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Yhteiskuntasuhdepäällikkö Varmassa, VTT. Eläkkeitä, sosiaalipolitiikkaa, koripalloa.
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Jussi Ahokas
about 3 hours ago
Tätäkin toistellaan: että työvoimaosuus (työlliset + työttömät / työikäinen väestö) on noussut hallituksen kannustintoimien seurauksena. Että työttömyyden nousu on vain oire tästä muutoin hyvästä kehityksestä. Ainoa ongelma on se, että väite ei näytä pitävän paikkaansa.
#talous
#politiikka
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Olga Nesterova
about 15 hours ago
Trump: "You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns."
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George Takei
about 20 hours ago
Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic "The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so."
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The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-trump-lies
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Will Stancil
2 days ago
The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.
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Osita Nwanevu
3 days ago
I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
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Acyn
3 days ago
Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever Bessent: But he brought a gun! Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
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God
3 days ago
This is all I want to see Democrats doing from now on.
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Jatkuva ilmiselvistä asioista valehtelu ja väkivallan käyttäminen rauhallisiin mielenosoittajiin tukevat tätä teoriaa. Tarkoitus on vain lisätä kaaosta.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
3 days ago
Trump needs to go. He needs to be impeached and removed. Now.
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Murphy on Bovino: "That was a bone-chilling interview. I was shaking while I was listening to it, in large part bc it takes just an unbelievable amount of gall to lie to the American public. Everybody saw that video ... it should freak the public out that the Trump administration lies this easily"
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Amanda Mull
3 days ago
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Dr Henna Karhapää
3 days ago
”The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive. (..) A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.”
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html
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Ketä se palvelee, että HS toistaa kritiikittä tällaista humpuukia? ICEn kohteena on ollut yhtä lailla laillisesti maassa oleskelevia sekä USAn kansalaisia. Ja hallinnon kertomuksen eilisestä ampumisesta voi kuka tahansa todeta valheeksi yhden videon katsomalla.
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Darth Putin
3 days ago
OTD in 1935 Hitler assured Poland he would not invade them. A few years later he said Germans were being oppressed & killed so he attacked, carried out genocide and spent the last years of his life in bunker detached from reality. Imagine all that happening today.
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Linda Louane
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News Eye
9 days ago
There is simply no world in which this clothing choice is a coincidence.
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Rick Hasen
3 days ago
Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
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Prem Thakker ツ
3 days ago
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
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Anna-Maria Mitchell
3 days ago
Kun mediassa kiertää väkivaltaisia videoja kasvonsa peittävistä amerikkalaisista gestapojoukoista, joiden luotiliiveissä lukee ”police ice”, tällainen mainos poliisivalmennuksesta Suomessa ei vaikuta kovin fiksulta vedolta. Ellei haluta houkutella samanlaisia väkivaltaisia äärioikeistolaisia hulluja
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DD Dion
4 days ago
Witnesses transported to where ICE is detaining people? Where is the woman in the pink coat who was recording the scene? Where is her footage? More importantly is she okay?
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Sahil Kapur
4 days ago
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
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Oliver Alexander
4 days ago
Imagine going back 15 years and telling Republicans this: One day, you will cheer federal agents for killing people who were carrying firearms while exercising their Second Amendment rights.
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Robert McNees
4 days ago
It has gotten so bad that the
@nytimes.com
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Keith Olbermann
4 days ago
The video is available in the replies to Aaron's post. It is a public execution. It's the latest ICE murder. It must mean the end of ICE. If not - that will be the end of America.
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Governor Tim Walz
4 days ago
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
4 days ago
Trump’s back to threatening 100% tariffs on Canada this morning, wow I can’t imagine why the Canadians now see the Chinese as a more reliable trade partner
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Pete Buttigieg
4 days ago
They lived, worked, served—and hundreds of them gave their lives—side by side with American troops. Anyone who served in Afghanistan knows how much this mattered, and we will never forget.
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Will Stancil
4 days ago
Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.
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Ana Marie Cox
5 days ago
Cannot see the end of it.
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max nesterak
5 days ago
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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MeidasTouch
6 days ago
It appears that the White House edited this image using AI
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Adam Schwarz
6 days ago
Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.
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Andrew Lawrence
8 days ago
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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Ron Filipkowski
8 days ago
The Incredibly Weak & Always Pathetic Republican Congress.
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Don Moynihan
8 days ago
The "strategy" depends upon other countries smiling and giving him what he wants.
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Anonymous
9 days ago
Canada's Prime Minister Carney: “The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for the kingdom of Denmark. We are NATO partners with Denmark and so our full partnership stands. Our obligations on Article 5, an Article 2 of NATO stand and we stand fully squared behind those.”
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Lindsay Beyerstein
9 days ago
Trump claimed that Russia would never have invaded Ukraine while he was president because Putin respects him too much, but now he's claiming that the US must have Greenland or Putin will invade it.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
9 days ago
Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness. As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. 1/3
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
13 days ago
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Joni Askola
12 days ago
If Greenland were so important for national security, the US wouldn’t have shut down all but one of its bases there. Trump is in his second term and hasn’t done anything about it. He just wants to own it, but lies about the reasons
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MeidasTouch
13 days ago
A very embarrassing day for the world
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Robert Reich
13 days ago
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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Duncan Weldon
13 days ago
Great Economist chart. American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
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Ron Filipkowski
14 days ago
Who are the “two US officials” and why would CBS give them anonymity when they are just putting something out there that DHS and ICE obviously wants put out. Who are these “US officials” and why are they granted anonymity???
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Dom Ervolina
18 days ago
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Missing The Point
18 days ago
But Mr. President you did start shooting protestors too.
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Philip Bump
19 days ago
Seen some people suggesting the new shooting video is AI because you can see a dinosaur in the background at one point. But, uh, there’s just a dinosaur on a car on that street. Here’s Google Street View.
maps.app.goo.gl/fmgYaLWrwxx3...
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