Nick Brumfield
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Political Risk | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers, increasingly Thailand | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact [email protected] for work, media inquiries | he/him
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Fueling Instability: Hydrocarbons, Protests, and the Limits of Yemen’s Internationally Recognized Government
In late July 2025, large-scale protests against electricity outages, economic deterioration, and general mismanagement by Yemen’s Internationally Recognized Government (IRG) erupted in Mukalla, Yemen’...
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In a world obsessed with Israeli airstrikes, in this piece I argue that you're never going to contain the Houthis without a stronger IRG
And that's going to require addressing deep obstacles to the flow and distribution of Yemen's hydrocarbon wealth
And that's going to require addressing deep obstacles to the flow and distribution of Yemen's hydrocarbon wealth
This is always presented as a big thing but I feel like if you search through enough shady forums you can just find the designs of a proven-to-work nuclear bomb instead
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is always presented as a big thing but I feel like if you search through enough shady forums you can just find the designs of a proven-to-work nuclear bomb instead
I like how I did an entire module in the 6th grade on "the mystery of who built the Easter Island statues" and the answer is simply "the people who live there"
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I like how I did an entire module in the 6th grade on "the mystery of who built the Easter Island statues" and the answer is simply "the people who live there"
Shit's real bad down South, y'all
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Shit's real bad down South, y'all
This is one of those things where the US is good at disproving bc we literally had whole communities migrate en masse and set up their own towns in the middle of BFE Texas where they spoke German for 100 yrs and you can't tell me those folks today are the same as the fucking the Rhineland-Palatinate
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is one of those things where the US is good at disproving bc we literally had whole communities migrate en masse and set up their own towns in the middle of BFE Texas where they spoke German for 100 yrs and you can't tell me those folks today are the same as the fucking the Rhineland-Palatinate
Nothing has more closely conformed to every stereotype about Leftist politics than Your Party jfc
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Nothing has more closely conformed to every stereotype about Leftist politics than Your Party jfc
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I will never forget my mom giving an 18-year old me the electric carving knife that I had never used before and saying "you're the man of the house, carve the turkey" and me just being like, "this feels performative"
PSA from your friendly former turkey farmer: Tons of people end up in the emergency room after cutting themselves carving turkeys. For a lot of folks, this is the largest animal you'll ever disarticulate and you only do it once a year.
Go get yourself a rotisserie chicken tonight and practice.
Go get yourself a rotisserie chicken tonight and practice.
November 21, 2023 at 3:21 PM
I will never forget my mom giving an 18-year old me the electric carving knife that I had never used before and saying "you're the man of the house, carve the turkey" and me just being like, "this feels performative"
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This makes me very worried for many of my Burmese- American friends (or green card holders from the various nations within Burma that hold a Burmese passport) www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Trump administration will reexamine green cards issued to people from 19 countries "of concern"
President Donald Trump has asked for 500 more National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, DC, following the shooting of two guardsmen. The suspect is in custody and the investigation continues...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This makes me very worried for many of my Burmese- American friends (or green card holders from the various nations within Burma that hold a Burmese passport) www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Watching Tomorrow Never Dies and y'know between the sequences in Hamburg and the chase scene through the London Docklands in The World is Not Enough there's something to be written about filmic representations of the post-industrial redevelopment of European port landscapes in the mid-to-late 1990s
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Watching Tomorrow Never Dies and y'know between the sequences in Hamburg and the chase scene through the London Docklands in The World is Not Enough there's something to be written about filmic representations of the post-industrial redevelopment of European port landscapes in the mid-to-late 1990s
The fact we honestly can't trust a word coming out of the regime about this attack is worrying
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The fact we honestly can't trust a word coming out of the regime about this attack is worrying
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Go ahead, re-post your "edgy" commentary that maybe the Middle East just needed a Trump to strong arm Netanyahu & achieve peace
UN says 32,000 Palestinians forced from their homes in the Israeli-occupied territory with major assault ongoing.
