"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

@drdagly.bsky.social I wish to use a quote I believe I can attribute this to you? It begins “There is within some of us an uneasiness..” Is this in fact your original quote and do I have your permission to use it in the introduction of my now Substack post soon to be memoir?

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

@schumer.senate.gov it’s time to go. Please step aside. You can’t lead us out of this.

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

@ariajsue.bsky.social You must have Googled me.

"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?"

"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."

- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.

Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

I explained all this to a friend/colleague of mine when I was working at the Hanford Nuclear Site occupational medical clinic, and, after giving him a long dissertation on avian influenza/H5N1, his reaction was, “Well, don’t kiss your chicken.“ I think that wraps it up.

@ariajsue.bsky.social Let me finish digesting this grenade first