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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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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 14h

"you purged your military a second time?"

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3h

I know that we’re not party to UNCLOS and that the murder part is worse, but this might have violated multiple pieces of private and international law as well as the sacred duty to render aid to sailors in distress.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 3h

But we have a good security cooperation relationship with the country, and it's been good for both sides to maintain mil-mil engagements even when the civilian/political side has been strained.

I wonder how much pull the new SOUTHCOM CCDR will have to keep the SC stuff going. Just an own goal...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

👍 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cringe “implies a kind of naïveté that so often gets coded as feminine,” wrote the New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen, “a silly belief that human beings, through sincere effort, might actually improve themselves and the world.” Such a belief might seem uncool. But it can be a powerful tool with which to cut through the nihilism of Trump and those around him, which draws its power from its insincerity, its refusal to distinguish between truth and falsehood, its willingness to mock and degrade previously treasured beliefs. As one protest sign put it at a demonstration early in Trump’s second term: BE CRINGE. SHIT MATTERS.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3h

love that this makes it sound like the minister was, if anything, pro heist

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Gill c. 1590. I wille notte eate ye ungodlie ‘potatoe’ for itte is heathene foode. I onlie feaste on trew borne englishe dishes lyke eeles and puddyng

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 1d

KATAPULT German magazine drew a stark map: the area of Ukraine under Russian occupation laid over other countries. Put it on France — it blankets almost all of Normandy and part of Île-de-France. On Poland — about half of Mazovia. On Germany — all of Brandenburg and Berlin. 👇

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Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

My friendly advice for any news outlet struggling to now cover the Pentagon would be to adopt a COCOM-based strategy for coverage. Send reporters down to Tampa and Miami and Colorado Springs and have them develop sources there. The COCOMs were often “leakier” than the Building anyway.

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Tad Miller @jstatad.bsky.social · 1d

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

'Shame on UVA': Student producer fired for asking hard questions

A student journalist at UVA was fired for asking hard questions of UVA interim President Paul Mahoney and refusing to apologize.

augustafreepress.com

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 1d

seen in Antwerp

Stenciled graffiti of Elon musk and a crown that has been crossed out with the words “no kings”

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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 1d

France has a government. Why that’s news.

www.csmonitor.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

We the people are entitled to representation

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2d

Always tip your waiter 20%, even if the service was meh and they weren’t particularly charming. Unless they were downright horrible, don’t go below that. If they were great, consider more than 20%.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 2d

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City
mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,.

All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained
popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed
are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for.

"I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to
be chill and relaxed."

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 2d

I love your skirt. where’d you get it?

Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 2d

*level damn it

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Madame DeFarge @madamedefargeknits.bsky.social · 2d

If a stadium takes public money, all the games played within it should be on broadcast TV—none of this Amazon Prime or Sunday Ticket bullshit.

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Sally Dukes @sallydukes.bsky.social · 2d

sanitation workers should be paid and treated with the same about of respect as doctors

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

Jury nullification is good

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

"The most electorally successful leftists in US history ran & governed on this very kernel—the belief that delivering basic services, building public works, & running a functional local government are inseparable from what it means to govern from the left in a major city"

slate.com/business/202...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d

This is a remarkable piece. Conservative AND liberal legal scholars come out TOGETHER to condemn Trump’s compact for higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/our-...

Opinion | Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom

Using federal funding to dictate who colleges admit and what faculty can say crosses a dangerous line.

www.chronicle.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them.

Smith spoke to us on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns

As the head of the military’s Southern Command steps down, Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, sheds new light on the departure—and on Trump’s appalling secrecy about the bombings.

newrepublic.com

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 2d

A worrying observation from @slotkin.senate.gov: “We’ve never had an instance where there’s a secret list of what I understand to be dozens of new terrorist organizations that the American public and certainly the oversight committees don’t get to know.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

www.nbcnews.com

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