On Social Timothy Snyder Ukrainian 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 IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris. 02 February
On Social Timothy Snyder In 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 counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20 29 January
On Social Timothy Snyder The person who led the relevant section, Charles McGonigal, has just been charged with taking money from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Follow this thread to see just how this connects to the victory of Trump, the Russian war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security. 1/20 25 January
On Social Timothy Snyder When 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." 20 December 2022
On Social Christiane Amanpour “Ukraine is maybe the most important place in the world right now, and the fate of freedom writ large really does hang on what happens in Ukraine,” says historian @TimothyDSnyder, who’s teaching an open class on the history of Ukraine at Yale. https://t.co/Rphpy5JgOB 12 November 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder China has peaked, Russia is retreating, and Trump is done. There's hope, people. 11 November 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder To 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 more likely. 05 October 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder Today 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 people are free to reflect upon this, it would not be a bad idea to do so. 18 September 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder I 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. 18 July 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe. 1/16 02 July 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder Trump knew that he would lose, and knew that he lost. The Big Lie was always cover for regime change, and anyone still telling it is working to bring down democracy. #January6th #January6thHearings #January6thCommittee 10 June 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder It 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. 1/17 05 June 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder Invading 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. 01 June 2022
On Social Timothy Snyder When 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, right? #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack 20 March 2022
On Social The Daily Show What is the first step to breaking a democracy? Abandoning facts. @TimothyDSnyder explains. https://t.co/xOUUSf6bF4 08 January 2022
On Social Randi Weingarten Read @TimothyDSnyder ‘s essay … a historian with expertise in the fascist movements of the 20th century is sounding the alarm on this culture war & new laws that ban the teaching of history & current events…The War on History Is a War on Democracy https://t.co/UZVYMeNmEf 05 July 2021
On Social Timothy Snyder The plan seems to be to not count the dead in Republican counties and not count the vote in Democratic ones. https://t.co/95zagTLNrf 11 April 2020
Ask yourself something: are you willing to pay higher taxes and have less affordable health care so you can “own the libs” because that’s the price you’ll have to pay if the GOP agenda is enacted … you pay more, their cronies pay less.
I’m excited to join @ProChoiceCaucus as Freshman Leader! With Roe protections gone and Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature passing one of the harshest abortion bans in the nation, my home state has been on the frontlines of the battle for reproductive freedom.
Eric Trump tourmate claims Jewish people are frauds and “Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today” https://t.co/4Fp6BFm7Pw
Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell, partner charged in Maryland power grid plot - The Washington Post https://t.co/e9oX9K4r8u
