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Sally Dukes

@sallydukes.bsky.social

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American in Belgium, ICC enthusiast, leader of the anti-IR realism coalition, no I do not speak French 🇺🇸 🇱🇺

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · Nov 26

I see I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers so let me introduce myself: I’m a grad student from Charlottesville now living in Belgium. I research non-state actors and genocide. Mostly I post mostly about international conflict, cats, and stuff I see around Europe.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h

"Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray … it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol," said Rev. Hannah Kardon, who has been shot w/pepper bullets _multiple times_. "They are unhinged."

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 9h

liberation theology is BACK

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 13h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it's really important to understand that anyone who hates theatre, art and academia - three things Britain is still *really bloody good* at making - just hates Britain.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 3d

when I say that the US population is more welcoming towards immigrants and refugees than the netherlands, I am not exaggerating

Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 3d

Councils bow to protestors and change refugee housing plans www.dutchnews.nl?p=258211

Councils bow to protestors and change refugee housing plans

www.dutchnews.nl

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine being Angela Merkel, who spent her entire career being relentlessly mocked - in policy and in word - by Viktor Orbán. And here, in retirement, you go to Hungary to essentially run a little personal campaign to shore up all his narratives, even against your own old party in Germany. Just lol

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3d

🇩🇪🤔🇭🇺 Merkel: I never saw Orbán as Putin’s Trojan horse in the EU. That’s absurd, nonsense.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 3d

Herman Gottlieb in Pacific Rim explaining that we could be seeing a double Prime Minister event within seven days

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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 6d

Watch carefully, everyone. The whole world must see this.
This is what russia brings to the world — only dеstruction.
Nothing else. This country knows no other way.
Every day, russia dеstroys more and more Ukrainian cities.
World, do not stay silent.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d

huh can’t think of anyone in Russia who loves poisons who might be getting annoyed with his houseguests

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

oh no, did someone poison the legendary poison-gas enjoyer

Deposed Syrian Dictator Poisoned Under Putin’s Nose: Watchdog

Bashar al-Assad was reportedly rushed to an emergency room and placed under intensive care.

www.thedailybeast.com

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 6d

I would like some people to reconcile the warmongering EU itching to start a war with Russia that gets talked about in Ireland, and the actual EU that has spent the last 2-3 weeks ensuring at least a dozen separate Russian drone attacks and not fired one shot into Russia in response.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 7d

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt.

Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

On trial for journalism in Kentucky.

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

www.cjr.org

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IUF Asia/Pacific @iufasia-pacific.bsky.social · 6d

The #Myanmar military’s engineered elections 2: manipulating “opposition” parties. The article details how.
@justiceformyanmar.org #NotoShamElections #RestoreDemocracy #JusticeForMyanmar #WhatshappeninginMyanmar

iufap.org/2025/09/17/t...

The Myanmar military’s engineered elections 2: manipulating “opposition” parties

To make the elections starting on 28 December 2025 look real, Myanmar’s military junta will ensure there are “opposition” parties participating. Under the Political Parties Regist…

iufap.org

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

LIVE: Abdication of Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Henri, swearing-in of Grand Duke Guillaume youtube.com/live/2L-fGMQ...

LIVE: Abdication of Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Henri, swearing-in of Grand Duke Guillaume

YouTube video by Reuters

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

guys I know every one of you wants to act out this specific tweet to the letter but one of the non-negotiable things about being a catholic is that the pope is the real pope

Tweet from @agraybee

Every lifelong Catholic I’ve ever met is like “I think we’re supposed to give this food to poor people” and every adult convert is like “the archon of Constantinople’s epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the Eucharist clearly states women shouldn’t have driver’s licenses.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Far Side cartoon with a female chimpanzee grooming a male chimpanzee

“Well, well - another blond hair. … Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 8d

The fun part about transnational movements like Hindutva that attack scholars is that this happens across multiple countries. For the Weiss’ of the world moaning about being cancelled, this is what actual intellectuals face. Anyway as good a time as any to share www.hindutvaharassmentfieldmanual.org

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 7d

one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 7d

enlightenment 2: we are no longer asking

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8d

Also I’m just cackling at the fact that Walsh seems surprised that the Catholic Church (lol) has rituals

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 9d

Just to be clear these are war crimes. And any committed (small d) democrat should make it clear if/when they win power they will prosecute every war crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10d

Look at what the United States Government is citing in the birthright citizenship case.

Non-expert legal scholarship and work done hastily in service of their political goals.

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