Amen x 20
#Democracy #OnTyranny #Patriotism #Resist

https://youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?feature=shared

For whoever hasn't read Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, John Lithgow summarizes his key points of advice. Chilling to see how much more acute these have become since they were first published in 2017.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow

Just going to pin this here for the foreseeable future...

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

#OnTyranny timothysnyder.bsky.social

A timely reminder:

John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder's "#OnTyranny. Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century".

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

Twenty Lessons on Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder, read by John Lithgow. Please watch this. It is important.

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

John Lithgow reads On Tyranny

#OnTyranny
#TimothySnyder
#JohnLithgow

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

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

John Lithgow reads from Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century"

#TimothySnyder #OnTyranny #donotobeyinadvance #citizen #dissenter #protestor #oppositionist

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

#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

Today I finished reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. It's highly recommended.

On Tyranny is short, but I’ve been microdosing it for a while.

I loved the size of the tiny paperback edition.

This talk by Timothy Snyder was powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19IhRaWZUl4
He is talking about his new book On Tyranny. He makes it clear the urgency of our current situation, but also that we have power to make a change if we act.
#uspol
#onTyranny
#resistfascism
#resist

“Yale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny,
and #JasonStanley, 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

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

We’re in the moment where the US government is being taken apart :
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxpv9_BZKAG967LMQG1vaQ4yAGsagiR4tf?si=R5gq493nyPeDrQ9J

It’s tax time - Where’s the money going?
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxDcLv4Ai2rHxQvH7AIoUvWkXMRphQGDAT?si=MrM5khq6I1SKoWgx

From #TimSnyder convo with Red, Wine & Blue:
https://youtu.be/ZQqLRew4F1g?si=wml4jbz7_s1PO9Q9

Timothy Snyder was on a Red Wine and Blue webinar today. I managed to join. He is such a great voice for these unpleasant times.

#TimothySnyder
#OnTyranny

Today in our discussion about On Tyranny, we talked about four lessons:

3. Beware the one-party state.
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world.
5. Remember professional ethics.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries.

Takeaway from today is that the world tries to disconnect us -- by exhausting us through work, by keeping us consuming, through the individualistic mindset of the West, by labeling vulnerabilities in character flaws, by creating factions we are supposed to be loyal to.

We also talked about being political in an everyday, fundamental sense, in what we do, whether that's just being who we are in a world that chafes at our behavior or existence or simply talking to people about important matters.