Sally Dukes
@sallydukes.bsky.social
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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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
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The Christian converts the US is deporting back to Iran
The Christian converts the US is deporting back to Iran
While Donald Trump admonishes Nigeria for persecuting Christians, Christian converts tell the BBC they live in fear of being deported to Iran from the US.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Christian converts the US is deporting back to Iran
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police, lawyer says reut.rs/4poEdku
Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police, lawyer says
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters, ending months of house arrest as he appealed a Supreme Court conviction for attacks on Brazil's democracy.
reut.rs
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro detained by police, lawyer says reut.rs/4poEdku
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“Like, for example, I would never resuscitate a baby. That’s cuckoo bananas to me.”
Haunting reporting on a pseudo-cult preaching the idea of pregnancy and birth without medicine - but where this advice comes at considerable financial and personal cost.
Haunting reporting on a pseudo-cult preaching the idea of pregnancy and birth without medicine - but where this advice comes at considerable financial and personal cost.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“Like, for example, I would never resuscitate a baby. That’s cuckoo bananas to me.”
Haunting reporting on a pseudo-cult preaching the idea of pregnancy and birth without medicine - but where this advice comes at considerable financial and personal cost.
Haunting reporting on a pseudo-cult preaching the idea of pregnancy and birth without medicine - but where this advice comes at considerable financial and personal cost.
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Bengaluru: Men posing as Reserve Bank of India officials pull off $800,000 heist
Bengaluru: Men posing as Reserve Bank of India officials pull off $800,000 heist
Police say the gang robbed a van transporting cash between bank branches in Bengaluru city.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Bengaluru: Men posing as Reserve Bank of India officials pull off $800,000 heist
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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My state senator, @creighdeeds.bsky.social, could not get answers from the University of Virginia (which he represents) about the ousting of President Jim Ryan, so he FOIAed them, for which they charged him $4,500 and took one month and four days to respond (five days are allowed by law).
State Sen. Creigh Deeds received his FOIA requests from U.Va. — here’s what we learned
After submitting a six-section Freedom of Information Act Request to the University Sept. 18, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, received 284 pages of records Oct. 29, pertaining to former Un...
www.cavalierdaily.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
My state senator, @creighdeeds.bsky.social, could not get answers from the University of Virginia (which he represents) about the ousting of President Jim Ryan, so he FOIAed them, for which they charged him $4,500 and took one month and four days to respond (five days are allowed by law).
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oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with
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They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
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do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
bats are so cool
🤯 Wild shit here. They put biologgers on greater noctule bats and found them pursuing, capturing, and eating birds in-flight. The recording of a European Robin getting blasted and snacked on is nuts.
Sci Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sci Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
bats are so cool
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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And my dad just lost his job of 42 years because of private equity stripping a classic Richmond family company for parts, packaging it for resale & merger. The enemy of workers ain’t other workers—it’s the millionaires and accountants who see us as lines on a balance sheet.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
And my dad just lost his job of 42 years because of private equity stripping a classic Richmond family company for parts, packaging it for resale & merger. The enemy of workers ain’t other workers—it’s the millionaires and accountants who see us as lines on a balance sheet.
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Wow, and the hits keep coming today.
'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid?
Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?
'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid?
Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?
Reuters:
U.S. PROPOSALS TO END WAR INCLUDE UKRAINE GIVING UP TERRITORY AND SOME WEAPONS, REDUCING SIZE OF ARMED FORCES, AMONG MANY OTHER POINTS – TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER // U.S. HAS SIGNALLED TO ZELENSKIY THAT UKRAINE MUST ACCEPT FRAMEWORK AND ITS MAIN POINTS, THE SOURCES SAY
U.S. PROPOSALS TO END WAR INCLUDE UKRAINE GIVING UP TERRITORY AND SOME WEAPONS, REDUCING SIZE OF ARMED FORCES, AMONG MANY OTHER POINTS – TWO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER // U.S. HAS SIGNALLED TO ZELENSKIY THAT UKRAINE MUST ACCEPT FRAMEWORK AND ITS MAIN POINTS, THE SOURCES SAY
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wow, and the hits keep coming today.
'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid?
Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?
'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid?
Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?
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sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a poli sci class and the professor is writing like “natural spheres of influence” on the board and everyone is taking notes like its real school
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a poli sci class and the professor is writing like “natural spheres of influence” on the board and everyone is taking notes like its real school
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Mike Pence proudly celebrating Britain’s role in Christian Zionism, and note his religious use of ‘rebirth’ here.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mike Pence proudly celebrating Britain’s role in Christian Zionism, and note his religious use of ‘rebirth’ here.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
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When the Clinton administration designated Aum Shinrikyo a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997, it obviously didn’t occur to anyone that the designation justified JSOC raids in Tokyo. But because of the GWOT, people hear FTO now and confuse it with a declared hostile force under an AUMF.
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When the Clinton administration designated Aum Shinrikyo a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997, it obviously didn’t occur to anyone that the designation justified JSOC raids in Tokyo. But because of the GWOT, people hear FTO now and confuse it with a declared hostile force under an AUMF.
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Yes. The issue is how Americans have come to view terrorism over past 25 years—from a criminal problem that might occasionally require US military response when it poses a threat to US, to something many assume *always* justifies/demands US military force. That’s what the admin is capitalizing on.
Cartels employ terrorism routinely. They kill journalists, mayors and mayoral candidates, and all manner of civilians to terrorize the rest into tolerating them. There are 99 problems with what we’re doing about them but calling them “narco-terrorists” ain’t one.
November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Yes. The issue is how Americans have come to view terrorism over past 25 years—from a criminal problem that might occasionally require US military response when it poses a threat to US, to something many assume *always* justifies/demands US military force. That’s what the admin is capitalizing on.
all virginians should be outraged by this nonsense
This is MBS's first visit to the US since the 2018 killing of Saudi critic and journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents. The killing triggered global outrage; his return is the latest sign relations have recovered from the strain caused by the murder reut.rs/48lrKbF
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
all virginians should be outraged by this nonsense
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