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Timothy Snyder
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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"
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November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"One way to criticize the text is to imagine that it is intended as a peace settlement and then note some shortcomings. But this is to normalize a document that obviously has other purposes than peace: namely, imperialism and profiteering. The fundamental problem of this text is its deliberate and characteristically Russian unreality. The text begins from the world as it is not."
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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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.
snyder.substack.com
Graphic card reading: Thinking Live with Michael Weiss, "U.S. Promotion of Russian interests in Ukraine," 11/24 at 2:00 p.m. ET. snyder.substack.com. The card includes photos of Michael Weiss and Timothy Snyder
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A few thoughts from Chicago.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Go vote.
An “I voted” sticker. It says “Yo voté” at the top and “I voted” at the bottom. It has a picture of a frog on a pedestal, drawn by a school kid, and the year 2025.
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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In D.C., and lots here to talk about. I will write something soon.
Picture of Timothy Snyder sitting and writing outside the U.S. Capitol.
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Destruction equipment at the White House today.
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A year ago, I launched my book #OnFreedom in a war zone – in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 35 seconds from Russian artillery. Today, I'm launching the paperback in Portland, Oregon. Which is NOT a war zone. There is a difference in the real world between what's a war and what is not, and between truth and lies.
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
Image of book cover. Blank cover with the text: "On Freedom. Timothy Snyder."
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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That we know of.
Screenshot of a post by Bernie Sanders. It lists money that Donald Trump has received in 2025. $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#NoKings Cincinnati
Poster with an image of a frog and the words “Don’t Obey”
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Speaking at #NoKings Cincinnati.
No kings. Freedom.
Timothy Snyder speaking, surrounded by a crowd.
October 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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#NoKings Cincinnati
Timothy Snyder standing with Cookie Monster, next to an American flag
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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#NoKings Cincinnati
Rally sign reads “I am Aunt Tifa. Heard you were looking for me!”
October 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Do you have your sign ready? #NoKings rallies are tomorrow. Find one near you. And share your sign in the comments! Here’s one I like…
Sign says “Bubbes for Freedom” and has a sticker of a grandmother with her grandchildren, a sticker saying “No Kings in America”, another saying “No Kings No Kings,” and a sticker with a crossed out crown.
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Ohio Statehouse, Ohio Book Prize for "On Freedom," very proud
A headshot of Timothy Snyder standing in front of an antique American flag.
October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I am honored to be in such company and to return home for the Ohio Book Awards.
www.ohioana.org/programs/ohi...
Timothy Snyder and his book "On Freedom" pictured among other winners of the 2025 Ohio Book Award. Full info via link in post.
October 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words "On Freedom" and "Timothy Snyder"
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Everything is wrong with this including the syntax
Screenshot of New York Times headline: "Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel: ABC's decision to 'indefinitely' suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show illuminates the administration's efficacy so far."
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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де я?
Selfie of Timothy Snyder standing in front of a river and a bridge on a clear and sunny day.
September 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Today is UA Independence Day. Z dnem nezalezhnosti!
Photo of Timothy Snyder wearing a Ukrainian vyshyvanka.
August 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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#NoKings Boston
A banner at the Boston No Kings protest carries the Polish slogan "solidarność"
June 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Brave people read books. Four readers at a book fair in Kyiv — V. Zelens’kyi, O. Zelens’ka, M. Shore, A. Glaser
Book Arsenal, Kyiv, 2025.
A selfie of Zelens’kyi, Zelens’ka, Shore, and Glaser standing together with a room of book displays behind them.
June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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#NoKings Philadelphia
Picture of Timothy Snyder speaking to the No Kings crowd in Philadelphia. There is a dense crowd with many signs and flags.
June 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM