Conor McGregor just launched his own #memecoin grift.

https://x.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1908551719887294678

Goddamn I love being right about people like Zvika Klein years before the public revelations about things like #Qatargate.

Screenshot from here: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eric-adams-yet-another-crypto-success

Macron leaning over to a distraught Starmer and consoling him over the difficult news that the US is not our friend.
You would hope the son of a toolmaker would be more open to knocking all that brexit nonsense on the head, wouldn't you?

"Ich bitte nicht um eine Hintertür, ich erwarte die Vordertür!"

• Catherine de Bolle, #EUROPOL-Leiterin.

Damit ist alles zur #Verfassungsfeindlichkeit von "#Strafverfolgern" wie Europol gesagt!

It's good to see Norway pushing back against the insane decision of its neighbour Finland to leave the Ottawa Convention (the anti-landmine treaty). It's the duty of all sensible people and countries to stand up for hard won gains like the Ottawa Convention, or indeed the International Criminal Court which Hungary is flouting.

https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-criticizes-finlands-decision-to-withdraw-from-landmine-treaty/

Queridos periodistas , pensad en su recordatorio semi-regular de que el procedimiento para sancionar a un estadito miembro de la UE en virtud del Artículo 7 implica no uno, sino dos votos y sólo el voto final requiere unanimidad. Ambos Consejos votan, y la votación preliminar en El Otro Consejo no necesita unanimidad para aprobarse, sólo mayoría cualificada. #WTFistheCouncil

Un besito de los extremistas liberales, Ľuboš.

#DWFLabs, the sketchiest and most #Russia connected crypto “market maker” that is absolutely notorious for running pump and dumps, just sent $25 million to the Trump family’s crypto grift World Liberty Financial (WLFI).

Andrei Grachev, the head of DWF Labs, was formerly the CEO of Huobi Russia. #Huobi is owned by #JustinSun, the biggest outside investor in WLFI. Huobi Russia helped #Putin launder money for the war in #Ukraine according to reporting in Bloomberg.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find that DWF Labs was the “market maker” that handled the launch of the #TRUMP memecoin. In fact I strongly suspect that to be the case.

Dear EU #Trade Ministers, please watch this clip or read this

"#Tariffs are not economic policy. They are a tool to undermine #democracy."

#EUpol #EUtrade #EUCO

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m

"The EU has shared its plans to ostensibly keep the continent's denizens secure – and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor #encryption by 2026, or even sooner."

#EUPol #Security

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/

UPdate From Kenneth Greg Made by Fabio Bulfoni 04-04 2025 #Ukraine #UkraineWar #ukrainian #us #usa #uspol #uspolitics #eu #europe #eupol #dkpol #uk #worldpol #worldpolitics #USNews #DonaldTrump #UnitedStates
#USNews #WeThePeople #zeitung #dkmedier #DailyNews #Finland
On the night from 21:30, local time, of April 3, the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine launching 78 UAVs and other drones from the Russian regions of Bryansk,

Apparently the #Houthis have been using #Tether's USDT stablecoin to do [whatever], because #OFAC just placed sanctions on a bunch of USDT wallets on #JustinSun's #Tron blockchain that they claim are connected to the Houthis.

Reminder that Justin Sun is Donald Trump's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial and #HowardLutnick manages Tether's money, so now you have a situation where Trump & co. are profiting from the same people they are bombing.

I had missed this one from yesterday.

> Then the EU will target "all products and services", with the measures probably ready at the end of April, she said, adding this was still being discussed.
>
> "But we are also going to attack services. For example, online services, which are not taxed today but could be," Primas said.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250403-eu-to-target-us-online-services-after-trump-tariffs-france

That could get... interesting in rather a hurry.

Member States endorse withdrawal of smoke flavourings from EU market.

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/items/827828/de

> Today, the Member States have endorsed a proposal from the Commission to not renew the authorisation of 8 smoke flavourings for food. After a phase-out period, these flavourings will no longer be permitted for use in the EU.

Good, but a long phase-out time (2 or 5 years, depending of the product)

"European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump."

https://archive.is/R0GAK

You couldn't get a more ludicrous metaphor for the re-militarisation of Europe than the EU lifting a ban on shooting doves!

‘Reckless and shortsighted’: EU lifts ban on turtle dove hunting in Spain, France and Italy | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/03/reckless-and-shortsighted-eu-lifts-ban-on-turtle-dove-hunting-in-spain-france-and-italy

"Independent research shows deeper regulatory alignment as part of a common sense deal with the EU would boost the UK economy by as much as 2.2%, meaning more money for public services and more jobs across the country. The report also recommends a EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme, a new EU-UK security pact, greater energy co-operation, a data adequacy agreement, and the UK rejoining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention on rules of origin."

#UKPol #EUPol

https://www.bestforbritain.org/twenty_ways_to_fix_brexit_s_growth_hit

Dear @EUCommission

Please listen to us, the whole collective cybersecurity space, the ones actively protecting our personal, professional and government data everyday when we tell you:

There is no way you can make data available to law enforcement that doesn't - massively - make it much easier for adversaries to access it too.

Anyone who tells you different don't know what they're talking about.

That's all.

https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/114279301331656579