Victor Marti

Post Production

[Luis de Velasco e Isla @VelascoIsla]

Por qué las próximas elecciones pueden ser las más importantes de tu vida. Y por qué no deberías quedarte en casa o votar a esta derecha.

Parte 1:

Las pensiones. 🧵

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Asesinato en vivo de un periodista en Líbano

Un periodista fue asesinado en directo mientras transmitía las destrucciones causadas por Israel en el sur de Líbano.

Lo mataron mientras cumplía su trabajo: mostrarle al mundo la barbarie que está ocurriendo.

Israel no solo masacra civiles, también persigue y silencia sistemáticamente a los periodistas para ocultar sus crímenes.

Esto es terrorismo de Estado contra la verdad.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't know if people understand just how insanely egregious this is.

First of all, 1) not only are NATO spending targets NOT legally binding (nothing in any NATO-related legal text mandates a specific GDP-based threshold for defense spending), but on top of this 2) Spain requested AND RECEIVED an exemption from the 5% target at the 2025 Hague Summit - NATO changed the declaration's language specifically to allow Spain to sign while publicly declaring it would not comply (https://t.co/q3VE2Je3TS)

This means that, legally speaking and according to NATO's own rules, Spain is doubly within its rights: there is no binding obligation to begin with, and Spain was excused from even this non-binding obligation.

That's the first point: Germany's chancellor just endorsed - from the Oval Office - the U.S. punishing a fellow EU nation for refusing to comply with an obligation that doesn't exist in law, under a political pledge Spain was excused from at a NATO summit.

The second point is that this 5% target has nothing to do with "defense", quite the contrary in fact: it is pretty explicitly an imperial tribute to the U.S. that will actually **weaken** European defense.

That was Spain's main argument for refusing to comply: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that "committing to 5% would not make us any safer" because it "would only reinforce our dependence" on the U.S. (https://t.co/QUMDyfvWDP)

That's the insane thing about EU defense spending: in recent years, the more it has spent on defense, the more that spending has flowed to American contractors as opposed to European ones, making the EU defense industry weaker (https://t.co/XHGLW71tX0). Increasing spending to 5% doesn't strengthen European defense: it accelerates exactly this transfer.

All the more insane given the well-documented production backlogs in the U.S. defense industry and its inability to produce at scale: US defense analysts - including from Trump-adjacent think tanks like AEI (https://t.co/c3DobMYpru) - openly acknowledge that European customers would be deprioritized behind U.S. ones in any real conflict.

AND, critically, a defense industry from a country that's increasingly hostile to Europe - explicitly so in its National Security Strategy - and whose weaponry has "kill switches" that allows for remote disabling.

I mean, the sheer madness of it: anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that DOUBLING your defense spending to enrich a foreign arms industry that has kill switches on your weapons, can't meet its own military's needs, and increasingly treats you as an adversary, is not even remotely a defense strategy - it's suicide.

That's why having Merz - in the oval office, sitting next to Trump - endorse economic coercion against the one EU country that's still sane enough to see through this madness is so egregious, and frankly straight-up traitorous.

For those who know Asterix and Obelix, Spain is the "one small village still holding out against the invaders" and Merz is Cassius Ceramix, the self-described "gallo-roman" Gaul village chief who's the incarnation of all sycophants after his tribe were conquered by the Romans.

I'm with Asterix, and all Europeans should be too.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe is quietly becoming what the United States once promised the world.

More and more people are looking at their best years ahead and choosing a place where everyday life is designed to work. Where the future feels stable enough to plan for. Where safety is not a luxury product. Where you can build a good life without gambling your health, your family, or your dignity on one bad month.

In much of Europe, the “dream” is not about becoming a billionaire. It is about becoming unafraid.

It is the freedom of walking home at night without scanning every shadow. The comfort of knowing that if you get sick, you do not need to calculate whether you can afford to be treated. The relief of having a society that still believes children should carry backpacks, not trauma, and definitely not weapons. The calm of streets built for human beings, not just cars. The ability to take a holiday without feeling like you are committing career suicide. The basic decency of labor protections that assume you are a person first and a resource second.

And then there is the part people underestimate until they live it: the texture of life.

The cities are older and more beautiful than you expect. The distances are smaller. Weekends are real. Food is real. Public spaces are not just decorative, they are functional. Parks are full. Cafes are full. Trains take you somewhere, often across borders, without turning travel into a stress test. You can live in one country, work with another, and visit a third like it is normal because, in many places, it is.

