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Timothy Snyder

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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"

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1Nov 27, '24The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.78.6×10.4M27k6.3k718
2Jan 25, '23In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically 75.8×10M48k20k9k
3Jul 1, '241/5. Unless Trump loses, America ends.43.2×5.7M43k9.4k2.2k
4Jun 7, '230/10 The Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, controlled by Russia, has been destroyed. This brings humanitarian, ecological, and economic disaster to Ukrainians. Here are some guidelines32.9×4.4M31k11k1.6k
5Nov 26, '24Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.29.4×3.9M22k4k506
6Feb 1, '23Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC26.1×3.4M43k16k380
7Oct 25, '24Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"24.8×3.3M31k9.7k1.9k
8Feb 22, '25Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is23.6×3.1M61k14k3.2k
9Jun 24, '231/2. All I can say about Russia is what I have been saying for a year: wars end when the domestic political system is under pressure.21.8×2.9M19k2.3k326
10Jan 2, '23найвища честь для автора – читач20.9×2.8M33k3.5k309
11Feb 20, '23Credit where due. Biden warned of the Russian invasion. He reacted wisely and flexibly. And now he has gone to Kyiv to give hope. We haven’t had a statesman like this in a long tim20×2.6M48k6.5k345
12Nov 11, '24Trump is Musk’s client. Musk is Putin’s client. Putin is Xi’s client.19.3×2.6M19k5.2k969
13Mar 17, '25You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.17.1×2.3M31k5.1k1.2k
14Mar 24, '25If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a15.5×2.1M80k14k3.4k
15May 22, '241/11. The people who told you that fascism was not a threat were wrong.15×2M18k5.8k1.5k
16Feb 15, '25I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your 14.8×2M36k9.1k1.6k
17Feb 29, '24The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a US citizen is above the law – a proposition that, if affirmed, would destroy the moral, legal, and political foundations of the C13.5×1.8M21k5.9k451
18Sep 30, '23Supporting Ukraine is a once-in-a-generation chance to make the world safer. Ending that support is recklessness for which we will suffer in all the conflicts that the Ukrainians a12.6×1.7M22k5.4k169
19Nov 14, '24In Russian state television, the debate is whether Tulsi Gabbard should be referred to as "our agent" or as "girlfriend."12×1.6M19k7k2k
20Nov 8, '25Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.11.4×1.5M24k5.3k488
21Mar 12, '24Trump's allies are selling out Ukraine in exchange for Russian backing in the election. 1/10.6×1.4M16k5.1k578
22Jul 17, '24Got all the way through the Constitution and did not find the provision whereby the South African oligarchs select the vice-presidential nominees on behalf of the Russian dictator.10.5×1.4M22k7k674
23Nov 9, '24Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.10.1×1.3M19k6.7k3k
24Oct 25, '24Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny."9.9×1.3M15k5.2k820
25Sep 30, '23Cutting off Ukraine aid makes America unreliable, weakens the cause of democracy, threatens the international legal order, encourages tyrants around the world, and hastens Chinese 9.5×1.3M20k4.8k186
26Jul 8, '24Because Russia bombed the kids with cancer.9.1×1.2M32k10k385
27Jul 26, '24Putin needs Trump and fears Harris. At some level, that’s all you need to know.9.0×1.2M20k4.8k270
28Aug 3, '23That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when 8.5×1.1M23k5.9k351
29Oct 12, '25Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.8.5×1.1M29k6.7k1.7k
30Apr 15, '251/4. 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 lega8.2×1.1M31k6.3k2.1k
31Aug 17, '251/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.7.7×1M29k6.1k585
33Feb 28, '25Trump 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 s7.5×988k45k9.3k820
34Jan 23, '23Pollsters: please ask no more questions about the "situation in Ukraine" or the "crisis in Ukraine." Please ask about "the Russian invasion of Ukraine" or "Russia's war on Ukraine.7.3×968k18k3.1k65
35Mar 27, '25It looks like ICE was given a quota and a deadline for Venezuelan gang members and filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness.7.3×966k24k6.8k1.5k
36Sep 2, '23Де я?7.0×932k18k54772
37Dec 19, '22When an oligarch says "free speech," he means "my power to shut you up." When an oligarch says "free speech absolutism," he means "my absolute power to shut you up."6.9×908k15k2.8k129
39Jan 20, '25A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.6.2×818k21k5.1k733
40Jul 27, '24If you ever want to vote again, if you want to live in a country where one day your children and grandchildren can vote, you need to vote for Harris this November.6.0×800k19k5.8k425
41Mar 24, '25These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.5.9×775k22k5.2k618
42Nov 11, '22China has peaked, Russia is retreating, and Trump is done. There's hope, people.5.8×094k11k731
43Sep 8, '23сила з нами. і щастя також5.7×753k22k2k125
44Jul 30, '24Musk suspended the Twitter account of White Dudes for Harris. I don't think South African billionaires should hinder Americans organizing for democracy. So I am doubling my donatio5.6×743k19k5.7k236
45Nov 4, '24A vaccine ban would kill and disable millions of Americans and collapse the economy. It is stunning that actual Americans on the edge of power would consider this idea, let alone a5.6×737k18k6.1k444
46Mar 17, '25So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia 5.6×735k30k7.7k684
48Jun 11, '22Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/165.5×055k21k4.7k
50Mar 27, '25Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. 5.4×710k20k6.2k975
51Feb 17, '24What Putin did to Navalny is what Trump says he can do to you.5.3×701k18k4.1k185
52Nov 7, '24All of you Harris supporters who are wondering why you lost so many followers – many of those were Russian trolls and bots. They are now off pretending to be MAGA to induce Trump s5.2×693k15k4.3k498
