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Tapani Höntsä

@tapanihontsa.bsky.social
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ICT-työntekijä, argumentaatioharjoittelija, musaintoilija, ikämiessarjan e-urheilija. Metsässä näkee puita. From Europe. <occasional-sarcasm-alert/>

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.
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PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social · 21h
@garrykasparov.bsky.social #Ukraine won't surrender, but Trump finds a new way to surrender every week. x.com/kasparov63/s...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I really don’t want to put Russian fuel in my vehicle. It would feel like I’m using Ukrainian blood. Someone needs to find out what companies will be using it and boycott the 💩 out of it. 🔄
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026
The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This should be made into an ad and run non-stop on every channel until the election is over.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s sons have recently invested in dozens of defense companies. Those companies have now raked in a staggering $6 BILLION in current or future government contracts. Corruption? Or coincidence? You be the judge.
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CYNC Verity Media @cvmedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Anne Applebaum warns that Witkoff and Kushner are treating Russia’s war like a business deal—when Putin’s objective is political domination, not simply territory or profit. That misunderstanding could shape the peace offered to Ukraine. #Ukraine #Russia #Witkoff #Kushner #Trump #Putin
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump: "It will cost us $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz." China's Foreign Ministry: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal operations against Iran, you have created a global crisis out of nothing."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In case you missed it: Trump: "[Iran] can take out a city. Let them take out Lo Angeles or San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. It's essentially almost over with,"
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Polish government destroys Russia's paid influencer Tucker Carlson for his promotion of the idea that Europe should've surrendered to the Nazis in the same way Tucker has surrendered to Russian money.
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russia's current large-scale "Russia is not my enemy" propaganda campaign is one of their largest of the year. Our analysis details ongoing strategy. spravdi.org/en/russiaisn...
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#RussiaIsNotMyEnemy: Russia Seeks to Weaken Europe Through Fake “Pacifism”
The Center for Strategic Communication believes that the content and visual style of these posts, as well as the coordinated timing of their publication, bear all the hallmarks of malicious interferen...
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Science Alert: 'Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons' "Our findings provide compelling evidence that long COVID involves the loss of dopamine-releasing neurons" www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-...
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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons
Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will NEVER forget how this motherfucker disrespected a damn Bishop of the church for asking for mercy, but when asked about Ghislaine Maxwell: "I wish her well."
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From my mom: When I get my $90 Medicare rebate from Trump, I'm giving it to Democratic candidates! If I ever get it. I doubt it.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Drink Hogwater. It’s on your side.
A can of "Hog Water Green Flavor" is displayed with text that reads, "Contains the same chemicals as chemtrails. But this time they're on OUR side." A plane is depicted leaving a trail in the sky.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Gareth Heyes @garethheyes.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Chrome's new <microphone> tag has something to say: Another XSS vector for our cheat sheet, found by omidxrz. portswigger.net/web-security...
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Dr. Jimmy Oshet @oshetjimmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“ without a shadow of doubt” Yet Republican still embrace and fawn over the president who committed crimes against the United States. That is definitely their brand. Checkmark treason, and bestiality as OK for public office. 
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let's face it, Trump's surrounded by yes men who are afraid to speak truth to power. It's plagued his whole cabinet. And it’s the American people paying the price of his failed leadership.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/09/2026
This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.
From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is great news! I've been writing about the HPV for a long time, and it's been a massive success. slate.com/technology/2...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay cool. Please run this as an ad.
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I used to think the storyline where Lex was elected president after a very public career is a supervillain was unrealistic. I wish I still thought that.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday scaries: On how US allies’ nightmares of abandonment and entrapment are currently coming true, and what a challenge the enforcement of a beneficial world order poses to the small and middle powers that currently try to reconfigure their relations to the US and among themselves.
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“You Will Miss US When We’re Gone”
The weakening of the global US alliance structure is the most significant change in the international order since World War II.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think this shows how monumentally stupid JD Vance is, that he walked right into that. Anyone with any clue could have seen that set-up a mile away.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A difficult night for Ukraine as Russia continued attacking our civilians, launching a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, and attacking Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions with drones. The air raid alert in Kyiv was turned on at 3:28 a.m. and hasn't turned off since. 📹:Kyiv, Radio Liberty
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Putin has been invited to the G20 summit in Miami in December. “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the President, but with other world leaders.” The Trump team is working so hard for Putin they deserve a medal.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#trumpsCorruptionCostsUs #voices4Victory #usDemocracy #dv1
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DOJ has responded to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s lawsuit over White House access, trotting out Trump’s new favorite defense—national security! First the ballroom, then the arch, now pesky reporters! Didn’t work in Pentagon Papers case. Won’t work here.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Justin Wolfers: “What we have is a carnival barker as president, a reality TV show… a fake sort of boxer, a bloke who spends his life just provoking others because provocation yields attention.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
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