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A Catalan guy from the deep south 🦩🌾🍷 aka "Profeta de la baldana i la mistela" I manage @balticsencatala.bsky.social "Joy's soul lies in the doing"

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Von Der Leyen's speech earlier today trading "Iran freedom" for "international law" seems to go in the opposite direction to your words.

09.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

at the expense of ignoring international law and bringing chaos to the world order?

09.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Owned Continent - Book Reading with author Dave Keating | Backstory Bookshop Can Europeans throw off the shackles of American domination?

🏴σ ₯󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Catalunya!

Vine a la lectura debut a IbΓ¨ria del llibre "The Owned Continent" – dissabte 14 de marΓ§ a la llibreria Backstory de Barcelona.

Registra't aquΓ­:

03.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Safe for children...in Europe but not for those in the Middle East and central Asia.

Any thoughts on the EPP group blocking a debate in the EP on Trump and Spain?

Europe is quickly losing credibility, you cannot pretend to stand up to Putin by ignoring what Trump is doing in Europe's backdoors.

05.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

home perΓ² digues almenys a quin poble o barri se pegaven los pares a la grada...per no anar-hi o per anar vestits de National Geographic, aixΓ­ segons l'aversiΓ³ al risc de cadascΓΊ.

05.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Els que esteu fent tuits en anglès demanant a Trump i a Bibi que reconegui la independència de Catalunya sou patètics, com xiquets malcriats que potser en sabeu molt de política internacional però desconeixeu el país en el qual viviu ara al 2026.

ArribarΓ  el dia de pensar en gran, perΓ² no Γ©s ara.

04.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

True and worth sharing

04.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I support Spain's position standing to bully Trump, would love to see other EU countries doing the same, but would also love to see Spain sending military help for defensive purposes to EU countries being targeted right now, such as Cyprus.

This is what being European should be about.

03.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I know that one

03.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 1323 πŸ” 268 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 43

Interesting, why Poland and Sweden yes but not the Baltics and Finland?

03.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate to admit it, but Spain under Pedro SΓ‘nchez seems to be the only European country showing a bit of common sense in international affairs right now.

How on earth do you get into a war counting on a popular uprising to determine the outcome, when there is no organised opposition?

02.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

01.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 341 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

because she is clearly MISSING one KEY point in this statement.

02.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are talking about the aggressors here

02.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, Kaja, what makes the USA and Israeli unilateral aggression to Iran different to what Russia is doing to Ukraine in terms of international law?

You are killing international law just out of fear of Donald Trump and this is sad.

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Will you condemn the American and Israeli aggression and stand with international law or not? This is what matters the most now.

02.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, do they know there are red phone boxes in Malta too? Sadly this country is also in the European Union...

26.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Old enough to have seen every Terminator movie, debated them with your mates in real lifeβ€”not on some soulless digital gadgetβ€”and to have the lesson burned into your brain forever: what happens when you let machines make too many decisions for you.

25.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Catalunya no es paΓ­s de turisme de llibreries.

Quants pobles menuts, que no siguen capital de comarca, coneixeu que tinguen llibreria especialitzada?

A mΓ­ nomΓ©s me ve al cap Naturllibres a Alins i Calonge Poble de Llibres.

25.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The West's boomer problem in a nutshell: Former Socialist legend Felipe Gonzalez would rather ally with fascists than the radical Basque left. Many such cases

10.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

As a European, profiles like this one keep my hope for the USA alive.

07.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The wolf might be an interesting subject but I do not know to what point they have been affected by last summer wildfires as most of them live in the Zamora province where this happened.

31.01.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The images we’re seeing of the effects of Storm Kristin in central Portugal are terrible, and as always, the Catalan and Spanish press completely ignore what’s happening in that country unless it’s to talk about politics or sports.

31.01.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In my opinion Barcelona is a subject which has already been so thoroughly explored and documented. I'd bet on the Wild and rural Spain first, and the wolf in second place.

31.01.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Un bon dia per recuperar aixΓ²

28.01.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was about time.

24.01.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: β€œWHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: β€œWHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious β€” and build something better, stronger, and more just.

20.01.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 4319 πŸ” 1022 πŸ’¬ 230 πŸ“Œ 110

Thank you PM Mark Carney from Canada for giving us hope in times of darkness.

#Davos

20.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Having said that, that pass can be popular with those who commute often WITHIN a region and cover long distances, for instance Tarragona or Girona area to Barcelona, but will be expensive compared to previous regular monthly passes for those living in Barcelona's closer neighbourhood

16.01.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Media distancia / regionals seldom cover big distances in Spain, for instance, if you want to go from Barcelona to Madrid you have to take one of the 1 or 2 daily trains to Zaragoza and then another of the 1 or 2 daily trains to Madrid, prepare to spend 10 hours, compare to 2 hours and half w/ AVE

16.01.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0