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4 Sep, 7 tweets, 1 min read
1/7. Nearly two years in, nearly 700,000 dead, and no free at-home covid tests?
2/7. In Vienna, you get free covid tests when you go to the pharmacy.
3/7. In the U.S., my students from places like Ukraine and Lithuania are astonished that we don’t have free at-home covid tests.
4/7. People who want to know their covid status should be able to do so without hassle and expense.
5/7. Antigen tests cost almost nothing to make. It is grotesque and deadly that Americans must pay extravagant fees for them.
nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/…
6/7. Having free at-home covid tests would save lives. Many lives.
7/7. Why must we profiteer on everything? And why does this seem normal to us?

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24 Jul
General Milley told aides that Trump’s big lie was “a Reichstag moment.” A big lie promises violence; a failed coup sets a precedent. These pieces on emergency politics from the last four years anticipated January 6th, and might help in years to come.
"The Reichstag fire shows how quickly a modern republic can be transformed into an authoritarian regime." nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/…
In the Reichstag moment, the leader will create and use crisis to undermine democracy. When that happens, we have to mobilize and protest, vote and be organized. Talking with Bill Maher about #OnTyranny in 2017:
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8 Jul
0/5. I am very proud of five forewords to central twentieth-century texts about the human response to oppression that I have been invited to write in the past couple of years.
Foreword 1/5: To Václav Havel's "Power of the Powerless," written in communist Czechoslovakia in 1978, a timeless discussion of individuality and responsibility (Nov 2018). penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/602111/t…
Foreword 2/5: To Józef Czapski's "Inhuman Land," an account of the wartime Soviet Union by a great artist and one of the most interesting figures of the twentieth century (Dec. 2018).
nyrb.com/products/inhum… and lareviewofbooks.org/article/pursui…!
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20 Jun
1/10. Tyrants monopolize innocence for themselves and their supporters. But history challenges stories that equate power with virtue. So tyrants refer to history as "revisionist."
2/10. By "revisionism," tyrants mean what actually happened at critical moments in the past. In Russia, for example, the Soviet alliance with Hitler to invade Poland in 1939 is sensitive.
3/10. Tyrants today oppose history by enforcing an official myth in law. Memory laws were originally meant to protect facts about minorities. Increasingly, however, they flatter the emotions of majorities.
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19 Jun
1/10. Tyrants monopolize innocence for themselves and their supporters. But history challenges stories that equate power with virtue. So tyrants refer to history as "revisionist."
2/10. By "revisionism," tyrants mean what actually happened at critical moments in the past. In Russia, for example, the Soviet alliance with Hitler to invade Poland in 1939 is sensitive.
3/10. Tyrants today oppose history by enforcing an official myth in law. Memory laws were originally meant to protect facts about minorities. Increasingly, however, they flatter the emotions of majorities.
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23 May
1/5. Belarus would not have hijacked an EU plane without Russian approval.
2/5. Possibly the hijacking was even a Russian initiative. Worth asking before acting.
3/5. The Russian play would be: foreseeable EU sanctions on Belarus drive Minsk closer to Moscow.
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22 May
A series of five essays on Belarus, part 1/5: The Worst War. "Memory tends to shroud history, and those with the weaker voices are forgotten. Sometimes the lands that suffer most are least able to gather the attention of others." snyder.substack.com/p/belarus-15-t…
A series of five essays on Belarus, part 2/5: Nation Next. "Tell me what you remember, and I will tell you who you are. Tell me what you are allowed to remember, and I will tell you who rules you." snyder.substack.com/p/belarus-25-n…
A series of five essays on Belarus, part 3/5: Two fake coups. "If we can understand the evolution of the fiction, we can see the direction the country is going, and prepare ourselves for the dramatic events likely to follow this summer." snyder.substack.com/p/belarus-35-t…
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