“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda. snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Turn your outrage into action. Moms in Texas are organizing to get 10,000 of us across the country to keep this issue in lawmakers faces, turn up the heat till they #CloseTheCamps and #FreeTheFamilies Sign up for 4/16 action - actionnetwork.org/forms/10000-...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

The sooner the better. www.bbc.com/news/article...

What does the Iran war have to do with sustaining the Russian economy? Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine. I spoke with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran and Russia. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure. Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defense

Sure, Russia hasn’t done anything good, so the oil bonanza billions from the US can’t be a reward. It’s just an expression of Trump’s general policy to make life easier for Putin. It serves no US interest whatsoever. kyivindependent.com/this-is-not-...

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure. Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defense

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

What does the Iran war have to do with sustaining the Russian economy? Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine. I spoke with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran and Russia. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

This week I talked with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on Thinking Live about the Iran War and the Russo-Ukraine War. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Arrogance to achievement ratio approaches infinity www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

That’s the point — if we are aware of the scenarios and we are ready to mock and block, these stunts can be deterred or turned against Trump. One of them just failed hard in Hungary — because people were ready!

Don’t vote for people behaving like Ramaswamy.

I talked with Terry Moran about current events this week on Thinking Live. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.

Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.

NYC, Tuesday, April 21st: I will be talking about my books "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom" with Jessica Pisano. Hosted by the New School for Social Research Festival of Ideas. 12pm noon ET. Register here: event.newschool.edu/timothysnyde...

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

Every day, I write the same story: Russian strikes claiming lives. One person here, five there, a child, a grandparent... These tragedies have become so routine that the world is growing numb.

1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.

Hegseth in his unconstitutional christofascist hate sessions plagiarizing a fictional bible verse

Very glad to have had this talk with @preetbharara.bsky.social staytuned.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

“The most consequential development of the 21st century is the destruction by the most powerful state in the international order of its own primacy.” Quite the first sentence by @kschake.bsky.social

They think just war doctrine means that it’s just because they say it’s just….

NYC, Tuesday, April 21st: I will be talking about my books "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom" with Jessica Pisano. Hosted by the New School for Social Research Festival of Ideas. 12pm noon ET. Register here: event.newschool.edu/timothysnyde...

1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.

Trump broke the Commandents, so Vance had to commit the Deadly Sins. Trump compared himself to Jesus, so Vance had to claim that he was better at theology than the pope. This is one sad weird heretical Oedipal thing.

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is demanding a CFTC investigation into anonymous traders who netted millions on suspiciously timed bets on US military actions—Iran ceasefire, Venezuela invasion & more Alleged insider trading on war plans IS a national security threat CFTC must act now - TN

Lots of good sense here. Notable that as so often Sen. Chris Murphy is an elected official willing to speak hard truths. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-lose...

We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.

Vanceseems to think that you can separate politics and morality and the church should stay out of the first one, even when it involves the mass slaughter of children. There is a thing in Matthew 6:3 about your right hand not knowing what your left hand is doing, but it's about charity, not murder.

1/2. Two months ago we came very close to an ethnic cleansing in Ohio, one grounded in Nazi slogans. It was held off by a court order. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

Dr Amy Acton/ David Pepper are an incredibly interesting ticket in the Ohio gubernatorial race. @amyactonoh.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

1/2. Two months ago we came very close to an ethnic cleansing in Ohio, one grounded in Nazi slogans. It was held off by a court order. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

If the Hungarian government won’t keep funding CPAC, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

1/5. I want to try to amplify this point — Vance does not believe that morality is an autonomous sphere of life at all; only fools think that, in his world.

Reminiscent of the reaction of Brezhnev and Jaruzelski to John Paul II, though quite a bit more hysterical. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Last week this man was Chamberlain to his own Hitler. This week he is Judas to his own Jesus. One can pile up the blasphemies and the ironies or one could just say that this man is unwell.

Jan-Werner Müller has been following this closely.

So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.

This week, I will be forcing a vote on legislation to block the sale of nearly half a billion dollars worth of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli military. The extremist Netanyahu government that has committed genocide in Gaza does not need more military support from American taxpayers.

In Hungary as elsewhere Trump and Vance did what was wrong and failed at it.