Timothy Snyder
@TimothyDSnyder
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Temerty Prof @munkschool @UofT; Fellow @IWM_Vienna; Emer. Levin Prof @Yale "On Freedom" "On Tyranny" "Our Malady" "Road to Unfreedom" "Black Earth" "Bloodlands"
Joined March 2015
"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. The point of this essay is that the rest
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Some common sense to remember in a trying time. Originally written in April 2025 https://t.co/NERCgqVlAn
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Definitely follow this important reporting. And listen to the long, funny, revealing conversation Michael and I had on Thinking Live: https://t.co/h0TglDUV7Q
Stay tuned for @InsiderEng story, in collaboration with @derspiegel, about how we knew Dmitriev was the architect of this “peace plan.” Drops tomorrow at 5am EST.
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It’s not that complicated, people.
Important for Steve Witkoff's son, who runs Trump's crypto fund, to release the list of all investors, including anyone connected to the Kremlin. So far, he has refused.
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So much good work by @Will_Bunch
The Army's Hugh Thompson defied orders to save Vietnamese lives during the My Lai massacre. Eventually seen as a hero, in real time he was vilified, nearly court-martialed It's Congress' job to stop Trump's war crimes, not the troops. My new column
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
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They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan. https://t.co/Y8WlRWAC1l
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Senator Mitch McConnell and several other lawmakers have accused President Trump’s team of appeasing the Kremlin, warning that doing so would not lead to lasting peace.
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Very happy to have spoken to @michaeldweiss about the problems, shall we say, of having Russians write our foreign policy. The details are being confirmed now by major outlets. Get the analysis here. https://t.co/h0TglDUV7Q
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Senator Kelly is admirable, courageous, and right.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
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Disturbing. Incidentally @rcbregman has written some interesting books that you might want to read. https://t.co/TkX5MjSs7j
theguardian.com
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
Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion.
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This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues @ccaryl.
foreignpolicy.com
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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Russians shouldn’t be designing the American reaction to Russia’s criminal war. See my newsletter "Thinking about…" for more on this.
On @tvrain, @christogrozev reads live on air from notes he took from a Russian source six months ago outlining almost point for point what wound up in the Witkoff-Dmitriev text, including the very specific details of where Ukrainian reconstruction money should come from:
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My chat with the great @TimothyDSnyder on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. https://t.co/5IP2Si0hn3
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You should be paying attention to Tennessee. The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Trump’s base are starting to show.
motherjones.com
Democrat Aftyn Behn is putting up a fight.
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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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Live now! Join me on Thinking Live, with @michaeldweiss, talking US, Russia, and Ukraine https://t.co/ikUbYYdKRd
With the U.S. continuing to advance Russian interests over Ukraine’s, join @michaeldweiss and me on Thinking Live today, Nov. 24, at 2:00pm ET, as we break down what’s really happening.
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MAGA accounts exposed as foreign actors 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
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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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