Bret Boyce

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[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

Sam Harris thinks his beliefs on Israel-Palestine are inarguable. He’s wrong.

https://t.co/AY82qTglmY

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@AJEnglish Why does Al Jazeera showcase this moronic Trump propaganda? This is one step away from the AI slop favored by Trump himself.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is beginning his day by posting deranged AI slop

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@KenRoth Actually he seemed to equate today’s migrants to Europe to the Allied troops who invaded Normandy, thereby adopting the Nazi perspective, which is even sicker.

[Juan Cole @jricole]

Hegseth Compares D-Day Troops to Europe’s Migrants https://t.co/jRfd4bcTLa

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

Israel’s savage war in Lebanon:

“Since Israel’s latest assault on Lebanon began this March 2, more than 1.3 million people — nearly one in four of the entire Lebanese population — have been displaced… More than 3,400 Lebanese have been killed and over ten thousand wounded.”

[Jacobin @jacobin]

In Lebanon, Israel is reusing the same strategy as in Gaza and the West Bank.

Demanding the “evacuation” of the population and destroying civilian architecture, it wants to make it impossible for residents ever to return. https://t.co/KXqyuASydY

[Juan Cole @jricole]

Hegseth Compares D-Day Troops to Europe’s Migrants https://t.co/jRfd4bcTLa

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

Failed politician Jeff Bartos was twice rejected by Pennsylvania voters, but Trump rewarded him for his sycophancy by giving him a UN job.

His focus is “reforming the UN,” meaning shielding the US and Israel from accountability for ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide.

[Ambassador Jeff Bartos @AmbUNReform]

Reforming the @UN was thought impossible, until President Trump came along. With the President’s vision and leadership, and with the support and leadership of @USAmbUN, our team has driven historic reform, including eliminating 3000 bureaucratic posts and cutting $570 Million from this year’s budget.

As we continue to drive reform across the UN system, we will dismantle the UN infrastructure that supports the unconscionable bias against the United States and our ally Israel.

https://t.co/gav7Xrmyg4

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Section 224 of the defense budget - legislation that would deeply intertwine the US & Israeli militaries - traces back to two dark money pro-Israel groups: AIPAC & FDD.

Ian Lustick & I analyze how legislation originating with Israel’s lobby was injected into the NDAA. LINK 👇

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@KrystiBrice @allinwithchris Of course it’s relevant.

Fifield lied about Mahmoud Khalil and Rumseya Öztürk. She lied when she told the NYT she had not been involved in politics recently.

She may or may not be lying about Platner, but it is relevant that she has a history of lying for right wing causes.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The NYT said that @lyndseyfifield has been out of politics and isn’t doing anything with the conservative dark money group Independent Women’s Forum anymore but here she is getting quoted at a Republican congressional event in mid-April of 2026, a few weeks ago, with IWF as her ID

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@allinwithchris https://t.co/8mH0btp9wB

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Graham Platner's primary accuser, Lyndsey Fifield, is a pathological liar (see below) whose main cause is Israel.

Make of that what what you will. I know one's views of the #BelieveWomen framework radically shifts based on the politics of the accused, but it's clearly relevant:

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@allinwithchris Odd and disappointing that Chris Hayes doesn’t mention here that the most damaging allegations come from Lyndsey Fifield, a right wing political operative with a track record of dishonesty.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

An increasingly repressive and autocratic Kuwait may be drifting into the orbit of the UAE-Israel Axis of Genocide.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

"Since the Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah took office at the end of 2023, Kuwait has drifted steadily closer to Abu Dhabi, and the domestic consequences have quickly followed.

Kuwait’s parliament — a rare democratic institution in the Gulf — was suspended indefinitely in 2024. A sweeping campaign of mass denaturalization has since affected an estimated 300,000 individuals, including citizens of Palestinian descent. The fabric of political participation that once gave Kuwait its distinctive Gulf character is being deliberately shredded in tandem with closer military and intelligence cooperation with the UAE."

https://t.co/GKW7dUQZEC

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Trump and Netanyahu are reshaping the Middle East—but not the way they intended to. https://t.co/ZI7HMwTd0U

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@pastormarkburns @Gerashchenko_en Since returning to office, Trump has slashed aid to Ukraine, cozied up to Putin and repeatedly insulted Zelensky. It’s nice that you now support Ukraine, but Trump is certainly not listening to you. Your continued support for him is disgraceful. https://t.co/UmE11psVbO

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.

He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

@BrazilBrian Abelardo de la Espriella is certainly “more than a silver-tongued lawyer.” He is also an animal lover.

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

ICYMI 🇨🇴 Colombia’s ultra right-wing presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella bragged on national television that he used to torture and kill cats, tying fireworks to their bodies to watch them explode.

[Bret Boyce @BretBoyce]

Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham.

These opportunists were all against Trump before he co-opted them.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

This needs to be played everywhere 24/7