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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...

image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm afraid this new World of Warcraft game is going to do some serious damage to my PhD progress.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 22/07/2026

Great investigative article by @derstandard.at, zooming in on the close connections between the extreme-right Identitarians and the far-right FPÖ, which have existed for years. As leaked private messages show, Sellner not only maintains close ties to people in the FPÖ but also exerts pressure. 1/

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Geheime Chats zeigen Nähe zwischen FPÖ und Identitären – und wie Sellner der Partei subtil drohte

Ermittlungsakten belegen intensive Kontakte der rechtsextremen Gruppierung bis hinauf in die FPÖ-Spitze und die damals blauen Ministerien

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Feels! Seeing cabinet members, ministers or MPs say stuff that you used to only see in neo-Nazi Telegram channels is something else.

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So much is happening in the world that is at the heart of my research and I have been looking for a way to share my knowledge, but to have a conduit for community conversation. I admit I tend to create threads here trying to put events into historical context or to explain thru a religious

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Disappointing. "The company says the capability is widely available elsewhere, pointing to OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and is used by defenders every day. Anthropic maintains the order is a misunderstanding and says it is working to restore access, while promising more details within 24 hours."

bleepingcomputer.com

US Gov asks Anthropic to ban 'foreign national' access to Fable, Mythos

The US government has ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the company to suspend both models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but disputes th...

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Tells you a lot about the current political culture when people (including me) are positively surprised that an EU leader concedes after losing an election.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Talking of contemporary violent extremism. ”What has emerged is a grey zone between clearly politically motivated terrorism and forms of terrorist-type violence that are driven primarily by psychological vulnerabilities, developmental issues, and deeply held personal grievances.”

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The New Grey Zone: How Terrorism in Europe Has Changed | Perspectives on Terrorism

This research note examines how terrorism in Europe has transformed over the past two decades, arguing that ideology-based frameworks no longer capture the most significant developments. The research ...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Neo-Nazi machete attack injures two teenagers in Berlin. One of the wounds went down to the bone. www.the-berliner.com/english-news... The attackers shouted Sieg Heil before running off.

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Neo-Nazis attack two people with machete - The Berliner

In Friedrichshain last night, attackers targeted two 19-year-olds while shouting Nazi slogans.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Many people have surely heard that AI is increasingly being used in open-source investigations and IT vulnerability exploitation. If you’ve somehow failed to grasp how, here’s a harrowing example of the latter.

codewall.ai

How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform

An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fascism is the ultimate expression of the politics of vibes, and in 2026, that means that content = currency.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I was invited to a Finnish podcast to discuss Bellingcat Volunteer Community, geolocating, and neo-Nazis. My first time ever on a podcast. Here’s a Spotify link, but you can find Herrasmieshakkerit wherever you get your podcasts.

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Valokuvien vainukoira, vieraana Teemu M. Nieminen | 0x41

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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I've never seen anything like this before. There are currently at least 14 (fourteen!) KC-135R Stratotankers on their way to the Middle East. Inbound from bases across the United States. They're used to refuel other aircraft in the air.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I remember this sort of example being used in media literacy classes in school when I was younger. This was in Finland, I don’t know how it’s done in other countries.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'd like to see someone geolocating and chronolocating this. One could try to use the guy's shadow at 0:18 for the chronolocation.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This was posted a couple of hours ago on a well-known neo-Nazi Telegram channel. Everyone monitoring these channels has seen similar messages for quite some time now.

A screenshot of a post on a neo-Nazi Telegram channel. The post has a screenshot of a post by Department of State saying:

"The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America.

Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline."

The post has a caption:

"Yes Trump and co are not our friends in the long run.

But do you understand how much we have pushed the Overton window here?

This is a huge win.
Onwards!"

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/02/2026

Nostalgia is also a sign of weakness, as I wrote in my dissertation (which also cites Nostalgia and Its Discontents). You turn to nostalgia when you are losing, or have already lost, the support of the in-group.

Weaker extremist movements that cannot close the gap with the modern eligible in-group consensus often seek to contextualize themselves against a remembered or imagined in-group consensus that is framed as historical. The need to reframe the in-group consensus helps explain why nostalgia is so frequently found in extremist narratives, invoking a vision of the past that is, to a greater or lesser extent, fictitious. When extremist ideologists cannot find legitimacy in the current in-group consensus, they seek it in the past, as Abdullah Azzam and Wesley Swift do with vague citations of religious scholars and historians. While arguably in a stronger position, Irenaeus similarly centered his defense of the proto-orthodox consensus on claims that his views had been passed down from the apostles. Rampant dissent in the contemporary consensus was dismissed in favor of a narrative about a once-unified church that was questionable at best.
The tactical deployment of nostalgia at the ideological level is further encouraged by what nostalgia does at the personal level—increase feelings of well-being, social connectedness and personal meaning. Nostalgia helps people who are struggling to find their place in the world—people who are already vulnerable to extremism. By linking the positive psychological effects of nostalgia to an imagined past in-group consensus, extremist ideologists gain a powerful tool to attract and retain adherents.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

”Contemporary violent extremism increasingly develops before the adoption of a coherent ideology, often through exposure to violent online cultures, transgressive communities, and aestheticised harm.” ”Radicalisation is also understood as a process of networked socialisation”, not recruitment.

