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Terry-Lee Marttinen

@tlmarttinen.bsky.social

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Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · Mar 16

To learn more about eugenics in global context check out the Small Beginnings link on the Confront Eugenics platform. There are several recorded academic seminars, which can help to better understand our current political moment and issues. confront-eugenics.org?fbclid=IwZXh...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to steamroll everyone because there’s no elected leadership doing a goddamn thing, but appeasing them. Position it won’t matter how unpopular the fascist are they continue to walk right over us

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 22h

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 8h

This city councillor in Pickering, Ontario has now been suspended seven times. Here are the reasons why:

Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

This City Councillor in Pickering, Ontario Has Now Been Suspended Seven Times. Here Are the Reasons Why.

Pickering city councillor Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

pressprogress.ca

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 10h

Hmmm. Miscalculated that you have to take care of the people you want to illegally deploy to commit crimes against fellow Americans?

jam @socialistboat.dad · 11h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 10h

A random neighbor the other day was door knocking handing these out to everyone in the area. This day of protest is going to be huge, and Trump and Co. publicly denouncing everyone protesting as terrorists and Soros plants is just going to make it bigger.

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 11h

Kid Rock is a bitter has been.

Mark Aldrich @markaldrich.bsky.social · 21h

62-year-old male has opinions about how 18-to-21-year-old women style themselves. These opinions should be the unheard mumblings of a guy who's had the same seat at the bar since '97 & has not had anyone beside him on either side of his barstool since '98. Not a guest slot on Fox News' opinion show.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 11h

Good piece. Crime in London is only spiralling out of control in the minds of far right freaks like Trump, Musk, Robinson, Farage. They are aided by dodgy, viral media/social media. These people spread nonsense to suit their racist/political agendas.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is London in the grip of a crime wave? It’s not so simple

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

www.theguardian.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 11h

Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 1d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

This was always the goal of the shutdown.

The government you knew is dead and vought and the fascists are building a new fascist system in the faced of the dead state.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought says that “reduction in force,” or mass firings of federal workers, have begun — a move that is likely illegal.

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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 1d

I am not in the habit of giving follow recommendations and I dont do those pack thingies here on bsky...

But it is friday, and user who wrote this comment is #ff worthy so there yah go.

Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

Politics and frog symbolism should be viewed in historical context. The inverse use in the US is a development. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I appreciate it. ☺️

Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

I see online the costume is gaining traction in protests. Interesting.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1d

This is as close as they could get to actually giving the prize to Trump

🎃 The Pantastic Mr. Pox 🦠 @mrfox.bsky.social · 1d

oh my GOD she dedicated it to him

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

one of the sharks got me.

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 18d

ok I lost my phone and I'm running on empty and there are shaks. if people could chip in a few bucks, it would be a big help in sorting this out.

etransfer: [email protected]

a phone, in the ocean, surrounded by sharks.

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

Politics and frog symbolism should be viewed in historical context. The inverse use in the US is a development. www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a paper on Swedish colonialism and psychopathologization of northern Finnish and Sami people in targeted anti-Laestadian racism, which legitimized forced abortion and sterilization to prevent mental illness. #decolonize escholarship.org/uc/item/7jt3...

Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

The funny thing is Pepe the frog is a far right symbol. Protesters are playing the inversion game.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

Noem now complaining about amphibious assaults by antifa

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · Jun 21

Senator Yvonne Boyer says she hopes the Senate's previous study of her bill tackling forced and coerced sterilizations will speed up its passage in the Upper Chamber the second time around.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that these are precisely the type of measures that have been used against pro-democracy NGOs in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan etc.

A DOJ official declined to elaborate on task force plans but said the FBI's role includes analyzing financial networks for funding of activities involving violent crime.
Potential tools to defund or shut down these groups include IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status; criminal probes by the Justice Department and FBI; surveillance by federal law enforcement agencies; the use of RICO statutes typically used for organized crime and financial investigations under anti-terror laws to identify donors and funders, according to people familiar with investigations and public statements by officials.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1d

She's appeared on Don Jr. s podcast, flirted with MAGA and was backed by Trump a few months ago

The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles

She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?

www.caracaschronicles.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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