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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h
I will be joining @rbreich.bsky.social for a wide-ranging conversation today, 9/29, at 1pm ET. robertreich.substack.com
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Robert Reich | Substack
Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused. Click to read Robert Reich, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'll be speaking with Sharon McMahon about politics in the US on The Preamble at 1:45pm ET, today, 9/28. Join us! thepreamble.com
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The Preamble | Sharon McMahon | Substack
News, 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...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us live now! snyder.substack.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join us live now! snyder.substack.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join 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.com
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Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | Substack
Opening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, 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.com
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Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | Substack
Opening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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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
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On Cowardice (Kharkiv Meditations 1/10)
Kharkiv Meditations 1/10
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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-...
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Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
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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...
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A Meditation on Train Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2
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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...
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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
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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...
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A Meditation on Gas Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dad can’t pay for wedding but Dad’s Daddy can
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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)
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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.
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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
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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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...
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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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.
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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.
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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...
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The Cruelty Comes to Springfield
And the city’s faithful are coming together in opposition.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s.
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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)
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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.
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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-...
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Our Trade War Against Ourselves
Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well deserved!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Putin enjoys humiliating Americans in Iran but wants Trump in power. We tend to start our coverage from our own people and what they say rather than from the actual strategic and political position. It is helpful to read @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-ratcli...
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The Ratcliffe Visit To Moscow: A Case Study Of White House Press Manipulation
Weakness Repackaged As Strength
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lecture 7 of "Hitler and Stalin Today." "How was Mass Killing Possible?" These crimes were committed by human beings, so they raise questions about the political conditions necessary for mass atrocity, and how people did and can react to those conditions. snyder.substack.com/p/how-was-ma...
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How was Mass Killing Possible?
Lesson seven in my new lecture series
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trump and the people around him have no sense of patriotism or sovereignty. To them, politics is another grift—another way to the top. But as we are seeing, Canada doesn’t share their view. Canada has a plan and they are acting—and America will now lose the most, thanks to Trump and his people (2/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the right move for Canada following several wrong moves by the US.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026
If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of the world’s leading war reporters with a very helpful analysis. See also her forthcoming book. www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/futu...
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The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy
Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kathy Chow, one of our postdocs at Public History Lab, with the cover story of this week’s Maclean’s. macleans.ca/longforms/ju...
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The Prime Minister and the Pop Star - Macleans.ca
They were mascots of 21st-century optimism. Now they’re partying while the world burns.
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What makes the Iran War especially stupid? In this post I show how it meets key criteria for stupid wars: it went ahead despite likelihood of a bad outcome and decisions on its conduct made situation worse. Comparison are made with Iraq and Suez. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/good-wars-...?
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Good Wars, Bad Wars, and Stupid Wars
Could the war in Iran do even more damage to the US than Iraq?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A word about Trump’s reckless trade war with Canada. This is happening because Trump’s entire career is based on fraud and grift, which means he simply does not know anything about economics, trade, markets. He never has. (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don’t be afraid to win
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You can’t win if you don’t fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bardzo dumni razem z Marci z honoru Człowiek Pogranicza / Very proud as is Marci to have been named Borderlanders / foto tegoż dnia w Krasnogrudzie. @marcishore.bsky.social
A photo of a full rainbow across a sky that is cloudy but illuminated by sunlight.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Son on the USS Lincoln, father in ICE detention. The son suffering during a senseless war abroad, the father suffering during a sadistic war on ourselves. www.atfkw.com/p/navy-sailo...
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Navy Sailor’s Father Detained in Key West Immigration Operation
Joshua Aviles Castillo was completing his ninth month aboard the embattled USS Abraham Lincoln when he learned that federal immigration authorities had detained his father.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
35 years of a Ukrainian independence. As a person: grateful to the activists, soldiers, and people just holding on who have given the rest of us a chance to see solidarity, courage, and commitment. (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
з нагоди дня незалежності…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," is available for free online. Through 10 lectures, I examine Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared, and what we should have learned from the 20th century. Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Why Was Communism Appealing?" The sixth lecture in my new online course "Hitler and Stalin Today." Guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Read more and watch the full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/why-was-co...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The majority opinion said that justices were unable to see racism where it was absolutely obvious. They basically failed as witnesses, not as judges. That does not and cannot bind judges not to see what is right before their eyes.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Why Was Communism Appealing?" The sixth lecture in my new online course "Hitler and Stalin Today." Guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Read more and watch the full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/why-was-co...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She “declined?” “Declined”? You can’t just decline to get a security clearance. You either get one or you don’t have a job. So much dysfunction in this White House. When will the GOP have had enough? Why risk the country for this? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s going to be amazing in the last scene of this movie when she talks to her handler in fluent Russian, just like in No Way Out www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She’s been right before
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