No Kings
Timothy #Snyder Jun 16, 2025
It was a thrill to march at the No Kings Rally in #Philadelphia on Saturday with friends and about a hundred thousand people. On the stage, I led a chant of "no kings -- freedom," and I tried to explain three things that slogan or that sequence can mean.
1. The logic.
2. The history.
3. The practice.
...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings
"Trump's civil war
And our new birth of freedom"
by #TimothSnyder #thinkingabout
#DonaldTrump #AbrahamLincoln #USA #nokingsday
Last Year's Move to #Toronto
And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)
Timothy #Snyder Jun 02, 2025
I moved with the family last year, largely for family reasons, attracted personally by the prospect of a change to Toronto and to its Munk School in particular ...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/last-years-move-to-toronto
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#MunkSchool #Yale #Academia
#USA #America #Trump #TrumpAdministration
The Next #Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After
Timothy #Snyder Apr 19, 2025
I don't want us to be more frightened than we should be. But I do want us to be ready, so that a moment of predictable shock does not become a lifetime of avoidable subjugation.
As I will try to show, the present government invites a terror attack. ...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-terrorist-attack
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #Trump #Musk #Vance #Gabbard #Assad #Putin
#TrumpAdministration
#CIA #FBI #DHS #NSA
Trump: "Home-growns are next"
Foreign gulags for US citizens
Timothy #Snyder Apr 14, 2025
... the president of the United States proposes, on camera, to deport Americans to foreign concentration camps. ...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trump-home-growns-are-next
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #Trump #TrumpAdministration
#NayibBukele #ElSalvador
#concentrationcamps
Trump's Psychological Vulnerability
And the #Destruction of the American #Economy
Timothy #Snyder Apr 10, 2025
All his adult life, #Trump has been ripping people off. That is his modus operandi. Rather than a conscience, he has the habit of displacement. It is not that he is ripping people off. Everyone else is ripping him off. ...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psychological-vulnerability
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #tariffs #Ukraine #Russia
Is it a #peace process? (short video)
Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video
Timothy #Snyder Mar 04, 2025
... it seems, in fact, designed to create the conditions for a broader and a longer war by excluding, exploiting and harming #Ukraine, strengthening #russia, ... , ignoring international law, and denying the need for any structure at all ...
https://snyder.substack.com/p/is-it-a-peace-process-short-video
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#usa #Trump #Vance #putin #russland
#Zelensky #SlavaUkraini
The Reality of #Ukraine
A larger meaning of the largest contemporary war
Timothy #Snyder Feb 24, 2025
The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable. Rather than possessors of truths, we are to serve as lonely nodes in a power network.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-reality-of-ukraine
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#putin #russia #russland #RussiaIsATerroristState
Absolutely worth reading ! Definitely one of the best essays by #TimothySnyder in recent times.
Crossing a line -
Borders between one kind of life and another #Thinkingabout #Ukraine #USA #Russia #geography #crossborderail #geopolitics #Authoritarianism #traintravel
@geography
https://snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a-line
#Thinkingabout
Rejected Cabinet Nominees
Some historical guidance #TimothySnyder
https://snyder.substack.com/p/rejected-cabinet-nominees