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 · 4h

I was very glad to join Jessica Yellin for a conversation about saving democracy.
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When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lawyers

19 Epstein photos, many questions. Plus: Timothy Snyder discusses tech oligarchs and saving democracy. Trump vs state AI protections. And an Olympic comeback for News That Doesn't Suck.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

AOC: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want you to believe that this is who we are as a country. And we are here to say that it is not. We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

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Enemy Aliens and (Freudian) Displacement

One way to think about billionaires and borders A short piece today about a big subject: how should we interpret the utterances of tech billionaires (and their allies and clients) regarding the threat of migrants to Western civilization? What they say is often wrong, and what they say always matters

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

The president of Ukraine in a town that the president of Russia claims Russia occupies. Ukrainians can defend themselves if they are helped by their allies. We have a simple job here — help courageous people who are defending themselves in horrible circumstances. Continuous good work by Phil OBrien

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Just sent out my free weekend update. Was quite a week in the land war, started with great doom for Ukraine and ended with the Ukrainians pushing the Russians away from Kupyansk and advancing in a week twice as much as the Russians advanced in 4 months. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk

The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe

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What a terrible thing it is

Mass shootings as regime change “What a terrible thing it is,” said Donald Trump, “And all we can do right now is pray for the victims, and for those that were very badly hurt.” Such was the president’s reaction to the mass shooting at Brown University. We are inured to these clichéd formulations. But they are an essential element of a regime change from the rule of law to the rule …

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

This has never been done before by anyone.

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Ukraine’s “Sub Sea Baby” Drone Cripples $400M Russian Submarine in Black Sea Port

Ukraine's Security Service utilized underwater drones to strike a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk, causing critical damage and impacting its operational status.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown

Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
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The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.

As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

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Ukraine’s “Sub Sea Baby” Drone Cripples $400M Russian Submarine in Black Sea Port

Ukraine's Security Service utilized underwater drones to strike a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk, causing critical damage and impacting its operational status.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown

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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 2d

The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...

Michael Weiss on X: "Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6" / X

Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6

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O Generous One!

Christmas Carols, 2/2 The other night I heard “Carol of the Bells” echoing from the gallery of a cathedral, and this most beautiful of our Christmas songs made me a little sad.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

A mass shooting at my alma mater Brown University hit hard, proving no community is safe from senseless violence in a land with more guns than people

Trump added insult to injury by claiming there is "nothing you can do." We can do a lot about guns

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Mass shooting at Brown U.: When gun heartbreak comes home | Will Bunch

A mass shooting at my alma mater is a gutting reminder that no one is safe until we tackle America's gun crisis.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk

The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Smiley: We know there will be misinformation available online. Please, when it comes to official updates, go to the city of Providence's social media channels… so you know you are getting an accurate and official update.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities.
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Police search for suspects after shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island – latest updates

Suspect or suspects at large as Ivy League university tells students to take shelter during second day of final exams

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The inhuman assault on Christmas

On Christmas Carols, 1/2 The other day I experienced the inhuman assault on Christmas.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight, Dec 12, at 9pm ET join @ms.now to watch the conversation I had with Rachel Maddow in Chicago last month.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.

Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 4d

An estimated 200,000 people have fled fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo just days after Trump hailed a “historic” peace deal to end the conflict.

200,000 Flee Congo After Trump’s ‘Historic’ Peace Deal

Why the Rwanda-Congo accord misses the point.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4d

Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.

Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d

A denial of death, post-truth, and "foul is fair" all speak to a refusal to acknowledge boundaries. For Trump and Putin, there is no boundary between real and unreal, good and evil, life and death. In the absence of any boundary, nothing means anything, and we face a nihilist abyss.