Nick Brumfield

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Researcher on Yemen, dipping my toes in Maritime Security and Logistics | BA Ohio University, MA Georgetown University | Posts about the Middle East, Appalachia, and what I'm reading | From WV/Mid-Ohio Valley, based in DC

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Voters especially love being disenfranchised in baroquely clever and complicated ways

what the fuck is this sorkin-brain shit?

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So for all the narrative about the inevitable slide into anti-immigrant populism, four of Western Europe's five largest countries now have left or center left governments?

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Yeah, I have no idea. Although if the anti-Right stalwarts were the ones to drop out, would be interesting to see if there was some self-selection going on

Biden, Harris, whoever. We can all agree to riot if they maneuver Buttigieg in right?

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The Lancet. Calculating deaths in Gaza is difficult, but the full toll is probably much higher than the numbers you've been seeing. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Not visible to the public is the fact that this administration has alienated some of the strongest organizers I know. And here I mean those who focus on electoral organizing.

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“Dozens of Palestinian civilians are killed and wounded after Israel’s air force attacked another school sheltering the war-displaced.” “Another day. Another month. Another school hit,” UNRWA’s chief says.”

Dozens of Palestinian casualties after Israel attacks another Gaza schoolwww.aljazeera.com Facility sheltering 2,000 war-weary civilians is targeted a day after a school attack killed at least 16 people.

A Biden victory in November is dependent on Michigan, and a victory in Michigan is dependent on getting Arab, Muslim, and youth voters engaged, and getting Arab, Muslim, and youth voters engaged is dependent on the US stopping the genocide in Gaza

If you aren't making a Facebook post saying Trump wants to get rid of divorce, veterans benefits, and porn every day to mobilize your 47-year old deadbeat cousin against fascism you're doing it wrong

So uh, what's the possibility the Macronists go into coalition with the far-right?

You laugh but I kinda watched this play out in Thailand a few years back and it wasn't fun

It's interesting there's an entire branch of American Christianity (Campbellite) that is kind of invisible in popular discussions of the comparative development of religion because most of its adherents insist it's been around since Jesus

The narrative is 1. Catholicism 2. Luther and the Protestant Reformation 3. *Mumble mumble* and there's the rest!

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The fact that the US is actively pretending that the Israeli government has accepted a deal that it hasn't accepted at all probably isn't good.

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UK - rejects far right France - rejects far right Iran - elects a moderate President There is a global pushback against the far right building.

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The story I've always heard was that French colonial landowners were raising beef and the Vietnamese peasants could only get the less desirable cuts of the meat and so they came up with pho to make the best of it. No idea if this is historically attested!

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Tbh, given how much Indonesian coffee cultivation is tied to Dutch colonialism, I was imagining a situation much more akin to how the Vietnamese came up with pho

Not knocking it, but I'd be really interested to know what the conversation was when they first came up with civet coffee

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Mass murdering a captive civilian population will do that. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Gaza war a recruiting boon for terrorists, U.S. intelligence showswww.washingtonpost.com Anger at the United States over its role in Israel’s war in Gaza has galvanized terror groups globally, the State Department’s top intelligence official says.

Got thrown out of the Word Museum after the Israeli girl teaching me Hebrew said "Israel used to be known for its orange groves" and I punched the screen

Jk jk

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haaretz confirms that an unknown but extremely significant number of the israelis that died on october 7 and whose deaths were subsequently laid at hamas’ feet were killed by friendly fire on israeli military orders

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captiveapple.news 'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of...

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It's gonna be hilarious when the centrist pundits realize if Biden doesn't want to change course there's really nothing you can do to make him have fun you wanna talk a deal on Gaza you know where to find me

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Frustrated that Biden seems stubbornly out of touch with reality and refuses to listen to anyone, no matter what the risks or the costs or how bad things get? Welcome to the world of everyone who tried to make him stop enabling Israel’s devastation of Gaza.

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He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

"Fuck it...it's a rental."

tell me your fav film with a quote.

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no difference

I am here to once again declare that John Cena should star in an Ernest legacy sequel where he plays Ernest P. Worrell's improbably jacked son (it is never explained in any way why he is jacked)

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.