Kun asiantuntijoiden pitää alkaa varoa sanomisiaan niin ollaan liukkailla jäillä demokratian näkökulmasta. yle.fi/a/74-20200834

To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action. I am surrounded by idiocy

“it was the French who were saying, completely rightly as it turned out, that the US would walk away from Europe and that Europeans needed to think and act in their own interest. And here we are, and the French government is incapable of taking the decisive action when the moment presents itself”

Fifteen of those twenty years were spent writing unsuccessful grant applications.

The last week of 2025 will bring us the strongest windstorm of the year. Forecasted maximum gusts of ~140 km/h (39 m/s) and the affected area are more or less similar to the recent extreme northerly windstorms in Finland (Aapeli 2019, Lyly 2024).

🤬 On the ruins of war: Russia prepares "war tours" in occupied Donbas, - The Times The occupation administration in Donetsk region is working on a project of so-called "war tourism". The war-torn cities should become tourist routes and a source of income.

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Easy to tell difference. Donald always says what Prez says but a day later.

"Only the bullies & petty fascists of the Trump administration could miss the irony of decrying 'speech suppression' while using state power to silence critics engaging in protected speech." Indeed. The Trump regime is in a haze, drunk on abusing power. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Happy Holidays!

EU says it strongly condemns U.S. visa ban on European individuals reut.rs/3YNpK6o

The US ‘sanctions’ 5 individuals for involvement in #DSA, platform regulation and content moderation, including fmr Commissioner Breton and NGO leaders. Oppressive state behavior by the US, disguised as free speech fighting. Appalling. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The German CEOs of @hateaid.org are sanctioned and denied entry into the United States. Their motto: "Because human rights also apply digitally. We are committed to supporting victims of online hate and promoting democracy online."

The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.

The future Trump class warships.

🚨 PUBLICATIONS ALERT! 🚨 After months of work with Monica Di Gregorio, @petrocelik.bsky.social, and Eva Fernández, our special issue on The Politics of Environmental Networks is finally out! It features 11 contributions that investigate the internal and external politics of environmental networks.

Germany’s far-right AfD party accused of gathering information about Western arms transports to Ukraine for the Kremlin‼️

💔 Toretsk. Another ghost town in Donbas that no longer exists. The war brought the most terrible destruction of cities in Europe since World War II.

You'd think the fact that the Russian constitution already says invading countries is illegal would mean we have no need to sign yet another treaty promising we won't invade countries. But you would be wrong.

New article! The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.

Not only is the head of US intel aping Russian propaganda, it doesn’t make a lick of sense. NATO/EU want to pull the US into direct war with Russia?!? The US is in NATO. The Russia-Ukraine war has been going for nearly 4 years. NATO could’ve gone to war but didn’t. If anything, been quite cautious.

Vie rahat niiltä, joilla on välttämättömiä kulutustarpeita, anna rahat niille, jotka säästävät eniten, tuhoa vallitsevan yhteiskunnan perusteet ja ihmettele, että kukaan muukaan ei kuluta. Toista ikuisesti. #yhteiskunta #talous #politiikka

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

One thing that has alarmed me for closer to two decades is the worship of Chomsky the genocide denier and authoritarian apologist among so many people who really, REALLY, ought to have known better.

Onhan tämäkin avaava juttu. Ilmastojohtaja Sipilä haluaa määrätä Elokapinan lakkautettavaksi, perustyyppien lisäksi mm. Eput ja Apulannat kieltää lakot. Hyvää täydennystä jälleen Huipputuloiset-kirjan esittelemään taloudellinen eliitin sielunmaisemaan.

Putin didn’t want Kellogg. He wouldn’t be pliable enough for Russian demands, and was “too hostile.” Putin wanted a negotiator who “didn’t know much about Russia” and would reliably echo Putin's lines on Ukraine. Hence the insistence that Witkoff meet Putin without U.S. government or CIA officials.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

REPS

Seuraava episodi sarjassamme ”Perussuomalaiset ei ole rasistinen puolue” (Riikka Purran huvittava möläytys parin päivän takaa). Hyvä ehdotus toki RKP:lta, mutta tässä taidetaan nyt jo aloitella seuraavaa eduskuntavaali-kamppista eli yritetään vakuuttaa äänestäjiä rkp:n avarakatseisuudesta.

How Trump or his reps have characterized his relationship w/Epstein: “A lot of fun to be with” “No formal relationship” “They did not socialize” A business acquaintance “There was no relationship” “I was not a fan of his” But our @nytimes.com report reveals an intense, complicated friendship. 🧵

What makes this absurd claim - after multiple world wars - that the U.S. has no stake in a massive land war of conquest in Europe even more creepy is that Rubio is the "pro-Ukraine" figure in the Trump Regime.

Finally

En muuten tajua tätä Lasse Lehtosen juttua enää ollenkaan.

Here is a gift link to the NYT Trump Epstein article that has explosive new claims. The piece briefly touches on 14-year-old Jane Doe, who says Epstein brought her to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago. I wrote about that last month (link below.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

⚡️ Update: 'Breakthrough' – Poland’s Tusk says EU agrees to pursue use of Russian assets for Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a "breakthrough" at the EU summit, saying that a "declaration that we all want to use Russian assets for Ukraine was made."

And this is yet another example of the extremely common “two rail“ strategy the far right worldwide has used at least since NSDAP. When finally cornered, the party leader acts contrite in public; but some other member(s) nod and wink to the faithful.

Hyvä YLE! 💪💪💪 yle.fi/a/74-20199829

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff

Voihan se tietysti olla mahdollista, että kiinalaiset on hakkeroineet persujen sometilit ja postaavat rasistista paskaa

The latest racism scandal caused by the far-right Finns Party.

Söin salaa lasten joulukonvehdit. Lapsille toki kerroin, että kyseessä saattoikin olla kiinalainen #hybridioperaatio.

Olisipa kiva, kun maan pahimmat ongelmat olisivat pääministerin aamiaiset ja tanssiminen.

Oliver Sacks was a hero of mine. I couldn't let @rachelaviv.bsky.social’s brilliant piece pass without comment. My latest, on why Sacks's fictions are so much worse than those of your garden-variety journalist fabulist. . open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Yes, this is one thing that baffles Finns and is rarely if ever noticed by foreign journalists. We have a supposedly very liberal center right party, the Swedish People’s Party, supporting a radical right party whose voters largely hate Swedish language and insult Swedish speakers constantly.