banner
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
12K followers 2.8K following 23K posts
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
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
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
6 14 62
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 14m
Watching Robert Redford do some intricate stuff with a rotary telephone he stole from a telephone worker I only vaguely understand and imagining this is how my grandkids will view dial-up Internet or something
1 7
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 43m
This movie is so 70s man

Robert Redford: The CIA is trying to kill me and I've kidnapped you Faye Dunaway to try and escape

*Three seconds later*

Robert Redford: But first, let's have a sex scene with the most jazz sax in film history
2 1 16
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h
Watching Three Days of the Condor for the first time on PlutoTV and wow that really was the prototype for Jack Ryan's "I'm just an analyst!" huh
2 27
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
apnews.com
The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8h
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
bit.ly
140 1.4K 2.7K
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 3h
My partner (who is now a full on doctor!) found this cool yearbook of the Thai Muslim Student Association from the 1960s! Such an interesting group and period
8
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
danaelkurd.bsky.social
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13h
Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
5 150 770
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
diplomatofnight.com
Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h
Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.
David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador
Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war
www.dropsitenews.com
37 320 1.1K
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 2d
Every day the UK government does something to make Children of Men a prophecy
1 2 31
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
vermontgmg.bsky.social
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h
How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
8 90 260
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 23h
What is it about living in an area with a certain density of people that seems to cause people in every society from ancient Rome and Han China to the present hate folks that live in an area with a slightly different density of people?
3 9
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
We don't take enough time to appreciate that I'm able to write this sentence on the other side of the planet from most of you and faster than a blink you see it

I can pick up the phone and do a video WiFi call with someone 15,000 miles away like they're sitting across the table

This shit is magic
7 8 120
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
dropsitenews.com
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d
“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...
15 410 990
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d
Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not:

It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days.

It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.
strictlychristo.bsky.social
StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
39 630 1.7K
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Oh yes I forgot Frankenstein was still ruling Tunisia
aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Saber Ben Chouchane, who was given the death penalty over posts insulting President Kais Saied, is released.
Tunisia pardons man sentenced to death over Facebook posts
Saber Ben Chouchane, who was given the death penalty over posts insulting President Kais Saied, is released.
bit.ly
1
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Everyone always wants to recommend a salt march but nobody ever wants to yell don't pay your taxes
2 4 24
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
brianckeegan.com
BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 1d
This was so, so, so cathartic to read. Thank you @lopatto.bsky.social!

And now we don't have to link to a 7-year-old Glenn Greenwald article either for the definitive roundup of Weiss's hypocrisy and incompetence!
To make matters worse, you have never reported, and they all know it. You don’t know anything about the challenges or judgment calls required for complicated stories. You’re an op-ed writer who rode Bret Stephens’ coattails into The New York Times newsroom, then quit in a huff because they wouldn’t fire you for whatever it was you wanted to pretend to be a free speech martyr for. (You might want to pay for your personal website, by the way. It’s expired.) The closest you came to doing anything like reporting was the flop “Twitter Files” work, which exposed… um, people having banal conversations. In the context of the Twitter Files, this was a win since you didn’t actively dox anyone. Honestly, I thought your experience with Elon Musk might have prepared you for what a bad idea this was, since, you know, he got mad at you when you asked the wrong questions about China. Sure, you’ve made a career out of kissing the right asses to move ahead, but you must have learned by now that means you will be disposed of whenever it’s convenient. You had such a good gig going, too. Your entire pitch at The Free Press — lol, lmao — was that you were standing boldly against big bad corporate media that simply wouldn’t tell the truth! This was an easy pitch — albeit one made by every Substacker from Taylor Lorenz to Ken Klippenstein to Naomi Wolf — and, judging by your audience, a fairly lucrative one. You didn’t even have to get stories right! Remember when your columnist Coleman Hughes published a column about George Floyd that was so wrong it got dogwalked not once but three times by Radley Balko? And you personally got dogwalked a fourth time? And your response was that Balko should do your podcast?
19 63
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah I'm not sure WSJ understands the requisites of hegemony
wsj.com
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d
Israel is emerging from the Gaza war as the regional hegemon but the country’s fight against Hamas also has left it increasingly politically isolated.
After Two Years of War, Israel Is Stronger—and More Isolated—Than Ever
The war in Gaza has spurred a global backlash that threatens Israel’s long-term prospects.
on.wsj.com
1 8
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
justinsalhani.bsky.social
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 1d
A pair of reports released today by the Cost of War project show that Israel could not have continued war in Gaza and elsewhere across the region without US military & diplomatic support.

US has provided Israel w/ over $31 billion since Oct 2023

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Reports: Israel couldn’t wage wars on Gaza, Lebanon Iran without US support
Twin reports from the Costs of War Project find the US has backed Israel with more than $21bn since October 2023.
www.aljazeera.com
2 20 24
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Either lose your job to a robot or lose your job because the world economy bet all its money on a dead horse. Sucks to be a peasant all the same!
2
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Reading about how entire countries are directing hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure and sitting here thinking this is either going to redefine humanity or be the biggest waste of money in human history
4 1 18
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Despite the song making a big deal out of it it's actually real easy to be your own grandpa you just gotta be Woody Allen levels of fucked up
2 1 10
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
chicago.suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
61 1.5K 5.5K
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
borderless.bsky.social
borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d
Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!
I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.
20 720 2.1K
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Two years. Two fucking years of death and massacres and genocide and we've let it happen in front of our eyes. God have mercy on our souls.
1 9 51
Reposted by Nick Brumfield
popcrave.com
Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d
Greta Thunberg releases a video describing the conditions faced by Palestinian adults and children in Israeli custody after her release.
21 540 1.3K