‘In cold blood’: Israeli troops kill unarmed men during West Bank assault
UN says 32,000 Palestinians forced from their homes in the Israeli-occupied territory with major assault ongoing.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Go ahead, re-post your "edgy" commentary that maybe the Middle East just needed a Trump to strong arm Netanyahu & achieve peace
It's great as someone with SAD to have escaped to a country where I don't feel SAD, only to be forced to return by social convention to the old SAD country during one of the most SAD times of the year
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It's great as someone with SAD to have escaped to a country where I don't feel SAD, only to be forced to return by social convention to the old SAD country during one of the most SAD times of the year
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The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Jenin as they try to surrender
Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.
The sad fact is most of the time you can't predict something like this, and the drive to do so (aside from, y'know, making deadly weapons harder to get than a pack of gum) only empowers the worst, most authoritarian impulses in a society
A US official says the Washington, DC, shooting suspect was vetted by intelligence agencies and "clean on all checks" https://cnn.it/4imXlxj
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The sad fact is most of the time you can't predict something like this, and the drive to do so (aside from, y'know, making deadly weapons harder to get than a pack of gum) only empowers the worst, most authoritarian impulses in a society
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Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
The Democrats have a historic opportunity to become the Party of Law and Order simply by promising to enforce basic anti-corruption and civil rights laws already on the books
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Democrats have a historic opportunity to become the Party of Law and Order simply by promising to enforce basic anti-corruption and civil rights laws already on the books
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If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*
TFW you're in the middle of writing a research piece predicting a big change and then the change happens before you can get it done
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
TFW you're in the middle of writing a research piece predicting a big change and then the change happens before you can get it done
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Hi Thanksgiving doomscrollers who follow me now.
I am a genocide scholar focusing on Indigenous History and Colonial Genocide with a more recent specific focus on the 18th Century!
I would like to do that more on here but mostly its rage and brain droppings.
I am a genocide scholar focusing on Indigenous History and Colonial Genocide with a more recent specific focus on the 18th Century!
I would like to do that more on here but mostly its rage and brain droppings.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hi Thanksgiving doomscrollers who follow me now.
I am a genocide scholar focusing on Indigenous History and Colonial Genocide with a more recent specific focus on the 18th Century!
I would like to do that more on here but mostly its rage and brain droppings.
I am a genocide scholar focusing on Indigenous History and Colonial Genocide with a more recent specific focus on the 18th Century!
I would like to do that more on here but mostly its rage and brain droppings.
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
I refer to people from the Republic of the Congo as Congolese. I refer to people from the DRC as Congolese
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I refer to people from the Republic of the Congo as Congolese. I refer to people from the DRC as Congolese
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
If anyone else in the Americas wants to make their national demonym 'American' I'm more than happy to oblige them
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Happy Thanksgiving
Give thanks the good Lord has not yet sought to punish us for the sins of our ancestors in stealing this land and beseech our Native comrades for forgiveness and reconciliation in whatever form they deem appropriate
Give thanks the good Lord has not yet sought to punish us for the sins of our ancestors in stealing this land and beseech our Native comrades for forgiveness and reconciliation in whatever form they deem appropriate
November 28, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
Give thanks the good Lord has not yet sought to punish us for the sins of our ancestors in stealing this land and beseech our Native comrades for forgiveness and reconciliation in whatever form they deem appropriate
Give thanks the good Lord has not yet sought to punish us for the sins of our ancestors in stealing this land and beseech our Native comrades for forgiveness and reconciliation in whatever form they deem appropriate
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Broke: Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day
Woke: Replacing Thanksgiving with Indigenous People's Day #2
Woke: Replacing Thanksgiving with Indigenous People's Day #2
November 21, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Broke: Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day
Woke: Replacing Thanksgiving with Indigenous People's Day #2
Woke: Replacing Thanksgiving with Indigenous People's Day #2
Me, remembering the last time I watched Stranger Things in like 2015: That was a quaint show about kids in Indiana doing some monster stuff
Me, watching the Netflix recap for this finale with my sister: "Is that one Thanos?"
Me, watching the Netflix recap for this finale with my sister: "Is that one Thanos?"
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Me, remembering the last time I watched Stranger Things in like 2015: That was a quaint show about kids in Indiana doing some monster stuff
Me, watching the Netflix recap for this finale with my sister: "Is that one Thanos?"
Me, watching the Netflix recap for this finale with my sister: "Is that one Thanos?"
Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
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November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM