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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"

Joined March 2015
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
🔥 @RepRaskin: “Accountability vs. Affordability is a false dichotomy— they’re the same thing.” Raskin points out Trump’s corruption and pointless war is why things are expensive, so Dems holding corruption accountable and addressing affordability is not an either/or, it’s BOTH.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
The blue tsunami that swept across the US, with Democrats seizing control of both Congress and the Senate, sent shockwaves through Russia, where the 80-year-old president is affectionately called “our Trump” and “Trumpushka.” My latest for @thedailybeast: thedailybeast.com/putins-pal…
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Join live now and check in for more conversations later today and Monday. Now We Act. snyder.substack.com
Beginning today: "Now We Act" – a new series in conversation with American elected officials on "Thinking About..." We will talk about the chance the Democrats have to effect a political and a systemic realignment – laying foundations that will make daily life more prosperous, rewarding, and free snyder.substack.com
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Beginning today: "Now We Act" – a new series in conversation with American elected officials on "Thinking About..." We will talk about the chance the Democrats have to effect a political and a systemic realignment – laying foundations that will make daily life more prosperous, rewarding, and free snyder.substack.com
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
MAGA lost the election and don't even have their girlfriends to comfort them because Zelensky took out those Russian bot farms.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
NEW: Indivisible is calling for a contested Senate leadership election, not a coronation. It is time to take meaningful steps to demonstrate that Democrats are discarding the old, failed playbook. Any Leader for the new fighting Democratic party must commit to the following:
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Extraordinary how Ds stepped up and ran such courageous races in the face of endless media naysaying, vicious GOP propaganda, and over $100 million in Musk derangement, thoughtfully creating a new politics that appealed to people's basic decency at such a trying time in US life.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
I’ve never seen a better campaign team than the one that powered Amy Acton to a historic and decisive victory despite being outspent 4 to 1 in a state left for dead not long ago. A campaign for the ages. Thank you to each and very team member who made it happen.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress, You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So: - Subpoena Google for cramming AI down our kids throats. Threaten to amend the FAR to prohibit contracting across the U.S. government with any company forcing kids to use AI. - Subpoena the private equity managers enshittifying hospitals, dialysis centers, your local vet, your local primary care provider. Name individuals, not just companies. Shame them. Show the public (and public pension funds) how they make their money. - Subpoena health insurers who use AI to auto-deny valid claims, triage mental health emergencies, or upcode diagnoses. Make them stop that. - Subpoena the airlines for systematically denying cash refunds to travelers. (“Here’s a voucher instead!”) Show your hand – threaten the subpoena now, before Thanksgiving. - Subpoena Brazilian meatpacker JBS for literally anything. For child labor, for getting fat and rich off of cattlemen, for making their workers work so fast their hands curl into claws, for persistent hygiene allegations. - Subpoena corporate landlords. Show the public how they get rich off of hidden fees and not fixing their apartments. - Subpoena any company that has been slow to issue tariff refunds to small business owners. I bet they’ll get their checks a lot quicker! Will it work? See what happened when Instacart was exposed as secretly marking up your grocery cart... Yes, it can work. P.S. If anyone tells you “No, you can’t do that” or “No, there’s a process for that,” ignore them. You know what time it is.
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"Now We Act" – a new series in conversation with American elected officials on "Thinking About..." We will talk about the chance the Democrats have to effect a political and a systemic realignment – laying foundations for policies that will make daily life more prosperous, rewarding, and free.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Finally got a copy! It's a read for those thinking about where the Dems can go with health policy. Its focus on projects growing from Eastern European democracy-building is translatable, and gives you a sense of what it means for health to be a right. sarasilverstein.org/for-your…
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
You will be shocked, shocked to discover that Russia's Storm-1516 influence operation has MAGA accounts, some of which have now been suspended by X. Others are still active, with a collective 2.7 million followers. See David's thread below. More on Storm-1516 and its role in Russian election interference in the U.S. in 2024: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-i…
A ce jour, j'ai pu identifier en sources ouvertes 27 comptes d'influenceurs Maga affiliés à Storm-1516 qui ont primo-diffusé du contenu ciblant la France depuis juin 2026, et 1/3 de ces comptes ont été suspendus hier par X. Il ne faut pas perdre de vue que ce que l'on appelle en France "Magasphère" est bien souvent, et de longue date, une "Poutinosphère".
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Dr Amy Acton, a remarkable Ohioan and public servant. We are fortunate when people like her step up and run for office. @amyactonoh
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Talarico has Musk funding his opponent’s campaign and Putin funding social media slanders against him — Talarico must be something special to have the world’s two most powerful oligarchs lined up against him.
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Timothy Snyder retweeted
Freedom to speak. Freedom to vote. Freedom to live. These basic liberties were blatantly violated by irresponsible and self-centered tech billionaires this month. snyder.substack.com/p/our-am…
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Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, one of their first investigations (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation here, and we need to understand what has happened.
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This is a conversation that I shared with Dr. Amy Acton last November. @amyactonoh snyder.substack.com/p/conver…
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My reporting on the student movement in Serbia last summer. They kept at it, amazingly, for two years. And they won. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-…
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