe report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest. 7723321260
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Join me live now for a conversation with @harrylitman.bsky.social about politics in the US and the world. snyder.substack.comsnyder.substack.comThinking about... | Timothy Snyder | SubstackOpening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 214538
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal TaxesMeta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 20805353
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Of course Trump flatters AI. It flattered him first. 12407103
Reposted by Timothy SnyderThe 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.comAfter Nestle and Auchan seizures, Russia is coming for othersThe 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... 17382124
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good to be reminded of the young people who helped bring communism in central Europe to a peaceful end. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comAmericans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any StageTrump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith. 13646224
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Got your Super Intelligence right here at the origins of the Iran War. AI also implicated in the signature war crime the US committed. 16547195
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My conversation with @rbreich.bsky.social about Trump, power, and what comes next. snyder.substack.com/p/trump-powe...snyder.substack.comTrump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert ReichA recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation 7465161
Reposted by Timothy SnyderTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.orgnokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 10777300
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Honored and very happy to be speaking with the great @minjinlee.bsky.social about her new novel "American Hagwon" today, 10/1, on Thinking Live... at 12:00pm ET. snyder.substack.comsnyder.substack.comThinking about... | Timothy Snyder | SubstackOpening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 216035
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies. 401549565
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.orgnokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 10777300
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anne Applebaum has been right about a lot of things and this is one. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comMAGA Is Making the World Safe for CorruptionFar-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. 171052439
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I will be joining @rbreich.bsky.social for a wide-ranging conversation today, 9/29, at 1pm ET. robertreich.substack.comrobertreich.substack.comRobert Reich | SubstackDaily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused. Click to read Robert Reich, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers. 624466
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'll be speaking with Sharon McMahon about politics in the US on The Preamble at 1:45pm ET, today, 9/28. Join us! thepreamble.comthepreamble.comThe Preamble | Sharon McMahon | SubstackNews, politics, and history from #1 NYT-bestselling author Sharon McMahon. Breaking down government and law in straightforward ways you won’t find anywhere else. If you want clarity and context — deli... 015435
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Join me today at 12:30pm ET on Thinking Live... to talk with @jessicatarlov.bsky.social about disagreement and persuasion ahead of the midterms — and beyond. snyder.substack.comsnyder.substack.comThinking about... | Timothy Snyder | SubstackOpening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 012734
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, Monday 9/28, on Thinking Live... I'll be speaking with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu about the geopolitics of our moment. Join us at 10am ET via snyder.substack.comsnyder.substack.comThinking about... | Timothy Snyder | SubstackOpening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. 321781
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This 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/cowardicesnyder.substack.comOn Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)Kharkiv Meditations 1/10 7522180
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Useful 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.comIn Hegseth’s Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle TurmoilPersistent 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 SnyderDr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’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. 301761476
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A 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.comOligarchs' IslandA Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment 4320102
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.comA Meditation on Train StationsOn 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.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 31565247
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Driving 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.comA Meditation on Gas StationsOn Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2) 11524185
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dad can’t pay for wedding but Dad’s Daddy can 441136262
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026(2/2) The president of the United States says things that are not only false and cruel but which only Russians could have instructed him to say, since there is no way he could have thought of them himself, and since they depend on knowledge that he does not have. 281528408
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It 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) 322312675
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Publiczna rozmowa z Sławkiem Sierakowskim o Ukrainie i Polsce, 17’ego września, 18:00, Plac Konstitucji 6, Warszawa. 320235
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Tomorrow'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. #handsoffourvotevote.orgEverything You Need to Vote - Vote.orgRegister to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan. 10536262
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Commemoration 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.comHelping the Terrorists to WinA Quarter Century after 9/11 22588236