Marcus Faulstone

Marcus Faulstone

@marcus-eu.bsky.social

Australian // Latvian 🖖🇱🇻 🇪🇺

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Replying to @maks23.bsky.social

Malta is the last EU country that still offers citizenship for sale, drawing ire from the European Commission, which has taken the country to the European Court of Justice in a bid to halt the scheme. The court is expected to rule on Tuesday.

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Replying to @juergennauditt.bsky.social

While Trump kisses putin's ass and destroys the democratic world order, and the Europeans meet for the 8,738th time after Easter to discuss the location of the 8,739th meeting, authoritarian regimes are becoming stronger and more united.

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Sorry, but no. His son is one of the most notorious pro-Russian propagandists in the media.

Paulette aka Pawlina@pawlina.bsky.social

Charity online event by zoom with world-renowned trauma & healing expert Dr. Gabor Maté. All proceeds will go toward bereavement programs for mothers in Ukraine who have lost their children to war. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1329253195... Full details here: www.facebook.com/share/1NS2kr...

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Day #145 of non-stop pro-Euro #protests in #Tbilisi #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia Only in lats 2 days 5 peaceful protesters were unlawfully detained when protesting on #Rustaveli

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The 1989 death of communism and revolutions of Central Europe was one of the single greatest moments in recent European history. Cope harder, commie.

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It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.

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Yet another example of the horrible militarisation of the Finnish society: These two guys met during the compulsory military service, vibed because they both liked to whistle moomin music, and now they’re organising moomin music concerts together.

yle.fiMuumimusiikin konsertista tuli hitti – taustalla armeijassa tavannut kaksikkoSuursuosioon nousseen tapahtuman järjestäjinä on kaksi nuorta miestä, jotka ovat muumimusiikin faneja. Paikalle on houkuteltu myös säveltäjä, joka on vetäytynyt julkisuudesta.

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When you force people to foreign incarceration for the rest of their life without due process... that's not deportation. That's human trafficking. And it's not a prison. It's a concentration camp.

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Georgian Dream plans to ban the opposition, which it brands as the "collective UNM," soon after the upcoming local elections slated for October. GD intends to use the final report of the one-party parliament's investigative commission to request the ban from the Constitutional Court.

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“Germany is willing to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, the country’s chancellor-in-waiting has said, as he stressed the need to put Kyiv on the front foot and force concessions from Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

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"We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism." Chilling talk. Do watch.

Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

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RFK Jr. says he’ll know what causes autism by September. Someone should tell him NIH—his own department—already funds $300 million per year in autism research, yielding hundreds of studies. Autism has been studied for decades and he’s claiming he will know the cause in 4 months?

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"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."

nytimes.comIn Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning (Gift Article)For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.

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I have a prediction. By September RFK Jr will have definitive proof that autism is caused by vaccines. All the thousands of researchers working on the problem for the past couple decades are stupid, lazy, or in the pocket of Big Pharma.only he can save us

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."

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HR/VP @kajakallas.bsky.social doorstep ahead of today’s NATO meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. ⬇️

Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social

This is the first time we have the Coalition of the Willing in the format of Defence ministers. This meeting is important to show our support for Ukraine and explore ways to strengthen it. My doorstep at NATO ahead of the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing ↓

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I'm pretty sure most people understand the concept of "buying stuff." If you hand over money and get something you'd like back, you didn't unfairly lose anything, you made a voluntary exchange. And voluntary exchange is, on balance, a good thing, not bad. This is really not a hard concept to grasp.

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social

"The US cumulative trade deficits in goods from 1976 to 2024 have transferred over $20tn of American wealth into foreign hands." Mate, that's just not how this works. www.ft.com/content/f313...

So... Are European leaders going to keep pretending that we're not already at war? Because not responding to this kind of state sponsored terrorism is going to invite even more of this bullshit.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social

🇩🇪A new investigation by Germany’s ZDF has revealed that, in the days leading up to knife attack in Mannheim, internet users in Russia were actively searching for information about “terrorist attack in Germany.” “We’re seeing search queries from Russia about the attacker in advance, even the name.”

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⚡️Zelensky welcomes French, British army chiefs in Kyiv, talks troop deployment. "There is tangible progress and initial details on how the partner security contingent might be deployed," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

kyivindependent.comZelensky welcomes French, British army chiefs in Kyiv, talks troop deployment"There is tangible progress and initial details on how the partner security contingent might be deployed," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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This needs more coverage. Anti-Orban protests in Hungary are growing. Police were forced back on Liberty Bridge last night, as Budapest’s major bridges were shut down. People chanted “fascists” & “Russians, fuck off”. Putin’s puppet & Trump’s friend is in trouble. 👏🇭🇺 (🎥 Szabolcs Panyi)

Taking a day off from work and spending that with my wife, sipping on wine and dancing to post punk and spanish and country tunes... Fuck yeah - it's what the doctor ordered. Work and news will be there tomorrow.

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BREAKING: “Europe has everything it needs to make it through the storm. We are in this together. If you take on one of us, you take on all of us” Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission 👏

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Note to journalists: You don't have to mindlessly repeat Trump's branding of the tariffs coming today as "Reciprocal" if as leaks suggest he just picks a big round number and applies it widely. Yes, even if he claims he has 15-20% grievance against every country he targets. Words mean things.