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Nick Brumfield

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Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | Contact [email protected] for work, media inquiries | he/him

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Apr 24

My latest interview with Yemen Today TV English regarding the US air campaign targeting Ras Isa Port and other areas of Yemen

Nick Brumfield on the Civilian Casualties Reported Among US Strike on Yemen Fuel Port of Ras Issa

YouTube video by YEMEN TODAY ENGLISH

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

Ok locking this down because rando anons are starting to come into my mentions to argue the merits of geographical determinism

To put my cards on the table, I think these things are the product of the concentration and distribution of capital, the result of both space (geography) and time (history)

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 55m

Time to go read Nature's Metropolis while blasting Bon Iver's Second Nature

Bon Iver - Second Nature (From 'Don’t Look Up') Lyric Video | Netflix

YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

Pour one out for a Red

Reds (1981) Congressional Hearing scene

YouTube video by Ryan

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

A fair rejoinder!

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

Geography isn't destiny. But it can definitely help!

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

Robert Putnam: Why is North Italy so much more prosperous than South Italy? Are the southerners less capable after centuries of social fragmentation?

Me, two seconds after looking at a map: Maybe. But could it also have something to do with the Po Valley being the one flat piece of land in Italy?

A topographic map of Italy showing most of the peninsula covered in mountains, but the wide Po Valley very apparent in the north

A map of population density of Italy with large concentrations in the Po Valley, Rome, and Naples

A map of life expectancy in Italy, with the greenest clusters in northern Italy, especially the Po Valley, while southern Italy is increasingly dark shades of orange

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2h

Diane Keaton, man. Fuck.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13h

But today's trip was mostly about Bangkok's history as a port destination for Chinese migrants

Started at a migrant museum, walked the Chao Phraya to a wat built in the shape of a migrant ship, then to a mall where the migrants' labor has been packaged for consumption by their affluent descendants

A panorama of Yaowarat road at the Wat Traimit Chinese migrant museum

Nick Brumfield standing in front of a boat plying a muddy brown Chao Phraya River

Wat Yannawa, with part of the temple constructed as a stylized replica of a Chinese junk

A statue of a Chinese laborerer pulling a stone

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18h

Some scenes from a predominantly Muslim area of Bang Rak around Masjid Haroon

Street art depicting women and men of all colors and races, with some in hijab, and a giant sleeping kitty in the back

Colorful street art of a woman in hijab looking contemplative

Street art showing men and women in Muslim garb in front of a depiction of Masjid Haroon Mosque

A firetruck with a Palestinian flag flying beside it

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Bangkok's Grand Central Post Office, completed in 1940, an amazing example of Thai-style Neoclassical architecture

A brick and mortal building in the Neo-Classical style with two Garuda statues on top

A cast iron door in blue and gold with Thai Art deco motifs

A large white post office room with a chandelier

A giant art deco bas relief done in the style of a postage stamp with a man on a horse

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 23h

It gets really good and then screws up at almost Game of Thrones levels in the last episode. Gets more interested in moving pieces around for the DCU than delivering a satisfying ending to this series, which is basically confirmed to not get a season 3.

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 23h

Been sitting quietly on public transit with my partner for like an hour and every little bit one of us will ask "whatcha thinking about?" and the other will say "just thinking about how disappointed I am in James Gunn"

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

I don't need to inflict my legs on the world, more Bug Maniac vibes

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

Currently dressed like a Pokemon Bug Catcher

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

Mix an influx of 19th century Protestant migration from the cult riddled Midwest with a self-conception of being Heaven on Earth and immense debauched wealth generated from a series of seemingly magical technologies, and you have a recipe for heterodoxy that'd make a Dark Eldar blush

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

The chapparal'd suburbs of California have produced so many heretical offshoots over the last century that it'd be prudent for the Catholic Church to set up a dedicated Inquisition

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

Let me know what you think!

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah no, man. That was a stinker, folks. Especially if this is the last season of Peacemaker, I kinda feel robbed.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it'll get better with the end but this is simply not good TV folks

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

No spoilers because I'm not done yet but this Peacemaker season finale is the weirdest paced episode of television ever

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