Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands" .. more

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Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2025 he was also the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. .. more

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read.
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Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump

Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

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War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism

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Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion. Now, the apartment blocks are being rebuilt – and offered for sale to Russians with low-interest mortgages. youtube.com/shorts/yxsIV...

From Ruins to Russian Residences

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This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.

Don’t Call This a ‘Peace Plan’

If the U.S.-Russia plan for Ukraine goes forward, Donald Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.

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From Ruins to Russian Residences

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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 1d

My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.

Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 4d

"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."

ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol

Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Live now! Join me on Thinking Live, with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social, talking US, Russia, and Ukraine
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
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Russian Unreality and American Weakness

Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

Russian Unreality and American Weakness

Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

With the U.S. continuing to advance Russian interests over Ukraine’s, join @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and me on Thinking Live today, Nov. 24, at 2:00pm ET, as we break down what’s really happening.
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Russian Unreality and American Weakness

Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history The history of diplomacy is full of strangeness. Touch the surface of the dusty books and peculiar characters spring forth to demand that their tales be heard. And yet the American diplomacy of the past few days, I believe, will stand out as something peculiarly gruesome -- not simply incompetent, but openly courting national and global catastrophe.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to be speaking with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social about Ukraine and the Russian "peace plan," tomorrow, Nov. 23, at 2pm ET on Thinking About... Live. Please join us!
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...