Teemu Nieminen
@niemisentee.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher focusing on right-wing extremism @helsinki.fi | ex-Bellingcat Volunteer
In Sweden, four neo-Nazis were each sentenced to around three years in prison for assaulting three men. The attacks were ruled to be hate-motivated. All four perpetrators are members of the local Active Club.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Mn...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Mn...
Nazisterna döms för misshandelsnatten
Inom loppet av 30 minuter misshandlade de fyra nazisterna tre män med utländsk bakgrund. Däremellan heilade de på Stockholms gator. Nu döms Oliver Sima Petrell,
www.aftonbladet.se
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In Sweden, four neo-Nazis were each sentenced to around three years in prison for assaulting three men. The attacks were ruled to be hate-motivated. All four perpetrators are members of the local Active Club.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Mn...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Mn...
If you are interested in the modern far right - especially the so-called Active Clubs - this is a recommended read. You can see Gramsci invoked constantly in the far-right corners of Telegram.
"If any one lesson can be taken from Gramsci’s writings, it is this: to question common sense."
Great final sentence of this excellent article by one of my UGA students.
Great final sentence of this excellent article by one of my UGA students.
The Far Right’s Favorite Marxist – Georgia Political Review
georgiapoliticalreview.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you are interested in the modern far right - especially the so-called Active Clubs - this is a recommended read. You can see Gramsci invoked constantly in the far-right corners of Telegram.
’The Chinese government attaches great importance to, and protects, data privacy and security in accordance with the law, and has never and will never require companies or individuals to collect or provide data located in foreign countries in violation of local laws,” the [Chinese] embassy said.’
White House memo claims Alibaba is helping Chinese military target US
National security document outlines intelligence on tech support given to PLA ‘operations’
on.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
’The Chinese government attaches great importance to, and protects, data privacy and security in accordance with the law, and has never and will never require companies or individuals to collect or provide data located in foreign countries in violation of local laws,” the [Chinese] embassy said.’
Finnish neo-Nazis are reopening their ”culture centre” tomorrow in the same city where it was previously located. They’ll reveal the address tomorrow at 06:00. The earlier centre was torched by unknown assailants late last year. They claim to have improved security to deter potential saboteurs.
Äärioikeisto | Äärioikeiston keskus avataan uudelleen: Sabotointi vaikeampaa kuin ennen, sanoo Tuukka Kuru
Aiemman keskuksen toiminta päättyi viime vuoden marraskuussa tulipaloon, jonka poliisi epäilee olleen tahallaan sytytetty.
www.hs.fi
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Finnish neo-Nazis are reopening their ”culture centre” tomorrow in the same city where it was previously located. They’ll reveal the address tomorrow at 06:00. The earlier centre was torched by unknown assailants late last year. They claim to have improved security to deter potential saboteurs.
Is being forced to go to work by the government for no pay while questioning their loyalty towards the authorities capitalism?
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Is being forced to go to work by the government for no pay while questioning their loyalty towards the authorities capitalism?
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Last new coal plant proposals cancelled or shelved in Thailand, Kenya, Tajikistan & Uzbekistan, Cambodia deciding not to build any new coal, Morocco committing to a 2040 coal phase-out, proposals for new coal power outside China at record low - lots of progress happening outside front page news.
New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends:
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Last new coal plant proposals cancelled or shelved in Thailand, Kenya, Tajikistan & Uzbekistan, Cambodia deciding not to build any new coal, Morocco committing to a 2040 coal phase-out, proposals for new coal power outside China at record low - lots of progress happening outside front page news.
This is not a great look, especially if a global downturn does come at some point. Are Finns - as the youth say - cooked?
”Just one OECD country, Finland, is in recession, compared with eight in early 2023.”
”Just one OECD country, Finland, is in recession, compared with eight in early 2023.”
The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears
Can anything bring it down?
economist.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is not a great look, especially if a global downturn does come at some point. Are Finns - as the youth say - cooked?
”Just one OECD country, Finland, is in recession, compared with eight in early 2023.”
”Just one OECD country, Finland, is in recession, compared with eight in early 2023.”
Please, somebody help me make sense of the modern world. We’re living in a damn meme.
