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Trump's Psychological Vulnerability

And the #Destruction of the American #Economy

Timothy #Snyder Apr 10, 2025

All his adult life, #Trump has been ripping people off. That is his modus operandi. Rather than a conscience, he has the habit of displacement. It is not that he is ripping people off. Everyone else is ripping him off. ...

snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-p

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #America #tariffs #Ukraine #Russia

snyder.substack.comTrump's Psychological VulnerabilityAnd the Destruction of the American Economy

Civil Rights and Historical Honesty

A historian's reaction a recent executive order

Timothy #Snyder Apr 01, 2025

The president has issued an executive order entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Like most of these executive orders, it seems illegal on its face: the president can only execute the laws; he cannot just himself decide how our museums and parks will work or look. ...

snyder.substack.com/p/civil-ri

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#tyranny #democracy #truth #History

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Timothy #Snyder Mar 30, 2025

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. ...

1. Do not obey in advance.
2. Defend institutions.
3. Beware the one-party state.
...
10. Believe in truth.

snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-l

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#tyranny #democracy

The #Imperialism Has no Clothes

JD #Vance in #Greenland

Timothy #Snyder Mar 29, 2025

The threat in the #Arctic invoked by Vance is #Russia; and of course defending against a Russian attack is the #NATO mission. But right now the United States is supporting Russia in its war against #Ukraine. ...

snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #JDVance #Trump #Russland
#trumpadministration

Thinking about... · The Imperialism Has no ClothesBy Timothy Snyder
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situation in the #United_States.

Their example was followed by philosophy professor #Jason_Stanley, who specializes in the study of #fascism and propaganda.

In 2021, #Snyder, #Shore, and #Stanley co-taught a course at #Yale called “Mass Incarceration in the #Soviet_Union and the #United_States.” All three attributed their decision to leave #Yale to the political climate in the #States.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

Auf die Frage des Guardian, was es bedeutet, wenn ein Faschismusforscher die USA verlässt, antwortete #Stanley: "Zum Teil ist es letztlich so, wie man Deutschland 1932, '33, '34 verlassen hat. Meine Großmutter verließ Berlin mit meinem Vater 1939. Es ist also eine Familientradition." #Snyder #USA #USExit #Shore derstandard.de/story/300000026

DER STANDARDHistoriker Timothy Snyder verlässt die USAAuch seine Frau, die Historikerin Marci Shore, kehrt dem Land wegen Trump den Rücken – ebenso wie Yale-Kollege Jason Stanley, der vor einer faschistischen Diktatur in den USA warnt

I don't intend to criticise Jason Stanley or Timothy Snyder for going to Canada because I don't know their personal circumstances. They haven't been detained, they haven't been tortured but they've made the decision to leave. They have concluded that even being senior academics at an elite university isn't going to protect them. That's a pretty damning indictment of supposedly independent institutions.

2+2=5

"#America destroys one of its own symbols,"

by Stanislav #Aseyev

Timothy #Snyder Mar 19, 2025

In violation of the law and the Constitution, the #Trump administration purports to have closed Radio Free/Radio Liberty, a medium which is the source of much of what we known about #Russia and the post-communist world. ...

snyder.substack.com/p/225

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#USA #Russia #putin #russland
#RadioLiberty #Orwell1984 #torture #isolazija
#Ukraine #Zelensky #SlavaUkraini

Thinking about... · 2+2=5By Timothy Snyder

Embedded im Knast in El Salvador und der Journalist der @tagesschau sieht vor lauter Details und Inszenierung die Entmenschlichung nicht mehr, die vor seinen Augen stattfindet. Timothy #Snyder über die Abschiebungen:
"Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to #ElSalvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."