The European dream is also a quiet confidence in the social contract. That if you contribute, the system does not abandon you. That you can raise a family without feeling like you are one accident away from ruin. That “getting ahead” does not require burning out. That a good society is one where normal people can live normal lives and still feel proud of them.

This is why more and more Americans are not just visiting Europe, but staying. Some come for studies and never leave. Some arrive for a job and realise the lifestyle is the real promotion. Some originally planned a one year experiment and then cannot imagine going back to a place where stress is treated as a personality trait and insecurity is marketed as freedom.

Europe is not perfect. It has bureaucracy. It has politics. It has problems that deserve criticism.

But in many European countries, life is still built around a simple idea: society should reduce fear, not monetise it.

That is the new dream. And people can feel it the moment they arrive.

If you could choose one thing to trade for a better life, what would it be: more income, or more security? And what do you think your country would have to change for people to stop leaving, and start staying?

Stay connected,
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[Consejo de Redacción de Efe @cderedaccionefe]

🚨 El periodismo riguroso no puede estar a merced de errores algorítmicos.
Desde el Consejo de Redacción de @EFEnoticias denunciamos cómo la IA de Grok ha atacado nuestra credibilidad con información falsa y una rectificación invisible. 🧵 Abrimos hilo.

[Santi Liébana @SantiLiebanaR]

Mucho hablar de que nos engañaron con el euro, pero nadie dice nada de que nos engañaron con el Megabass del walkman.

[Javier Zurro @Zurro_85]

Menuda maravilla. Un canto al poder del periodismo ante las barbaridades de EEUU. Verlo hoy es hasta más revelador. Qué buena es Laura Poitras

[La casa de papel - BERLÍN @lacasadepapel]

Llamando a la banda: Berlín vuelve a la acción en Sevilla con un golpe que será una obra de arte. ‘Berlín y la dama del armiño’ se estrena el 15 de mayo de 2026 #BerlinNetflix

Calling the gang: Berlin is back in action in Seville with a heist that will be a work of art. 'Berlin and the Lady with an Ermine' launches on May 15, 2026 #BerlinNetflix

[Jaume Ripoll Vaquer @JaumeRV]

Hace 7 días @Filmin cumplió 18 años y el próximo martes nuestros amigos de @NetflixES celebrarán los 10 de su llegada.

Gracias a ellos el mercado ha crecido, la industria ha madurado y nosotros nos hemos consolidado.

Muchísimas felicidades a Diego, Verónica y al resto de la familia Netflix por hacer tanto y tan bien.

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@FrancisJRHowell Y el sonido de @menosdocedb una monstruosidad!

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@invertiresvivir Para redistribuir la riqueza, tener servicios públicos de calidad y evitar que la desigualdad convierta nuestra sociedad en un infierno. ¿Te parece poco? Yo también pago ese porcentaje y tu membresía y me siento un afortunado por ello.

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@javifrutos81 @festivalmalaga Felicidades Javi!!! Enhorabuena!!! Feliz por ti!!!

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@finalcutproes @FilmBayona Enorme trabajo de Juan siempre desde la humildad y en la sombra. Sin genios de los procesos y de la organización del material como él esta peli nunca hubiera sido posible. Gracias por todo @finalcutproes.

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@SandraTapiaDiaz @ArcadiaMotion Moltes felicitats @SandraTapiaDiaz!!! Ets molt gran!! Enorme!! Molt feliç per tot l’equip d’Arcadia i de la peli. Molt merescut!!!

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@ArcadiaMotion Felicidades @ArcadiaMotion y Pablo Berger por esta enorme nominación!! Merecidísima!!! Abrazos

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@FrancisJRHowell Jajajajajaja. Habrá que ponerlo en el poster.

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@finalcutproes Muy bueno. Jajajajaj

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@BraParker Esta pelicula no hubiera sido posible sin el trabajo meticuloso y creativo de @BraParker!!! Es parte muuuuuy importante del resultado final. Eres grande!!!

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@JaimeNom @JaimeLorite_ @Tamara_GimenezF Tercera vez que se lo tiraban. Y ya había parado la canción por lo mismo.

[Victor Marti @vctrmrt]

@IsaCampo7 Una abraçada immensa als dos. Tot l’escalf. 💕