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From living on a short chain in Thailand to the bright lights of a TV studio.

Look at beautiful Rusty 🥰🙏

The Golden Age

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Minnesota’s flags are lowered to half-staff today in honor of our nation's courageous firefighters who gave their lives to keep us safe.

May their bravery, strength, and compassion never be forgotten.

SORRY, NERDS 5/4 1s DAVE BRUBECK DAY

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

The Fed didn’t come to his rescue. China didn’t cave. Now he’s begging Congress to bail him out.

Wild that it’s just now sinking in who actually pays for the tariffs

(Hint: Small business owners, American consumers, etc.)

U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

KAMALA: “I’m not here to say I told you so — fear is contagious, but courage is also contagious.”

How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment?

They utterly failed the test of history.

Harris: We are in the midst of seeing progress being rolled back, policies that we birthed, being rolled back, the terms that we used for what is progress in America being turned into a pejorative? Intended to deny the facts. And to deny smart policy…

OBAMA: “Imagine if I had done any of this.”

Exactly.

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.

“Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris

Man, I miss her.

Food & ag groups blast ‘destabilizing’ tariffs, seek exemptions: ‘We urge the White House to reconsider’ Trump's tariffs "risk destabilizing the economy and undermining the goals of bolstering domestic manufacturing and growth" says RILA.

Ag groups on the tariffs "it is a shit show"

agfundernews.com/food-ag-grou...

Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.

Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic display ahead of a visit to the school by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth o...

They really went through and emptied display cases of anything about womens achievements. Taking down Confederate statues and names led to the erasure of anyone who isn’t white, male, and straight being literally erased by Hegseth and his immoral collaborators. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants

He hates the military. We are just props.

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

NASA dropped plans to put the first woman on the moon.

DEI RIGHT?!?!

Anyone wanna guess which administration originally planned the first woman on the moon?

Hint: he smells bad mostly

📸 @DrBiden just dropped a new pic with @JoeBiden in NYC, captioned: “Date Night.”

Man, I miss them.

When some people see a Black pilot or a woman astronaut, they think, “Oh, they aren’t qualified.”

When I see a Black pilot or a woman astronaut, I think, “Wow, they had to work their ass off twice as hard to get here —now that’s being more than qualified.”

A strong statement from the head of Voice of America, who points out that Trump‘s move to silence this important journalistic entity will help the tyrannical governments of Russia, China, Iran, and other repressive states. This is not America First; this is the abandonment of democracy.

Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary.

Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States.

Granting himself unchecked power.

This is authoritarianism.

The evil at your door The deportation action as regime change

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

What. Is. This. Garbage.

Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...