Donald Trump posts a video of himself wearing a crown as he flies a jet with "King Trump" written in gold on it, dumping shit onto protesters in American cities, which rather makes the protesters point for them.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Please, somebody help me make sense of the modern world. We’re living in a damn meme.
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This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.
Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.
I bump into these kinds of stories all the time when following the war. The war’s approaching its fourth anniversary, but it seems like soldiers haven’t learned a thing about operational security. Confounds the mind.
Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck a warehouse in Sigma shopping center in occupied Donetsk where Russian forces were reportedly assembling and storing Molniya kamikaze drones, footage shows Russian soldiers at the supermarket days before the strike.
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I bump into these kinds of stories all the time when following the war. The war’s approaching its fourth anniversary, but it seems like soldiers haven’t learned a thing about operational security. Confounds the mind.
Loving the meltdown by all the French politics analysts.
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Loving the meltdown by all the French politics analysts.
I showed this to someone and was asked whether it’s from @theonion.com
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I showed this to someone and was asked whether it’s from @theonion.com
A great, short piece by @emilialounela.bsky.social in this month's EUKH newsletter on misogyny's prevalence. @milleridriss.bsky.social's new book reminds us how extremism and misogyny often go hand-in-hand, while Emilia writes that "Misogynist extremism is a symptom of broader, systemic misogyny".
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ec.europa.eu
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A great, short piece by @emilialounela.bsky.social in this month's EUKH newsletter on misogyny's prevalence. @milleridriss.bsky.social's new book reminds us how extremism and misogyny often go hand-in-hand, while Emilia writes that "Misogynist extremism is a symptom of broader, systemic misogyny".
Youth radicalisation has been a major topic of discussion among researchers for some time now (see the link).
In discussing their major annual summer event a month or so ago, the Finnish Active Clubs mentioned that while the attendance was smaller, it was also ”younger”.
In discussing their major annual summer event a month or so ago, the Finnish Active Clubs mentioned that while the attendance was smaller, it was also ”younger”.
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Youth radicalisation has been a major topic of discussion among researchers for some time now (see the link).
In discussing their major annual summer event a month or so ago, the Finnish Active Clubs mentioned that while the attendance was smaller, it was also ”younger”.
In discussing their major annual summer event a month or so ago, the Finnish Active Clubs mentioned that while the attendance was smaller, it was also ”younger”.
Yesterday’s terrorism verdict in Finland has been commended by some senior members of the Nigerian federal government.
”In its verdict, the court said that Ekpa had used his significant social media following to stoke tensions in the Biafra region between August 2021 and November 2024.”
”In its verdict, the court said that Ekpa had used his significant social media following to stoke tensions in the Biafra region between August 2021 and November 2024.”
Finnish court sentences Simon Ekpa to prison on terrorism charges
The long-term Lahti resident, and one-time councillor in the Finnish city, had faced a long list of charges including participating in a terrorist organisation and publicly inciting crimes for terrori...
yle.fi
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Yesterday’s terrorism verdict in Finland has been commended by some senior members of the Nigerian federal government.
”In its verdict, the court said that Ekpa had used his significant social media following to stoke tensions in the Biafra region between August 2021 and November 2024.”
”In its verdict, the court said that Ekpa had used his significant social media following to stoke tensions in the Biafra region between August 2021 and November 2024.”
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Reposted by Teemu Nieminen
During a raid in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 🇩🇪, police found firearms and explosives at, among other places, the home of an AfD district councillor who’s reported to “belong to the far-right camp of the AfD” (saying a lot there!) and is “apparently also controversial within the party”
Bei einer Razzia bei einem AfD-Kommunalpolitiker in Mecklenburg mit 60 Beamten wurden scharfe Waffen und Sprengstoff sichergestellt.
Im vergangenen Jahr war er Teil einer Delegation, die nach Kaliningrad reiste www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
Im vergangenen Jahr war er Teil einer Delegation, die nach Kaliningrad reiste www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
Razzia in Gutshaus: Polizei findet scharfe Waffen – AfD-Politiker verwickelt?
