Really need leadership at universities, media companies, law firms, &c. to internalize this point.

The 1947 version of this during the Cold War Red Scare was called the Committee for the First Amendment who flew from Hollywood to DC to protest the HUAC hearings. It included Humphrey Bogart, Danny Kate, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and more

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

"We will not shop at your stores. We will not tune into your TV and radio stations. We will not send our kids and our money to your universities, or use your services if you are going to enable our slide to authoritarianism." -- Jason Crow (D) from Colorado crow.house.gov/media/press-...

The Heritage Foundation, source of Project 2025, is now promoting a plan to treat trans advocacy as a form of violent extremism that demands surveillance. Note the "or" connecting points 1 and 2 on this list that purports to define "Transgender Ideology": x.com/ItsYourGov/s...

The concept of structural deceit articulated by @editorialboard.bsky.social here is very helpful for describing a virus that has been tearing through public discourse for nearly a decade (at least). The suggestion to experimentally "make their statements true" is also a brilliantly helpful strategy.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

This is deeply concerning. How long before educators are fired for stating other basic facts that run afoul of MAGA ideology? i.e., human-caused climate disruption is real; Russia started the war with Ukraine; Trump lost the 2020 election; and the Trump admin is engaging in censorship?

"With the exception of Netflix, a hugely profitable public company without apparent immediate need for government favor, every studio is either already compromised or about to be." We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

This headline literally describes what American scientific communities had to do in the months after Trump took office. And the fight continues. Witness the ongoing censorship of historical facts at National Parks.

We’re suing the Trump administration to ensure Americans have the facts about climate change, but we need your help. The EPA is accepting public comments on its plan to deny climate change—submit yours.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

Folks, we don’t have to choose between mitigating climate change and protecting our environment and good-paying jobs and economic development, and our Clean Energy Plan is proving that we can and are doing both!

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

Hard to dispute this terrifying analogy from @girouxh.bsky.social: "Trump has morphed into something even darker: an unhinged Darth Vader of American politics, propelled by obsession, revenge, and cruelty, terrifying in his capacity to transform governance into a theatre of sadism."

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

When President Obama worked in the Oval Office without wearing a suit jacket, the news networks went crazy because he was, in the words of this UPI caption, "breaking a tradition of former U.S. President George W. Bush"

Students, there's no need to use ChatGPT to draft emails to your professors. Just be polite and direct. No need to stress over the style.

This is not a particularly new finding; as Susan Soloman and colleagues put it in their groundbreaking 2009 paper, "the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop" www.pnas.org/doi/10....

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they choose www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

love the replies too :)

Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.

If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.

I just discovered that if you try to go to the covidtest.gov website (which distributed free Covid tests for several years), you are redirected to Trump's "Lab Leak" propaganda site.

I cannot tell you how many capitalist climate people came after me when I warned against assuming we could reverse overshoot of 1.5C w carbon removal. Well. It turns out that the maximum possible temperature reversal might be as little as 0.7C. End fossil fuels now.

The Trump administration wants to repeal the Roadless Rule which would open up nearly 50 million acres of national forests to disastrous logging and destroy the habitat of over 50 endangered species. Submit a comment now to protect them. https://on.nrdc.org/4lTDsxN

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

Nationwide Labor Day protests #50501

From devastating flooding to extreme heat, the climate crisis is here, and Wisconsinites have experienced it firsthand. We must remain steadfast in our work to combat climate change and fight for the cleaner, more sustainable future Wisconsinites deserve.

These words by Michael Schwalbe counter any notion that academic freedom is a niche or quaint concern.

"[D]emocracy often erodes slowly at first, via the gradual surrender of those entrusted to defend it. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder ..." -- Daniel Ziblatt www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

"A pro-democratic education fosters the agency of its citizens by teaching about social movements that overturned entrenched hierarchies which blocked democratic equality and imposed racial tyranny. The story of how ordinary Americans lived and struggled and remade America is essential knowledge..."

Republicans’ "Big Beautiful Bill" will cost Wisconsin taxpayers over $284 million in future budgets once fully implemented, while kicking 270,000 Wisconsinites off their healthcare and taking food assistance away from kids and families. BBB is BBBAD for Wisconsin.

nice of the president to provide the perfect quote for me to use in a column

State corporatism = making corporations subordinate to the state while keeping private property. The state controls key industries without full nationalization. Taking ownership stakes is one way to do this, but it’s usually part of a larger strategy.

I keep seeing the Trump-Intel deal called socialism, but there’s a term for this. This parallels what Mussolini did—the Italian state was one of the world’s largest industrial owners while keeping private companies. Nazi Germany did this too. So did Francoist Spain. It’s called state corporatism.

An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol

I don't know how "big balls" became the slang left term for Trumps goons, but please can we use a different one? I hate to say it but "Big Balls" actually functions in this context like a compliment.

"What is at stake is not simply the narcotic of censorship and erasure, but the calculated use of state terrorism to fashion a fascist subject, anti-intellectual, morally hollow, obedient to authority, and emptied of democratic agency." -- Henry Giroux www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

For today’s bonus “One First,” I wrote about Abraham Lincoln’s commitment to holding the Election of 1864—even when he thought he’d probably lose and his successor would sue for peace, thus ending the war (and, likely, the Union). Respecting and preserving the will of the people was more important: