Martin Gärtner
@mgaertner.bsky.social
Private account of 🇦🇹 diplomat. Love music, poetry, puns and good debate. Views my own. Repost not necessarily endorsement.
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At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
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Online Petition bitte für ganz Europa - prinzipiell.
„No ICE in Europe!“
Jedes Land kann eine Einreise verweigern.
EU Staaten sollten umgehend und geschlossen davon Gebrauch machen.
ICE -Beamte sind Teil eines Staatsterror -Apparates, Teil einer Truppe von Rechtsbrechern und Mördern.
„No ICE in Europe!“
Jedes Land kann eine Einreise verweigern.
EU Staaten sollten umgehend und geschlossen davon Gebrauch machen.
ICE -Beamte sind Teil eines Staatsterror -Apparates, Teil einer Truppe von Rechtsbrechern und Mördern.
Widerstand gegen ICE-Beamte bei Olympischen Winterspielen in Italien
In Mailand und Cortina d'Ampezzo sollen die umstrittenen US-Einsatzkräfte die eigene Delegation beschützen. In Italien löst dies massive Proteste aus
www.derstandard.at
January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Online Petition bitte für ganz Europa - prinzipiell.
„No ICE in Europe!“
Jedes Land kann eine Einreise verweigern.
EU Staaten sollten umgehend und geschlossen davon Gebrauch machen.
ICE -Beamte sind Teil eines Staatsterror -Apparates, Teil einer Truppe von Rechtsbrechern und Mördern.
„No ICE in Europe!“
Jedes Land kann eine Einreise verweigern.
EU Staaten sollten umgehend und geschlossen davon Gebrauch machen.
ICE -Beamte sind Teil eines Staatsterror -Apparates, Teil einer Truppe von Rechtsbrechern und Mördern.
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"Als Bürgermeister von Mailand will ich nicht, dass diese US-Polizeieinheit nach Italien kommt. Es handelt sich um eine Truppe, die illegal agiert und die Menschen tötet; das ist völlig unvereinbar mit unserer Art, für Sicherheit zu sorgen.“
Widerstand gegen ICE-Beamte bei Olympischen Winterspielen in Italien
In Mailand und Cortina d'Ampezzo sollen die umstrittenen US-Einsatzkräfte die eigene Delegation beschützen. In Italien löst dies massive Proteste aus
www.derstandard.at
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"Als Bürgermeister von Mailand will ich nicht, dass diese US-Polizeieinheit nach Italien kommt. Es handelt sich um eine Truppe, die illegal agiert und die Menschen tötet; das ist völlig unvereinbar mit unserer Art, für Sicherheit zu sorgen.“
Ruzzia is a terrorist SState.
Russian propagandists rejoice at the strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, urging not to stop and to finish what has been started.
"What is happening with the energy sector is an indicator of effectiveness. We mustn't stop now," one of the propagandists said.
"What is happening with the energy sector is an indicator of effectiveness. We mustn't stop now," one of the propagandists said.
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Ruzzia is a terrorist SState.
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"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I‘m on my way to #Auschwitz.
On a lighter by-note: happy 270th birthday, lieber Wolfgangerl! Your music helps to keep sensing the beautiful and the humane in our all too humanly cruel world.
#Mozart
On a lighter by-note: happy 270th birthday, lieber Wolfgangerl! Your music helps to keep sensing the beautiful and the humane in our all too humanly cruel world.
#Mozart
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I‘m on my way to #Auschwitz.
On a lighter by-note: happy 270th birthday, lieber Wolfgangerl! Your music helps to keep sensing the beautiful and the humane in our all too humanly cruel world.
#Mozart
On a lighter by-note: happy 270th birthday, lieber Wolfgangerl! Your music helps to keep sensing the beautiful and the humane in our all too humanly cruel world.
#Mozart
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27 January 1914 | Austrian Jewish woman, Greta Gross, was born in Wien. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
27 January 1914 | Austrian Jewish woman, Greta Gross, was born in Wien. She emigrated to France.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 29 July 1942. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
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Heute ist der Internationale Holocaust-Gedenktag. Es ist der Jahrestag der Befreiung des KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau. Wir gedenken der Millionen ermordeter Jüdinnen und Juden, wir gedenken aller Opfer des nationalsozialistischen Terrors. Ihr Leid verpflichtet uns, wachsam zu bleiben. 1️⃣
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Heute ist der Internationale Holocaust-Gedenktag. Es ist der Jahrestag der Befreiung des KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau. Wir gedenken der Millionen ermordeter Jüdinnen und Juden, wir gedenken aller Opfer des nationalsozialistischen Terrors. Ihr Leid verpflichtet uns, wachsam zu bleiben. 1️⃣
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Am heutigen #Holocaust-Gedenktag erneuern wir das Bekenntnis zu unserer Verantwortung als wehrhafte Demokratie & offene Gesellschaft. Gemeinsam setzen wir uns für die Sicherstellung des Schutzes, der Freiheit und der Würde jedes und jeder Einzelnen ein! #NiemalsWiederIstJetzt!
Außenministerin Meinl-Reisinger und Staatssekretär Schellhorn anlässlich des Holocaust-Gedenktages
YouTube video by Österreichisches Außenministerium
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January 27, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Am heutigen #Holocaust-Gedenktag erneuern wir das Bekenntnis zu unserer Verantwortung als wehrhafte Demokratie & offene Gesellschaft. Gemeinsam setzen wir uns für die Sicherstellung des Schutzes, der Freiheit und der Würde jedes und jeder Einzelnen ein! #NiemalsWiederIstJetzt!
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Thank you Max, you're 100% right. Ukraine, a country of 39 million, manages to hold back Russia since four years (and counting). But the EU, with it's 450 million citizens and all it's economic power cannot? Complete and utter bogus. It's a question of determination and willpower, not of capacity!
Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.
“If anyone thinks here… that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming,” Nato SecGen Mark Rutte told the European Parliament. “You can’t.”
“It will make things more complicated. I think Putin will love it. So think again.”
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“It will make things more complicated. I think Putin will love it. So think again.”
as.ft.com/r/25718b02-2...
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Thank you Max, you're 100% right. Ukraine, a country of 39 million, manages to hold back Russia since four years (and counting). But the EU, with it's 450 million citizens and all it's economic power cannot? Complete and utter bogus. It's a question of determination and willpower, not of capacity!
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Herzliche Gratulation an @PetraBayr zur Wahl zur Präsidentin der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarates @PACE_News!
AT ist seit 70 Jahren Mitglied des Europarates & bekennt sich klar zu aktivem Multilateralismus. (1/2)
AT ist seit 70 Jahren Mitglied des Europarates & bekennt sich klar zu aktivem Multilateralismus. (1/2)
January 26, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Herzliche Gratulation an @PetraBayr zur Wahl zur Präsidentin der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarates @PACE_News!
AT ist seit 70 Jahren Mitglied des Europarates & bekennt sich klar zu aktivem Multilateralismus. (1/2)
AT ist seit 70 Jahren Mitglied des Europarates & bekennt sich klar zu aktivem Multilateralismus. (1/2)
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
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A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Time to Ban Social Media for under 16 years and have all Social Media Companies operating in the EU owned by EU Companies and operating under EU laws: TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t... #tiktok #socialmedia
TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Time to Ban Social Media for under 16 years and have all Social Media Companies operating in the EU owned by EU Companies and operating under EU laws: TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t... #tiktok #socialmedia
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À l’heure où les grandes puissances abandonnent les règles et les valeurs pour répondre à leurs propres intérêts, les puissances moyennes comme le Canada ont le choix : se faire concurrence pour obtenir des faveurs ou unir leurs efforts pour qu’ils portent fruits.
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
À l’heure où les grandes puissances abandonnent les règles et les valeurs pour répondre à leurs propres intérêts, les puissances moyennes comme le Canada ont le choix : se faire concurrence pour obtenir des faveurs ou unir leurs efforts pour qu’ils portent fruits.
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Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.
Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.
The president’s effort to acquire Greenland, even with the threat of force off the table, has changed the way allies see the U.S.
dlvr.it
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done.
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Giddy Putin Stooges Celebrate Trump’s ‘Rape’ of U.S. Allies
‘WELL DONE, TRUMPUSHKA!’
My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social:
www.thedailybeast.com/giddy-putin-...
‘WELL DONE, TRUMPUSHKA!’
My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social:
www.thedailybeast.com/giddy-putin-...
Giddy Putin Stooges Celebrate Trump’s ‘Rape’ of U.S. Allies
The U.S. president may have been passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he might be able to count on an award from the Kremlin after blowing up the world order.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Giddy Putin Stooges Celebrate Trump’s ‘Rape’ of U.S. Allies
‘WELL DONE, TRUMPUSHKA!’
My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social:
www.thedailybeast.com/giddy-putin-...
‘WELL DONE, TRUMPUSHKA!’
My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social:
www.thedailybeast.com/giddy-putin-...
Gibt es jetzt Wertekurse für Schützen?
January 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Gibt es jetzt Wertekurse für Schützen?
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Ich habe meine Diss damals zur "Rogue State Doctrine" in der US Sicherheitspolitik geschrieben. Madeleine Albright hat diese in einer Rede im Jahr 1998 gut zusammengefasst (👇). Wird wohl eine neues Kapitel fällig ... zur "Donrogue State Doctrine".
#unfassbar
#unfassbar
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Ich habe meine Diss damals zur "Rogue State Doctrine" in der US Sicherheitspolitik geschrieben. Madeleine Albright hat diese in einer Rede im Jahr 1998 gut zusammengefasst (👇). Wird wohl eine neues Kapitel fällig ... zur "Donrogue State Doctrine".
#unfassbar
#unfassbar
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:
Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation
Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation
Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation
Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:
Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation
Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation
Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation
Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation
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Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE
Europe: Don't Back Down
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE