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@brandoncanon.bsky.social
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Just a guy from a town in Ontario, Canada. I enjoy nature, gardening, photography. The cat in my profile pic is Luna #antifascism #elbowsup 🍁 #slavaukraini 🇺🇦 #endoligarchy #fucktrump

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly 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...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President 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...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Russia killed an entire family overnight in the Kryvyi Rih district A missile struck their home, killing 47-year-old Artem, 41-year-old Olena, their seven children: Mark, 17; Dominika, 16; Viorika, 14; Zakharii, 13; Azarii Ilai, 11; Federika, 9; and Emilia, 7; as well as their 18-month-old grandson
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Russia struck the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, setting its roof on fire. Built in the 11th century, the cathedral is the main church of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Ukraine's most important Christian shrines.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the most sacred places in the Orthodox Christian world, is being consumed by flames right now after a Russian strike
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
⚠️ Another angle of the reported Oreshnik strike on Bila Tserkva, allegedly showing impacts from the missile’s inert kinetic rods. As seen from the published footages this time Oreshnik deployed six submunition clusters, each carrying six kinetic rods, for a total of 36 rods.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
⚠️ Reports are emerging that Russia have launched an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile toward Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. Footage circulating online shows the impact of high-velocity kinetic submunitions consistent with the Oreshnik’s design.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.
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brandoncanon.bsky.social @brandoncanon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Signed up & started. Thank you for bringing this course to my attention @timothysnyder.bsky.social First knowledge check done ✅
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda. snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...
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Superpower Suicide
The geopolitics of our moment
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 18/04/2026
🛡️ @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins Sky Defense! Our ambassador is raising $500,000 for interceptor drones and other air defense equipment to help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks. Join us — let’s make a difference, strengthening Ukraine against terror: u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
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brandoncanon.bsky.social @brandoncanon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Rest in peace Bohdan I have so much anger in my heart for the monsters that commit these atrocities. Justice must prevail. Now, not later. Stand with Ukraine.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
1/3. Very helpful summary in preparation for the epochal Hungarian elections tomorrow. See also essays by Anne Applebaum and Lászlo Gendler and commentary by Kim Scheppele mikegalsworthy.substack.com/p/why-an-orb...
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Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA
It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The EU should enlarge to Canada (and Ukraine and the UK). It would be in the economic and strategic interests of all concerned.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
2/2. Trump used the Iran War as a pretext to lift energy sanctions on Russia, and even personal sanctions on individual Russians. Does anyone expect those to be reimposed? Of course not.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Prepare to take action on May First. Protests show awareness and they deter the worst. (16/17) indivisible.org/events/may-d...
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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Background: Orbán is an entrenched but wildly unpopular oligarch and authoritarian. He is facing an election that he will decisively lose — unless he can manage some trick. This obvious false flag (which he will now blame on Ukraine) should not fool anyone. (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Phillips is completely right here. It is absurd to repeat an obviously false framing. And it is harmful, because once stated in the NYT it becomes credible.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The US is attacking Iran. Russia is helping Iran target US forces. For all we know Russia is co-responsible for the deaths of US soldiers. And yet Trump has made Russia the main winner of the war thus far by lifting oil sanctions. I can’t think of anything like this.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
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The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
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The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If we examine the origins of the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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The Oligarchical Corridor
A Source of War
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A police investigation has officially established that Russian special services were sending sex toys packed with explosives across Europe. 22 suspects identified. One such package caught fire at a DHL depot near Birmingham on July 22, 2024, while another ignited at a logistics center in Leipzig.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Interesting that among the few advance plans we made are those that benefit Russia. See my longer essay on Oligarchic Corridors. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/03/2026
Well would you look at that
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/03/2026
Ukraine says its Paralympic uniform was banned for being "too political." Meanwhile, Russian athletes were allowed to wear uniforms with part of Russia’s map at the 2022 Olympics — raising questions about consistent rule enforcement.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.
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US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties
Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A list of things you might do if you were trying to end the republic. In other words: a news review. snyder.substack.com/p/cabinet-ap...
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Cabinet Apocalypse
A News Review in an Imagined Conversation
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brandoncanon.bsky.social @brandoncanon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
2000 push-ups ✅ Money raised for Mental Health ✅ (CMHA) It was a good February
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What is the state of Trump? He is failing at fascism. For Trump to succeed in his fascist transition, he needs a bloody, popular, victorious war. And that is out of his reach. The State of the Union was full of fascist atmospherics. It was also blowhard exhaustion snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-fa...
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Fascist Failure
The State of Trump
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today marks four years since Russia invaded Ukraine. These are some thoughts (recorded yesterday) on what Ukrainians have done for all of us and what we can learn from them.
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