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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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Published: December 19, 2025 20:10
In an amazing coincidence, the size of Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center is exactly equal to the total size of all the redactions of his name from the Epstein Files.
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Published: December 19, 2025 18:23
Yes, it doesn’t matter if you have cards if you don’t know how to play.
https://time.com/7341064/trump-should-call-putins-bluff/
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Published: December 19, 2025 18:22
Something unfair here
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bondi-hero-who-ran-toward-gunman-facing-deportation-20251217-p5nohn.html
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Published: December 19, 2025 15:06
Live now – I'm talking with
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social
about the state of the war in Ukraine, the actual battlefield situation, and prospects for a ceasefire.…
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Published: December 19, 2025 14:43
Some extraordinary content in Russian from an extraordinary reporter and person.
na-voyne.simplecast.com
https://na-voyne.simplecast.com
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Published: December 19, 2025 14:41
There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason.
https://www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiysk-was-russias-last-sanctuary?r=8rjoe&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true
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Published: December 19, 2025 14:17
Join us today
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Published: December 19, 2025 02:10
I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
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Published: December 19, 2025 02:03
This catches something really important. The risk
is less that this crew changes the regime and more that while trying to do so they cash out the whole thing. Which is one more powerful reason why resistance is patriotic.
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:46
It’s possible that they didn’t think of this and also possible that they did and want it to happen or don’t care. The one foreign policy issue these people claimed to care about was communist China but they have essentially given up — it’s all too hard for…
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:46
Read this.
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:44
This would be an excellent moment for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:18
The great Slava Vakarchuk
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:17
Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.
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Published: December 18, 2025 23:14
Tomorrow on "Thinking Live" I'll be speaking with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about the state of the war in Ukraine, the actual battlefield situation, and prospects for a ceasefire.
December 19th, 10am ET.
snyder.substack.com
https://snyder.substack.com
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Published: December 18, 2025 15:25
How the Trump “National Security Strategy” is read abroad.
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Published: December 18, 2025 15:23
These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
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Published: December 18, 2025 02:09
This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.
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Published: December 18, 2025 02:08
The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history.
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20135156/university-toronto-associate-professorprofessor-john-yaremko-chair
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Published: December 18, 2025 02:07
These are the places where American students learn about the world. These cuts are one sign — I know there are others — of a country that is shrinking away.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee07aa-19e3-4fb2-89f0-9e2526a003df
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Published: December 17, 2025 17:05
"The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-a-terrible-thing-it-is
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Published: December 17, 2025 17:03
Arseniy Zav’ialov, who volunteered at the beginning of the full-scale war, was killed in action defending Pokrovsk from the Russian invasion. He saved cats, one of whom was wounded. Our acts of kindness remain.…
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ma754j2nis25
Published: December 17, 2025 16:59
Like many others I was probably formed by Rob Reiner’s movies more than I realized. I met him once and was struck by the practical efforts he made to translate his powerful understanding of people and how they relate to one another into a more durable and…
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Published: December 16, 2025 17:32
I was very glad to join Jessica Yellin for a conversation about saving democracy.
https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/when-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand
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Published: December 16, 2025 13:38
The president of Ukraine in a town that the president of Russia claims Russia occupies. Ukrainians can defend themselves if they are helped by their allies. We have a simple job here — help courageous people who are defending themselves in horrible…
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Published: December 15, 2025 19:37
This has never been done before by anyone.
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Published: December 15, 2025 18:51
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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Published: December 15, 2025 18:50
We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-generation-relearning-catch-spies-kash-patel-counter-intelligence-espionage-tulsi-gabbard-china
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Published: December 13, 2025 23:35
My heart is with my beautiful alma mater right now. We should treasure universities.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/13/brown-university-shooting-rhode-island-updates
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Published: December 13, 2025 00:48
Tonight, Dec 12, at 9pm ET join @ms.now to watch the conversation I had with Rachel Maddow in Chicago last month.
@maddow.bsky.social
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Published: December 12, 2025 18:54
Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.
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Published: December 12, 2025 18:50
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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Published: December 11, 2025 18:03
This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?
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Published: December 11, 2025 18:01
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be…
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Published: December 11, 2025 14:10
Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-island
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Published: December 11, 2025 13:58
I will be joining Jessica Yellin for a live conversation on "News Not Noise" today, 12/11 at 12pm ET.
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/podcast
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Published: December 11, 2025 13:39
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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Published: December 10, 2025 16:52
The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/self-terrorism
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Published: December 10, 2025 16:28
God is trying to tell us that vouchers are bad and vaccines are good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/dead-vultures-bird-flu-ohio.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Published: December 10, 2025 16:25
“Your kids should get less for Christmas than kids have in a communist China.”
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Published: December 7, 2025 19:54
And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
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Published: December 7, 2025 19:51
The Kremlin had to exhibit self-control to praise this only after it was published.
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Published: December 7, 2025 19:50
Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
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Published: December 6, 2025 16:38
We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global…
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3m7dfvjon2s2g
Published: December 6, 2025 16:22
If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
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Published: December 6, 2025 16:20
I love soccer and I remember each World Cup with great intensity and always so much look forward to the next. But FIFA that was disgusting, even more disgusting than usual, and now I just can’t. And won’t.
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Published: December 6, 2025 16:18
Decades of conservatives mocking the idea that everyone is a winner — and now this.
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Published: December 6, 2025 00:05
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay…
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Published: December 6, 2025 00:02
The suspense was killing me
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Published: December 5, 2025 18:04
Hugely proud of and happy for Prof David Petruccelli, whose history of Interpol is published by OUP today. It provides a complete revision of a major chapter of the history of international policing & is full of amazing anecdotes from the history of…
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Published: December 5, 2025 15:34
US making the war longer and worse for Ukraine and the world, and hurting obvious US interests in the bargain. And for what?
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Published: December 5, 2025 15:28
Agreed. And it's not only improper for American elected officials to tell other people around the world what is right and wrong. It goes from improper to humiliating when the American elected official is just doing PR for a company. (1/2)
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