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Nick Brumfield

@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social

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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

www.youtube.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 3h

Currently dressed like a Pokemon Bug Catcher

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

Let me know what you think!

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

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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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

I'm kinda pissed, actually. I know James Gunn as a creator can make better TV than that, but the dictates of trying to be Marvel 2.0 really obviously fucked up what will likely be the series finale of a very good TV show

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14h

James Gunn really needs to stop writing dialogue that is people just praising the bands he likes

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 16h

Pluto TV has a channel that just plays Stargate Atlantis 24/7 why do we subscribe to anything again?

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 18h

Broad City is a comedic masterpiece

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Watching Head of State for the first time since Obama was elected President and dang this is still scarily relevant

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

*House

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who's actually followed the Yemen conflict rather than agitprop could've told you Ro Khanna is not in any way a serious person. He's the ambulance chasing lawyer of the Senate.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Like they probably had the shit printed by the time he decided he wanted to throw his hat in the ring

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

The Lockheed Martin Anti-Peace Prize

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 19h

Give him the Nobel War prize for naming things after war?

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

It's like the fuckup who wrote their paper 20 minutes before coming to class thinking they're gonna be valedictorian

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

Thinking you could get the Nobel Peace Prize by over the course of a week doing a slapdash ceasefire deal, the true results of which will not be clear for months or even years, is peak Trumpism

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 19h

We've always been at war with Norway

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 20h

All security concerns a good VPN is honestly an amazing investment

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