Timothy Snyder

snyder.substack.comConversation with Dr Amy ActonA recording from Timothy Snyder's live video

This is a conversation that I shared with Dr. Amy Acton last November. @amyactonoh.bsky.social snyder.substack.com/p/conversati...

Just noting that during *both* game 1 and game 2 the broadcast of the World Series I watched in Toronto aired long, pre-recorded video sequences that only made sense if the LA Dodgers were playing — even though LA was eliminated 4-0 by the Brewers and is not in fact playing.

The live commentators in both cases were then left with the task of trying to explain why people had just watched something which was obviously not right. Will we also see Dodgers content in game 3 tonight?

Why on earth did that happen? AI? Sports betting? Producers who didn’t check who was actually playing? It is odd.

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theguardian.comSerbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic electionVučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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snyder.substack.comYouth Protest in SerbiaAnd some thoughts for America

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-prot...

snyder.substack.comYouth Protest in SerbiaAnd some thoughts for America

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-prot...

Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

docnyc.netTRACES - DOC NYCUS PREMIERE As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian women who have survived sexual assaults by Russian soldiers recount their stories

The New York premier of this important film is November 14th. Please see it if you can. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

phillipspobrien.substack.comWeekend Update #207: The US-Russia Alliance Is Signed--In Ukrainian BloodUkraine Seems To Get It This Time; Ukraine Keeps Steadily Progressing In The Land War

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

This is a man who knowingly took up Nazi rhetoric to gin up the hatred behind an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Haitian refugees from his own state.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Why are you scapegoating immigrants for the issues you're supposed to be solving as the vice president? JD VANCE: To the extent my rhetoric has been imperfect, that's on me

mprnews.orgSenate candidate Flanagan deflates report that she inflated her academic credentialsThe DFL candidate for U.S. Senate said a story stating Flanagan isn’t a member of Phi Beta Kappa is inaccurate and the academic honor society verified that she’s been a member since 2002.

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

“This is a park area with a working fountain. Naturally, at this time of day, it’s packed with people and children. The weather today brought everyone outside—mothers with toddlers, kids riding bikes—and the strike targeted those exact people.” Yurii Yurchenko, chief of the Nova Vodolaha police,

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emptywheel

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Ohio: Oh yes, the Dem Gubernatorial candidate HAS TOO excelled despite a nightmarish childhood. MN: Oh yes, the Dem Senate candidate IS TOO really smart and always has been in spite of economic challenges. Who's next?

MPR News@mprnews.org

Peggy Flanagan provided evidence of her Phi Beta Kappa membership after a Wall Street Journal report questioned her academic credentials. The honor society confirmed the DFL U.S. Senate candidate has been a member since 2002.

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Chris Hayes

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This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...

Love to see it. This is what that man is meant to do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

Wonderful to see the #1! A book for anyone interested in how health matters in politics. sarasilverstein.org/for-your-hea...

Sara Silverstein@sarasilverstein.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone buying my book! I've heard that people are receiving notices that it's now backordered until December. I will look into this. sarasilverstein.org/for-your-hea...

The great Oleksandra Matviichuk is absolutely right to draw attention to the horrible humanitarian crisis in Oleshky. All Putin, Witkoff, and Kushner can do is invert and traduce the meaning of “humanitarianism,” in the best traditions of Russian propaganda.

Oleksandra Matviichuk@avalaina.bsky.social

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

For the Americans the war is just an element of a grift; they are, sadly, not negotiators in any sense, just men seeking to make more money from the bloodshed their actions enable.

Veles is a Slavic god of the underworld.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social

The 2nd National Guard Corps "Khartia" announced that the Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted an underground counteroffensive operation - "Veles," advancing more than 15 km into enemy rear areas in the Kupyansk sector. youtu.be/dmrd1IAJj-8?...

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Oleksandra Matviichuk@avalaina.bsky.social

In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region. #MadeByPutin #FinancedByTrump

help99.coCorn Battalion: America's Breadbasket Supporting Europe's Breadbasket.The Corn Battalion is a group of friends from the Midwestern United States, America's breadbasket, who want to see people in Europe's breadbasket live free from Russian terror. We are raising $23.000 ...