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HOME - From Neo-Nazi Terror Cells to Networked Violence: What the Dismantling of The Base in Spain Tells Us About the Evolution of Violent Extremism

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Research on right-wing extremists (RWE) suggests that RWE content creators aim to provoke because the furore is used as a tool for drumming up support and donations. Just something to keep in mind.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Pity the French Far Right. After 15 years of Marine Le Pen cleaning house and four years of distancing her party from Moscow, the Rassemblement National can’t help admitting where its real instincts lie 1/

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Swedish neo-Nazis are moving in droves to Finland’s Swedish-speaking Åland Islands to take advantage of Finland’s laxer homeschooling laws. For example, Anders Rydberg, the leader of Nordisk Styrka, has moved to Åland. He’s also an ex-member of the NRM. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

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Ääriryhmät | Kotikoulun suosio räjähti, Ahvenanmaa vetää ruotsalaisia uusnatseja, Nya Åland kertoo

Opetusministeri Anders Adlercreutzin mukaan kotiopetukseen ei tällä hetkellä suunnitella kiristyksiä, vaikka supo seuraa ääriaineksen kasvavaa intoa kotikouluihin.

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A police investigation against neo-Nazis in Germany & Switzerland w/ links to Blood & Honour/Combat 18: neo-Nazi music/merch (obviously), suspicion of violating weapons laws, trafficking steroids/doping drugs and prescription drugs, having explosive devices, etc. Arrest warrant out for main suspect.

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Four members of Active Club Sweden who were convicted of aggravated assault and other hate crimes for an August 2025 attack in Stockholm have had their sentences *increased* by a Swedish appeals court for another assault committed during their spree of evening attacks www.domstol.se/nyheter/2026...

(Google translated) the guilt part. Due to the defendants being convicted of another serious assault, the Court of Appeal is increasing the sentence. The penalties are now set at
imprisonment for between three
years and nine months and four
years.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It is remarkable how little discussion there is in Finland about acquiring our own nukes. Especially since the public debate has been gathering steam in other Nordic countries for some time already.

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Conspiracies not only give the believer a sense of control of the world around them. They take control when you distrust all institutions. They provide an other, an enemy who is harming your world. That harm and oppression renders the other not human. The other does not

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

And here’s the other one. European politicians surely have their work cut out for them in Davos. static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-t...

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The second of the two Greenland posts for Europeans to wake up to this fine morning. Here’s a link for you all to enjoy. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

truthsocial.com

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

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Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Interesting public opinion survey results of out Venezuela today: - 68.4% don't believe that the US is running the country - 52.7% believe that the US' main interest in the country is oil (vs. 7.9% who said "human rights") - 78.3% would vote for Machado www.elnacional.com/2026/01/la-m...

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Cerca de 80% de los venezolanos votaría por María Corina Machado en unas elecciones presidenciales

Casi 8 de cada 10 venezolanos votarían por la líder opositora María Corina Machado si las elecciones presidenciales fueran hoy.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The public discussion about whether Trump would order an invasion of Greenland feels awfully reminiscent of the debates before Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine: ”No, he won’t order an invasion. It doesn’t make sense for Russia because XYZ.”

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A mere 12 hours later, Stanley’s prayers were answered.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Thanks to Hypnotoad on the Bellingcat Discord server for noting the spike in Pentagon pizza trackers www.pizzint.watch

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Have a great 2026, everyone! My perennial New Year’s wish is to be able to read and write more. It wouldn’t hurt to have an hour or two for video games either!

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I had completely missed this. I’m curious to know whether the seized funds are going to be returned. ”The federal judges in their ruling said they were not convinced that a nationwide ’Hammerskins’ umbrella organization actually existed, and that therefore the prohibition order was unlawful.”

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German court overturns ban on neo-Nazi Hammerskins group

A German federal court on Friday overturned a ban imposed in 2023 on the right-wing extremist Hammerskins Germany group. The court in Leipzig ruled in favour of an appeal by several members and region...

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Emilia Lounela @emilialounela.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My article on how current and former incels negotiate what 'incel' means to them is out. Spoiler: it's complicated. 'Incel' meant very different things to different individuals, but spending time on forums negatively affected all participants' mental well-being. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What makes an incel? An interview study of current and former incels

This study explores the way current and former incels discursively construct inceldom and negotiate their relationship to it. The data of six semi-structured, in-depth interviews show the difficult...

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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

And it seems I was right - Nigeria has clearly decided to ask Europe and Pentagon for help.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This doesn’t exactly spark joy. The relations between the ”unreliable allies” and the US undoubtedly affect the relations between the US and smaller countries. ”it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Spanish police said on Monday they had broken up the country's first known cell linked to The Base, a white supremacist group designated as a terrorist organisation by the European Union www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Spain dismantles cell linked to neo-Nazi terrorist group The Base

Spanish police said on Monday they had broken up the country's first known cell linked to The Base, a white supremacist group designated as a terrorist organisation by the European Union.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A 23-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to eight years in prison in Luxembourg on Thursday for planning terrorist attacks at the Eurovision in 2020. He had 538 far-right documents on his computer, containing not only plans for an attack on the Eurovision, but also several other targets.

hs.fi

Tuomiot | Ruotsalaismies suunnitteli myrkyttävänsä Euroviisujen yleisön ja artistit

Mies suunnitteli hyökkäystä Euroviisuihin tapahtuman avoimen ja queer-ystävällisen profiilin vuoksi.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/11/2025

this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.

an ai-generated image of a brunette woman sitting in a bar. she has two drinks in front of her. a bartender makes another behind her. it is only visibily ai if you pixel peep. via https://x.com/immasiddx/status/1992979078220263720/photo/2

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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...

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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,

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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.

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Teemu Nieminen @niemisentee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

’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.’

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White House memo claims Alibaba is helping Chinese military target US

National security document outlines intelligence on tech support given to PLA ‘operations’

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