Bei einer Razzia in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern finden Ermittler scharfe Waffen und Sprengstoff – ein Lokalpolitiker steht im Fokus.
www.t-online.de
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
During a raid in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 🇩🇪, police found firearms and explosives at, among other places, the home of an AfD district councillor who’s reported to “belong to the far-right camp of the AfD” (saying a lot there!) and is “apparently also controversial within the party”
Not long ago when visiting a restaurant, the restauranteur told me you are soon able to grow wine in Finland. Surely that’s still some way off, but looking at the Arctic circle experiencing prolonged heat waves does make you wonder…
Looks like Rovaniemi, Lapland's capital and the biggest city, had today their hottest August day on record with 31.1 °C at the train station (Rautatieasema).
And the heat streak continues in Sodankylä Tähtelä with 30 °C, the 22nd consecutive 25-degree day.
And the heat streak continues in Sodankylä Tähtelä with 30 °C, the 22nd consecutive 25-degree day.
August 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Not long ago when visiting a restaurant, the restauranteur told me you are soon able to grow wine in Finland. Surely that’s still some way off, but looking at the Arctic circle experiencing prolonged heat waves does make you wonder…
If this is true, the incident marks a major intelligence failure for Western and Ukrainian agencies. The Base (and other secretive accelerationist) groups have long been under scrutiny, but will now find themselves under ever-increasing pressure as counter-terrorism efforts receive more resources.
Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv
The Base, a far-right group with suspected links to Russia, said killing of Ivan Voronych was ‘only the beginning’
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If this is true, the incident marks a major intelligence failure for Western and Ukrainian agencies. The Base (and other secretive accelerationist) groups have long been under scrutiny, but will now find themselves under ever-increasing pressure as counter-terrorism efforts receive more resources.
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Support Ukraine. Drink Ukrainian beer.
It’s quite funny that Finns have found a way to help Ukrainians by drinking boatloads of beer. A Ukrainian brewery, Obolon, claims that Finland has become one of their most prominent export markets. Iikka’s post is a great example of how that came about. The first batch arrived in July 2022.
July 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Support Ukraine. Drink Ukrainian beer.
It’s quite funny that Finns have found a way to help Ukrainians by drinking boatloads of beer. A Ukrainian brewery, Obolon, claims that Finland has become one of their most prominent export markets. Iikka’s post is a great example of how that came about. The first batch arrived in July 2022.
July 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It’s quite funny that Finns have found a way to help Ukrainians by drinking boatloads of beer. A Ukrainian brewery, Obolon, claims that Finland has become one of their most prominent export markets. Iikka’s post is a great example of how that came about. The first batch arrived in July 2022.
An interesting find! The post is part of a short thread worth reading.
#Religiosity is mostly unrelated to #Islamophobia, nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, and #populism. But Islamophobia overlaps with both nativism and authoritarianism. So: people who fear immigration and want strict laws/harsh enforcement 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 tend to reject Islam, but not for religious reasons.
July 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
An interesting find! The post is part of a short thread worth reading.
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Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues, @timbale.bsky.social, this misdescription sanitises far-right parties, and we should push back against it
bit.ly/4eLRBeC
bit.ly/4eLRBeC
Why we need to halt ‘hard right’ in its tracks
Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues Tim Bale, it’s a misdescr...
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues, @timbale.bsky.social, this misdescription sanitises far-right parties, and we should push back against it
bit.ly/4eLRBeC
bit.ly/4eLRBeC
Global War on Terror: Mission Accomplished.
It's 2025. Al-Qaeda is conquering West Africa. Al-Qaeda is conquering East Africa.
They coordinate between themselves, AQAP, other affiliates and AQ Central.
And I don't see any particular attention to it while those things are happening. And it makes me completely disillusioned.
They coordinate between themselves, AQAP, other affiliates and AQ Central.
And I don't see any particular attention to it while those things are happening. And it makes me completely disillusioned.
July 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Global War on Terror: Mission Accomplished.
I believe it when I see it.
⚡️EU to impose 'toughest' sanctions on Russia in coordination with US senators, French foreign minister says.
EU to impose 'toughest' sanctions on Russia in coordination with US senators, French foreign minister says
"This (war) cannot continue; it must stop. To achieve this, in coordination with American senators, Europe is preparing to introduce, based on French proposals, the toughest sanctions we have imposed ...
kyivindependent.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I believe it when I see it.