Keiju Vihreäsalo
keijuvihreasalo.bsky.social
Keiju Vihreäsalo
@keijuvihreasalo.bsky.social
Researcher @University of Helsinki
How come this does not surprise..?

Ahead of Trade Deadline, Trump Threatens Canada for Backing Palestinian State www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
Ahead of Trade Deadline, Trump Threatens Canada for Backing Palestinian State
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Here it is, out and about: our article on Subsistence, debt a d Conditionality and the marginalisation of young people and the challenges of moving from the margins to social inclusion. #addiction #research #drugusesubcultures #welfarestate #solidarity
June 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.”
#newyorktimes #democracy #la
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
June 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
”President Trump has more than doubled his personal wealth since starting his 2024 election campaign. Billions of foreign dollars have flowed into his family’s real estate and crypto ventures.” #newyorktimes #trump #corruption #democracy
June 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Luetaan Applebaumia opintopiirissä ja suositus, jos haluaa ymmärtää, mitä on meneillään. Ohessa Kimmo Rentolan kirja-arvio.

”APPLEBAUMIN teesi kuuluu näin: …⬇️

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Kirja-arvio | Monelle voi tulla yllätyksenä, miten suunnitelmallisesti sorron koneisto toimii nykymaailmassa
Nykyiset diktaattorit eivät enää valitse ystäviään ideologian pohjalta. Yhteistyö sujuu niin propagandan, rahanpesun kuin asekaupan saralla, kirjoittaa Anne Applebaum.
www.hs.fi
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
”The majority of the suspended accounts were "university-associated activist accounts, basically sharing protest information, locations for students to go," Yusuf Can, coordinator and analyst at the Wilson Center's Middle East Program, told POLITICO.”
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Word! Let’s organise. We can do it.
March 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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THE DEFINITIVE ANALYSIS OF FASCISM IN THE USA AND ELSEWHERE IN THE 21st CENTURY

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The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
YouTube video by Big Think
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March 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
March 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1. And here it is, out&about: Becoming Invisible – the ‘Been’ Child
and Belonging in the Stories of Marginalised Young People. In the article I seek traces of the past through the silences and resistance that I observed during my ethnographic…
February 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
1. Final review of my article on early marginalisation of children/young in Barn! The journal is out in few weeks. Here the abstract.
#marginality #youth #childhood #belonging #childhoodstudies #youthstudies #addictionstudies #sociology
January 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
1/3 Tervetuloa Tieteen päiville! Tieteen päivät on Suomen suurin tiedetapahtuma. Ajatuksena on, että tiede kuuluu kaikille. Olen kutsunut paneelin vanhemman yliopistonlehtori Tarja Tolosen (Helsingin yliopisto), yliopistonlehtori Leea Lakan (Turun yliopisto), erityisasiantuntija Venla Berneliuksen…
January 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
– Moni tapaamani nuori oli syrjäytetty jo hyvin varhain, usein jo ennen päihdeongelmaa, ala-asteikäisenä. Ennaltaehkäisyyn tulisi panostaa jo varhaisessa vaiheessa eikä sallia lasten ja nuorten joutumista yhteiskunnan ulkopuolelle. Mikään ulossulkeminen ei ole merkityksetöntä. Sellaiselle pitäisi…
November 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM