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Timothy Snyder
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Temerty Prof @munkschool @UofT; Fellow @IWM_Vienna; Emer. Levin Prof @Yale
"On Freedom" "On Tyranny" "Our Malady" "Road to Unfreedom" "Black Earth" "Bloodlands"
"On Freedom" "On Tyranny" "Our Malady" "Road to Unfreedom" "Black Earth" "Bloodlands"
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Under Trump, a Chinese spy has more influence on the most critical issues of our foreign policy than all Americans put together.
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www.nytimes.com Rubio Warned Officials About Nvidia Chief’s Entanglement With Chinese Spy The secretary of state’s role in drafting a secret memo highlights how top officials were concerned by this past spring about Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman tied to Chinese intelligence. Dmitriev has been trying to use promises of deals to get Trump to back a carve-up of Ukraine for a whole decade now. As Russian crimes accumulate, and as Trump and Putin weaken by the day, this goes from the genocidal to the grotesque.
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www.nytimes.com Trump Says He Met With a Senior Russian Official on a Ukraine Peace Deal President Trump said the deal “might involve all of Europe.” He indicated he had met with a Kremlin envoy whom Melania Trump hosted at the White House on Thursday. Thank you, Minnesotans. By being there for your neighbors you held back the worst and showed us the way.
It’s great to have a good result despite all the dark money. Now let’s use the result to get rid of the dark money.
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readsludge.com Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push People Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.