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Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and… more

Timothy Snyder
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Trudy Harpham, John Protevi, Nicola Giocoli

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Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d
🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.
The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’ abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and intimidating members of the Press on the ground there. 85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence, assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees
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Protect Democracy doing great work as usual.
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Protecting Protesters and the Press from Unconstitutional Federal Force in Illinois
Protect Democracy is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment in Northern Illinois.
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Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Mark D. White

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🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.
The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’ abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and intimidating members of the Press on the ground there. 85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence, assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees
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If you are in the National Guard or ICE and have any information or tips you’d like to share, text me on Signal premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected
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Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Michael A. Clemens, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 1 more

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The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Alan Richardson, Anne Norton

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The government does not have the power to declare “free speech zones.” And the violent arrest of the rabbi should set off some alarm bells.
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Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Juan Cole, Magda Teter

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This is what freedom of speech sounds like. Also, please consider subscribing to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Klaus Adam

by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: David R. Miller, Anne Norton, Magda Teter

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Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.
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Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Stephen M. Walt, Will Jennings , and 16 more

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Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9d
"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America."
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
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Youth Protest in Serbia
And some thoughts for America
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And in Serbia
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A Gen Z revolution is sweeping the globe. Is it coming to America? | Will Bunch
From Nepal to Morocco to Peru, very online 20-somethings are rising up against their governments. Can it happen here?
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This should be a book
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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
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Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Peter Jacobs

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Yarvin convinced a bunch of credulous tech billionaires that they needed to back an extreme, dumb, & wildly unpopular politics to “save western civilization.” We’re now getting that politics on steroids, and now he’s all “oh no, these policies are unpopular, must flee the country to save ourselves.”
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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d
mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass
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That’s the spirit of it
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Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
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1/2 Torturers also say this.
2/2 Different point. By this logic Vance himself should stop complaining all the time. Everything has been handed to him, and yet he’s a grievance machine.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
Tweet from the VP: Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt. My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude
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This Trump administration policy of generating an artificial civil war on the basis of big lies is of course meant to be frightening but it is also anti-American, unlawful, stupid and pursued by wildly unpopular people.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Timothy Snyder

by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Charles W. Smith , and 2 more

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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
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by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Timothy Snyder

by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Steven Heydemann

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"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Reposted by: Timothy Snyder, Anna O. Law, Richard S.J. Tol , and 17 more

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Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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