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Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social |
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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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Andrew Stroehlein
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My Daily Brief today looks at aluminum and the auto industry.
(also forced labor in China, what the US is doing about it, and how the EU might hopefully be catching up)
📰 Read: www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
🔊 Listen: www.hrw.org/video-photos...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"The Biden administration will resume shipping 500lb bombs to Israel but will continue to hold back on supplying 2,000lb bombs over concerns about their use in densely populated Gaza, according to a a US official."
what's left to say, really?
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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If you tell voters that the Democratic and Republican candidates both agree on Israel's current approach, the Democratic candidate *loses* four points.
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Nick Brumfield
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Nine out of ten doctors recommend Provasic and the one who doesn't is convicted of murdering his wife so ask your doctor today
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Nick Brumfield
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"It's got electrolytes!"
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Nick Brumfield
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Drinking SmartWater feels like living in Idiocracy
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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No one really cares about Biden’s age, they care about his genocide. Those gaining clicks & attention over his age or teleprompter gaffes are intentionally leaving out why so many people are angry with his genocide. It’s gaslighting people.
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
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AOC introduced articles of impeachment against thomas & alito. want it to happen? electeds need to cosponsor/vote for it. they may need some convincing. i tried to make that as easy as possible for people with a few 1min call/email scripts you can use. if you’re game, tap through!🧵
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Nick Brumfield
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Unmitigated scientific, technical, and medical expertise is rightly viewed skeptically in many circles due to their historical and continuing entanglement with power and exploitation, but sometimes it is worth taking the time to admire that this shit is literally magic
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Nick Brumfield
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The Garners are the only dynasty I will stan unapologetically
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Nick Brumfield
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That's cool! Yeah was not meant as an anti-fusion post.
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Melody Schreiber
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So many stories are talking about low polls/approval ratings for Biden in the context of his age and not this
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Nick Brumfield
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Yeah so of course the 2022 breakthrough is big, but I'm also sort of at a "I'll see it when I see it" stage in terms of commercial production. I also still think the idea that AI is not a magic box that is going to solve all our problems & deserves 50% more energy consumption is more realistic.
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Nick Brumfield
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Literally whichever Democratic candidate promises to change Biden's policy on Gaza has my undying support if any usurper is looking for a base
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Nick Brumfield
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It would seem. Yemeni government's going after Houthi-aligned banks, folks are having issues transferring money from abroad.
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Max Berger
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I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!
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Nick Brumfield
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Isn't it crazy Yemen is going through a profound economic crisis right now due solely to central banks saying some words about which banks can or can't access financial networks and you no one outside of a very small subset of people are talking about it in English?
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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I do find it pretty depressing that it is not Gaza that is causing a real, terminal crisis of identity in this party but whether or not the self-evidently not senile old man can do campaign events
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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Split Ticket and Data for Progress finds that Democrats who disagree with Israel's approach in the war on Gaza perform better than Democrats who mirror the Republican position on Israel-Palestine.
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Nick Brumfield
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I love local idioms about universal things for instance I was taught "red sky at night, sailor's delight" meanwhile my partner was taught "the ghosts are hanging out their clothes the sky is red with their blood"
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Sean
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the “beginner’s bubble” is so real
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Nick Brumfield
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If they're from certain areas of the world it *may* be a geographic thing because it looks like the geographic distribution of lightning strikes in the US is way higher than in Europe for example geology.com/articles/lig...
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Nick Brumfield
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This piece is nominally about autonomous cars, but it's really about Seeing Like a State
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Nick Brumfield
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Wow it kinda sucks both of the national champion corporations the US government has subsidized to the tune of at least hundreds of billions of dollars just kinda suck huh
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Nick Brumfield
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The only thing keeping me from voting for her for President is the US Constitution
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Nick Brumfield
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I would vote for Amal Clooney to be First Lady like *that* just sayin'
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Maura
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But his age…
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Greg Pak
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Worth remembering that Trump tried to overturn the ACA without a replacement, which could have brought back lifetime caps and revoked coverage for pre-existing conditions. In other words, if he'd had his way, many more Americans could have gone bankrupt and died.
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Seth Masket
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European city: Here's the Roman part and here's the Napoleon part and here's the communist part and here's the Jewish ghetto and here's where art/wine/pain/joy was invented and it's all connected by frequent cheap trains US city: This place was okay until the mine closed but now Quiznos is here
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Shaun Strohmer
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Hey motherfuckers, just found out my kid had post-viral myocarditis from COVID in 2022! Discovered because of constant fatigue and dizziness when standing. They now use a cane. COVID is surging again so do the damn things! I know they suck but not as much as giving someone else a heart condition.
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Nick Brumfield
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Garbage put it into a fancy compactor is still garbage
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Dana El Kurd
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This poem by Fady Joudah rattles around in my head
@alttext.bsky.social
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Nick Brumfield
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Same with Islam. Oh, it's only 2% of the population? Oh well, that's still more than *checks notes* all but eight other countries
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Nick Brumfield
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I like how Chinese Christians are perceived as making up a relatively insignificant percentage of China's population but when you look at it China still has more Christians than all but like ten other countries
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Nick Brumfield
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Fun fact: Despite Nyerere's saying this, to this day the socialist party he founded remains the longest continuously ruling non-communist party in the world and has fully embraced the neoliberal development model. Best of both worlds, right?!
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Ryan Broderick
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"Slop" has become the defining genre of the 2020s. And now everything has to meet two contradictory requirements. It must fill the content void and also be the most popular thing ever.
www.garbageday.email/p/slop-void
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Dell Cameron
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What a huge violation of trust. Fuck this.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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This is called forced expulsion and it is illegal
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Nick Brumfield
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As Julius Nyerere said when he made his switch to multiparty, really what we're looking for is a socialist version of the US one-party system where two or more parties compete in how effectively to implement a worker's republic
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Nick Brumfield
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Anyone who thinks a communist one-party state would be preferable just imagine the entire political system as being made up of Democratic Party apparachniks mostly interested in pursuing petty vendettas except now you legally have no alternative on threat of prosecution
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Nick Brumfield
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I stand by the dictum that if you're choosing between a corrupt guy and a technocrat to rule you pick the corrupt guy because at least you can bribe him. The technocrat has convinced himself he's fucking you over for your own good.
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Nick Brumfield
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It's so clear the Democratic Party establishment would prefer America be ruled by a technocratic committee
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ryan cooper
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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about
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Nick Brumfield
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I never saw X-Men: The Last Stand and honestly I don't think I've missed out on much
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Nick Brumfield
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Again, don't really care if it's Biden or Harris so much as how their policy on Gaza goes. Will say if the Dem establishment decides to unilaterally disenfranchise everybody who voted in the primaries and appoint Neoliberal Mike as the candidate we're all effed.
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Assistant to the Professor
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I don't have a strong preference on Biden because of how much uncertainty there is, but seeing stuff like this cross my path is going to kill me. I'm begging people to learn how parties work. You can't Aaron Sorkin your way out of this.
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James Ryan
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I’m 3 months in the chair at MERIP and we’re making plans to do some big things. We’ll need folks to pitch in big time to make them happen — we are looking for 3-4 new board members, including a Treasurer and at-large members with legal and development experience.
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Nick Brumfield
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Join the Amal (Clooney) Movement
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Nick Brumfield
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Like dude has been consistently engaged on domestic and international issues from a liberal humanist perspective for decades. Made an entire goddamned passion project against McCarthyism. Like he has actually thought a lot about these things comparatively.
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