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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 info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him

  1. Foreign reporter dispatch: "Elements of the federal regime's security service have established checkpoints throughout the the capitol region as international observers express increasingly grave concerns..."

    Across Washington, D.C., hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents have arrived in the city as part of President Trump’s takeover of D.C. policing.

    Authorities have been seen in at least 20 incidents in all four quadrants of the city, according to a Post review. wapo.st/45kRwvt

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  2. Just learned this, but how bonkers is it that Lord Kitchener, the UK Defense Minister and the guy they put on the recruitment posters, was straight up killed by a German sea mine in the middle of World War I?

    Would this be like Churchill getting offed by a Luftwaffe bomb during the Blitz?

    The poster "Britons, Lord Kitchener Wants You! Join Your Country's Army!"Lord Kitchener in military regalia
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  3. Tom Cruise really is the Last Movie Star

    -Making action movies into his 60s with way younger women -Member of an LA-based heterodox religious movement based on a pastiche of misremembered ancient history and pop culture -Practices a constitutional monarch's refusal to engage in politics

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  4. Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges

    If the warrants are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court.

    The applications are in the hands of two deputy prosecutors in Karim Khan's absence, but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions

    Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges

    The applications are in the hands of two deputy prosecutors in Karim Khan's absence, but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions

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  5. Zohran Mamdani is very useful because his success throws into stark contrast the formal rules of decision-making (political parties, primaries) Americans are indoctrinated into believing runs things and the opaque informal networks of power that actually run things

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