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"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

This is how you tell who Trump’s constituents are. bsky.app/profile/juli...

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

It’s an obvious point but apparently we have to keep making it: when Trump weakens Ukraine he created the conditions for a longer and bloodier war.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

"If we have a president who considers himself an aspiring dictator among real dictators, the United States is weak where it might have been strong... we find ourselves in a submissive position that no one ever actually wanted – no one, except for Trump, Putin, and Xi."

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 5 days ago • 1208 comments

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 8 days ago • 408 comments

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

submitted 9 days ago • 283 comments

Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.

submitted 9 days ago • 173 comments

"Putin went through a hell of a lot with me." ~Donald Trump

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

submitted 9 days ago • 464 comments

If America has different allies, are we the same kind of country? @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I made a podcast episode discussing this last summer www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

“The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine..he is an elected president of a free system. That's not the case with Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time” Emmanuel Macron President of France 👏

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 16 days ago • 1340 comments

As the #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost call Trump's extortion a "deal", the #GoodGuardian once again shows them the way, calling it what it is: theft and blackmail. ‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.

submitted 18 days ago • 70 comments

Talking about freedom in Kyiv with the great Volodymyr Yermolenko earlier this month youtu.be/8IpyP1PbubM

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

While tonight's event with Ivan Krastev and @timothysnyder.bsky.social is fully booked, it will also be broadcast on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6hZqB...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

submitted 24 days ago • 89 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 28 days ago • 381 comments

True. “Wilmington’s Lie” by David Zucchino is a must-read, BTW.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Could it be that @kpmgus.bsky.social, as the internal control auditors of the Treasury, is the most important firewall to protect the country now ? @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @ericswalwell.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social Can someone interview them ?

submitted 32 days ago • 616 comments

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

Obviously illegal, immoral, and just plain disgusting for a handful of young people to seize the personal and financial data of millions of others and hand it to a centibillionaire.

submitted 33 days ago • 81 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 35 days ago • 145 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 35 days ago • 354 comments

Doris Kearns Goodwin: ‘The robber barons probably thought they were God too’ https://www.ft.com/content/2003b748-e76a-486c-bdbb-2c9a4c212db0

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 52 days ago • 73 comments

The history of failed nominations reminds us just how far some of the Cabinet nominees fall below any reasonable standard. The Senate has a constitutional role, and in the past has exercised it. snyder.substack.com/p/rejected-c...

submitted 52 days ago • 51 comments

Hegseth lacks the normal qualifications for secretary of defense. His books reveal two ideas about what armed forces are for: a site to express Christian Reconstructionism and gender ideology; and a means to defeat other Americans inside America. snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusad...

submitted 52 days ago • 62 comments

We are facing a moment when much will change for the worse, not just in policy, but in the structure of politics itself. We need to be imagining a better America. A Shadow Cabinet would be a positive form of opposition. snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cab...

submitted 61 days ago • 214 comments

A Shadow Cabinet. A People's Cabinet. An Alternative Cabinet. Naming, and establishing, a positive form of political opposition in the United States: snyder.substack.com/p/an-alterna...

submitted 57 days ago • 153 comments

I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, in the immodest conviction that this little satire will have more analytic and predictive power than most of what you read or watch this coming year. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

submitted 58 days ago • 43 comments

“Carol of the Bells” is a Ukrainian song, Shchedryk, about prosperity in the new year. One gift of many from Ukrainians to the rest of us. Watch. youtu.be/Y5j_F9_-WOg?...

submitted 73 days ago • 59 comments

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

submitted 78 days ago • 272 comments

Check out my IG pics of Jason Bonham and squad last night www.instagram.com/p/DDFxWCjvkO...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments