Kylie Sertic
@kyliesertic.bsky.social
Studying Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Carter School at GMU. Formerly in journalism. Opinions my own. She/her
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The importance of Balkan LGBT solidarity - gay Croatian MEP Gordan Bosanac (Možemo) meets with DaSeZna, Serbia's main LGBT rights group, at the European Parliament to receive their report on homophobia and transphobia in Serbia and ensure Brussels hears it.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The importance of Balkan LGBT solidarity - gay Croatian MEP Gordan Bosanac (Možemo) meets with DaSeZna, Serbia's main LGBT rights group, at the European Parliament to receive their report on homophobia and transphobia in Serbia and ensure Brussels hears it.
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I realized long ago that nothing will make you leave X, a website owned and operated by a Nazi psychopath, but who knows maybe reading about this will make you leave.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I realized long ago that nothing will make you leave X, a website owned and operated by a Nazi psychopath, but who knows maybe reading about this will make you leave.
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USAID's capacities took decades to build and Musk, through DOGE, gutted it all with the enthusiasim and foresight of a 14 year old given keys to a Lambourghini in a town where his dad's the sheriff internationalpolicy.org/publications...
DOGE’s Gutting Of USAID Weakened Disaster Response - CIP
For over 30 years, USAID had a leading role is disaster response for the United States, a capacity shattered when it was shut down.
internationalpolicy.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
USAID's capacities took decades to build and Musk, through DOGE, gutted it all with the enthusiasim and foresight of a 14 year old given keys to a Lambourghini in a town where his dad's the sheriff internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."
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There’s also its key aim of procurement capture for its corrupt owners. We will not know whether DOGE has been uprooted until we have gotten into the Signal chat full of white supremacists and extremists where all of its activity is illegally coordinated, entirely outside of government authority.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There’s also its key aim of procurement capture for its corrupt owners. We will not know whether DOGE has been uprooted until we have gotten into the Signal chat full of white supremacists and extremists where all of its activity is illegally coordinated, entirely outside of government authority.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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There are few simple actions we can take that will save the life of someone we love while requiring basically nothing from us. For the price of a headache and a sore arm, you keep your neighbors alive. That’s asking so little it should be embarrassing to refuse.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There are few simple actions we can take that will save the life of someone we love while requiring basically nothing from us. For the price of a headache and a sore arm, you keep your neighbors alive. That’s asking so little it should be embarrassing to refuse.
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Israel just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in months and first time since last year’s war without a warning.
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Israel just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in months and first time since last year’s war without a warning.
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
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Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
It is not justified, period.
I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.
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I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
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The fact that he just sorta glides over the part where his journalist ex-fiancée was doing campaign strategy for RFK Jr., yet leads with the gross sexts, tells you a lot about Lizza's qualities as a political journalist
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The fact that he just sorta glides over the part where his journalist ex-fiancée was doing campaign strategy for RFK Jr., yet leads with the gross sexts, tells you a lot about Lizza's qualities as a political journalist
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THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
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On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
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Justice deleted is justice denied. Erasing a report doesn't erase the violence faced by indigenous communities.
Let me be clear: Tribal communities deserve justice safety, and security. We will continue to fight for our neighbors and ensure their stories move us to action.
Let me be clear: Tribal communities deserve justice safety, and security. We will continue to fight for our neighbors and ensure their stories move us to action.
Trump admin removes report on missing Native Americans
The report, uncovering the violence faced by Indigenous peoples, was made due to an act passed by the first Trump administration.
www.newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Justice deleted is justice denied. Erasing a report doesn't erase the violence faced by indigenous communities.
Let me be clear: Tribal communities deserve justice safety, and security. We will continue to fight for our neighbors and ensure their stories move us to action.
Let me be clear: Tribal communities deserve justice safety, and security. We will continue to fight for our neighbors and ensure their stories move us to action.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Nashville! Get moving!
VOTE EARLY, VOTE AFTYN
Today is the last Saturday to vote early in the TN-7 special congressional race in Tennessee. Not sure where or when to vote? Not in the district, but want to canvass to get out the vote? Check out the links in our BIO!
Today is the last Saturday to vote early in the TN-7 special congressional race in Tennessee. Not sure where or when to vote? Not in the district, but want to canvass to get out the vote? Check out the links in our BIO!
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Nashville! Get moving!
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No, this is not the lesson here.
The lesson is if you are in a chat with hundreds of people, no matter the technology, you should assume feds or narcs are in there too.
The lesson is if you are in a chat with hundreds of people, no matter the technology, you should assume feds or narcs are in there too.
Uh Oh! Even Signal Isn't Safe!
Gmail privacy has always been a misnomer.
This is a crisis.
This is a crisis.
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No, this is not the lesson here.
The lesson is if you are in a chat with hundreds of people, no matter the technology, you should assume feds or narcs are in there too.
The lesson is if you are in a chat with hundreds of people, no matter the technology, you should assume feds or narcs are in there too.
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Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
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To hell w/ the "love" life of opportunistic courtiers such as Lizza & Nuzzi. But I *do* want to read about how Nuzzi allegedly played catch-&-kill for RFK. I *don't* want to pay to do so. I'm a huge advocate of subscribing, subscribe to ton of publications. Not that. C'mon, somebody, details!
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
To hell w/ the "love" life of opportunistic courtiers such as Lizza & Nuzzi. But I *do* want to read about how Nuzzi allegedly played catch-&-kill for RFK. I *don't* want to pay to do so. I'm a huge advocate of subscribing, subscribe to ton of publications. Not that. C'mon, somebody, details!
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I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I was worried this was a trap but actually yes, go google this instead of whatever else you were about to google
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
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Over the coming weeks, my colleagues and I will bring you stories from Sudan — first-person accounts from people impacted by the brutal war in Sudan, telling us how this conflict has affected their lives.
This one is from Mubarak Elamin. Please listen to his heart wrenching story.
This one is from Mubarak Elamin. Please listen to his heart wrenching story.
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Over the coming weeks, my colleagues and I will bring you stories from Sudan — first-person accounts from people impacted by the brutal war in Sudan, telling us how this conflict has affected their lives.
This one is from Mubarak Elamin. Please listen to his heart wrenching story.
This one is from Mubarak Elamin. Please listen to his heart wrenching story.