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Corto Maltese

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Used to be Anglo-French. Had my vote suppressed. Am now Franco-British...and European. Слава Україні! @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine responds to Trump’s deal with Putin by striking russian fuel export terminal in Rostov.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Realism still needed for Europe debate in UK. Will Andy Burnham provide it? Me in @eastangliabylines.co.uk Enjoy! eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Britain chose to leave the EU. Yet politicians and commentators still talk as though we should retain a say in how Europe runs itself. Niall Ó Conghaile asks whether Britain has really understood what being outside means.
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Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This sounds like a great idea. #TrumpCrimeFamily
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Britain and the EU – the exceptionalism trap Brexit has weakened the UK, but the country still seems unwilling to contemplate a return to the EU westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...
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Britain and the EU – the exceptionalism trap
Brexit has weakened the UK, but the country still seems unwilling to contemplate a return to the EU
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Stuart Davidson 🇬🇱 @stutheeditor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vietnam PTSD? Oh sorry, he had 5 opportunities to serve his country & decided that 58,000 other young Americans should die in his place.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 01/09/2026
Pour la troisième fois, la française Sophie Adenot sort dans l'espace avec une équipe 100% féminine
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Pour la troisième fois, la française Sophie Adenot sort dans l'espace avec une équipe 100% féminine
A bord de l'ISS, l'ingénieure et ancienne pilote d'essai, Sophie Adenot, âgée de 44 ans, va effectuer sa troisième sortie dans l'espace en moins de deux semaines. Avant elle, seuls quatre Français avaient effectué des sorties extravéhiculaire dans le vide spatial, le dernier en date étant Thomas Pesquet.
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My goodness. This was SAVAGE. 🔥🔥🔥
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
♥️
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
😂 😂 😂
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Watching @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social . What a complete tosser that creature from Reform is !! 😠 😡
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#OTD 1 July 1725 Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was born. He became a general whose army played the decisive role in helping the United States defeat the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolution.
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDO...
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Le Brexit a 10 ans et les Britons grattent à la porte - Charline explose les faits
YouTube video by France Inter
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 15/06/2026
This. It is one thing to say “we ought not to have left - we should reverse that decision”. It is another to say “we believe in the European project and want to join.” This is why I agree with those who say that we should stop talking about “rejoin” and start framing it as “join”.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good, but you’re ‘hailing’ it ‘on X’ ffs.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Here's some straight talk from a Norwegian about our health care system 👇 "Our system is an investment in human dignity. Yours is a Go Fund Me waiting to happen." #MedicareForAll
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
😂 "Charlie Is My Darling" www.france24.com/en/americas/...
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'You'd be speaking French': King Charles pokes fun at Trump during state dinner
Britain's King Charles III used his speech at a state dinner at the White House on Tuesday to poke fun at US President Donald Trump who, in January, told European leaders that without US aid in World…
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In the process of watching Bernard Jenkins making a complete fool of himself on Newsnight ... 🤦‍♂️ 🙄
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/03/2026
Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I look forward to reading that headline news in the Express/Mail/Telegraph ... 😉 www.franceinfo.fr/monde/europe...
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L'Australie et l'Union européenne signent un vaste accord commercial après des années de négociations
L'accès réglementé du bœuf australien au marché européen figure notamment dans ce texte, qui entrera en vigueur après l'approbation du Conseil européen.
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Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#FRAENG
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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It’s been quite a week for the projection of 🇫🇷 power and demonstration of the value of alliances -Macron’s new deterrence doctrine for Europe -🇫🇷 to increase its nuclear stockpile -CDG leads European carrier strike group to eastern Med -defensive aid to regional allies incl Cyprus, Lebanon + UAE
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🇫🇷‼️ France has sent a frigate to protect Cyprus, an EU ally, from Iranian missiles or drones, Macron announced tonight. He also said he had ordered the giant aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its frigate escorts to cut short a Baltic visit and sail to the eastern Med. 1/
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vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social · 22/02/2026
Further pictures from FB 'Märcher Foto'
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Hans Tino Hansen @hanstino.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A sick crew member from a 🇺🇸US submarine was evacuated today by the 🇩🇰Danish warship HDMS Vædderen off 🇬🇱Greenland. This underlines Denmark’s dedication to assist any seafarer in distress regardless of his nation’s intent (Arctic Command) Photo not from today’s incident.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The reports of "hospital boats for Greenland" are greatly exaggerated. Both US hospital SHIPS, USNS Mercy and Comfort, are in an Alabama Shipyard. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/02/2026
Greenland apparently provided emergency medical treatment to a US submariner in the last 24 hours, which under the circumstances was extremely generous of them. But might that have prompted this somewhat bizarre response from Trump?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.
Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff
Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to
Greenland to take care of the many people who are
sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!
President DJT
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Penguins holding flipper/hands
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
French response’s reply to Musk calling their investigation into his platform’s creation of child abuse images ‘political’ is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
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This is a political attack x.com/globalaffairs/...

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Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial.
Turning it into political theater is manipulation.
Maybe that logic flies on some island.
Doesn't fly in France.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrfT...
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David Bowie - This Is Not America (Extended)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/01/2026
I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Corto Maltese @cortomaltese-bis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This *has* to be the funniest picture of the day! Taken from an article in the Guardian on "people and their rides" it had me crying with laughter thanks to the look on the little boy's face.
Qinfang with grandson in a Chang Li car, Shanghai, China. All photographs: Martin Roemers/Panos Pictures
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/12/2025
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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Franglaise @franglaise.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This pretty much depicts how the world now views The US
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/12/2025
Our voting system is broken. It's time for a change that truly reflects what voters want.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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