53Feb 9, '24Putin just took a couple of hours to say: "I must destroy Ukraine because I have no idea what Russia is."5.1×681k21k3.7k287
55Nov 3, '24The Guardian, The Financial Times, and the NYT have all just reported on Russian misinformation amplifying Trump’s lies about elections.4.7×625k15k5.3k286
56Apr 20, '241/3. Respect for the 101 Republicans who voted their conscience on Ukraine aid despite all the propaganda and pressure.4.7×617k22k2.8k210
57Mar 30, '25"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant4.7×616k20k3.5k445
58Dec 16, '24We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunn4.7×615k26k5.9k493
59May 18, '23Vyshyvanka Day4.3×571k20k63736
60Jan 12, '211/10. The claim that Trump won the election is a Big Lie.4.0×052k12k1.7k
61Mar 25, '25One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.3.9×518k21k4.1k331
62Nov 11, '201/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional.3.9×036k15k2.8k
63Nov 20, '24We’ve now reached the historical moment when Denmark is unquestionably tougher and more realistic in international affairs than any leader of the Republican Party.3.8×504k20k3.5k392
64Feb 26, '25All we need for peace in Ukraine is for Russian soldiers to return to Russia.3.7×486k25k3.9k186
65Feb 28, '25Decent people thank Ukraine.3.5×464k41k3.6k215
66Jul 2, '22Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/163.4×036k12k2.7k
67Nov 6, '22I have been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary 3.3×042k11k1.5k
68Apr 20, '22For thirty years, Germans lectured Ukrainians about fascism. When fascism actually arrived, Germans funded it, and Ukrainians died fighting it.3.3×047k10k654
69Apr 14, '190/50 Why we do think that Mr. Trump owes a debt to Mr. Putin? Here are fifty reasons. All of the facts are a matter of public record, and all of the sources can be found in my book3.0×023k13k4.4k
70Feb 28, '25Given 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 Russ2.9×389k22k4.1k384
71Feb 28, '25Russia 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 vic2.9×384k25k4.8k319
72Mar 25, '25Not to put too fine a point on it, but this scandal is what happens when you promote utterly unqualified people to the very top positions. #SignalGate2.9×378k25k4.6k211
73Jul 21, '24Full of admiration and gratitude. Joe Biden preserved our republic and left it far more just and dignified than he found it. And he has given us all a chance to create a far better2.8×371k14k2.7k194
74Oct 14, '22All of you who are saying that we have to give in to nuclear blackmail are making nuclear war more likely. Please stop. When you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again2.3×032k7.1k372
75May 31, '22Invading a country, killing the parents, and taking the children for assimilation: that is clearly genocide, according to Article 2 Section E of the 1948 Genocide Convention.2.2×030k7.8k364
76Mar 20, '22When Putin says that there is no Ukrainian nation and no Ukrainian state, he means that he intends to destroy the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state. Everyone gets that, righ2.1×029k7.6k205
77May 17, '22It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/172.1×026k6.5k1.3k
78Feb 19, '25If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine end2.0×267k18k3.4k247
79Oct 4, '22To consider regarding nuclear blackmail: when you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much mo2.0×030k5.6k272
80Oct 15, '22Elon Musk seems to be censoring Ukrainians–denying them communications in parts of their own country–because they are defending themselves from a Russian regime that routinely impr1.9×026k4.9k260
81Sep 11, '22Все буде добре, все буде Україна.1.7×032k2.1k134
82Oct 15, '22Two million views of my open Yale lecture class on the history of Ukraine. The first lecture is here.1.7×021k3.8k3.5k
83Oct 17, '22Israeli neutrality in Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine was always an ethical error. It is now perfectly clear that it was also a strategic disaster.1.7×027k3.5k252
84May 16, '24#VyshyvankaDay in Poznań1.7×219k19k74755
85Feb 25, '22From Ukrainian friends: “Editors and journalists: please don’t write about the ‘conflict in Ukraine.’ Write about the ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ or the ‘war in Ukraine.’” #Ukrai1.6×024k5.2k73
86Jan 13, '21The more we learn, the less this looks like a coup bound to fail, and the more it looks like plain luck that all of our legislators and our vice-president were not murdered.1.6×023k4.9k184
88Oct 15, '22The only sane thing for the UK is to return to the EU as quickly as possible. There is no time for irony here.1.5×023k3k113
89Feb 24, '221/11. Putin absurdly claims he has to invade Ukraine to protect Russian-speakers. Russian speakers in Ukraine are far more free than Russian speakers in Russia.1.4×020k4.3k409
90Jun 4, '22It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/171.4×018k4.2k659
91Sep 4, '211/7. Nearly two years in, nearly 700,000 dead, and no free at-home covid tests?1.3×020k3.4k240
93Feb 5, '21When Trump came to the White House, he whined that everything was a wreck, though it wasn’t. When Biden arrived at the White House, everything was a wreck, but he hasn’t complained1.3×019k3.6k66
94Sep 18, '22Today was the anniversary of the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. The Second World War began with a Nazi-Soviet alliance. It is illegal to say so in Russia. In Germany, where people1.3×017k4.1k179
95Sep 10, '22The Ukrainian army is undertaking a stunningly intelligent counteroffensive, and the Ukrainian president helps me with my book about the philosophy of freedom.1.2×020k2.2k214
96Jan 3, '211/10. Cruz et al do not allege fraud, they allege allegations of fraud.1.1×016k3k274
98Dec 23, '20A presidential pardon "carries an imputation of guilt" and its acceptance is a "confession." Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)1.0×014k3.6k137
99Jul 17, '22I will be teaching a lecture class on "The Making of Modern Ukraine" this fall at Yale. I will see what I can do about making lectures public.0.9×015k1.3k225

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