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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: April 16, 2025 16:02
The ones who support dictatorship abroad support dictatorship here. The ones who lie for Putin lie for Trump.
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Published: April 16, 2025 16:01
By "free speech," the Americans mean creating a media environment in your country dominated by American digital fascism preparatory to right-wing regime change. Vance essentially said as much in Munich. Give in now, forget about sovereignty later.…
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Published: April 16, 2025 00:18
Not a bad time to read Applebaum’s classic history of the Gulag, Alexopoulos’s convincing interpretation of the Soviet camp system ("Illness and Inhumanity"), or Julius Margolin’s extraordinary memoir "Journey to the Land of the Zeks and Back."
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Published: April 16, 2025 00:13
Important orienting work here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34ayvhDI7RVUDRSgLkNluMk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Published: April 15, 2025 22:59
Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.
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Published: April 15, 2025 17:28
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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Published: April 15, 2025 17:26
Not just morally wrong but terrible negotiating strategy — senseless and nihilistic.
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Published: April 15, 2025 15:02
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be…
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Published: April 15, 2025 01:13
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Published: April 15, 2025 00:35
Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?
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Published: April 15, 2025 00:04
Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/memoirs-of-the-murdered-1429909684
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Published: April 14, 2025 23:40
Trump has diverted media attention from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to his fake "peace" process. In fact, American weakness enables Russian aggression as a new offensive looms. Useful corrective here.…
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Published: April 14, 2025 20:20
Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”
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Published: April 14, 2025 14:19
Denounce thy neighbor
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
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Published: April 14, 2025 01:54
Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data…
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Published: April 13, 2025 21:30
Big numbers like this lead to local quotas and the desire to fill them which leads to haste and abuse and lawlessness and terror.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/12/one-million-deportations-goal/
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Published: April 13, 2025 20:53
Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/so-you-want-to-be-a-dissident
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Published: April 13, 2025 20:51
This is layers of sinister.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/
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Published: April 13, 2025 01:16
Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, Khanna, and Frost rising to the occasion.
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Published: April 13, 2025 01:08
Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.
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Published: April 12, 2025 17:33
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
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Published: April 12, 2025 15:00
The great Volodymyr Yermolenko and his UkraineWorld project are very worthy of support. Here we are launching my freedom book, underground, in Kharkiv last September.
@ukraineworld.bsky.social
https://ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/ep-340
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Published: April 12, 2025 14:54
The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution.
I explain in a short video:…
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Published: April 11, 2025 01:53
This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.
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Published: April 11, 2025 01:50
Lawlessness and shamelessness.
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Published: April 10, 2025 21:18
German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Published: April 10, 2025 15:34
"Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of a personal foible, a visible vulnerability."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psychological-vulnerability
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Published: April 10, 2025 00:25
Five Harvard students or recent graduates had their visas revoked, apparently for exercising their constitutionally-protected right to free expression.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/7/visas-revoked/
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Published: April 10, 2025 00:18
"'Shadow hearing' with ex-DOJ attorney after NYC mayor corruption charges dropped"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw65jSxsGg
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Published: April 9, 2025 21:18
A week ago I visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which everyone who can should, and which got me thinking again about the essential work of the Freedom Riders. Some music here arising from that history:…
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Published: April 9, 2025 21:15
It’s like everything else with Trump. You transform politics from a field or prosperity to a field of pain, and then you decide who hurts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/eu-offered-zero-for-zero-deal-to-us-weeks-before-tariff-announcement
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Published: April 9, 2025 21:13
The ideal of masculinity: destroying things other people built, whining about it, blaming someone else.
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Published: April 9, 2025 21:03
Usefully clear reasoning here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-deportations-gulag-prison.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare