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1 month ago | 
andrawatkins.substack.com | Andra Watkins |Timothy Snyder
(Twenty-five percent of readers who responded to my survey prefer audio-only. Seventy-five percent like video-and-audio. Today, I give you both.)After reading George Packer’s latest article “Be a Patriot” in The Atlantic, I can no longer refrain from writing this newsletter. , Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley don’t need me to defend them.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Sharon Blackie |Timothy Snyder |Daniel Pinchbeck
Quick reminder: Dr Sharon Blackieand I are doing a Substack Live in about 12 hours - Wednesday 19 March 9am CET (Paris time). You will need to have the app downloaded to join (although I’ll post the link for subscribers afterwards).
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
jill.substack.com | Grace Byron |Timothy Snyder |Moira Donegan |Alicia Kennedy
Photo by Tayloron UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
satyadoylebyock.substack.com | Satya Doyle Byock |Timothy Snyder |Carole Cadwalladr |Elise Loehnen
Upcoming retreats + workshops for paid subscribers on December 8th & 29th. Scroll to the bottom for more info. Register here. Following the election and my response piece, several people sent me an essay called “10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won” by Daniel Hunter. It’s an excellent piece that I’ve returned to many times since. I was immediately struck by his understanding of the psychological ground on which all resistance work rests.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
satyadoylebyock.substack.com | Satya Doyle Byock |Jessica Valenti |Anthony Romero |Timothy Snyder
February 2nd at 10am PST | Join me for our next Sunday gathering: some much needed soul-tending for these times. Learn more + Register here. There is no way to capture how awful the last week has been for democracy, humanity, and very basic human decency. I’m worried about literally millions of immigrants, millions of federal employees, women in the military,Anthony Fauci, and, gosh, all of us. I hope you’re okay.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
tylersage.substack.com | Harry Litman |Timothy Snyder |Tyler Sage
These days, if you're someone who listens to a lot of sports podcasts, you might be familiar with the idea of "the brightest timeline." This is shorthand for talking about the possibility that everything that could go right will go right, as in The brightest timeline for this year is that all our rookies develop into incredible players, none of our aging veterans gets injured, the whole team coalesces into a unit capable of playing beautifully together, and we destroy every other team on our...
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
unpluggedtraveler.substack.com | Lisa Abend |Timothy Snyder
As you may remember from last time, there were many things I did not know about Gdansk before I went there, including:It has gorgeous architectureIt has excellent doughnutsIt has Lech Walesa soup memesThere’s one more important thing to add. Gdansk, it turns out, is where World War Two started. On September 1, 1939, a German battleship pulled into the harbor of what was then the free city of Danzig and started firing on a Polish munitions depot. Probably all of you know that.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
snyder.substack.com | Timothy Snyder
Historically, nominees for cabinet positions have been rejected by the Senate or have withdrawn their candidacies in order to prevent that outcome. It is not common, but nor is it abnormal. The power of "advice and consent" granted to the Senate by the Constitution has been exercised in practice. A number of Trump's appointments are simply outrageous by historical, ethical, strategic, or any other standards.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
snyder.substack.com | Timothy Snyder
In one way, Trump is utterly predictable. He wants to die in bed rather than in prison, and he wants that bed to be in the White House. That's what they all want, all of these supposedly strong men with their ostensibly national feeling: the eternal clean sheets. But precisely because the authoritarians are predictable in this way, they are unpredictable in another.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
snyder.substack.com | Timothy Snyder
We need positive forms of opposition. A few days ago I wrote about one: the shadow cabinet. The proposal for a new American version of this venerable institution received overwhelming support. In a shadow cabinet, in Britain and Canada and elsewhere, parliamentarians from the opposition party follow the actual cabinet members, develop expertise in the relevant portfolios, and comment to the press.
