William Lindsey Mar 30, 2025

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 and sharing

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Mar 30, 2025

Another birthday gift I offer to readers here: the first rose of the season bloomed in our garden today. This is a fragrant old rose we've had since the 1980s, when a sweet elderly neighbor in New Orleans, a Black gentleman named Mouton Bickham, shared a cutting with us. For years, not knowing that the rose is called Louis Philippe, we called it the Mouton Bickham rose. I love seeing it in this hand-painted vase that my favorite aunt cherished.

#birthday #roses #gifts
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Show threadFrancisca SinnMar 30, 2025
@wdlindsy Happy Birthday! Wishing you a lovely day and a joyful year ahead enjoyed in good health and good company. 🎉🎈✌🏻
Show threadAlexander Karn

@fsinn @wdlindsy

Happy birthday. Appreciate all you contribute here, William.

Mar 30, 2025 at 9:23pmWeb