A small campaign you can join and make a difference — helping to save lives at the front. And the patches are nice. www.help99.co/patches/corn...

I knew this man was in there somewhere. Praise be

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

ft.comUS executives quit $25bn gas venture over claims of secret Russian controlFormer CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that energy giant Novatek financed and held reins of strategic Alaska project without Washington’s approval

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

sarasilverstein.orgFor Your Health and OursWhere does politics begin? At the end of the First World War, a group of eastern European physicians built a case that politics begins with the body and with health. Their arguments, and above all …

Very proud of my onetime student, Professor Sara Silverstein, whose innovative and timely book "For Your Health and Ours" was just published by Oxford UP. Anyone who is interested in health and democracy should read her book. @sarasilverstein.bsky.social sarasilverstein.org/for-your-hea...

And it was actually a prisoner exchange in which we gave them an actual Russian criminal and we also gave them diplomatic cover in a war of aggression — not only morally shameful and personally humiliating but as a negotiation absolutely laughably unequal.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living

I am beginning to think that “superpower suicide” understates the case.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Russia could've done a lot more to help Iran. Russia has done very little for Iran. China could've done a lot more for Iran. And I remember that."

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Join me on Thinking Live... for a conversation with Michael Weiss about the current state of affairs between the United States and Russia and the war in Ukraine. Today, 10/22, 3pm ET. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social snyder.substack.com

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Join me today on Thinking Live... with Kimberlé Crenshaw to talk about to talk about her book "Backtalker: An American Memoir." 10/22, 12pm ET @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social snyder.substack.com

Join me today on Thinking Live... with Kimberlé Crenshaw to talk about to talk about her book "Backtalker: An American Memoir." 10/22, 12pm ET @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social snyder.substack.com

Just in today’s news JD Vance was shown to be a spreader of Russian propaganda, argued in favor of a child-rape political ad, and was dissed by his hometown football team.

theins.pressPutin’s “Doppelgängers”: The Insider gets inside the operations of the Kremlin's foreign disinformation networkWestern journalists call them "Doppelgänger," but the team of Russian propagandists spreading fake content under the banner of legitimate foreign news outlets…

I said that this was a Russian trope at the time in testimony to Congress and am glad to see this excellent documentation of Russia’s use of Vance’s vocal chords.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Leaks from Putin's office have revealed an extensive influence operation targeting JD Vance, which achieved everything it set out to achieve. Read all about how JD Vance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice

publicnotice.coThe plot against Ukraine (and Europe)We are now part of the axis of evil.

Very valuable and very sober analysis www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti...

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Chris Murphy

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Every time Vance talks I am going to give money to the Dr Amy Acton gubernatorial campaign.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

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munkschool.utoronto.caTimothy Snyder in conversation with Nora Krug

Today, 10/20, at 4pm ET I'll be in conversation with Nora Krug about our collaboration on the graphic edition of "On Tyranny." Join virtually by registering here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/timoth...

mickryan.substack.comWhat Has Ukraine Done for Us?A response to the US president’s claim that “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. They’ve given us nothing!”

Extremely sound mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

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snyder.substack.comTrump’s Big Lie about UkraineAnd what Ukraine is giving to us

Trump just claimed the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

docnyc.netTRACES - DOC NYCUS PREMIERE As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian women who have survived sexual assaults by Russian soldiers recount their stories

If you are wanting to learn about the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory, this important film is a very good place to start. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

snyder.substack.comTrump’s Big Lie about UkraineAnd what Ukraine is giving to us

munkschool.utoronto.caTimothy Snyder in conversation with Nora Krug

You can donate here to help protect Ukrainians from Russian drone attacks. Please do so if you can. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense

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snyder.substack.comRape as a weapon of warThe voices of Ukrainians

These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

snyder.substack.comRape as a weapon of warThe voices of Ukrainians

hollywoodreporter.comTikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.

Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"