The cliché of the loud, ignorant American abroad.....that is the Couchfucker.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow. Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing. Timothy Snyder #timothysnyder

https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

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

#authoritarianism #TimothySnyder #OnTyranny #audio #books
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….

#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing & sharing - Prof. Timothy Snyder

“Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago... They open the twenty chapters of On #Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

Above is his film. Below is the text, excerpted from the book. Do share this.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

If you haven´t read the book #OnTyranny by (ex-) Yale #History professor #TimothySnyder yet, now is certainly a good time.

"...when political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become even more important..."

Here is a new presentation of the 20 lessons, read by actor #JohnLithgow.

#MustSee, #DefendDemocracy, #resist

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?r=fci0c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&timestamp=585.1&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#UniversityOfToronto hires three prominent Yale #professors worried about Trump

#Fascism scholar #JasonStanley and #historians #TimothySnyder and #MarciShore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second #Trump administration

by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025

"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale #professors to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto.

"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.

"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall.

"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.'

"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of #OnTyranny and The Road to #Unfreedom, and an outspoken critic of the #Trump administration.

"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'

"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.

"'All that said, yes, of course our #AmericanCatastrophe played a role in our final decision.'"

Rea more:
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643
#UofT #Authoritarianism #BrainDrain #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol

“historian Timothy Snyder is teaching a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. All of the currently-available lectures appear above (or on this playlist), and we will keep adding new ones as they come online. A syllabus for the course can be found here.”

These are excellent. I have’t watched all yet.

https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-making-of-modern-ukraine-a-free-online-course-from-yale-professor-timothy-snyder.html

OMG

#TimothySnyder left the country for #Canada

Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with Yale history professors Marci Shore & her husband Timothy Snyder, are taking their teaching to the University of Toronto to advocate for #democracy, speak out against #fascism & teach without fear of #academic capitulation to the #Trump White House, they say.

#tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #ThoughtPolice #dissent #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html

Zu #TimothySnyder, seinem Fluchtweg, seinem Buch _Über Tyrannei_: Seine Ratschläge sind – sorry – billig, während er als Angehöriger der "intellektuellen Klasse" privilegiert bleibt. Die meisten US-Amerikaner sind nicht in der Lage, den Staat zu verlassen, gefesselt an Jobs und Kredite, an die Alten und an Armut. Es ist eine Art Geste und Habitus, beruflich hypermobil zu sein. Ein Thomas Mann konnte Gedanken im Stil der Oberschicht produzieren, sein Bruder Heinrich verließ Nazi-Deutschland

Die ersten hochrangigen Wissenschaftler wie #TimothySnyder ..... verlassen die #usa Experten für #faschismus wissen wann es besser ist zu gehen (meine Interpretation) wir sehen in Echtzeit die #demokratie in den USA sterben
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_100655996/usa-professoren-verlassen-land-wegen-trump.html

#JasonStanley and
#TimothySnyder
have left the #USA and are now teaching in #Canada.

„Stanley from Yale to Toronto“

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03/stanley-from-yale-to-toronto.html

Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit.

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03/stanley-from-yale-to-toronto.html